Law and Humanities Workshop

The workshop in Law and Literature is designed to highlight innovative work in law and the humanities generally and particularly work on legal history, doctrine, and theory, in relation to narrative, genre, and literary representation.

Upcoming

Rita Felski
Dept of English, University of Viriginia

"An Inspector Calls"

Thurs., March 14, 2013, 4pm - 6pm
Room 119, Emmanuel College (75 Queen's Park)

Pre-registration is encouraged, as Professor Felski will be circulating a draft in advance.  To receive a copy, register at this site: http://www.munk.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=12879

Rita Felski is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English at the University of Virginia. Her current research centres on questions of method and interpretation. Her recent manifesto "The Uses of Literature" is a neo-phenomenological investigation of aesthetic experiences such as recognition, enchantment, and shock. Her work in progress is a book on critique and the hermeneutics of suspicion. She also has longstanding interests in feminist theory, modernity and postmodernity, genre (especially tragedy), and cultural studies.

For related publications, see:
"Suspicious  Minds," Poetics Today 32 (2011): 215-34;
"Critique and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion," M/C Journal 15 (2012)

Co-sponsored by the Law & Humanities Workshop, the Centre for Comparative Literature, and the Centre for the Study of the United States.

See previous years’ schedules.

Past workshop participants have included:

Stanley Fish, Florida International University – "The Intentional Thesis Once More"
Mark Rose, University of California, Santa Barbara – "The Public Sphere and the Emergence of Copyright"
Mary Nyquist, University of Toronto – "Hobbes on Slavery, Gender, and Despotical Rule"
Bradin Cormack, University of Chicago – "A Power To Do Justice"
Bruce Hay, Harvard Law School – "Earl Warren's Theater of the Absurd"
Judith Resnik, Yale Law School – "Representing Justice: An Iconography of Norms"
Lorna Hutson, University of St. Andrews –  "Law and Likelihood in Shakespeare"
Gregg Crane, University of Michigan –  "Confronting Moral Dilemmas in a Skeptical Moment: Literary Realism, Legal Realism, and Pragmatism"
Bernadette Meyler, Cornell Law School – "Imagining Revolution in The Laws of Candy"