New Law and the Humanities Books From Ashgate Publishing

New books available or due out soon from Ashgate Publishing:

Cathrine O. Frank, Law, Literature, and the Transmission of Culture in England, 1837-1925 (2010)

Christopher Frank, Master and Servant Law: Chartists, Trade Unions, Radical Lawyers and the Magistracy in England, 1840-1865 (2010)

Kelly Hager, Dickens and the Rise of Divorce: The Failed Marriage Plot and the Novel Tradition (2010)


Henry Ansgar Kelly, Law and Religion in Chaucer's England (2010) (Variorum Collected Studies Series; CS957)

Dennis R. Klinck, Conscience, Equity and the Court of Chancery in Early Modern England (2010)

Bridget M. Marshall, The Transatlantic Gothic Novel and the Law, 1790-1860 (January 2011)

Anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising

A friend at the University of Lodz sent this trailer for a digital film which commemorates the 60th Anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. The Warsaw Rising Museum (English description here)commemorates the event, which began against the Soviet Army August 1, 1944 and lasted until October 2, 1944. When the Soviets finally entered the city in January 1945, over 85 percent of the city was in ruins. While the number of civilian deaths is unknown, estimates range up to 200,000. August 1 is now a Polish national holiday.

More about the film's premiere here.


Thanks to Dr. Marek Tracz-Tryniecki, University of Lodz, for alerting me to news of the film.

Law, Language, and the Humanities

Penelope J. Pether, Villanova University School of Law, has published "Language, in the Law and the Humanities: An Introduction", in Law and the Humanities (Sarat, Anderson & Frank eds.; Cambridge University Press, 2010).

This chapter from Sarat, Anderson and Frank's Law and the Humanities, An Introduction (Cambridge U.P., 2010), opens with a "post 9/11" clinical teaching "war story," concluding "so much for acronym, euphemism, context, signifiers, and what they signify, writing, positive law and its bureaucratic and institutional simulacra, institutional and disciplinary discourses, surprise, its absence, familiarity, shock, and outrage; and cultural stories, tropes, schemas, or plausible narratives, like the performance of both truthfulness and trauma, or what we might call their discursive construction; and the sites where law and language are evident kin. What of law and language? What does telling stories about law, including the genre of “war stories,” suggest about this aspect of the interdisciplinary field constituted by law and humanities work? After all, “‘[c]ollecting stories,’” Ewick and Silbey write, in one of a group of recent thoughtful critical studies of law and language that complicate the distinction between linguistic humanities and linguistic human science method, “and ‘having conversations’ is not the usual way of describing social science research.” More to the point, all of these aspects of the writing about law might equally be found in other sociocultural institutions and their discourses."

Beyond registering that the body of work on law and language that proceeds from the premise that language is but a medium of transmission for the substance of law has been left methodologically behind by contemporary law and language scholarship, this much might also be said: This survey of the state of contemporary humanistic Law and Language scholarship suggests four main conclusions.

The first is that much of value in this body of work involves applying linguistic humanities andor critical linguistic human sciences methodology to the work of legal institutions, discourses, and texts, and could equally be replicated in “and language” interdisciplinary work in other professions, practices of subject formation, disciplines.

Next, some of it - and the scholarship of Peter Goodrich stands out in particular here - is about the unique or distinctive relationships between law and language. That said, this chapter’s third conclusion about law and language scholarship and the praxes that might be informed by it is that much is yet to be done in the subdiscipline of scholarship concerning itself with the unique or distinctive insights that might emerge from interdisciplinary inquiries into “law” grounded in the work of influential theorists of language and discourse. A cursory sampling of such scholars working in the post- and neostructuralist language studies traditions might range from Derrida and Foucault and Irigaray to Halliday, Kress, and Threadgold to Badiou and Lacan and Kristeva. There are likewise possibilities for interdisciplinary work in law and language that might be potentiated by the development of Peircean semiotics and the linguistic philosophy of Searle and, to a lesser extent, Austin.

This in turn suggests survey’s fourth conclusion: That to the extent that there is an aspect of law and language scholarship that is presently significantly underdeveloped, it is the interrelationships among theories of language, of subject formation, and of law. Lines of inquiry exploring this question might be generated by work drawing on sources that include Husserl’s phenomenological theorization of meaning and language and its account of the communicating subject, and Bourdieu’s work on both discourse and subject formation.

