Migration, Law and the Image. Beyond the Veil of Ignorance 4 - a podcast by UCL

This lecture by Prof. WJT Mitchell aims at the convergence of three
disciplines: 1) the law, with its entire edifice of judicial practice andpolitical philosophy; 2) migration, as the movement and settlement of
living things, especially (but not exclusively) human beings, across theboundaries between distinct habitats; 3) iconology, the theory of images
across the media, including verbal and visual images, metaphors andfigures of speech as well as visual representations. The lecture argues
that immigration in our time has ceased to be a merely transitional phasein human life, and threatens to become a permanent condition for growing
numbers of people. This poses a radical challenge to liberal notions ofuniversal human equality, which depend, paradoxically, on philosophies of
exclusion and the policing of borders to protect actually existing liberalpolities. The lecture is followed by the responses of Prof. Parvati Nair (Quen Mary)
an expert of Migration Studies and Dr Ingrid Boccardi (UCL) specialized onMigration and Laws. This event was sponsorised by the UCL Grand Challenges (Intercultural
Interaction), the Centre for the Study of Migration at Queen Mary(University of London) and the UCL Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Chair
and Organizer: Dr Fedrica Mazzara.

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