2026 LCH Conference Call For Papers

From Simon Stern, President, Association for the Study of Law, Culture, & the Humanities

Dear all, We are excited to announce that we are now accepting submissions for the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities. The conference will be held in person (with some online components) on June 17-18, 2026 at the DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, Illinois. This year's theme is "Uprooted Law: Reflecting on the Origins and Outgrowths of Law."  You can find the call for papers on our website or view the PDF version. We are also accepting applications for our annual Graduate Student Workshop, which will take place the day before the conference on June 16, 2026. Information on how to apply for the workshop can be found in the PDF or on our website here. Please help us spread the word and circulate the CFP in your academic communities. We look forward to gathering for the conference again this year and hope to see you there! Best regards,   Simon Stern, President, Association for the Study of Law, Culture & the Humanities

LCH 2026 Conference Scheduled for June 17-18, 2026 at DePaul College of Law

The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities will hold its 2026 conference June 17-18, 2026 at the DePaul University College of Law, in Chicago. The CFP will be available soon.

Submissions will be due on January 31, and the Association will send notifications shortly after that. 

In the meantime, you can view all the recent conference programs here. Here's a link to the 2026 conference website.

Call for Applications: Annual Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Graduate Student Workshop: June 15, 2022 @Law_Cult_Huma

 

The Annual Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Graduate Student Workshop will be held on Wednesday, June 15, 2022 (the day before the annual meeting begins). The workshop is designed for graduate students who are undertaking research that cuts across law, cultural studies, literature, philosophy, legal studies, anthropology, political science,  and history, among others. The workshop is designed to afford graduate students the opportunity to experience the LCH community in a smaller venue with more sustained contact with one another and some faculty. The workshop also provides graduate students with an opportunity to discuss their research projects in a small group setting in anticipation of such things as job talks and publication.  Applications to the workshop should consist of a current curriculum vitae (2-3 page maximum), an abstract of a current project not exceeding 700 words, as well as a short (5- page maximum) text relating to that project. This “text” could be a case, literary work, a time-line, a photo, a sound or video file, or some other relevant text. The text you choose should be something that helps you reflect on the subject of your work and your methods of analysis. Please use your judgment and best guess in deciding how audio, visual, or audio-visual materials "translate" into pages of text.  Applicants whose proposals are accepted will receive some support towards an extra night's accommodation from ASLCH as well as some support (varying, depending on distance traveled) towards the cost of transportation to the conference site. While those who participated in a previous workshop may re-apply and participate again, should space and/or funds be limited, we will prioritize new participants. Please email your applications to lch@lawculturehumanities.com before Thursday April 14, 2022 with the subject line: ASLCH Grad Workshop Application. Please name your file(s) using your lastname first, e.g. “Miller_application” or “Miller_cv”. Please remind us if you applied for or participated in a previous workshop and, if so, which one(s).

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.

ASLCH To Be Held at Quinnipiac University School of Law, March 7-8, 2020 @Law_Cult_Huma

CONFERENCE

We are pleased to announce that the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities will be held at Quinnipiac University School of Law in North Haven, Connecticut, on March 7-8, 2020.

Proposals

As always, we welcome well-constructed proposals on any topic related to law and legal studies. In addition, our theme this year is: Projections: Imagining Legal Futurity. We now seemingly inhabit a moment of multiple thresholds and must engage a future that urgently demands our attention. Climate change, challenges to democratic governance, new modes of communication, mass migration, quickening temporalities, the very boundaries of the human – all of these and more constitute a new and shifting landscape of materiality, epistemology, and social relations. How do and should we imagine the place of law in such a future?

We invite proposals taking up that question from a variety of humanities-oriented perspectives. Among many other questions, one might ask: As we increasingly negotiate digitally-connected webs of relations, what relevance does the concept of rights retain? How is authority articulated and disarticulated in a lightning-paced, image-saturated world? In what ways do historical modes of thinking remain relevant to future-oriented legal argument and legitimation? How might the power and reach of law be reconfigured by seemingly unprecedented challenges to human flourishing such as climate change and artificial intelligence? How do speculative fiction and imaginative culture, post-apocalyptic or otherwise, renew and/or create new principles, standards, prescriptions, and prohibitions that regulate our everyday practices? Does the future we imagine call for new ways to think about law itself?

