Lectures, talks and seminars

von Zedlitz 606 (vZ606)

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Description

This seminar considers some of the novel legal technologies (dispositif, apparatus) which have been employed in the contexts of the Caribbean and Pacific islands, including: the US Guano Islands Act of 1856, the Presidential Decision Directive on Alien Smuggling of 1993, and the Australian 'Pacific Solution' in relation to resource extraction (especially phosphate mining), oversea migration, and the looming eventuality of climate refugee movement.

In addition to a consideration of circulating legal theories of appropriation/expropriation, visual and literary representations of the consequences of the human and environmental fallout of extraction and confinement will be considered.


Speaker Bios

Dr Charles Rice-Davis is a lecturer in French. He has translated the first volume of poetry of the Haitian poet Coutechève Lavoie Aupont and the collection, Paris, capitale de la France by Nguyễn-Trong-Hiệp. Since 2015, he has been the English-Language translator for the University of Geneva's BodmerLab digital museography project.


For more information contact: Seminar Convenor - Associate Professor Marco Sonzogni

marco.sonzogni@vuw.ac.nz 04 463 6284