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Colonial Commons: land/law/living/labour

University of British Columbia 29-30 May 2008

C.K. Choi Building, Conference Room (#120)

Thursday 29 May

9.00 Welcome, registration and opening

Continental Breakfast

10.00 ‘Commons, Enclosure and Dispossession in the Colonization of North America’ (Allan Greer, Department of History, University of Toronto)

10.30 ‘Expropriating the Colonial Commons: European Colonisation in Asia, 1860- 1940’ (Andrew Wells, Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong)

11.00 Tea

11.30 ‘Regulation and governance of commons in New France and Lower Canada.’ (Colin Coates, Glendon College, York University, Ca.)

12.00 General discussion – Is there something specific about colonial commons?

12.30 Lunch

2.00 ‘Individual Entitlement and the Common Good: A Legal and Conceptual History of Eminent Domain in Nineteenth Century India’, (Peter Samuels, Program in Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University, USA)

2.30 ‘Subaltern space: labour and the multiple uses of Australia’s colonial commons’ (Ben Maddison, School of History and Politics, University of Wollongong, Australia)

3.00 Tea

3.15 ‘Imposing Common Property: Mare Liberum and Public Rights in the British Columbia Fisheries’ (Doug Harris, Faculty of Law, UBC)

3.45 ‘Grappling with Grasshoppers: Insect Control and the “Ecological Commons” in British Columbia, Canada’, (John Thistle, Department of Geography, UBC)

4.15 General discussion and close

7.00 Conference Dinner One More Sushi - 222-2155 Allison Road (upstairs in the University Village)

Friday 30 May

09.45 Continental Breakfast

10.30 ‘From “Blood and Fire” to the “Politics of Recognition”: Marx and Fanon on Primitive Accumulation in a Liberal Settler-State’ (Glen Coulthard, First Nations Studies and Political Science, UBC)

11.00 Tea

11.15 ‘Analyzing the Public/Private Distinction: The Push and Pull of Sustainability on Commons Discourse’ (Deborah Curran, Faculty of Law and Environmental Law Centre, University of Victoria)

11.45 ‘Decolonizing “Commons” Discourse in Canada: Retrenchments and Challenges to Colonial Enclosures’(Shiri Pasternak, University of Toronto)

12.15 Lunch

1.30 ‘Caribou, Indigenous Peoples and Resource Management in Canada’s North: Commons or Commodity?’ (Walter Bayha, Danny Beaulieu, Allice Legat, Micheline Manseau, Deborah Simmons)

2.00 ‘What is “Inter-Indigeneous Law”? Finding a Historic Collective Identity and Imagining its Implications Upon Modern Legal Discourse’ (Signa A. Daum Shanks, Department of History, University of Western Ontario)

2.30 Plenary - Colonial Commons

3.00- 4.00 Close

For further and updated information: http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/colonialcommons/index.html