Nordic Network for Law and Literature: Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Afdeling for Litteraturhistorie, Aarhus Universitet Leif Dahlberg, Skolan för datavenskap och kommunikation, KTH, Stockholm Thomas Elholm, Retsvidenskabeligt Institut, Syddansk Universitet Peter Garde, Domare vid Kriminalretten, Hillerød Arild Linneberg, Inst. for Litteratur-vitenskap, Bergens Universitet Panu Minkkinen, Department of Law, Leicester University (UK) Jarna Petman, Juridiska Fakultet, Helsingfors Universitet Helle Porsdam, Center for Amerikanske Studier, Syddansk Universitet

Conferences and seminars Law and the Image Stockholm, September 24-25, 2010 The conference “Law and the Image” is organized by the National Library of Sweden together with the School of Computer Science and Communication, KTH, and the Department of Law, Gothenburg University. The conference “Law and the Image” aims to explore the legal and political conceptions of graphic representation in history and in the contemporary world of digital media. At a time when code is law on the Web, how are we to understand the contemporary as well as the historical relation between law and images? The conference tries to explore the changing legal and political views of graphic representations – from JPEG to photography and painting. The purpose is to address the different ways in which law regulates the uses of images, as well as the changing historical image of the law – both in law and literature and in other artistic practices. What happens for example in the transition from analogue to digital, and what are the legal and political implications of digitization? Digitization activities in the heritage sector, where analogue image archives becomes binary files, are a battlefield where copyright and fair use, creative commons and open source seem constantly to be renegotiated.   Law, Language, and Culture Second International Osnabrück Summer School on the Cultural Study of the Law August 4–18, 2010 The 2nd Osnabrück Summer School on Law, Language, and Culture aims to further promote the interdisciplinary study and research of law and legal culture, based on the idea that the extended cultural study of the law will encourage profitable scholarly exchange and dialogue between legal studies and the humanities. In this way, the study of law and culture will help to establish and increase a better understanding of the complex interdependence between legal matters and matters of culture. Synergies brings together leading scholars concerned with the relation between law and culture and international graduate students from legal studies, the social sciences, history and the humanities in order to create a high profile comparative study of law and culture and their complex relation. It aims at an effective combination of workshops, lectures and presentations, both by faculty members from the participating institutions and a number of guest lecturers who have been specifically selected as leading experts in their respective fields. The School will offer a total of four workshops for 20-25 international graduate students over a two- week period. We invite qualified graduate students whose work is invested in the interdependence and interaction between law and culture to apply for this unique opportunity for scholarly collaboration and exchange, and to join us for an intensive two-week program that includes workshops, public lectures, panel discussions and excursions. For further information regarding admission, please visit our website or contact us via email. International Summer School “Law, Language and Culture” c/o Institute for English and American Studies Universität Osnabrück Neuer Graben 40 D-49069 Osnabrück / Germany e-mail: lawandculture-at-uos.de http://www.blogs.uni-osnabrueck.de/lawandculture/   Call for Participation: 13th Annual ASLCH Conference March 19-20, 2010 Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities is an organization of scholars engaged in interdisciplinary, humanistic legal scholarship. The Association brings together a wide range of people engaged in scholarship on legal history, legal theory, jurisprudence, law and cultural studies, law and literature, law and the performing arts, and legal hermeneutics. We want to encourage dialogue across and among these fields about issues of interpretation, identity, ideals, values, authority, obligation, justice, and about law's place in culture. We welcome submissions on any law, culture and humanities subject. Examples of recent panel topics include: Imagining Rights in the Era of Globalization; The Child as a Legal Subject; Law and Love; The Color of Justice; The Cultural Lives of the Judiciary; Law and the Sacred; E.M. Forster and the Question of Social Justice; Thinking about Places and Spaces; Feminism v. Feminism: Conceptions of Justice in Transnational Criminal Law; South African Dignity Jurisprudence; Film as Legal Text. We invite scholars with interests across the range of areas in Law, Culture and the Humanities to organize panels, performance pieces, screenings, or to submit proposals for individual paper presentations. We urge those interested in attending to consider submitting complete panels, and we hope to encourage a variety of formats such as roundtables, sessions in which commentators respond to a single paper or issue or sessions in which the chair presents the papers and their authors respond. We invite proposals for sessions in which the focus is on pedagogy or methodology, for author-meets-readers sessions organized around important books in the field, or for sessions in which participants focus on performance (theatrical, filmic, musical, poetic). Participants will be notified of their acceptance by December 31st 2009. We cannot promise that we will be able to accommodate all proposals. Program Committee Susan R. Schmeiser (Chair), University of Connecticut Cliff Rosky, University of Utah Adam Sitze, Amherst College Matteo Taussig-Rubbo, University at Buffalo Questions, please contact Susan Schmeiser (sschmeiser@hotmail.com)       INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM   LAW AND LITERATURE THEORIES AND PRACTICES PARIS FEBRUARY, 25th, 26th, 27th, 2010 INSTITUT NATIONAL D’HISTOIRE DE L’ART (INHA) Galerie Colbert, Auditorium, 2,  rue de Vivienne, 75002. Paris.   For a long time, now, « Law and literature », is a topic, a way to think a corpus, a mean to cross research fields, and also recognized as an important part of the research in humanities, and legal studies. For this 2010 Paris International Symposium, we would like to bring together the best North American, European, International scholars working on the so-called « law and literature » field, in order to analyse the intersection of these two academic disciplines, understand their practises, describe their methods, and think the intellectual, philosophical, political impacts of them. The main idea, thus, is to find a way to think and evaluate the disciplinary link that Law AND literature produce. Which means that we will try to avoid our current short stories on the very last interpretation of the law-and-lit-canonic-texts, as the latest new interpretation of the Merchant fo Venice… As we would like to refer to a reflection on this very topic : what do we do when we are crossing law and literature matters, why do we do that, what are our results and what is the use and the impact of this process ? Hence, the scientific transcription of these questions would be : Law and literature, theories and practices. Short interventions in round-tables, larger talks, synthesis…, please, propose what you would like to do, just thinking that the main idea is to define and specifiy the research field — the relationship between law and literature — and the theoretical and practical use of this relationship in your own work/world. For the moment, we are convening the budget necessary for the realization of the symposium, so, please, tell us : 1. Your proposition,  or a genaral idea of your presentation, 2. If you have special funds to come to Paris or if you’ll need a financial participation from our part. Thank you to e-mail your answers to Christian Biet, Université Paris X-Nanterre : biet@u-paris10.fr Christian BIET Professeur d’Histoire et Esthétique du Théâtre. Membre de l’Institut Universitaire de France Directeur de l’Equipe d’Accueil « HAR, Histoire des Arts et des Représentations »   Hors Normes International Conference in Law and Literature American University of Paris – Ecole normale supérieure Organizers: Jean-Charles Darmon, Lissa Lincoln, David Rabouin, Frédéric Worms Supported by: (AUP) Department of Comparative Literature and English, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; (ENS) Centre de recherche sur les relations entre Littérature, Philosophie et Morale (CRRLPM), Centre international d’étude sur la philosophie française contemporaine (CIEPFC) Friday, Nov. 20 ENS (46, rue d’Ulm) Salle de conférences 14:00 - 14:45  Claude-Olivier Doron (Paris VII, Jussieu, France), « Poe, Foucault et le pervers » 15:00 - 15:45  Jean-Charles Darmon (ENS-CRRLPM/Université de Versailles, France), « Entre philosophie du droit et récit de voyage : François