Events

Roundtable discussion “Intellectual property law, artificial intelligence technologies and intangible heritage inventorying in the United Kingdom”, 3 June 2024, Online

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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

Research Environment, Interdisciplinarity and Funding: Setting the Agenda, School of Humanities, University of Hull (3 May 2024)

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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

The Historical Association Annual Conference 2024 @ Birmingham (10-11 May 2024)

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“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

British Academy Global Professorship Summative Event: “Water Futures: Historical Perspectives from Indigenous Ecological Knowledge”, 12 July 2024, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, in person.

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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

“Indigenous Peoples, Traditional Knowledge, and Intellectual Property in International Law” @ Harvard (15 February 2024)

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“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

Connected Nations: Indigenous Rights and the Royal Proclamation of 1763

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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)

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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

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

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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

Stewardship, Communitarianism and (Intellectual) Property: The Philosophical Foundations of Traditional Knowledge Protection @ Harvard (14 April 2023)

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Stewardship, Communitarianism and (Intellectual) Property: The Philosophical Foundations of Traditional Knowledge Protection Joy Porter has been invited to attend a seminar on Stewardship, Communitarianism and (Intellectual) Property: The Philosophical Foundations of Traditional Knowledge Protection, to be held at Harvard Law School (HLS) on 14 April 2023. The seminar will address competing frameworks and philosophies for … Read more

The Legacies of James Pilling’s Bibliography of the Languages of the North American Indians in the Library (online, 23 March 2023)

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‘The Legacies of James Pilling’s Bibliography of the Languages of the North American Indians in the Library‘ (online event). TSRG-British Library-AHRC CDA candidate Rebecca Slatcher will present her paper “Searching for Indigenous Language Books in the British Library: The Legacies of James Pilling’s Bibliography of the Languages of the North American Indians” at the prestigious State University of … Read more