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 and social codes; religious and ideological norms; scientific and medical expertise; and perceptions of the body, gender, age, social status.
Contact: cfp-emotions@mpib-berlin.mpg.de
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 by European Empires,
including the British Empire from origins to the
present. All aspects of law in history, law in
society, and law in culture carry traces of this in
local expression, as in comparative contexts.
Paper and panel proposals due by December 1, 2014 to dv.williams@auckland.ac.nz
“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
