[csaa-forum] CFP Passages: Law, Aesthetics, Politics

[Esther Milne]

Call for Papers and Panels

PASSAGES: LAW, AESTHETICS, POLITICS
 
An international conference of the Law and Literature Association of Australia, 13*14 July 2006, University of Melbourne Law School, Australia
 
PASSAGES will bring together interdisciplinary scholars working across several media and genres * including photography, film, literature, painting, digital technologies * and working more broadly at the intersections of law and aesthetics.  In the tradition of the Law and Literature Association, this conference is particularly committed to critical and theoretical analysis responding to the contemporary political conditions in which we live and work.

PASSAGES evokes movements of voyage and migration, tradition and translation, appropriation and transformation, right and ritual, border crossing and transgression, surveillance and forgetting, territory and terror, verdict and sentence, enactment and performance.  In sum, the conference is an invitation to address question of politics and aesthetics, life and law.
 
Plenary and keynote speakers:
MARIA ARISTODEMOU, Birkbeck Law School, University of London, UK 
KATHERINE BIBER, Law Division, Macquarie University, Australia
REBECCA SCOTT BRAY, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, University of Sydney, Australia
RICHARD SHERWIN, New York Law School, USA 
 
OFFERS OF PAPERS AND PANELS ARE NOW INVITED. The deadline for abstracts is MONDAY 1 MAY 2006.  The conference will have both refereed and non-refereed contributions.  For refereed contributions, full papers must be submitted with your abstract.  
 
PASSAGES is organised by Andrew Kenyon, Peter Rush and Alison Young at the University of Melbourne and hosted by the Faculty of Law, its Centre for Media and Communications Law, and the Law and Literature Association of Australia.  
 
Full details about abstracts, papers, registration, travel and accommodation will be available on the conference website soon: see www.law.unimelb.edu.au/cmcl.  Further enquiries to the conference organisers at law-cmcl at unimelb.edu.au. 

Amy Harrington
Administrator
Centre for Media and Communications Law
Faculty of Law
The University of Melbourne Victoria 3010, Australia

Tel:  (613) 8344 9970;  Fax: (613) 9348 0973
a.harrington at unimelb.edu.au
www.law.unimelb.edu.au/cmcl
 
Dr Esther Milne
Lecturer in Media and Communications
Faculty of Life and Social Sciences
Swinburne University of Technology
John Street 
Hawthorn VIC 3122
AUSTRALIA
tel: +613 92148195
fax: +613 98196443

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