During Michaelmas Term, OxTalks will be moving to a new platform (full details are available on the Staff Gateway).
For now, continue using the current page and event submission process (freeze period dates to be advised).
If you have any questions, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
Day 1: 23 October
09:00-09:30 Welcome
09:30-10:30 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
10:45-11:45 Jonathan Lainey (curator, McCord Stewart Museum, Montreal): Wampum as Archive and Evidence
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:00 Claudia Brittenham (Art History, U. of Chicago): Tonacayotl, Our Sustenance: Maize, Market Law, and Plant-Human Relations in Mesoamerica
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
15:30-16:30 Kathy Hermes (History): “Once Numerous and Powerful”: Indigenous Jurispractice in the North American Northeast
Day 2: 24 October
09:30-10:30 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)
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
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:00 Matthew Fletcher (Law, U. of Michigan): The Rise and Fall of the Ogemakaan
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
15:30-16:30 Saliha Belmessous (History, Oxford): Treaties Beyond European Boundaries: Rethinking Form, Function, and Obligation
All are welcome and lunch will be provided, but booking is required.