Call for Papers mini-conference 22-23 Feb Leiden - Legal Bodies

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

LEGAL BODIES: CORPUS / PERSONA / COMMUNITAS

22-23 February 2014 (saturday & sunday) – Leiden

 

Two-afternoon conference / musical event

In May 2013 LUCAS (Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society) and Cultuur?Barbaar! (Leiden platform for art, music and cultural theory), will host a three-dayinternational conference on the various ways in which literary and artistic texts have represented, interrogated or challenged juridical notions of ‘personhood.’ (More detailed information on the topic can be found in the Call for Papers)

A two-day conference in February, devoted to the same topic, will precede the conference. The aim of this event is to offer students and young scholars an opportunity to present their ideas on this topic to an audience in a 10 minute paper. Participating is a significant opportunity to gain experience in preparing and presenting a paper in the context of an academic conference. It is also a pleasant way to meet kindred spirits.

The conference itself is organized as a cooperation between the University of Leiden and the Leiden cultural initiative “Verrassend Winkelweekend.” The conference will take place in several small shops in the shopping area of Leiden and will be interspersed with musical performances by several local singer/songwriters and experimental artists. The purpose of this conference is to take academic discussion outside the university walls and to offer a more general interested audience the opportunity to participate in the discussion.

All speakers of the conference will be invited to the Cultuurbarbaartje pre-party on the evening of the first day (Saturday 22^nd of February): a mini-festival that serves as a teaser for the major Cultuur?Barbaar! festival in May 2014, and about which more information will appear on the website soon.

MA-students of Literary Theory and other relevant studies are enthusiastically invited to send in a 300 word abstract for a 10 minute presentation to Gerlov van Engelenhoven and Looi van Kessel (LUCAS/C?B!): cultuurbarbaarfestival@wordpress.com

For more detailed information about the topic of the conference, see here

Deadline: 3 February 2014