Kent Law School announces its annual Kent Summer School in Critical Theory (KSSCT), running again this year in Paris, from 1 to 12 July. The KSSCT offers early career and doctoral researchers from all disciplines the opportunity to participate in a single two-week intensive seminar with a leading critical thinker. This year, the seminars will…
“I’m a bit worried about something, and I need your advice.” My good friend, Ariana*, had submitted papers to two international conferences. Each of these conferences promised opportunities to engage with experts in her field, comprehensive peer-review processes for all paper submissions, and were to be hosted in two world cities – Paris, France and…
Drawing on jurisprudential, theological, and philosophical sources, this project explores the relationship between law and love. In particular, it seeks to understand how the category of love can inform our understanding of the meaning, foundation, and ends of law. Other recent projects have explored the relationship between law and love, including essays in Agape, Justice,…
Artwork by Vendela Apro-Wellman The Arts Research in the Creative Humanities Research Cluster at USC is hosting: The Creative Humanities Matters Colloquium, 19-21st November 2018 Australasian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres 2018 Annual Meeting and Arts Research in the Creative Humanities Showcase Creative Humanities Matters provides a lively forum for the presentation and discussion of…
A new short-form book series from Glasshouse CALL FOR PROPOSALS NEW TRAJECTORIES IN LAW Edited by Adam Gearey (Birkbeck) and Colin Perrin (Routledge) This series of short-form books intends to define a new direction in legal studies. Challenging the assumption that legal education is just about training students for commercial careers, the series aims to…
Australian film and television occupies a special place in global cinema. Australian lenses have captured a nation and a culture seemingly fixated on issues of (out)law and (in)justice, producing films and television of striking landscapes peopled by bushrangers, battlers and bastards. From the several outlaw tales of Ned Kelly, to the fight for justice by…