News: conferences, events and seminars
This page contains details of conferences, events and seminars either organised and run by SLSA members or of interest to them.
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Latest events. . .
Virtual RCSL Conference and call for papers for WG Law and Popular Culture
The Matter of Silver: substance, surface, shimmer, trauma, online 3-day BA interdisciplinary conference
SLSA events and SLSA co-sponsored events
Art, Law and Borders: Borderlands in theory and the everyday, online
Migrants in Art / Migrant Artists' Rights - Value of Art: Artist showcase, online
Decolonising the Criminal Question: Colonial legacies, contemporary problems, Warwick
Doing Socio-Legal Research in a Pandemic: How, why, when, where?, online SLSA one-day conference – call for papers
2021
July
Digital writing retreat series: 'Pen to Paper Thursdays'
Date: 22 July 2021– and every Thursday until further notice
Venue: Google Meet 09:30am–12.30pm BST (incl breaks)
Organised by Flick Adams, Keele University. Please see announcement, schedule and invite for details.
State of the nation 2021: Social mobility and the pandemic
Date: 22 July 2021
Venue: Social Mobility Commission Webinar
See website for details and registration.
Place and Arts and Humanities Research: online hosted by the AHRC
Date: 26 July 2021
Venue: online hosted by the AHRC
Find out how arts and humanities research can contribute to local and regional decision making and how AHRC will be supporting this. See website for details and registration for this free event.
The Matter of Silver: substance, surface, shimmer, trauma
Dates: 26–28 July 2021
Venue: online 3-day BA interdisciplinary conference
See website for details of this free event.
August
Art, Law and Borders: Borderlands in theory and the everyday
Date: 4 August 2021
Venue: online hosted by the Art/Law Network.
See website for details. This seminar series was funded by the SLSA Seminar Competition and the ESRC.
Virtual Panel Discussion on Judicial Politics in South Asia
Date: 4 August 2021
Venue: online from University of York
See invitation and website for full details of this free event.
Migrants in Art / Migrant Artists' Rights - Value of Art: Artist showcase, online
Date: 18 August 2021
Venue: online hosted by the Art/Law Network.
See website for details. This seminar series was funded by the SLSA Seminar Competition and the ESRC.
Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference
Dates: 31 August–3 September
Venue: University of Durham
Please see announcement and website for full details. Registration is now open.
September
Art/Law Network Online Seminar Series: Art, law and the border(s) in Ireland
Date: 1 September 2021
Venue: online hosted by the Art/Law Network.
See website for details. This seminar series was funded by the SLSA Seminar Competition and the ESRC.
British Crime Historians Symposium
Dates: 2–3 September 2021
Venue: online from Centre for Criminal Justice Studies in the School of Law, University of Leeds
Please see announcement for full details.
Critical Legal Conference: ‘Frankenlaw: Community, Division, Modernity’
Dates: 2–4 September 2021
Venue: University of Dundee and online blended conference
Please see website for details.
Fourth Annual Conference of the Partnership, LLP and LLC Law ForumL registration now open
Date: 9 September 2021
Venue: Nottingham Trent University
This one-day in-person conference provides a unique opportunity for those teaching, researching or practising in partnership or LLP law, or related areas, to hear papers from leading academics and practitioners. Please see website for details. Registration closes: 31 August 2021.
Art/Law Network Online Seminar Series: Migrant artists’ rights: policy and practice
Date: 15 September 2021
Venue: online hosted by the Art/Law Network.
See website for details. This seminar series was funded by the SLSA Seminar Competition and the ESRC.
Decolonising the Criminal Question: Colonial legacies, contemporary problems
Dates: 16–17 September 2021
Venue: University of Warwick
Further details will be announced in due course. This is an SLSA-sponsored event under our Seminar Scheme.
Virtual RCSL Conference and call for papers for WG Law and Popular Culture
RCSL dates: 20–21 September 2021
WG Law and Popular Culture date: 22 September 2021
Venue: both will be held virtually
See RCSL website for details of the conference, which is free to attend but requires registration. Those interested in attending the Working Group Meeting on 22 September, or wanting to present a paper, organise a panel, or a roundtable at the Working Group Meeting, are asked to contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 1 August 2021.
Doing Socio-Legal Research in a Pandemic: How, why, when, where? – call for papers
Date: 21 September 2021
Venue: online SLSA one-day conference
Organisers: Dr Flora Renz and Dr Clare Williams. Please see announcement for full details. Closing date: 16 September 2021. This is an SLSA Seminar Competition event.
Immigration Law and Policy, Border Control and Migrant Deaths
Dates: 30 September–1 October 2021
Venue: Humbold University: Centre for British Studies
Please see announcement for details.
October
Financial Crime: Challenges and responses
Date: October 2021 tbc
Venue: PGR/ECR online conference hosted by IALS
Please see announcement for details.
Are We Owned? A multidisciplinary and comparative conversation on intellectual property in the algorithmic society
Date: 8 October 2021
Venue: University of Stirling
Please see website for details of the Modern Law Review-funded in-person event.
November
Questions of Accountability: Prerogatives, power and politics – call for papers
Dates: 1–5 November 2021
Venue: online exhibition hosted by the University of Worcester and University of Sheffield
See announcement for full details of keynote speakers, keynote panels and the call for papers. Closing date: 11 August 2021.
British Academy UK-Poland Knowledge Frontiers Symposium on ‘Just Transitions’
Dates: between 23 November and 9 December 2021
Venue: virtual symposium from Warsaw
See anouncement for details.
SULC Legal Ethics / Ethics in Law Conference
Dates: 29–30 November 2021
Venue: online from Stellenbosch University Law Clinic, South Africa
See website for full details.
2022
April
Climate Change and the Rule of Law Conference: call for papers from ECRs
Dates: 31 March–1 April 2022
Venue: UCL Centre for Law and the Environment, University College London
Please see announcement for further details. Closing date: 31 August 2021.
2023
May
23rd International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law – IRSL 2023: call for papers
Dates: 24–27 May 2023
Venue: hosted online by Pontificia Università Antonianum, Roma, Italy
Theme: Global Semiotics and Everyday Legal Claims – Intercultural Use of Law, Interreligious Dialogue and Translation Ethics
Please note that this event was originally scheduled to take place in May 2021. See announcement for full details. Closing date: 6 January 2023.