21.2556, Calls: Forensic Ling, Ling & Lit/Greece

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Subject: 21.2556, Calls: Forensic Ling, Ling & Lit/Greece

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Date: 09-Jun-2010
From: Mata Dimakopoulou < sdimakop at enl.uoa.gr >
Subject: The Letter of the Law: Law Matters in Language and Literature
 

	
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:21:00
From: Mata Dimakopoulou [sdimakop at enl.uoa.gr]
Subject: The Letter of the Law: Law Matters in Language and Literature

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Full Title: The Letter of the Law: Law Matters in Language and Literature 

Date: 05-May-2011 - 08-May-2011
Location: Athens, Greece 
Contact Person: Mata Dimakopoulou
Meeting Email: sdimakop at enl.uoa.gr
Web Site: http://conferences.enl.uoa.gr/HASE8/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Forensic Linguistics; Ling & Literature 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 03-Oct-2010 

Meeting Description:

The 8th International Conference of the Hellenic Association for the Study 
of English (HASE) is organised and hosted by the Faculty of English 
Studies at the University of Athens.
Our theme for 2011 is "The Letter of the Law" and invites inquiry into the 
intersections of literature, language and the law. The conference seeks to 
rethink the formulation and the violation of the law and the complex 
mediations between the lexis and the lex, as issues of law and justice 
become yet again imperative in our contemporary world.

Conference Registration Fee: 100 euro
Early Registration (by March, 1 2011): 80 euro
HASE Members: 90 euro
Early Registration (by March, 1 2011): 70 euro
Students: 40 euro
Conference registration includes reception, coffee, refreshment breaks and 
lunch. 

Call For Papers

Hellenic Association for the Study of English (HASE)
8th International Conference
''The Letter of the Law''
Law Matters in Language and Literature
5-8 May 2011
University of Athens, Greece
http://conferences.enl.uoa.gr/HASE8/


In the last few decades, the intersections of literature, language and law 
constitute an expanding field of study across the disciplines of legal studies 
and the humanities. The study of how literary modes figure in legal texts 
coincided with the study of literary texts that are concerned with law and 
justice, while the cultural and social spaces where law and language 
overlap have become increasingly important in attempts to forge new 
judicial tools. As the contemporary global culture poses the imperative to 
address and redress the coarticulation of law and justice; as the authority 
and legitimacy of the law are bound up with questions of ethics, often at 
odds with the judicial contexts of its application and interpretation, this 
conference seeks to consider the formulation and the violation of laws and 
reassess the intersections between the lexis and the lex.
The conference is interested in exploring literature as a juridically-defined 
commodity and reassessing the impact of law on literary history, as the 
emergence of the modern concept of literature was determined by 
copyright laws and censorship. We are also interested in the pragmatics of 
rhetoric and legal discourse, as well as in new research in the field of 
forensic linguistics, manifested in both written (e.g., judgements used in 
juridical settings, legislation, contracts) and spoken forms of discourse (e.g., 
lawyer client consultation, counsel-witness examination, interview 
techniques).
The conference welcomes panel and paper proposals from across the field 
of literary studies, critical theory, and linguistics, exploring and rethinking 
the complex mediations between law, language, and literature. Possible 
lines of inquiry may focus on (but not be limited to) a variety of themes, 
perspectives and approaches: 

-consent and dissent
-conformity, subversion, transgression
-authority, integrity and responsibility
-lawlessness
-legal and literary constitutions of identity in colonial and postcolonial 
contexts
-witnesses, victims, perpetrators, judges, lawyers and legislators
-the trial as performance and the court as performance space
-interrogations and depositions
-evidence and pronouncing sentences
-human rights
-application of phonetics in forensics
-reconstructing mobile phone text conversations
-creativity vs. rigidity of legal discourse
-authorship identification
-identifying cases of plagiarism
-trademark and other intellectual property disputes

Plenary Speakers: Malcolm Coulthard (Aston University, co-author with 
Alison Johnson of An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics: Language in 
Evidence, and The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics), Costas 
Douzinas (Birkbeck College, University of London, author of Postmodern 
Jurisprudence and Human Rights and Empire: The Political Philosophy of 
Cosmopolitanism), Lorna Hutson (University of St Andrews, author of The 
Invention of Suspicion: Law and Mimesis in Shakespeare and 
Renaissance Drama)

The conference will be held at the Main Building of the University of Athens 
from 5th to 8th May 2011.

The deadline for the submission of proposals for panel sessions (no longer 
than 500 words) and proposals for individual 20-minute papers (200-250 
words) is October 3, 2010. Please send a short biographical note together 
with your proposal. Prospective panel organisers should send together with 
their proposal and bio note, the panelists' names, paper titles, as well as a 
short bio note for each panelist and their contact details. Panel organisers 
are exempted from registration fees.
Panel and paper proposals should be sent to Mata Dimakopoulou 
(sdimakop at enl.uoa.gr)

Notification of acceptance: November 15, 2010

Conference Organisers:
Mata Dimakopoulou (University of Athens) sdimakop at enl.uoa.gr
Christina Dokou (University of Athens) cdokou at enl.uoa.gr
Elly Ifantidou (University of Athens) ifelly at enl.uoa.gr
Efterpi Mitsi (University of Athens, HASE Chair) emitsi at enl.uoa.gr
Angeliki Tzanne (University of Athens) atzanne at enl.uoa.gr
 
Scientific Committee: 
Bessie Dendrinos (University of Athens) vdendrin at enl.uoa.gr
Maria Germanou (University of Athens) margerma at enl.uoa.gr
Aspasia Velissariou (University of Athens) abelis at enl.uoa.gr

Faculty of English Studies
School of Philosophy
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Zographou University Campus
157 84 Athens, Greece
http://www.enl.uoa.gr/swf/en_indexloader.html





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