# Keynote Address / Law, Regions, and Ports: Toward Imagining Alternative Futures (In Person) #### calendar\_today Date and Time **December 7, 2023** 06:30PM - 08:00PM EST #### pin\_drop Location **CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA** **This conference is open to the public.** This event is a space for cross-disciplinary thinking about the multi-valent concepts of territory, law, and infrastructure in a world of multiple “crises,” with an eye toward design logics for alternative futures. The broader workshop panels take ports as a heuristic that is particularly amenable to comparative socio-legal inquiry inviting engagement with a range of pressing topics spanning logistics, infrastructure, labor, regional planning and design, ecological crisis, development, sovereignty, and governance, to name only a few. The workshop is co-organized by Prof. Lucie White of Harvard Law School, Prof. Diane Davis of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Prof. Dan Danielsen of the Northeastern University School of Law, and Samuel Tabory of the Harvard Graduate School of Design. ## Day 1 / Keynote Address Thursday December 7th, 2023 6:30pm–8:00pm CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room Open to the public ### Infrastructure, Territory, and Flow in a Fraught World With Professors **Carola Hein** and **Hila Shamir** ![Portrait of Carola Hein](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/wcfia/files/speakerimage-chein.png?itok=LE5Eyc0u) Carola Hein is full professor and chair of History of Architecture and Urban Planning at Delft University of Technology. Her research interests include the transmission of architectural and urban ideas, focusing specifically on port cities and the global architecture of oil. She leads the PortCityFutures research program that focuses on evolving socio-spatial conditions, use and design of port city regions, in particular exploring areas where port and city activities occur simultaneously and sometimes conflict. Among other major grants, Hein received a Guggenheim fellowship for her research on global networks of petroleum, an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship to explore port city relationships, and Volkswagen Foundation grants for mixed method digital humanities projects. Her current research focus is on port city territories, water values and the global architecture of oil.Her books include: *Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage: Past, Present and Future, The Routledge Planning History Handbook* (2017), *Uzō Nishiyama, Reflections on Urban, Regional and National Space* (2017), *Port Cities: Dynamic Landscapes and Global Networks* (2011), and *The Capital of Europe: Architecture and Urban Planning for the European Union* (2004). A new UNESCO Chair on Water, Ports and Historic Cities has been created in the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus university consortium, working closely with the LDE PortCityFutures Centre. Professor Carola Hein has been appointed as Chair holder and professor in Leiden and Erasmus universities. *Photo credit: TU Delft* ![Portrait of Hila Shamir](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/wcfia/files/speakerimage-hshamir.png?itok=JPiBjLpx) Hila Shamir is a Professor at Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law, and Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School for the Spring of 2024. She is an expert in the fields of Employment, Labor, Immigration, and Welfare Law with a focus on issues of workers in global value chains, human trafficking, and gender equality. Shamir has taught at Toronto Faculty of Law, Georgetown Law School, Cornell Law School, UC Berkeley, and Harvard University. Shamir received an European Research Council (ERC) grant to pursue research on a Labor Approach to Human Trafficking (TraffLab, 2018–2023), seeking to shift anti-trafficking policy, research and discourse, away from the predominant criminal law, border control, and human rights model, and towards a labor based approach to human trafficking that will be primarily focused on the bargaining power disparities that create vulnerability to trafficking. Her research was nominated as a finalist for the ERC Public Engagement with Research Award 2022. She then received a second ERC grant to explore “A New Labor Law for Supply Chain Capitalism (Sept 2024–Sept. 2029). She is the co-author and editor of several books including (with Janet Halley, Rachel Rebouché, and Prabha Kotiswaran) *Governance Feminism: An Introduction* (Minnesota 2018) and *Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field* (Minnesota 2019). She is currently working on a forthcoming edited volume, to be published with Cambridge University Press, on “Modern Slavery and Global Value Chains” (Forthcoming 2023).## Contact Samuel Tabory: *This conference is supported by a Weatherhead Center medium faculty conference grant.* --- Attachments- [ image Conference Poster ](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/wcfia/files/lrp_conference_poster.jpg) --- See also:- [ 2023–2024 ](/academic-year/2023%E2%80%932024) - [ Special Event ](/event-categories/special-event) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/node/1778531/event-feed.ics) Copy link link