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New Perspectives on Law and Literature, Malet Street Room G16.

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Venue: Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street

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Programme

Panel 1: 9-10.30 

Wouter Werner (Free University Amsterdam) 'Krapp's Last Tape and the UN: Security Council Resolutions as Autobiographical Texts'

Stephen Humphreys (LSE)

Adam Gearey (Birkbeck)

Patrick Hanafin (Birkbeck) 'Law Between Speech and Violence: Inoperativity in Samuel Beckett's Molloy'

Panel 2: 10.45-12.15

Paul Raffield (Warwick and Honorary Research Fellow Birkbeck) 'The Oneiric Imagination and the Dream of Law'

Julia Chryssostalis (University of Westminster)

Andreas Philippopoulos-Michalopoulos (University of Westminster) 'Hydrojustice: Writing Water'

Panel 3: 1.15-2.45

Jaco Barnard-Naude (University of Capetown and Visiting Professor Birkbeck) 'Modernism and the Lack of Justice: Law, Poetry and Psychoanalysis in Kandinsky, Rothko and Kentridge'

Maria Aristodemou (Birkbeck) 'Castration'

Bernard Keenan (UCL) 'Death's Secretaries: Reading Refugee Witness Statements as Narratives and Archives'

Panel 4: 3-4.30

Elena Loizidou (Birkbeck) 'Utopia Occupied'

Nathan Moore (Birkbeck) 'Exhaustion'

Marinos Diamantides (Birkbeck) 'Oikonomia'

Piyel Haldar (Birkbeck)

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