FAKE NEWS /REAL THEORY WED 12 DEC 2018 “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” – Gramsci The ANU contemporary critical theory group is hosting a one-day seminar exploring law, art, politics, and society…
There’s many a slip twist the tongue and the lip CENTRE FOR LAW, ARTS & HUMANITIES & CENTRE FOR ARAB & ISLAMIC STUDIES australian National University 21 & 22 SEPTEMBER 2018 | sir roland wilson building | anu Registration now open. The ANU Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, in collaboration with the ANU Centre…
CALL FOR PROPOSALS TO EDIT SPECIAL ISSUE Volume 46.1, June 2020 Due: November 30, 2018 The Australian Feminist Law Journal calls for submissions for the positions of Special Editor(s) of a Special Themed Issue of the Journal, namely Volume 46.1 (June 2020). Special Editors work in conjunction with the Editorial Board to create a theme,…
By Sean Mulcahy Tom Nicholson’s Towards a Monument to Batman’s Treaty was the artwork for the 2017 Conference of the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia. The installation, which comprised strewn chimney bricks surrounded by possible memorial plaques, was strangely fitting. The as-yet-unrealised nature of the work, with its strewn materials and multiple possible…
By Justine Poon The basement level of my home institution’s main library was flooded recently, resulting in the loss, I’m told, of 400,000 books including the vast majority of the philosophy books. I felt a form of grief at this event – that possible conversations had become impossible and certain ways of being and relating…
By Rachel Bolton, PhD Candidate: UTS Law Marianne Constable, Professor of Rhetoric at Berkeley, gave a keynote lecture at the 2017 Conference of the Law Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia held in Melbourne 12-14 December. Titled “Subversive Legacies: Law, Literature and Repetition”, Constable’s keynote aimed to bring attention to the work of repetition. Her…
Honours students at the Griffith Law School have the opportunity to complete a designated Cultural Legal Studies elective that introduces students to the theories and methods of law and humanities scholarship. As part of the course, students engage in an intertextual analysis of law and a text of their choosing, including novels, poems, films, television shows, music videos, and graphic novels,…
Law Text Culture is seeking proposals from potential guest editors to edit Volume 22 of the journal, to be published in 2018. Details about the application process can be found on the journal site, along with information for guest editors. Â Â Â Information about the journal and its scope and purpose can be found here, along with…
The 2016 edition of Law Text Culture, ‘Lives Lived with Law’, edited by Ann Genovese, Shaun McVeigh, and Peter D. Rush of the University of Melbourne Law School has just been published.  The collection includes articles and essays by John Docker (UWA), Ann Genovese, Kim Rubenstein (Law, ANU), Marett Leiboff (Legal Intersections Research Centre,…
John Jay College of Criminal Justice is pleased to announce its Fifth Biennial Literature and Law Conference. The conference, themed “Visualizing Justice,” will be held in New York City from October 27 – 28, 2017. This conference aims to promote interdisciplinary and critical understanding while providing a venue for intellectual exchange. The keynote speaker will…