Thursday, 20 June 2024 to Friday, 21 June 2024
Venue:
Käte Hamburger Kolleg (Iduna Building)
Room 7011 (7th floor)
Servatiiplatz 9
48143 Münster
Organisation:
Dr. Sandra Brunnegger
University of Cambridge
sb529@cam.ac.uk
Dr. Juan Pablo Vera Lugo
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
veraj@javeriana.edu.co
Drawing on a wide range of research experiences from around the world, from South African rural areas to the ciénagas in northern Colombia and the city of Lae in Papua New Guinea, the workshop explores the conceptual and methodological dimensions of and possibilities for the study of socio-spatial legal regimes. Based on various instances and case studies, the workshop illustrates today’s dense and entangled articulation of law, power, knowledge and space, along with their respective infrastructures and material conditions. By doing so, the workshop helps to expand our understanding of the multi-faceted and multidimensional expressions and articulations of law and space relations.
Thursday, 20 June 2024
10.00–10.30
Sandra Brunnegger (University of Cambridge/Minority Rights Group International) & Juan Pablo Vera Lugo (Pontifical Javeriana University)
Welcome and Introduction
10.30–12.00
Panel 1
Chair: Sandra Brunnegger
Cansu Civelek (University of Vienna/University of Tübingen)
Urban Restructuring, Temporalities, and Law
Tatiana Acevedo (Utrecht University)
Bureaucrats without State: Contesting Water Bills in Barranquilla, Colombia
12.00–13.30
Lunch at the Kolleg
13.30–15.00
Panel 2
Chair: Kaveh Yazdani (University of Connecticut/Käte Hamburger Kolleg Münster)
Melissa Demian (University of St Andrews)
Housing and Polylegality in Urban Papua New Guinea
Nicholas Blomley (Simon Fraser University)
“Anywhere but here”: Dispossession, Mobility, and Property
15.00–15.30
Coffee break
15.30–17.00
Panel 3
Chair: Raquel Gil Montero (CONICET/Käte Hamburger Kolleg Münster)
Sarah Keenan (Birkbeck, University of London)
Beyond ‘Land’
Kate Sullivan (California State University Los Angeles)
Establishing Sovereignty over Winds and Waters
18.30
Dinner at Caputo‘s (Königsstraße 59 | 48143 Münster)
Friday, 21 June 2024
10.00–12.00
Panel 4
Chair: Juan Pablo Vera Lugo
Cristina Hernández (University of Kent)
The Magdalena Shaping Process: Shifting Ciénagas Wetlands Boundaries between Land, Law and Rivers
Olaf Zenker (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg/Käte Hamburger Kolleg Münster)
Reckoning with Transformative Constitutionalism: Land Reform, Expropriation without Compensation and the Iconic Indexicality of Post-apartheid South Africa
Illan rua Wall (University of Galway/ University of Warwick)
The Spatial Work of Rights
12.00–13.30
Lunch at the Kolleg
13.30
Rapporteur: Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (University of Westminster)
Roundtable
Farewell and outlook