(Source: Universität Luzern)
We learned of the annual summer
school in law and humanities, which is organized in Luzern this year.
The 2020 Summer School will focus on the entanglements of law, art and politics. From statues of the Roman Emperors to Picasso’s Guernica, some of the world’s most celebrated works of art have been explicitly political. But in the twenty-first century everything has been disrupted – including law, including art, including politics. We live in a world obsessed by images and distrustful of politics; a world in which the public sphere is collapsing and private interests seem more powerful than ever. What, then, is the role of art in making and unmaking, representing and challenging the language of law and the power of politics? Can art disrupt the disruptors?
Starting from this contemporary
perspective, the school will offer a panorama of the dynamic intercourse
between law, art and politics across a variety of sites, contexts and periods.
The programme will draw on the expertise of scholars working in different
research fields and across multiple critical traditions to address such
questions as:
- How do aesthetics and images shape the character of
law?
- What role does art play in transmitting legal and
political ideology, or in fostering critique and social change?
- How might we understand the relations between modes
of artistic cultural expression and legal identities?
- What are the effects of art’s material
manifestations on the law?
- How does art participate in, activate, or reflect
upon the imagining of legal futures?
More info can be found
here
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