# Law, Regions, and Ports: Toward Imagining Alternative Futures #### calendar\_today Date and Time **December 7 - December 8, 2023** 06:30PM - 05:30PM EST #### pin\_drop Location **CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room** Law, Regions, and Ports: Toward Imagining Alternative Futures ## 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: ## 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 Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/node/1547386/event-feed.ics) Copy link link