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We are pleased to announce the next in our series of online seminars on "Cultures of Legality in Weimar Germany". On Wednesday 30 October, Javier Samper Vendrell (University of Pennsylvania) will be speaking on "A Film for Children? Autonomy and Vulnerability in Emil and the Detectives (1931)". Further details: https://tinyurl.com/2c4n9yjz

Sailing the Ship of Fools (11.12.24.)
Join us for this anniversary workshop celebrating 20 years of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies - lucernaiuris.
Inspired by Patrizia Comand's suggestive reimagining of “La Nave dei Folli”, we propose the workshop as a space to celebrate the promise of working in law’s borderlands and to speculate on some possible future directions for ‘law and’ scholarship.
Further details: https://tinyurl.com/mt2nb394

Visiting Fellows 2025
The call for applications for the Visiting Fellows Programme 2025 is now open. The deadline for submission is 30 September 2024.
Full details: https://tinyurl.com/2ebkcn2u

In the Thick of Images: Law, History and the Visual
Our international conference In the Thick of Images: Law, History and the Visual took place on 10 and 11 June. Featuring nearly 40 panel contributions, and three keynote talks, the event was a lively affair, fizzing with interdisciplinary energy and underpinned by careful, historically sensitive scholarship. Bringing together a global community of academics, both established and emerging, the conference presented a rich array of perspectives on how to think the relations of law, history and the visual - in various contexts, scales and timeframes.
The conference was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation as part of the project 'Imagining Justice: Law, Politics and Popular Visual Culture in Weimar Germany' (Project Team: Steven Howe, Laura Petersen, Nicole Schraner).

Critical Times 2024: Un/Seen
Last week saw the second run of the Critical Times summer school in law and humanities. Organised under the heading 'Un/Seen', and centred on critical issues around the nexus of law, politics and visuality, the school brought together a group of outstanding young researchers from across the globe for a full and lively week of seminars, talks, screenings and presentations.
We thank all participants for their openness and intellectual generosity, for the new ideas and friendships, and we look forward to future events in the series (stay tuned for further details).

Critical Times 2024: Un/Seen
Join us in early June for our next Critical Times summer school in law and humanities. The lead theme this year is Un/Seen, and we invite postdocs, ECRs and graduate students from a range of disciplines and backgrounds to immerse themselves in a week of critical and creative thinking about the interplay between law, politics and visuality.
Further details: http://tinyurl.com/ywcneape
Image: Double Blind (detail), 2008, Antonia Hirsch. Photography: Photo Technic. © Antonia Hirsch, VG Bild; Vancouver Community College

We are pleased to announce the publication of the volume “Neue Adressaten des Rechts”, edited by Suad Salihu and Rüya Toparlak. The ninth issue in the series “Junge Rechtswissenschaft Luzern”, the collection presents ten new essays, all written by PhD candidates and postdocs at the University of Lucerne, exploring critical matters around questions of legal personhood and subjectivity. The volume includes contributions from the following researchers affiliated to the institute: Emiliano Chiera, Teona Kvirikashvili , Tim Meier, Suad Salihu and Rüya Toparlak. Further details: https://tinyurl.com/yf7xu5fw

Critical Times 2023: Movement(s)
From 5 to 9 June, the institute hosted the 2023 edition of the Critical Times workshop.
Curated around the lead theme of “Movement(s)”, the event welcomed a cohort of doctoral and postdoctoral researchers from across five continents for a week of intensive study and intellectual exchange. Through a varied programme including seminars, lectures, presentation sessions and a film screening, participants were offered a unique platform to think – deeply, critically and creatively – about contemporary issues of law, politics and justice, and about methodological practices and innovations.

The next Critical Times workshop will take place from 5 to 9 June 2023 at the University of Lucerne. The lead theme of the workshop is Movement(s). Further details: https://tinyurl.com/3mp6aauk
The event is open to PhD candidates and postdocs of all disciplinary backgrounds. The deadline for applications is 13 February 2023.

Join us on Thursday 8 September (10.00h CEST) for an online talk with artist Jonas Staal on "Organizing the Future (Or: How to Demand a Million More Years?). With responses from Tim Lindgren and Carey Young.

Organised in collaboration with the Institute for International Law and the Humanities, University of Melbourne.

Further details, including registration link: https://tinyurl.com/mham6j2s

We are delighted to welcome our latest visiting fellow to the institute.
Dr. Lisa Stuckey (University of Applied Arts Vienna) will be with us throughout September, working on her postdoc project Curating Weak Law, in which she studies think tanks, task forces, and tribunals of the twenty-first century through the perspective of curatorial theory. Further details: https://tinyurl.com/5f99mk88

CfA: Visiting Fellows 2023
The call for our visiting fellows programme 2023 is now open.
Deadline: Friday 30 September 2022.
Further details: tinyurl.com/y3h26p6j

We are pleased to present our annual report for 2021.
The report provides an overview of our activities last year, as well as a preview of upcoming events and projects. Happy reading!
Link: tinyurl.com/y82nhjzn

Join us on Monday 23 May for the next talk in our laboratorium lucernaiuris series. Alexander Damianos (University of Kent) will present on the question: "Is the Effort to Formalise the Anthropocene a Juridical Exercise?"
The event will be held online and is open to all. Further details: tinyurl.com/3vnvyysc

SEMINAR: HUMAN RIGHTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE (Online)
Join us on Thursday 24 February, from 10.00am (CET), for the latest seminar in our series "Private Law in the Ecological Transition: Facing Climate Change".
The session will feature the following talks:
Prof. Dr. Annalisa Savaresi (University of Stirling), The Role of Human Rights in Climate Change Litigation
Prof. Dr. Ottavio Quirico (University of New England), Environmental Human Rights and Fundamental Climate Rights: Implications
Further details, including the Zoom link: tinyurl.com/26kyfdxh

For One Day Only: Law, Space, Matter

Join us for our 24-hour virtual workshop exploring the entanglements between law, space and matter.

Full programme and registration details available here: https://tinyurl.com/2nm7v827

CfA: Visiting Fellows 2022

We are currently inviting applications for our Visiting Fellows Programme 2022.

The fellowship programme is set up to support junior scholars (PhD students and postdocs) who wish to undertake a short-term research stay at the institute. The scheme is open to all working broadly on interdisciplinary topics at the intersections between law, the humanities and the social sciences. Focusing on critical and theoretical approaches, the institute aims to bring together a diverse group of scholars who read and think widely across fields, contexts and disciplines.

Further details: https://tinyurl.com/ckvjy5ar

We are pleased to present our annual report for 2020.
The report gives an overview of our activities last year, as well as a preview of upcoming projects.
We hope you enjoy reading it!
Link: https://tinyurl.com/4vzjpddr