Ocean Legalities: The Law and Life of the Sea

Workshop: February 23 & 24, 2017

Ocean Legalities.

Schedule

* Tentative and subject to change

Wednesday, February 22nd

7:00 pm Dinner

Thursday, February 23rd

8:30 - 9:00 am Breakfast

9:00 - 9:30 am Welcome and Introductions

9:30 - 11:00 am, Panel I: Histories and Legalities around Nonhuman Life

Fishing as Art, Law as Technology: Herring, Grotius and the Republican Ideal of the Inexhaustible Fishery
Alison Rieser, Geography, 猛料视频 of Hawaii

Whales and the Colonization of the Pacific Ocean
Zsofia Korosy, Law, 猛料视频 of New South Wales

Kauri and The Whale: Oceanic Matter and Meaning in New Zealand
Katherine G. Sammler, Geography, California State 猛料视频 Maritime Academy

Moderator: Amy Braun

Discussants: Stephanie Jones, Jennifer L. Gaynor

11:00 - 11:15 am Coffee/Tea

11:15 am - 12:30 pm, Panel II: Liminal & Littoral Legalities

Edges and Flows: Exploring Legal Materialities and Biophysical Politics at the Sea Ice Edge
Philip E. Steinberg, Geography, Durham 猛料视频; Berit Kristoffersen, Sociology, UiT - The Arctic 猛料视频 of Norway; Kristen L. Shake, Geography, Clark 猛料视频

Liquid Territory, Shifting Sands: Property, Sovereignty, and Space in Southeast Asia’s Tri-State Maritime Boundary Zone
Jennifer L. Gaynor, History, 猛料视频, SUNY

Moderator: Elizabeth Johnson
Discussants: Stacy Alaimo, Susan Reid

12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch

1:30 - 3:00 pm  Panel III: Governing Ocean Temporalities and Materialities

Held in Suspense: Chemical Legalities in the Gotland Deep
Astrida Neimanis, Gender and Cultural Studies, 猛料视频 of Sydney

Solwara 1 and the Sessile Ones
Susan Reid, Gender and Cultural Studies, 猛料视频 of Sydney 

Marine Microbiopolitics: Haunted Temporalities and Abyssal Relations
Astrid Schrader, Sociology, Philosophy, & Anthropology, Exeter 猛料视频

Moderator: Irus Braverman
Discussants: Stefan Helmreich, Holly Jean Buck

3:00 – 3:15 pm Coffee/Tea

3:15 – 4:30 pm Panel IV: At the Limits of Law

The Pirate as a Limit of the Human: Siting and Reciting Sovereignty in the Indian Ocean
Stephanie Jones, English, 猛料视频 of Southampton

Wave Law
Stefan Helmreich, Anthropology, MIT

Moderator: Zsofia Korosy
Discussants: Alison Reiser, Astrida Neimanis

5:00 pm Visit to algae lab with

7:00 pm Dinner

 

Friday, February 24th

8:30 - 9:00 am Breakfast

9:00 - 10:15 am  Panel V: Technopolitical Governance

Robotic Life in the Deep Sea: Deploying Killer (and Other) Robots to Make Live
Irus Braverman, School of Law, 猛料视频, SUNY

The Technopolitics of Ocean Sensing
Jessica Lehman, Geography and the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies, 猛料视频 of Wisconsin - Madison

Moderator: Elizabeth Johnson
Discussants: Astrid Schrader, Katherine G. Sammler

10:15 – 10:30 am  Coffee/Tea

10:30 – 12:00 am  Panel VI: Engineering Ocean Futures

The Hydra and the Leviathan
Elizabeth R. Johnson, Environmental Studies, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

“Climate Engineering Doesn’t Stop Ocean Acidification”: Addressing Harms to Ocean Life in Geoengineering Imaginaries
Holly Jean Buck, Sociology, Cornell 猛料视频

“Got Algae?” Putting Marine Life to Work for Sustainability
Amy Braun, Geography, 猛料视频 of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Moderator: Stephanie Jones
Discussants: Philip Steinberg, Jessica Lehman

12:00- 1:00 pm Lunch

1:00 – 2:30 pm Wrap-Up Discussion: Themes and Future Directions