Stanford Center for Law and History book talks

[We share the following announcement.]

 The Stanford Center for Law and History is pleased to announce two upcoming book talks on February 9 and 16:

1. Ariela Gross (USC Gould School of Law) with commentary by Kathryn Olivarius (Stanford History)

Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana (by Ariela Gross and Alejandro de la Fuente, Harvard University)

Tuesday, February 9, 12:45-2:00 PM (Pacific). RSVP here to receive the Zoom link.

2. Gregory Ablavsky (Stanford Law) with commentary by Ned Blackhawk (Yale History), Nicholas Parrillo (Yale Law), Claire Priest (Yale Law), and Gautham Rao (American University History)

Federal Ground: Governing Property and Violence in the First U.S. Territories

Tuesday, February 16, 12:45-2:00 PM (Pacific). RSVP here to receive the Zoom link.

We very much look forward to celebrating these two books and please contact us if you have any questions: sclh@law.stanford.edu.

Amalia Kessler

Brent Salter

--posted by Mitra Sharafi

Hopkins's "Ruling the Savage Periphery" at WHS

The next meeting of the Washington History Seminar, on Monday, November 23 at 4:00 pm ET, will be devoted to Ruling the Savage Periphery: Frontier Governance and the Making of the Modern State (Harvard University Press, 2020), by Benjamin Hopkins, George Washington University.  Elisabeth Leake, University of Leeds, Geraldine Davies Lenoble, Torcuato Di Tella University, and Benjamin Johnson, Loyola University, will comment.  Click here to register for the webinar or watch on the National History Center’s Facebook Page or the Wilson Center website.

[Professor Hopkins]  makes a bold claim about the modern global order and the central role "frontier" spaces have made in its construction. Arguing that the "frontier" is a practice rather than a place, Hopkins theorizes that the particular way states govern such spaces – he terms it "frontier governmentality" – presents a unique constellation of power defining states and their limits. Ranging from the Afghanistan-Pakistan borderlands to the Arizona desert to the Argentine pampas, Hopkins presents an ambitious and provocative global history with continuing purchase today.

 

 --Dan Ernst