Conferences and events relevant to law, literature and the humanities.
Columbia Law School, the University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, UCLA School of Law, and Georgetown University Law School invite submissions for the eleventh meeting of the Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop to be held at Columbia Law School Law in New York City on June 8 & 9, 2015.…
Monday 1st December – Tuesday 2nd December 2014 Call for Papers Melbourne Law School will host the seventh annual Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory on 1–2 December 2014. The Forum brings together research students from all academic disciplines to engage with social, political, theoretical, and methodological issues raised by law and legal theory.  The workshop is…
Robyn Wiegman Annamarie Jagose Thursday 16th to Friday 17th October, 2014 Conference Room, Level 1 A D Hope Bldg (14), ANU Gender Institute & SLLL, ANU ‘The rejection of essentialism,’ David Halperin writes in How to be Gay (2012), ‘did not prevent the original founders of queer theory from asking “What do Queers want?â€â€™. In…
Dates: 9-12 December 2015 – with 9 December as postgraduate day University of Technology Sydney Law School, Sydney, Australia “Complicity” 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 the complexity of…
Legal Intersections Research Centre (LIRC), University of Wollongong Date: Friday 4 July 2014 Time: 9am-5pm Location: 67.202 – Moot Court Register: Online by 27 June. Registration is free. Places are limited. Following Alice, who contemplates, and then explores, the world on the other side of the looking glass, this symposium calls upon participants to reflect…
Humanities Research Centre Australian National University 7-8 July 2014 This remarkable two day event brings together outstanding new research and an exceptional international line-up. Scholars and higher degree research students with research interests in law and the humanities, representation, law and culture, and visual theory will not want to miss this event. It indicates new…
Professor Jessica Silbey, Suffolk University, Boston Wednesday 9th July 2014Â Â 6-7pm Griffith Film School, South Bank Campus Since photographs and film were available to everyday people they have been part of the legal system and its factual evaluations with the goal of justice. Not without controversy, photographs and film have been used to prove the…
University of Technology, Sydney The Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building and the Faculty of Law 3 – 4 September 2014 Architectural scholars have long argued that the sensory bias of architecture towards sight is problematic, reducing habitable space and architectural form to mere images disengaged from a richer experience of space. Socio-legal and critical…
St Mary’s University Twickenham, London Law both regulates cultural representations and creates them. These dual themes will be explored in a conference focused upon the twin strands of law and visual culture, and law and gender. How does law regulate gender; how does it regulate images? What is/are the relationship/s between visual culture and the…
Humanities Research Centre @ The Australian National University presents: Law and Love – a one-day colloquium 5 December 2014 Further details TBC In our social imaginary, love has become the major existential goal of our times, which is capable of providing all of us with a sense of worth and a way of being in…