L&C Talk: Daniel QUIROGA-VILLAMARIN, ""Suitable Palaces": Navigating Layers of World Ordering at the Centre William Rappard (1923-2013)" (Brussels: VUB, 10 JUNE 2022) [Hybrid]

 

(image source: William Rappard Centre/WTO)

Daniel Quiroga-Villamarin, currently visiting our research group from Geneva, will hold an L&C Talk on Friday 10 June. This talk will be hybrid (on campus - Vergaderzaal PE (3C204) and online, on Teams).

Abstract:

While the intellectual trajectories of international law's "move to Institutions" in the early twentieth century has been often explored in the literature, most accounts divorce their analysis from the seemingly banal histories of "buildings, staffs, and letterheads." Conversely, in this article, I place the spatiality of the Centre William Rappard at the forefront of the history of 20th century internationalisms. Erected to serve the International Labor Organization (in 1926), this building was, among other things, repurposed to host the World Trade Organization (in 1975). In this piece, I reconstruct how struggles over claims of universality can be explored through disputes related to the materiality of this infrastructure of global governance.

Please contact Arno dot Swyngedouw at vub dot be for the MS Teams Link.