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CENTRE FOR LAW AND THE HUMANITIES, COSTAS DOUZINAS: RIGHTS RESISTANCE CRITIQUE: A CONFERENCE CELEBRATING THE WORK OF COSTAS DOUZINAS. 26 AND 27 JUNE 2026

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Venue: Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street

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A conference to celebrate the work of Costas Douzinas. The speakers are Peter Goodrich, Gil Leung, Adam Gearey, Ozan Kamiloglou, Julia Chryssostalis, Andreas Philippopoulos-Michalopoulos, Patrick Hanafin, Cormac Deane, Ceylan Yildiz, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Dan Matthews, Marcus De Matos, Moniza Rizzini-Ansari, Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa, Illan Wall, Jaco Barnard-Naude.

PROGRAMME
 
FRIDAY JUNE 26
 
10-10.15. Opening remarks – Illan Wall and Alexis Nakagawa
 
10.15- 11.45 Panel 1
Illan Wall – The Critical (Legal) Praxis of Costas Douzinas: Traversal
Peter Goodrich – The Superfetation of Costas Douzinas
Adam Gearey – Wild Mercury Text: Douzinas, Bentham, De-ontology
 
 
12-1.30 Panel 2
Gil Leung – Just Listening
Ozan Kamiloglou – Very short story of Douzinas’ law and images that awaits its rebuttal
Julia Chryssostalis – Towards a Legal Phenomenology of Sounds: Douzinas’ Legal Aesthetics Beyond the Image
 
1.30-2. Lunch
 
2-3.30 Panel 3
Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos – The Material Douzinas
Cormac Deane – The Electrical Dialectic
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera – A Legend
 
3.30-5 Panel 4
Patrick Hanafin – The Errancy of Rights and the Refusal of Law
Alexis Nakagawa – The Paradox of Non-Human Rights
Marcus De Matos – The right to reclaim lost bodies: Alterity, hope, and revolution
 
5-7 Drinks Reception
 
SATURDAY JUNE 27
 
10-11.30 Panel 5
Ceylan Yildiz – From Anomie to Antigone: A retrospective on the right to resistance in the work of Costas Douzinas
Jaco Barnard-Naude – Antigone(‘s) remains
Moniza Rizzini-Ansari – “Occupy Everything”: The critique of human rights meets the age of resistance in Brazil
 
11.45-1.15 Panel 6
Costas Douzinas in conversation with Dan Matthews

Contact name: Patrick Hanafin

Speakers
  • Prof Costas Douzinas —

    The speakers are Peter Goodrich, Illan Wall, Gil Leung, Adam Gearey, Elena Loizidou, Ozan Kamiloglou, Julia Chryssostalis, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Patrick Hanafin, Cormac Deane, Ceylan Yildiz, Oscar Guariola-Rivera, Dan Matthews, Marcus De Matos, Moniza Rizzini-Ansari, Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa.

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