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

Law and Literature Conference 2017: Visualising Justice

John Jay College of Criminal Justice is pleased to announce its Fifth Biennial Literature and Law Conference.  The conference, themed “Visualizing Justice,” will be held in New York City from October 27 – 28, 2017. This conference aims to promote interdisciplinary and critical understanding while providing a venue for intellectual exchange. The keynote speaker will…

Reckoning: in place, in person, in practice (Melbourne, 23-24 Nov)

The ninth Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory This year the forum is particularly concerned with questions of method: How do we reckon with law? Reckoning holds this tension – how can we meet our scholarly responsibilities in the present and live the outcomes as our institutional lives? In actuarial disciplines, reckoning is about calculating…

Divided Authorities and Dispossessed Peoples (ANU, 20-22 July)

Keynotes Louise Amoore (Durham, UK) Chiara Bottici (New School, NYC) Davide Panagia (UCLA) Dimitris Vardoulakis (Western Sydney University) Convenors Fiona Jenkins (Philosophy) Desmond Manderson (CASS/Law) Forms of authority inhabit aesthetic events and practices, and equally suffuse political and social discourse. The intersection of these modalities is attracting unprecedented attention amongst contemporary political and critical theorists.…