Treatied Spaces 
The Historic Houses Global Crossroads project team is delighted to invite interested parties to submit paper proposals for the project’s upcoming Global and Local Identities Conference, which will be held at the Edgbaston Park Hotel, University of Birmingham on 14 November 2025.
Radio Ulster’s ‘Your Place And Mine’ programme ran a feature on ‘The Chronicles of Clandeboye’ interactive walks, part of the Historic Houses Global Crossroads project. [1 March 2025]. Find out more about the Clandeboye Interactive Walks.
Speaker: Leverhulme Visiting Professor Damien Lee (University of Birmingham/Toronto Metropolitan University). School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University | 25 February 2025 | 1–3pm In this session, Dr. Damien Lee introduces the Anishinaabe concept of “biskaabiiyang” as a key approach in Indigenous research. Meaning “returning to ourselves,” biskaabiiyang centers Anishinaabe ways of knowing, community … Read more
Guest speaker: Leverhulme Visiting Professor Damien Lee (University of Birmingham/Toronto Metropolitan University). Exeter speakers: Elena Isayev (Ancient History) and Andrew Schaap (Politics). Council Chamber in Northcott House, Streatham Campus, University of Exeter / Hybrid | 5 March 2025 | 12–2.30pm Access, Rights, Privileges and Protection: What gives value to civic membership? And how does it … Read more
Professor Joy Porter, University of Birmingham WAV041 – Wavy Top, Central Park – Loughborough campus / Hybrid | 12 February 2025 | 1–2pm Historic properties and their environments face acute challenges from climate change and a diversity deficit linked to the perception they embody only empire and exploitation. Without diminishing these histories, the Historic Houses … Read more
Elizabeth N. Ellis, Associate Professor of History, Princeton University Commentators: Dr. Arianne Urus, University of Cambridge; Professor Joy Porter, University of Birmingham Room 2, Yusuf Hamied Court, Christ’s College | 10 February 2025 | 4–5pm In her book, The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South, Ellis examines the history of the smaller … Read more
Treatied Spaces Research Group is delighted to announce that one of its PhD researchers, Montgomery Simus, has been honoured with the University of Birmingham’s J.A. Hawgood Travel Award for American History Postgraduate Research for 2025. Presented by the Centre for the Study of North America (CSNA), this prestigious annual award – set up in memory of … Read more
In this video Professor Joy Porter introduces the work of the Treatied Spaces Research Group, which is expanding our understanding of Indigenous treaties, resources and sovereignty. Led by Professor Joy Porter, the research group emphasises that Indigenous treaties, knowledge and rights are essential to solving global challenges such as water conservation, sustainable energy production and … Read more
By Professor Joy Porter and Professor Charles Prior IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London | 12 December 2024 | 5.30–7pm 2024 marks the 260th anniversary of a pivotal juncture in the first ‘special relationship’ between America and Britain, a massive and expensive diplomatic pageant known as the Treaty of Niagara, when the Indian ‘Magna Carta’ confirmed Native … Read more
By Professor Joy Porter Online | 3 December 2024 | 4–5pm Any study of the intercultural relationships between the Indigenous peoples of North America and British settlers usually focuses on the differences that resulted in disputes and violence. However, on closer examination, the interaction also involved the exchange of ideas and the forging of alliances, … Read more
