Conferences and events relevant to law, literature and the humanities.
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…
Dissent and disposition are both relational. To dissent is to disagree and be at variance: to refuse an established order, to diverge from orthodoxy, to oppose, critique, quarrel and rearrange. If political dissent is commonly understood as speaking truth to power, how does this occur, or occur differently, now that power is increasingly dislocated from…
The updated programme for this year’s conference Dissent and Dispositions is now available to download. See the abstracts here and the conference booklet here. Please note that the first day of the conference will take place at La Trobe University City Campus on 360 Collins street (entry easiest from Little Collins), and days two and…
The inaugural postgraduate research ILS conference aims to provide a forum towards the critical exploration of interdisciplinary research/studies in and of law, as well as the development of an informal research network between cognate PhD students and schools (Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Network – ILS). Guest scholars/facilitators include: Prof. Diamond Ashiagbor Institute of Advanced Legal Studies…
Feminists at Law: Revisiting Identity is a two-day symposium hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney. The symposium follows two previous events at the University of Melbourne Law School (2016) and ANU College of Law (2015). In 2017, the theme of ‘Revisiting Identity’ has been chosen to provide an opportunity to engage…
The deadline for abstract submissions for this year’s Conference has just been extended to 19 August 2017. Please submit proposals for papers and panels to llhaaconference@gmail.com. Proposals should consist of a short abstract (max. 250 words), a short author bio and where relevant, noting your interest in a particular stream. Registration from 1 June 2017.…
Melbourne Law School and Liquid Architecture present a series of performances, presentations and experiments conducted in Court 8A at the Federal Court Building, Melbourne. SAT 15 Jul 2017 3PM – 5PM Court 8A, Federal Court Building, Melbourne 305 William St, Melbourne Wheelchair Accessible RSVP essential Curated by James Parker and Joel Stern. There is a reason…
A few details have now been finalised in relation to the annual conference to be held between La Trobe and Melbourne Law Schools in December: Registrations are now open. To register, click here. The Conference dinner will be held on Wednesday 13th December at Charcoal Lane Restaurant. I you are looking for accommodation during the…
Dissents and Dispositions Conference of the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia City of Melbourne: La Trobe Law School and Melbourne Law School 12-14 December 2017 (Postgraduate Day on 11 December 2017) Keynote Speakers: Tony Birch (Victoria), Marianne Constable (UC Berkeley), Karen Crawley (Griffith), Suzanne Ost (Lancaster), Nikos Papastergiadis (Melbourne) Tom Nicholson, ‘Towards a…
Applications are due very soon for the early career workshop with Professor Peter Fitzpatrick, Anniversary Professor of Law (Birkbeck, University of London) hosted by The Institute for International Law and the Humanities at Melbourne Law School. This workshop will precede a one day conference to celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Mythology of Modern Law,…