Date:
Location:
December 7–8, 2023
This conference is open to the public.
This event is a space for cross-disciplinary thinking about the multi-valent concepts of territory, law, and infrastructure in a world of multiple “crises,” with an eye toward design logics for alternative futures. The broader workshop panels take ports as a heuristic that is particularly amenable to comparative socio-legal inquiry inviting engagement with a range of pressing topics spanning logistics, infrastructure, labor, regional planning and design, ecological crisis, development, sovereignty, and governance, to name only a few.
The workshop is co-organized by Prof. Lucie White of Harvard Law School, Prof. Diane Davis of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Prof. Dan Danielsen of the Northeastern University School of Law, and Samuel Tabory of the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The workshop is supported by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard.
Full Conference Details: https://wcfia.harvard.edu/conferences/23-laws-regions-and-ports
Day 1 / Keynote Address
Thursday December 7th, 2023
6:30pm–8:00pm
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room
Open to the public
Infrastructure, Territory, and Flow in a Fraught World
With Professors Carola Hein and Hila Shamir
Day 2 / Panels
Friday December 8th, 2023
All Panels held in CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room
Open to the public
9:00am–10:30am / Ports as Nodes and Networks amidst Alternative Legal Orders
10:45am–12:15pm / Ports and Human Lifeworlds
12:30pm–2:00pm / Ports and Global Labor Struggles
2:15pm–3:45pm / Ports and Contested Pasts, Presents, Futures
4:00pm–5:30pm / Ports and Fragile Ecologies/Promising Commons