University of Kent Public Lecture Series, Brussels

Prof Hans Lindahl discussing Boundaries, Limits and Fault Lines: Democracy in a Global Context
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The University of Kent Public Lecture Series
April 08, 2015

Professor Hans Lindahl, Tilburg University.

Researchers Workshop/Roundtable, 10:30 am-12:00 pm, Gandhi Room (3rd floor):

A Topology of Legal Orders in a Global Setting

Participation: Limited spaces available for external researchers. To participate, send an email to [email protected], stating your name and affiliation.

Public Lecture, 02:00 pm-04:00 pm, Wilson Room (3rd floor):

Boundaries, Limits, and Fault Lines: Democracy in a Global Context

Registration: All Public Lectures are free to attend but registration is requested. Please register by sending an email to [email protected], stating your name and affiliation.

The lecture will be followed by a light reception

Venue
Brussels School of International Studies
University of Kent
Pleinlaan / Boulevard de la Plaine 5
1050 Brussels

Maps & directions
http://www.kent.ac.uk/brussels/contact/location/maps_directions.html

Public Lecture, April 08, 2015: 02pm-04pm: Boundaries, Limits, and Fault Lines: Democracy in a Global Context,
Prof. Hans Lindahl, Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
To register: [email protected]

Abstract: The assumption that global legal orders expose the inside/outside distinction as a contingent, state-bound feature of law is a particularly powerful manifestation of state-centred thinking about law, or so this paper argues. Whereas the distinction between domestic and foreign legal orders is indeed historically contingent, the closure that gives rise to the contrast between a collective's own legal space and strange places is constitutive for any conceivable legal order, global or otherwise. Parallel considerations apply to the temporal, subjective, and material boundaries of legal orders. The paper considers some of the conceptual and normative implications of this insight for democracy in a global context.

A recap of the journey so far!
See you in April :)

Brilliant lecture by Francesco Sebregondi from Goldsmiths, University of London on 'Forensic Architecture: Urban Conflicts, New Media, and the Political Representation of Violence' at BSIS on Wednesday, March 04, 2015. Chaired by Dr Maarten Loopmans (KU Leuven)

Wednesday, March 4, Uni of Kent (Brussels)
Francesco Sebregondi (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Public Lecture, 02:00 pm-04:00 pm, Wilson Room (3rd floor): Forensic Architecture: Urban Conflicts, New Media, and the Political Representation of Violence.

Chaired by Dr. Maarten Loopmans, KU Leuven

(The lecture will be followed by a light reception)

Registration: All Public Lectures are free to attend but registration is requested. Please register by sending an email to [email protected], stating your name and affiliation.

Abstract:

The lecture will present a selection of investigations from the collective research project Forensic Architecture. Those will be used as a lens to examine some of the new challenges to the political representation of violence – understood as the process of making violence both visible and available for action. Working with human rights organisations, Forensic Architecture conducts spatial and media analysis to investigate alleged violations of human rights and international law in places such as Pakistan, Ex-Yugoslavia, the Mediterranean, or Gaza. The lecture will start by unpacking the term “forensic" and its original relation to the “forum”, with a view to describe the forensic methodology at work in the research presented. It will then focus on two interrelated phenomena: not only are contemporary conflicts increasingly urban in character, but they are also being imaged in a variety of new ways – from satellite imagery to smartphone footage circulating on social media. How are these new regimes of image production and circulation, combined with the specifically urban setting of today’s wars, opening up new ways of establishing (counter-)narratives of violence?

The University of Kent Public Lecture Series

Wednesday 04 March 2015 at 14.00-16.00 (2pm-4pm)

Forensic Architecture: Urban Conflicts, New Media, and the Political Representation of Violence

Francesco Sebregondi from Goldsmiths, University of London

Chaired by Dr. Maarten Loopmans, KU Leuven

Registration:This event is free to attend. Please register by sending an email to [email protected], stating your name and affiliation.

Venue
Wilson Room (3rd floor)
Brussels School of International Studies
University of Kent
Pleinlaan / Boulevard de la Plaine 5
B-1050 Brussels

Maps & directions
http://www.kent.ac.uk/brussels/contact/location/maps_directions.html

(The lecture will be followed by a light reception)

News item by Loughborough University on the Lecture Series .
://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/phir/news-events/moya-lloyd-lecture--who-counts-the-political-problem-of-the-human.html

News and Events | Moya Lloyd Lecture: 'Who counts? The political problem of the "human" | PHIR |... Moya Lloyd was in Brussels recently to deliver a lecture entitled 'Who counts? The political problem of the "human"' as part of the University of Kent's Public Lecture Series, organized by the Brussels School of International Studies. While she was there she also ran a workshop on 'Framing the Human…

[Mark the Date] March 4, 2015
Workshop and Public Lecture by Francesco Sebregondi (Goldsmiths London)
Register today!

'Who Counts? The political problem of the human,' Prof Moya Lloyd's lecture at BSIS, Uni of Kent
(Pic courtesy: Robert Nartowski)

Feb 4 at Uni of Kent Brussels: PhD workshop 'Framing The Human' with Moya Lloyd (UK) and Rajarshi (JNU)

The aim of the workshop is to consider the diverse ways that the category of the 'human' operates in different contexts, the problems (both methodological and theoretical) that this poses for attempting to study those who are 'framed' as less than (or other than) human in such contexts, and how such marginalized groups seek to challenge the terms of their dehumanization.

Participation: Limited spaces available for external researchers. To participate, send an email to [email protected], stating your name and affiliation.

The Workshop will be followed by two Public Lectures.

Special Edition of the University of Kent Public Lecture Series
on
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
at 14.00-16.00 (2pm-4pm)
with two guest speakers:
Prof Moya Lloyd
Loughborough University, Leicestershire
and
Dr Rajarshi Dasgupta
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi