From Steven Howe, University of Lucerne:<\/p>\n
In the Thick of Images: Law, History, and the Visual\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Monday 10\u00a0& Tuesday 11 June 2024 CALL FOR PAPERS<\/p>\n \u201cSuppose that whatever we\u2019ve done, felt, and thought has always happened in the thick of images.\u201d (Anand Pandian,\u00a0Reel Word: An Anthropology of Creation<\/em>)<\/p>\n The \u2018visual turn\u2019 has long been turning in critical and cultural studies of law (see Douzinas & Nead 1999). In the past twenty-five years, a growing body of scholarship has evolved that emphasises law\u2019s \u201cconstitutive imbrication\u201d (Crawley 2020) with an array of visual forms, and elaborates on the ways in which images \u201cshape and transform legal life\u201d (Sarat et al. 2005). Weaving together an eclectic set of theories, concepts, methods and materials, such studies refuse thin readings of images as merely illustrative of law, and invite us to think more deeply about their ideological and visual operations \u2013 about the meanings they carry and make available, about their material presence and affective effects, and about the cultural-political and cultural-legal work they perform across their multiple contexts of production, circulation and reception.<\/p>\n Much of this scholarship focuses on the contemporary conjuncture of law and visuality. Yet law\u2019s imbrication with the visual is not exclusive to the present; law has always lived, happened and mattered \u201cin the thick of images\u201d. This is the starting point for our two-day conference, which seeks to explicitly foreground historical and historicist work on law and the visual. Situated at the disciplinary crossroads of law, history, visual cultural studies, art history, film and photography studies,\u00a0In the Thick of Images\u00a0<\/em>invites multiple viewpoints and approaches to converge on ways of negotiating the entanglements of law, history and the visual \u2013 in various contexts, scales and timeframes.<\/p>\n Link to the full Call for Papers and other information<\/a><\/p>\n * Keynote speakers to be announced shortly<\/p>\n Proposals due by 19 January 2024 to\u00a0laura.petersen@unilu.ch<\/a><\/p>\n Convenors<\/em><\/p>\n Steven Howe (steven.howe@unilu.ch<\/a>) <\/p>\n The conference forms part of the SNSF research project:\u00a0Imagining Justice: Law, Politics and Popular Visual Culture in Weimar Germany<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n
\nUniversity of Lucerne<\/p>\n
\nLaura Petersen (laura.petersen@unilu.ch<\/a>)
\nNicole Schraner (nicole.schraner@unilu.ch<\/a>)<\/p>\n