Roundtable Law and Popular Culture VI
The Roundtable aims to bring together multiple approaches to the place of law in popular culture.
Motivation
Law and Popular Culture brings out the manner in which popular culture affects law and its understanding by actors in society. This academic movement explores law in different environments, such as art and entertainment, as well as cultural movements as phenomena to which the law must relate.
Over the last five years, the Roundtable has become a relied upon forum, within the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University, to discuss approaches to these areas of study. It offers a space to discuss the legal significance of objects that either defy or deplete categorization, underlying the value that non-conventional approaches to law offer to the better understanding of social sciences.
Organisation
This event is organised by Eline Couperus, Agustín Parise, Livia Solaro, and Arthur Willemse, with the support of the Science Committee of the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University.
Faculty of Law
Contact:
Law Events Office
Maud Houben-Nijssen
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Convener:
Agustin Parise
Programme
Thursday, 27 June 2024
| 16.00 hrs | Eline Couperus Opening Remarks |
| First Session: Law as Popular Culture |
| 16.15 hrs | Henrique Marcos Escher's Magic Mirror. Exploring Self-Reference and Recursion in Law |
| 16.30 hrs | Discussion |
| 16.45 hrs | Michele Ubertone The Legal Philosophy of Role-Playing Games |
| 17.00 hrs | Discussion |
| 17.15 hrs | Levare Mbarubukeye "There is no better place than home". Mindset Decolonization of Museums: A Legal Framework for Repatriation and Cultural Heritage |
| 17.30 hrs | Discussion |
| 17.45 hrs | Drinks Reception |
Friday, 28 June 2024
| Second Session: Law in Popular Culture |
| 09.30 hrs | Nikos Parthenopoulos Social Protection of Non-standards Workers through the Lens of 'Sorry we missed you' (2019) by Ken Loach |
| 09.45 hrs | Discussion |
| 10.00 hrs | Sophia Zaka 'Killing of a sacred deer': From Drama to Philosphy, a Modern take on Trust in Democracy and Rule of Law |
| 10.15 hrs | Discussion |
| 10.30 hrs | Chiara Crivelli Exploring Eighteenth-Century English Marriage and Inheritance Law in Pride and Prejudice |
| 10.45 hrs | Discussion |
| 11.00 hrs | Break |
| Third Session: Legal Thought Experiments through Popular Culture |
| 11.30 hrs | Jochem van Atteveld Kafka's Metamarphosis: An Inquisition into the Formalities of Love |
| 11.45 hrs | Discussion |
| 12.00 hrs | Bianca Tirnovan Orwell's 1984: Totalitarian Information Control and Censorship (1940-1950) |
| 12.15 hrs | Discussion |
| 12.30 hrs | Emma Sanvito From Pinocchio to Humanoids: Human-Like Artefacts in the Law of the EU |
| 12.45 hrs | Discussion |
| 13.00 hrs | Lunch |
| Fourth Session: Legal Use(s) of Popular Culture |
| 14.30 hrs | Syamsuriatina binti Ishak Using Science Fiction Literature as a Tool for Ex Ante Policy & Law-Making: Can SciFi Literature Help Us Forecast Future Social and Legal Problems? |
| 14.45 hrs | Discussion |
| 15.00 hrs | Astrid Bastiaens Award-Winning Propaganda: How Drama Series Homeland Commanded Acceptance for the War(Crimes) on Terror |
| 15.15 hrs | Discussion |
| 15.30 hrs | Emily Sipiorski Energy Law and Silences: Literature as a Tool for Sensitizing Law? |
| 15.45 hrs | Discussion |
| 16.00 hrs | Break |
Keynote Address | |
| 16.30 hrs | Introduction Arthur Willemse |
| 16.35 hrs | Keynote Speaker Frank Nellen Law and Justice in the Work of the Novelist |
| 17.00 hrs | Break |
| 17.10 hrs | General Discussion Moderator: Agustín Parise |
| 17.40 hrs | Livia Solaro Closing Remarks |
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