Feminist Interventions: Reading Social Justice and Human Rights Through Art with Dr. Asma Sayed Centre for Feminist Legal Studies (Rm 104), Allard Law, UBC or on Zoom Friday, October 4 at 12:30pm-1:30pm Read more: https://allard.ubc.ca/about-us/events-calendar/cfls-lecture-series-dr-asma-sayed What do literature and art have in common with human rights and law? Can feminist fictional narratives contribute to social […]

LCH Zoom Session: “The War on the Humanities and Transnational Solidarities” Livestreamed over Zoom Thursday, October 3 at 9am-11am Read more: https://lawculturehumanities.com/event/zoom-session-the-war-on-the-humanities-and-transnational-solidarities/ In 2015, an article in The Guardian highlighted a war being waged against the humanities in the UK, driven by market forces that demand degrees directly linked to job opportunities. According to the article, the […]

2025 Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior Scholars Stanford University on June 9-10, 2025 Application Deadline: December 9, 2024 ABOUT THE WORKSHOP The workshop is open to untenured professors, advanced graduate students, post-doctoralscholars, and independent scholars working in law and the humanities. In addition to drawingfrom numerous humanistic fields, including Black and Indigenous studies, history, […]

 Green College Lecture: “Why Do Actors Train? Theatre, Philosophy, and Neuroscience” Coach House, Green College, UBC (and livestreamed) Tuesday, October 1, 2024 from 5-6:30pm Read more: https://greencollege.ubc.ca/civicrm/event/info%3Fid%3D1776%26reset%3D1 An interview with Brad Krumholz, Executive Artistic Director and Co-Founder, North American Cultural Laboratory; moderated by Julia Ulehla, Music, UBC; hosted by Leora Morris, Theatre and Film, UBCCoach House, Green […]

Law and Geography in Urban Asia Workshop  Law and Geography in Urban Asia Workshop, Asian Research Institute, National University of Singapore (In-Person, Zoom, and Hybrid Options) February 18-19, 2025 APPLICATION DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 30, 2024 Read more: https://ari.nus.edu.sg/events/law-and-geography/ How can Asia be understood by the law? Like innumerable other disciplines, the law has long sought to […]

Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, University of Lucerne Visiting Fellows 2025  Visiting Fellows Programme 2025, Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, University of Lucerne APPLICATION DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 30 Read more: https://www.unilu.ch/en/faculties/faculty-of-law/institutes-academies-research-centres/institute-for-interdisciplinary-legal-studies-lucernaiuris/visiting-fellows/#tab=c108860 Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, University of Lucerne Visiting Fellows 2025  The Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies at the University of Lucerne invites applications for […]

The Witteveen Memorial Fellowship in Law and Humanities 2025 The Witteveen Memorial Fellowship in Law and Humanities 2025 at Tilburg Law School APPLICATION DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 27 Read more: https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/memorial Tilburg Law School (The Netherlands) is accepting applications for this spring’s one-month Witteveen Memorial Fellowship in Law and Humanities. Application deadline: September 27. The Witteveen Memorial Fellowship in Law and Humanities aims to promote research and teaching on […]

Call for Papers: 2024 Conference of the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia “Legal Imaginaries” The University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law, from December 16-18, 2024 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 15, 2024 Read more: https://www.lawlithum.org/conference-2024/ This Conference is an invitation to collectively examine, critique, and, for the more daring, transform the imaginaries that constellate our grasp […]

Introducing the Law Culture Humanities Lunchtime Zoom Series LCH is excited to announce an upcoming and hopefully ongoing series of monthly LCH lunchtime Zoom sessions that will allow our members to present and discuss their interdisciplinary legal research. We invite you to note the dates below and register for the sessions using the links below. We […]

“Rights without Borders? Subjects, Precarity, Agency” University of Osnabrueck, Germany, from July 6-14, 2024 EXTENDED DEADLINE: Applications now due April 15, 2024 Read more: https://www.osi.uni-osnabrueck.de Since 2009, the OSI has successfully encouraged and promoted the interdisciplinary study and research of the interrelations between law and culture, based on the idea that the extended cultural study […]

In his 2011 book The Right to Look, Nicholas Mirzoeff offers a compelling account of visuality as an “old word for an old practice”, whereby “domination imposes the sensible evidence of its legitimacy” (Mirzoeff 2011). As an exertion of authority over ‘looking’, visuality is not just about images and their meanings, or about the circuits of their production, circulation and consumption. It also refers to the intersection of power with representation, and to the rules…

10 & 11 June 2024, University of Lucerne “Suppose that whatever we’ve done, felt, and thought has always happened in the thick of images.” (Anand Pandian, Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation) The ‘visual turn’ has long been turning in critical and cultural studies of law (see Douzinas & Nead 1999). In the past twenty-five […]

Application Deadline February 1st, 2024. Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia (UBC) is proud to invite graduate students from all disciplines to participate in the 25th UBC Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Graduate Conference to be held on May 2-3, 2024, in Vancouver, BC.