The balance of this chapter is divided into six main sections that in turn map distinctive subtypes of Law and Language scholarship: “Humanism and its Supplements;” “InstrumentalPhenomenal;” “PhilosophyTheory;” “Pedagogy and Subject Formation;” “Practice;” and “Culture.” I have endeavored to select both representative and significant scholars to exemplify general arguments, with inevitable omissions.

The Use of Images and Law

Jessica M. Silbey, Suffolk University Law School, has published Evidence Verité and the Law of Film, at 31 Cardozo Law Review 1257 (2010). Here is the abstract.

This paper explores a puzzle concerning the authority of certain images that increasingly find themselves at the center of legal disputes: surveillance or “real time” film images that purport to capture an event about which there is a dispute. Increasingly, this kind of “evidence verité” is used in United States courts of law as the best evidence of what happened. Film footage of arrests, criminal confessions, photographs of crime scenes (during and after) is routinely admitted into court as evidence. It tends to overwhelm all other evidence (e.g., testimonial or documentary) and be immune to critical analysis. Why would this be so?

This paper situates this phenomenon in the current legal United States context, with a brief history of “evidence verité” and its treatment at law. It then compares side-by-side two cultural institutions, photography and law, as examples of institutions with power and influence over public and popular consciousness. How do these two institutions intersect? What patterns of influence and persuasion emerge from the partnership of photographic or filmic images and the role of law? The paper explores these questions by tracing the life of certain iconic public images in hopes that doing so will tell us something about how they came to be iconic: how their circulation and reception in the United States rendered the images meaningful beyond their textual existence. Studying the circulation and recirculation of these photograph images helps make sense of how “real time” images in culture and at law might shape our understanding of important, historic events beyond the facts these images depict.

This paper is not a paper about how we understand images as a psychological or neurological matter. It is a paper about how law and legal processes frame images and how images – especially “real time” images – frame or shape the law. The photographs the paper examines include the “Migrant Mother” from the Great Depression, the bombing of Hiroshima, the flag raising at Iwo Jima during WWII, the Times Square Kiss on VJ day, the US landing on the moon, the first in utero photographs of a human fetus, and images of torture at Abu Ghraib prison.

Download the article from SSRN at the link.

Legal Science, Legal Theory, Legal Naming

Hanoch Dagan, Tel Aviv University, Buchmann Faculty of Law, and Roy Kreitner, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, and Tel Aviv University, Buchmann Faculty of Law, have published The Character of Legal Theory, in the Cornell Law Review. Here is the abstract.

For nearly a century legal scholars have vacillated between two strategies for dealing with the collapse of legal science as an autonomous discipline. One typical response has been to abandon the notion of a legal theory and to borrow a theoretical discipline from the social sciences or from the humanities. Another response has been to discard the idea of legal theory by highlighting the practical wisdom of lawyers and celebrating law as a craft.

Our mission in this Essay is to describe legal theory as an enterprise robust enough to justify separate naming. Legal theory focuses on the work of society's coercive normative institutions. It studies the traditions of these institutions and the craft typifying their members, while at the same time continuously challenging their outputs by demonstrating their contingency and testing their desirability. In performing the latter tasks, legal theory necessarily absorbs lessons from law’s neighboring disciplines. But at its best, legal theory is more than a sophisticated synthesis of relevant insights from these friendly neighbors, because of its pointed attention to the persistent jurisprudential questions regarding the nature of law, notably the relationship between law's normativity and its coerciveness and the implications of its institutional and structural characteristics.

Before we turn to elaborate on these features, we begin with an outline of the three other important discourses about law: law and policy; socio-historical analysis of law; and law as craft. Sketching these three genres of legal scholarship is instrumental for our task because analyzing the ways in which legal theory is different from these other modes helps us characterize legal theory.

Download the article from SSRN at the link.

