International Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law

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As the deadline for applications is quickly approaching (May 15, you can apply here: https://www.osi.uni-osnabrueck.de/admission/), the final program for this year’s Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Studies of the Law is now ready! For one week this August, the OSI will provide young scholars interested in the intersections of Law and the Humanities with the opportunity to have in-depth discussions of current issues in the field, to share their work with their peers as well as experienced researchers, and to meet and exchange ideas with colleagues from around the globe.

Click here for the full program: https://www.osi.uni-osnabrueck.de/2017/05/12/this-is-the-osi-2017-program-finalized/

Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law » This is the OSI 2017: Program Finalized is quickly approaching (May 15), here is the final program for this year’s Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Studies of the Law. For one week this August, the OSI will provide young scholars interested in the intersections of Law and the Humanities with the opportunity to have in-depth disc...

One last week left to apply for this year's Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law. If you are a young researcher working in the field of Law and Humanities, check out our full slate of convenors and the preliminary program here: https://www.osi.uni-osnabrueck.de/osi-current/program/ And if you want to apply right now, you can head to our admissions page immediately: https://www.osi.uni-osnabrueck.de/admission/

Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law » Program "Attending the Summer School gave me the opportunity to network with a wide range of young international scholars and well-respected faculty whose interests matched my own..."

We just updated the description for Workshop 2 "Claiming the Past, Belonging for the Future / Immigration, Citizenship, and Property." Check it out and see what Marianne Constable and Leti Volpp will be discussing with participants of the OSI 2017! https://www.osi.uni-osnabrueck.de/osi-current/workshop-2/

Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law » Workshop 2 Heritage, heredity, and inheritance all come from the past and yet their claims are not simply historical. Indeed, as present-day acts, claims of heritage set up what belongs to whom for the future. What kinds of claims are these? Are they distinct as claims? What is it to make or state or stake a c...

We are very happy to announce that we can extend the deadline for applications for the OSI 2017! We were able to secure a limited number of additional slots for qualified applicants. All up-to-date details about the Summer Institute and the workshops are now available on our website, including a preliminary program schedule: https://www.osi.uni-osnabrueck.de/osi-current/program/.

We have also just posted (https://www.osi.uni-osnabrueck.de/osi-current/workshop-1/) a short summary of our introductory workshop "Claiming Interdisciplinarity," a core institution of the OSI, which deals with the complex and wide-ranging theoretical and methodological issues of interdisciplinarity in law and the humanities.

To apply for the OSI 2017, head to http://www.osi.uni-osnabrueck.de/admission! The new deadline for applications is May 15, 2017. For more detailed information about the format of the Institute and its application procedure, visit the Summer Institute at http://www.osi.uni-osnabrueck.de/.

We look forward to welcoming you to Osnabrück!

Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law » Application If you are interested in applying for the Osnabrück Summer Institute, read the following information carefully and use the online application form at the end of the page.

The first convener of Workshop 4 “Cultural Productions, Contentious Properties” is new to the OSI, as this will be Danilo Mandic ‘s first visit to Osnabrück as part of the OSI faculty. He is currently a Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellow at the Centre for Law, Society and Popular Culture, Westminster Law School, University of Westminster in London. He received a doctorate in 2014 for a thesis concerning the relation between copyright and technology titled ‘Copyright and Technology: Hearing the Dissonance’ from the same school. In addition to copyright law, his research interests include, critical legal theory, art and law, senses, media and sound studies.

A forthcoming publication ‘Listening to the World: Sounding out the Surroundings of Environmental Law with Michel Serres’ is to appear in the Handbook of Research Methods in Environmental Law (Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos and Brooks, 2017). He is co-editor of ‘Law and the Senses’ series (University of Westminster Press, 2017-2018). Danilo coordinates and teaches undergraduate and postgraduate modules in legal studies, with a particular focus on the intersections between law and culture, technology, entertainment, social media and property. Beside his research and teaching, he has been an author of several conceptual projects and installations with a focus on urban spaces, sound art, the relations between text and sound, and copyright.

His doctoral thesis investigates the discordant relation between copyright and technology, and redefines this relation by arguing for a new ‘communicative’ understanding of the (re)production and distribution of copyright works. By drawing on information theory, the work of the French philosopher Michel Serres, media and sound studies, the study goes beyond the limitations of copyright’s normativity and sets a conceptual basis for addressing the issues and re-articulating the relation between copyright and technology in a multi-disciplinary and critical manner.

Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law » Introducing the OSI 2017 Faculty: Danilo Mandic ‘s first visit to Osnabrück as part of the OSI faculty. He is currently a Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellow at the Centre for Law, Society and Popular Culture, Westminster Law School, University of Westminster in London. He received a doctorate in 2014 for a thesis concerning the relation be...

We are proud to introduce OSI-alumni Cristina S. Martinez as the second convenor of Workshop 4 ” Cultural Productions, Contentious Properties.” She is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa. She holds a PhD in Art History and Law from Birkbeck College, University of London, and completed a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Toronto.