Bernier dans l’Inde du Grand Mogol » Coffee Break 16:15 - 17:00  Jean-Baptiste Amadieu  (CNRS-ITEM/ENS-CRRLPM, France), « La censure comme complication des relations entre droit, littérature et critique » 17:15 - 18:00  Emmanuel Bury (Université de Versailles - Saint Quentin, France), « Suum cuique tribuere : maxime juridique ou maxime littéraire ? » Saturday, Nov. 21 AUP (31, avenue Bosquet) “Grand Salon” 10:30 - 11:15   Marcela Iacub (CNRS, France), “Délit de fiction” Coffee Break 11:45 - 12:30   Laurent de Sutter  (Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Law, Faculty of Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium), "Legal Shandism: The Law in Lawrence Sterne's Tristram Shandy" LUNCH   12:45 - 14:15 14:15 - 15:00  Panu Minkkinen  (University of Leicester, UK), “The Politics of Law and Literature” 15:15 - 16:00   Leif Dahlberg (CSC/KTH, Stockholm, Sweden), “Mapping the Law – Reading Old Maps of Strasbourg, Lübeck and Stockholm as representing and constituting legal spaces” Coffee Break 16:30 - 17:15  Anna Krakus  (New York University, USA), “Moments of Unfinalizability in Andrzej Wajda’s Man of Marble” 17:30 - 18:15  Brad Tabas  (American University of Paris, France), “‘Can't a guy get a fair trial around here?' Some Anthropological Reflections on Literary Representations of the Court of Law” Cocktail Dinner   Program for Dialogues on Justice. European Perspectives on Law and Humanities October 19-22 2009 at Villa Vigoni (Last minute changes can be made)  Monday, October 19: 16.30-18: Arrival at Villa Vigoni 19-19.30: Welcome cocktail and short welcome speech 19.30: Dinner 21-21.45: Dialogues on Justice. New tendencies within law and literature Jeanne Gaakeer (Prof. Fac. of Law, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Cofounder of European Network for Law and Literature) and Karen-Margrethe Simonsen (Ass. Prof. Dep. of Aesthetic Studies, Cofounder of the Nordic Network for Law and Literature) Tuesday, October 20: 9.30-9.45: Opening by K. M. Simonsen, Helle Porsdam and Thomas Elholm 9.45- 11.45: Law and Religion Chair: Daniela Carpi Greta Olsson (Prof. of English and American Studies, University of Giessen): “Legal cultures and the (Unholy?) Alliance of Religion and Punitivity Kjell Aake Modeer: (Prof. Fac. of Law, University of Lund, Sweden): “"The Road to Damascus". Law and Religion in August Strindberg's Plays” 11.45-12: Coffee and tea 12-12.45: Blasphemy and Free Speech Chair: Thomas Elholm Elliott Visconsi: (Ass. Prof. Dep. of English, Yale University): "Blasphemy and Solitude. Race, Religion, and the Limits of Pluralism in Contemporary England” 13-15: Lunch 15-17: Forgiveness and International Law Chair: Panu Minkkinen Svend Erik Larsen (Prof. Dep. of Aesthetic Studies, Section for Comparative Literature, Aarhus University): “Forgiveness as a Challenge to the Law. A Literary Perspective” 19-: Dinner 20.30: Bookpresentation and general talk Wednesday, October 21 9.30-10.30: Papersession 1 & 2 Session 1: Subjectivity and Humanism within the Law? Chair: Leif Dahlberg Panu Minkkinen (Prof., Fac. of. Law, University of Leicester): “Law as a Human Science” Emily Hartz (Post.doc. student at Copenhagen University): “In Pursuit of the Subject in Philosophy of Law” Session 2: The Concept of Justice in Rhetoric and Culture Chair: Greta Olson Daniela Carpi (Prof., Dep. of Humanities and Philosophy and Dep. of English, University of Verona): “Renaissance into Postmodernism: Anticipations of Legal Unrest" Hanne Roer (Ass. Prof. Dep. of Rhetoric, Copenhagen University), “Justice and Rhetoric in Augustine” 10.30-10.45: Coffee and tea 10.45-12.45: Human Rights Chair: Helle Porsdam Jay Winter (Charles J. Stille Prof. of History, Yale University): “Human rights and the Second World War” Fiona MacMillan ((Prof. School of Law, Birbeck College, University of London): “Human Rights, Cultural Property and Intellectual Property: Three Concepts in Search of a Relationship” 13-15: Lunch 15-16: Papersessions 3 and 4 Session 3: Law, Social Dialogue and Psychoanalysis Chair: Lissa Lincoln Ari Hirvonen (Prof. Fac. of Law, University of Helsinki): “Impossible Dialogue? Crime, Punishment and Language” Maria Jørgensen (Ma-stud., Dep. of Comparative Literature, Copenhagen University): “Versions of Perversions in Steen Steensen Blicher’s “Præsten i Vejlbye” [The Vicar of Vejlbye]” Session 4: Cultural Ownership and Heritage: Copyright and Property Legislation Chair: Fiona MacMillan Merima Bruncevic (Ph.d.Stud. in Jurisprudence, School of Economics, Busines and Law, Gothemburg University, Sweden): “Cinnamon Shops, Streets of Crocodiles, Labyrinths, Sanatoriums and Wall Paintings under Coercion. The Lost Mural of Bruno Schulz, Access to and Ownership of Cultural Heritage” Mia Rendix (Ass. Professor - Department of English, Aalborg University, Denmark): “A Question of Justice” 16-16.45: Coffee and tea 16.45-18.15: Papersessions 5 and 6             Session 5: Justice in Philosophy and Literature: Madness and Transcendence Chair: Ari Hirvonen Jeanne Gaakeer (Judge in the criminal law section of the Appellate Court in The Hague Professor of Legal Theory, Faculty of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam): “Understanding fact and fiction in Robert Musil’s The Man without Qualities” Lissa Lincoln (Prof. of Literature, The American University of Paris): “Just(ice) Imagine(d): A Transmutation of Values” Susanna Lindroos-Hovinheimo (Ph.d.stud,  Fac. of Law, University of Helsinki): “Speaking for the Other” Session 6: Law in Culture: Ethnic, Emotional and Personal Dimensions of Justice Chair: Arild Linneberg Leif Dahlberg (Ass. Prof., Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (KTH), Stockholm): “Emotional Tropes in the Courtroom. On Representation of Affect and Emotion in Legal Court Proceedings” Louise Victoria Johansen (Ph.d.stud. Fac. of Law, Copenhagen University): “Ethnic Minority Defendants in Danish District Courts – Exploring Categories of Difference and Equality” Anna Krakus (Ph.d.stud, Dep. of Comparative Literature, New York University): “I hereby Find You Guilty of Cheating: How Television Judges give Personal Problems Legal Dimensions” 19 –: Dinner 20.30: Music and tango Thursday 22: 10-12.30: Business-meeting   Arranged by the Nordic Network for Law and Literature Funded by Nordforsk (Co-ordinator and Funding Nordic Research. Advisory Body on Nordic Research Policy) Organizers: Prof. Helle Porsdam, The Saxo Institute, Copenhagen University,  Prof. Thomas Elholm, Fac. of Law, University of Southern Denmark and Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Dep. of Aesthetic Studies, Aarhus University       Intersections of Law and Culture 2009 A cross-disciplinary conferencehosted by the Department of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, Franklin College, Switzerland October 2 - 4, 2009 in Lugano, Switzerland Submission of abstracts accepted until March 31, 2009   Keynote address: Professor Richard Sherwin, Law, New York University Confirmed participants: Professor Michelle Cottier, Law, University of Basel; Professor Jeanne Gaakeer, Law, Erasmus University, Rotterdam; Dr. Dominique Grisard, History, Center for Gender Studies, University of Basel; Professor Elisabeth Holzleithner, Law, University of Vienna; Professor Greta Olson, English, University of Giessen; Dr. Thomas Scheffer, Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Humboldt University, Berlin; Professor Melanie L. Williams, School of Law, University of Exeter Intersections of Law and Culture aims to investigate law's place in culture and culture's place in law. This focus proceeds from the realization that law, once one of society's most powerful discourses in both its secular and religious forms, has become increasingly influenced by intersecting and competing discourses in medicine, ethics, education and politics. Moreover, the operations of law, its processes and decisions, have entered the realm of popular culture, media and the arts as plot devices used in sit-coms, films and pulp fiction. These in turn have begun to change the way law operates. Given this increasing porosity and interpermeability among prominent areas of knowledge, the focus of this conference is precisely on the interstices between law and other discursive practices. What are the mechanisms by which popular representations and cultural practices find their way into legal processes? How does law in turn bleed into and influence cultural processes? Does law act as a buffer against societal assumptions about, and constructions of, gender, age, ability, sexuality and ethnicity, or does it re-enforce and re-inscribe existing social norms? Clearly there are no simple, monolithic answers to these complex questions; answers will be historically and culturally contingent, and will change shape depending on the case or the context at hand. We are especially interested in work that reflects on the differences in law and culture in the European and the Anglo-American contexts. What are the differences between the legal cultures in these distinct but interdependent spheres, and what are the consequences of these differences for the relationship between law and culture? We also want to know