Call For Papers

1st Global Conference


Queer Sexualities

13th to 15th May 2011

Warsaw, Poland



Call for Papers

20 years since the reclamation of the word 'queer'

by the LGBTQ community this conference would like to take a closer look at broad themes of queer sexualities through time and space, non-normative sexual constructions and queer sexual identities from a diverse range of perspectives by scholars working in various academic disciplines. Yet our meaning of the word queer is not limited to the non-mainstream sexuality as we opt for inclusion of 'unusual'

heterosexual practices into the 'queer domain' in order not to discriminate but understand, include and accept.



Papers, reports, work-in-progress and workshops are invited on issues related to the following themes:



* the role of historical forces in shaping queer

sexuality(ies)

* historiography of queer sexualities

* the politics of queer sexualities

* queertopias and the politics of gender

* queer identities/sexualities in literature and art

* queer sexualities and the body - literary and non-literary

* representations and resistances of non-normative corporeality

* beyond queer sex and sexuality

* queerotica vs. queerporn

* queer sexualities and performativity

* queer sexualities and age

* queer sexualities and theory (queer theory, straight queer theory,

* sexuality studies, disability studies, feminist perspective, fat studies etc.



The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related theme.

300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 26th November 2010. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 1st April 2011.



300 word abstracts should be submitted

simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this

order:



a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract.

E-mails should be entitled: QS1 Abstract Submission.



Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest that you look for an alternative electronic route or resend.



Organising Chairs



Malwina Degórska (Conference Leader)

English Department

University of Szczecin

Szczecin, Poland

E-mail: mdegorska@gmail.com



Barbara Braid

English Department,

University of Szczecin,

Szczecin, Poland

E-mail: barbara.braid@gmail.com



Rob Fisher

Network Founder and Network Leader,

Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.

E-mail: qs@inter-disciplinary.net



The conference is part of the At the Interface programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s).



For further details about the project please visit:

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/gender-and-sexuality/queer-sexualities/
For further details about the conference please visit:


http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/gender-and-sexuality/queer-sexualities/call-for-papers/

Call For Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

11th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law

‘Intercultural Awareness in Legal Language’

Conference Venue: Public Law Department – School of Law of Fluminense Federal University – UFF (Niterói/Rio de Janeiro – Brazil)

Dates: 11-13 November 2011

Hosted by Evandro Carvalho (Brazil)
Co-organizer: Anne Wagner (France)


The 2011 roundtable will focus on the contribution of legal semiotics to discuss the different ways of thinking the "legal" in a world's cultural diversity.

Aware of the III World Forum of the Alliance of Civilizations, held in Brazil in May 2010, that had the intention to rethink how to deal with tensions between cultures and promote trust and understanding between heterogeneous communities, the 11th Roundtable intend to put together scholars of legal semiotics to discuss the influences of cultural and linguistic diversity on the construction of meaning in national law and international law.

It is hoped that the papers will reflect the interdisciplinary nature of legal semiotics research as well as the challenges of working in the field. In this context, proposals from a wide variety of semiotic perspectives are invited. These might include but are not limited to papers on:

• The contribution of legal semiotics across cultures
• The problem of multilingualism
• Semiotics and comparative law
• Legal semiotics and the processes of normative integration
• Semiotics of international relations
• Semiotics and competition of languages in international relations
• Language, power and diplomacy
• Translating legal concepts across cultures: the case of contract terminology or case of land law terminology.
• The misuse of language in the judicial process, in legal adjudication
• The use of metaphors in legal language

Young researchers working in related areas are particularly encouraged to participate.

In the interest of a cohesive round table, prospective participants are requested to adhere to the theme as outlined in the call for papers.

Proposals in either English, Spanish, French or Portuguese (max 300 words) should be sent only by e-mail by 15 May 2011 to irsl2011@gmail.com, evandro.carvalho@gmail.com and to Anne Wagner (valwagnerfr@yahoo.com).

Selected papers will be published in a special annual issue in English and/or French of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (http://www.springer.com). The length of the paper should not normally exceed 7000 words, including references, footnotes, and appendices, if any. Please follow the style sheet for the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (Visit the website at http://www.springer.com/law/journal/11196)

Contact Anne Wagner, Ph. D., Associate Professor, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale (France)
Research Professor, China University of Political Science and Law (Beijing - China)
http://fr.linkedin.com/in/annewagner


Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - http://www.springer.com/law/journal/11196
Series Editor, Law, Language and Communication - Ashgate Publisher (http://www.ashgate.com/Default.aspx?page=3916)
President of the International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law - http://www.semioticsoflaw.com/
Editor for SemiotiX New Series - http://semioticon.com/semiotix/
International collaborator, International Commercial Arbitration Practices - http://144.214.44.26/arbitration/arbitration/index.html

