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Looking Sideways: Policy Silos and De-Siloing
Wednesday 14 June 2023 at 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
An interactive workshop with Victoria Hattam and Bridget Anderson examining the origins and politics of policy silos and how to think beyond them.
For some time now, scholars have examined the formation of policy silos across a number of domains documenting the ways that lines of demarcation are themselves deeply political. Commonly held distinctions between migration and trade; design and production; state and society; and between the biological and social sciences have been shown to shape the very terms of engagement long before specific policy disagreements emerge within particular domains. In addition to tracing silo formation, some scholars and creative artists have been reimagining what de-siloed worlds might look like, while ecological processes have become an important analytic for considering entailment for many.
This interactive workshop with Leverhulme Visiting Professor Victoria Hattam from the New School for Social Research in New York and MMB Director Bridget Anderson will examine the origins and politics of policy siloes, what we learn from thinking outside of policy siloes and what kinds of politics and political alliances this can help generate. Professor Hattam’s visit is funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
Please register on the Eventbrite page to ensure a place. Registration will end on 13th June.
(Photo by Waldemar on Unsplash)
Victoria Hattam is Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research in New York City. She works at the intersection of visual and material culture, global political economy, and bordering. Hattam received her PhD from MIT and has been a Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton and a Fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York. She is a recipient of both the Schattschneider and Ralph Bunche prizes from the American Political Science Association. Over the past decade, Hattam has worked collaboratively with faculty and students from the Parsons School of Design. Currently, she is a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol.
