2-Day Workshop, 23 & 24 October - Reimagining Indigenous Legal History: New Methods and Approaches

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.