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The Historical Association Annual Conference 2024 @ Birmingham (10-11 May 2024)
“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…
British Academy Global Professorship Summative Event: “Water Futures: Historical Perspectives from Indigenous Ecological Knowledge”, 12 July 2024, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, in person.
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…
Protecting Indigenous peoples’ knowledge
Harvard Law Today The Harvard Law conference “Indigenous Peoples, Traditional Knowledge, and Intellectual Property in International Law” featured in Harvard Law Today “Protecting Indigenous peoples’ knowledge”.
“Indigenous Peoples, Traditional Knowledge, and Intellectual Property in International Law” @ Harvard (15 February 2024)
“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…
Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Centre for Water Cultures – Great Flood Stories and What They Teach Us: Applying Lessons from Cross-Cultural Diluvial Traditions (closing 24 January 2024)
Applications are invited for a funded 4-year PhD studentship to start in September 2024. Closing date for applications is Wednesday, 24 January 2024. Apply for this scholarship. This is an…
Joy Porter’s 3 favorite reads in 2023
Joy Porter’s 3 favorite reads in 2023 Joy Porter shares her 3 favorite reads in 2023 in Shephard.com Check out Joy’s favorite books here.
Call for Papers
Canada, Ireland, and Transatlantic Colonialism: Historical Perspectives. Extended Deadline From May 28 to May 30, 2024, St. Michael’s College, in the University of Toronto, in partnership with the Department of…
The best books on the cultural history of the First World War
Joy Porter’s most recommended World War 1 books Joy Porter is one of 665 authors who created a book list connected to World War 1 on Shephard.com Check out Joy’s…
Queen’s Quarterly: ‘Back to Ka-ou-enesegoan’
New Writing from Dr Charles Prior on Canada and the meaning of home in Queen’s Quarterly: A Canadian Review, Fall, 2023, pp.382-389. Read here.
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….
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…
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…
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…
Stewardship, Communitarianism and (Intellectual) Property: The Philosophical Foundations of Traditional Knowledge Protection @ Harvard (14 April 2023)
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…
‘Reclaiming Two-Spirits’ wins PROSE Award, ‘Indigenous Continent’ a finalist
Professor Gregory D. Smithers‘s Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America (Beacon Press, 2022) has won a PROSE Award as the 2023 Category Winner in Cultural Anthropology…
The Legacies of James Pilling’s Bibliography of the Languages of the North American Indians in the Library (online, 23 March 2023)
‘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…
Sustainability in the Space Industry – rethinking ‘impact’ @ Cambridge (8 February 2023)
Sustainability in the Space Industry – rethinking ‘impact’ (in-person event) Abstract National and corporate interest in space has increased drastically in the past decade, and the space economy is expected to…
How Sustainable Is American Farming and Can Indigenous Agroecology Solve Its Key Challenges? @ UCL (14 November 2022)
‘How Sustainable Is American Farming and Can Indigenous Agroecology Solve Its Key Challenges?‘ (in-person event) Abstract Almost 10 billion people are predicted to exist on Earth by 2050—that is about…
Discovering Britain through discourses of indigeneity @ Cambridge (online 9 November 2022)
‘Discovering Britain through discourses of indigeneity II: British Empire and colonialism’ (online) Abstract British history is rife with change; ethnic, social and linguistic shifts have indelibly marked its present day….
Lunar Ambassadors: British Perceptions of Moon Samples @ NASA & Georgetown (30 September 2022)
‘Lunar Ambassadors: British Perceptions of Moon Samples from NASA and the USSR’ (hybrid online/in-person event) This event is now over. View the recording below: Event Details Matthias Wong gave this…
New Approaches to Material Culture in Historic Houses (9 June 2022)
‘New Approaches to Material Culture in Historic Houses: Miskito Indigenous Cultures, Mahogany and Environmental Futures‘ (online seminar via Zoom) Joy Porter and TSRG PhD Hannah Cusworth will be presenting a…
Cultures of Indigenous Diplomacy – A Digital Conference (19 May 2022)
This event is now over. A playlist of the presentations are available to view below: Title image by Linda Roy, featuring detail from Material Kwe by Dr Celeste Pedri-Spade.
