CfP: Law, Culture and the Humanities 25th Annual Conference

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 at the University of Toronto School of Law in Toronto, Canada. This year’s theme is “Absence, The Present and the Past”.

As we come back together and restart our offline lives, we carry the absences and missed opportunities of the recent pandemic with us. Absence signals both a void and a clearing: a call for us to be present once more to ourselves and each other. In some instances, we know what we have missed; at other times, we find ourselves surprised and undone by what we have not realized has been missing all this time. To dwell on this absence is not only to live in a state of lament or regret; it is also to imagine the possibilities that arise when we attend closely to what has been missing. In this spirit of absence as loss and potential, we invite papers from across the disciplines that consider law in relation to absence.

Submission instructions: We encourage submission of fully constituted panels, as well as panels that reimagine or experiment with models for academic presentation, such as roundtables, author meets reader sessions, collaborative presentations, multi-panel streams, etc. Individual proposals should include a title and an abstract of no more than 250 words, along with 2 keywords from the list below. Please note that online presenters should organize a full panel (individual papers will not be accepted for online presentation this year).

All proposals are due Friday, March 17, 2023 at 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time.

For more information on the conference, please visit: https://lawculturehumanities.com/event/2023-annual-conference/