Polishing the Chain ceremony

Treatied Spaces was honoured to attend the Polishing the Chain ceremony at Queen’s University, Kingston We attended the Polishing the Chain ceremony on 5 October 2023 at Queen’s University, Canada. The ceremony took place to recognize and renew the ongoing relationship between the university and Indigenous communities. Senior leaders, Queen’s senators, staff, faculty, students, and … Read more

‘This is Colonialism’

The Zeche Zollern museum in Dortmund (GDR) and its ‘This is Colonialism’ exhibition. Joy Porter commented on Talk TV, 17 September 2023.

Connected Nations: Indigenous Rights and the Royal Proclamation of 1763

6-7 October 2023 | Queen’s University (Kingston) ‘Connected Nations’ marked the 260th anniversary of the Royal Proclamation of 1763, a document with a complex place in the diplomatic, legal and inter-cultural history of Northeastern North America. The Proclamation has always been considered pivotal, originally as an apparent affirmation of Native rights and latterly as a … Read more

Resilience and reconstruction: Histories of the present @ Copenhagen (30 Nov – 1 Dec 2023)

Contemplating Post-Traumatic Futures: Indigenous History, Eco-Trauma, and Traumas of Technological Change (30 November to 1 December 2023) Joy Porter has been invited to speak at the ‘Resilience and Reconstruction Workshop at the Centre for Culture & the Mind’, University of Copenhagan, Denmark. Programme Abstracts and bios Event details This conference will be held from 30 November … Read more

Killers of the Flower Moon

A look ahead to Martin Scorsese’s new film set and produced on Osage territory. Joy Porter spoke with Kevin O’Sullivan on Talk TV, 27 May 2023.

Handling the Black Box: How will We Protect and Learn from Indigenous Traditional Knowledge in the Age of Machine Learning? @ Oxford (18 September 2023)

Handling the Black Box: How will We Protect and Learn from Indigenous Traditional Knowledge in the Age of Machine Learning? Joy Porter delivered the opening keynote of the 2023 AHRC International Conference, themed ‘Entanglements’, on 18 September 2023. Her lecture considered how the sovereignty of Indigenous intellectual knowledge can be assured in the age of … Read more

Totem Poles

Joy Porter answers a listener’s question about First Nations totem poles in the Pacific Northwest. Aired on BBC Radio Bristol on 10 April 2023.