CANADIAN INITIATIVE IN LAW, CULTURE AND THE HUMANITIES
2ND BIENNIAL CONFERENCE
CALL FOR PAPERS
We are pleased to announce that the Canadian Initiative in Law, Culture and the Humanities will be hosting its second biennial conference at Carleton University in Ottawa. The conference will take place over the weekend of 12-14 October, 2007.
The conference is intended to bring together Canadian scholars working in a variety of disciplines whose research addresses the intersections among culture, the humanities and law. We anticipate that the conference will present an exciting mix of disciplines, perspectives and topics and will draw a diverse group of participants. As long as your work is positioned in some way in the intersections of these areas, then it fits with this eclectic conference.
Our goal in hosting this conference is to stimulate conversation among Canadian scholars interested in this area and to foster a community of law, culture and humanities scholars in Canada. If your current research draws interdisciplinary connections among law, culture and the humanities or you are simply interested in this approach, we invite you to attend and participate in the conference.
If you are interested in presenting a paper, please submit a proposal containing the following information:
- title of proposed paper
- bibliographic and contact information about the presenter(s)
- abstract of paper (maximum 300 words)
If you would like to submit a proposal for a panel of presentations or a roundtable, please provide the information listed above as it relates to your proposal. We are interested in works in progress, as well as more finished papers.
Proposals should be submitted to the conference organizing committee by 15 July 2007, by email addressed to Logan_Atkinson @ carleton.ca.
Host Committee:
Diana Majury
Neil Sargent
Sheryl Hamilton
Logan Atkinson
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Hi Craig – will you be participating in the conference? giving a paper? Looks interesting. I will consider attending.
Yes to both. I’m doing a panel with Peter Swan (I think he’s doing something on Kojeve and Benjamin) and Steve Tasson (something on Benjamin). I’ll talk about my barbarians. Given that it is three days, they’d likely let me do two papers if you’re interested in putting together a panel on Schmitt. (Presumably we’d need another person.)
sounds good. Why don’t we do that? I was thinking about moving on, in terms of projects, but one more conference on Schmitt can’t hurt. Can it? I would seriously consider doing something on Schmitt’s Theory of the Partisan, or the Nomos.
as for another person, I’m not sure. I know there are some people at York doing Agamben, but I am not certain about Carleton. Why don’t we put some thought into who might fit the bill?
Something on Nomos might be good. I’ll see if I can dig anyone up.
Hi Craig – Since my computer crashed, I have lost your email. I’m just wondering how your thinking is coming along for the session. Do you need a hand at all? B.
Sorry, I haven’t had the chance to give it any thought – my dog had a surgery on Tuesday and another on Friday to correct a complication (the surgeon left a sponge in her chest). She’s still in hospital on a number of IVs, including transfusions…
I’m still interested in putting something together – either the Nomos thing discussed above or something on Schmitt and Strauss on Hobbes.
The disagreement over Hobbes is on my mind as well. It is quite fascinating to read their very different takes on Hobbes’ Leviathan…
I’ll send an email to the organizers and see if they’ll accept a panel of two, if we can find a discussant, regarding the Schmitt/Strauss debate over Hobbes.
Hi Craig
I’m a PhD student at McGill working in law / film – do you know whether the Canadian Initiative in law culture and the humanities has a list-serve? I wanted to present at this conference but had to back out at the last minute. I’d like to know about others like it and to connect with other grad students doing similar research
Thanks
Suzanne
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