{"id":6700,"date":"2026-03-03T08:53:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?p=6700"},"modified":"2026-03-03T08:53:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:53:39","slug":"call-for-applications-institute-for-interdisciplinary-legal-studies-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/call-for-applications-institute-for-interdisciplinary-legal-studies-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Call For Applications, Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From Steven Howe, Associate Director for Institute for Interdisciplinary Disciplinary Legal Studies, Lucernaiuris<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unilu.ch\/en\/\">\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Call for Applications: Critical Times 2026 \u2013 Bodies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhy all the fuss about the body?\u201d Caroline Bynum first posed this provocation in the mid-1990s, prompted by a \u201cproliferation\u201d of new writings and theorizations, including then-recent and now-classic works by Judith Butler, bell hooks and Susan Bordo. Looking back some three decades on, we see that the \u2018fuss\u2019 was no temporary flare-up or mere passing fad. Rather, it was symptomatic of an emergent \u2018bodily turn\u2019 that has, in the years since, moved the terminology of bodies \u2013 real, imagined and metaphorical \u2013 to the foreground of critical thinking across law and the humanities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fruits of this turn need no special elaboration. Interventions in critical theory, performance studies, affect theory, Black studies, feminist and queer theory, posthumanism and new materialist studies have given us an array of new vocabularies and insights to bring to bear on our thinking about bodies, their meanings, entanglements and limits. The body, in Rizvana Bradley\u2019s phrase, has become a \u201cdiscursive meeting ground\u201d for an \u201cunwieldy multitude of concepts and debates, affects and afflictions, conflicts and contestations\u201d, the distinctive expressions of which span multiple fields, disciplines and cultures. While not always clear whether these numerous articulations work in tandem or at cross-purposes, they have, in their very plurality, fostered a deeper engagement with, and\u00a0<em>problematization of<\/em>, the \u201cmatter of bodies\u201d (Butler). Our present moment \u2013 marked by demographic convulsions, war, enhanced practices of surveillance, ubiquitous mobile media, posthuman subjectivities, and new forms of political protest and social movements \u2013 urges us, meanwhile, to \u2018fuss\u2019 further: to give continued and renewed care to re\/thinking the significance of bodies in various contexts, situations and relations. Or to ask more pointedly: do bodies still matter? And if so, why, when and how?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this spirit, the 2026 Critical Times summer school invites emerging scholars in law and the humanities to gather anew around the theme of \u2018Bodies\u2019. Together, we will think about bodies that assemble and disassemble, that appear and disappear, that are protected, punished, cared for, and ignored. From the vulnerable to the resistant, the human to the more-than-human, we ask how legal and cultural frameworks make some bodies visible and others invisible \u2013 and how embodiment, performance and affect shape and unsettle our legal imaginaries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Open to postdocs, PhDs and advanced graduate students from different disciplinary and interdisciplinary backgrounds, the aim is to create a live and lively space of inquiry and creativity \u2013 a temporary assembly of thinking, feeling, and embodied scholarship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deadline: 20 March 2026. Further details\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.unilu.ch%2Fen%2Ffaculties%2Ffaculty-of-law%2Finstitutes-academies-research-centres%2Finstitute-for-interdisciplinary-legal-studies-lucernaiuris%2Fcritical-times%2F2026-bodies%2F%23tab%3Dc204901&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cccorcos%40lsu.edu%7C361c86c730834e1a48f108de78fb63c7%7C2d4dad3f50ae47d983a09ae2b1f466f8%7C0%7C0%7C639081218286279538%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=qPTSx1OLdc8wYup1SJarFv66Ihzui0Zna9WgN6%2F%2FHXM%3D&amp;reserved=0\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contact:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:steven.howe@unilu.ch\">steven.howe@unilu.ch<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=HedgehogsFoxes\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Steven Howe, Associate Director for Institute for Interdisciplinary Disciplinary Legal Studies, Lucernaiuris. \u00a0 Call for Applications: Critical Times 2026 \u2013 Bodies \u201cWhy all the fuss about the body?\u201d Caroline Bynum first posed this&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-call-for-applications","category-institute-for-interdisciplinary-legal-studies"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pasVL2-1K4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6701,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6700\/revisions\/6701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}