Here is a brief description of the seminar
S3) Performances of The Body In The Renaissance Period

 
The seminar intends to analyze the concept of the “body” in the Renaissance period and its subsequent re-articulations and re-interpretations. Modernity considers the body as a place of regulation, shaped by social and political ideologies and specific networks of power; it is strictly connected with the representation of individual identity and the shaping of the juridical persona. Literature and the performing arts (through a language that is written on the body and with the body), can absorb and retain the effects of political power as well as resist the very effects they appear to incorporate in structures of parody, irony, and pastiche.

Please send your proposals for the seminar with a 200-word-abstract by January 31, 2012 to
Prof. John Drakakis (University of Stirling, UK)
john.drakakis@stir.ac.uk
Dr. Sidia Fiorato (University of Verona, IT)
sidia.fiorato@univr.it
 
This is the link to the conference:
 http://www.esse2012.org/en/scientific-programme-seminars.html
 
Feel free to contact the convenors for further information about the seminar

Daniela Carpi
http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/li/liRei.cfm?rc=129192

Stockholm, 14-16 September, 2012

Confirmed plenary speakers:
Marianne Constable (Berkeley)
Angus McDonald (Staffordshire)
Panu Minkkinen (Helsinki)
Sundhya Pahuja (Melbourne)

The theme for next year’s Critical Legal Conference is “Gardens of
Justice”. Although the theme may be interpreted in different ways, it
suggests thinking about law and justice as a physical as well as a social
environment, created for specific purposes, at a certain distance from
society and yet as an integral part of it. The theme also invites you to
think about justice as a concrete metaphor rather than an abstract
concept. Just like any ordinary garden, legal institutions affect both
people working in them and people who are just passing through their
arrangements.

The theme “Gardens of Justice” further suggests a plurality of justice
gardens that function together or that are at times at odds with each
other. There are for instance well ordered French gardens, with
meticulously trimmed plants and straight angles, but that also plays
tricks on your perception. There are English gardens that simultaneously
look natural – un-written – and well kept, inviting you to take a slow
stroll or perhaps sit down and read a book. There are closed gardens,
surrounded by fences, and with limited access for ordinary people. There
are gardens organized around ruins, let’s call them Roman gardens, where
you can get a sense of the historical past, but without feeling threatened
by its strangeness. There are Japanese stone gardens made for meditation
rather than movement. There are zoological gardens, where you can study
all those animal species that do not have a proper sense of justice, no
social contracts, no inequality and social injustice, and no legal
systems. There is, indeed, the Jungle, a real or imaginary place outside
the Gardens of Law.

The conference “Gardens of Justice” invites you to look at law and justice
from a different and critical perspective:
- as a physical and spatializing structure;
- as a place where symbolic orders and disorders become visible and may be
acted out;
- as therapy session;
- as social topography and/or geography;
- as gendered and gendering;
- as pluralistic and (un)fair;
- as political cartography on a global scale;
- as process and phantasy;
- as theatre and/or temple of justice;
- as social utopia and social dystopia;
- as nomos and/or physis.

We encourage you to make your own interpretations of the theme of “Gardens
of Justice”. We invite individual papers and proposals for streams,
roundtables and workshops. Proposals should consist of a short abstract
(max 250 words). Deadline for proposal of streams, roundtables and
workshops is 31 March 2012; and for individual papers 31 May 2012.

The conference venue is Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH) in Stockholm.
The conference is organised by Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation,
KTH; Juridiska institutionen, Lunds universitet; and Juridiska
institutionen, Göteborgs universitet.

Organising committee: Matilda Arvidsson, Leila Brännström, Merima
Bruncevic, and Leif Dahlberg.

For more information and updates, see http://www.csc.kth.se/clc2012/

Ombre Corte, Verona, 2011

Il rapporto dialettico fra parola e immagine è una costante del tessuto semiotico di ogni cultura. Questo assunto teorico trova compiuta espressione nel rapporto complementare fra parola legale e immagine nel contesto della rappresentazione del potere nel Rinascimento. Il concetto di rappresentazione, che riguarda tanto l’ambito sociale quanto quello culturale, esprime un’interazione dialettica fra l’immagine e la realtà rappresentata.

Il potere non è solo l’oggetto della rappresentazione ma anche la condizione fondante la rappresentazione stessa: è attraverso i simboli, le immagini, le forme di apparenza e rappresentazione della legge nella sfera pubblica che l’autorità viene percepita e riconosciuta come atto legittimo del sovrano.

Nei saggi presentati nel volume, il termine “immagine” viene articolato come espressione sia delle arti figurative (quali la pittura) che delle arti performative (quali il teatro e la danza) e della letteratura (in particolare il genere dei tombeaux), fino a includere l’immagine di sé che i regnanti propongono in ambito sociale e artistico. Le tecniche rappresentative della  imensione giuridica si rivelano finalizzate al compimento di precise progettualità politiche e all’istituzione di complesse dinamiche tra diritto, immagine, identità sociale e individuale.

