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Greg Alexander, Cornell Law School Mario Biagioli, History of Science, Harvard Hugh Collins, LSE Rosemary Coombe, York University Toronto Hanoch Dagan, Tel-Aviv Kevin Gray, Cambridge Hyo Yoon Kang, Max-Planck Institute, Berlin Avital Margalit, Bar-Ilan Tim Murphy, LSE Eduardo Penalver, Cornell Law School Alain Pottage, LSE Annelise Riles, Cornell Law School Joseph Singer, Harvard Law School Thomas Scheffer, FUB Nomi Stolzenberg, Southern California Kara Swanson, History of Science, Harvard Laura Underkuffler, Duke Mariana Valverde, Toronto Andre van der Walt, Stellenbosch This interdisciplinary conference brings together a range of perspectives for reflection on the question of ownership. The conference theme – techniques of ownership – is designed to focus attention on those social or institutional practices that are taken for granted in many analyses of ownership. Often, theoretical approaches simply accommodate the analysis ownership to models of society and social action that are known in advance of enquiry into the effects of ownership. Many theories of ownership seek only to rationalize existing institutions, practices, and concepts, or to develop normative theories about the most appropriate regime of ownership, based on some foundational value, such as fairness, economic efficiency, or human flourishing. The objective of this meeting is to encourage explorations of the diverse kinds of sociality in which ownership might be involved and which might in some sense be seen as contingent products of ownership. Precisely because it is more suggestive than prescriptive, the theme of ‘technique’ serves as a vehicle for articulating a variety of critical perspectives. The papers canvass sites and contexts such as queues and kibbutzim, artifacts such as passports, patent specifications, and territorial facts; instrumentalities such as the pledge, the biotechnological contract, or modes of inscription, and institutional constructs such as quasi-owners, responsive governors, and excluded subjects.
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CONFERENCE
Greg Alexander