 All proposals are due Friday, November 1, 2019, midnight Eastern Standard Time.

Submission Instructions

Individual proposals should include a title and an abstract of no more than 250 words. We also welcome proposals for panels, round-tables, and streams (two panels on one theme). Panels 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, round-table, 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, round-table, or stream participants must make an individual submission on the registration site.

 All proposals must be submitted on this site.

The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities is an organization of scholars engaged in interdisciplinary, humanistically-oriented legal scholarship. The Association brings together a wide range of people engaged in scholarship on legal history, legal theory and jurisprudence, politics, cultural studies, anthropology, literature, the performing arts, media studies, and legal hermeneutics. We encourage dialogue across and among these fields about issues of interpretation, identity, and values, about authority, obligation, and justice, and about law's role as a constituent part of cultures and communities. If you have any general questions about the conference, please do not hesitate to contact us at law.culture.humanities@gmail.com.

GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOP

The Annual Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Graduate Student Workshop will be held on Friday, March 6, 2020 (the day before the annual meeting begins). Applications are due November 15, 2019.

The workshop is designed for graduate students who are undertaking research that cuts across law, cultural studies, literature, philosophy, legal studies, anthropology, political science, and history, among others. The workshop is designed to afford graduate students the opportunity to experience the LCH community in a smaller venue with more sustained contact with one another and some faculty. The workshop also provides graduate students with an opportunity to discuss their research projects in a small group setting in anticipation of such things as job talks and publication.

 APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

Applications to the workshop should consist of a current curriculum vitae (5-page maximum), an abstract of a current project not exceeding 700 words, as well as a short (5- page maximum) text relating to that project. This “text” could be a case, literary work, a time-line, a photo, a sound or video file, or some other relevant text. The text you choose should be something that helps you reflect on the subject of your work and your methods of analysis. Please use your judgment and best guess in deciding how audio, visual, or audio-visual materials "translate" into pages of text.

Applicants whose proposals are accepted will receive some support towards an extra night's accommodation from ASLCH as well as some support (varying, depending on distance traveled) towards the cost of transportation to the conference site. While those who participated in a previous workshop may re-apply and participate again, should space and/or funds be limited, we will prioritize new participants.

Please email your applications to law.culture.humanities@gmail.com by Friday November 15, 2019 by midnight Eastern Standard Time. Please include the subject line: ASLCH Grad Workshop Application. Please name your file(s) using your lastname first, e.g. “Miller_application” or “Miller_cv”. Please remind us if you applied for or participated in a previous workshop and, if so, which one(s).

Call For Submissions: Julien Mezey Dissertation Award--Deadline December 7, 2018 @Law_Cult_Huma

The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities invites submissions for the Julien Mezey Dissertation Award. This annual prize is awarded to the dissertation that most promises to enrich and advance interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of law, culture and the humanities.

The Association seeks the submission of outstanding work from a wide variety of perspectives, including but not limited to law and cultural studies, legal hermeneutics and rhetoric, law and literature, law and psychoanalysis, law and visual studies, legal history, legal theory and jurisprudence. Scholars completing humanities-oriented dissertations in SJD and related programs, as well as those earning PhDs, are encouraged to submit their work. Applicants eligible for the 2019 award must have defended their dissertations successfully between November 1, 2017 and October 31, 2018.

Nominations for the 2019 award must be received on or before
7 December 2018

Each nominee must submit the following:
1) a letter by the nominee detailing the genesis, goal, and contribution of the dissertation;
2) a letter of support from a faculty member familiar with the work;
3) an abstract, outline, and selected chapter of the dissertation;
4) contact information for the nominee.

All materials and any questions should be sent to: Professor Simon Stern at simon.stern@utoronto.ca

Award finalists will be notified as soon as possible. Finalists must then submit an electronic version of the entire dissertation. The winner will be determined by early January and invited to the ASLCH annual meeting. ASLCH will pay travel and lodging costs.

