The School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast is pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for a prospective PhD candidate. A scholarship is available for applications related to the ARC-funded project “New Approaches to Corporate Legality: Beyond Neoliberal Governance”. If you are interested, applications are due by 4pm Monday 15th February, 2021.…
The Australian Feminist Law Journal wishes to appoint a new editorial team to take over the leadership of the journal from the current board. Launched over 25 years ago, the Australian Feminist Law Journal was created to focus on research that uses critical feminist approaches to law and justice. We publish research informed by critical…
Just in time the holidays, Professor Desmond Manderson’s award winning text Danse Macabre: Temporalities of Law in the Visual Arts has arrived in paperback. Winning the 2019 Penny Pether Prize for Law and the Humanities and sharing the 2020 Australian Legal Research Awards’ Book Award, this interdisciplinary work makes an ideal stocking filler for those…
Congratulations to Professor Katherine Biber and Professor Desmond Manderson, longstanding members of the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia, for co-winning the inaugural Australian Legal Research Awards book prize. The prizes were announced on the 17th November 2020. Professor Katherine Biber (UTS, Sydney) for her book In Crime’s Archive: The Cultural Afterlife of Evidence; and Professor…
Call for Papers Australian Feminist Law Journal: A Critical Legal Journal. Volume 47(2), 2021 Special Issue Editors: Miriam Bak McKenna and Maj Grasten A core concern of critical feminist legal studies is the gendered nature of the language of law. Language conducts and projects power and struggles. Its usage is both a political tool and a…
The Graphic Justice Research Alliance (GJRA) is delighted to announce a call for papers for its 2020 annual conference to be hosted by Middlesex University London. The conference will be held online on Tuesday 8 December 2020. It promises to be an exciting event; accessible and relevant to scholars, artists, practitioners, policymakers, writers, and the…
Please access and register for the presentations by clicking here Surveillance is central to the functioning of 21st century capitalism and modern social welfare. It has often been displayed as necessarily intrusive and threatening. The present initiative builds on the suggestions that an articulate discussion about humanities could be fruitful in producing a more complex picture and…
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:00 pm (Australian Eastern Time) from September 4th 2020 Please register for the series here Metaphors are indispensable tools for making sense of reality, including the ongoing reality of systemic colonial relations—or to obfuscate it (to deflect the need to enact substantive decolonisation agendas, for example). In times of crisis they perform…
where are you today is a new work by Manus Recording Project Collective, continuing the collective’s practice of documenting, sharing and circulating audio recordings from inside Australia’s on- and off-shore detention centres for refugees and asylum seekers. where are you today will comprise a new set of ten-minute audio recordings, produced and delivered via text message over…
Special Issue of Law & Critique(Issue 3 of Volume 32, to be published November 2021) On behalf of the Editorial Committee of Law & Critique, Special Issue Editors Dr Ben Golder (University of New South Wales, Australia) and Dr Sara Ramshaw (University of Victoria, Canada) invite expressions of interest from scholars interested in submitting a…