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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) ''A rather liquid world': Beckett at the end' 

Adam Gearey (Birkbeck) 'Proceeding from indifference: Belacqua, Beckett, Pareto'

Patrick Hanafin (Birkbeck) 'Postcolonial 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) 'Melville, Schmitt, and Fanon on the San Dominick'

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) 'It's after the end of the world, don't you know that yet? Law, language and myth-science'

Marinos Diamantides (Birkbeck) 'Oikonomia'

Piyel Haldar (Birkbeck) 'Does Stanley Fish need a bicycle? Non-consequential thoughts on absurdity in the law'

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