Law and Popular Culture
Motivation
The Roundtable will bring together multiple approaches to the place of law in popular culture. Further, the Roundtable will show the manner in which popular culture
affects law and the understanding by actors in society. Previous experiences at UM include a MaRBLe Project directed by Jan Smits, having gathered papers by students
on alternative perceptions of justice. The Roundtable aims to trigger further interest on this area of study, alerting on the value that non-conventional approaches to law
offer to the better understanding of social sciences.
Location
Room number C0.311B, Faculty of Law, Bouillonstraat 1-3, 6211 LH Maastricht.
Organization
Funds for the realization of the event were provided by the Science Committee and the Department of Foundations and Methods of Law of the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University.
Registration is open and participation is free of charge.
Programme
09:00 Opening Remarks, Agustín Parise
First Session
Moderator: Madalena Narciso
09:05 Neofytos Sakellaridis Mangouras
Tupac for Two-Pack: Popular Culture as a means for Engagement in Legal Education
09:25 Discussion
09:40 Karolina Podstawa
On the Movies that Make and Destroy the European Union Dream
10:00 Discussion
10:15 John Cotter
'To live outside the law you must be honest': The Evil of the Law in the Songs of Bob Dylan
10:35 Discussion
10:50 Coffee Break
Second Session
Moderator: Julieta Marotta
11:20 Antonia Waltermann
Westworld, Detroit: Become Human and Dennett’s Intentional Systems
11:40 Discussion
11:55 Felipe Oliveira de Sousa
The Law's Tragedy and the Death of a Philosopher: Reflections on Socrates in the Crito
12:15 Discussion
12:30 Agustín Parise
John H. Wigmore (1863-1943) and Ignacio Winizky (1910-1988): Drawing Pan-American Parallels on the Origins of the Law and Literature Movement
12:50 Discussion
13:05 General Discussion
13:25 Closing Remarks, John Cotter
13:30 Lunch
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