Call for Papers

Here's an announcement for an intriguing-looking conference:

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF LAW, CULTURE, AND THE HUMANITIES

Eighth Annual Conference

March 11-12, 2005

Sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts, The University of Texas at Austin

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, Texas, March 11-12, 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-oriented 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, and 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's 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 and 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; Anarchy, Liberty and Law; What is Excellence in Interpretation?; Ethics, Religion, and Law; Moral Obligation and Legal Life; The Post-Colonial 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 you would like to be a chair/discussant please submit a one-paragraph description of your interests/area of expertise along with your Name, Address, Phone, Fax, and e-mail.

We urge those interested in attending to consider submitting complete panels, and we hope to encourage a variety of formats-roundtables, 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-meets-readers 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:

· Name, Address, Phone, Fax, and e-mail
· Title of paper (where applicable)
· A brief abstract (of up to150 words, to be included in the conference program)
· A 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-mail, NO LATER THAN October 1, 2004 to Professor Susan Sage Heinzelman at [email protected]. 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 Texas (President); Anita Allen-Castelitto, Law, University of Pennsylvania (Secretary); Robin West, Law, Georgetown University (Treasurer); Paul Schiff Berman, Law, University of Connecticut; Jennifer Culbert, Political Science, Johns Hopkins University; Peter Fitzpatrick, Law, Birkbeck College, University of London; Nasser Hussain, Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Amherst College; Pnina Lahav, Law, Boston University; Naomi Mezey, Law, Georgetown 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 Southern California; Madhavi Sunder, Law, University of California, Davis; James Boyd White, Law and English, University of Michigan.

Rick