Law and the Visual: Transitions & Transformations: Humanities Research Centre, ANU, 7-8 July 2014

THE HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTRE AT THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY IS ONE OF THE WORLD’S OLDEST AND BEST-KNOWN RESEARCH CENTRES IN INTERDISCIPLINARY HUMANITIES. AS PART OF ITS 2014 ANNUAL THEME, NOW SHOWING: CULTURES, JUDGEMENTS, AND RESEARCH ON THE DIGITAL SCREEN, WE ARE CALLING FOR PAPERS ON THEMES OF VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF LAW IN HISTORY AND THE…

Call for Papers: Legal Bodies: Corpus / Persona / Communitas 15-16-17 May 201

LUCAS (the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society) will host a three-day conference Legal Bodies: Corpus / Persona / Communitas on the various ways in which literary texts and art works have represented, interrogated or challenged juridical notions of ‘personhood’.  The guiding assumption behind this conference is that ‘personhood’ is not a (biologically)…