Symposium 2-3 July 2020, Te Herenga Waka marae, Wellington, Aotearoa

This two-day symposium, funded by the Royal Society of New Zealand’s Marsden Fund, will explore the intersection of literature and diplomacy in Indigenous-settler relationships around the world in the 18^th and 19^th centuries, with some papers focusing on British Romanticism’s contribution to this intersection.  

Invited speakers will be addressing these topics, and more:

• Indigenous- or white-authored literary texts as diplomatic texts in the 18^th and 19^th century colonial world  
• Indigenous- or white-authored diplomatic texts as literary texts in the 18^th and 19^th century colonial world  
• Connections between material culture and textual production in 18^th/19^th century Indigenous-settler diplomacy  
• New vocabularies and textual forms generated by Indigenous-settler diplomacy  

• Transindigenous diplomacies and literatures  
• Post-1900 literature responding to 18^th/19^th century Indigenous-settler diplomacy  
• Textual repositories and archives of Indigenous-settler literature and diplomacy  
• British Romantic literature and its engagements with Indigenous peoples  
• Romanticism, colonial curricula, and Indigenous literature  

• The effects of Romantic literature on Indigenous-settler diplomacy and governance.