Law and Literature seminar
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This is the second Law and Literature-seminar within the VU-UM Law & Literature Consortium.
Like its forebear, the seminar intends to provide a friendly environment in which we may exchange ideas, and meet other researchers in the field. The seminar is pre-read for all participants: short statements of all presentations (up to 2500 words) will be distributed the week before. Part of this year’s seminar will be used to discuss expanding the Law and Literature Consortium to include other universities. The day will be closed with a guided city walk of Maastricht, using our dean Jan Smits’s recent A Legal Walk Through Maastricht.
Programme
| 10.00 - 10.20 hrs | Welcome (coffee) |
| 10.20 - 10.30 hrs | Opening words by Arthur Willemse |
| Session 1: Fiction and Truth Chair: Arthur Willemse | |
| 10.30 - 10.40 hrs | Syamsuriatina binti Ishak (UM): Technology from the Perspective of Science Fiction: Cautionary Tales or Regulatory Phronesis? |
| 10.40 - 10.50 hrs | Remo Verdickt (KU Leuven.): 5 - 4 = 9 : George Orwell, the US Supreme Court, and First-Amendment Doublethink |
| 10.50 - 11.00 hrs | Jeanne Gaakeer (EUR): Philosophical hermeneutics, legal narratology and the double bind of judicial decision-making |
| 11.00 - 11.20 hrs | Discussion |
| Session 2: Literature and Politics Chair: Ted Laros | |
| 11.30 - 11.40 hrs | Rachid Benharrousse (Tilburg University): Beyond Diplomatic Narratives: A Literary Analysis of the EU-Morocco Mobility Partnership Declaration |
| 11.40 - 11.50 hrs | Ana Van Liedekerke (KU Leuven): American constitutionalism and the rule of text |
| 11.50 - 12.10 hrs | Discussion |
| 12.10 - 13.10 hrs | Lunch |
| Session 3: Genre and Technology Chair: Agustín Parise | |
| 13.10 - 13.20 hrs | Nguyen Nhat Minh Le (VU): Nam Cao’s Chí Phèo (1946) and the Absence of Law in Colonial Tonkin |
| 13.20 - 13.30 hrs | Carinne Elion-Valter (EUR): The concept of truth applicable to texts produced by GenAI in the light of Philippe Claudel's novel 'Twilight' |
| 13.30 - 13.40 hrs | Yuliia Khyzhniak (RUG): Genre as an instrument of critique: reading international human rights law |
| 13.40 - 14.00 hrs | Discussion |
| Dialogue on the Law & Literature Consortium Chair: Wouter Werner | |
| 14.10 - 15.00 hrs | Networking and dialogue on the Law & Literature Consortium: all speakers and guests |
| 15.00 - 16.00 hrs | City walk |
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