Putting Things to Rights: Postcolonial Legal Humanities
Putting Things to Rights: Postcolonial Legal Humanities
International Postgraduate / Early Career Conference organized by
Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Leeds
Postcolonial Humanities Forum
Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick
27 and 28 November, 2015, University of Warwick
In a world more and more
defined by postcolonial and postimperial globalized conflicts the
harrowing questions of human rights have become extremely urgent and
tangled. This jointly organized conference aims to bring together a
number of senior scholars in the fields of postcolonial studies and
legal studies with a group of early career and postgraduate colleagues
to articulate common grounds for further research and analysis. The
group of participants, between twenty-five and thirty, will convene for
one and a half days at the University of Warwick.
This will be the first
organized event of the Postcolonial Humanities Forum, an international
research network (previously funded by AHRC and NWO) that brings
together scholars from the Universities of Leeds and Warwick (UK),
Munich (Germany), Utrecht (Netherlands), Roskilde (Denmark), Padua
(Italy), Chicago and UCLA (USA) and ANU (Australia).
The specific aim of the PHF is
to investigate those pressing societal issues that have been raised by
the relatively recent emergence of three important ‘new humanities’
fields––Digital Humanities, Environmental Humanities and Legal
Humanities––while its more general objective is to identify and develop
methodological tools and concepts that might allow for a better
understanding of new approaches to humanities research from a number of
comparative perspectives that are both contemporary and historical, both
local and global in scope. ‘New humanities’ fields are conspicuously
transnational as well as trans-disciplinary, allowing for a better
understanding of those rapid global transformations that exceed the
jurisdictions of the traditional nation-state. The postcolonial paradigm
will be called upon to tackle complex issues of interpenetration and
co-dependency from the position of subalternity or minority, and to
gauge in how far the humanities have been able to respond to these new
challenges, which, for all their borderless character, continue to
reproduce unequal relations between global North and South.
see link: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/research/priorities/connectingcultures/events/putting_things_to/