Book Symposium: Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction and Fantasy @clsgcQM @ArsScripta

 Book Symposium: Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction and Fantasy

About this event

The Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context, The Criminal Justice Centre and The Centre for the History of Emotions are delighted to be co-hosting an interdisciplinary book symposium on Prof. Dr. Monika Fludernik’s Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction and Fantasy. The symposium is organised by Professor Maks Del Mar (QMUL). 

Chair: Professor Maks Del Mar (QMUL)

Speakers:

Prof. Dr. Monika Fludernik (University of Freiburg) 

Professor Lindsay Farmer (University of Glasgow) 

Professor Alan Norrie (University of Warwick) 

Dr Hanneke Stuit (University of Amsterdam) 

Professor Anne Schwan (Edinburgh Napier University) 

4pm: Intro to Speakers – chair: Maks Del Mar, 5min

4.05pm: Intro Book – by author: Monika Fludernik, 10min

4.15pm: Commentator 1, 10min

4.25pm: Commentator 2, 10min

4.35pm: Response / Brief Discussion with commentators, 10min

4.45pm: 5min Break

4.50pm: Commentator 3, 10min

5pm: Commentator 4, 10min

5.10pm: Response / Brief Discussion with commentators, 10min

5.20pm: General Questions – moderated by Maks Del Mar, 10min

**Please note this event will be taking place online and joining instructions will be sent to all registrants on the day

H/T @ArsScripta

Nevada Law Journal Symposium, September 26-28, 2019: Classical Rhetoric as a Lens for Contemporary Legal Praxis

Nevada Law Journal Symposium, September 26-28, 2019, Las Vegas, Nevada:

Classical Rhetoric as a Lens for Contemporary Legal Praxis

Details to come. See the event website here.

The Cumberland Law Review's Harper Lee Symposium @CumberlandLaw

The Cumberland Law Review devotes a set of symposium issues to Harper Lee. Read the first issue here.

The Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas Hosts a Conference On the Art and Politics of Irony

The Art and Politics of Irony  |  L’art et la politique de l’ironie

12-14 April 2012 ~ Montréal, QC

An interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas, McGill University, in collaboration with Improvisation, Community and Social Practice (SSHRC-MCRI) and the Département d’études anglaises, Université de Montréal

Call for papers (http://www.mcgill.ca/iplai/conferences/)

“The ironist does not have the new within his power . . . he destroys the given actuality by the given actuality itself.” Søren Kierkegaard

Irony makes the world new by putting the world that exists in question. Its strength lies in its destabilizing power—it is the politics of art, the art of politics, and the language of dissent. By enabling critical representations of the world as it is known, but from within and against the familiarity of our own expectations, irony gives art and discourse special kinds of access to the public sphere, especially by mining beneath the given, the actual, and the known.

In politics, philosophy, art and literature, across post-modernism, post-colonialism, and globalization, the question of irony is of expanding relevance to a range of fields of cultural formation and inquiry. Yet it remains insufficiently noticed, understood, or theorized; ironically powerful and silent at once.  What is the meaning of irony? What does it accomplish and exactly how and with what effects?  Is irony impoverished or indispensable, disenchanted or enchanting, world-breaking or world-making?

Conference organizers invite proposals for papers addressing the public and public-making function of irony across time and through a range of contexts and media. Disciplines may include but are not limited to:

Architecture and Design

Art History

Classics

Film

Fine Arts

Gender and Sexuality

History

Law

Literature

Media and Communications

Musicology and Music Performance

Philosophy

Politics

Theatre and Performance

Proposals for complete panels as well as for individual papers in English or French are welcome. Researchers are invited to submit paper abstracts of 250 words and brief (2 page) cvs to: irony@mcgill.ca. Deadline for submissions: 30 September 2011

Visualizing Law

Congratulations to Professor Richard K. Sherwin, whose newest publication, Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque: Arabesques and Entanglements (Routledge), forms part of the basis of what promises to be a spectacular international conference, Visualizing Law In the Digital Age, at Cardozo Law School, October 19, 2011, and is co-sponsored by Cardozo and New York Law School. In addition to Professor Sherwin, other speakers include Professor Amy Adler (NYU Law School), Professor Christian Biet (Universite de Paris X), Professor Christian Delange (Universite de Paris VII), Professor James Elkins (School of Art Institute, University of Chicago), Professor Peter Goodrich (Cardozo Law School), Professor Desmond Manderson (McGill University), Professor W. J. T. Mitchell (University of Chicago), Professor Francis "Jay" Mootz (University of Nevada Las Vegas Law School), Professor Renata Salecl (London School of Economics, Visiting Professor, Cardozo Law School), Professor Austin Sarat (Amherst College), and Professor Alison  Young (University of Melbourne). More here and and here (a guest post from Professor Sherwin at the Hannah Arendt blog). NB: the webaddress given in the Routledge ad (www.nyls.edu/visualizinglaw either is not correct or does not seem to be working right now and I could not find another address for the symposium).

Reasoning From Literature

Jessica M. Silbey, Suffolk University Law School, has published Introduction to Symposium: Reasoning from Literature, at 22 Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 339 (2010). Here is the abstract.

The “literary turn” in legal studies manifests in many ways in our legal discipline and practice. Be it with the birth of the study of law and literature in the 1980s, the growing attention to narrative theory and storytelling in the law in the 1990s, or the “cultural turn” in legal studies in the 21st century (as some scholars have called the cultural analysis of law), reasoning from literature seems commonplace. And yet it is still marginalized in legal studies as interdisciplinary, not “really law,” and lacking the core persuasive power that legal argumentation and doctrinal analysis do. This Symposium was put together to wrestle with what it means to “reason from literature” and to contest the boundaries between legal reasoning and literary logic. Jessica Silbey was the Symposium organizer and wrote the introduction to the volume, entitled “Reasoning from Literature.” Other contributors to the volume include Peter Brooks, Laura Heymann, Bernadette Meyler Carol Rose and Kenji Yoshino.

