CALL FOR PAPERS: Through A Legal Lens: Law, History and Visual Culture - Online 26th May 2022 - deadline 1st February 2022

 

WORKSHOP THEME

Law is often seen, and indeed often presents itself, as image-less, a text-based discourse. Perhaps

for this reason, the use of images in legal historical research is an undervalued and under-researched – if fascinating – area.

This one-day conference aims to encourage the asking of questions, to reflect the growing interest

and scholarship in the interdisciplinary field of law, history and visual culture. The conference

offers a forum for discussion, debate and the presentation of research. The conference will

construe ‘visual culture’ widely, to attract papers from a range of disciplines. With a focus on

images in and of law, subjects for papers may include, but are by no means limited to:

 television, film and theatre,

 artworks (including sculpture), photography and graffiti,

 architecture and maps,

 legal artefacts and objects,

 clothing and costume associated with the law.

The organizers are keen to welcome scholars from any stage in their career and, as the conference

is held online, submissions are invited from all jurisdictions.

SUBMISSION PROCESS AND ORGANISATION

Submit a 250 word abstract to: la.visualimagesconference@northumbria.ac.uk.

The deadline for submissions is the 1st February 2022.

The organisers are: Victoria Barnes, Helen Rutherford, Clare Sandford-Couch and Sarah Wilson