“A ship passing the seas leaveth no more r ight than it does leave a track therein” (Hugo Grotius). What have been and what are the aesthetic\, political\, and juridical consequences of Grotius ’ invention of the “Free Sea”? Do we live in the age of a “Nomos of the Sea ”? Or has a “Nomos of the Sea\,” in that it exists\, always already been a “Nomos of Media”?
In this conversation\, Renisa Mawani and Bernhard S iegert will discuss their respective book projects. The event will be moder ated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young.
Bernhard Siegert\, International Vis iting Research Scholar at the Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies and Art History\, Visual Art and Theory in 2016\, is Professor of History and T heory of Cultural Techniques at Bauhaus University Weimar\, Germany\, and C o-director of the International Research Center for Cultural Techniques and Media Philosophy (IKKM). His books include: Cultural Techniques. Grids \, Filters\, Doors\, and Other Articulations of the Real (Fordham\, 20 15)\, Passagiere und Papiere: Schreibakte auf der Schwelle zwischen Spa nien und Amerika (1530-1600) (Fink 2006)\, and Passage des Digital en. Zeichenpraktiken der neuzeitlichen Wissenschaften 1500—1900 (Brink mann und Bose\, 2003).
Renisa Mawani is Associate Professor of Sociol ogy and co-Chair of the Law and Society Program at UBC. She works in the fi elds of critical theory and colonial legal history and has published widely on law\, colonialism\, and legal geography. She is the author of Colon ial Proximities (2009) and Across Oceans of Law (to be publis hed by Duke University Press). With Iza Hussin\, she is co-editor of “The T ravels of Law: Indian Ocean Itineraries” published in Law and History R eview(2014). In 2015\, she received the Killam Prize for Graduate Inst ruction\, a Dean of Arts Faculty Research Award\, and was a Wall Scholar at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.
Geoffrey Winthrop-You ng is Head of the Department of Central\, Eastern\, and Northern European S tudies at UBC.
Venue: University Centre\, Lower Level \, VIP Room 176\, 6331 Crescent Road\, UBC
This event is:
Hosted
by the Department of Art History\, Visual Art and Theory (AHVA) and the Ba
chelor of Media Studies\, University of British Columbia
Organized by
T’ai Smith\, Associate Professor (AHVA)
Sponsored by Peter Wall Instit
ute of Advanced Studies at UBC