Oral History as a Practice of Freedom: the Tsilhqo'tin Title Case in Context

A free public lecture by Lorraine Weir

At the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University, 515 West Hastings Street

Location: room 7000, SFU Harbour Centre

Co-sponsored by UBC's Department of English

Since 2013 Lorraine Weir has been working with Chief Roger William and the Xeni Gwet'in First Nation on a book-length oral history of the Tsilhqot'in case (BCSC 2007, BCSC 2012, SCC 2014)which resulted in the first declaration of Aboriginal title in Canada. She has written on "'Oral Tradition' as Legal Fiction" in the Tsilhqot'in case, on "time immemorial" in Calder, Van der Peet, and Tsilhqot'in, on spatial deixis in Tsilhqot'in, and is working on a book on concepts of time and space in relation to Tsilhqot'in law in the title case. Weir's initial focus was on Irish literature and theorizing 'orality' in relation to modernist constructs of memory in the work of James Joyce, followed by work on settler literatures in Canada, and then on discursive regulation. Weir teaches Indigenous Studies and theory in the English Department at the University of British Columbia Vancouver where she is a Professor.

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