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From Dr. Steven Howe, University of Lucerne<\/p>\n
CFP: Law and the Humanities World (1 & 2 September, Lucerne)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n In Humanities Theory (2025, with Amanda Anderson), Simon During offers a suggestive mapping of a \u201chumanities world\u201d \u2013 a loosely linked \u201cconglomeration of practices, interests, comportments, personae, offices, moods, purposes and values\u201d that inhabit \u201cvarious settings, disciplines and institutions\u201d. The \u201chumanities world\u201d is plural and diverse; it has no essence or centre, even as it is threaded by shared \u2013 if contested \u2013 histories, understandings and commitments. It transcends disciplinary lines and geographical formations. Vitally, it also embraces a flourishing \u201cextramural\u201d humanities \u2013 of books, artworks, exhibitions, performances, films, TV shows, and podcasts \u2013 that bears only loose relation to the professional humanities ensconced in universities.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For this inaugural conference of the new Swiss Law and Humanities Hub, we take the idea of a \u2018humanities world\u2019 as a prompt to reflect again on the place(s) of the legal humanities. We call on contributors to give new and further thought to where law and humanities work is performed and pursued, and to the ways in which such work comes to be done in the \u2018beyond\u2019 of academia. What happens when we shift our purview away from universities to public spaces, cultural institutions and other locations of collective life? How might this reorientation reshape our understanding of theory, method and practice? More broadly, the conference aims to encourage reflection, collaboration and the sharing of creative approaches that (re-)think legal critique and critique of law through different forms of humanities work \u2013 public, popular, and vernacular.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Full call for papers\u00a0here<\/a>. Deadline: 12 June 2026.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Contact:\u00a0steven.howe@unilu.ch<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n