A Little Light Reading

End of exam grading (or maybe just lazy mid-spring reading): from Malcolm Gladwell, in the New Yorker, musings on the story of a man who never was, via a review of a new book on the subject, Ben Macintyre's Operation Mincemeat; buckle that swash! with Allan Massie, as he considers the real value of historical fiction in a piece for Standpoint. Survey the battle between print and ebook with Ken Auletta (again for the New Yorker)--do we value electronic less than paper? I wonder if that's the mindset that creates so much piracy (ah! back to swashbuckling). Then check out a new evaluation of the young Alexis de Tocqueville's discovery of a young United States--a review of Leo Damrosch's Tocqueville's Discovery of America by Sean Wilentz for The American Prospect.

A New Issue of Law, Culture, and the Humanities

The new issue of Law, Culture, and the Humanities is out. It includes:

Charles Barbour, Sovereign Times; Acts of Creation
James R. Martel, Can There Be Politics Without Sovereignty? Arendt, Derrida and the Question of Sovereign Inevitability
Jill Stauffer, Equality and Equivocation: Saving Sovereignty From Itself
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, What Comes After Sovereignty?
Joseph Jenkins, Dead Hand Rising: Dialectics Beyond Last Wills in The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest
Sharon Cowan, The Elvis We Deserve: The Social Regulation of Sex/Gender and Sexuality Through Cultural Representations of "The King"
Jinee Lokaneeta, A Rose By Another Name: Legal Definitions, Sanitized Terms, and Imagery of Torture in 24
Eugene Garver, Spinoza on Constitutional Interpretation

and Book Reviews by Darien Shanske, Robert Nichols, Elizabeth I. Pirnie, Sara Murphy, and Manas Ray

Open Access To Law and Humanities Writings Via WikiSource

Timothy K. Armstrong, University of Cincinnati College of Law, has published "Rich Texts: Wikisource as an Open Access Repository for Law and the Humanities," as University of Cincinnati Public Law Research Paper No. 10-09. Here is the abstract.

Open access to research and scholarship, although well established in the sciences, remains an emerging phenomenon in the legal academy. In recent years, a number of open access repositories have been created to permit self-archiving of legal scholarship (either within or across institutional boundaries), and faculties at some leading research institutions have adopted policies supporting open access to their work. Although existing repositories for legal scholarship represent a clear improvement over proprietary, subscription-based repositories in some ways, their architecture, and the narrowly defined missions they have elected to pursue, limit their ability to illuminate the ongoing dialogue among texts that is a defining characteristic of scholarly discourse in law and the humanities. One of the wiki-based projects operated by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation--the Wikisource digital library - improves upon the shortcomings of existing open access repositories by bringing source texts and commentary together in a single place, with additional contextual materials hosted on other Wikimedia Foundation sites just a click away. These features of Wikisource, if more widely adopted, may improve academic discourse by highlighting conceptual interconnections among works, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, and reducing the competitive advantages of proprietary, closed-access legal information services.

Law and the Humanities Institute Presents a Symposium

Law & Humanities Institute, the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Program in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies, and the
Louise and Arde Bulova Fund

present

The Risks of Interpretive Flexibility When Basic Traditions Are
Challenged by an “Emergency”

August 11, 2010
at
Prospect House
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey 08544

Registration 8:30am to 9:00am Program 9:00am to 5:30pm

Panelists:


Richard Weisberg
Event Co-Chair,
President, Law & Humanities Institute,
Walter Floersheimer Professor of Constitutional Law and Founding Director, Program for Holocaust and Human Rights Studies, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Elaine Scarry
Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Values, Harvard University

Marci Hamilton
Paul R. Verkuil Chair in Public Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Peter Brooks
Event Co-Chair,
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholar,
Professor in Comparative Literature and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University



Sanford Levinson
Charles Tilford McCormick Professor Law, University of Texas
Author of Torture the Debate






This program examines why professional communities have yielded their finest traditions to a perceived sense of “emergency.” The results are often disastrous, as in the case of the French legal community during World War II, and perhaps with the equivocal redefinition and application of “torture” in our own country. This program brings the methods, sources, and readings of the Humanities to a focused inquiry into the reasons lawyers, theologians, and many other professional communities have so often lost their way. A panel and public discussion will delve into the inquiry of professional communities in an “emergency.” CLE credit will be available. Please RSVP to stephanie.spangler@gmail.com with intention of attendance and CLE option.

This program was made possible by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.

