Monday 20th February
10.00 Welcome and Opening Remarks – Professor Stefan Vogenauer
10.15 Panel One (Chair: Jean-Philippe Dequen)
Guma Komey “State Land Laws, Policies, and Rights: An Analysis of their Impact on the Livelihoods of Rural Communities in Sudan”
Jean-Claude Misenga “Reconciling the irreconcilable? Land “ownership”, large-scale land investments and conflict in the DR Congo”
Mariana Candido “Land rights in Angola: How did African women exercise ownership rights?”
13.45 Panel Two (Chair: Samuel Barbosa)
Elisabetta Fiocchi “Grundbuch, Transcription or Torrens System? Land Registration as a Technique of Empire for the Italian Colonies"
Christina Gabbert “Managing common land: Customary land use in Southern Ethiopia in a globalizing world”
15.30 Panel Three (Chair: Emily Whewell)
Non Arkaraprasertkul “Gentrifying Uncertainty: An Anthropological Reflection on Opaque Land and Housing Rights in Urban Shanghai”
Jobien Monster “The role of modern land law and local norms in the construction and resolution of land conflicts in Cambodia and Rwanda: two case studies”
17.00 Optional Drinks
19.00 Workshop Dinner
22.00 Discussion with Conference Organisers (Mariana Armond Dias Paes, Pamela Cacciavillani, Helen McKee)
Tuesday 21st February
10.00 Panel One (Chair: Manuel Bastias)
Sarah Keenan “Smoke, Curtains and Mirrors: The Production of Race Through Time and Title Registration”
Rosa Congost “Eppur si muove. For a realist (and relational) approach to property rights in land”
Anita Jowitt “TBC”
13.30 Institute and Library Tour
15.00 Optional MPI Workshop (Spanish and Portuguese language)
Wednesday 22nd February
10.00 Panel One (Chair: Justine Collins)
Carmen Alveal “Land property rights: an overview and challenges of the sesmaria system in Colonial Brazil (1550-1750)”
Jonathan deVore “Property and the Forensics of Personhood in a Post-Slave Society”
Monique Falcão “Ethnic Identity as Constitutional Foundation of Title of Property to Remaining Communities of Quilombos, Brazil, XXI Century”
13.30 Roundtable discussions with the Institute`s Focus Areas
Translation
Conflict Regulation
15.30 Closed Meeting to discuss publications and future meetings