what the philosophical, literary and cultural points of reference are for the European and the American systems, and to what extent these distinct frames of reference shape our work in law and literature, and in law and culture. In this same vein we welcome papers that reflect on issues of methodology, or that offer a comparative focus on interdisciplinary methodologies in the study of law and society, law and literature, law and the performing arts, and law and popular culture. Organizers: Priska Gisler, Collegium Helveticum, ETH Zürich, & Goldsmiths College, London Sara Steinert Borella, Franklin College, Switzerland Caroline Wiedmer, Franklin College, Switzerland http://www.fc.edu/about-franklin/ocs/index.php/Law_Culture/2009/   Critical Legal Conference 2009 Genealogies: Excavating Legal Modernity September 11-13, 2009 Leicester, UK Keynote Speaker: Marcela Iacub (EHESS/CNRS). Plenary Panellists: Peter Fitzpatrick (Birkbeck), Colin Gordon (Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust) and Véronique Voruz (Leicester). Call for Papers and Streams The Critical Legal Conference 2009 will be held in Leicester, UK. The main theme of the conference, "Genealogies: Excavating Legal Modernity", seeks to assess and review the significance of the work of Michel Foucault for the study of law, especially in light of the ongoing publication of his lectures at the Collège de France. The organisers invite potential delegates to submit proposals for papers addressing the main theme of the conference. Proposals should include your name, your affiliation, the title of your paper, and an abstract of no more than 250 words. Proposals for papers addressing the main theme of the conference should be sent by email directly to the conference organisers (clc2009@le.ac.uk) no later than Friday, 26 June 2009. In accordance with CLC traditions, the organisers also invite potential delegates to propose streams that they will coordinate addressing issues in critical legal scholarship that are not covered by the main theme. A stream proposal may already include a list of presenters who have agreed to deliver papers together, but it also functions as a further call inviting delegates to submit paper proposals to be presented in that stream. Stream proposals are published as they are accepted in the "Streams" section of the conference website. Accepted streams to date are "Revolutions in Natural Law", "Critical Property Theory: The Powers of Property", "Labour, Work and Equality" and "Tragic Jurisprudence". Stream proposals should include the coordinating delegate's name and contact details, a list of papers to be presented (if appropriate), and an abstract/call of no more than 250 words. They should be sent by email to the conference organisers (clc2009@le.ac.uk) no later than Friday, 27 March 2009. Please note that individual paper proposals for streams are sent directly to stream coordinators. Paper proposals for streams should include your name, your affiliation, the title of your paper, and an abstract of no more than 250 words. Proposals must reach stream coordinators no later than Friday, 26 June 2009. Further information on registration, delegate fees, research student bursaries, travel and accommodation will be made available in April 2009 on the conference website www.le.ac.uk/law/clc2009. Conference poster     Codex and Code (NorLit 2009) The Nordic Association for Comparative Literature (NorLit) organizes every two years an international scholarly conference. The aim of NorLit is to develop the study of Comparative Literature through Nordic collaboration both in its own discipline and in Modern Language and Cultural studies. The next conference will take place in Stockholm, August 6-9, 2009. The conference is organized by the Department of Comparative Literature, Stockholm University, the Department of Communication and Culture, Södertörn University College, and the School of Computer Science and Communication, Royal Institute of Technology.  The theme for the meeting is ”Codex and Code: Aesthetics, Language and Politics in an Age of Digital Media”. The conference venue is the Royal Institute of Technology. The conference languages are the Nordic languages and English. The conference wants to stimulate interdisciplinary scholarly research of the literary in a broad sense. We addresse ourselves to scholars in Comparataive Literature and in Classical and Modern Languages, Aesthetics, Media and Communication studies, Film and Theatre studies, Philosophy and adjacent disciplines. We want to encourage a discussion of how literary studies respond to the ongoing changes in media and technology, politics and economy. Many argue that the Humanities currently are in a state of crisis. We argue that the discipline seldom has found itself in such an interesting and fruitful historical moment. The principal question for the conference is the challenge that the study of literature encounters in an age of digitalization and globalization. The conference also adresses questions of authenticity and originality, identity and gender, literary genres and reading practices, media and materiality, culture and popular culture, language and history, world literature, work aesthetics, translations and canon formation. Several of these questions have surfaced during earlier media system changes, in particular during Romanticism and Modernism, which provides the conference with an historical frame. Keynote speakers (confirmed): Professor Patrizia Lombardo, Département de langue et de littérature françaises, Université de Genève Professor Haun Saussy, Department of Comparative Literature, Yale University Professor Jochen Hörisch, Seminar für Deutsche Philologie, Universität Mannheim Professor Andrea Polaschegg, Institut für deutsche Literatur, Humboldt Universität Dr. Göran Sommardal, Stockholm. The conference is organized around a number thematic sessions to which we invite researchers and scholars to present papers. See conference website. Deadlines: Abstract (max 1500 characters with spaces) mailed to session organizer latest on December 15, 2008. Decisions of accepted papers will be sent on January 15, 2009. Full papers (max 60 000 characters with spaces) mailed to session organizer latest on June 6, 2009. Conference fee: SEK 900 (SEK 1200 after April 30, 2009) Conference fee students: SEK 500 (SEK 800 after April 30, 2009) Registration: March 1– June 30, 2009 Website: http://www.norlit.org Convenors: Leif Dahlberg, Sara Danius, Otto Fischer, Roland Lysell, Martin Svensson Ekström     6-8 MAGGIO 2009 BIOETHICS, BIOLAW AND LITERATURE Convegno di Studi Internazionale Sala Farinati, Biblioteca Civica, via Cappello 43, Verona e Aula T.10, Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Università degli Studi di Verona     Università degli Studi di Verona Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Dipartimento di Anglistica, Germanistica e Slavistica Associazione Italiana di Anglistica AIA Associazione Italiana di Diritto e Letteratura AIDEL Mercoledì 6 maggio, h. 9.30 Sala Farinati, Biblioteca Civica INAUGURAZIONE: Saluti delle Autorità Chair: Daniela Carpi (Università di Verona) Jeanne Gaakeer (Erasmus University-Rotterdam): The Genetics of Law and Literature: What is       Man? Brunetto Chiarelli (Università di Firenze): Le Basi Biologiche dell'Etica e quelle Storiche della Morale h. 11.30 Coffee Break h. 12.00 Eric Rabkin (University of Michigan): Science Fiction and Bioethical Knowledge   Mercoledì 6 maggio, h. 15.00 Sala Farinati, Biblioteca Civica Chair: Piergiuseppe Monateri (Università di Torino) Gary Watt  (University of Warwick): Conjoined Twins and the Tyranny of Numbers: Medical  Dilemma in the Light of Law and Literature John Drakakis (University of Stirling): Shaping Personhood: Problems of Subjectivity and the Self in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew and Much Ado about Nothing h. 16.30 Coffee Break h. 17.00   Rüdiger Ahrens (University of Würzburg): Ethical Norms and Ethnic Frictions in the                                                                               Novels of J.M. Coetzee Chiara Battisti (Università di Verona): Fay Weldon’s She Devil: Aesthetic Surgery as a mise en   abîme of Personhood Giovedì 7 maggio, h. 9.30 Sala Farinati, Biblioteca Civica Chair: Patrizia Nerozzi (Università IULM, Milano) Ian Ward (University of Newcastle): The Rochester Wives Daniela Carpi (Università di Verona): The Beyond: Science and Law in The Island of   Dr.Moreau by H.G. Wells h. 11.00 Coffee Break h. 11.30 Leif Dahlberg (Kungliga Tekniska H?gskolan, Stockholm): Mapping the Law: Situating the                                                                                                        Places of Law Laura Apostoli (Università di Verona): Fulfilling Personhood at the Margins of Life: Anna Quindlen’s One True Thing   Giovedì 7 maggio, h. 15.00 Sala Farinati, Biblioteca Civica Chair: Carla Sassi (Università di Verona) Patrizia Nerozzi (Università IULM, Milano): Anatomising the Self: the Science of Man in XVIII Century Literature Piergiuseppe Monateri (Università di Torino): Humans, Wizards and Elves: Far Beyond the Legal Person h. 16.30 Coffee Break h. 17.00 