Brightening the Covenant Chain: Revealing Cultures of Diplomacy Between the Crown and the Iroquois

Contemplating Post-Traumatic Futures: Ecology and Technological Change (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Porter, J. (2023, November). Contemplating Post-Traumatic Futures: Ecology and Technological Change. Presented at Resilience and Reconstruction Workshop at the Centre for Culture & the Mind, University of Copenhagan

Post-Traumatic Futures: Ecology and Technological Change (date tbc, event from 30 November to 1 December 2023)

Joy Porter has been invited to speak at the ‘Resilience and Reconstruction Workshop at the Centre for Culture & the Mind’, University of... Read More about Contemplating Post-Traumatic Futures: Ecology and Technological Change.

Director's Seminar: Indigenous Environmental History and Its Relevance to Future Prosperity (2022)
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Porter, J. (2022). Director's Seminar: Indigenous Environmental History and Its Relevance to Future Prosperity

The world is grappling with a number of widespread and indeterminate risks that we ourselves created. Perhaps the most fundamental risk to our wellbeing as the Fourth Industrial Revolution unfolds is Natural Producer Extinction- the irreversible loss... Read More about Director's Seminar: Indigenous Environmental History and Its Relevance to Future Prosperity.

Alan Graham Memorial Lecture: Wildness and Indigenous American Futures (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Porter, J. (2022, April). Alan Graham Memorial Lecture: Wildness and Indigenous American Futures. Presented at Irish Association of American Studies Annual Conference 2022: America Gone Wild, Dublin City University

“In wildness is the preservation of the world” said Henry David Thoreau, but was he right? Does the idea of the wild instead enshrine outdated thinking that works to prevent the West from addressing the wicked problems of a warming world? Is wildness... Read More about Alan Graham Memorial Lecture: Wildness and Indigenous American Futures.

Dress To ReDress: Exploring Native American Material Culture (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Dress To ReDress: Exploring Native American Material Culture. Exhibited at American Museum & Gardens, Bath, UK. 19 March 2022 - 3 July 2022

The American Museum & Gardens presents Dress to Redress, an exhibition of the work of contemporary Anishinabe artist Celeste Pedri-Spade, from 19 March to 3 July.

Featuring a series of spectacular wearable-art pieces, personal artefacts and photog... Read More about Dress To ReDress: Exploring Native American Material Culture.

Podcast: The Many Lives of Frank Prewett (2021)
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Porter, J. (2021). Podcast: The Many Lives of Frank Prewett

Patrice Dutil talks with Joy Porter of the University of Hull (UK) about her latest book, an exploration of the poet Frank Prewett, Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett. It is published by Bloomsbury Press. Prewett... Read More about Podcast: The Many Lives of Frank Prewett.

Treatied space: North American indigenous treaties in a global context (2021)
Book Chapter
Porter, J. (2021). Treatied space: North American indigenous treaties in a global context. In A. McGrath, & L. Russell (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History (259-278). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315181929

All communities and individuals living on North American land are, in a geo-political sense, ‘treaty people’ and attention to treaty history is vital to the challenge of addressing the profound environmental, technological, and resource-use changes o... Read More about Treatied space: North American indigenous treaties in a global context.

Podcast: Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett (2021)
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Porter, J. (2021). Podcast: Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett

In Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021), Joy Porter examines the extraordinary life of Frank “Toronto” Prewett and the history of trauma, literary expression, and the power of self-repre... Read More about Podcast: Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett.

Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett (2021)
Book
Porter, J. (2021). Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett. Bloomsbury Press

This book examines the extraordinary life of Frank "Toronto" Prewett and the history of trauma, literary expression, and the power of self-representation after WWI. Joy Porter sheds new light on how the First World War affected the Canadian poet, and... Read More about Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett.

Frank 'Toronto' Prewett (2020)
Journal Article
Porter, J. (2020). Frank 'Toronto' Prewett. War Poetry Review, 2020(1), 13-23

An excerpt from the Introduction to "Trauma, Primitivism, and the Making of Frank 'Toronto' Prewett" by Joy Porter, forthcoming from Bloomsbury.

Plenary lecture: Who Fights for Canada as the Climate Changes? (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Porter, J. (2019, April). Plenary lecture: Who Fights for Canada as the Climate Changes?. Presented at British Association for Canadian Studies Annual Conference, 2019, The Eccles Centre for American Studies, London

This lecture addresses what is amongst Canada’s greatest challenges as the twenty-first century progresses – climate change and issues linked to the environment. The overall objective is to suggest that aspects of Canada’s self-image and self-represe... Read More about Plenary lecture: Who Fights for Canada as the Climate Changes?.