Law and the Visual: Transitions and Transformations

Humanities Research Centre Australian National University 7-8 July 2014 This remarkable two day event brings together outstanding new research and an exceptional international line-up.  Scholars and higher degree research students with research interests in law and the humanities, representation, law and culture, and visual theory will not want to miss this event.  It indicates new…

Griffith Law School Public Lecture: Picturing Moral Arguments in a Fraught Legal Arena: Fetuses, Photographic Phantoms and Ultrasounds

Professor Jessica Silbey, Suffolk University, Boston Wednesday 9th July 2014   6-7pm Griffith Film School, South Bank Campus Since photographs and film were available to everyday people they have been part of the legal system and its factual evaluations with the goal of justice. Not without controversy, photographs and film have been used to prove the…

CFP: Architecture, Law and the Senses Symposium

University of Technology, Sydney The Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building and the Faculty of Law 3 – 4 September 2014 Architectural scholars have long argued that the sensory bias of architecture towards sight is problematic, reducing habitable space and architectural form to mere images disengaged from a richer experience of space. Socio-legal and critical…