Michele Sesta (Università di Bologna): Vida interminable: paziente e familiari tra diritto di vivere e obbligo di non morire Cristina Costantini (Università di Bergamo): Gollum’s Sacredness and the Geopolitics of  the Self: Reframing Tolkien’s Normative World Venerdì 8 maggio, h. 9.30 Sala Farinati, Biblioteca Civica Chair: Paola Carbone (University IULM, Milano) Maria Antonietta Bassetto (Università di Verona) : Probabilmente noi malati rivolgiamo spesso        domande fuori luogo. Ma questa malattia è          grave o no? Klaus Stierstorfer (University  of Münster) : (title to be defined)   h. 11.00 Coffee Break h. 11.30 Yvonne Bezrucka (Università di Verona): Bio-Ethics Avant la Lettre: Nineteenth Century  Instances Sidia Fiorato (Università di Verona): The Problem of Liminal Beings in Alisdair Gray’s Poor    Things Valentina Adami (Università di Verona): «So what is a human being?» An Exploration of                 Personhood through Jeanette Winterson’s The     Stone Gods     Venerdì 8 maggio, h. 15.00 Aula T.10, Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Chair: Yvonne Bezrucka (Università di Verona) Paola Carbone (Università IULM, Milano): One Monstrous Ogre and Two Patchwork Girls:  Three Nameless Beings Mara Logaldo (Università IULM, Milano): Murderous Creators: How Far Can Authors Go? Paul Cheung (University of Sydney): A Serious Reading of Biotechnology in Japanese Graphic        Novels: Some Implications for Ethics, Literature and            Medicine h. 16.30 Coffee Break h. 17.00 Silvia Monti (Università di Pavia): Rhetoric, Lexicography and Bioethics in Shelley Jackson’s                                                               Hypertext Patchwork Girl Tim Parks (Università IULM, Milano): Presenting his novel Goodness Albergo convenzionato Hotel Antica Porta Leona Corticella Leoni 3, Verona Tel. 045 595499 Segreteria Organizzativa Valentina Adami: 347 5477824, valentina.adami@univr.it Laura Apostoli: 333 3248592, laura.apostoli@univr.it Chiara Battisti: 340 2861179, chiara.battisti@univr.it Sidia Fiorato: 349 4537998, sidia.fiorato@univr.it   Università degli Studi di Verona Dipartimento di Anglistica, Germanistica e Slavistica Provincia di Verona Associazione Italiana di Anglistica AIA Fondazione della Società Cattolica di Assicurazione Associazione Italiana di Diritto e Letteratura AIDEL       Si ringrazia la Biblioteca Civica di Verona per la concessione della Sala Farinati     In flagrante depicto - Film in/on Trial International Conference, Cardozo Law School, New York, May 7-8, 2009   Conference Program: Wednesday, May 6, 2009 6:30 SCREENING AND DISCUSSION: Blues by the Beach (2004) Presented by JERRY RUDES, Founder and Director of the Avignon/New York Film Festival 7:45 Question and Answer Session with JACK BAXTER, Producer 8:30 Cocktails and dinner offered by the CARDOZO LAW REVIEW Thursday, May 7, 2009 Morning Schedule 9:00 Welcome and Introduction PETER GOODRICH, Cardozo School of Law NATHANIEL BOYER, Editor-in-Chief, Cardozo Law Review 9:15 THEORY, FILM, LAW – COMMON TRAJECTORIES Simon CRITCHLEY, New School University Zidane RENATA SALECL, London School of Economics Love and Law in Times of Magical Thinking ALEX MURRAY, University of Exeter A Cinema without Hope: Poetic Atheology and the Body 11:15 Coffee Break 11:30 THE PLACE OF THE WITNESS CHRISTIAN DELAGE, University of Paris 8 and Institut d’histoire du temps present (CNRS) The Place of the Witness: From Nuremberg to the Khmer Rouge Trials GUY SAGUEZ, Film Director, Paris Filming The Trial of Paul Touvier REGINA AUSTIN, University of Pennsylvania Documentation, Documentary, and the Law: What Should be Made of Video Victim Impact Statements? STEVEN KESLOWITZ, City University of New York CHAIR 1:15 Lunch Thursday, May 7, 2009 Afternoon/Evening Schedule 2:15 THE STAGE OF LAW ED DIMENDBERG, University of California at Irvine The Moving Image Installations of Diller Scofidio and Renfro: Problems of Law and Public Space CHRISTIAN BIET, University of Paris 10 Filming a Theatrical Representation: The Genocide in Rwanda PAUL RAFFIELD, Warwick University Shakespeare on Screen 4:00 Coffee Break 4:15 IMAGE, EVIDENCE, LAW STANLEY FISH, Florida International University ”The Fugitive” KYLE MCGEE, Edinburgh University Description and the Evidentiary Production of Images JESSICA SIBLEY, Suffolk University Law School Evidence Verite and the Law of Film 6:15 SCREENING AND DISCUSSION: Fatherland (2006) Presented by MANFRED BECKER, Director Fatherland is a personal essay on history and memory. A filmmaker sets out on a quest to understand his father’s past and what it means to be German living in the shadow of history. BERNADETTE WEGENSTEIN, Johns Hopkins University Discutant 8:15 Dinner Friday, May 8, 2009 Morning Schedule 9:00 PHILOSOPHY, FILM AND LAW NATHAN MOORE, University of London The Movies of Wim Wenders THANOS ZARTALOUDIS, University of London Theo Angelopoulos’s “Eternity and a Day” WILLIAM EGGINTON, Johns Hopkins University Affect and Law in Almodovar’s Movies 11:00 Coffee Break 11:15 LAW, FILM, HIGH AND POPULAR CULTURE ANSELM HAVERKAMP, New York University Conceiving Images MARCO WAN, University of Hong Kong Johnny To’s “Justice, My Foot” BARBARA VILLEZ, University of Paris 8 Film in Trial: the examples of “Law and Order”, “Damages” and “Eli Stone” 1:15 Lunch Friday, May 8, 2009 Afternoon Schedule 2:15 FILM AND JUDGMENT – FROM CITATION OF MOVIES TO THE DRAMA OF LEGAL THOUGHT LIOR BARSHACK, The Interdisciplinary Centre, Israel Frederico Fellini, The Reality Principle and the Rule of Law ANNE BOTTOMLEY, University of Kent Lines of Vision, Lines of Flight: “The Belly of an Architect” 3.30 VISUAL ADVOCACY, DIGITAL MEDIA, RECEPTION AND PERSUASION BRUCE HAY, Harvard University Law in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction RICHARD SHERWIN, New York Law School Legimatrix LINDA MILLS, New York University; PETER GOODRICH, Cardozo School of Law   Call for Papers Toward Critical Mass: The Second Annual Graduate Student Conference of The Toronto Group for the Study of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law 9-11 January 2009 The Toronto Group for the Study of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law is pleased to announce its second annual graduate student conference. The principal aim of the Group's inaugural conference was to provide a forum for critical inquiry and collaborative discussion. Building upon its closing panel, in which we posed the question “what is to be done?”, our second annual conference is intended to drive this newly created forum towards a sharper, more systematic understanding of how legal norms and institutions influence – and are, in turn, influenced by – entrenched or emerging political and economic structures. Panels will be chaired by legal scholars from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. Confirmed keynote speakers include Andrew Arato, Dorothy Hirshon Professor in Political and Social Theory at the New School for Social Research, and Jean Cohen, Senior Professor of Political Thought at Columbia University. We invite papers relating to themes broached in one or more of the seven streams detailed below. While the conference’s objective is to facilitate engagement with issues arising from these and related areas of legal scholarship, submissions from graduate students in disciplines other than law are also highly encouraged. For further details, please see http://torontogroup.wordpress.com/. Submissions Procedure Please submit an abstract of no more than 400 words, specifying the stream(s) for which you would like to be considered, as well as a brief biographical statement, including information regarding your current academic affiliations and general research interests, by Monday 27 October 2008. Authors of all submissions will be notified by Monday 10 November 2008. Those interested in organizing a panel are urged to contact the organizing committee as early as possible. Submission materials and general inquiries should be addressed to torontogroup2009@gmail.com. Organizing Committee Amaya Alvez – Ph.D. Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University Mark Bennett – S.J.D. Candidate, University of Toronto Faculty of Law Irina Ceric – Ph.D. Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University Michael Fakhri – S.J.D. Candidate, University of Toronto Faculty of Law Derek McKee – S.J.D. Candidate, University of Toronto Faculty of Law Umut Özsu – S.J.D. Candidate, University of Toronto Faculty of Law Kim Stanton – S.J.D. Candidate, University of Toronto Faculty of Law   Law as Literature – Interpretation and Beyond University of Helsinki 3-4 October 2008 Organised by the Nordic network for law and literature (Nordiskt nätverk för rätt och litteratur) and the Centre of Excellence in Foundations of European Law and Polity Research, University of Helsinki. University of Helsinki, Porthania building, 5th floor, room P545. Preliminary programme: Friday 3 October Chairs: Ari Hirvonen, University of Helsinki (morning session) and Panu Minkkinen, University of Leicester (afternoon session) 10:00 – 12:00 Jari Kauppinen: Derrida and the Question of Interpretation Susanna Lindroos: Law as Text: some remarks on the ethics of reading 12:00 – 13:00 Lunch 13:00 – 15:00 Harri Veivo: Interpretation as Text Production Leif Dahlberg: Achilles’ Foot and Law: Legal Space(s), Striated and Smooth 15:00 – 15:30 Coffee 15:30 – 17:00 Philippe van Haute: Between phenomenology and psychoanalysis: Lacan reads Hamlet Saturday 4 October Chairs: Toomas Kotkas, University of Helsinki (morning session) and Jarna Petman, University of Helsinki (afternoon session) 10:00 – 12:00 Mikaela Sundström: Poet i tolpa [in Swedish] Erik Mattsson: Rättens aktörer och åskådare [in Swedish] 12:00 – 13:00 Lunch 13:00 – 15:00 Soile Pohjonen: Legal poetics? Karen-Margrethe Simonsen: Narrative Justice and the language of inhumanity 15:00 – 15:30 Break 15:30 – 17:00 Björn Ekeland: Beyond Interpretation? On the Far Side of Legal Hermeneutics Arild Linneberg: The Novelness of Law as a Social Fact       Critical Legal Strategies (CLC 2008) University of Glasgow, 5th-7th September 2008 The conference theme for the CLC 2008 is CRITICAL LEGAL STRATEGIES. The notion of a critical legal strategy suggests the presence of a political subject behind the strategy, a subject that is responsible for articulating and launching the strategy, a subject with more or less clearly defined political goals that it seeks to pursue and realise through the strategies it plans to launch. We welcome papers on any topic related to critical legal strategies. We are particularly interested in submissions relating to the following streams: • international law and neo-colonialism: what scope for international law and neo-colonialism: what scope for new decolonisation? • the class problematic in legal studies • the choice agenda: patient or consumer? • il/legal practices • labour and the law Send titles and abstracts to the organising committee at clc@lbss.gla.ac.uk More information and registration at conference website: http://www.criticallegalconference.com     Beyond Nordic Legal Modernity In Search for New Coordinates Nordic Jurisprudence Revisited April, 24 – 27, 2008 Nordic Symposium, National Museum of Iceland, Suðurgötu 41, Reykjavík, The project Nordic Legal Maps in Transition tries to identify new coordinates for Nordic law in relation to history, modernity, late and post modernity, as well as in the context of questioning the common law–civil law dichotomy and the close connection between law and the nation state. It is a common Nordic project, financed via the NOS-HS (Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities and the Social Sciences). We have arranged two symposia. The first was in 2005 on the theme “1968” – and after. The Importance of the Critical Legal Theories for Nordic Legal Science. A Nordic Oral-History Symposium. The topic of this symposium concerned the recent history of legal science and the implications for today. Nordic legal scholars who experienced 1968 and the years around were invited to talk about how legal science changed and the implications of this change for our time and the future. The second symposium was held in 2006 on the theme Legal staging. Visualisation, Medialisation, Ritualisation. The Nordic Legal Communication through Language, Literature, Media, Art and Architecture. The topic of this symposium was how law is seen and understood in our time, and we made use of the presentations of law in e.g. the arts. This, our third and last symposium, Beyond Nordic Legal Modernity: In Search for New Coordinates. Nordic Jurisprudence Revisited, takes place in Reykjavík, Iceland, – symbolically in between Europe and America – April 24th – 27th, 2008. We will try to identify coordinates which will enable us to look ahead. Thursday, April 24th, 2008 16.00-17.30 Introduction: Idealism or Realism Reevaluation of Metaphors and Concepts Used in the Project Professor Kjell Å Modéer, Lund University, Sweden Professor Dag Michalsen, University of Oslo, Norway 17.30-19.00 Dinner 19.00-21.00 Nordic Legal Communication: Law and Language Associate Professor Anne-Lise Kjær, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Legal Networking Professor Lars Björne, University of Turku, Finland Comments: Professor Ragnhildur Helgadóttir, Reykjavík University, Iceland Friday, April 25th, 2008 9.00-10.30 Legal Reasoning: Tradition and History as Argument Professor Mark van Hoecke, Katholieke Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Tradition and History as Internal Argument in a Time of External Changes of the Substratum of Law Professor Håkan Hydén, Lund University, Sweden Comments: Director, docent Pia Letto-Vanamo, University of Helsinki, Finland 10.30-11.00 Coffee 11.00-12.30 Nordic Judiciaries and Judicial Jurisprudence Doctoral candidate, LL.M. Martin Sunnqvist, Lund University, Sweden Comparative Approaches: Professor Mathias W. Reimann, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Constitutional Approaches: Professor Henning Koch, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 12.30-13.30 Lunch 13.30-15.00 Excursion: Visit to Iceland’s Supreme Court 15.30-17.00 Revisited Legal Sources: Fragmentized, multilayered legal system Professor Hanne Petersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Comments: Doctoral candidate, LL.M. Elisabeth Eneroth, Lund University, Sweden 18.00 Subscribed dinner Saturday, April 26th, 2008 9.00-10.30 “Local – Global” in Legal Cultures Professor Antonio Hespanha, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Consul General D.D.h.c. Ingmar Karlsson, Swedish Consulate General, Istanbul, Turkey Comments: Professor Ditlev Tamm, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 10.30-11.00 Coffee 11.00-12.30 Sources and Resources Professor Joxerramón Bengoetxea, University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain Associate Professor Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde, University of Bergen, Norway Comments: Professor Marie Sandström, University of Stockholm, Sweden 12.30-13.30 Lunch 13.30-14.30 Legal Viruses: Transnational Crime, Corruption and the Law of the Nation State Professor Nikos Passas, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA Comments: Professor Per-Ole Träskman, Lund University, Sweden 14.30-15.00 Coffee 15.00-16.00 Concluding remarks Moderator: Professor Kjell Å Modéer, Lund University, Sweden 18.00 Subscribed dinner For participance, register via Martin Sunnqvist, martin.sunnqvist@jur.lu.se, Faculty of Law, P. O. Box 207, 221 00 Lund, Sweden, no later than March 7th, 2008. Speakers will register via a distributed form. Lunches 25-26 and dinner 24 April will be provided free of charge to all participants. For the subscribed dinners, a fee € 150 will be charged, if you choose to participate in them. We can organise the journey to and from Iceland and accommodation there or advise you regarding this. Updates: http://www.jur.lu.se/internet/forskning/nordenkartor.nsf   Call for Papers Mapping Emergent Terrains, Contesting Rigidified Traditions The First Annual Graduate Student Conference of The Toronto Group for the Study of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law University of Toronto Faculty of Law 11-13 January 2008 The Toronto Group for the Study of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law is pleased to announce its first annual graduate student conference. The principal aim of the conference is to encourage critical inquiry and collaborative discussion by providing a forum in which to explore shared anxieties and aspirations relating to international, transnational, and comparative legal scholarship. Panels will be chaired by legal scholars from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. Confirmed keynote speakers include Professor Anne Orford of the University of Melbourne Law School, Professor Ed Morgan of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Professor Frédéric Mégret of McGill University Faculty of Law, and Professor Thomas Skouteris of Leiden University Faculty of Law. Applicants are encouraged to submit theoretically informed papers concerning – or, better yet, testing the limits of and boundaries between – international, transnational, and comparative law. Possible themes include, but are by no means restricted to, the social/political/ethical “role(s)” of international and comparative legal scholars; North/South debates in international trade, labour, and environmental law; the conceptual and normative relations between “private” and “public” international law; formalism and anti-formalism in international and comparative law; collective security, use of force, and humanitarian intervention as fields of hegemonic struggle; local and global states of exception/emergency; the influence of international organizations and global governance initiatives on legal scholarship; political ramifications of the transnational migration, diffusion, and circulation of legal norms; post-colonial and Third World approaches to international and comparative legal studies; the interface between international law and international relations; international law as “ideological” epiphenomenon and/or site of emancipatory resistance; the turn toward legal anthropology in human rights research; and the (international) rule of law. While the conference’s