Roundtable Law and Popular Culture VII
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 six 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.
For this edition, the keynote speakers will be René de Groot and Hildegard Schneider.
Organisation
This event is organised by Eline Couperus, Agustín Parise, Livia Solaro, and Arthur Willemse of the Law & Popular Culture - Research Network with the support of the Science Committee of the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University.
Programme
Thursday, 19 June 2025 | |
| 09:00 | Livia Solaro Opening Remarks |
Opening Keynote Address | |
| 09:10 | Agustín Parise Introduction of Speaker |
| 09:15 | Hildegard Schneider ‘De Culture’: A Dutch Multicultural Phenomenon with Great Potential |
| 09:40 | Discussion |
| 09:50 | Break |
First Session: Digital Popular Culture and the LawModerator: Emma Sanvito | |
| 10:00 | Ioana Pirvu Beyond the Hashtag: The Influence of Social Media on Law Students' Career Perceptions and Motivations |
| 10:15 | Discussion |
| 10:30 | Axana Gerits Legal Viability of Mandatory Accessibility in AAA Video Games |
| 10:45 | Discussion |
| 11:00 | Azura Kooistra Digital Misogyny: The Legal Challenges of AI, Social Media Algorithms, and the Online Exploitation of Women |
| 11:15 | Discussion |
| 11:30 | Break |
Second Session: Rights, Freedoms and Popular CultureModerator: Isabel Bandsma | |
| 12:00 | Paula Lozada Alfaro and Paul Philipp Stewens Distinction Without a Difference, Difference Without a Distinction? Legal Confrontations with “the Other” in Planet of the Apes (1968), Colonial Spain, and the Rights of Nature Debate |
| 12:15 | Discussion |
| 12:30 | Martina Jara The 1928 Martial Law in Colombia and the Banana Massacre in Cien Años de Soledad by García Márquez |
| 12:45 | Discussion |
| 13:00 | Tara O'Neill Exploring the Grey Area: Navigating Polarisation with Ambiguity |
| 13:15 | Discussion |
| 13:30 | Lunch |
Third Session: Popular Culture in CourtModerator: Anna de Jong | |
| 14:30 | Remo Verdickt “A Narrative that moves seamlessly between law and life”: Supreme Court Justices’ Memoirs and Popular Culture |
| 14:45 | Discussion |
| 15:00 | Johanna Ritter Storytelling before the International Court of Justice - A Narrative Perspective on ICJ Advisory Opinions |
| 15:15 | Discussion |
| 15:30 | Sterre Schols Drawing Defendants: The Genre of the Courtroom Sketch. The Dutch Case of Aloys Oosterwijk’s Graphic Trial Reports on the Holleeder Trial (2019) and the Marengo Trial (2024) |
| 15:45 | Discussion |
| 16:00 | Break |
Fourth Session: Freedom, Truth, Coercion and Popular CultureModerator: Pol van Wiel | |
| 16:30 | Astrid Bastiaens The Danger of Books: Why Book Banning is becoming a Common Practice in the US |
| 16:45 | Discussion |
| 17:00 | Ro Lawrence (Un)Timely (Un)Truth: I Agree |
| 17:15 | Discussion |
| 17:30 | Matilde Torta Canon Law and Forced Monachization: Fiction and Reality in Promessi Sposi by Alessandro Manzoni |
| 17:45 | Discussion |
Musical Ensemble and Drinks | |
| 18:00 | Paul Stewens and Jaime Luque Lora Howard Shore & Fran Walsh, In Dreams Fédéric Chopin, Cello Sonata in G minor (Op. 65), Third Movement (Largo) |
Friday, 20 June 2025 | |
Fifth Session: Crime and Punishment in Popular CultureModerator: Jochem van Atteveld | |
| 09:30 | Lizzy Palo Public Punishment of Women in Puritan New England through Hawthorne’s The Scarlett Letter and Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale |
| 09:45 | Discussion |
| 10:00 | Debbie Markusse and Nelline Zondag The Story of Raskolnikov: Death and Resurrection |
| 10:15 | Discussion |
| 10:30 | Gemma Jiménez Las Heras Kafka’s Nightmare: Unravelling the Labyrinth of Prisoners of War in Guantanamo Bay |
| 10:45 | Discussion |
| 11:00 | Break |
Sixth Session: Mind and Body as Conduits for LawModerator: Henrique Marcos | |
| 11:30 | Janneke Westra Law and the Spectator: A study on Marina Abramovic’s “Rhythm 0” in Law, Violence and Human Behavior |
| 11:45 | Discussion |
| 12:00 | Michele Ubertone De Te Fabula Narratur. Storytelling and Mental Simulation in Normative Reasoning |
| 12:15 | Discussion |
| 12:30 | Syamsuriatina binti Ishak AI 2041: Science Fiction Literature as Futurism and Legal Phronesis |
| 12:45 | Discussion |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Introduction and Visit to the Exhibition on Hugo and the Law |
Odin Essers and Eline Couperus | |
Seventh Session: Popular Culture as a Critique of LawModerator: Mathijs Notermans | |
| 14:30 | Sophia Zaka From Drama to Philosophy, Antigone as the pièce de résistance of Democracy and the Rule of Law |
| 14:45 | Discussion |
| 15:00 | Sarah Thin On Sentience and Sovereignty: A Sci-Fi-Fuelled Critique of International Law |
| 15:15 | Discussion |
| 15:30 | Jérémy Bran Balzac’s César Birotteau and the Role of Insolvency Law in the Bourbon Restoration |
| 15:45 | Discussion |
| 16:00 | Break |
Closing Keynote Address | |
| 16:30 | Arthur Willemse Introduction of Speaker |
| 16:35 | René de Groot Using a Regional Language as Manifestation of Popular Culture |
| 17:00 | Discussion |
| 17:10 | Break |
| 17:20 | General DiscussionModerator: Agustín Parise |
| 17:50 | Eline Couperus Closing Remarks |
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