27 January 2010, Chawton House, Hampshire

A workshop hosted by an AHRC Landscape and Environment project on The Indian Ocean

Workshop Outline

This workshop is driven by the recognition that oceans are lived and imagined as lawless spaces. But as such, all oceans are spaces that make possible wilder imaginings of new laws and the refinement of old laws. The idea of this workshop is to engage with the particular significance of the Indian Ocean to these imaginative and regulative processes; and concomitantly, to explore how such imaginative and regulative narratives have constructed the Indian Ocean as a particular place.  Papers will (amongst other things) consider the representation of law or lawlessness in novels/poetry/stories of the Indian Ocean; trace how the development of international and national law has been prompted by events in or the geographies of the Indian Ocean; track how ideas of law and lawlessness circulate in the Indian Ocean world; consider the impact of the lawful/lawless nature of the Indian Ocean on other parts of the World Ocean.

Speakers include:
•Dr Clare Anderson (Department of Sociology, University of Warwick)
•Dr Maria Aristodemou (School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London)
•Professor Gwyn Campbell (History and Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University)
•Professor Simon Davies (School of Languages, Literatures and Performing Arts, Queen’s University)
•Dr Meg Samuelson (English Department, Stellenbosch University)
•Professor Hilton Staniland (Director of the Institute of Maritime Law, University of Southampton)
•Dr Stephen Morton (English, University of Southampton)
•Charne Laverty (English, University of Oxford)

Registration

Cost: £30 to attend the workshop + lunch OR £65 to attend the workshop + lunch + drinks/dinner

For more information and to register please go to the University of Southampton website.