Visualising Law: Visual Jurisprudence and Literature#
International Conference#
11-13 November 2015, Verona, Italy#
UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI VERONA
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Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature StraniereDipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche
The event is open to all interested scholars and post graduate students. Please contact the organisers, or Professor Dottori Daniela Carpi
for registration information.
Programme#
WEDNESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2015#
9.30 WELCOMING ADDRESSESNicola Sartor, Magnifico Rettore dell’Università degli Studi di Verona
Roberta Facchinetti, Direttore del Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere
Donata Gottardi, Direttore del Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche
Immacolata Amodeo, Villa Vigoni, German-Italian Centre for European Excellence
Daniela Carpi, Presidente AIDEL
CHAIR: Daniela Carpi (University of Verona)
10.00 Richard Sherwin (New York Law School): What Authorizes the Image? The Visual Economy of Post-Secular Jurisprudence.
10.45 Gary Watt (Warwick School of Law): Hearing the Evident
11.15 COFFEE BREAK
11.45 Svend Erik Larsen (Emeritus, Aarhus University): The Court Room – A Visual Semantics
12.15 Discussion
13.00 LUNCH
CHAIR: Yvonne Bezrucka (University of Verona)
14.30 William MacNeil (Griffith Law School): Brokeback Mountain: Queering Lex Populi
15.00 Daniela Carpi (University of Verona): How to Enforce the Law: Video-shocks for Road Security
15.30 Andrew Majeske (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York): The Medium Isn’t the Message: Why We Have Less to Fear from Image-Driven Culture than Richard Sherwin Suggests
16.00 COFFEE BREAK
16.30 Patrizia Nerozzi (Emeritus, IULM University): The Many Faces of the Law: Ocular Demonstrations
and Popular Satire in William Hogarth’s Paintings and Engravings
17.00 Paolo Heritier (University of Torino): World 0. A Vichian Perspective on ‘Legal Visual Studies’ and ‘Law and Humanities’
17.30 Discussion
THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2015#
CHAIR: Chiara Battisti (University of Verona)
9.30 Jessica Silbey (Northeastern University, School of Law): Picturing Moral Arguments in a Fraught
Legal Arena: Fetuses, Phantoms and Ultrasounds
10.00 Leif Dahlberg (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm) : The In/visible Interpreter
10.30 John Gooch (University of Texas at Dallas): Visualizing the Rhetoric of International Law in the
Ukrainian Crisis
11.00 COFFEE BREAK
11.30 Cristina Costantini (University of Perugia): Legal Stigmata. Figuring the ‘Praesthetic’ Consistence of
Corpus Iuris
12.00 Max Liljefors (Lund University): Screening the Body: Biotechnology, Emotion, and Law in Contemporary Science Fiction Film
12.30 Discussion
13.00 LUNCH
14.30 AIDEL ANNUAL MEETING
CHAIR: Sidia Fiorato (University of Verona)
15.00 Annalisa Ciampi (University of Verona): Visual War or the Production / Destruction of International
Law through Images
15.30 Karen-Margrethe Simonsen (University of Aarhus): The Aesthetics and Politics of Atrocity Tales. On
Joshua Oppenheimer’s two Movies on the Indonesian Killings of 1965-66
16.00 Filippo Sgubbi (University of Bologna): Symbolic Criminal Law and its Digital Visualization
16.30 COFFEE BREAK
17.00 Yvonne Bezrucka (University of Verona): Beehives Iconology in “The Fable of the Bees” by Bernard de
Mandeville
17.30 Pier Giuseppe Monateri (University of Torino): Mandersson and Klimt’s Jurisprudence
18.00 Discussion
20.00 Official Dinner
FRIDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2015#
CHAIR: Pier Giuseppe Monateri (University of Torino)9.30 Ian Ward (Newcastle School of Law): A Revenger’s Tragedy
10.00 Doris Pichler (University of Graz): Re-negotiating Justice in Semifictional Legal Theatre: The Work of Milo Rau and Others
10.30 Riccardo Baldissone (University of Kent): The Scales for the Woman, the Cross for the Man: Visualizing Justice and Her Execution in Western Painting and Sculpture
11.00 COFFEE BREAK
11.30 Mara Logaldo (IULM University, Milano): ‘The Last Laugh’: A Multimodal Analysis of Captions in
Photojournalism
12.00 Roberto Flor (University of Verona): Visualizing Criminal Law in the Information Society
12.30 Discussion
13.00 LUNCH
CHAIR: Cristina Costantini (University of Perugia)
14.30 Matteo Nicolini (University of Verona): From Hard-Copy to Digital Law, via “Illustrated Courtrooms”:
Visualising the History of Legal English
15.00 Annalisa Zanola (University of Brescia): ‘Informed Consent’ in Visual Health Literacy
15.30 COFFEE BREAK
16.00 Steven Howe (University of Lucerne): Visions of Violence: Film, Crime and Legal-Cultural Discourse
in Weimar Germany
16.30 Raffaele Cutolo (University of Brescia): Visualising Identity: The Legal Body and Biometrics
17.00 Sidia Fiorato (University of Verona): Dystopian Images of Law in The Hunger Games
17.30 CONCLUSIONS
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE#
Daniela Carpi
Chiara Battisti
Sidia Fiorato
ORGANISING COMMITTEE#
Valentina Adami
Raffaele Cutolo
Anja Meyer
Roberta Zanoni
Venue:
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale
Lungadige Porta Vittoria 9
Verona, Italy
Download the conference folder
with the programme.
The conference is co-sponsored by the Academia Europaea HUBERT CURIEN INTIATIVES FUND (2015).
