Legal Imaginaries — a Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia Conference
16-18 December 2024 (Conference) | 15 December (PhD Day)
The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law | 香港大學法律學院
REGISTRATION CLOSES 15 NOVEMBER
This Conference is an invitation to collectively examine, critique, and, for the more daring, transform the imaginaries that constellate our grasp of reality and sustain the authority of law – from the racialised and gendered representations that give form and force to the colonial and patriarchal imaginaries of both North and South; to the configurations of sovereignty that are held together by the sociotechnical and technoscientific imaginaries of the Anthropocene; to the confined and confining figures of justice that populate the modern imaginaries of the state…
If the ‘imaginary’ is not so much a social context, which risks reification, nor an historical curiosity, which risks uncritical periodisation, then we might think of it as a fluid. We are immersed in it; it saturates everything; it is in the air that we breathe; but more like water to whales than quicksand to humans: inescapable, perhaps, yet nonetheless enabling of individual as well as collective forms of expression. As with any body of water, there are currents and eddies, particular ways of imagining that coalesce and recycle, for a moment, for a decade, for hundreds of years – but always with the potential for new ways of imagining to flow through.
Which is why, for every vortex(t) of ideas, tropes, desires and fears, which sucks us in and hold us down, there must be counter-currents – streams – to help move us in new directions. For the list of Streams, follow the link below. These provide the Conference sub-themes, helping to put papers in conversation with each other while creating ongoing conversations across sessions.
This is an in-person conference. Unfortunately we are unable to host online sessions.
Registration
Registration is now open for participants who have had their proposal accepted (we are no longer accepting new proposals). For further details, including fee structure, please follow this link to the registration form.
Registration closes 15 November.
Keynotes
Keynotes by Dr Daniela Gandorfer, Prof Peter Goodrich, and Dr Kojo Koram.
For further information follow the link to the Keynotes page.
Accommodation
Three hotels within walking distance of the venue are offering discounted rates for conference participants: Hotel Jen, One-Eight-One, and Courtyard by Marriott (details below).
There are many other options on HK Island and in Kowloon, including budget options in Kowloon. Most places are very well connected by an excellent public transport system (buses and the MTR subway).
The venue is on the blue Island Line of the MTR system, station HKU, exit C1.
Hotel Jen, 508 Queen’s Rd West, HK Island
- Superior Room: HKD 1023
- Deluxe Harbour View Room: HKD 1188
- Breakfast: additional HKD 220 per person daily
- Booking link – book by 15 November
- For enquiries, contact Nicole Chik at nicole.chik@shangri-la.com
One-Eight-One, 181 Connaught Road West, HK Island
- Urban Room: HKD 1342
- Harbour Room: HKD 1672
- Breakfast: additional HKD 110 per person daily
- Reservation form – email to Fanny Chan at fannychan@one-eight-one.com
- Deadline 15 November
Courtyard by Marriott Hong Kong, 167 Connaught Road West, HK Island)
- Deluxe City View Room: HKD 1243
- Deluxe Harbour View Room: HKD 1408
- Breakfast: additional HKD 132 per person daily
- Booking link – book by 15 November
- For enquiries, contact Shirley Ho at shirley.ho@courtyard.com