Call For Papers

Laurent de Sutter, FWO Senior Researcher, Law, Sciences, Technology & Society,
Faculty of Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, has issued a call for papers for a collection that he is editing for Routledge (with the help of law publisher Colin Perrin) concerning “Althusser & Law”. A few years ago, in an essay published in a volume in French called “Politique et philosophie dans l’oeuvre de Louis Althusser”, Etienne Balibar called for a systematic study of the existing relationships between law and Althusser’s life and work. This project is an attempt to answer this call, and to begin a first exploration of this yet totally unexplored topic. He is currently looking for an enlarged set of contributors - although a few major international althusserians have already agreed to contribute : Luke Ferretter, Warren Montag and William S. Lewis to begin with.

If you are interested, he would be delighted to provide you with further details about it.

Contact him at the address below.

Laurent de Sutter
FWO Senior Researcher
Law, Sciences, Technology & Society
Faculty of Law
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pleinlaan 2
1050 Brussels
Belgium

ldesutter at hotmail.com

Call For Papers

Call For Papers at the Modern Language Association, 2011

Special Session: "Literature and Rights in the Age of Enlightenment"

This panel seeks to investigate the intertwined histories of literature and rights in the long eighteenth century. How does imaginative writing in this period contribute to the development of the humanitarian sensibility and the emergence of human rights? Conversely, how do changing conceptions of rights shape novels, poems, plays, and essays? Papers on literary, philosophical, and legal formulations of natural and positive rights, and on questions concerning freedom, equality, justice, toleration, torture, cruelty, and pain are all welcome.

Send one-page abstracts to Melissa Ganz (melissa.ganz@stanford.edu) by March 8. Inquiries welcome.

Call For Papers

From Elizabeth Stockton, Southwestern University

CFP: MLA 2011 (Los Angeles, CA)

Law and Literature of the U.S. before 1900

Seeking papers that examine legal and literary discourses in the US
before 1900. Possible topics might include citizenship, ethnicity,
sexuality, imperialism, and the rhetoric of the law. Abstracts and CV
by 2 March 2010 to Elizabeth Stockton (stockton@southwestern.edu).

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Call For Papers

From Elliott Visconti at Yale

Literary History and Constitutional Culture

For the MLA’s next conference in Los Angeles (January 2011), the Discussion Group on Law and Literature invites paper proposals that address the relationship, broadly understood, between constitutional change and literary history. Some general questions: what influence do constitutional decisions have on the path of literary history, and to what degree can such decisions or events be said to transform or deflect a literary tradition? Papers that take a theoretical approach to the question are welcome (e.g. can the literary be understood as a modality of popular constitutional interpretation?) as are papers addressed to a concrete moment/ event/watershed (e.g. LGBT literature after Lawrence v. Texas; LDS fiction in the wake of Reynolds v. United States, the literary history of slavery after Somersett’s case, African-American poetry after Brown v. Board, Franco-Islamic literature after the 2004 headscarf laws, etc.

Paper proposals from all legal and literary traditions are welcome. Please send abstract and cv to elliott.visconsi@yale.edu, by March 15 2010

Call For Papers

From Anne Wagner, Editor, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law

We live in a world of rapid global changes, which we nonetheless seek to understand with reference to general concepts. This world of change can be described in many different ways by taking account of a variety of factors. Among these we can distinguish a specific world-wide tendency for democratization, with social, individual and political dimensions. As some have pointed out, there are very few political orders today that would not claim to be democratic.

This peculiar global trend however gives rise to questions as well as problems, the most important of which seems to concern the question whether the “democratic turn” is real or virtual. Democracy generally means government by the people. Does this then mean that any kind of government by the people can claim to be democratic, or is democracy a more limited concept? What – if any – are the normative requirements of democracy? Democracy, after all, is not simply a descriptive model of government; it is a deeply rooted preference and hence functions as normative blueprint, often expressed in founding principles. Democracy is thus a thoroughly normative model. At the same time, it is constructed and finds expression in different ways in different times and places.

Does this mean that democracy, as a normative project, is such only for a certain section of the world and not for sections that believe in different gods, philosophies or value systems? Perhaps democratic principles are to be understood from a rational, secular value perspective (post-Weberian values) as formal frameworks that give people the possibility to fill them in with their own convictions of the preferred norms that should be obeyed in the name of equality and freedom. Does democracy not however imply a specific form of civic engagement and participation? Does democracy not also entail self-expression based on autonomy? Democracy does appear to give expression to post-traditional values which are not as yet dominant throughout the world. For this reason the further question arises as to the legal nature of a democratic political order. Are - following Sir Neil MacCormick - normative order, institutional normative order and institutional order three different kinds of order, do they overlap, or do they perhaps have the same source that keeps dividing itself into different orders?

