From Dr. Steven Howe, University of Lucerne:
CFP: Law and the
Humanities World (1 & 2 September, Lucerne)
In Humanities Theory (2025, with
Amanda Anderson), Simon During offers a suggestive mapping of a “humanities
world” – a loosely linked “conglomeration of practices, interests,
comportments, personae, offices, moods, purposes and values” that inhabit “various
settings, disciplines and institutions”. The “humanities world” is plural and
diverse; it has no essence or centre, even as it is threaded by shared – if
contested – histories, understandings and commitments. It transcends
disciplinary lines and geographical formations. Vitally, it also embraces a
flourishing “extramural” humanities – of books, artworks, exhibitions,
performances, films, TV shows, and podcasts – that bears only loose relation to
the professional humanities ensconced in universities.
For this inaugural conference of
the new Swiss Law and Humanities Hub, we take the idea of a ‘humanities world’
as a prompt to reflect again on the place(s) of the legal humanities. We call
on contributors to give new and further thought to where law and humanities
work is performed and pursued, and to the ways in which such work comes to be
done in the ‘beyond’ of academia. What happens when we shift our purview away
from universities to public spaces, cultural institutions and other locations
of collective life? How might this reorientation reshape our understanding of
theory, method and practice? More broadly, the conference aims to encourage
reflection, collaboration and the sharing of creative approaches that
(re-)think legal critique and critique of law through different forms of
humanities work – public, popular, and vernacular.
Full call for papers here. Deadline: 12 June 2026.
Contact: steven.howe@unilu.ch
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