An interdisciplinary conference exploring the relationship of law with critical spatial practices will be held in London on Friday 19 June, co-organised by Kent Law School academic Dr Thanos Zartaloudis.<\/p>\n
\u2018Thinking Spatial Practices with and against Law<\/a>\u2019 aims to address questions about spatial justice that have emerged following diverse developments such as the Arab Spring and occupy movements, drone warfare, the criminalisation of squatting in Europe, restriction of the uses of public space under securitisation, surveillance and disciplinary architecture, and the housing crisis in the UK and elsewhere.<\/p>\n Dr Zartaloudis said: \u2018This interdisciplinary colloquium explores the specific role of law, not only in terms of its functions of disciplining, ordering and controlling, but also in terms of the possibilities it offers for critical spatial practices. Law holds a special relationship to spatiality as the latter is ingrained in its historical formation and logics of ordering and control.\u2019<\/p>\n Co-organised with Dr Ba\u015fak Ert\u00fcr from Birkbeck School of Law, the conference will be held at Birkbeck College and has been given funding by the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research.<\/p>\n Speakers include Dr Adrian Lahoud, Platon Issaias and Eray \u00c7ayl\u0131 (Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL); Hanna Baumann (Department of Architecture, Cambridge); Orsalia Dimitriou (Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths\/Central St. Martins); Professor Helen Carr (Kent Law School, University of Kent); Dr Lucy Finchett-Maddock (School of Law, University of Sussex); Ross Exo Adams (Faculty of Architecture, Iowa State University); Dr Sarah Keenan (Birkbeck School of Law); and Professor Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (School of Law, University of Westminster).<\/p>\n Staff and students are welcome to attend the conference with online registration<\/a> advised as soon as possible as places are limited.<\/p>\n