Making Promises: Oaths, Treaties, and Covenants in Multi-jurisdictional and Multi-religious Societies
University of Toronto, November 5-7, 2020
Overview
Thursday, November 5
Welcome and Introductions: 9:00 – 10:30 am EST | 3:00 – 4:30 pm CET
Public Keynote Lecture: 11:00 am – 12:15 pm EST | 5:00 – 6:15 pm CET
Kaffeeklatsch: 12:30 – 1:00 pm EST | 6:30 – 7:00 pm CET
Session 1: 1:00 – 2:30 pm EST | 7:00 – 8:30 pm CET
Friday, November 6
Kaffeeklatsch: 8:30 – 9:00 am EST | 2:30 – 3:00 pm CET
Session 2: 9:00 – 10:30 am EST | 3:00 – 4:30 pm CET
Kaffeeklatsch: 11:00 – 11:30 am EST | 5:00 – 5:30 pm CET
Session 3: 11:30 am – 1:00 pm EST | 5:30 – 7:00 pm CET
Kaffeeklatsch: 2:30 – 3:00 pm EST | 8:30 – 9:00 pm CET
Session 4: 3:00 – 4:30 pm EST | 9:00 10:30 pm CET
Saturday, November 7
Kaffeeklatsch: 9:30 – 10:00 am EST| 3:30 – 4:00 pm CET
Session 5: 10:00 – 10:45 am EST | 4:00 – 4:450 pm CET
Closing Conversation: 11:15 – 1:00 pm EST | 5:15 – 7:00 CET
Full Program
Thursday, November 5
9:00 – 10:30 am EST | 3:00 – 4:30 pm CET
Welcome and Introductions
Opening: Elder Eileen Antone
Organizers: Pamela Klassen, Monique Scheer, Benjamin Berger
11:00 am – 12:15 pm EST | 5:00 – 6:15 pm CET
Public Keynote Lecture
Jeffery Hewitt, Fragmented Promises, Pentimento & the Salvage Paradigm
12:30 – 1:00 pm EST | 6:30 – 7:00 pm CET
Kaffeeklatsch
1:00 – 2:30 pm EST | 7:00 – 8:30 pm CET
Session 1: Promises, Commemoration, and Place
Moderator: Pamela Klassen
Elizabeth Elbourne, Remembering and Forgetting: Land and Commemoration in the Aftermath of the American Revolution
Susan Hill, The Haldimand Proclamation: A Promise of the Crown?
Sujith Xavier, Between Gratitude and Guilt: The Promise of a Better Life in a Settler Colony
Friday, November 6
8:30 – 9:00 am EST | 2:30 – 3:00 pm CET
Kafeeklatsch
9:00 – 10:30 am EST | 3:00 – 4:30 pm CET
Session 2: Trading Promises: Material Artifacts as Reminders of Relations
Moderator: Monique Scheer
Pooyam Tamimi Arab, Spinoza on the Sakoku Edicts
Gregory Peter Fewster, Quid Pro Quo: Egyptian Artifact Distribution and the Bureaucracy of Gentleman’s Promises
Jennifer Selby, Longing and Belonging in a Time of Post-Coloniality: Amel’s Chedda
11:00 – 11:30 am EST | 5:00 – 5:30 pm CET
Kaffeeklatsch
11:30 am – 1:00 pm EST | 5:30 – 7:00 pm CET
Session 3: Petitions, Prayer, and Power
Moderator: Jennifer Selby
Alan Corbiere, ‘Gimishoomis gaa-wiishkobaninig giigidowin’ Your grandfather’s words were very sweet: An Ojibwe Petition from the mid-19th century
Catherine Evans, Truth-telling and Religious Difference in Colonial Australian Courts
Kellen Funk, The Swearer’s Prayer
2:30 – 3:00 pm EST | 8:30 – 9:00 pm CET
Kaffeeklatsch
3:00 – 4:30 pm EST | 9:00 – 10:30 pm CET
Session 4: Languages of Promise and Theft
Moderator: Alan Corbiere
Dale Turner, How Should We Understand Indigenous Spirituality (in English)? A reflection on the philosophy of listening
Tiffany Hale, Rigid Forms and Flexible Reality: Contextualizing the 1892 Cooper Report
Heidi Bohaker, ‘Let us look to the most high who blessed our fathers with peace’: Sacrality and Divinity in Great Lakes Indigenous-Crown Treaties
Saturday, November 7
9:30 – 10:00 am EST| 3:30 – 4:00 pm CET
Kaffeeklatsch
10:00 – 10:45 am EST | 4:00 – 4:45 pm CET
Session 5: Ceremony, Law, and Promises of Belonging
Moderator: Benjamin Berger
Yaniv Feller, Silencing the Torah in the Museums
Pamela Klassen, Ceremonial Morality: What a History of Oath-Taking Reveals about Practices of Living in a Good Way
11:15 – 1:00 pm ESP | 5:15 – 7:00 pm CET
Closing Conversation
Response: Jeremy Webber
All participants, with special guests including Dan Quinlan, Editor at University of Toronto Press
Closing: Elder Eileen Antone