Ocean Legalities: The Law and Life of the Sea

Workshop: February 23 & 24, 2017

Ocean Legalities.

Schedule

* Tentative and subject to change

Wednesday, February 22nd

7:00 pm Dinner

Thursday, February 23rd

8:30 - 9:00 am Breakfast

9:00 - 9:30 am Welcome and Introductions

9:30 - 11:00 am, Panel I: Histories and Legalities around Nonhuman Life

Fishing as Art, Law as Technology: Herring, Grotius and the Republican Ideal of the Inexhaustible Fishery
Alison Rieser, Geography, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Hawaii

Whales and the Colonization of the Pacific Ocean
Zsofia Korosy, Law, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of New South Wales

Kauri and The Whale: Oceanic Matter and Meaning in New Zealand
Katherine G. Sammler, Geography, California State ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Maritime Academy

Moderator: Amy Braun

Discussants: Stephanie Jones, Jennifer L. Gaynor

11:00 - 11:15 am Coffee/Tea

11:15 am - 12:30 pm, Panel II: Liminal & Littoral Legalities

Edges and Flows: Exploring Legal Materialities and Biophysical Politics at the Sea Ice Edge
Philip E. Steinberg, Geography, Durham ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½; Berit Kristoffersen, Sociology, UiT - The Arctic ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Norway; Kristen L. Shake, Geography, Clark ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½

Liquid Territory, Shifting Sands: Property, Sovereignty, and Space in Southeast Asia’s Tri-State Maritime Boundary Zone
Jennifer L. Gaynor, History, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, SUNY

Moderator: Elizabeth Johnson
Discussants: Stacy Alaimo, Susan Reid

12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch

1:30 - 3:00 pm  Panel III: Governing Ocean Temporalities and Materialities

Held in Suspense: Chemical Legalities in the Gotland Deep
Astrida Neimanis, Gender and Cultural Studies, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Sydney

Solwara 1 and the Sessile Ones
Susan Reid, Gender and Cultural Studies, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Sydney 

Marine Microbiopolitics: Haunted Temporalities and Abyssal Relations
Astrid Schrader, Sociology, Philosophy, & Anthropology, Exeter ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½

Moderator: Irus Braverman
Discussants: Stefan Helmreich, Holly Jean Buck

3:00 – 3:15 pm Coffee/Tea

3:15 – 4:30 pm Panel IV: At the Limits of Law

The Pirate as a Limit of the Human: Siting and Reciting Sovereignty in the Indian Ocean
Stephanie Jones, English, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Southampton

Wave Law
Stefan Helmreich, Anthropology, MIT

Moderator: Zsofia Korosy
Discussants: Alison Reiser, Astrida Neimanis

5:00 pm Visit to algae lab with

7:00 pm Dinner

 

Friday, February 24th

8:30 - 9:00 am Breakfast

9:00 - 10:15 am  Panel V: Technopolitical Governance

Robotic Life in the Deep Sea: Deploying Killer (and Other) Robots to Make Live
Irus Braverman, School of Law, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, SUNY

The Technopolitics of Ocean Sensing
Jessica Lehman, Geography and the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Wisconsin - Madison

Moderator: Elizabeth Johnson
Discussants: Astrid Schrader, Katherine G. Sammler

10:15 – 10:30 am  Coffee/Tea

10:30 – 12:00 am  Panel VI: Engineering Ocean Futures

The Hydra and the Leviathan
Elizabeth R. Johnson, Environmental Studies, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

“Climate Engineering Doesn’t Stop Ocean Acidification”: Addressing Harms to Ocean Life in Geoengineering Imaginaries
Holly Jean Buck, Sociology, Cornell ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½

“Got Algae?” Putting Marine Life to Work for Sustainability
Amy Braun, Geography, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Moderator: Stephanie Jones
Discussants: Philip Steinberg, Jessica Lehman

12:00- 1:00 pm Lunch

1:00 – 2:30 pm Wrap-Up Discussion: Themes and Future Directions