News feedsLaw and Lawlessness in the Indian Ocean
27 January 2010, Chawton House, Hampshire
A workshop hosted by an AHRC Landscape and Environment project on The Indian Ocean
Workshop Outline
This workshop is driven by the recognition that oceans are lived and imagined as lawless spaces. But as such, all oceans are spaces that make possible wilder imaginings of new laws and the refinement of old laws. The idea of this workshop is to engage with the particular significance of the Indian Ocean to these imaginative and regulative processes; and concomitantly, to explore how such imaginative and regulative narratives have constructed the Indian Ocean as a particular place. Papers will (amongst other things) consider the representation of law or lawlessness in novels/poetry/stories of the Indian Ocean; trace how the development of international and national law has been prompted by events in or the geographies of the Indian Ocean; track how ideas of law and lawlessness circulate in the Indian Ocean world; consider the impact of the lawful/lawless nature of the Indian Ocean on other parts of the World Ocean.
Speakers include:
- Dr Clare Anderson (Department of Sociology, University of Warwick)
- Dr Maria Aristodemou (School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London)
- Professor Gwyn Campbell (History and Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University)
- Professor Simon Davies (School of Languages, Literatures and Performing Arts, Queen’s University)
- Dr Meg Samuelson (English Department, Stellenbosch University)
- Professor Hilton Staniland (Director of the Institute of Maritime Law, University of Southampton)
- Dr Stephen Morton (English, University of Southampton)
- Charne Laverty (English, University of Oxford)
The workshop will begin about 9.30 and will finish about 6, with dinner beginning at about 6.30.
Registration
Cost: £30 to attend the workshop + lunch OR £65 to attend the workshop + lunch + drinks/dinner
Please register by 22 January 2010.
If you are attending this workshop, you may also be interested in the linked workshop being held the previous day (26 January) at Chawton House on: Abolitions in the Indian Ocean and Atlantic Worlds
Getting to Chawton House:
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Accommodation:
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