Conferences and events relevant to law, literature and the humanities.
Kent Law School 1st – 3rd September The Call for Stream Proposals is OPEN NOW – please send proposals of no more than 500 words along with short bios of the stream organisers to klsclc2016@kent.ac.uk. The Call for Stream Proposals closes 7 March 2016. “…there are no witnesses to changes of epoch. The epochal turning is an imperceptible…
The Cultural Afterlife of Criminal Evidence Katherine Biber Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney This lecture examines the cultural afterlife of criminal evidence. It explores what happens to criminal evidence after the conclusion of the trial. Formally regarded as part of the court record, and subject to the rules of evidence within the trial,…
The organisers of the 2015 Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory are pleased to announce plans for the 8th annual Forum, to be held 7th and 8th December 2015. The Forum is a welcoming, collegial and supportive environment that aims to foster intellectual and personal relationships between researchers and to help build a community of…
The Regulating Time network aims to advance interdisciplinary scholarship on the relationship between law and dominant concepts of time. The network is funded for 2 years by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council and is a collaboration between the Universities of Kent and York. Please see attached our call for papers: Regulating Time: New Perspectives on Law,…
Date: 13 – 14 August 2015 Location: UNSW School of Law This symposium takes as its starting point an account of the practices of indefinite detention both before and since 9/11, focusing on the subtly but distinctively different ways in which different jurisdictions have legislated for the so-called ‘preventive’ and distinctively indefinite detention of ‘suspected…
The responsibility of the state described by Plato, the contracts written by Shakespeare’s Shylock, or the works delving into the plight of modern laborers all explore the intersections between Literature and Law. This conference will explore the way that literary renderings of labor concerns, broadly defined, have responded to or have influenced the law. The…
Complicity is a state of being complex or involved, and no matter where we are, or what we do, law is part of our entanglement in the world. This conference will explore law’s complex relations with culture, politics and capital. It will investigate law as an accomplice, as well as law’s role in shaping (and…
29 June – 10 July 2015 Paris Dear Colleagues, We are excited to announce the new Kent Summer School in Critical Theory, which will run for the first time in Paris next July. Our website has just gone live, and we invite you pay us a visit: www.kssct.org. This new summer school for early career researchers and doctoral students…
6-8 May 2014, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany www.lawspluralities.wordpress.com Conference Announcement & Call for Papers Plenary — Susanne Baer, Richterin des Bundesverfassungsgerichts, Professur für Öffentliches Recht und Geschlechterstudien an der Juristischen Fakultät und dem Zentrum für transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien an der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Mitträgerin des vom Berliner Forschungsverbund Recht im Kontext initiierten Projekts “Rechtskulturen:…
Registrations are now open for the one-day Colloquium on Law and Love. This workshop aims to explore the intersection of the ideal of love in our social imaginary and the rule of law in our political imaginary. 5 December 2014 The Australian National University (Building and Room TBC) Full Registration $60 Concession $50 Further information,…