Re-Imagining Space Law : Literary Analysis of Utopian Literatures, Science Fiction, and Africain Feminist Futurisms as Inclusive Sources of Lawmaking

Dans le cadre du Cycle de conférences Droit et Littérature: Représentations littéraires des identités et transcriptions juridiques, nous vous invitons à la conférence « Re-Imagining Space Law : Literary Analysis of Utopian Literatures, Science Fiction, and Africain Feminist Futurisms as Inclusive Sources of Lawmaking  » présentée Dre Saskia Vermeylen (University of Strathclyde).

Cette conférence se déroulera en anglais

Conférencière

With a background in legal theory, Saskia Vermeylen critique the extension of liberal property discourses into new and accelerated property regimes with a specific focus on outer space. This research is methodologically strongly embedded in literary studies with a focus on African Feminist Futurisms, Cosmism, ecocriticism and science fiction. Increasingly, this work also extends to visual and performative arts, including curating, commissioning and developing site-specific arts. This research has been funded through a Leverhulme research fellowship (2019-2021).  Saskia Vermeylen is now in the early stages of a new monograph on Property in Outer Space and Utopian Aesthetics for which I am delving into the work of Ernst Bloch, and combine insights from space art (most notably Robert Rauschenberg) with my own legal arts practice through montages and collages wherein Saskia Vermeylen experiment with utopian space law allegories and messianic thinking. 

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