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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.
Date:
23 October 2025, 9:00
Venue:
Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Speakers:
Saliha Belmessous (Oxford),
Claudia Brittenham (Chicago),
Matthew Fletcher (Michigan),
Kathy Hermes (Oxford),
Ria Holmes (Victoria University of Wellington),
Carwyn Jones (Victoria University of Wellington),
Amanda Kearney (San Diego),
Jonathan Lainey (Montreal),
Uahikea Maile (Chicago),
Sven Ouzman (Western Australia),
Jessica Russ-Smith (Australian Catholic University)
Organiser contact email address:
saliha.belmessous@history.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?:
Required
Booking email:
saliha.belmessous@history.ox.ac.uk
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Belinda Clark
