Visualising Law in Society

The seminars encourage and facilitate the growing interest in the interdisciplinary field of law, history and visual culture. As such, these reflections break away from the traditional view of law as an image-less, a text-based discourse. By incorporating scholarship from a wide range of disciplines, it offers an innovative and lively forum for the discussion of innovative and path-breaking legal and historical research on visual culture. The papers in this seminar series cover a wide range of themes, motifs and legal issues. Together, it showcases new research and comments from around 35 speakers, who are based in a variety of jurisdictions around the world.

Speakers

Patrick Brian Smith (University of Warwick), Mediated Forensics: Visual Cultures of Resistance

Anat Rosenberg (Reichman University), Ways of Seeing Advertising: Law and the Making of Visual Commercial Culture

Chris Ashford (Northumbria University), Legal Perspectives on Visualising Queer Sex: Case Studies from Queer Theatre 1973-2019

Teresa Sutton (University of Sussex), Ecclesiastical Exemption, Visual Culture and the Law

Lara Tessaro (University of Kent), ‘No Ban on Romance!’: Materializing Cosmetics through Product Labels, 1947-1960

Giulia Walter (University of Zurich) and Filippo Contarini (University of Lucerne), Fabrizio De André’s Storia di un Impiegato