objective is to facilitate engagement with issues arising from these and related areas of legal scholarship, submissions from graduate students in disciplines other than law are also welcome. Conference Instructions Presenters are asked to submit an abstract of no more than 400 words as well as a brief biographical statement, including information regarding current academic affiliations and general research interests, by 15 October 2007. Presenters will be notified by 25 October 2007. All inquiries and materials should be addressed to: torontogroup2008@gmail.com. Conference Organizers Michael Fakhri and Umut Özsu – S.J.D. Candidates at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law     AAR Law, Religion, and Culture Group The Law, Religion, and Culture Group requests submissions for its panels to be held at the American Academy of Religion's next annual meeting in San Diego, November 17-20, 2007. We invite paper and panel proposals on any aspect of the cultural, historical, critical, and comparative study of the intersections of law and religion, including legal categories in religious traditions, the treatment of religion within legal traditions, and human rights and freedom of religion and belief. We especially encourage proposals on the following themes: the cross-cultural translation of the categories of "law" and "religion," the ways in which such translations have influenced the study of religion - especially religions other than Christianity - and the impact of law on conceptions of religion around the world. Complete submissions include a proposal of no more than one thousand words, and an abstract of no more than 150 words. Further instructions are available on the AAR website noted below. Proposals may be submitted through the American Academy of Religion's website or sent to robertyelle@hotmail.com. The deadline for submissions is March 1 (2007). Robert A. Yelle, J.D., Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Memphis Guggenheim Fellow, 2006-2007 Chair, Law, Religion, and Culture Group. Respond to: robertyelle@hotmail.com     Institutional Transformations of Suffering International conference in Stockholm 8-11 November 2007 The conference is jointly organized by the Dept. of Anthropology, Stockholm University, the Dept. of Ethnology, Stockholm University, and the School of Computer Science and Communication, Royal Institute of Technology. Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Jeanne Gaaker, Dept of Law, Erasmus University Professor Arthur Kleinman, Dept. of Social Anthropology, Harvard University Professor Iain Wilkinson, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent at Canterbury The Social sciences and Humanities have a long record of attention to human suffering, both as subjective experience represented and dealt with personally and collectively, and as a set of societal conditions that cause or exacerbate it. The aim of this conference is to seek deeper understanding of social suffering by looking into its 'professional' or institutional transformations. The societal domains established to alleviate suffering can give it names and establish its causes, define victims entitled to be helped and perpetrators to be punished. In the process, human experience of suffering is assigned to categories, its intensity is graded, its narratives are ritualized, its truth is validated. These social transactions objectify the experience of distress into discursive formations, social positions and institutional hierarchies that are highly consequential. They may involve negotiations from unequal positions of power, where factors at the root of social suffering are questioned, reconfigured or reinforced. The three-day conference will bring together scholars who theorize human suffering, and practitioners, who handle it in the context of our contemporary institutions. Academics will come from the disciplines which have long been at the forefront of studying the experiential reality and political discourse of social suffering: Anthropology, Ethnology, Law, Literary studies, and Sociology. The practitioners will include health care and social workers, lawyers, representatives of immigration authorities and religious institutions. The format of the conference, with a plenary paper starting the day, will create frameworks for shorter presentations and extensive panel discussions, providing innovative ways of bringing together academics and professional practitioners. We hope that it will go beyond the statements of positions, resulting in the production of the new insights in the conditions of suffering in our own societies, and in the globalized world. It will provide a forum not only for the exchange of opinions, but, hopefully, for the production of knowledge on the conditions of social suffering. For more information: www.nada.kth.se/media/Research/Transformations_of_suffering   Conference on Law and Literature University of Bergen 25 – 28 October 2007 Miscarriage of Justice and International Law in Law and in Literature Organized by the Nordic Network of Law and Literature   Preliminary conference programme:   Thursday October 26 Registration   Friday October 27 Welcome! Arild Linneberg, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Bergen The Nature of Miscarriage of Justice and the Torgersen-case, by Ståle Eskeland og Anders Bratholm; Professors of Law, University of Oslo Justice and Injustice in Some Songs of Bob Dylan. Erling Aadland, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Bergen What Did Milosevic Say and What is Written About It? Jo Eggen, author and translator and expert of Slavic languages Grey zones of Justice and Law. Roundtable-talk with Arne Treholt, consultant, one lawyer and a representative of Gyldendal Norwegian Publishing Co. Bookrelease: Arild Linneberg: Twelve and a Half Speech on Literature and Law   Saturday October 27 Rhetoric and Law in the Torgersen-case, Johan Dragvoll, Research Scholar in Law and Literature, University of Bergen "From Westphalian to 'ethical' sovereignty: a theoretical critique, by Panu Minkkinen, Professor of Law, University of Leicester, England PhD-Workshops and papers in parallel sessions   Sunday October 28 PhD – Workshops   The conference will take place at the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen. Lectures will be given in English or a Scandinavian language. For more information and for joining the conference, please contact: Arild Linneberg, Johan Dragvoll, or Bjørn Chr. Ekeland The Conference is open for all interested scholars and phd-students as far as possible: Papers of PhD-scholars and others are called for.     Transforming Sovereignties The concept of sovereignty in the field of tension between power and law 28-27 September 2007, Tartu For several years, the concept – or, rather, a variety of concepts – of sovereignty has been in the limelight of political debates in Europe, especially in its eastern part. Regained with the collapse of the Soviet Union, constantly threatened by ambitious neighbours and international corporations, state sovereignty is now, according to some, being bartered away to the European Union. The rapidity with which political allegiances have shifted has, in fact, been such that there have been few occasions for calm and careful consideration of the nature and the descriptive usefulness of the concept of sovereignty. Is the latter applicable only to individual states or could it be relevant also at the sub-national and supra-national level? Is it possible to separate the claims to originality of authority and exclusivity that the concept of sovereignty is generally taken to incorporate? Has the concept of sovereignty (retained) a ´common core` despite the different and sometimes contradictory ideological uses made of it? Or, more radically still, could sovereignty be nothing but an elaborate form of hypocrisy, as has been claimed? If so, can other forms of governance, transcending state borders, provide an alternative to sovereignty as traditionally understood or will they only lead to diffusion of responsibility? The aim of the colloquium is precisely to contribute to the reflection on these questions by not only juxtaposing but also confronting different perspectives on this central notion of political and legal philosophy. We intend to combine historical and conceptual analyses that insist on the need to separate the political and legal aspects of sovereignty with contributions which, on the contrary, blur this distinction with a view to forging new concepts for describing recent political changes. Questions related to the birth of legal orders and to the idea of legal continuity will therefore be given ample attention. Our interest will, however, not be restricted to contemporary developments. The conference will be introduced by a historical enquiry into how did the State come to be sovereign. In this way, the perspective will be set to interpret the concept of sovereignty as a transitory historical phenomenon which might prove to be of an unexpectedly short duration. Speakers include: Anneli Albi, Denis Baranger, Jens Bartelson, Christopher Bickerton, Stephen D. Krasner, Jüri Lipping, Hent Kalmo, Mattias