ASLCH Annual Meeting, Call For Papers, Due October 17, 2018 @Law_Cult_Huma

From Karl Shoemaker:

We are pleased to announce that the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities will be held at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada on March 22-23, 2019. The event is co-sponsored by The Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies, Carleton University and the University of Ottawa. Information regarding the pre-conference Graduate Student Workshop will follow shortly.

We welcome quality proposals on any topic related to law and legal studies. We warmly welcome proposals on all topics, and are particularly interested in proposals addressing the intersections between gender, sexuality, race and law.

All proposals are due Wednesday, October 17, 2018.

Individual proposals should include title and an abstract of no more than 250 words.

We also welcome proposals for panels, roundtables, and streams (two panels on one theme). Panels should include three papers (or, exceptionally, four papers). Specify a title and a chair of 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.  

All proposals must be submitted on this website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-annual-meeting-association-for-the-study-of-law-culture-the-humanities-registration-50307147031

Notifications will be sent by mid-December, 2018.

The fees for participation in the Conference, which include membership to the Association, will be:

·      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 Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities is an organization of scholars engaged in interdisciplinary, humanistically-oriented legal scholarship. The Association brings together a wide range of people engaged in scholarship on legal history, legal theory and jurisprudence, political, law and cultural studies, law and anthropology, 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, and values, about authority, obligation, and justice, and about law's role as a constituent part of cultures and communities. If you have any general questions about the conference, please do not hesitate to contact us law.culture.humanities@gmail.com

Call For Proposals: Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities (ASLCH) @Law_Cult_Huma

From The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities (ASLCH):

We are pleased to announce that the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities will be held at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada on March 22-23, 2019. The event is co-sponsored by The Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies, Carleton University and the University of Ottawa. Information regarding the pre-conference Graduate Student Workshop will follow shortly.We welcome quality proposals on any topic related to law and legal studies. We warmly welcome proposals on all topics, and are particularly interested in proposals addressing the intersections between gender, sexuality, race and law.

All proposals are due Wednesday, October 15, 2018.

Individual proposals should include title and an abstract of no more than 250 words.

We also welcome proposals for panels, roundtables, and streams (two panels on one theme). Panels should include three papers (or, exceptionally, four papers). Specify a title and a chair of 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.  

All proposals must be submitted on this website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-annual-meeting-association-for-the-study-of-law-culture-the-humanities-registration-50307147031Notifications will be sent by mid-December, 2018.

The fees for participation in the Conference, which include membership to the Association, will be:·      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 Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities is an organization of scholars engaged in interdisciplinary, humanistically-oriented legal scholarship. The Association brings together a wide range of people engaged in scholarship on legal history, legal theory and jurisprudence, political, law and cultural studies, law and anthropology, 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, and values, about authority, obligation, and justice, and about law's role as a constituent part of cultures and communities. If you have any general questions about the conference, please do not hesitate to contact us law.culture.humanities@gmail.com

Call For Nominations: Julien Mezey Dissertation Award @Law_Cult_Huma

The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities invites submissions for the Julien Mezey Dissertation Award. This annual prize is awarded to the dissertation that most promises to enrich and advance interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of law, culture and the humanities.
The Association seeks the submission of outstanding work from a wide variety of perspectives, including but not limited to law and cultural studies, legal hermeneutics and rhetoric, law and literature, law and psychoanalysis, law and visual studies, legal history, legal theory and jurisprudence. Scholars completing humanities-oriented dissertations in SJD and related programs, as well as those earning PhDs, are encouraged to submit their work. Applicants eligible for the 2018 award must have defended their dissertations successfully between September 1, 2016 and December 31, 2017.

Nominations for the 2018 award must be received on or before
Febrrary 23, 2018.  Nominations should be sent to kbshoemaker@wisc.edu

Reminder: ASLCH Annual Meeting To Take Place at Georgetown Law Center March 16-17, 2018 @Law_Cult_Huma

Reminder:

The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities is pleased to announce that its Twenty-First Annual Meeting will be held at the Georgetown Law School, in Washington D.C. on March 16-17, 2018.