Britons in Iroquoia
Watch Charles Prior’s talk on ‘Britons in Iroquoia’, which was part of ‘Global Georgians: Transnational Interactions with the British Monarchy’, a roundtable hosted by our friends at the Georgian Papers…
Wildness and Indigenous American Futures – Alan Graham Memorial Lecture (29 April 2022)
‘Wildness and Indigenous American Futures‘ – the Alan Graham Memorial Lecture 2022 (online event) This event is now over. A recording of the lecture can be viewed below:
Indigenous Environmental History and Its Relevance to Future Prosperity – Joy Porter’s Director Seminar @ UCL (10 March 2022)
‘Indigenous Environmental History and Its Relevance to Future Prosperity’ (hybrid online/in-person event) This event is now over. View the recording below:
Podcasts & Media
Treatied Spaces broadcasts on a range of environmental and Indigenous topics
Australia’s new treaty with the Indigenous peoples of Tuvalu
Joy Porter discussed Australia’s new treaty with the Indigenous peoples of Tuvalu in the Pacific in an interview with Andrew Mueller for The Monocle Daily, 10 November 2023. Listen here…
Australia’s Indigenous Voice referendum
Joy Porter spoke on The Globalist, Monocle Radio, 24 October 2023 discussing the fallout of Australia’s Indigenous Voice referendum. Listen here from 31.15 to 38.25 minutes to hear Joy Porter.
Joy Porter on Trauma and the Life of Frank Prewett
Joy Porter appeared on the Military Historians are People Too podcast with Bill Allison and Brian Feltman
‘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.
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.
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.
Legacy of Yunupingu (Gumatj)
Joy Porter contributes to a BBC Newshour report about the life and legacy of Yunupingu, one of the most prominent and influential Indigenous leaders of the past half century in…
Contemporary Treaty Portrayal in Film
Read Joy Porter’s essay on ‘The dangerous myth-making in the Banshees of Inisherin’ on the Spectator Life (21 February 2023) … the film’s miniature donkey is the true star of…
Indigenous Birth Certificates
Joy Porter spoke to BBC Radio Bristol’s John Darvall on the segment ‘Your Questions’ on ‘Did Native Americans have birth certificates before going on reservations and Did Sitting Bull have…
Indigenous Matrilineal Communities
Indigenous Peruvian scholar Dr Mariaelena Huambachano (Quechua, Syracuse University) and Joy Porter spoke on BBC Woman’s Hour about Matrilineal Communities on 27 August 2022.
Indigenous naming practices
Joy Porter spoke with BBC Radio Bristol’s John Darvall about Indigenous naming practices, on 12 July 2022.
Pocahontas and Pop Media
Joy Porter spoke to Stig Abell about the story of Pocahontas, on Times Radio Breakfast on 5 April 2022.
Pekka Hämäläinen, Can Colonial Nations Truly Recognise the Sovereignty of Native People? (Aeon) Pekka Hämäläinen, The Pipe Holds Them All Together (Lapham’s Quarterly) Joy Porter, Oscar first for Native American…
Scotland and Native America
Joy Porter appeared on BBC Radio Scotland as part of a special feature on connections between Scotland and Native America. Airdate: 26 January 2020. A report on her comments appeared…
Black Lives Matter
Greg Smithers (British Academy Global Professor) with text and photographs on The Power of Empty Pedastals, and providing a range of commentary on race and product branding in The New…
Mount Rushmore
Joy Porter appeared on the BBC News Channel to provide commentary on President Trump’s speech at Mount Rushmore on 3 July 2020.
Racism and Advertising
British Academy Global Professor Greg Smithers contributed to a Bloomberg Quicktake, ‘Behind the Design’ that explores how racial prejudice is built into the design of tech products and algorithms.
New Books Network
Charles Prior commissions and hosts author interview podcasts on the New Books Network. Pitch an interview. Featured episode
Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: Frank Prewett
Joy Porter published her new book Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett with Bloomsbury Academic in 2021. Book Launch hosted by the Eccles Centre…