Cfs Conference: "Legal Imaginaries — a Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia Conference" (University of Hong Kong 16-18 December 2024

 

 

Delighted to pass along this call for Streams

CALL FOR STREAMS – SUBMIT BY 31 MARCH 2024
 

This Conference is an invitation to collectively examine, critique, and, for the more daring, transform the  imaginaries that constellate our grasp of reality and sustain the authority of law – from the racialised and gendered representations that give form and force to the colonial and patriarchal imaginaries of both North and South; to the configurations of sovereignty that are held together by the sociotechnical and technoscientific imaginaries of the Anthropocene; to the confined and confining figures of justice that populate the modern imaginaries of the state…
 

If the ‘imaginary’ is not so much social context, which risks reification, nor historical curiosity, which risks uncritical periodisation, then we might think of it as a fluid. We are immersed in it; it saturates everything; it is in the air that we breathe; but more like water to whales than quicksand to humans: inescapable, perhaps, yet nonetheless enabling of individual as well as collective forms of expression. As with any body of water, there are currents and eddies, particular ways of imagining that coalesce and recycle, for a moment, for a decade, for hundreds of years – but always with the potential for new ways of imagining to flow through. Which is why, for every vortex(t) of ideas, tropes, desires and fears, which sucks us in and hold us down, there must be counter-currents – streams – to help move us in new directions.

All stream proposals welcome. On how, and why, to submit a proposal CLICK HERE. Call for Papers to follow.

The Call for Streams Information follows below.

Legal Imaginaries: A Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia Conference

 

16-18 December 2024
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

Call for Streams – Deadline 31 March 2024
Call for Panels/Papers to follow

The Streams will provide the Conference sub-themes. When the Call for Panels/Papers is issued later in the year, an option will be given for panels and papers to be included within one of the Streams. The Conference Organising Committee will consult with Stream Convenors on inclusion of papers within their Stream, as well as on the composition of Stream panels. The aim is to ensure that papers are in conversation with each other as far as possible, but also to create ongoing conversations across panel sessions.

All Stream proposals are welcome; those that wash with the Conference theme of Legal Imaginaries are encouraged, but so too are Streams that spring from an entirely different source. Some possibilities include:

• Legal imaginaries in/of the Global South
• Colonial, postcolonial, decolonial legal imaginaries
• Feminist legal imaginaries
• Inhuman imaginaries
• Utopian imaginaries
• Mobile imaginaries
• Imaginaries in/of legal education
• Imagining new legal internationalisms
• Re-imagining sovereignty
• Judging images
• Media of law
• Nature in law

To submit your Stream proposal, please fill in the form here. The Conference Organising Committee will respond on a rolling basis.