Conferences and events relevant to law, literature and the humanities.
The World Indigenous Legal Conference 2014 will be hosted by the Indigenous Lawyers Association of Queensland, from 23-27 June 2014, at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia. The theme of the conference is “Past, Present and Futureâ€. The conference will incorporate the 9th National Indigenous Legal Conference 2014. Held biennially, the World Indigenous Legal…
THE HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTRE AT THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY IS ONE OF THE WORLD’S OLDEST AND BEST-KNOWN RESEARCH CENTRES IN INTERDISCIPLINARY HUMANITIES. AS PART OF ITS 2014 ANNUAL THEME, NOW SHOWING: CULTURES, JUDGEMENTS, AND RESEARCH ON THE DIGITAL SCREEN, WE ARE CALLING FOR PAPERS ON THEMES OF VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF LAW IN HISTORY AND THE…
LUCAS (the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society) will host a three-day conference Legal Bodies: Corpus / Persona / Communitas on the various ways in which literary texts and art works have represented, interrogated or challenged juridical notions of ‘personhood’.  The guiding assumption behind this conference is that ‘personhood’ is not a (biologically)…
Centre for Law, Society and Popular Culture Westminster Law School The politics and law of Doctor Who Symposium Announcement and First Call for Papers Friday 5th September 2014 University of Westminster Doctor Who is the BBC’s longest-running drama television series and the world’s longest-running science fiction series. The massive public attention devoted to the show’s…
Tilburg University, Netherlands 6-7 June 2013 Dr Cassandra Sharp At the beginning of the European summer, a group of international scholars gathered together in Tilburg, NL to share current research and ideas around the diverse field of law and popular culture. It was an extremely full and inspiring two days of engaging scholarship that focused…
CALL FOR PAPERS Interpellations Annual Conference of the Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of Australasia 5 – 8 December 2013 The Australian National University Canberra, Australia Confirmed keynote speakers: ➢   Professor WJT Mitchell, Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago ➢   Dr Honni van Rijswijk, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty…
The 2011 conference of the Association was held on 7-9 December at the University of Wollongong in conjunction with the Law & Society Association of Australia & New Zealand Inc. Fore more information see the conference website: http://www.uow.edu.au/law/LIRC/conference2011/index.html