Should morally impartial legal rules be the regarded as the most important or perhaps as the only support for peace in a pluralistic world? But then, rephrasing somewhat Ronald Dworkin’s question, we can ask how – if at all – democracy is possible here?

* * *



The 9th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law invites all those who are interested in problems concerning Legal Rules, Moral Norms and Democratic Principles to take part in our roundtable discussion in Poznań (Poland). The perspective adopted by participants – whether purely semiotic, legal, philosophical, sociological, cultural, sociolinguistic etc. – can be freely chosen by each participant.



We invite everyone interested in participating in The 9th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law to send us an abstract by the 1st of May 2010. It should be prepared in either English or French (max 300 words) and sent by e-mail to bartwoj@op.pl; karolinacern@yahoo.com; juchaczp@amu.edu.pl and to Anne Wagner at valwagnerfr@yahoo.com .



Selected papers will be published in a special annual issue of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (http://www.springer.com/).


Anne Wagner, Ph. D., Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale (France)

Research Professor, China University of Political Science and Law (Beijing)

http://www.semioticon.com/semiotix/semiotix13/sem-13-05-01.html

Call For Papers

Savage Thoughts: Interdisciplinarity and the Challenge of Claude Lévi-Strauss

Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas McGill University, Montréal
24-26 September 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

Claude Lévi-Strauss was one of the great interdisciplinary writers of the twentieth century whose influence has been felt far beyond his home discipline of anthropology. His inquiry illuminated the border lands between primitive and non-primitive, self and other, myth and history, human and animal, art and nature, and the dichotomies that give structure to culture. At the same time his method troubled those borders and dichotomies, through the bricolage he adopted that illuminated connections amongst literature, art, psychology, music, religion, and law.

Our call for ‘savage thoughts’ seeks out new work influenced by this inquiry and these methods, and reflections on Levi-Strauss’ legacy across the whole range of the humanities and beyond, including—

1) Recent interdisciplinary research in the reception, critique, and development, of Lévi-Strauss’ work. How have these inquiries been transformed in recent years? Are the children of Lévi-Strauss as savage as he?

2) Consideration of Lévi-Strauss’ larger intellectual influence, explicit or otherwise, right across the humanities. Perhaps there is something savage at the heart of interdisciplinary thought itself—refusing to be tamed by the intellectual borders of a discipline, it forages at will. Where has Lévi-Strauss’ method spawned such wildness and hybridity?

3) Looking beyond the academy to consider how Lévi-Strauss’ ideas have embedded themselves in the culture, values, social organization, and framework of modern society. What is the public life and impact of these ideas? In what ways has our world been altered by his mode of apprehending it?

Conference organizers invite papers that address the borderlands between a wide range of disciplines including, but not limited to Anthropology, Architecture, Art History, Communications, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Human Geography, Musicology, Philosophy, Psychology, Religious Studies, Semiotics, and Sociology. Proposals for single papers in English or French as well as for complete panels are welcome. In either instance, abstracts for 15-20 minute papers should be c.200 words, and accompanied by a brief (2-page) CV. Proposals for complete panels should also include a short explanation of the panel theme. Please send proposals as electronic files (in .doc, .docx, or .pdf format) to savage.thoughts@mcgill.ca no later than 15 March 2010.

Conference website: www.mcgill.ca/iplai/savagethoughts/
Conference registration will open 15 April 2010. Registration details, including fees information are on the website.

The Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas at McGill University is committed to understanding how the arts (literature, painting, film, theatre, music, industrial and artistic design, architecture) and new ideas come into being in a range of settings (schools, the law courts, markets, the Web, the book trade, state institutions) and in relation to social, cultural, and institutional practices. It also strives to understand how art and ideas are able to transform the private world of the individual, the greater world of public matters, and the interactivity between the two. http://www.mcgill.ca/iplai/

Call For Papers

This inter-disciplinary conference seeks to examine issues surrounding the conjunction between evil and the feminine. In many cultures women have been long suspected as the source of sundry human miseries, however basic to society they may be. At the same time as ideals of purity and dedication to family have been exalted and feminine beauty lauded, women have been viewed as embodying sinister forces of evil. Mistrusted as seductive and beguiling, women are also often thought of as vengeful, manipulative and even malevolent. In grappling with our understanding of what it is to be ‘evil’, the project aims to shine a spotlight on this dark area of the human condition and explore the possible sources of the fear and resentment of women.


