Monthly Archives: November 2014

    “that beneath the ideal object of judgment is the slow moving history of images that collude and support the long cycles of the symbolic”    Yifat Hachamovitch, “In Emulation of the Clouds: An Essay on the Obscure Object of … Continue reading →

The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities- Annual Conference March 6-7, 2015 Georgetown University Law Centre This year, the Association will not have a specific conference theme in order to encourage the broadest range of participation … Continue reading →

The annual conference of the Kent Critical Law Society is devoted to the following theme: “Law and the Body” University of Kent, 28 February-1 March, 2015 Papers, streams are welcome More info: Kim Larsen- kl276@kent.ac.uk  

The Era-Net HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) brings together 21 research funding organisations in Europe. The joint research programme (JRP) “Uses of the Past” focuses on pressing social questions regarding identity, integration, political legitimacy and cultural dynamics. More … Continue reading →

We seek a broad representation of international scholars as well as scholars from across the disciplines. Papers may concern trademark, patent, copyright, or related rights, including confidentiality and trade secrecy, and they may be historical or address current issues from a theoretically-​informed … Continue reading →

This two-day conference seeks to historicize the relationship between law and emotions, focusing on the period from the sixteenth century to the present. It aims to ask how legal definitions, categorizations and judgments were influenced by, and themselves influenced, moral … Continue reading →

Comparative Commonwealth and British Empire Legal Histories from July 2-4, 2015 Traditions, Borrowings, Innovations, & Impositions: Law in the PostColony and in Empire.     Patterns of disruption and also networks of innovation, resistance, tradition, and imposition connect places touched … Continue reading →

    “He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.” Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, 1900   … Continue reading →