ASLCH invites your participation. Please note that panel or individual paper proposals are welcome. All proposals are due Wednesday, November 1, 2017.

Individual proposals should include title, contact information and an abstract (no more than 300 words). Panel proposals should include contact information and abstracts for all members, a panel title, and proposal outlining the panel (no more than 300 words).

If multiple panels are forming a stream, please indicate the name of the panel and its order (e.g. law and time I, II etc.) in order to avoid clashes.

All proposals should be sent to LCH2018submissions@gmail.com.

The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities is an organization of scholars engaged in interdisciplinary, humanistically-oriented legal scholarship. The Association brings together a wide range of people engaged in scholarship on legal history, legal theory and jurisprudence, political theory, law and cultural studies, law and anthropology, 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, and values, about authority, obligation, and justice, and about law's role as a constituent part of cultures and communities 

If you have any general questions about the conference, please do not hesitate to ask me at kbshoemaker@wisc.edu.

Special thanks to Hyo Yoon Kang of Kent Law School for serving as chair the program committee. 

Sincerely, Karl Shoemaker Professor of History and Law University of Wisconsin, Madison President, Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities

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ASLCH Graduate Student Workshop To Be Held March 15, 2018 @Law_Cult_Huma

GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOP

The Annual Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Graduate Student Workshop will be held on Thursday, March 15, 2018 (the day before the annual conference begins).

Applications are due November 30, 2017.

The workshop is designed for graduate students who are undertaking research that cuts across the disciplines of law, cultural studies, literature, philosophy, legal studies, anthropology, political science, among others. The workshop is designed to have some fun while, first, affording graduate students the opportunity to experience the LCH community in a smaller venue with more sustained contact with one another and some faculty and, second, providing graduate students with an opportunity to present their own work in anticipation of such things as job talks and publication.

Applications to the workshop should include a current curriculum vitae, a 5-page maximum abstract of a current project, as well as a short (5-page maximum) "text" relating to that project. This "text" could be a case, literary work, time-line, photo, sound or video file, or whatever source-"text" will help the workshop participants reflect on the subject of their work.

Use your judgment and best guesses in deciding how audio, visual, or audio-visual materials "translate" into pages of text. Applicants whose proposals are accepted will receive some support towards an extra night's accommodation by ASLCH as well as some support (varying, depending on distance traveled) towards the cost of transportation to the conference site.

Please send your applications by email to Mark Antaki (mark.antaki@mcgill.ca) by November 30, 2017, with the subject line: ASLCH Grad Workshop Application. For inquiries, please write to Mark.

Georgetown Law Center to Host 2018 ASLCH Annual Meeting @GeorgetownLaw

Just announced:

Georgetown Law Center will host the 2018 annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities (ASLCH). The meeting will be held March 16-17, 2018. Link to the association website here. More information will be available in the coming weeks.

Graduate Student Workshop at ASLCH, March 30, 2017 @Law_Cult_Huma

From the mailbox:

The 20^th annual meeting of the Association for the study of Law, Culture and the Humanities will be held on March 31st and April 1st, 2017 at Stanford University. The Association is pleased to offer a graduate student workshop that will be held on Thursday, March 30st, 2017, the day before the annual meeting begins.

The workshop is designed for graduate students who are undertaking research that cuts across law, cultural studies, literature, philosophy, legal studies, anthropology, political science, among others. The workshop is designed to have some fun while, first, affording graduate students the opportunity to experience the LCH community in a smaller venue with more sustained contact with one another and some faculty and, second, providing graduate students with an opportunity to present their own work in anticipation of such things as job talks and publication.

Applications to the workshop should include a current curriculum vitae, a 5-page maximum abstract of a current project, as well as a short (5-page maximum) “text” relating to that project. This “text” could be a case, literary work, time-line, photo, sound or video file or whatever source-“text” will help the workshop participants reflect on the subject of their work. Use your judgment and best guesses in deciding how audio, visual, or audio-visual materials "translate" into pages of text.