Papers, reports, work-in-progress and workshops are invited on issues related to the following themes:

~ Evil Women and Feminine Evil
~ Representing and Misrepresenting the Female
~ Motherhood; Monstrous Motherhood
~ Monstrous Births and Infanticide
~ Matriarchy / Matricide
~ Devious Sexuality and Feminine Perversions
~ Women and the Abject
~ Menstruation, Castration
~ Fears and Myths: Feminine Blood
~ Anthropological Perspectives
~ Historical Perspectives
~ The Evil Woman in Literature
~ Psychoanalytic perspectives: “Vagina Dentata” etc
~ Sexualizing the Female or Evil Objectification
~ Jezebel, Delilah, Lilith, Harpies and the Femme Fatale
~ The Bitch
~ Women and Power
~ Beauty as threatening or evil
~ Portrayals of Evil Women
~ Fantasy
~ Mythology
~ Vampires, Witches and Sirens
~ Case Studies

The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 27th November 2009. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 12th March 2009.

300 word abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract.

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

Organising Chairs:

■Sorcha Ni Fhlainn
Hub Leader, Project Co-Leader, School of English, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
■Stephen Morris
Hub Leader, Independent Scholar, New York USA
■Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Leader,Inter-Disciplinary.Net,Freeland, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
The conference is part of the At the Interface programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s).

Style Sheets
In preparing your papers, please pay strict attention to the following style sheets

■Download Oxford Style Sheet – v7 (pdf) ■Download Oxford Reference Style Sheet 2 (pdf) ■Download Template document (Word)

See the website here.

Call For Papers: Comparative Law Workshop

CALL FOR PAPERS

FIFTH ANNUAL COMPARATIVE LAW WORKS IN PROGRESS WORKSHOP

May 20-22, 2010
The University of Illinois College of Law

Sponsored by:
American Society of Comparative Law
University of Illinois College of Law
Princeton University
Program for Law and Public Affairs


Jacqueline Ross (University of Illinois College of Law),
Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton University, Program for Law
and Public Affairs), and James Q. Whitman (Yale Law School)
are calling for paper submissions for the Fifth Annual
Comparative Law Works in Progress Workshop which will take
place at The University of Illinois College of Law from May
20-22, 2010. (The arrival date would be May 20.) This
workshop will co-sponsored by the American Society of
Comparative Law.

Having been called away by many of his other
responsibilities, including his editorship of the American
Journal of Comparative Law, Mathias Reimann regrets that he
will not be able to continue his role as co-organizer of
this workshop. We will miss his lively and incisive
contributions. We are very happy to announce, however, that
as of this year, we will be joined as co-organizers by
James Q. Whitman, Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative
and Foreign Law at Yale Law School. The annual workshop
will now rotate between Princeton University, the
University of Illinois College of Law, and Yale Law School.


ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:

There is no regular opportunity for comparative law
scholars in the United States to meet and discuss their
work in any depth. The scholarly programs of the meetings
of the American Society of Comparative Law are chosen and
organized by the respective host schools and aim at the
presentation of finished papers on a given topic. While
there is some opportunity to present work in progress,
there is little opportunity for sustained discussion. The
meetings of the Comparative Law Section at the AALS
Conference each January are also dedicated to a specific
topic and usually exhaust themselves in the presentation of
papers with little substantive discussion. There is thus a
need for a forum in which comparative law work in progress
can be explored among colleagues in a serious and thorough
manner that will be truly helpful to the respective
authors.

The Annual Comparative Law Works-in-Progress Workshop is
intended to fill that need. It will involve up to six
papers during a two-day period. If more than six papers are
submitted for discussion, the organizers will jointly
decide which ones to accept, giving preference to younger
scholars.

The participants will consist of the respective authors,
one commentator on each paper, faculty members of the host
institution, particularly those with expertise in
comparative law and research, and others interested in
attending. The overall group will be kept small enough to
sit around a large table and to allow serious discussion
(20 people maximum). The papers will not be presented at
the workshop. They will be distributed two weeks in advance
and every participant must have read them before attending
the meeting. The commentator will present a 10 to 15 minute
introduction and critique, leaving at least one hour for
discussion. There are no plans to publish the papers.
Instead, it is up to the authors to seek publication if,
and wherever, they wish.

The Fifth Annual Comparative Law Workshop will take place
on May 20-22, 2010 at the University of Illinois College of
Law. The Workshop will be funded by the host school and by
the American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL). Authors of
papers and commentators from ASCL member schools will be
reimbursed for their travel expenses and accommodation up
to $600.00, in accordance with the ASCL reimbursement
policy (as posted on its webpage), though only up to six
authors and commentators will be reimbursed by the ASCL.
(The University of Illinois College of Law will reimburse
the remainder.) The ASCL's policy provides that
reimbursement is available only if the applicant cannot
obtain reimbursement from his or her home school.


PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Interested authors should submit papers electronically to:

CONTACT: Jacqueline Ross
Email: MAILTO:jeross1@illinois.edu

by March 1, 2010.