Her research focuses on eighteenth-century art and culture, in particular British art, and the historical interactions between visuality and law, political satire and libel law. She is also interested in copyright law and the use of appropriation strategies in modern and contemporary art. She has presented her work on art and law at Yale Law School’s library, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington; the Hunterian Art Gallery in Glasgow; and Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts in New York. She has also presented her work at conferences in the U.K., Switzerland, Australia and Canada. This summer, she is co-organizer of the panel ‘Copyright Law and the Visual’ at the Law and Society Association to be held in Mexico City, 20-23 June 2017.

She is currently working on her book ‘Art, Law and Order: The Legal Life of Artists in Eighteenth-century Britain’ which will be published by Manchester University Press. The forthcoming book has been recognized by the Historians of British Art with its annual Publication Award. She has also received research grant support from the Terra Foundation for the Arts, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Scottish Society of Art History, the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Commonwealth Fellowship Plan and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. In 2014, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Yale Center for British Art and she is a fellow from the Lewis Walpole Library.

Her most recent work includes contributing to the book Hogarth: 50 New Essays. International Perspectives on Eighteenth-Century English Art , a compilation of commissioned essays by leading art historians and cultural theorists, edited by Bernd W. Krysmanski. Her piece ‘An Emblematic Representation of Law: Hogarth and the Visible Manifestation of the Engravers’ Act’ is part of a collection entitled Law and the Visual: Transition, Transformation, and Transmission , edited by Desmond Manderson (University of Toronto Press, 2017) and her co-authored article ‘Justice and Art, Face to Face’ has been published in the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities Vol 28(2), Spring 2017. Currently, she is working on a book project on appropriation art in Canada with Janice Gurney.

Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law » Introducing the OSI 2017 Faculty: Cristina S. Martinez We are proud to introduce OSI-alumni Cristina S. Martinez as the second convenor of Workshop 4 ” Cultural Productions, Contentious Properties.” She is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa. She holds a PhD in Art History and Law from Birkbeck College, Univ...

As the fourth workshop of this year’s OSI, we are happy to announce “Cultural Productions, Contentious Properties,” which will be convened by Danilo Mandic and Cristina S. Martinez . This workshop will deal with some of the questions around copying, appropriation, authorship, and copyright that have become particularly prescient in the 21st century.

This workshop explores and challenges the contentious properties that both law and culture inform and perform. Considering different forms of cultural production and expression, it seeks an understanding of property rights, legal fictions, artistic practices of copying and appropriation. Taking as a point of departure Michel Serres’s notion of ‘appropriation through pollution’ and extending it to current case studies we will discuss and examine contentious claims and negotiations. To what extent are we in need to (or, bound to) discuss cultural production through legal structures? The relation between authors and users and the division between private and public maintain an ongoing tension between dichotomous viewpoints manifested in different spheres of cultural production, particularly as these are intensified by the proliferation of digital technology and the challenges it has introduced with regard to production, distribution and use of cultural expression. We will explore the legal concepts of property/ownership/appropriation, and question the extent to which the processes of relations/communication both precede and inform them with an attempt to understand and challenge the dominating and expanding proprietary principles of copyright.

Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law » The Workshops: Cultural Productions, Contentious Properties As the fourth workshop of this year’s OSI, we are happy to announce “Cultural Productions, Contentious Properties,” which will be convened by

We are very happy to announce that Leti Volpp will return to this year’s OSI as the second convenor of Workshop 2 “Claiming the Past, Belonging for the Future.” She is the Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law at Berkeley Law, where her research focuses on questions of immigration and citizenship. She has served as a Visiting Professor affiliated with the Amerika-Institut of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and as past Faculty for the Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of Law. Her honors include two Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowships, a MacArthur Foundation Individual Research and Writing Grant, and the Association of American Law Schools Minority Section Derrick A. Bell, Jr., Award. She is a member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.

Her most recent publications include “Feminist, Sexual, and Q***r Citizenship,” in The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship (Ayelet Shachar at al, eds., forthcoming 2017), “Immigrants Outside the Law: President Obama, Discretionary Executive Power and Regime Change,” in Critical Analysis of Law (2016), “The Indigenous As Alien” in the UC Irvine Law Review (2015), “Saving Muslim Women” in Public Books (2015), “Civility and the Undocumented Alien” in Civility, Legality, and Justice in America (Austin Sarat, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2014), “The Boston Bombers” in Fordham Law Review (2014), “Imaginings of Space in Immigration Law” in Law, Culture and the Humanities (2012), and “Framing Cultural Difference: Immigrant Women and Discourses of Tradition” in Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies (2011). She is also the editor of Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders (with Mary Dudziak) (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006). Her earlier work includes the much cited “The Citizen and the Terrorist” in UCLA Law Review (2002), and “Feminism versus Multiculturalism” in the Columbia Law Review (2001).

At Berkeley she is affiliated with the LGBTQ Cluster of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, the Center for Law and Society, the Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory, the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, and the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative. She has served as a Senior Fellow at the Townsend Center for the Humanities.

Her current research projects include examining the impact of the Trump administration’s immigration actions. She is looking forward to returning to OSI this summer.

Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law » Introducing the OSI 2017 Faculty: Leti Volpp “Claiming the Past, Belonging for the Future.” She is the Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law at Berkeley Law, where her research focuses on questions of immigration and citizenship. She has served as a Visiting Professor affiliated with the Amerika-Institut of Ludwig-Maximilians-Univers...

The first convener of Workshop 2, “Claiming the Past, Belonging for the Future,” that we would like to introduce is Marianne Constable . She is Professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley and has published broadly on a range of topics in legal rhetoric and philosophy. Her most recent book, entitled Our Word is Our Bond: How Legal Speech Acts , (Stanford University Press, 2014) shows how legal utterances, in speech and writing, are forms of law-in-action. She is currently working on the “new unwritten law” that ostensibly exonerated women who killed their husbands in Chicago a century ago, as a way of exploring the rhetoric of law and the rhetoric of history. Her earlier books include Just Silences: The Limits and Possibilities of Modern Law (2005) and The Law of the Other: The Mixed Jury and Changes in Conceptions of Citizenship, Law and Knowledge (1994), which won the Law and Society Association’s J. Willard Hurst Prize in Legal History.

Constable is currently very interested in the written dialogue form, in the rhetoric of environment and administration, and in awareness and movement and their relations to learning. She is the author of articles on Foucault and immigration law, Nietzsche and jurisprudence, the rhetoric of “community,” the role of law in the liberal arts, Frederick Schauer on rules, Robert Cover on violence, Montesquieu on systems, Vico on legal education, and Arendt on the rhetoric of “sustainability.” For her views on the importance of rhetoric, see this post on Amor Mundi.

Constable was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford in 2013-14 and a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton during 2005-06; her awards include the NEH, a prize for undergraduate research mentoring at UCB, the Sarlo Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award, and the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities’ James Boyd White Award. She held the Zaffaroni Family Chair in Undergraduate Education 2009-2014, while also serving as Department Chair. She is affiliated with the Designated Emphases in Critical Theory and in Women and Gender Studies and affiliated with the Center for the Study of Law and Society.

Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law » Introducing the OSI 2017 Faculty: Marianne Constable . She is Professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley and has published broadly on a range of topics in legal rhetoric and philosophy. Her most recent book, entitled

The second workshop we want to introduce this week will deal with a variety of questions on claims to/of heritage and their implications. Workshop 2 “Claiming the Past, Belonging for the Future” will be convened by Marianne Constable and Leti Volpp . This is their abstract for this workshop:

Heritage, heredity, and inheritance all come from the past and yet their claims are not simply historical. Indeed, as present-day acts, claims of heritage set up what belongs to whom for the future. What kinds of claims are these? Are they distinct as claims? What is it to make or state or stake a claim? How are legal claims performed? What do claims, as speech acts, involve? Does every claim involve an assertion of fact plus a demand for recognition? When are claims as to heritage factual? When are they claims of law? To what do they appeal? And what sort of evidence do they call for? How does what counts as evidence of a particular claim change over time?

Drawing in part on the work of J. L. Austin on speech acts and referring to a small number of documents drawn from various legal contexts — particular statutes, local regulations, trial transcripts, and possibly UN documents — we’ll begin to touch on the complexity of these issues as they relate to cultural heritage and historic preservation. Readings will include scholarship about the 20th -century legal history of archeology and about encounters between different traditions.

Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law » The Workshops: Claiming the Past, Belonging for the Future The second workshop we want to introduce this week will deal with a variety of questions on claims to/of heritage and their implications. Workshop 2 “Claiming the Past, Belonging for the Future” will be convened by

As we just posted information on our first convener, Sabine N. Meyer, today we want to introduce her co-convener in Workshop 3 “Real and Performative Properties: Competing Claims to Citizenship, Indigeneity, and Land,” Beth Piatote . She is associate professor of Native American Studies, and affiliated faculty in the Department of Linguistics and the American Studies program at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include Native American/Aboriginal literature and federal Indian law in the United States and Canada, American literature, and Nez Perce language and literature.

Her first book, Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature (Yale, 2013) received an MLA book prize, and her scholarly essays and short fiction have appeared in journals such as American Quarterly, American Literary History, Kenyon Review, and SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literatures , as well as various anthologies. She is co-editor, with Chadwick Allen, of The Society of American Indians and Its Legacies, a joint special issue of American Indian Quarterly and SAIL (summer 2013). Piatote received her PhD in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. Currently, she is completing a volume of short fiction, Beading Lesson and Other Stories , and at work on a second scholarly monograph, A Sense of Autonomy: Native American Literature and the Legal Imaginary . She is also working with the Department of Linguistics to create an on-line dictionary and text corpus in Nez Perce, and is committed to indigenous language continuity and revitalization efforts.

Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law » Introducing the OSI 2017 Faculty: Beth Piatote She is associate professor of Native American Studies, and affiliated faculty in the Department of Linguistics and the American Studies program at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include Native American/Aboriginal literature and federal Indian law in the United States…