A call for papers for a symposium on ‘Afterlives of the Universal: Rethinking Law’s Human’, hosted by Kent Law School’s Law and the Human Network, closes on Wednesday 15 January.
The Law and the Human Network, supported by a £45,000 grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, is led by Dr Connal Parsley (Principal Investigator) and Professor Maria Drakopoulou in partnership with Amherst College in the US. Its aim is to gather, support and advance interdisciplinary research that raises questions, provokes reflection and generates new knowledge on the figure of the human and its relationship to law.
The two-day symposium will be held at Amherst College in Massachusetts on 5/6 March. It will interrogate the notions of universal humanity that have been central to modern legal doctrine, practice, and claims to legitimacy. With a focus on racial inequality, and biopolitical, political theological and decolonial perspectives, this two-day event will consider the contemporary situation of legal universalist conceptions of the human and the practical and theoretical challenges those conceptions face today.
Confirmed participants include: Dr Brenna Bhandar (SOAS, UK), Associate Professor Davide Tarizzo (Salerno, Italy) and Professor Patricia Williams (Columbia Law, USA)
Further details are available online or via LawandtheHuman@kent.ac.uk