We will inform them of our decision by early April, 2010.
"Work in progress" means scholarship that has reached a
stage at which it is substantial enough to merit serious
discussion and critique but that has not yet appeared in
print (although it may have been accepted for publication.
It includes law review articles, book chapters or outlines,
substantial book reviews, and other appropriate genres.

Our objective is not only to provide an opportunity for the
discussion of scholarly work but also to create an
opportunity for comparative lawyers to get together for two
days devoted to nothing but talking shop, both in the
sessions and outside. We hope that this will create synergy
that fosters more dialogue, cooperation, and an increased
sense of coherence in a discipline badly in need of it.

Jacqueline Ross Kim Lane Scheppele James Q. Whitman

Call For Papers

Georgetown University Law Center, Columbia Law School, University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, and UCLA School of Law invite submissions for the eighth meeting of the Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop to be held at USC Gould School of Law in Los Angeles on June 4 & 5, 2010.

PAPER COMPETITION:
The paper competition is open to untenured professors, advanced graduate students and post-doctoral scholars in law and the humanities; in addition to drawing from numerous humanistic fields, and welcomes critical, qualitative work in the social sciences. Between five and ten papers will be chosen, based on anonymous evaluation by an interdisciplinary selection committee, for presentation at the June Workshop. At the Workshop, two senior scholars will comment on each paper. Commentators and other Workshop participants will be asked to focus specifically on the strengths and weaknesses of the selected scholarly projects, with respect to subject and methodology. Moreover, the selected papers will then serve as the basis for a larger conversation among all the participants about the evolving standards by which we judge excellence and creativity in interdisciplinary scholarship, as well as about the nature of interdisciplinarity itself.

Papers should be works-in-progress between 10,000 and 15,000 words in length (including footnotes/endnotes), and must include an abstract of no more than 200 words. A dissertation chapter may be submitted but we strongly suggest that it be edited so that it stands alone as a piece of work with its own integrity. A paper that has been submitted for publication is eligible so long as it will not be in galley proofs or in print at the time of the Workshop. The selected papers will appear in a special issue of the Legal Scholarship Network; there is no other publication commitment. The Workshop will pay the travel expenses of authors whose papers are selected for presentation.

Submissions (in either Word or Wordperfect, no pdf files) will be accepted until January 8, 2010, and should be sent by e-mail to:

Center for the Study of Law and Culture
culture@law.columbia.edu

Columbia Law School
435 W. 116th Street
New York, N.Y. 10027

Please be sure to include your contact information. For more information: Tanisha Madrid, 212.854.0692 or culture@law.columbia.edu. The full text of the Call for Papers is available at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/center_program/law_culture/lh_workshop.

Call For Papers

Israeli Law and Society Association
International Conference


Secularism, Nationalism and Human Rights: Law and Politics in the Middle East and Europe

December 20-21, 2009


Short description

Secularism as the separation between religion and politics, nationalism as the ethnic premise of the modern state, and human rights, are commonly identified as fundamental attributes of modern law and politics. And yet these foundational ideals are neither global nor even on the whole "Western". They have their origins in specific European traditions, and they continue to play diverse and multiple roles in Europe and in the Middle East. The conference seeks to examine the influence of these legacies on the formation of law and legal institutions in Europe and the Middle East and in the different contexts in which Europe and the Middle East intersect, primarily in Israel.

Among the questions the conference will address are:

" How have secularism, nationalism and human rights shaped law and
legal institutions in Europe and the Middle East? What are the different, conflicting and complimentary meanings given to these notions across and within legal jurisdictions? To what extent are these legacies distinctly European and thus differ even from other Western traditions, such as the United States, where secularism, nationalism, and human rights seem to have a very different significance?
" How and under what conditions have these traditions been
implemented, resisted, subverted, and transformed in Israel, Palestine, and more generally in the Middle East? Conversely, how has Europe's recent encounter with the Middle East, primarily through labor immigration, shaped and reshaped the formation of these ideals? What roles have law and legal institutions played in the dissemination, transformation, and enforcement of these legacies?
" How have these legacies affected differently diverse groups within
European and non-European societies, including ethnic and religious minorities and other potentially disadvantaged groups? In what ways do these ideas mirror power relations and how do the legal institutions in their service shape images and practices of gender, class and ethnicity?
" To what extent can and should the specifically European version of
these ideals be accepted outside of Europe? Can human rights be the legal and moral grounds, from which nationalism and secularism be valued, or does the category of human rights itself suffer from euro-centrism? Do better models exist elsewhere and what would be the conditions for local traditions to emerge?
" Finally, are nationalism, secularism and human rights at all
relevant categories for analyzing what has often been described as a growingly post-nationalist, post-secularist and post-human world?


