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Job: Post-Doctoral Research Assistant (FTE, 3 months)
The Treatied Spaces Research Group (treatiedspaces.com) at the University of Hull seeks to appoint a full-time PDRA for a period of 3 months. The postholder will support the Research Group…
Cultures of Indigenous Diplomacy – A Digital Conference (19 May 2022)
All are welcome to this online conference and audience panel discussion organised to augment and expand the reach of the exhibition and residency of Anishinabekwe visual artist 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
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
Podcasts & Media
Joy Porter has appeared on a number of podcasts to discuss her new book, Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett (Bloomsbury, 2021). The Many…