Upcoming Events
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…
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…
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…
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…
May 2 & 3, 2024 CFP: The Rise of Radicalism: 25th UBC Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Graduate Conference
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.
May 16, 2024 – LCH Graduate Student Workshop – Deadline to apply: February 5, 2024
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).
Past Events
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…
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…
A Genealogy of Indigenous Law: A Writers Journey
On November 3, 2023, Professor John Borrows gave a talk overviewing his work throughout his career. CNLH was immensely grateful to host this event alongside Indigenous Legal Studies at the Peter A. Allard School of Law. For over 30 years, Professor Borrows has written about the revitalization of Indigenous peoples’ laws, and their relationship to other…
UBC Legal Theory Speaker Series: Margaret Davies
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.
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.
August 2022 | CNLH Inaugural Workshop: Reimagining “the Human” in Research, Teaching, and Innovation
The Canadian Network of Law and Humanities hosted its inaugural workshop, “Reimagining ‘the Human’ in Research, Teaching, and Innovation” at Green College. The keynote speaker was Desmond Manderson and featured four workshops.