Conferences and events relevant to law, literature and the humanities.

The Agency of the Artist-scholar [Critical Legal Conference Stream CFP]

Critical Legal Conference 2021 – University of Dundee – 2-4 September 2021 The Agency of the Artist-scholar We invite presentations that explore the figure of the artist-scholar. The agency of the artist-scholar is almost always post-contemporary. It engages with arts and literature (sensorial and textual knowledge) across time-senses. When it does break through the norms…

Surveillance

Surveillance and Humanities Virtual Conference Series

Please access and register for the presentations by clicking here Surveillance is central to the functioning of 21st century capitalism and modern social welfare. It has often been displayed as necessarily intrusive and threatening. The present initiative builds on the suggestions that an articulate discussion about humanities could be fruitful in producing a more complex picture and…

Manus Recording Project Collective: where are you today

where are you today is a new work by Manus Recording Project Collective, continuing the collective’s practice of documenting, sharing and circulating audio recordings from inside Australia’s on- and off-shore detention centres for refugees and asylum seekers. where are you today will comprise a new set of ten-minute audio recordings, produced and delivered via text message over…

21st Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law (IRLS) and 15th Conference on Legal Translation and Interpreting and Comparative Legilinguistics (Legal Linguistics)

21st Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law (IRLS) and 15th Conference on Legal Translation and Interpreting and Comparative Legilinguistics (Legal Linguistics)  The Institute of Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Modern Languages and Literature at Adam Mickiewicz University together with Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law, will hold an international conference devoted to language and the law. The…

The Politics of Art

Paul Barclay (ABC RN Big Ideas) in conversation with Prof Desmond Manderson (Australian National University), Prof Hilary Charlesworth (University of Melbourne), and Dr Julie Gough (Artist, Writer, Curator)Friday 20 September 2019 – 5:30 to 7:00 pmMelbourne Law School, Room 920 Melbourne Law School’s Institute for International Law and the Humanities and ABC Radio National’s Big…

Visions Not So Splendid: Art, Law, Justice

The ANU Centre for Law, Art and the Humanities presents Visions Not So Splendid: Art, Law, Justice on Thursday 22 August, 12:00-4:30PM at the Sir Ronald Wilson Building Lecture Theatre, Australian National University. The event features a number of presentations from domestic and international academics working at the intersections of art, law and justice. This…

CFP: 2019 LLHAA Conference – JurisApocalypse Now! Law in End Times

Southern Cross University School of Law and Justice, in partnership with the Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of Australasia (LLHAA), is proud to convene and organise the 2019 LLHAA conference titled JurisApocalypse Now! Law in End Times, which will be held at Southern Cross University Gold Coast Campus on 2-4 December 2019. The conference will explore the intersection…