[Commlist] Conference on law and media

Call for papers: The Cultural Techniques of Law (17-19 January 2024)
University of Helsinki, Finland

Convenors: Matilda Arvidsson (Gothenburg), Tormod Johansen (Gothenburg), 
and Panu Minkkinen (Helsinki). Workshop assistant: Rakel Jylhä-Vuorio 
(Helsinki).

Keynote speaker: Professor Markus Krajeksi (Basel)

Deadline for paper proposals: 16 June 2023

In the Anglophone world, German legal historian and critical legal 
theorist Cornelia Vismann (1961–2010) is best known as an innovative 
interpreter of French high theory, especially of Jacques Derrida, 
Jacques Lacan, and Michel Foucault. This type of reception is, however, 
limited in the sense that at the same time as it tries to establish 
common ground that would enable Vismann to take part in the discursive 
constellations of Anglo-American legal theory, it also neglects the very 
specifically German media-theoretical soil from which her scholarship 
arose. For Vismann the media theorist, the critical study of law 
addressed law’s operations as media and ‘cultural techniques’.

Working towards an edited collection and/or a special issue of a 
journal, the main aims of this pluridisciplinary event (social sciences, 
humanities, creative industries, fine arts) are, among other things:

- to investigate Vismann’s media-theoretical contributions and to assess 
their relevance for the study of law;
- to examine the same potential in the work of other prominent media 
theorists such as Wolfgang Ernst, Friedrich A. Kittler, Markus 
Krajewski, Sybille Krämer, Jussi Parikka, Bernhard Siegert, Anna 
Tuschling, Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, and others;
- to encourage synergy between scholars in the various disciplines; and, 
finally
- to assess what these media-theoretical insights might offer the 
critical study of law more generally.

Participation is free, but accepted speakers are expected to cover their 
own travel and accommodation costs. Limited financial support is 
available for early-career scholars who are not funded by their home 
institutions.

For more information including a link to the e-form with which to submit 
your paper proposal, kindly see:

http://www.panuminkkinen.eu/2023/04/the-cultural-techniques-of-law/
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