Authors from all disciplines (including law, sociology, anthropology, history, political science, religious studies, and philosophy) are strongly encouraged to submit papers on topics relevant to the above themes. Papers on other themes will also be considered, but due to the limited number of presentations this year we will not be able to accept all submissions.





Prof. Menachem Hofnung
Department of Political Science
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem 91905, Israel


Tel: Office :972-2-588-3164
Fax. 972-2-588-0281

Call For Papers/Abstracts/Submissions

8th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities January 13 - 16, 2010 Waikiki Beach Marriot Resort & Spa and Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio Hotel Honolulu Hawaii, USA

Since many people have individually asked for an extension of the submission deadline, we are extending the deadline for submissions to Saturday, September 12th, 2009.

Call for papers, abstracts, student papers, work-in-progress reports, research proposals, workshop proposals, poster sessions,research tables, or reports on issues related to teaching, practitioner forums, panel discussions, and tutorials.

All areas of arts and humanities are invited. You may submit your paper/proposal by using our online submission system! To use the system, and for detailed information about submitting see:
http://www.hichumanities.org/cfp_artshumanities.htm

To be removed from this list, please click the following link:
http://www.hichumanities.org/remove/ or copy and paste the link into any web browser.

Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities P.O. Box 75036 Honolulu, HI 96836 USA
Telephone: (808) 542-4385
Fax: (808) 947-2420
E-mail: humanities@hichumanities.org
Website: http://www.hichumanities.org

Call For Papers

From Professor Andrew Majeske, Department of English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Call For Papers

Second Biennial Literature and Law Conference

When: April 16, 2010 (Friday)
Where: John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) (59th Street and 10th Avenue—near Lincoln Center in Manhattan)

Conference Organizer and Contact Person: Andrew Majeske,

This conference aims to bring scholars of literature and law into an interdisciplinary setting to share the fruits of their research and scholarship.

The conference’s keynote speaker is John Matteson, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for his book Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father. John Matteson is a professor in the English Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and obtained his JD from Harvard University.

The journal Law and Literature is in the process of publishing a special symposium issue containing full versions of select papers presented at the inaugural Literature and Law Conference, and we are in negotiations with the journal to do the same for this second biennial conference.

A limited number of “Daily Show” or “The Colbert Report” tickets may be available (we are still working on this) for the evening before the conference (Thursday April 15th) on a first-come, first-served basis. These shows are taped in studios only a few blocks walk from John Jay.
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We invite papers dealing with all aspect of literature and law, including papers which might address literature dealing with some of the following:

-Comparative Justice
-The rule of law
-Rhetoric and law
-Judicial discretion and its abuse
-Blind justice
-Common versus Civil law
-(Post)Colonial Justice
-Law and Deception
-(Mis)Interpretation and Competing Interpretations of Law
-Non Western Justice and Injustice
-Comic Justice and Injustice

Please submit abstracts (250 words or less) to Andrew Majeske, by Friday, January 15, 2010.

Call For Papers

Call for Papers: “Ah Got De Law in My Mouth”: Black Women Writing Justice

41st Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 7-11, 2010
Montreal, Quebec - Hilton Bonaventure

This panel seeks papers which consider the representation of law, rights, and justice in African-American women’s literature. How have African-American women writers critically engaged the legal system and/or portrayed American legal discourse? Topics include, but are certainly not limited to: slavery, the civil rights movement, immigration, suffrage, lynching, and the prison-industrial complex. Please send a 1-page abstract and a brief bio as Word or PDF attachments to Courtney D. Marshall, cdj@ucla.edu, with “NEMLA” in the subject line.

Deadline: September 30, 2009



Courtney Marshall

English and Women’s Studies

University of New Hampshire

Call For Papers; Conference

From Susan Sage Heinzelman

For details on the joint conference from Dec 2 to Dec 5th 2009, in brisbane, Australia, and the call for papers, please
see:


http://www.griffith.edu.au/conference/translegality
and http://www.griffith.edu.au/conference/translegality/call-for-papers

Call For Papers

Call for Papers/Abstracts/Submissions
8th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities January 13 - 16, 2010 Waikiki Beach Marriot Resort & Spa and Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio Hotel Honolulu Hawaii, USA



Submission Deadline: August 21, 2009



Sponsored by:
University of Louisville - Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods

Web address: http://www.hichumanities.org Email address: humanities@hichumanities.org

The 8th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities will be held from January 13 (Wednesday) to January 16 (Saturday), 2010 at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa and the Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio Hotel in Honolulu,

Hawaii. The conference will provide many opportunities for academicians and professionals from arts and humanities related fields to interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines. Cross-disciplinary

submissions with other fields are welcome.

