Conference program

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Thursday, October 19, 2017

10.00 Registration
10.10 Opening remarks
Ayelet Shachar, Director of the Department of Ethics, Law and Politics
Dana Schmalz and Stefan Schlegel, Postdoctoral Research Fellows
10.30-12.00 Panel 1: TRADITIONAL LEGAL CONCEPTS OF TERRITORY UNDER PRESSURE
Catherine Brölmann: Territory in late-modern International Law
Gail Lythgoe: Shifting frameworks: towards a new theory of territorial in International Law
Oran Doyle: Constitutions, law and territory
12.00-13.30 Keynote by Alexander Aleinikoff
Chair: Ayelet Shachar
Comments: Jürgen Bast
13.45 Group photo
14.00-15.00 Lunch break
15.00-16.30 Panel 2: MOBILITY AND MARGINALIZATION
Lena Laube: Global social inequality, nationality, and territorial access. The case of the global visa regime
Valentina Aronica: Italy the Mediterranean as a political space and implications for maritime migration governance
Rottem Rosenberg Rubins: Is immigration detention a new form of territorial border? Lessons from detention of asylum-seekers in the Israeli “control society”
16.30-17.00 Coffee break
17.00-18.30 Panel 3: TECHNOLOGY TRANSFORMING SPACES OF MOBILITY
Constantin Hruschka: The invisible border – how asylum seekers and beneficiaries of international protection are prevented from moving freely in the Schengen area
Elizer Jay de los Reyes: Red spit, broken backs, and abstract Pesos: new mobilities and youth imaginations in a transnationally-linked village in the Cordillera Mountains of Northern Philippines
Fabio Cristiano: Along the lines of occupation: playing at diminished reality in East Jerusalem
18.30-19.30 Reception with comments and reflections

Friday, October 20, 2017

09.00-10.00 Keynote by Margaret Moore
Chair: Ayelet Shachar
10.00-10.30 Coffee break
10.30-12.00 Panel 4: TIME AND TERRITOR(IALIT)Y
Elizabeth Cohen: Temporal boundaries, political power, and free movement
Andrew Bennett: Law / wilderness / chaos
Sharri Plonski: The ontology of a “Train to nowhere”
12.00-13.00 Lunch break
13.00-14.00 Panel 5: GLOBALIZATION AND STRATIFICATION
Yossi Harpaz: Border crossings as social boundaries: when a second passport becomes a status symbol
Marie Bourguignon/Ursil Lelo di Makungu: The impact of globalization on the protection of minorities: a Cameroonian case
14.00-14.30 Coffee break
14.30-16.00 Panel 6: THE BOUNDARY PROBLEM(S) IN GOVERNING AND DESCRIBING TERRITORY
Johan Rochel: Deciding on who’s coming: why members should have prima facie right to determine immigration’s policy
Anna Meine: Democracy, citizenship, and territory – keeping the link?
Peter Szigeti: Ethical, epistemological, and geographic boundaries: conflicts and interplays