HKU Law Faculty — UC Berkeley Workshop
New Directions in Law and Humanities
Date: 8 November, 2024 (Friday)
Time: 2 pm – 6:15 pm
Venue: Rm 824, Cheng Yu Tung Tower, The University of Hong Kong
A workshop jointly organized by the HKU Faculty of Law and UC Berkeley
This workshop brings together leading law-and-humanities scholars at HKU Law and UC Berkeley to explore the intersections between law and other domains, including literature, the visual arts, and theatre. Participants will present their latest interdisciplinary work.
All welcome.
2pm-3:15pm
Panel 1
Marianne Constable (UC Berkeley): Kafka and Weber on Contemporary Bureaucracy
Scott Veitch (HKU Law): The Art of Complicity
3:15pm-3:30pm
Break
3:30pm-4:45pm
Panel 2
Shane Chalmers (HKU Law): The Imaginary King of Kowloon
Leti Volpp (UC Berkeley): The Afterlives of Signs of Law
4:45pm-5pm
Break
5pm-6:15pm
Panel 3
Bryan Wagner (UC Berkeley): The People’s Court: Law and Performance from Slavery to the Civil Rights Movement
Marco Wan (HKU Law): Law and Theatre: a Hong Kong Case Study