Download the article from SSRN at the link.

Law and Literary Studies Colloquium, Hong Kong University

Announcement of a Law and Literary Studies Colloquium, June 23-25, at Hong Kong University. Here's a link to the website.

Symposium On Copyright In Culture

The University of Maryland is hosting UMUC’s Center for Intellectual Property to Host 2010 Symposium on Sustaining Culture in Copyright

WHAT: University of Maryland University College’s (UMUC) Center for Intellectual Property (CIP) will host a three-day workshop, June 22–24, 2010, entitled, “Sustaining Culture in Copyright.” With an influx of new videos, music and textual works, the 2010 symposium will explore better ways to balance the needs of cultural innovation with the rights of owners of creative works.

Peter Jaszi, professor of law, Washington College of Law, American University; and William Patry, senior copyright counsel, Google, Inc., will serve as keynote speakers. Other panel discussions will cover a variety of topics related to copyright, including social media, P2P filesharing, broadband and net neutrality.

For a full list of sessions, topics and speakers, visit www.umuc.edu/cip2010

UMUC’s CIP provides education, research and resources for the higher education community on copyright, academic integrity, and the emerging digital environment.

WHEN: Tuesday, June 22–Thursday, June 24, 2010

WHERE: Walter E. Washington Convention Center
801 Mount Vernon Place, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001

REGISTRATION: To register, visit www.umuc.edu/cip2010 or call 240-684-2803

COST:
Symposium Registration: (Early Rate) $240 (Member) / $300 (Non-member)
Daily Rate: $200 (Member) / $250 (Non-member)
Pre-Symposium Seminars:
(Choice of one, June 22) $100 (Member) / $135 (Non-member)
About University of Maryland University College
University of Maryland University College, headquartered in Adelphi, Maryland, is the largest public university in the United States, serving 90,000 students and offering 130 undergraduate and graduate programs online and on-site. In addition, UMUC is one of the largest public providers of online higher education in the nation. UMUC boasts a 60-year history of service to the military and currently enrolls an estimated 50,000 military service members, veterans, and their family members each year. The university offers face-to-face instruction at 21 locations throughout Maryland and educational services in 27 countries and more than 150 locations worldwide, including the Middle East. UMUC is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and is a constituent institution of the University System of Maryland, an agency of the State of Maryland.

Law and the Humanities Institute Presents a Symposium

Law & Humanities Institute, the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Program in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies, and the
Louise and Arde Bulova Fund

present

The Risks of Interpretive Flexibility When Basic Traditions Are
Challenged by an “Emergency”

August 11, 2010
at
Prospect House
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey 08544

Registration 8:30am to 9:00am Program 9:00am to 5:30pm

Panelists:


Richard Weisberg
Event Co-Chair,
President, Law & Humanities Institute,
Walter Floersheimer Professor of Constitutional Law and Founding Director, Program for Holocaust and Human Rights Studies, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Elaine Scarry
Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Values, Harvard University

Marci Hamilton
Paul R. Verkuil Chair in Public Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Peter Brooks
Event Co-Chair,
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholar,
Professor in Comparative Literature and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University



Sanford Levinson
Charles Tilford McCormick Professor Law, University of Texas
Author of Torture the Debate






This program examines why professional communities have yielded their finest traditions to a perceived sense of “emergency.” The results are often disastrous, as in the case of the French legal community during World War II, and perhaps with the equivocal redefinition and application of “torture” in our own country. This program brings the methods, sources, and readings of the Humanities to a focused inquiry into the reasons lawyers, theologians, and many other professional communities have so often lost their way. A panel and public discussion will delve into the inquiry of professional communities in an “emergency.” CLE credit will be available. Please RSVP to stephanie.spangler@gmail.com with intention of attendance and CLE option.

This program was made possible by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.

Symposium In Honor of J. Allen Smith at Rutgers School of Law (Newark)

From Jessica Silbey:

The Law & Humanities Institute is pleased to sponsor a symposium celebrating the memory of J. Allen Smith, outstanding property professor and Law and Humanities visionary who created the Institute over 30 years ago. The event, hosted by Rutgers School of Law – Newark in conjunction with its 100th birthday celebration, will begin with a welcome dinner and reception on Thursday, April 23rd and run through Saturday, April 25th. Panels will begin Friday and Saturday at 9:30 am and conclude at 4:30 pm each day. LHI has invited many of its officers past and present, as well as a host of distinguished scholars, to discuss the past, present and future of its interdisciplinary projects. Richard Weisberg, LHI's founding and current president, will be the keynoter at the dinner reception Friday evening, and scholars Peter Brooks, Martha Grace Duncan, David Haber, Judith Koffler, Anna Krakus, Saul Mendlovitz, William Page, Julie Stone Peters, Theresa Phelps, Justin Richland, Mark Sanders, Eric Craig Sapp, Daniel Tritter, Cristina Vatulescu, and Jay Watson will speak at the event.

The event is free and open to the public, although the dinners on Friday and Saturday require an RSVP and payment. Additionally, on Friday and Saturday, catered lunches will also be available at a reasonable cost for attendees.

Finally, Rutgers has secured a special rate at the Robert Treat Hotel in Newark for attendees who wish to book lodgings to attend the event.

Information including registration and lodging information is available through Mr. Randle DeFalco at randman@pegasus.rutgers.edu

Here's a link to more information.