Exploring Law and Time through Lego

The AHRC-funded Regulating Time research network's final international conference will be held this September 8th-10th at Kent Law School. Co-ordinated by Emily Grabham (Kent Law School) and Sian Beynon-Jones (Sociology, York), it represents the culmination of a series of workshops and events which have explored the role of concepts of time in law and regulation. 

A key feature of the final conference is the use of arts-based engagements to generate cross-disciplinary dialogue. An innovative plenary session on 'Visualising Law and Time,' by Professor Amanda Perry-Kessaris, will make use of Lego to engage conference participants in reflection on the complex relationships between temporalities and regulation. For full details of the conference, and how to register, see the Regulating Time website.

Call for papers: Regulating Time Conference

 Sara Lando

The AHRC Regulating Time network - a collaboration between the Department (Sian Beynon-Jones) and Kent Law School  (Emily Grabham) - is holding an international conference The New Legal Temporalities: Discipline and Resistance across Domains of Time 8-10 September 2016, University of Kent.

Keynote: Carol Greenhouse (Anthropology, Princeton)

Plenary speakers:

• Michelle Bastian (Philosophy, Edinburgh)
• Sarah Keenan (Law, Birkbeck)
• Dipika Jain (Law, Jindal Global Law School)
• Justin Richland (Anthropology, Chicago)

Writer in residence: Annabel Lyon (prize-winning author of historical novels The Sweet Girl and The Golden Mean)

Law and governance are intimately entangled with time. This international conference will explore time’s fraught relationship with law, governance and ordering: the use of time in projects of discipline, the significance of time to resistance, the creation of new temporal horizons and experiences through technological innovation, as well as other themes.

Deadline for streams and panels: 15 February 2016

Deadline for individual abstracts: 29 February 2016

For full details, please see the network blog

Regulating Time Workshop

On Wednesday 20th January, the Department will host a workshop which aims to unpack the roles of time in the regulation of technoscience. 

Laura Billings. Licence here

Key questions to be explored include: 

·    In what ways do the temporalities of technoscience and regulation converge and diverge?

·    What are the implications of these processes for lived experiences of law and regulation?

·    What methodological challenges are involved in exploring the temporalities of regulation and technoscience?

Invited speakers:

Kevin Birth (anthropology, Queens College, CUNY, US)

Nik Brown (sociology, York)

John Harrington (law, Cardiff)

Iwan Morus (history and welsh history, Aberystwyth)

Sameena Mulla (social and cultural studies, Marquette University, US),

Gethin Rees (sociology, Newcastle).

The event is one in a series organised as  part of the AHRC 'Regulating Time' research network  (co-ordinated by Emily Grabham, Kent Law School and Sian Beynon-Jones, Sociology, University of York), which explores the temporal dimensions of law and regulation. 

For further details about the network please see the blog, follow the network on twitter (@regulatingtime) or join the JISC email list.