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Ted Laros started the topic CFP for MLA 2023: World Literature from the Global South and Human Rights in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months agoWorld Literature from the Global South and Human Rights
In light of recent studies on the topic (e.g. Parikh 2019, McClennen and Moore 2016), this panel explores the relations between world literature from the Global South and human rights. 250-500 word abstracts plus CV.Deadline for submissions: Friday, 4 March 2022
Ted Laros, Open Univ of the…[Read more]
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Ted Laros replied to the topic Session on World Literature and Human Rights at the 2022 MLA Annual Convention in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months agoPlease see below for a description of the session on “World Literature and Human Rights”:
Session Description:
What is the relation between ‘world literature’ and ‘human rights’? Both notions imply a universalizing gesture, by relying on transcultural aesthetic or literary categories (world literature) or shared moral values (human rights)…[Read more]
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Christine Holbo replied to the topic Panel at MLA 2022: Representing Race in Law and Literature in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months agoAttached are the abstracts for the Representing Race in Law and Literature panel…
284AV Representing Race in Law and Literature
Virtual Session at MLA 2022, 12 pm on January 7
Representing Race in Law and Literature
In recent decades, scholarship across diverse fields has converged on the question of how legal and literary forms conspire to pr…[Read more]
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Christine Holbo started the topic Panel at MLA 2022: Representing Race in Law and Literature in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months agoPlease join us at MLA 2022 for the following session sponsored by the Law and the Humanities Forum:
284AV Representing Race in Law and Literature
Virtual Session
Presiding:
Christine Holbo, Arizona State U, Tempe
Simon Stern, U of Toronto (Zoom Host)
Presentations
Judge Lynch Writes Political Theology: Race and the Law in The Qua…[Read more]
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Ted Laros deposited Literature and the Law in South Africa, 1910–2010: The Long Walk to Artistic Freedom in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years agoIn 1994, artistic freedom pertaining inter alia to literature was enshrined in the South African Constitution. Clearly, the establishment of this right was long overdue compared to other nations within the Commonwealth. Indeed, the legal framework and practices regarding the regulation of literature that were introduced following the nation’s t…[Read more]
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Ted Laros started the topic Session on World Literature and Human Rights at the 2022 MLA Annual Convention in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years agoAll are welcome to join our session on world literature and human rights at the 2022 MLA Annual Convention in Washington, DC:
Session 15 – World Literature and Human Rights
Thursday, 6 January 2022 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM, Marquis 16 (Marriott Marquis)
For related material, visit http://www.oslit.nl/literature-law-and-society/
Presider
Ted Laros, Open U…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Fwd: Announcement of the Zipporah B. Wiseman Prize for Scholarship on Law, Literature and Justice (deadline: June 15, 2021) in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities via email on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoDear all,
Please see below for information about a new prize for scholarship on law and literature by graduate students, professional school students, and recent graduates.
Best wishes,
Melissa GanzBegin forwarded message:
From: “Heinzelman, Susan S” <sheinz@austin.utexas.edu<mailto:sheinz@austin.utexas.edu>>
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Christopher Warren deposited Damaged Type and Areopagitica’s Clandestine Printers in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 3 years agoMilton’s Areopagitica (1644) is one of the most significant texts in the history of the freedom of the press, and yet the pamphlet’s clandestine printers have successfully eluded identification for over 375 years. By examining distinctive and dam-aged type pieces from 100 pamphlets from the 1640s, this article att…[Read more]
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Daniel Williams deposited Accident in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThis chapter explores some legal and literary ramifications of “accident” in British law and society from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth century. This period saw changes in common law and legislation relating to accidents, including the emergence of negligence as a distinct tort and statutory provisions for employer liabi…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Joint Legal Studies/American Studies Assistant Professor of Instruction in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoNorthwestern University is hiring an Assistant Professor of Instruction to be appointed jointly in the Legal Studies program and the American Studies program. This is a full-time, benefits eligible position with a path to promotion. The initial contract is for two years.
The Assistant Professor of Instruction will offer six courses per year…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: Law and the Humanities Forum panels at MLA 2021 in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoDear all,
Please see below for three panels sponsored by the Law and the Humanities Forum at MLA 2021. If you have any questions, please let us know.
Best wishes,
Melissa Ganz
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Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention
Toronto, January 7-10, 2021
1. Law at the Border (Guaranteed Session)
Papers on how law is m…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Law and the Humanities Forum panels at MLA 2020 in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoPlease join us at MLA 2020 for the following sessions sponsored by the Law and the Humanities Forum:
Session 189: What’s Next for Law and the Humanities?
Thursday, January 9, 7:00-8:15 p.m.
WSCC – Skagit 3
Presiding: Kathryn D. Temple, Georgetown U
1. “The Constitution as the Aesthetic Representation of the People,” David Tse-chien Pa…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: 2020 Law and Humanities Junior Scholars Workshop (deadline: Dec. 2, 2019) in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago2020 LAW AND HUMANITIES JUNIOR SCHOLARS WORKSHOP
Call for Papers
Columbia Law School, Georgetown University Law School, Stanford Law School, UCLA School of Law, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Southern California Center for Law, History, and Culture invite submissions for the nineteenth meeting of the Law and Humanities J…
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Penelope Geng deposited Jurisprudence by Aphorisms: Francis Bacon and the “Uses” of Small Forms in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe belief that Francis Bacon was, from the start, a stalwart defender of royal absolutism has prevailed in scholarship despite occasional comments about Bacon’s pluralist or collaborative legal and political imagination. Building on recent revisionist work, this article questions the standard historiography. It argues that Bacon’s jur…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: "Law, Literature, and Human Rights" (MLA 2020) in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoDear all,
Please see the CFP below for the Law and the Humanities Forum’s guaranteed session at MLA 2020. If you have any questions, please let us know.
Best wishes,
Melissa Ganz and Christine Holbo*************
Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention
Seattle, January 9-12, 2020Law, Literature, and Human Rights
Papers examining…[Read more]
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Jesús R. Velasco deposited The Invention of Invention in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months agoAlfonso de Toledo (15th century) was, indeed, a curious guy. But he was doing something with his curiosity. He was researching and translating. He was focusing on particular themes and institutions, and giving a legal and juridical reading of them –he, as he confesses, has very little theology to forget, so even theological inventions are, for h…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718: Transnational Reception in English Political Thought in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months agoReview for The Seventeenth Century of Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro, _The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Changed the World_ and Marco Barducci, _Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718_
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Jesús R. Velasco deposited Spatial Affinities: Poetry and Law in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoThe spatial affinity between poetry and the law is an interesting theoretical fiction to understand how the construction of the legal discipline is a process to turn all possible spatial affinities into spatial subalternities, into spatial submissions. One could say that legal spaces, the legal production of spaces, is a way to summon up different…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: 2019 Law and Humanities Junior Scholars Workshop (deadline: Dec. 1, 2018) in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 5 years ago2019 LAW AND HUMANITIES JUNIOR SCHOLARS WORKSHOP
Call for Papers
Columbia Law School, Georgetown University Law School, Stanford Law School, UCLA School of Law, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Southern California Center for Law, History, and Culture invite submissions for the thirteenth meeting of the Law and Humanities J…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng deposited Before the Right to Remain Silent: The Examinations of Anne Askew and Elizabeth Young in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoIn recent years, Anne Askew has attained something of celebrity status among scholars of Tudor women’s writing and, more generally, of Tudor Reformation history. In the course of privileging Askew’s examinations above those of other female defendants (such as Elizabeth Young), scholars sometimes equate Askew’s rhetorical expertise with legal exper…[Read more]
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