[Discussion] CFP: Law, Culture, and the Humanities (10/1/04; 3/11/05-3/12/05)

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ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF LAW, CULTURE, AND THE HUMANITIES
Eighth Annual Conference
March 11=9612, 2005

Sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts, The University of Texas at Aust=
in

We are pleased to announce that the Eighth Annual Meeting of the
Association for
the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities will be held in Austin, Texa=
s,
March 11=9612, 2005. We invite your participation.

The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities is an
organization of scholars engaged in interdisciplinary,
humanistically=96oriented
legal scholarship. The Association brings together a wide range of people
engaged in scholarship on legal history, legal theory and jurisprudence, =
law
and cultural studies, law and literature, law and the performing arts, an=
d
legal hermeneutics. We want to encourage dialogue across and among these
fields
about issues of interpretation, identity, and values, about authority,
obligation, and justice, and about law=92s place in culture.

Examples of the types of sessions we expect to organize include:

History, Memory and Law; Reading Race; Law and Literature; Human Rights a=
nd
Cultural Pluralism; Speech, Silence, and the Language of Law; Judgment,
Justice, and Law; Beyond Identity; The Idea of Practice in Legal Thought;
Metaphor and Meaning; Representing Legality in Film and Mass Media; Anarc=
hy,
Liberty and Law; What is Excellence in Interpretation?; Ethics,
Religion, and
Law; Moral Obligation and Legal Life; The Post=96Colonial in Literary and
Legal
Study; Processes and Possibilities in Interdisciplinary Law Teaching

This list is by no means exclusive. We invite scholars with interests
across the
range of areas in Law, Culture and the Humanities to organize panels, to
submit
proposals for individual paper presentations, and/or to indicate their
interest
in serving as chair/discussant. We welcome volunteers for chairs and
discussants from people who are not submitting proposals for papers. If y=
ou
would like to be a chair/discussant please submit a one=96paragraph
description
of your interests/area of expertise along with your Name, Address,
Phone, Fax,
and e=96mail.

We urge those interested in attending to consider submitting complete
panels,
and we hope to encourage a variety of formats=97roundtables, sessions at =
which
everyone reads the papers in advance, sessions in which commentators
respond to
a single paper. We invite proposals for sessions in which the focus is on
pedagogy or methodology, for author=96meets=96readers sessions organized =
around
important books in the field, or for sessions in which participants focus=
 on
performance (theatrical, filmic, musical, poetic).

Proposal Submissions

Proposals must contain the following information:

=95Name, Address, Phone, Fax, and e=96mail
=95Title of paper (where applicable)
=95A brief abstract (of up to150 words, to be included in the conference
program)
=95A statement of up to 1000 words explaining what you would like to
present and
why it is important in interdisciplinary studies of law, culture and the
humanities

In the case of full panel proposals, all of this information should be
supplied
for each participant.  Please make sure that your proposal is complete
before
you send it in. If you would be willing to serve as a chair/discussant
please
indicate that on your proposal.

Please submit proposals via e=96mail, NO LATER THAN October 1, 2004 to
Professor
Susan Sage Heinzelman at sheinz@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu. Those submitting
proposals
can expect to receive a response in December. We cannot promise that we
will be
able to accommodate all proposals.

Registration and hotel information as well as a preliminary program will =
be
mailed in early January 2005.

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ASLCH Organizing Committee:
Susan Sage Heinzelman, English/Women and Gender Studies, University of Te=
xas
(President); Anita Allen-Castelitto, Law, University of Pennsylvania
(Secretary); Robin West, Law, Georgetown University (Treasurer); Paul Sch=
iff
Berman, Law, University of Connecticut; Jennifer Culbert, Political Scien=
ce,
Johns Hopkins University; Peter Fitzpatrick, Law, Birkbeck College,
University
of London; Nasser Hussain, Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Amhers=
t
College; Pnina Lahav, Law, Boston University; Naomi Mezey, Law, Georgetow=
n
University; Harriet Murav, Russian, University of Illinois,
Champagne-Urbana;
Austin Sarat, Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Amherst College
(Editor,
Law, Culture and Humanities); Hilary Schor, English, University of Southe=
rn
California; Madhavi Sunder, Law, University of California, Davis; James B=
oyd
White, Law and English, University of Michigan.


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