Application deadline: January 31, 2024. The Annual Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Graduate Student Workshop will be held on Thursday 16 May 2024. We encourage workshop participants to attend the 26th annual conference themed “Senses of Law” as well (May 17-18).

2024 Twenty-Sixth Annual Law, Culture, and Humanities Conference MAY 17, 2024 – MAY 18, 2024 Call For Papers Every year, the Association holds it annual conference, usually a two-day affair, as well as a graduate student workshop, usually held on the day before the annual conference. You will find submission guidelines for the annual conference as well […]

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  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 – […]

WPSA’s 2024 Annual Meeting – Call For Papers The 2024 annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association will be held at the Hyatt Regency in Vancouver, BC, Canada, from March 28th to March 30th. Proposals for individual papers and complete panels are welcome. The DEADLINE for submission of paper and panel proposals, and to participate […]

Tilburg Law School (Tilburg, The Netherlands) invites applications for the next Witteveen Memorial Fellowship in Law and Humanities The Witteveen Memorial Fellowship in Law and Humanities aims to promote research and teaching in law and rhetoric, narrative, image, performance, sound, and/or culture. The fellowship enables a junior scholar (PhD or postdoc level) to share and develop their research in […]

Announcing: The 16th Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory The 16th Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory will take place between the 20th and 21st of November, 2023. The Forum will be hosted (in-person) at Melbourne Law School.  Introduction  The Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory is an annual interdisciplinary workshop hosted by graduate researchers […]

Join Dr. Charlotte A. Lerg for the latest instalment of the UBC History Colloquium Series, titled “Broad Brush Strokes and Fine Lines: Courtroom Drawing and the Visual History of the 20th Century”. This talk will take place on April 5, 2023 at UBC-Vancouver and on Zoom. Register here: https://publichumanities.ubc.ca/events/event/broad-brush-strokes-and-fine-lines/

The twenty-fifth annual conference of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities will be held on June 22-23, 2023. This year’s theme is “Absence, The Present and the Past”. Proposals are due March 17, 2023. More information here: https://lawculturehumanities.com/event/2023-annual-conference/3/

The 2023 Law, Culture and the Humanities (LCH) Graduate Workshop will be held at the University of Toronto on Wednesday, June 21, 2023. Applications to the workshop are due March 17, 2023. More information here: https://lawculturehumanities.com/event/lch-graduate-student-workshop-2023/

The UBC Legal Theory Speaker Series is pleased to announce a Zoom lecture and discussion with feminist critical legal theorist Margaret Davies on March 3, 2023 from 2:30PM – 4:00PM (Pacific Time). Please join us on Zoom at thislink.

The Reflections on Rwanda (“RoR”) program will provide Canadian students and young professionals with the opportunity to visit the Republic of Rwanda in June 2023. Applications must be submitted by March 15, 2023. Please contact reflectionsonrwanda@gmail.com if you have any questions.

UBC Sound and the Humanities Research Cluster’s presents their Spring thematic series on Indigenous Knowledge, Law & Sound. The first reading group session will discuss Robinson’s article “Reparative Interpellation” and chapter 2 of Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies (2020). More information here: https://sound.arts.ubc.ca/events/

The 8th International Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law (OSI) will be held from July 16 to 24, 2022 at Osnabrück University, Germany. The 2022 OSI will focus on key issues and debates in current cultural legal studies which touch on questions of ownership, property, and appropriation, etc. More information: https://www.osi.uni-osnabrueck.de

Call for abstracts (max 300 words) for the Justice as Translation and Counter-storytelling workshop in Coimbra, Portugal on May 26-28, 2022. Deadline for proposals: Friday, April 18, 2022

The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities is welcoming humanities-oriented proposals on topics related to the theme of unsettling the law. Deadline for proposals (Extended): March 11, 2022

Organized by the Law and the Human Network at Kent Law School on April 6-8, 2022, this hybrid conference will be held both in person at the University of Kent (Canterbury)’s Darwin Conference Suite, and online.

A Genealogy of Indigenous Law: A Writer’s Journey For over 30 years, Professor Borrows has written about the revitalization of Indigenous peoples’ laws, and their relationship to other Canadian Laws. In this talk, Professor Borrows will discuss the arc of his writing over this period, through graduate work, sole-authored manuscripts, and edited books. In the […]

In May 2021, the newly founded Canadian Network of Law and Humanities hosted a virtual workshop on “Law and Humanities as Theory, Pedagogy and Method”. The workshop featured a guest lecture by Val Napoleon and Rebecca Johnson.