Summer Seminar Announcement

DAAD Faculty Summer Seminar
"Violence and the Law in German Cultures of Modernity"
Directed by Prof. Isabel V. Hull, Cornell University
June 14-July 23, 2010

The application deadline for this exciting seminar has been extended to March 15 because of an unfortunate oversight in the original announcement! The correct seminar dates are June 14-July 23 (not July 30).

All applications received by March 15 will be given full consideration, and electronic submissions are welcome. Completed applications should be sent directly to Prof. Isabel V. Hull, Dept. of History, 450 McGraw Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853 or by e-mail to .

A seminar description, application instructions, and relevant forms can be found at the DAAD Website .

Symposium On Food, Culture, and the Law

From Penelope Pether, Villanova University School of Law, an announcement of a symposium on "Food, Culture and the Law," on February 26, sponsored by the University of Iowa and to be held at the Old Capitol Senate Chamber.

A Collection on Law and Magic

New publication: Law and Magic: A Collection of Essays (Christine A. Corcos, ed., Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2010). This collection of 24 essays explores the very rich ways in which the rule of law and the practice of magic enrich and inform each other. The authors bring both a U.S. and a comparative law perspective while examining areas such as law and religion, criminal law, intellectual property law, the law of evidence, and animal rights. Topics include alchemy in fifteenth-century England, a discussion of how a courtroom is like a magic show, stage hypnotism and the law, Scottish witchcraft trials in the eighteenth century, the question of whether stage magicians can look to intellectual property to protect their rights, tarot card readings and the First Amendment, and an analysis of whether a magician can be qualified as an expert witness under the Federal Rules of Evidence.

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/

AALS Section On Law and the Humanities Focuses on "Reasoning From Literature" at 2010 Conference

From Jessica Silbey, news of this year's AALS Section on Law and the Humanities
2010 AALS Conference, New Orleans

Reasoning from Literature

The “literary turn” in legal studies manifests in many ways in our legal discipline and practice. Be it with the birth of the study of law and literature in the 1980s, the growing attention to narrative theory and storytelling in the law in the 1990s, or the “cultural turn” in legal studies in the 21st century (as some scholars have called the cultural analysis of law), reasoning from literature seems commonplace. And yet it feels still marginalized in legal studies, as not “really law,” and lacking the core persuasive power that legal argumentation and doctrinal analysis do. This panel has been put together to wrestle with what it means to “reason from literature” and to contest the boundaries between legal reasoning and literary logic. Proceedings to be published in the Yale Journal of Law and Humanities, Winter 2010.


Program Chair: Jessica Silbey, Suffolk University Law School
Section Chair: David Ritchie, Mercer
Chair Elect: Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Iowa


Jessica Silbey
Associate Professor of Law
Suffolk University Law School
Boston, MA 02108
617-305-6270
jsilbey@suffolk.edu
http://www.law.suffolk.edu/faculty/directories/faculty.cfm?InstructorID=819

Law, Humanities and the Medical Curriculum

Jennifer Bard, Texas Tech University School of Law, Thomas William Mayo, Southern Methodist School of Law, and Stacey A. Tovino, Drake University School of Law have published "Three Ways of Looking at a Health Law and Literature Class," in volume 1 of Drexel Law Review (Summer 2009). Here is the abstract.

The authors of this Article participated in a panel at the American Society of Law, Ethics & Medicine Conference in 2008 that discussed the use of literary materials in law school to teach medical ethics (and related matters) in a law school setting. Each author comes at the topic from a different perspective based on his or her own experience and background. This Article and the panel on which it was based reflect views on how literature can play a valuable role in helping law students, as well as medical students, understand important legal and ethical issues and concepts in health law and bioethics.

In Part I, Stacey Tovino introduces the parallel fields of “literature and medicine” and “law and literature” and identifies several common approaches to the use of literature, literary non-fiction, and illness narratives in medical and law school curricula. Tovino places current coursework in Law, Literature, and Medicine in its proper historical and pedagogical context.

In Part II, Tom Mayo describes the Law, Literature, and Medicine seminar he offers to third-year law students at Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law and fourth-year medical students at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. Mayo examines the features of his course that make it effective, suggests literature that may be used by health law professors who do not have the opportunity to teach a seminar devoted to literature, and comments on the ongoing medical humanities debate.

