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