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Roundtable Law and Popular Culture VI

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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.

Programme

Thursday, 27 June 2024

16.00 hrsEline Couperus
Opening Remarks

 

First Session: Law as Popular Culture
Moderator: Gustavo Arosemena 

16.15 hrsHenrique Marcos
Escher's Magic Mirror. Exploring Self-Reference and Recursion in Law
16.30 hrsDiscussion
16.45 hrsMichele Ubertone
The Legal Philosophy of Role-Playing Games
17.00 hrsDiscussion
17.15 hrsLevare Mbarubukeye
"There is no better place than home". Mindset Decolonization of Museums: 
A Legal Framework for Repatriation and Cultural Heritage
17.30 hrsDiscussion
17.45 hrs                                                      Drinks Reception

Friday, 28 June 2024

 

Second Session: Law in Popular Culture 
Moderator: Mathijs Notermans

09.30 hrsNikos Parthenopoulos
Social Protection of Non-standards Workers through the Lens of 
'Sorry we missed you' (2019) by Ken Loach
09.45 hrsDiscussion
10.00 hrsSophia Zaka
'Killing of a sacred deer': From Drama to Philosphy, a Modern take on Trust in 
Democracy and Rule of Law
10.15 hrsDiscussion
10.30 hrsChiara Crivelli
Exploring Eighteenth-Century English Marriage and Inheritance Law in Pride
and Prejudice
10.45 hrsDiscussion
11.00 hrs                                                                          Break

 

Third Session: Legal Thought Experiments through Popular Culture
Moderator: Nicole Binder

11.30 hrsJochem van Atteveld
Kafka's Metamarphosis: An Inquisition into the Formalities of Love
11.45 hrsDiscussion
12.00 hrsBianca Tirnovan
Orwell's 1984: Totalitarian Information Control and Censorship (1940-1950)
12.15 hrsDiscussion
12.30 hrsEmma Sanvito
From Pinocchio to Humanoids: Human-Like Artefacts in the Law of the EU
12.45 hrsDiscussion
13.00 hrs                                                                           Lunch

 

Fourth Session: Legal Use(s) of Popular Culture
Moderator: André Nunes Chaib

14.30 hrsSyamsuriatina 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 hrsDiscussion
15.00 hrsAstrid Bastiaens
Award-Winning Propaganda: How Drama Series Homeland Commanded Acceptance
for the War(Crimes) on Terror
15.15 hrsDiscussion
15.30 hrsEmily Sipiorski
Energy Law and Silences: Literature as a Tool for Sensitizing Law?
15.45 hrsDiscussion
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 hrsGeneral Discussion
Moderator: Agustín Parise
17.40 hrsLivia Solaro
Closing Remarks

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