ASLCH Conference Proposal Submission Deadline Extended To March 11, 2022 @Law_Cult_Huma

 ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF LAW, CULTURE, AND THE HUMANITIES

TWENTY-FOURTH Annual Conference
June 16-17, 2022
Atlanta, GEORGIA, USA

The Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law,
Culture and the Humanities will be held at Emory University School of Law,
June 16-17, 2022.

We welcome humanities-oriented proposals on topics broadly related to law and
legal studies. In addition, our theme this year is:

Unsettling Law

 

Law often resides in the pull between what is settled and what is not.
Precedent guides us until it does not. Law’s stability is in constant
conversation with its own necessary responsiveness as well as with what
troubles it from outside of legal institutions. Disobediences, whether civil
or not, have the power to unsettle what is taken to be settled. And forces
like climate change pose challenges to settled law by destabilizing what may
make obedience and order possible at all. Law continually expands the range of
persons it recognizes, for better or worse, while it claims across all changes
that it serves the interests of all. Borders exclude but remain permeable, and
we argue about what is owed to others regardless of their citizenship status.
States claim sovereignty and face refusals from other sovereignties within
their borders. Even settler colonialism is a process rather than an outcome,
so what is settled and what remains open to different futures may be
contested. How do and should we imagine law in these unsettled times? What
creative forces might we bring to bear in these moments between past and
future, whether for unsettling what ought to change or stabilizing what is
endangered? How might different disciplines, methodologies, arts, literatures,
and technologies represent, reinforce, or resist unsettling law? We invite
proposals taking up that question from a variety of humanities-oriented

perspectives.

 

The conference will emphasize the ASLCH tradition of in-person conversation
while making some panels available for those who wish to participate
virtually. Rather than hosting hybrid panels, there will be one full session
dedicated to online panels each day of the conference. Virtual attendees can
view these, and there will be public viewing rooms at the conference so that
attendees can engage in conversation with each other and the virtual
panelists. We will also host three plenary sessions that will be available in
person as well as streaming online. Some of the in-person panels will be

streamed during the sessions that aren’t online-dedicated.

 

All proposals are due Friday, March 11, 2022 at midnight Eastern Standard

Time.

 

Submission instructions: Individual proposals should include a title and an
abstract of no more than 250 words, along with 2 keywords from the list below.
We also welcome proposals for panels, roundtables, and streams (two panels on one theme). Please note that online presenters should organize a full panel
(we will not be accepting individual papers for online presentation this year)
and that, though we traditionally accept most papers, we may need to limit the
number of online panels we accept, depending on demand. Panels, whether
virtual or in-person, should include three papers (or, exceptionally, four
papers). Please specify a title and designate a chair for your panel. The
panel chair may also be a panel presenter. It is not necessary to write an
abstract or proposal for the panel itself. To indicate your pre-constituted
panel, roundtable, or stream, please ensure that individual registrants
provide the name of the panel and the chair in their individual submissions on
the registration site. All panel, roundtable, or stream participants must make
an individual submission on the registration site. When submitting a proposal,
we also ask that registrants identify two keywords to help us align sessions

with each other.

 

Proposal submission is free. All proposals must be submitted here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2021-aslch-annual-meeting-proposal-submission-registration-228111426417

 

Conference Fees
The fees for in-person participation in the Conference are:
•       Graduate students and post-doctoral scholars: $35
•       Income less than $75,000: $125
•       Income between $75,000-$99,999: $155
•       Income between $100,000-$124,999: $210
•       Income $125,000 and over: $260
The fees to participate remotely are:
•           Graduate students and post-doctoral scholars: Free
•           Income less than $75,000: $50
•           Income between $75,000-$99,999: $75
•           Income between $100,000-$124,999: $100

•           Income $125,000 and over: $150

 

Graduate Workshop

The ASLCH Graduate Workshop will be held at Emory on Wednesday, June 15. We will circulate information about it soon. Any questions may be directed to

lch@lawculturehumanities.com.