During the IVR Congress (27th July – 1st August in Washington), two special workshops will be organised on the theme ‘Law and the Humanities’. Interested scholars are invited to send in an abstract for a paper which will be presented during the special workshop.
1. Special Workshop on Law and Literature: Memory and oblivion, the harmonies and conflicts of law, reason and emotion
On the view that reason is not the only guide of judicial reasoning, this workshop invites contributions on the role of emotions in adjudication and/or on ‘tragic dilemmas’ in adjudication, on the combined development of “the heart and the head” via literary works, i.e. empathy and the legal imagination, on the representation of emotion in law in other cultural artifacts, including aspects of mediality in, and visuality of law (both from the cultural-legal perspective and the practical, i.e. in the courtroom).
2. Special Workshop on Law and Humanities: On Forms: Law and the Other Arts
The workshop invites participants to reflect on the divide between the form of law and legal formalism, on the particular cogency of the legal expression relative to other cultural forms, on the ordering action of law as biopolitics, and on the reductive function of law in counteracting the excess possibilities of life, but also the excedent of law in responding to questions of life it cannot respond to.
The deadline for sending in an abstract is 13th March 2015. Abstracts should contain no more than 400 words. For more detailed information, please visit the IVR website, or the websites of The European Network for Law and Literature and the Italian Society for Law and Literature.
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