As part of the Underworlds series, this event focuses on debt as site of global dis/ordering.
Rather than concentrating only on how (sovereign) debt is formally recognised or regulated in international law, this event aims to foreground the material patterns of global dis/ordering that debt generates.
Speakers: Vasuki Nesiah and Kojo Koramr
As part of the Underworlds series, this event engages with the ‘commons’ as sites of global dis/ordering.
Rather than focusing strictly on how the commons are formally (mis)recognised or regulated in (international) law, the event foregrounds the diverging modes of dis/ordering that practices of commoning can produce.
Speakers: Elsa Noterman and Isabel Feichtner
As part of the Underworlds series, the event focuses on frontiers as sites of global dis/ordering. It foregrounds how frontier spaces are legally, materially, and discursively produced and what kinds of activity this production enables and forecloses.
Speakers: Christine Schwöbel-Patel and Cait Storr
As part of the Underworlds series, the event focuses on waste as a site of global dis/ordering.
Rather than concentrating only on how waste is defined or regulated in (international) law, the event foregrounds the material patterns of dis/ordering that thinking through waste can reveal and generate.
Speakers: Heather Davis and Michael Hennessy Picard
As part of the Underworlds series, this event focuses on hope as a site of global dis/ordering.
Moving beyond modernist modes of seeing and ordering the world – ways of governing often entangled with sentimental tropes of liberal hope.
Speakers: Claire Colebrook and David Chandler
As part of the Underworlds series, this event engages with the wild / feral as a site of global dis/ordering. Rather than focusing only on how wildlife is formally recognised or regulated in (international) law, the event foregrounds the material patterns of dis/ordering that the ‘wild’
Speakers: Irus Braverman and Floris De Witte
As part of the Underworlds series, this event focuses on vessels as sites of global dis/ordering.
The event will reflect on the patterns and images of global dis/ordering that thinking through the multiple meanings, colonial histories, and afterlives of the ‘vessel’ reveals.
Speakers: Rinaldo Walcott and Itamar Mann
