Newly Published: James Boyd White, Let In the Light: Learning to Read St. Augustine's Confessions (Columbia University Press, 2022) @ColumbiaUP

 Newly published:

James Boyd White, Let In the Light: Learning to Read St. Augustine's Confessions (Columbia University Press, 2022).

Here from the publisher's website is a description of the book's contents.

St. Augustine’s Confessions is heralded as a classic of Western culture. Yet when James Boyd White first tried to read it in translation, it seemed utterly dull. Its ideas struck him as platitudinous and its prose felt drab. It was only when he started to read the text in Latin that he began to see the originality and depth of Augustine’s work.

In Let in the Light, White invites readers to join him in a close and engaged encounter with the Confessions in which they will come to share his experience of the book’s power and profundity by reading at least some of it in Augustine’s own language. He offers an accessible guide to reading the text in Latin, line by line—even for those who have never studied the language.

Equally attuned to the resonances of individual words and the deeper currents of Augustine’s culture, Let in the Light considers how the form and nuances of the Latin text allow greater insight into the work and its author. White shows how to read Augustine’s prose with care and imagination, rewarding sustained attention and broader reflection.

Let in the Light brings new life to a classic work, guiding readers to experience the immediacy, urgency, and vitality of Augustine’s Confessions.

For One Day Only: Law, Space, Matter, September 9-10, 2021: A 24 Hour-Virtual Workshop For a Non-Traveling Global Audience

 

FOR ONE DAY ONLY

Law, Space, Matter

9-10 September 2021

 

A 24-hour virtual workshop for a non-travelling global audience.

 

Organised by:

• Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies - lucernaiuris, University of Lucerne
• Centre for Law, Arts and the Humanities, The Australian National University
• Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures, University of Virginia
• Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Witwatersrand
• Faculty of Law, University of Roma Tre
• Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki
• Institute for International Law and the Humanities, University of Melbourne

 

 

Overview

 

Recent years have witnessed a new wave of critical approaches to (re-)thinking the entanglements of law, space and matter. From David Delaney’s ‘nomosphere’ and Peter Sloterdijk’s ‘nomotop’ to Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos’s ‘lawscapes’ and Daniela Gandorfer’s ‘matterphorics’ – scholars working in diverse theoretical traditions have rejuvenated discussions on the substance and materiality of law, and opened new perspectives on the reciprocal materialisation of the legal and the socio-spatial.

 

Matter matters – all the more in our present age of crises and challenges, which press us towards a renewed critical reckoning with the relation(s) between law, place and space, between spatiolegal representations, discourses, and materialities. In this context, we turn again to “the complex, shifting, and always interpretable blendings of words and worlds” (Delaney) in which law is embedded and unfolds.

 

For One Day Only brings together a global community of thinkers, scholars and artists for 24 hours of conversations on the moment we are living through and the future we want. Hosted by an international consortium of research centres spanning four continents, the workshop sessions will roll around the world from Canberra and Johannesburg, through Rome, Helsinki and Lucerne, to Virginia and Melbourne. Together, we will showcase cutting-edge work that captures the stakes of critical, theoretical and socio-legal enquiry into the spatialisation of law and the legalisation of space, and which poses fresh challenges for thinking about law’s depth and character, its politics and social resonances.

 

 

Programme

 

* All times listed below are in Central European Summer Time. Local times are given in brackets, where these differ. *

 

Thursday 9 September, 04.00-06.00 (12.00-14.00 Eastern Australian Time)

Market/Place: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Hosted by the Centre for Law, Arts and the Humanities, The Australian National University

Speakers: Margaret Davies, Jessica Whyte, Chris Griffiths, Desmond Manderson

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Thursday 9 September, 07.30-08.30 (08.30-09.30 East European Summer Time)

Law, Politics and Emptiness

Hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki                                                                                                                                             

Speakers: Panu Minkkinen, Dorota Gozdecka

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Thursday 9 September, 09.30-11.00

Algorithms and the End(s) of Law

Hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of Roma Tre

Speakers: Emanuele Conte, Giancarlo De Cataldo, Fiona Macmillan, Teresa Numerico

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Thursday 9 September, 12.00-14.00

In the Eyes of the Law

Hosted by the Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies - lucernaiuris, University of Lucerne

Speakers: Carey Young, Desmond Manderson, Steven Howe

Register here

 

Thursday 9 September, 16.00-18.00 (10.00-12.00 US Eastern Time)

Immunity and Quarantine: The Biopolitics of Space-Making in Pandemics

Hosted by the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures, University of Virginia & Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Witwatersrand

Speakers: Sarah Nuttall, Ranjana Khanna, Debjani Ganguly

Register here

 

Friday 10 September, 01.00-02.30 (09.00-10.30 Eastern Australian Time)

In and Out of Place

Hosted by the Institute for International Law and the Humanities, University of Melbourne

Speakers: Shaun McVeigh, Jo Commins, Alex Dela Cruz, Caitlin Murphy, Danish Sheikh, Valeria Vazquez Guevara

Register here

 

Full programme details available here. For enquiries, please contact Steven Howe (steven.howe@unilu.ch).