Reimagining Indigenous Legal History: New Methods and Approaches workshop
Reimagining Indigenous Legal History: New Methods and Approaches workshop, Corpus Christi College, 23–24 October.
The event explores how Indigenous legal orders have expressed authority and law beyond written archives, and how these perspectives reshape understandings of sovereignty, property, treaty relations, and rights.
All are welcome, and lunch will be provided. To attend, kindly register by emailing me at saliha.belmessous@history.ox.ac.uk
23 October
| 24 October |
9-9.30 Welcome
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9.30-10.30 Carwyn Jones ((Law, Victoria University of Wellington, online) and Ria Holmes (Law, Victoria University of Wellington): He kōrero tuku iho: Song, stories, and speech in Māori law
| 9.30-10.30 Jessica Russ-Smith, Wiradyuri Wambuul woman (Social Work, Australian Catholic University): Bloodlines of Buyaa (law): How Wiradyuri Buyaa Challenges Western Constructions of Indigenous Law (online)
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| 10.45-11.45 Jonathan Lainey (curator, McCord Stewart Museum, Montreal): Wampum as Archive and Evidence | 10.45-11.45 Uahikea Maile (Indigenous Studies, U. of Chicago): Indigenous Property in Hawaiʻi: Possession, Dispossession, and Counterdispossession in Honolulu at the Turn of the 20th Century
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12-13.00 Lunch
| 12-13 Lunch |
13.00-14.00 Claudia Brittenham (Art History, U. of Chicago): Tonacayotl, Our Sustenance: Maize, Market Law, and Plant-Human Relations in Mesoamerica
| 13.00-14.00 Matthew Fletcher (Law, U. of Michigan): The Rise and Fall of the Ogemakaan |
14.15-15.15 Sven Ouzman (Archaeology, U. of Western Australia): “Proclaiming the Rights and Titles Deeds” of Rock Art: Case Studies from Southern Africa and Northern Australia
| 14.15-15.15 Amanda Kearney (Anthropology, San Diego): NARNU-YUWA - Yanyuwa Lawfulness: Creative appraisals of Indigenous Law’s expression, purpose and place in northern Australia
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15.30-16.30 Kathy Hermes (History): “’Once Numerous and Powerful’: Indigenous Jurispractice in the North American Northeast”
| 15.30-16.30 Saliha Belmessous (History, U. of Oxford): Treaties Beyond European Boundaries: Rethinking Form, Function, and Obligation
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