News feedsLaw and Lawlessness in the Indian Ocean
16 April 2010, Chawton House, Hampshire
Workshop Outline
This workshop pursues the same broad ideas and themes as those explored in the workshop on 27 January, 2010. It 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
- Fahad Bishara (History, Duke University)
- Dr Sharae Deckard (English, University College Dublin)
- Dr Adam Geary (School of Law, Birkbeck)
- Associate Professor Devleena Ghosh (Social and Political Change Group and Trans/forming Cultures, University of Technology, Sydney)
- Dr Pamila Gupta (Anthropology, University of Witwatersrand)
- Dr Peter Hawkins (French, University of Bristol)
- Professor Isabel Hofmeyr (Literature and Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of Witwatersrand)
- Dr Jesse Ransley (Maritime Archaeology, Southampton)
- Professor Meg Samuelson (English, Stellenbosch University)
Full Programme
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 9.00-9.30 | Tea/coffee and registration |
| 9.30 | Welcoming address from Stephanie Jones |
| 9.40 | Meg Samuelson ‘(Un)lawful subjects of Company: An archipelagic corridor of rule at the intersection of Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds’ |
| 10.00 | Discussion |
| 10.20 | Fahad Bishara "A Sea of Debt: Litigants, Lawyers and the Legal Integration of the Indian Ocean, c. 1850-1950" |
| 10.40 | Discussion |
| 11.00-11.40 | Morning tea/coffee |
| 11.40 | Marianne O’Doherty “Law and lawlessness in European representations of the Indian Ocean from Marco Polo (1298) to Giovanni da Fontana (c.1453)” |
| 12.00 | Discussion |
| 12.20 | Adam Geary title tba (on the spread and influence of Fourier’s ideas in L’isle Maurice) |
| 12.40 | Discussion |
| 1.00 | Devleena Ghosh (title tba) |
| 1.20 | Discussion |
| 1.40-2.40 | Lunch |
| 2.40 | Jesse Ransley “The material, spatial and legislative engagements shaping lascar lives in the eighteenth century Indian Ocean” |
| 3.00 | Discussion |
| 3.20 | Pamila Gupta "Portuguese Decolonization and (Dis)Possession in the Indian Ocean" |
| 3.40 | Discussion |
| 4.00-4.40 | Afternoon tea/coffee |
| 4.40 |
Peter Hawkins “Piracy and Utopia in the Indian Ocean novels of Daniel Vaxelaire” |
| 5.00 | Discussion |
| 5.20 | Sharae Deckard “’Could it be everywhere?'Literary Mutiny and the Indian Ocean” |
| 5.40 | Discussion |
| 6.00 | Isabel Hofmeyr (title tba) |
| 6.20 | Discussion |
| 7.30 | Dinner |
Registration
Cost: £30 to attend the workshop + lunch OR £65 to attend the workshop + lunch + drinks/dinner.
Please register by 5 April 2010.
If you are interested in attending this workshop, you may also be interested in some other workshops being held at Chawton House, particularly the linked workshop the previous day, 15 April 2010: Piracy in the Indian Ocean and Atlantic Worlds
Getting to Chawton House:
For information about Chawton House and advice on how to get there see the Chawton House website
Accommodation:
For contact details of some hotels and b and bs in nearby Alton and Winchester, please see: