The draft programme is available below and is subject to change. To register for the symposium, please email Nikki.Hessell@vuw.ac.nz Registration is free, but places are limited.
Thursday 2 July:
Pōwhiri (welcome + morning tea)
Keynote 1:
Arini Loader (Te Herenga Waka)
“Huia mai kia kotahi he tikanga mā tātou: Waikato Resistance and Resilience in the Face of Colonial Aggression 1863-1864”
Lunch
Session 1: Diplomatic Objects and Metonymies
Kaitlin Debicki (McMaster) and Eugenia Zuroski (McMaster)
“Two Row Diplomacy and Metonymic Being; or, Colonialism’s Sinking Ship”
Shino Konishi (University of Western Australia)
‘Green boughs’ and ‘expressive pantomime’: Improvised diplomacy in Thomas Mitchell’s Three Expeditions into the Interior (1838)
Nikki Hessell (Te Herenga Waka)
“Quotation and Repatriation”
Afternoon tea
Session 2: Literature and Treaty-Making
Frank Kelderman (University of Louisville)
“Diplomatic Networks in Early Choctaw Poetry”
Kevin Hutchings (University of Northern British Columbia)
“Squatting on the King’s and Queen’s Great Crowning Chairs: Chief Kahkewaquonaby
And the 1836 “Bond Head” Treaty
Katie Walkiewicz (UC San Diego)
“Sequoyah: A Poetic State”
Keynote 2:
Manu Samriti Chander (Rutgers University)
(Lecture supported by the Romantic Studies Association of Australasia)
“Reading Indigeneity in Nineteenth-Century British Guiana”
Symposium Reception
Friday 3 July:
Session 3: Diplomatic Genres & the Indigenous Nineteenth Century
Lachy Paterson (University of Otago)
“The Language of Diplomacy, as seen in the Māori-language newspapers”
Lily Pare Hall Butcher (Te Herenga Waka)
“Calling through time: Māori women’s voices in nineteenth century Māori language newspapers”
Millie Godfery (Te Herenga Waka)
Title TBA
Adam Spry (Emerson College)
“Confined to History: William Warren and the Consolidation of Ojibwe Nationhood”
Morning tea
Session 4: Relationships, Stories, Genealogies
Tina Makereti (Te Herenga Waka)
“A Whakapapa of Imaginary Lives”
Kate Fullagar (Macquarie University)
“The Parting of Cook and Mai: Revising the revisions”
Jane Stafford (Te Herenga Waka)
“‘A Chat About Rua’: Rua Hepetipa Kenana, Katherine Mansfield, and the Colonial Press”
Carwyn Jones (Te Herenga Waka)
“Signs of Commitment: Tā Moko and Promises in the Māori Legal World”
Lunch
Session 5: Linguistic and Textual Legacies
Alice Te Punga Somerville (The University of Waikato)
“On whose behalf? Pacific translations of colonial texts”
Katherine Bergren (Trinity College)
“Will this be on the exam? Literature, assimilation, and discrimination in British Malaya, 1938”
Māmari Stephens (Te Herenga Waka)
Title TBA
Afternoon tea
Keynote 3:
Robbie Richardson (University of Kent)
“Unwitnessing Meaning: Wampum in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination”
Reflections and Closing
Literature, Diplomacy, and Indigenous Peoples in the 18th and 19th Centuries: Romanticism and Beyond 