Topic Areas (All Areas of Arts & Humanities are Invited):
*Anthropology
*American Studies
*Archeology
*Architecture
*Art
*Art History
*Dance
*English
*Ethnic Studies
*Film
*Folklore
*Geography
*Graphic Design
*History
*Landscape Architecture
*Languages
*Literature
*Linguistics
*Music
*Performing Arts
*Philosophy
*Postcolonial Identities
*Product Design
*Religion
*Second Language Studies
*Speech/Communication
*Theatre
*Visual Arts
*Other Areas of Arts and Humanities
*Cross-disciplinary areas of the above related to each other or other areas.

Submitting a Proposal:

You may submit your paper/proposal by using our online submission system! To use the system, and for detailed information about submitting see: http://www.hichumanities.org/cfp_artshumanities.htm

To be removed from this list, please click the following link:
http://www.hichumanities.org/remove/ or copy and paste the link into any web browser.

Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities P.O. Box 75036 Honolulu, HI 96836 USA
Telephone: (808) 542-4385
Fax: (808) 947-2420
E-mail: humanities@hichumanities.org
Website: http://www.hichumanities.org

Call for Papers

The 9th International Roundtable for Semiotics of Law (IRSL 2010), 3-6 September 2010 - Poznań

Legal Rules, Moral Norms AND Democratic Principles


Conveners:
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, University of Łódź, Poznańskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk

Conference Venue:
Department of Philosophy, Adam Mickiewicz University & PTPN, Poznań


Honorary Chairmen:

Prof. Tadeusz Buksiński
Director of Department of Philosophy
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań

Prof. Marek Zirk-Sadowski
Chairman of the Department Theory and Philosophy of Law at the University of Łódź
Vice – president of the International Association for Legal and Social Philosophy (IVR)
Vice-president of the Polish Supreme Administrative Court


Organizing Committee:

Dr Karolina M. Cern Dr Piotr W. Juchacz Dr Bartosz Wojciechowski
Poznań Poznań Łódź


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CALL FOR PAPERS

We live in the world of rapid global changes, nonetheless, we try to manage the solid universal development. There are many differing factors aiming at the most exact and fruitful description of the world in change. Among them we can distinguish a specific world-wide tendency for democratization of our lives in social, individual and political dimensions. As some point out, there are just a few political orders that would not claim themselves democratic ones.
Though, this peculiar global trend gives rise to doubts as well as problems, the most profound seems to concern the question whether the “democratic turn” is a real or just a virtue one. Democracy generally means the governance by people – but who are the people? What kind of governance by people can be claimed democratic – everyone or only a chosen one?
What – if any – is the normative issue of such a governance? Democracy, after all, is not a simple descriptive model of governance; it is deeply rooted in our preferences and hence normative patterns of conduct which are not yet to be understood as the norm but rather as founding principles. Democracy is a thoroughly normative model. It is always as constructed and uttered in the picture of life at the same time.
Does it mean that democracy, as a normative project, can fit only a part of our world and can not fit the other part believing in different gods, philosophies or systems of values? Or maybe democratic principles are to be understood from a secular-rational value perspective (postweberian values) as formal frames that give people real possibility to fill it with theirs convictions of the preferred norms that should be obeyed in the name of equality and freedom. But does it not presume a special civil engagement and a strong civil participation? Further, does it not entail self-expression built on a strong feeling of a self-direction? All of it utters posttraditional values which are not yet dominant throughout the world. For this reason a question is raised, what, if any, is the legal issue of democratic political order. Are - following Sir Neil MacCormick - normative order, institutional normative order and institutional order three different ones or cross themselves somewhere or do they even have the same issue that keeps dividing itself into different orders?
Should be morally impartial legal rules the great if not the only support for peace in a pluralistic world? But then, altering Ronald Dworkin’s question, we can ask how is – if it is at all - democracy possible here?
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The 9th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law invites all interested in problems concerning Legal Rules, Moral Norms and Democratic Principles to take part in our meeting in Poznań (Poland). The perspective of considerations – whether it is purely semiotic, legal, philosophical, sociological, cultural, sociolinguistic etc. – is free to be chosen by each participant.

We invite everyone who would be interested to participate in The 9th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law to send us an application till the 1st of May 2010. It should be prepared in either English or French (max 300 words) and sent by e-mail to bartwoj@op.pl; karolinacern@yahoo.com; juchaczp@amu.edu.pl and to Anne Wagner at valwagnerfr@yahoo.com .

Selected papers will be published in a special annual issue of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (http://www.springer.com/).

