Update: this workshop will be held in room 1.006 of Warwick Business School.
On 1 December 2017, the Territory subgroup of the ICE-LAW project will hold its second workshop, Territory, Law and the Anthropocene,
in the Department of Politics and International Studies (Room E2.02) at University of Warwick (UK).ICE LAW is both a question – do we need a law of ice, just as we have laws about territory on land and the UN convention on the Law of the Sea – and an acronym – Indeterminate and Changing Environments: Law, the Anthropocene, and the World. As such the project has broadened its focus to look at the interrelation of geophysical features of the Earth and legal-political questions more generally. This specific workshop thus contributes to ICE LAW’s work by looking at how specific territories are being transformed as a result of anthropogenic climate change – coastlines, mountains and glaciers, deserts and rivers. More generally it asks how do we need to rethink our way of theorising territory, and the legal-political regimes that govern it, in the light of these changes?
The format of the workshop will be of 20 minute presentations with lots of time for discussion, a longer presentation from the Italian Limes project, and then a closing roundtable with Dora Kostakopoulou, Phil Steinberg and Davor Vidas reflecting on the day’s presentations and how the themes connect to their work.
Programme
9.45am welcome
10-11.30am – Session 1: Law, Security and the Anthropocene (chair Klaus Dodds)
- Nigel Clark (Lancaster Environment Centre) – The Paleopolitics of Climate Change
- Madeleine Fagan (PAIS, University of Warwick) – Security in the Anthropocene: Environment, Ecology, Escape
- Timo Koivurova (Law, University of Lapland) – What is the Role of International Law in Coping with Climate Change Consequences?
11.30am-12noon coffee
12noon-1pm – Session 2: Italian Limes project (http://www.italianlimes.net/) (chair Stuart Elden)
- Marco Ferrari and Andrea Bagnato, Italian Limes: Mapping the Shifting Border across Alpine Glaciers
1-2pm lunch (speakers and discussants only)
2pm-3.30pm – Session 3: Shifting Territories (chair Phil Steinberg)
- Isla Forsyth (Geography, University of Nottingham) – Genealogies of the desert: Imaginaries, Materialities and Mobilities of violence in the Second World War
- Ingrid Medby (Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University) – The Arctic State in the Anthropocene: From Anthropolitics to Geopolitics and Back Again?
- Klaus Dodds (Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London) – The Polar Regions strike back? Fissuring, Rising and Shrinking in International Law and Geopolitics
3.30pm-4pm coffee
4pm-5pm – Session 4: roundtable discussion (chair Stuart Elden)
- Dora Kostakopoulou (Law, University of Warwick)
- Phil Steinberg (Geography, Durham University)
- Davor Vidas (Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway/University of Leicester)
5pm – close/drinks
7pm – Dinner for speakers and discussants
The conference is open to all – further enquiries can be directed to the workshop convenor, Stuart Elden (stuart.elden@warwick.ac.uk).
Full details including abstracts here.
