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    • Workshop
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    • Student Participants
    • Acknowledgments
  • Museums
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  • Making Promises
    • About Making Promises
    • Workshop Schedule
    • Public Keynote Lecture
  • Schloss Conversations
    • Venus in Transit
    • Reformation and Refugees
  • Story Nations
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  • Organizers
    • Pamela Klassen
    • Monique Scheer

Workshop Schedule

Making Promises: Oaths, Treaties, and Covenants in Multi-jurisdictional and Multi-religious Societies

University of Toronto, November 5-7, 2020
A pdf of the Schedule is available hereDownload

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

Call for Papers: ‘Making Promises’ Workshop

This interdisciplinary workshop – November 5-7, proposal deadline March 15 – invites scholars to ask what it means to make a promise in a society characterized by legal and religious pluralism. In such conditions of multiplicity, how are public promises made meaningful through appeals to varied transcendent powers and diverse traditions of material culture and embodied emotion? Read more about the call here.

Story Nations

Kiinawin Kawindomowin Story Nations is a digital storytelling collaboration based in Toronto, on the territory of the Huron-Wendat and Petun First Nations, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. This land has long been … [Read More...]

Sites of Memory

Sites of Memory: Religion, Multiculturalism and the Demands of the Past (September 15-17, 2016) is a comparative workshop focused on how projects of national and religious public memory grapple with the “demands of the past” as they are experienced, … [Read More...]

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