INDICE

7 Introduzione

di Daniela Carpi e Sidia Fiorato

33 Fare storia di rappresentazioni

di Alessandro Arcangeli

45 I volti della duchessa: icone e rappresentazioni del potere alla corte

di Margherita di Francia, Duchessa di Savoia

di Rosanna Gorris Camos

87 L’uso pubblico della storia. Il Medioevo nelle tele dipinte per la sala

del consiglio civico di Verona (fine Cinquencento/inizi Seicento)

di Gianmaria Varanini

106 Potere e legittimità in King Lear, King John, Julius Caesar

di Daniela Carpi

119 Messinscena e manipolazione: le forme del potere in Measure for Measure

di Laura Apostoli

141 Il sogno di Bramantio: Othello e il potere del patriarcato

di John Drakakis

164 Il gioco dei re

di Patrizia Nerozzi

172 Rilettura del potere tramite la danza in Der Sturm di Jörg Mannes

di Sidia Fiorato

195 La messa in scena del potere in Antonio e Cleopatra

di Roxanne Barbara Doerr

217 Giochi di potere: mise en scène della bellezza in The Other Boleyn

Girl

di Chiara Battisti

   TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
by Daniela Carpi

 From a legal perspective:

The Genetics of Law and Literature: What is Man? ‘From language to life is just four letters’
by  Jeanne Gaakeer

Ghostly Presences: The case of Bertha Mason
by Ian Ward

The Case of Conjoined Twins: Medical dilemma in law and literature
by Gary Watt

“Vida interminable: Patients and family members between the right to live and the obligation not to die”
by  Michele Sesta

Reading Beyond the Ratio: searching for the subtext in the ‘enforced caesarean’ cases
by  Jane Bryan

 From a literary perspective:

Science Fiction and Bioethical Knowledge
by  Eric Rabkin

Shaping Personhood: Problems of subjectivity and the self in Shakespeare’s The Taming of The Shrew and Much Ado About Nothing
by John Drakakis

On the Sciences of Man in Eighteenth Century English Literature and Art: Anatomizing the Self
by Patrizia Nerozzi
The Beyond: Science and law in The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G.Wells
by Daniela Carpi

Bio-ethics Avant la Lettre: ninenteenth-century instances in post-darwinian literature
by Yvonne Bezrucka

Rhetoric, Lexicography and Bioethics in Shelley Jackson’s Hypertext Patchwork Girl
by Silvia Monti

One Monstrous Ogre and One Patchwork Girl: Two nameless beings
by Paola Carbone

A Serious Reading of Biotechnology in Japanese Graphic Novels: weak thoughts regarding ethics, literature and medicine
by Paul Cheung

Fulfilling Personhood at the Margins of Life: Anna Quindlen’s One True Thing
by Laura Apostoli

‘So what is a human being?’ An exploration of personhood through Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods
by Valentina Adami

The Problem of Liminal Beings in Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things
by Sidia Fiorato

‘Murderous Creators’: How far can authors go?
by Mara Logaldo

Fay Weldon’s The Lives and Loves of a She Devil: Cosmetic surgery as a social mask of personhood
by Chiara Battisti

APPENDIX

Mapping the Law: reading old maps of Strasbourg as representing and constituting legal spaces and places
by Leif Dahlberg

2011_Birkbeck Law School Centre for Law and the Humanities events

Friday 21 October 2011, 2.00-5.00
WORKSHOP: Visions of the Trial: Courts and Visual Culture.
Location: G16 Malet Street, Birkbeck.
Speakers:
Leif Dahlberg (BIH Visiting Fellow);
Leslie J Moran (Birkbeck);
Barbara Villez (University Vincennes-St Denis/Paris 8);
Organised with the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities
Free and Open to all.

2011_Programma_giornata di studi

Spettacolarizzazione del diritto
di Daniela Carpi IX

Focus

 
The Books and the Gavel: L’immagine della Legge e la teoria
del ‘Sublime americano’
di Pier Giuseppe Monateri 3

Scenari di deformazione. Legge e immagine ne
Il processo di Franz Kafka
di Walter Busch e Isolde Schiffermüller 21

The Colours of the Law
di Patrizia Nerozzi Bellman 33

To See or Not to See: On the Eye of Power in Modern
Surveillance Society and Post-Orwellian Self-Surveillance
Strategies in Hasan Elahi’s Tracking Transience
di Karen-Margrethe Simonsen 47

Mapping the Law of Stockholm. Reading Old Maps of
Stockholm as Representing and Constituting Legal Space
di Leif Dahlberg 61

Bleeding Through. Layers of Los Angeles, 1920-1986:
A Multimedia Verbal-Visual Detective Story
di Paola Carbone 85

Capote’s Garden in Hell: the Spectacle of the
Law and the Law of the Spectacle
di Mara Logaldo 105

Justice’s Sight and Lack of Sight in Julian Barnes’
Arthur & George
di Roxanne Doerr 129

Continuità e discontinuità della ‘legge’ in The Salesman
di Joseph O’Connor
di Angelo Canavesi 151

Legge e salvezza: figure e segnature nella trama poetica
di Piers Plowman
di Cristina Costantini 159
Ricerche

Who Owns Britain? S.T. Coleridge and the National Trust
di Klaus Stierstorfer 173

Recensioni

RICHARD SHERWIN
Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque:
Arabesques and Entanglements
di Daniela Carpi 189

ANDREA SANDRI
Genesi e sovranità. Le teorie dello Stato federale
nell’epoca bismarckiana
di Fulvio Cortese 193

Pólemos – Rivista semestrale di diritto, politica e cultura
N. 1/2011