Workshop Program
Wednesday, July 3:
1:30 - 2:00 pm: Coffee and Informal Gathering
2:00 - 2:30 pm: Sabine N. Meyer (American Studies)
Opening Remarks
2:30 - 3:15 pm: Werner Gephart (Sociology)
Documentality and the Law: A Perspective from the Law-as-Culture Paradigm
3:15 - 4:00 pm: Amalia S. Levi (Archival Studies)
The Household as a Records-Producing Entity: Recordkeeping and Archival Dependencies
Coffee Break
4:30 - 5:15 pm: Mahshid Mayar (American Studies)
Restore Like an Erasure Poet – Archival Access, Law, and Erasure Poetry
5:15 - 6:00 pm: Raja Sakrani (Legal Studies)
The Normative Framing of Living Together: In the Realm of ‘Convivencia’
6:00 - 6:45 pm: Thomas Dreier (Legal Studies)
Humanoid Robots: Where They Came from and Where They Will Be Going – With a Touch of Law
7:30pm: Conference Dinner
Thursday, July 4:
9:00 - 9:45 am: Judith Hahn (Canon Law)
Law, Culture(s), and Religion: Cross-Cultural Challenges of Canon Law
9:45 - 10.30 am: Klaus von Stosch (Systematic Theology)
The Aesthetics of Law as Theodicy
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:45 am: Matt Sheedy (Religious Studies)
Religious Freedom: Rhetorics and Realities
11:45 - 12:30 pm: Raquel Razente Sirotti (Legal History and Legal Theory)
Narrating Stories of Law and Colonialism in Africa: Research, Archives, and Oral Histories in the Production of the Podcast Tramas Coloniais
Catered Lunch
1:15 - 2:00 pm: Gesa Mackenthun (American Studies)
Agrarian Justice in the 19th-Century Literary Archive
2:00 - 2:45 pm: Bryan Wagner (English Studies)
The People's Court: Law and Performance from Slavery to the Civil Rights Movement
Coffee Break
3:15 - 4:00 pm: Ted Richthofen (American Studies)
“Injury to Public Morality”: Gendered Liquor Laws and Women’s Constitutional Rights in Pre-Prohibition USA
4:00 - 4:45 pm: Martin Schermaier (Legal Studies)
Duties Replacing Claims: The Moral Transformation of Civil Law
4:45 - 5:30 pm: Nora Castle (American Studies)
Intellectual Property, Copyright Law, and the Right to DIY: A View from Science Fiction
5:30 - 5:45 pm: Bryan Wagner and Sabine N. Meyer
Closing Remarks
Wine Reception