Applicants whose proposals are accepted will receive support towards an extra night’s accommodation by ASLCH as well as support (varying, depending on distance traveled) towards the cost of transportation to the annual meeting site.

Send your applications to both Jill Stauffer (jstauffe@haverford.edu) and Mark Antaki (mark.antaki@mcgill.ca) by November 15th, 2016. For inquiries, please write to Mark.

Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, Call for Papers

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF LAW, CULTURE AND THE HUMANITIES - CALL FOR PAPERS

We are pleased to announce that the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities will be held at Stanford Law School in Palo Alto, California March 31-April 1, 2017. We invite your participation.  Please note, panel and paper proposals are due Friday October 28th, 2016.

The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities is an organization of scholars engaged in interdisciplinary, humanistically-oriented legal scholarship. The Association brings together a wide range of people engaged in scholarship on legal history, legal theory and jurisprudence, law and cultural studies, law and anthropology, 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, and values, about authority, obligation, and justice, and about law's role as a constituent part of cultures and communities.

Examples of sessions we anticipate people will organize include:

History, Memory and Law; Law and Literature; Human Rights and Cultural Pluralism; Speech, Silence, and the Language of Law; Judgment, Justice, and Law; Beyond Identity; The Idea of Practice in Legal Thought; Metaphor and Meaning; Representing Legality in Film and Mass Media; Anarchy, Liberty and Law; What is Excellence in Interpretation?; Ethics, Religion, and Law; Moral Obligation and Legal Life; The Post-Colonial in Literary and Legal Study; Processes and Possibilities in Interdisciplinary Law Teaching.

We urge those interested in attending to consider submitting complete panels, and we hope to encourage a variety of formats - roundtables, sessions at which everyone reads the papers in advance, sessions in which commentators respond to a single paper. We invite proposals for session 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).

Abstracts for proposed papers should be no more than 250 words.

Proposals for panels should include three papers (or, exceptionally, four papers). Panel proposals should specify a title and a chair; the panel chair may also be a panel presenter. Paper presenters may appear more than once in the conference program.

Registration

The registration form is available at this link:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2017-annual-meeting-association-for-the-study-of-law-culture-the-humanities-registration-27920760747

A reminder that the ASLCH uses a two part registration system. First you register your paper or panel and pay a $37.74 membership fee. When/if your paper or panel is accepted, you pay the conference fee. All panelists will be notified about their acceptance as soon as possible.  We hope to see as many of you as possible in 2017 at Stanford!

Hotel Information

Information about hotels and other information specific to the 2017 conference will follow.

QuESTIONS?

If you have any general questions about the conference, please do not hesitate to contact Karl Shoemaker (kbshoemaker [a] wisc.edu). For matters related to the program or its organization, please write to William Rose (wrose [at] albion.edu). 

The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Annual Conference Website Is Now Available

The new website for the Association of Law, Culture, and the Humanities is up. Visit it here.

The 2017 meeting will be held at Stanford School of Law, March 31-April 1, 2017.

Call For Papers, Panel, Annual Conference, Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities

From Hedi Viterbo, Leverhulme Research Fellow SOAS, University of London

Papers are sought for a panel at the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities. The papers will explore parallels, connections, and continuities, across time and space, between different legal and cultural sites (texts and practices) of domination and/or resistance. In line with this year's conference theme, papers addressing law's role in relation to the oppression of racial, indigenous, colonized, and non-citizen groups are particularly welcome. Paper abstracts of up to 300 words should be emailed to Hedi Viterbo - hedi.viterbo@soas.ac.uk - by Tuesday, October 1st, 2015. Questions about the panel can be addressed to the same email.

Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Opens Its Call for Papers

From James Martel:

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

We are pleased to announce that the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities will be held at the University of Connecticut Law School, in Hartford, CT on April 1-2^nd, 2016. We invite your participation.  Please note, panel and paper proposals are due Thursday, October 15^th, 2015

The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities is an organization of scholars engaged in interdisciplinary, humanistically-oriented legal scholarship. The Association brings together a wide range of people engaged in scholarship on legal history, legal theory and jurisprudence, law and cultural studies, law and anthropology, 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, and values, about authority, obligation, and justice, and about law's role as a constituent part of cultures and communities.

