Podcast

Migration, Law and the Image. Beyond the Veil of Ignorance - Video

Parvati Nair (Queen Mary), Dr Ingrid Boccardi (UCL), Prof. WJT Mitchell (University of Chicago)

This lecture by Prof. WJT Mitchell aims at the convergence of three disciplines: 1) the law, with its entire edifice of judicial practice and political philosophy; 2) migration, as the movement and settlement of living things, especially (but not exclusively) human beings, across the boundaries between distinct habitats; 3) iconology, the theory of images across the media, including verbal and visual images, metaphors and figures of speech as well as …