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

Death and Culture Conference 1st-3rd Sept 2016

Ruth Penfold-Mounce (Sociology) along with Jack Denham (Sociology), Julie Rugg (Social Policy) and Ben Poore (TFTV) are running a three day international conference at York on 'Death and Culture'

Call for Papers:
How can we, as academics, understand cultural responses to mortality?

Is every response to death – over time and over place - uniquely personal or essentially the same?

This conference focusses on the impact of mortality on culture, and the ways in which the very fact of death has shaped human behaviour, evidenced through thought, action, production and expression. The conference seeks to re-engage with the study of mortality as an academic enterprise, supported by evidence and framed by theoretical engagement. No discipline is excluded and we are encouraging researchers including postgraduates to contribute who might not consider themselves death scholars, with work that overlaps with death and the dead.

We welcome contributions on topics such as but not limited to:

·         Death, film and television

·         Fame and death

·         Historical death

·         The dead in place and space

·         Law, death and the dead

·         Art and death

        Commonplace death

Confirmed keynotes include Prof Jacque Lynn Foltyn (National University, California), Prof Sarah Tarlow (University of Leicester) and Dr Michelle Aaron (University of Birmingham)

For more details visit: york.ac.uk/death-and-culture

Please note more information will be added soon regarding conference details.

Male Rape and the Law

There is a dearth of legal literature critically discussing male rape in law and the courtroom, and Aliraza Javaid, one of the Sociology Departments Doctoral Researchers has just published an article on this topic derived from his thesis. 

The paper 'Male Rape in Law and the Courtroom' has been published in the Web Journal of Current Legal Issues and critically examines how male rape is placed in law and the courts. It focuses particularly on the jurisdiction in England and Wales, outlining the strengths and weaknesses of the Sexual Offences Act 2003. The paper fundamentally argues that such an Act does not fully reflect male rape victims’ experiences, and also argues that the defence counsels' expectations of how a male rape victim is supposed to have suffered contradicts the male rape literature.

Aliraza has already published on feminism, masculinity and male rape and is happy to be contacted regarding his reserach on twitter, Academia.edu or Linkedin.

Book Launch: Law, Religion and Homosexuality

On Wednesday 18th June, Paul Johnson launched his new book Law, Religion and Homosexuality at the Conway Hall in London. The event was supported by the National Secular Society and its President, Terry Sanderson, gave a talk in which he described the importance of the book in understanding the historic role of religion in shaping law relating to homosexuality. Paul, and his co-author Robert Vanderbeck (University of Leeds), both gave talks about the ways in which religion continues to influence the legislative process, highlighting examples of how this is often to the detriment of sexual orientation equality. The event was very well attended and there was a lively discussion about the issues addressed by the book. More information about the book and Paul’s other recent work can be found here:
http://www.routledge.com/articles/featured_author_-_dr_paul_johnson/