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The Cat, the Pig, and the Wolf: Blurring the Lines between Domestic, Farm, and Wild Animals
I’m Métis and, despite growing up in the very urban North Delta, I have always been connected with my culture thanks to my family. I have painted Indigenous art for years in my own style which I call a fusion between modern and Indigenous art. I believe that art can express themes that words can’t grasp. And yet to the best of my ability, in this blog entry I’m trying to describe my painting in…
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Musings on the PhD-thesis-to-book-draft rewriting process
Piles of French Novels Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), Paris, October-November 1887 oil on canvas, 54.4 cm x 73.6 cm): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation) Musings on the PhD-thesis-to-book-draft rewriting process By Ryan Beaton Ryan is a lawyer working at Juristes Power Law. He completed his postdoctoral research at Peter Allard School of […]
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Reflections on the Law & Humanities Writing Workshop
Photo by Patrick Robert Doyle on Unsplash On March 17-18, 2023, CNLH hosted the inaugural Law & Humanities Writing Workshop at UBC. We hosted 16 graduate students over two days workshop whose projects, themes, methodology, or approaches are at the intersection of law and the humanities. Students had the opportunity to have their work in progress reviewed by […]
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CNLH Graduate Student Workshop
The CNLH invites applications for Writing Graduate Workshop in March 2023. This two-day graduate workshop is open to doctoral students at Canadian universities whose projects, themes, methodology, or approaches are at the intersection of law and the humanities.
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Call for Papers: 2024 Conference of the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia
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 […]
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Life and Law in a Land Where the Music has Stopped
To begin by way of analogy, listening to John Borrows lecture is like joining a feast after one has just eaten. You think you’re secure in a satiated state, but then he offers you more; the lawyer as the new Indian agent, pedagogy as learning to walk, law as a verb (and NOT as a noun).
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Documentary Film and Law
On March 14th the Canadian Network of Law and Humanities (CNLH) presented: “Documentary Film and the Law”, a Talk by Professor Ruth Buchanan. This talk will introduce the study of documentary film as a site for critically engaging with the expanding landscape of visual media in public culture, courtrooms and other legal advocacy settings. Studying […]
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Introducing the Law Culture Humanities Lunchtime Zoom Series
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 […]
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A Conversation with Naomi Klein and Margot Young: “Doppelgänger”
Professor Margot Young interviews Naomi Klein about her new book Doppelgänger. Used with permission of the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies. Read more here: https://naomiklein.org/doppelganger/ This richly nuanced intellectual adventure story begins with Naomi grappling with her own doppelganger, a public intellectual whose views are antithetical to Klein’s own, but whose name and public persona […]
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Law and Film: Star Wars Screening
On March 4, 2024,the Allard Law Film Society, and the Canadian Network of Law & Humanities came together to co-host a special showing of the timeless classic: “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.” Embark on a journey to a galaxy far, far away, where we explore how the law can be understood better through the […]
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July 6-14, 2024, International Osnabrueck Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law
“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 […]
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3-7 June 2024 (Applications Due Feb 29), Critical Times 2024, Un/Seen, University of Lucerne
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…
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June 10-11 2024, In the Thick of Images: Law, History and the Visual
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 […]
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