Kumm, Neil MacCormick, Toni Negri, Vello Pettai, Pärtel Piirimäe, Patrick Praet, Marju Luts-Sootak, Quentin Skinner, Michel Troper, and Helmut Willke. For more information: http://www.ut.ee/transformingsovereignties     Critical Legal Conference 2007 Birkbeck college, University of London 14th - 16th September 2007 The title of the CLC 2007 is Walls, perhaps a strange title for a law conference, even a critical one. However, we believe that it is fundamental at this stage to examine those things which divide us. We seek to put into question the very structures which separate schools, traditions, states, world-views. We must look at those proper names, technical terms and projections of divisions which at once may divide or protect us. This focus fundamentally demands that we examine the very content of what unites and separates us. Walls do not just exclude, but also encircle those within. The purpose is not to plaster over cracks, nor to simply reaffirm the legitimacy of long standing divisions, but to confront division as such. http://www.criticallegalconference.com/ Contact: clc2007@bbk.ac.uk   "Beyond Reasonable Doubt": Conversations in Law, Literature and Philosophy from the Reformation to the Present Day 7th - 9th September 2007 Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK   Convenors: Yota Batsaki, Subha Mukherji, Jan-Melissa Schramm This conference aims to bring scholars of literature, law and philosophy into interdisciplinary conversation. In the course of the last three decades, legal practitioners, literary critics, jurists and philosophers have found in this dialogue an enriched vocabulary for the exploration of their own particular interests. Ambitious and visionary research has been undertaken which has advanced our understanding of topics as disparate as the history of the novel, censorship, blasphemy, plagiarism, hermeneutic theory, and the rhetorical manipulation of narrative within the courtroom. We are inviting papers on any aspect of the intersection of these discourses, including papers that might address some of the following topics: - evidence, interpretation, judgment - the role of doubt and scepticism in critical enquiry - casuistry, rhetoric, persuasion, ethics - legal and poetic fictions - equity - the role of narrative jurisprudence - testimony, confession, autobiography - contract, agency and intentionality - methodological issues: the value of interdisciplinarity - censorship, blasphemy, plagiarism and intellectual property - gender, sexuality, law and ethics - human, divine and natural law Recent events in European political and public life have given these sub-themes an enhanced profile which demands further interdisciplinary investigation. 'Beyond Reasonable Doubt' seeks to bring together representatives and practitioners from each of the three disciplines to probe and interrogate such questions as the relationship of text, image and action, and the epistemological and ontological foundations of knowledge and judgment. Plenary speakers include John Bender, Peter Brooks, Leo Damrosch, Kathy Eden, Lorna Hutson, Luke Wilson, Barbara Shapiro. For more information: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2006-7/beyonddoubt.html     Joint Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association (LSA) and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL) Humboldt University, July 25-28, 2007 Theme: Law and Society in the 21st Century: Transformations, Resistances, Futures   SHAKESPEARE AND THE LAW University of Warwick 9-11 July 2007 The University of Warwick will host an international conference on Shakespeare and the Law from 9-11 July 2007 in association with Warwick Law School and The Capital Centre partnership between The University of Warwick and the Royal Shakespeare Company. The conference will provide a unique forum for scholarly discourse between the major humanities disciplines of law, literature and the performing arts. Confirmed speakers include several leading figures in Shakespearean Scholarship, theatre and the field of law and humanities. The study of law as a humanities' discipline is concerned with the capacity of human beings to engage with their environment and reform it by the power of imagination expressed through arts which are not scientifically predictable in their operation or susceptible to empirical assessment. In this sense the study of law as a humanities' discipline is distinct from, albeit compatible with, the study of law as a social science. Law and humanities explores the relationship between subjects and the law; “subjects” indicating on the one hand the very human beings subject to the law, and, on the other hand, the humanities disciplines (including literature and drama) through which the human subject has traditionally created and challenged the law. There is no better starting place, or central case, for such a study than the works of William Shakespeare. “Let us haste to hear it, and call the noblest to the audience” Hamlet, Act V, Scene II We look forward to welcoming you to the University of Warwick for a full programme of scholarly and social events in the summer of 2007. Paul Raffield, Gary Watt     RIGHTS, ETHICS, LAW AND LITERATURE INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM In association with the Law and Humanities Institute, New York and the Justword Centre, School of Law, Swansea University SWANSEA UNIVERSITY, WALES, UK PLENARY SPEAKERS: Professor Richard Weisberg and Professor Desmond Manderson FRIDAY 6TH- SUNDAY 8TH JULY, 2007 This colloquium aims to bring together scholars expert in the intersections between law, literature, ethics and rights, to further debate on matters of current social, political and ideological importance. The interdisciplinary nature of the colloquium is intended to foster new perspectives on current concerns in the fields of ethics and rights. It is hoped that publication of selected papers will follow from this Colloquium SUGGESTED SUBJECT STREAMS: Interdisciplinary approaches to include: identity and alienation, aesthetics, popular culture, rhetoric and narrative, post-colonial debates, gender, history, politics and science. Postgraduate stream. Suggestions for additional subject streams are welcome Contact Professor Melanie Williams * M.L.Williams@swan.ac.uk in the first instance with paper proposals.  For Swansea University School of Law, see: www.swan.ac.uk/law/  A number of rooms have been reserved on campus.   Open session at Inter: A European Cultural Studies Conference in Sweden, ACSIS, Norrköping 11-13 June 2007. LAW AND CULTURE The objective of the session on Law and Culture is to encourage the interdisciplinary discussion in the intersections of law and culture. Starting from the double premises that law is a cultural form and that culture carries the regulative force of legal practices and norms, the session invites papers addressing law as a cultural phenomenon irrespective of disciplinary orientation. Embracing an expansive definition of culture as a concept whose boundaries range from the aesthetic to the political, the session invites work that understands law in a strict institutional or positivist sense, as well as those that approach law more generally as a regime for ordering social life, constructing cultural meaning and shaping group and individual identity. The interpellation of work on law and culture emanates from the understanding that law should be analyzed both as instrumental aspect in culture and as inherent part of culture. Organisers: Leif Dahlberg, Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm), and Panu Minkkinen, University of Leicester, UK Contact: dahlberg@csc.kth.se For general information about the Inter conference, go to www.isak.liu.se/acsis/english or e-mail: conference2007@acsis.liu.se     Association of Legal & Social Philosophy Conference 2007 19th—21st April 2007 Keele University (UK)   ALIENS AND NATIONS Citizenship, Sovereignty and Global Politics in the 21 st Century   Confirmed keynote speakers: Seyla Benhabib, Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Yale University Stephen Macedo, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics, and Director of the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University   Web site: http://www.keele.ac.uk/research/lpj/ALSP/   AESTHETICS AND POLITICS: LAW, LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY Södertörn University College & The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 9-12 November 2006 The conference is organized jointly by the Research Project on Aesthetics and Political Philosophy, Department of Media, Art and Literature at Södertörn University College, and by the Nordic Network for Law and Literature Confirmed keynote speakers: Cathy Caruth, Comparative Literature, Emory University Elizabeth Hatz, School of Architecture, Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm) Leonard Lawlor, Philosophy, University of Memphis Catherine Malabou, Philosophy, Université de Paris X (Nanterre) Is there a significant relation between aesthetics and politics to be studied today? Or must we give up on the relevance of art and aesthetics when debating the most important contemporary