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Are We All Treaty People? Building Research with Students

"In this talk I will discuss my experience integrating teaching with research. Often professors find teaching and research compete for our time because our courses are not at all on the same topics as our research. In 2012, I found myself puzzling over the slogan “We are all Treaty People” coming out of the Indigenous rights movement Idle No More. I asked myself what I thought would be a simple question: “Am I? is there a treaty for Kingston?” But this question wasn’t in fact easy to answer, and thus began a ten year research project. I was lucky to have funding from the Principal and support from my Department Head to begin to work through these questions via the course Unsettling Kingston/Katarokwi, which was a very satisfying process, and the reverse of the usual expectation that the professor figures everything out and THEN teaches it."

Laura J. Murray is a Professor in the Department of English and recently completed a 4-year term as Co-Director of the Graduate Program in Cultural Studies. Her work on Kingston’s “Crawford Purchase” loops back to her first book (1998) on the writings of a young Mohegan man from Connecticut who in the midst of the American Revolution advocated for land for his dispossessed people. In the interim she has written extensively on language and North American colonization, and on nineteenth-century American newspapers and urban life. Her work on copyright law ranges from practical public engagement (Canadian Copyright: A Citizen’s Guide, with Samuel E. Trosow, Between the Lines 2007, 2013) to theoretical and historical perspectives (Putting Intellectual Property in its Place, with Kirsty Robertson & Tina Piper, Oxford 2014). As an oral historian she created and led the Swamp Ward and Inner Harbour History Project about an immigrant working class neighbourhood north of Princess Street (). Currently she is co-lead on the SSHRC-funded Belle Park Project, using art, film, and various forms of community engagement to illuminate a complex space on the Cataraqui River ().