SYMPOSIUM: COVERING THE LAW:
Documenting Justice in Picture, Performance and Press
Schedule of Events
Monday, November 9, 2009
Session 1: Americanist Depictions of Law
Monday, 10:30 – 12:00, Humanities Gateway 1010.
Christopher Tomlins (Law): “Discovering America, Uncovering Law: Allegory and Legal History.”
Justin Richland (CLS): “Perpetuities Against Rules: The Irresolution of Inheritance from Jarndyce v. Jarndyce to Marshall v. Marshall.”
Matthew Seybold (English): “’Conning you con at peril’: The Intrusion of Confidence.”
Session 2: Renaissance Depictions of Law
Monday 1:30 – 3:30, Humanities Gateway 1010.
Paul Raffield (Warwick): “Shakespeare on Screen: Uncovering the Veiled Soul of Law.”
Julia Lupton (English): “Arendt in Italy: Or, The Taming of the Shrew.”
Victoria Silver (English): “’Barbarous and Damnable Practices’: Legal Presumption and the Rhetoric of Conspiracy.”
Sam Arkin (English): “’The Very Rooms of Our English’: Spenser and the Idea of the Jury.”
Media Session: Outrage, by Kirby Dick.
Monday, 4:00 – 6:30, Pacific Ballroom, UCI Student Center.
Film and Conversation with the filmmaker (Discussant: Lucas Hilderbrand, UCI).
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Session 3: Law & Print
Tuesday, 10:00 – 11:30, Humanities Gateway 1010.
Henry Weinstein (Law/English/Literary Journalism): Title tba.
Miles Corwin (English/Literary Journalism): “Covering Crime, Cops, Justice & Injustice.”
Barry Siegel (English/ Literary Journalism): “The Law as Narrative.”
Plenary Address by Gary Watt (University of Warwick): Daumier's Legal Lithographs
Tuesday, 11:30 – 12:30, Humanities Gateway 1010.
Session 4: Trials, Justice, Equity & Violence
Tuesday, 1:30-4:00 PM, Humanities Gateway 1010.
David Pan (German): “Law as Violence in the Work of Bertolt Brecht and Franz Kafka.”
Ann Van Sant (English): “What's in a Case? Casuistry and equity as formal sources for exceptionality.”
Peter Leman (English): “(Ir)Regular Forms: Colonial Law, Emergency, and Queen v. Kenyatta in Press and Performance.”
Janelle Reinelt (Warwick): “Performance Fragments: The Relationship between Justice and Genre.”Flyer for Covering the Law Symposium |