By Leverhulme Visiting Professor Damien Lee Alan Walters Building G03 (LT1) The Business School, University of Birmingham / Online | 27 November 2024 | 4–6pm The Anishinaabe peoples of Canada continue to rebuild their political and legal systems after more than 170 years of colonial legislation that otherwise sought to get rid of Indians. Today, … Read more
By Leverhulme Visiting Professor Damien Lee American Museum & Gardens, Bath | 8 October 2024 | 2–3pm This free talk at the American Museum & Gardens in Bath is a special opportunity to understand how Indigenous people in Canada have used adoption to not only renew their families, but to renew their nations as well. … Read more
14 June 2024| Lounge, Dryden Enterprise Centre, NTU City Campus Natalie Braber and Nicola McLelland are pleased to invite you to their upcoming event. The UK is currently ratifying UNESCO’s Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). Although language itself is not covered by this Convention, language is recognised as a vehicle for the expression of heritage and this … Read more
3 June 2024| Online This roundtable, organized by the University of Hull, brings together about 35 experts from different backgrounds and disciplines to discuss the implications of managing intellectual property rights and considering artificial intelligence technologies in the context of intangible heritage inventorying in the UK. The aim of the roundtable is to outline key issues, … Read more
Join us on 3 May at 10 am in Larkin LT C where Professor Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) will be in conversation with Professor Joy Porter (School of Humanities). University of Hull, School of Humanities is making a filmed interview/advice session with Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, UoH, Larkin LTC 10am 3 May. Professor Ohlmeyer is Chair of the Irish … Read more
“Indigenising the curriculum: engaging with indigenous histories“ Joy Porter and Malet Lambert History Subject Lead Nicole Ridley will discuss TSRG’s Knowledge Exchange work with AQA and Pearson, specifically their work to indigenise and re-design the Oxford AQA GCSE History Textbook ‘America 1840-1895’, at the 2024 Historical Association Annual Conference in Birmingham on 10-11 May. The changes made upend existing … Read more
12 July 2024| Ashmolean Museum (University of Oxford) British Academy Global Professor Gregory D. Smithers hosts an end-of-project in person symposium on July 12, 2024, at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, entitled “Water Futures: Historical Perspectives from Indigenous Ecological Knowledge”. This symposium will bring together scholars at different career stages from around the world to consider water futures through the … Read more
“TEK and Legal Incommensurability” Joy Porter has been invited to speak at the “Indigenous Peoples, Traditional Knowledge, and Intellectual Property in International Law” conference to be held at Harvard Law School (HLS) on 15 February 2024. The conference addresses philosophical and doctrinal challenges regarding claims for entitlement-like protection for the creative outputs, cultural goods, and … Read more
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
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