Call For Papers: 2023 Law, Literature, and Humanities Conference @lawlithum

From Professor Timothy Peters, University of the Sunshine Coast, the CFP for the 2023 LLHAA Conference:

It is our delight to share the call for papers for the 2023 Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia Conference – “Deus Ex Machina: Law – Technology - Humanities”. This is going to be an excellent event and a wonderful opportunity to gather together as scholars across law and humanities.

 

The conference runs from 11-14^th December, hosted by Professor Kieran Tranter and the Human Technology Law Centre, QUT Law School (Brisbane, Australia) and will include a PhD/Research Student workshop on the 11th.

 

The conference team are organising a brilliant line-up, which includes:

• Keynote from Associate Professor Mitchell Travis, Director for the Centre for Law and Social Justice at the University of Leeds who will speak on “Dystopia Now”.
• Special Screening and discussion of Luis Gómez Romero and Desmond Manderson’s play “Twenty Minutes with the Devil”.

 

And more keynotes and plenaries will be announced soon!

 

Please see attached the call for papers flyer and further information is available at the conference website:

https://research.qut.edu.au/htlc/deus-ex-machina-law-technology-humanities/

 

CFP closes 4^th September – and you can submit either a general paper to the conference or to one of the numerous streams.

 

Please circulate amongst your networks and we look forward to seeing you in December!

 

 

Law, Literature, and Humanities Association of Australia Awards 2017 Penny Pether Prize to Marco Wan For "Masculinity and the Trials of Modern Fiction" (Routledge, 2017) @routledgebooks

The Law, Literature, and Humanities Association of Australia has awarded the 2017 Penny Pether Prize to Marco Wan's Masculinity and the Trials of Modern Fiction (Routledge, 2016). Here's a description of the book's contents from the publisher's website.

How do lawyers, judges and jurors read novels? And what is at stake when literature and law confront each other in the courtroom? Nineteenth-century England and France are remembered for their active legal prosecution of literature, and this book examines the ways in which five novels were interpreted in the courtroom: Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Paul Bonnetain’s Charlot s’amuse, Henry Vizetelly’s English translation of Émile Zola’s La Terre, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness. It argues that each of these novels attracted legal censure because they presented figures of sexual dissidence – the androgyne, the onanist or masturbator, the patricide, the homosexual and the lesbian – that called into question an increasingly fragile normative, middleclass masculinity. Offering close readings of the novels themselves, and of legal material from the proceedings, such as the trial transcripts and judicial opinions, the book addresses both the doctrinal dimensions of Victorian obscenity and censorship, as well as the reading practices at work in the courtroom. It situates the cases in their historical context, and highlights how each trial constitutes a scene of reading – an encounter between literature and the law – through which different forms of masculinity were shaped, bolstered or challenged.

Each year the Association awards the prize "to the author or authors whose book, in the judgment of the Committee, made the most significant contribution to the field of law, literature and humanities in Australasia."

 

Updated CFP: Conference of the Law, Literature, and Humanities Association of Australasia, 2017

Call for Papers: Dissents and Dispositions, Conference of the Law, Literature, and Humanities Association of Australasia Updated CFP