political and legal issues, such as questions of equality, rights, justice, identity, recognition, etc. The relation between aesthetics and politics has never been an easy one, and has been made particularly problematic during the 20th century. The political power of art has often been regarded with suspicion and it is often said that the aestheticization of politics leads to a de-politicization of politics. In the Frankfurt School one has analyzed how totalitarian societies have used aestheticization as a means of control, whereas progressive forms of politicized art have been held as overstated and crude. On the other hand, the philosophy of Nietzsche has pointed to aesthetics as a form of becoming that cannot be dissociated from law and politics, a point of view widely adopted in French philosophy of the 1960's and onwards. Is the potentiality of the critique, resistance and revolution still present in the marginal practices of art? This conference will be joining philosophers and the network for law and literature. It is also open for papers that examine the relation between aesthetics and politics from other theoretical viewpoints. Although the main speakers are from the fields of Philosophy, Architecture, Law, and Literature, we also welcome participants from Aesthetics, Anthropology, Architecture, Art, Communication & Media studies, Gender studies, History, Music, etc. We welcome papers on aesthetics and political philosophy focusing on, for example, Nietzsche, psychoanalysis, critical theory, Deleuze, Foucault, Derrida, human rights, jurisprudence, post-colonialism etc., but also on other schools of thought that may be relevant to the theme. We also welcome papers that wish to debate the problem from other vantage points. The questions that may be examined are, for instance, how does the practice of art influence the formation of spatial practices and of subjectivities and collectivities? What is the relevance of the humanities for law today? What is the significance of aesthetics and politics in relation to new media? In what way can aesthetics and politics be related to philosophies of becoming? In what way has the Frankfurt School gained insights that may be applicable today? These are only suggestions. We look forward to your contribution to the conference theme. Participants will be presenting papers in panels, organized according to topic and/or discipline. Please submit abstracts (500 words) to the organizers (as listed below) before June 15th. Note your discipline on your abstract. Speakers will notified of acceptance by September 15th. -- In conjunction with the conference there will be organized a graduate course on Law and Literature, for information contact Leif Dahlberg, dahlberg@csc.kth.se -- Final conference programme Papers abstracts -- Contact information: Nordic Network for Law and Literature Leif Dahlberg, dahlberg@csc.kth.se Per-Anders Forstorp, forstorp@kth.se Research Project on Aesthetics and Politics, Department of Media, Art and Philosophy, Södertörn University College Cecilia Sjöholm, cecilia.sjoholm@sh.se Fredrika Spindler, fredrika.spindler@sh.se -- The Nordic Network for Law and Literature is funded by the Nordic Research Council (NordForsk) The Research Project on Aesthetics and Politics is funded by The Baltic Sea Foundation The conference is also sponsored by Södertörn University College and the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm       Symposium i Köpenhamn Rättslig iscensättning: Visualisering - Medialisering - Ritualisering Den nordiska rättsliga kommunikationen genom språk, litteratur, konst och arkitektur Köpenhamn 6-8 november 2006 Københavns universitet, Nørregade 10, opgang C, 1. sal., Udvalgsværelse 3. Monday November 6th 2006 Language: English 10.00 Registration 11.00 - 12.30 Introduction Professor Kjell Å. Modéer, Lund: Visualisation of a Nordic Legal Modernity Professor Hanne Petersen, København: On-Stage and Off-Stage European and Global Legal Scenes 12.30 Lunch 14.00 - 17.30 Theories on legal visualisation Moderator: Director, docent Pia Letto-Vanamo, Helsingfors Professor Lynda Nead, London: Visual Cultures of the Courtroom: Reflections on History, Law and the Image Privatdozent Dr. Rainer Maria Kiesow, Frankfurt am Main: Law and Order: Man and Dog: A Photograph of a Jurist Fil. dr Leif Dahlberg, Stockholm: Reading and Performing the Law in/of The Merchant of Venice Dinner Tisdagen den 7 november 2006 Språk: Nordiska 9.00 - 12.30 Rättens medialisering Moderator: Professor Henning Koch, København Professor Hans Fredrik Dahl, Oslo: TV som medium for rettslige scener Ekstern lektor, PhD-kandidat Khaled Ramadan, København: Mainstream Media and the Cartoon Crisis - Koreferent: Professor Hanne Petersen, København Universitetslektor, fil. dr Matthias Baier, Lund: Vem är rätten? - Koreferent: Hovrättspresident Johan Hirschfeldt, Stockholm Professor Dag Michalsen, Oslo: Rett som visuell kommunikasjon 12.30 Lunch 14.00 - 17.30 Teater, film, rätt och moral Moderator: Universitetslektor, docent Mats Kumlien, Uppsala Advokat Cecilie Schjatvet, Oslo: t.b.d. Professor Panu Minkkinen, Leicester: Rätt, etik och lidandes ikonografi Professor Leif Furhammar, Stockholm: Den filmiska rättvisan Professor Juha Karhu, Rovaniemi: Rätt och konst som former för erfarenheter i livsvärlden Jur. dr Sverker Jönsson, Lund: Straffets rituella legitimation - Den tilltalades ställföreträdande gestaltning av Det Onda Gemensam middag Onsdagen den 8 november 2006 Språk: Nordiska 8.30 - 11.30 Rättens rum och aktörer Moderator: Professor Inger Johanne Sand, Oslo/København Stipendiat Lisbeth Fullu Skyberg, Oslo: Iscenesatt rettferdighet Direktör, docent Pia Letto-Vanamo, Helsingfors: Enligt lagen och med understöd av folket Professor Ditlev Tamm, København: Advokaternes synliggørelse Doktorand Eva Löfgren, Göteborg: Detta är inte ett tingshus Doktorand Martin Sunnqvist: Från domarring till transithall - Vem inreder rättens rum? t.b.d. Islands Högsta domstols byggnad 11.30 - 12.00 Avrundning 12.00 Lunch 13.00 - 15.00 Utflykt eller guidad tur     Symposium The New Exceptionalism: Law and Literature Since 9/11 This important interdisciplinary symposium will be held at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, 55 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10006 on Sunday October 29, 2006. Proceedings will be published in Law and Literature (University of California Press). The symposium is sponsored by the Floersheimer Center for Consitutional Democracy of Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University; Law and Literature (published by the University of California Press); The Law and Humanities Institute; and the Program in Law and Humanities. Program (all events will take place in the Moot Court Room) 8: 00 a.m. Registration 8:45 a.m. Welcome 9:00 a.m. Panel I: Bodies, Subjects, Jurisdictions Ruth A. Miller, History, University of Massachusetts, Boston,On Freedom and Feeding Tubes: Reviving Terri Schiavo and Trying Saddam Hussein Penelope Pether, Law, Villanova University, Regarding the Miller Girls: Daisy, Judith, and the Seeming Paradox of In re Grand Jury Subpoena, Judith Miller Renata Salecl , Law, London School of Economics, Subjectivity in Times of New Exceptionalism 10:30 a.m. Break 11:00 a.m. Panel II: Representing Torture John Parry, Law, Lewis and Clark College, Ian McEwan and the Right to be Tortured Nina Philadelphoff-Puren, English, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, Genre's Judgment: Torture Testimony in the War on Terror Joseph Pugliese , Critical and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, The Aesthetic Codification of Torture: Abu Ghraib and Its Shadow Archives Respondent: Maya Sabatello, Center for Global Affairs, New York University 12:45 p.m. Lunch 1:30 p.m. Panel III: Observing the Politics of Terror Simon Critchley, Philosophy, New School for Social Research, The Catechism of the Citizen Adam Gearey, Law, Birkbeck College, London University , Exceptionalism and the Jurisprudence of the Spectacle Adam Thurschwell, Cleveland-Marshall School of Law/ American University Washington College of Law, Sovereignty, Literature, Death: Don DeLillo on the Authority of Terrorism Respondent: Thomas Crocker, Law, University of South Carolina 3:15 p.m. Break 3:45 p.m. Panel IV: Texts and Terrorists David Campbell, Law, University of Durham, The Threat of Terror and the Plausibility of Positivism Ruth Quiney, English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, London University, ‘Mr. Xerox,’ The Domestic Terrorist, and the Victim-Citizen: Masculine and National Anxiety in Fight Club and Anti-Terror Law Anupama Rao, History, Barnard College, paper topic tba Respondent: Peter Goodrich: Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University     Symposium on Law and Literature University of Freiburg, Germany Friday, October 27, 2006, Wilhelmstr. 26, Room 01014 14.15 Hal Gladfelder (University of Manchester), "John Cleland on Trial." 15.15 Discussion [Coffee break] 16.15 Simon Stern (Harvard Law School), "Detecting Doctrines: The Case Method and the Rise of the Detective Story" 17.15 Discussion 19.00 [Dinner]

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