Conferences and events relevant to law, literature and the humanities.
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…
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…
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…
Presented by the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Liquid Architecture and Melbourne Law School Tuesday 24 July – Sunday 28 October 2018 https://eavesdropping.exposed/ EAVESDROPPING used to be a crime. According to Blackstone, in his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1769): ‘eavesdroppers, or such as listen under walls or windows, or the eaves of…
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…
Works of art speak truths about war and conflict in a way that cannot be easily articulated by disciplines such as law or political science. As a result, scholars in these disciplines are increasingly paying attention to art made during conflict as well as the ‘work’ which art does in its aftermath. There is a…
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…
Works of art speak truths about war and conflict in a way that cannot be easily articulated by disciplines such as law or political science. As a result, scholars in these disciplines are increasingly paying attention to art made during conflict as well as the ‘work’ which art does in its aftermath. There is a…