Marie Curie Initial Training Network on Diasporic
Constructions of Home and Belonging- open positions
Marie Curie Fellowship
Early Stage Researcher in the field of Transdisciplinary Diaspora Studies
Literary Refractions of Migration Laws in Post-Colonial Novels
Applications are invited for the position of one early stage – or doctoral – researcher 36 months, full time) in Diaspora Studies to work on a project situated within the area of literary studies at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany.
Marie Curie Initial Training Network
“Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging” (CoHaB website for more information)
All over the world, stable concepts of home and belonging have, for a variety of reasons, become the exception rather than the rule, which has led to dramatic cultural, social and political changes and challenges. The study of diaspora and migration has evolved into a burgeoning field which sets an urgent research agenda for our time. The EU-funded trans-national network CoHaB comprises acknowledged Diaspora Studies experts from the universities of Münster, Oxford, SOAS, Stockholm, Mumbai and Northampton, as well as several non-academic partners. Committed to excellence in facilitating research for scholars in the early phases of their careers, the network is united in the conviction that interdisciplinary and transnational training as well as international and inter-sectoral co-operation are key to any productive study of diaspora. Applicants must document research interests and expertise in relevant fields, especially literary studies, law, and diaspora studies and be willing to network across academic and non-academic institutions as part of their research. (Click here for more information)
Deadline applications 15 March 2012
Forum for Modern Language Studies - Forum Essay Prize 2011 : Literature and the Law
**The Forum Essay prize 2011: Literature and the Law**
Important work in the humanities is taking place where law and literature intersect: in the study of hate speech under the rubric of performative language; in the study of copyright and intellectual property law as part of the material culture of literature; in the study of forensic genres of literature, from revenge tragedy to the contemporary policier. What can literature tell us about the law? How does literature evoke the law to illuminate other subjects? In which ways do the two influence one another? What points of reference enable, or delimit, their interactions?
The 2011 Forum Prize competition invites submissions on the subject of Literature and the Law, addressing literature of any period, and in any of the languages covered by the journal (usually English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian, but we will consider others too). The competition is open to all researchers, whether established or early-career: it is worth noting that previous competitions have been won by scholars in both categories.
*The Forum Prize*
The winner's prize will consist of:
1. Publication of the winning essay in the next appropriate volume of Forum for Modern Language Studies
2. A cash prize of £200
Other entries of sufficient quality may be invited to publish.
*Entry Requirements for the Forum Essay Prize 2011*
The Forum Essay Prize is open to all researchers. Essays are to be no longer than 6,500 words, inclusive of all footnotes and references and should conform to FMLS house style.The closing date for entries will be 31 March 2011.
Visit www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4116/1 for full details of the Essay Prize rules.
*Submissions*
Submissions for the essay competition must arrive no later than 31 March 2011. Entries must be made via the online submission system at www.fmls.oxfordjournals.org. If you have any general enquiries about the competition, please contact the Administrative Editor, Dr Robin Mackenzie, at rmm10@st-andrews.ac.uk
Visit www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4117/1 to read details on how to submit.
*Promote the prize*
If you would like to advertise the Forum prize amongst interested peers, why not download our PDF poster and display it on your notice board? Visit www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4118/1 to download the poster.
NEWS
Shakespeare, La Comedie de la Loi, by Francois Ost (Brussels)
Editions MICHALON (Paris), 313p.
Third Biennial Literature and Law Conference
March 29 - 30, 2012 - John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York
Jeremias Gotthelf - Prediger gegen den Rechtsstaat
Dissertation and summery Dr. Michael Lauener, Universität Zürich
New book on interdisciplinary legal studies
(Law and Method, edited by Bart van Klink and Sanne Taekema)
Symposium on Visualizing Law in the Digital Age
(this conference will coincide with the publication of professor Richard K. Sherwin's new book 'Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque: Arabesques & Entanglements, Routledge 2011).
Report of Paris conference, February 2010
Anne Krakow
Conference review, April 2010
Andrew Majeske
El alma y la ley - Tolstói entre juristas (España (1890-1928)
José Calvo González
Information about this book
