Complicities
Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of Australasia Conference
University of Technology Sydney Law School,
Sydney, Australia
Dates: 9-12 December 2015
(with 9 December as a postgraduate day)
Complicity is a state of being complex or involved, and no matter where we are, or what we do, law is part of our entanglement in the world. This conference will explore law’s complex relations with culture, politics and capital. It will investigate law as an accomplice, as well as law’s role in shaping (and resisting) problematic moral, political and material positions.
The conference invites consideration of the following questions:
• What does complicity reveal about law’s methods
and modes, its affects and effects?
• How are law’s genres, narratives, processes and
images complicit in the creation of particular
imaginaries, materialities and practices of the
everyday?
• How might we work within visual, narrative, creative
and textual domains and devise strategies to reveal
and counter law's complicities, and acknowledge
our own?
To live with law, and our intertwined complicities, is not an easy task. The challenge becomes one of how we might live with law yet continue to navigate our politics, ethics and forms of protest with critical and creative agency.
4 bursaries are available to assist PhD and Research Masters candidates to attend this conference. Find out how to apply.
Conference prices:
$385 early bird registration
$165 post graduate registration
$440 standard registration
