Event Description
Ordering the Anthropocene: Law and the Environment in the Indian Ocean
Prompted by the contemporary relevance of climate change and disaster relief in the Indian Ocean world, this workshop showcases new scholarship
that explores the intersections of climate, landscape transformation, and legal ordering in oceanic and littoral zones. The papers explore a range of issues:
from how states sought to bind, improve, and mitigate the power of environmental phenomena; how natural landscapes facilitated border surveillance, boundary-creation as well as the expansion of imperial models of governing nature to the postcolonial world?
Friday presenters include:
Keynote speaker: Sunil Amrith, Harvard University
Ahmed Y. Almaazmi, Princeton University
Tiraana Bains, Yale University
Rukmini Chakraborty, Cornell University
Robert Rouphail, Susquehanna University
Devin Smart, West Virginia University
Aarthi Sridhar, University of Amsterdam
Kimberley Thomas, Temple University
Saturday Field Visit:
Riverwards District led by Alison Kenner, Politics, STS Drexel
Sponsors:
The American Society for Legal History
Drexel University Department of History
Drexel University Kline School of Law, Center for Law, Policy, and Social Action
Drexel University Women's and Gender Studies
Conveners:
Debjani Bhattacharyya, Drexel University
Laurie Wood, Florida State University
See attached program for details.
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