In Part III, Jennifer Bard describes the Law, Medicine, and Literature course she offered for the first time at Texas Tech University School of Law during the Spring 2008 semester. Bard examines the texts and films she assigned to build a working knowledge of medicine and science and the literature she selected to immerse her students in medico-legal situations with which they were unfamiliar.

Download the article from SSRN at the link.

Positions Open

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LAW and SOCIETY JOB DESCRIPTION: Successful candidates will be expected to teach courses in each of the following categories: (1) Introduction to Law and Society and/or Introduction to Law and Justice, (2) Comparative Legal Systems, American Legal History, Contemporary Issues in Law and Society, and/or Legal Rhetoric, (3) Directed Readings and Thesis Supervision and (4) electives of the major. Rank and salary based on qualifications and experience. REQUIREMENTS: Ph.D. required by start date in social science area relevant to the study and teaching of socio-legal phenomena including, but not limited to anthropology, area studies, communications/media, criminology, economics, gender/women's studies, geography, history, interdisciplinary studies, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, political science, sexuality, social work or sociology, etc.; and J.D. with practical experience strongly recommended. Scholarship (or promise thereof) on critical socio-legal theory involving race, gender, class and/or similar categories of inequality required. Inquiries may be directed to Dr. Aaron R.S. Lorenz, Search Committee Chair, School of Social Science and Human Services. To request accommodations, call (201) 684-7732.


All applications must be completed online at: http://www.ramapojobs.com Attach resume, cover letter, statement of teaching philosophy, research interests and a list of three references to your completed application. Since its beginning, Ramapo College has had an intercultural/international mission. Please tell us how your background, interest and experience can contribute to this mission, as well as to the specific position for which you are applying. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the positions are filled. Positions offer excellent state benefits. Applications will not be accepted by mail or email. Ramapo College Of New Jersey RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ 07430 Ramapo College is a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC), a national alliance of leading liberal arts colleges in the public sector. EEO/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION.

Fellowship Opportunity: Digital Humanities Centers

From Fiona Barrett, Director, HASTAC Scholars

Fellowships at Digital Humanities Centers:
The NEH is sponsoring a number of Fellowships that will be take place at Digital Humanities Centers. Dante Noto, the Associate Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), has graciously offered to work with one applicant to apply for this NEH grant. Should the grant be awarded, the Fellow would work through the UCHRI and all details would be worked out between the successful applicant and the Institute.


NEH Grant:

UCHRI:

How to apply:
We are hoping someone in our HASTAC network is interested in pursuing this very exciting fellowship opportunity at UCHRI. Dante is currently collecting the information from interested applicants. He will be out of the office until August 17, so will not be able to respond to inquiries until then.

Please email him, before August 17:
- Your name, current position (post-doc, salaried position, faculty, etc.), & contact information
- C.V.
- A short introduction to your work and what project you would like to pursue with this grant. A few paragraphs should suffice -- the successful applicant and Dante will develop the NEH application more fully together. The point is to introduce him to your work and see if your application would be appropriate for both the grant and for the UCHRI.
- UCHRI will collect these suggestions, and will pursue the NEH grant with one applicant.

Eligibility:
A few brief words on eligibility. Check the grant site for more details:
- You cannot be a student at this time - you could have completed any level of education (usually an MA or Ph.D.) by the application deadline, but cannot be a current student at a degree-granting institution.
- This means that current HASTAC Scholars are not eligible - but HASTAC alumni (if they have graduated), faculty, forum participants, and anyone not currently a student are eligible.
- You must be either a US Citizen *OR* you can be a foreign national who has been living in the US for the previous three years
- You can apply for other NEH awards but cannot hold this one at the same time as another (you can apply to more than one, but only win one at a time)
- The Digital Humanities Center and the Applicant submit the application together. You cannot submit an application if you are not working in tandem with a DHC.
- Each applicant can only apply with one Center per deadline (you cannot submit your application with more than one Digital Humanities Center)
- Each Center can only submit one application per deadline
- There are rules on the type of work that these Fellowships can support - check the application for more details
- Firm Grant Deadline: September 15, 2010

Contact Information:
Dante Noto
Associate Director, Research Development and External Relations
UC Humanities Research Institute
307 Aldrich Hall
Irvine, CA 92697-3350

Email: dnoto@hri.uci.edu

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.

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Telephone: (808) 542-4385
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