Wednesday 5 March 2024, 11:30 – 14:00
Council Chamber in Northcott House, Streatham Campus, University of Exeter.
Online Teams/Zoom link (TBC)
Workshop on ‘Ancient Roman expulsions and current Anishinaabe Citizenship resurgence. Non-State civic memberships: access, rights, privileges and protection’ organized by the Exeter Classics with the support of the Centre for Political Thought. Guest speaker Dr Damien Lee (Toronto Metropolitan University). Other speakers include Elena Isayev and Andrew Schaap.
What gives value to civic membership? And how does it transform depending on the practice and agents of sovereignty in any given period? These questions bring together the seemingly disparate cases which will presented by the panel members: from a moment of expulsion in Roman Egypt (Isayev), to contemporary theories situating nation-state citizenship (Schaap), and the current resurgence of Anishinaabe citizenships in Canada (Lee).
More specifically, our guest speaker Damien Lee (Canada Research Chair in Biskaabiiyang and Indigenous Political Resurgence, Toronto Metropolitan University will present his current Research:
Anishinaabe citizenships through the lens of adoption stories
Many Indigenous peoples of North America have long used adoption as a tool of treaty-making and citizenship expansion. Yet, today adoption has become a dirty word for many due to the ways that the settler society has weaponized adoption against Indigenous peoples. In this talk, Dr. Lee considers the nation-making function and potential of Anishinaabe (Ojibwa) adoption practices, specifically drawing to the surface key principles that guide citizenship making both past and present.
Images:
On the left: Papyrus – P.Giss 40 (Constitutio Antoniniana) https://www.constitutio.de/en/significance/introduction.
On the right: Anishinaabe Dance Blanket Detail Mia 2007 1 by Minneapolis Institute of Art is marked with CC0 1.0.