Lecture Seeing Like a Settler Colony Land Appropriation in 19th Century Texas and French Algeria Add to calendar 2023-02-22 17:00 2023-02-22 18:30 Europe/Rome Seeing Like a Settler Colony Sala del Consiglio Villa Salviati - Castle YYYY-MM-DD Print Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Send by email When 22 February 2023 17:00 - 18:30 CET Where Sala del Consiglio Villa Salviati - Castle Organised by Department of History In the framework of the HEC Colloquia hosted by the Department of History, this session features a talk by Fernand Braudel Fellow Leonard V. Smith (Oberlin College). In Seeing like a State (1998), James Scott argued that a central characteristic of statecraft involves making society legible. Of course , seeing in this sense is a constitutive rather than a passive practice. A settler colony as a kind of state sees a future polity, at least in part through the displacement of persons already there. This talk will compare how two settler colonies founded on similar principles at about the same time saw a certain kind of future through the development of legal practices of appropriating land as their own.Please register in order to get a seat in the conference room or to receive the ZOOM link. Attachments: HEC Events - Privacy Statement - Sept 2021.pdf Contact(s): Francesca Parenti Scientific Organiser(s): Professor Lauren Kassell (EUI Department of History) Professor Nicolas Guilhot (EUI) Speaker(s): Leonard V. Smith (EUI Fernand Braudel Fellow and Oberlin College)