I am delighted to be part of this conference and with thanks to the remarkable Martin Belov for bringing us all together. The Conference, ‘Legal Imaginaries of Crisis and Fear’, will he held from 8:30 - 18:30 in the New Conference Hall, Main Building (Rectorate) of the University of Sofia ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’.
The conference ‘Legal Imaginaries of Crisis and Fear’ aims at exploring the legally relevant feelings, emotions, and imaginaries of fear. It will present the outcomes of a multifaceted scientific analysis of the constitutional and international law dimensions of crisis and fear. Dark feelings and the (un)constitutional politics of fear are at the core of the research interest of a group of leading and internationally recognized scholars that have been gathered by prof. Dr. Martin Belov of Sofia University in a network researching the legal imaginaries of fear.
The conference shall start with an outline of fear constitutionalism. It will present the epistemological, semiotic, semantic, and heuristic approaches to dark emotions in constitutions and constitutional law. Special attention shall be devoted to affectual constitutionalism and the collective emotional self-identification of the constitutionally framed socio-political communities and the various groups that are framed by them. Dark constitutional memories, memory politics of fear, and the emotions of constitutional transition and social transformation will be assessed marking the transtemporal research of constitutional darkness and fear politics. Special part of the conference shall be devoted to the international and transnational imaginaries of crisis and fear. The conference shall conclude with heuristic analysis of the images of fear.
This event is organised by the European Values and Social Challenges (EUVaSC) research group under the SUMMIT project of Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski. The project SUMMIT - Sofia University Marking Momentum for Innovation and Technological Transfer is financed by the European Union-NextGenerationEU, through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan of the Republic of Bulgaria, project No BG-RRP-2.004-0008.
The Programme follows below. More information ay be accessed through the QR Code:
Looking forward to presenting my paper there as well.
8:30 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:30 Opening speeches
- Prof. Dr. Maria Stoicheva, Leader of the SUMMIT EUVaSc research group
- Prof. Dr. Martin Belov, Organizer of the conference, editor of the conference volume and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Sofia ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’
9:30 - 11:00 Panel I. Fear Constitutionalism: Epistemological, Semiotic, Semantic, and Heuristic Approaches to Dark Emotions in Constitutions and Constitutional Law
Moderator: Mario Kresic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- Martin Belov (University of Sofia ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’, Bulgaria) Dark Constitutionalism: Shaping Dark Constitutional Imaginaries through Dark Constitutional Politics on the Basis of Dark Constitutional Anthropology
- Marta Soniewicka (Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland) Is it the End of the World as We Know it? The Heuristics of Fear and Apocalyptic Visions in Politics
- Emilia Musumeci (University of Teramo, Italy) “Nothing Spreads Like Fear”. From the Government of the Plague to the Crime of Contagion
Discussion
11:00 - 12:00 Panel II. Affectual Constitutionalism and the Collective Emotional Self-Identification
Moderator: Martin Belov (University of Sofia ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’, Bulgaria)
- Richard Sherwin (New York Law School, USA) – Constitutional Over-Belief: Affective Intensity as a Function of Legitimation
- Larry Catá Backer (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Emotive Semiotics in Collective Meaning Making - Signification of Preambular and Extraconstitutional Texts
Discussion
12:00 - 12:30 Coffee break
12:30 - 14:00 Panel III. Dark Constitutional Memories, Memory Politics of Fear, and the Emotions of Constitutional Transition and Social Transformation
Moderator: Richard Sherwin (New York Law School, USA)
- Mario Kresic (University of Zagreb, Croatia) – Politics of Fear and Social Transformation Through the Lens of Legal Politics
- Mirosław M. Sadowski (University of Strathclyde, UK) (Re)Invention of Memory. Constitutional Narratives in Central European – Sombre or Luminous?
- Sabarish Suresh (University of Singapore) Trauma, Melancholia and the Law (online presentation)
Discussion
14:00 - 15:30 Lunch break
15:30 - 17:00 Panel IV. International and Transnational Imaginaries of Crisis and Fear
Moderator: Mirosław M. Sadowski (University of Strathclyde, UK)
- Jean D’Apremont (Sciences Po, France and University of Manchester, UK) Crisis Affects in the International Legal Discourse (online presentation)
- Vesselin Popovski (Jindal Global Law School, India and Sofia University, Bulgaria) Terrorism as Imaginary: Creating Politics of Fear
- Shalvi Ponwar (Jindal Global Law School, India) Climate Alarmism and Denialism
Discussion
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break 1
7:30 - 18:30 Panel V. Images of Fear
Moderator: Emilia Musumeci (University of Teramo, Italy)
- Carolin Behrmann (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany) Constitution of Fear in Legal Spaces
- Massimo Leone (University of Torino, Italy) Fear Faces (online presentation)
Discussion
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