Announcing the next seminar in the online Treaties & Empire Seminar Series:

Saliha Belmessous (Oxford University): “Treaties and Indigenous Rights in Settler Colonies.”

Tuesday 24 September 13:15−15:00 (CET, UTC+1), via zoom.

Abstract:
This paper examines the role of treaties in establishing the rights of Indigenous peoples in settler colonies, focusing on Canada and Australia in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In Canada, where Indigenous peoples and Europeans had made treaties, Indigenous peoples relied on these treaties to assert claims to land and self-government against the state. By contrast, the absence of treaties in Australia allowed the government to deny Aboriginal land rights and instead stress the Crown’s duty to protect Aboriginal people, who had only two ways of making their claims: violence or the language of protection. This contrasting situation suggests that treaty-making was central to Indigenous peoples’ ability to assert the rights they wanted, rather than those they were granted, against imperial and colonial states.

To attend, please register via: seminars@sea-treaties.org

Subsequent seminars include:

21/11 Xuan Tran and Huang Tian (Hamburg University): Interpreters and Foreign Language Students in Pre- colonial Nguyen Vietnam (1802- 1883): A Brief Archival Survey
Online seminar via Zoom, 13:15−15:00 (CET, UTC+1)

19/12 Tristan Mostert (Leiden University): [Title to be announced]
Online seminar via Zoom, 13:15−15:00 (CET, UTC+1)

More information can also be found on our website: https://sea-treaties.org/

To attend, please register via: seminars@sea-treaties.org, or email Maarten Manse at maarten.manse@lnu.se

Announcing the next seminar in the online Treaties & Empire Seminar Series:

Saliha Belmessous (Oxford University): “Treaties and Indigenous Rights in Settler Colonies.”

Tuesday 24 September 13:15−15:00 (CET, UTC+1), via zoom.

Abstract:
This paper examines the role of treaties in establishing the rights of Indigenous peoples in settler colonies, focusing on Canada and Australia in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In Canada, where Indigenous peoples and Europeans had made treaties, Indigenous peoples relied on these treaties to assert claims to land and self-government against the state. By contrast, the absence of treaties in Australia allowed the government to deny Aboriginal land rights and instead stress the Crown’s duty to protect Aboriginal people, who had only two ways of making their claims: violence or the language of protection. This contrasting situation suggests that treaty-making was central to Indigenous peoples’ ability to assert the rights they wanted, rather than those they were granted, against imperial and colonial states.

To attend, please register via: seminars@sea-treaties.org

Subsequent seminars include:

21/11 Xuan Tran and Huang Tian (Hamburg University): Interpreters and Foreign Language Students in Pre- colonial Nguyen Vietnam (1802- 1883): A Brief Archival Survey
Online seminar via Zoom, 13:15−15:00 (CET, UTC+1)

19/12 Tristan Mostert (Leiden University): [Title to be announced]
Online seminar via Zoom, 13:15−15:00 (CET, UTC+1)

More information can also be found on our website: https://sea-treaties.org/

To attend, please register via: seminars@sea-treaties.org, or email Maarten Manse at maarten.manse@lnu.se