Call For Papers

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Justice, Media and Public
Changing Public Perceptions in the New Media Landscape

Research Institute for Law, Politics and Justice
Keele University, 25-26 March 2010

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Confirmed keynote speakers:
His Honour Judge Keith Cutler, Chairman of the Judges’ Council Committee on Communications
Olga Kavran, Spokeswoman to the Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, The Hague
Joshua Rozenberg, Freelance journalist, former BBC legal correspondent and former legal editor of the Daily Telegraph
Daniel Stepniak, Associate Professor, University of Western Australia, author of Audio-visual Coverage of Courts: A Comparative Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 2008).

This conference invites contributions on the theme of representations and public perceptions of crime and justice in a multimedia communications environment. The new media landscape is creating both opportunities and challenges for improving and maintaining public confidence in the criminal justice and legal system. How can new information and communication technologies (ICTs) be utilized in public outreach initiatives? What kind of strategies are criminal justice agencies already deploying to maximize the potential of new technologies? To what extent do user-centred communication practices (blogging, social networking, on-demand TV, mobile technologies, file sharing, etc), generate public confidence and perception issues that are new or different? How are narratives and representations of justice evolving in the new media environment? Are old media and their institutional practices genuinely in decline or are we just witnessing a reordering of the public sphere under the influence of new technologies? What lessons can be drawn from the past in order to understand the new media landscape and its implications for the communication of justice?
While the main emphasis is on new media and ICTs, the submission of abstracts involving reflections on policy and practice, theoretical developments, methodological innovations and recent empirical analyses relating to communication, media and public confidence in the criminal justice and legal system is also very much encouraged. Contributions from postgraduate and early career researchers are particularly welcome.
The conference aims to attract an international audience of academics and practitioners from the (criminal) justice field. It seeks to facilitate a dialogue across disciplinary, professional and jurisdictional boundaries.
Please send an abstract of maximum 250 words proposing individual papers or panels to Lieve Gies (l.gies@keele.ac.uk) by 31 October 2009. For any queries, please contact the organizers Lieve Gies (l.gies@keele.ac.uk) and Rob C Mawby (rim3@leicester.ac.uk).

Call For Participation: ASLCH Conference

From Keith Bybee, Syracuse University School of Law

Call for Participation: 13th Annual ASLCH Conference

March 19-20, 2010
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities is an organization of scholars engaged in interdisciplinary, humanistic legal scholarship. The Association brings together a wide range of people engaged in scholarship on legal history, legal theory, jurisprudence, law and cultural studies, law and literature, law and the performing arts, and legal hermeneutics. We want to encourage dialogue across and among these fields about issues of interpretation, identity, ideals, values, authority, obligation, justice, and about law¹s place in culture.

We will be accepting proposals for panels, roundtables, papers, and volunteers for chairs and discussants from July 15th until October 15th 2009.

PLEASE NOTE: To submit proposals, please go to the online submission site https://www.regonline.com/13thAnnual

As it becomes available, additional information about accommodations and other conference matters, will be posted to the, "ASLCH Annual Conference Information" page on the ASLCH webpage at http://www.law.syr.edu/academics/centers/lch/conference.html.

We welcome submissions on any law, culture and humanities subject. Examples of recent panel topics include: Imagining Rights in the Era of Globalization; The Child as a Legal Subject; Law and Love; The Color of Justice; The Cultural Lives of the Judiciary; Law and the Sacred; E.M.
Forster and the Question of Social Justice; Thinking about Places and Spaces; Feminism v. Feminism: Conceptions of Justice in Transnational Criminal Law; South African Dignity Jurisprudence; Film as Legal Text.

We invite scholars with interests across the range of areas in Law, Culture and the Humanities to organize panels, performance pieces, screenings, or to submit proposals for individual paper presentations.

We urge those interested in attending to consider submitting complete panels, and we hope to encourage a variety of formats such as roundtables, sessions in which commentators respond to a single paper or issue or sessions in which the chair presents the papers and their authors respond.
We invite proposals for sessions in which the focus is on pedagogy or methodology, for author-meets-readers sessions organized around important books in the field, or for sessions in which participants focus on performance (theatrical, filmic, musical, poetic).

Ideally, traditional panels should include NO MORE THAN 3 papers. All panel proposals should indicate the name of the chair. In most cases having a separate discussant is desirable. All panels should be planned in such a way that 30 minutes of the one hour and 45 minutes generally allotted for sessions is reserved for discussion/comments by the audience. Proposals must indicate whether a ³smart room² with computer, audio or video presentation technology will be needed. More detailed instructions about participation rules and limits are listed on the first page of the online conference submission system.

We would also welcome you to volunteer to serve as a chair and/or discussant, whether you are submitting a paper proposal or not. If you would like to serve as a chair and/or discussant, please indicate the areas or subjects of your interest/expertise.

Participants will be notified of their acceptance by December 31st 2009. We cannot promise that we will be able to accommodate all proposals.

Questions, please contact Linda Meyer (Linda.Meyer@quinnipiac.edu)