News of an interesting event, March 1, 2018:
Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/legalityillegality-rules-regulations-and-resistance-tickets-39088380398
Fees - £75 full ticket, £35
postgraduate/PhD ticket ..... lunch provided
Legality/Illegality:
rules, regulations and resistance
1st March
2018 (10am-6pm)
Leicester Media School
Head - Professor Jason Lee
‘If you and I are liable to be prosecuted, fined and perhaps
imprisoned,
for doing or failing to do something, we ought to be able …
to find out what it is we must or must not do on pain of
criminal penalty’
(Tom Bingham, The Rule of Law,
2010)
‘There's one law for the Rich and another for the Poor’
(Traditional Utterance)
Conference Correspondence to:
Venue:
De Montfort
University,
3rd
Floor, Clephan Building
Bonners Lane
LE1 9BH
Organisers:
Stuart Price
and Fernanda Amaral, Media Discourse Group, LMS
Keynotes on:
Brazil – ‘Favela Media Activism: the ‘breakdown’
of law and the rise of citizen power’ Leo Custodi, University of Helsinki
Leo Custodi is
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Social Research, University
of Tampere, Finland, and conducts research on media activism and
interdisciplinary research into social movements: his most recent book is Favela
Media Activism
Catalonia – ‘Damage to Catalonia? The role of state
power from May 1937 to October 2017’ Stuart Price, De Montfort, Media Discourse
Group
Stuart Price is
Chair of the Media Discourse Group, LMS
Description of
the event
This
peer-reviewed Conference examines the ways in which various types of human
expression and activity (economic, cultural, and political) are influenced,
both by popular notions of legitimacy (combining our understanding of
everyday normative standards with an often-imprecise sense of what is actually
lawful/unlawful), and by the actual sanctions and/or rights enshrined
within existing legal systems and forms of precedence (operating at the
national and/or supranational/transnational level).
In our Call for
Papers, we welcome critical overviews of the relationship between legality and
illegality (i.e. theoretical interventions that address the conceptual and
practical interdependence of these terms, under the general rubric of ‘the
law’), the alteration over time of notions of legality (where, for instance, an
activity once thought legitimate may lose that status, and vice versa),
specific case-studies of public controversies, the public mediation of the
legal system or of law enforcement (through, for example, cinematic or
televisual texts), the fascist Right’s attempt to manipulate liberal notions of
freedom of speech, illicit state surveillance of dissenting individuals and
groups, and the debate over ‘states of exception’.
Specific
fields of enquiry and useful topics may include but are not confined to the
following:
Performance
rights and intellectual ownership within the ‘neo-liberal’ work environment
Freedom of
speech, violence and anti-fascist activity
Questions over
the obligation of news organisations to pursue the truth in a ‘post-truth’
politics
The ‘moral right’
to break or disregard oppressive laws
Arguments over
the legalisation of drugs
The historical
reconstitution of the law
Questions of
sexuality and the state
Transnational
legal obligations and Brexit
The Dance Culture
and ‘illegal’ or non-commercial parties
Issues in
investigative journalism
Fan adaptations
of copyrighted texts
Transnational,
national or region-specific events that test the parameters of legality
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