If you have any general questions about the conference, please do not hesitate to ask me at jmartel@sfsu.edu. For matters related to the program or its organization, please write to Simon Stern simon.stern@utoronto.ca.  I want to thank the members of the program committee, chaired by Simon Stern for all their hard work on the Call for Papers. 

This year’s conference theme is Reading Race, Writing Race and Living Race

 “Within the text of the law there is an afterlife of slavery … as matters of aesthetic and legal representation … as an aesthetics of legal representation”

–Stephen Best, The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession, 14

The question of race is central to historical and contemporary violence, to material conditions, reproduction and global politics. In the US, recent police violence against African Americans has again raised the ongoing question of the significance of lawful violence, of law’s complicity, in upholding the state. Penal law is implicated in the incarceration of African-Americans in the US, Aboriginal communities in Australia, and Indigenous peoples in Canada, demonstrating a settler-colonial preoccupation for using race and racial profiling to mask and further colonial ends. In the context of securitised responses to migration, the onshore refugee applicant speaks as an already criminalised subject, as ‘an illegal immigrant’ or as an ‘undocumented migrant’. Under the conditions of continuing colonization, statutory schemes such as Australia’s Northern Territory Intervention target Aboriginal populations and make such populations subject to state violence. These examples raise the urgent question of law’s relation to, and production of, violence through race. From transitional justice to human rights processes, race is foregrounded at scenes and struggles in which law seeks to respond to and adjudicate violence, and assert its own authority.

This conference seeks research drawn from multiple disciplines and jurisdictions that addresses the following questions: How might we think of the relations among law, culture, history, and the shaping of racial imaginaries? How is law complicit and productive of violence? How should we read the legal and cultural forms that produce the conditions of this violence? What kinds of legal, critical, and cultural practices can intervene in both this violence, and the conditions that are complicit with it? How might legal, critical, and cultural projects provide counter-narratives and counter-archives to the juridical imaginary of responsibility for historical and contemporary violence? How do historical and contemporary readings of race relate? Are anti-racist forms of law and state possible, and what would they look like? How might law be enlisted in the development of new racial formations? How should we re-think critical legal feminisms, and Marxism, through the category of race? How can we devise legal, critical and cultural forms that are attentive to race, and make visible this legal violence? What is the significance of ‘reading’ race—what is the materiality in the metaphor?

This conference seeks to develop conversations regarding the roles of representation, affect and imagination in the ongoing relationship of law to concepts of race, justice, sovereignty, captivity, history. We seek to examine legal and cultural practices of representation for their juridical, as well as cultural, effects. Questions of genre, narrative, and aesthetics are not only sites of critique, but also become potential sites of theoretical intervention, and intervention into projects of social justice.

In addition to sessions that connect to the conference theme, examples of other types of sessions we expect people to organize include: 

History, Memory and Law; Law and Literature; Human Rights and Cultural Pluralism; Speech, Silence, and the Language of Law; Judgment, Justice, and Law; Beyond Identity; The Idea of Practice in Legal Thought; Metaphor and Meaning; Representing Legality in Film and Mass Media; Anarchy, Liberty and Law; What is Excellence in Interpretation?; Ethics, Religion, and Law; Moral Obligation and Legal Life; The Post-Colonial in Literary and Legal Study; Processes and Possibilities in Interdisciplinary Law Teaching. 

We urge those interested in attending to consider submitting complete panels, and we hope to encourage a variety of formats-roundtables, sessions at which everyone reads the papers in advance, sessions in which commentators respond to a single paper. We invite proposals for session 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).

If you are inclined to register sooner here is the link:

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/annual-meeting-association-for-the-study-of-law-culture-the-humanities-registration-16184614618

As you’ll see, we have a new system for registration. For the first round of registration our membership fee has gone up very slightly to $37.74. For the second round of registration, we will give you a code with which to register sometime around the new year.

We hope to see as many of you as possible in 2016 in Hartford!

Information about hotels and other information specific to the 2016 conference will follow.