Law
and Humanities Summer School: Law, Art, Politics
(15-19
June 2020, University of Lucerne)
The
Law and Humanities Summer School is an intensive one-week study programme, to
be held at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland, from 15 to 19 June 2020. The
school is co-organised by the following partners:
- Institute for
Interdisciplinary Legal Studies – lucernaiuris, University of Lucerne
- Centre for Law, Arts
and Humanities, The Australian National University
- Law Department,
University of Roma Tre
- Institute for Art
History, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Bringing
together leading scholars, researchers and postgraduate students, the school
will showcase cutting-edge work at the intersections of law and the humanities,
and serve as a laboratory for exploring a range of contemporary methods,
approaches and issues.
Focus:
Law, Art, Politics
The
2020 Summer School will focus on the entanglements of law, art and politics.
From statues of the Roman Emperors to Picasso’s Guernica, some of the
world’s most celebrated works of art have been explicitly political. But in the
twenty-first century everything has been disrupted – including law, including
art, including politics. We live in a world obsessed by images and distrustful
of politics; a world in which the public sphere is collapsing and private
interests seem more powerful than ever. What, then, is the role of art in
making and unmaking, representing and challenging the language of law and the
power of politics? Can art disrupt the disruptors?
Starting
from this contemporary perspective, the school will offer a panorama of the
dynamic intercourse between law, art and politics across a variety of sites,
contexts and periods. The programme will draw on the expertise of scholars
working in different research fields and across multiple critical traditions to
address such questions as:
- How do images and
aesthetics shape the character of law?
- What role does art
play in transmitting legal and political ideology, or in fostering
critique or social change?
- How might we
understand the relations between forms of artistic cultural expression and
legal identities?
- What are the effects
of art’s material manifestations on the law?
- How does art
participate in, activate, or reflect upon the imagining of legal futures?
Further
information here.
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