Event



Spaces of Law in the Bay of Bengal

Apr 6, 2018 at

The Pulitzer Center Campus Consortium "Beyond War" Reporting Fellowship is open to current students and recent graduates (classes of 2016, 2017, and 2018). Interested students must provide a description of their proposed project, a budget breakdown, a resume, and 2-3 samples of work.  Email studentfellows@pulitzercenter.org with any questions.  Location: Room 224, Drexel Humanities and Social Sciences Building 3101 Market Street   Date: April 6, 2018 Time: 10:30AM - 5PM   Schedule of Events:  - 10:30 - 11:00: Coffee - 11:00 - 11:15: Debjani Bhattacharyya (Drexel), Introductions - 11:15-12:15: Bhavani Raman (Toronto), TBA  - 12:15 - 1:00: Lunch - 1:00 - 2:00: Kalyani Ramnath (Princeton), "Litigating 'Occupation': Nagarathar Cases from Post WWII Burma and Malaya as Archive for International Law" - 2:00 -- 3:00: Laurie Wood (Florida State/Shelby Cullom Davis Center),  "Legislative Landscapes in the Francophone Indian Ocean.”   - 3:00 -- 4:00: Julia Stephens (Rutgers): "Reason and Authority Inside and Outside the Courts: Debating Taqlid in Colonial India." 4:00 -- 5:00 Debjani Bhattacharyya (Drexel): Closing Discussion: "Monsoon Landscapes: New Directions in Law and Environment."   Paper DiscussantsGabriel Rocha (Drexel), Mary X. Mitchell (Purdue), Alden Young (Drexel)