We are thrilled to announce the two-day event "Framing Law and Humanities in/from the Global South," co-sponsored by Stanford Global Studies, materia, and the Modern Thought & Literature program. 

The first session seeks to broaden the horizons of the Law and Humanities critical paradigm, and the second centers on the juridical personhood of nature, nonhuman rights, and the role of cultural production in conceptualizing these problems. Details are as follows:

Day 1: Opening Roundtable - Wednesday, March 2 at 5pm (PST)

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Leila Neti, Professor of English, Occidental College

Beth Piatote, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Native American Studies, UC Berkeley

Marco Wan, Professor and Director of the Programme in Law and Literary Studies, University of Hong Kong

Day 2: The Rights of Nature and the Imagination - Thursday, March 3 at 5pm (PST)

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Alberto Acosta, Economist and Political Thinker, Former Minister of Energy and Mines in Ecuador

Alyse Bertenthal, Assistant Professor of Law, Wake Forest University

Allison Bigelow, Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Virginia

Contact: jbwager@stanford.edu

Links:

Law and Literature in the Global South: DLCL / SGS

materia is a focal group in the DLCL Research Unit

Modern Thought and Literature