Kent Law School’s Regulating Time network has issued a call for papers for its final international conference to be held in September 2016 and entitled ‘The New Legal Temporalities? Disicpline and Resistance across Domains of Time’.
The Regulating Time research network, funded by the UK’s Arts & Humanities Research Council, investigates how law and regulation are shaped by dominant understandings of time. The conference will be held at the University of Kent’s Canterbury campus on 8 – 10 September 2016.
Network co-ordinator and Reader in Law at Kent Law School, Dr Emily Grabham (pictured above), said: ‘We have a fantastic line-up of plenary speakers: Carol Greenhouse (anthropology, Princeton), Michelle Bastian (philosophy, Edinburgh), Sarah Keenan (law, Birkbeck), Dipika Jain (law, Jindhal), and Justin Richland (anthropology, Chicago). We’re also delighted to have a writer in residence: Annabel Lyon, whose prize-winning novels The Golden Mean and The Sweet Girl trace the lives of Aristotle and his daughter Pythias.’
Conference streams include:
- Radical Temporality: Law, Order and Resistance
- Technologies and Time: Forms of Governance
- Gendered Bodies and the Corporeality of Time
- Temporalities, Law and Security
- Temporalities of Labour: Time, Technology, History and Politics
- The Right to One’s Own Time: Law in the Making
Conference papers, presentations, or art-based engagements focusing on the relationship between law, governance and time are invited from legal scholars as well as scholars working in disciplines other than law and governance. The deadline for stream and panel proposals is 15 February 2016 and the deadline for individual abstracts is 29 February 2016. More information is available on the Regulating Time blog.
On 20 January 2016, the network is hosting a ‘Time, Regulation and Technoscience’ workshop at the University of York where fellow network co-ordinator Dr Sian Benyon –Jones is a lecturer at the Department of Sociology. Questions the workshop will explore include:
- In what ways do the temporalities of regulation and technoscience converge and diverge?
- What are the implications of these processes for lived experiences of law and regulation?
- and what methodological challenges are involved in exploring the temporalities of regulation and technoscience?
Attendance is free but places are limited. Registrations can be made online via the Law and Time website. Further information is available via sian.benyon-jones@york.ac.uk
The two-year Regulating Time research network was officially launched at a two-day international workshop in April 2015. The workshop, entitled ‘Diagnosing Legal Temporalities’ offered participants an opportunity to explore emerging themes in law, regulation, time and temporality.
Amongst issues speakers addressed were: whether an analysis of time and temporalities could add to critical and feminist research on law and regulation; the specific or distinct nature of legal approaches to time, where law emerged and how it was shaped by, or productive of, temporalities; and what theories or perspectives on time provided useful vantage points from which to analyse and account for law and time.