Key Works in Law & the Humanities - Cornelia Vismann's Files: Law and Media Technology
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Key Works in Law & the Humanities - Cornelia Vismann's Files: Law and Media Technology
A Roundtable Discussion and Reading Group (Organised by the Centre for Law & the Humanities, Birkbeck)
This event will follow on from the 'School of Law Archive Launch & 'Instituting Archives' event, celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the School of Law.
Speakers: Angela Condello (Roma Tre University), Bernard Keenan (Birkbeck, University of London), Nayanika Mathur (University of Oxford), Shela Sheikh (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Mayur Suresh (SOAS, University of London)
Published in English in 2008, Vismann's ground-breaking book Files: Law and Media Technology traces a genealogy of law through the history of technologies of writing. A rare combination of rigour and erudition, this media materialist study of administrative and archival practices ranges across the laws of antiquity, imperial codes, the GDR's Stasi, and artistic engagements with memory. The book also discusses the works of Kafka, Melville, Lévi-Strauss, Derrida, Lacan and Benjamin.
The roundtable will be preceded by two reading group sessions that are open to research students and academics from Birkbeck and beyond. Please email Charlotte Lowe (c.lowe@bbk.ac.uk) to let us know that you would like to take part in the reading groups sessions, which will be held at Birkbeck:
Session 1 Wednesday 16 May, 4 - 8pm: Files, Preface & Chapter 1 (pp. xi-38)
Session 2 Wednesday 30 May, 4 - 8pm: Files, Chapters 2-6 (pp. 39-164)
Organised by Birkbeck Centre for Law & the Humanities, the Key Works in Law and the Humanities Series focuses on works that offer important theoretical contributions and disciplinary and methodological innovations in humanities approaches to law. Rather than proposing a canon, the Key Works Series aims to enable encounters that may inform and inspire new forms of writing and thinking on law through the humanities.
This is a free event however booking is required via this page.
About the 25th Anniversary of the School of Law
The School of Law was founded in 1992 as a Department of Law with three members of academic staff. Over the last twenty-five years it has become a School comprising the Departments of Law, Department of Criminology, as well as the Institute for Criminal Policy Research. We have four research Centres, 40 members of staff, and an overall student body of over 1,000. The School is proud of being a pioneer in establishing and developing a hub for the field of critical legal studies. While our national and international reputation has been forged through critical legal research, more recently we have gained recognition for critical criminological and activist research, socio-legal scholarship and policy-engaged empirical research. In recognition of this the last Research Excellence Framework exercise ranked us as being in the top 10 law schools in the UK and in the top 3 in London, while our research environment was judged conducive to producing research of the highest quality.
In this our 25th Anniversary year we will be holding a series of events reflecting on our history and successes as well as looking forward to the opportunities and challenges facing critical legal and criminological teaching and scholarship in the 21st century. Find out more about the 25th Anniversary celebrations here.
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