Juris North Roundtables 2024
Title: Queer Theory, Leadership and Inclusion
Following successful roundtable events exploring the work of Hans Kelsen in 2021 and 2022, and contemporary non/anti-positivist legal theory in 2023, Juris North is pleased to announce the theme of our 2024 Roundtable Series: Queer Theory, Leadership and Inclusion. We invite participants to present work-in-progress that engages with an aspect of queer theory. Papers may approach this theme from either a doctrinal or theoretical perspective.
Aims:
- To critically assess domestic, regional and/or global crossovers with a specific thematic area.
- To explore different stakeholder journeys and views.
- To seek different perspectives and exchanges about the same theme and explore possibilities for collaboration in terms of research, practice and education.
Led by:
Dr Jorge E. Núñez, Manchester Law School
Dr Anna Chronopoulou, Westminster Law School
Participants:
Open to all. Ideally, multi-disciplinary, transversal and inclusive (academics, policy-makers, people at large from different states, religions, genders, ethnicities, etc.).
Format:
The purpose of these roundtable events is to showcase and develop works-in-progress rather than completed papers. Each session will start with a keynote presentation and Q&A, which we expect to last around one hour. Following a short break, we will then begin the work-in-progress roundtable during which we will hear from up to three speakers. Each speaker will be given a short period of time (5-10minutes) to summarise the key position of their paper, before the floor is opened to a general discussion amongst all attendees to discuss themes and links that emerge from the presentations. Though in-person attendance is encouraged, each event will be hosted in a hybrid-format at Manchester Law School and/or Westminster Law School.
Dates/Times: monthly meetings.
First Roundtable: Friday 26th April, 3pm-7pm, hosted by Manchester Law School
Organising Team:
Dr Jenny Kanellopoulou (Manchester Law School)
Dr Kay Lalor (Manchester Law School)
Dr Senthorun Raj (Manchester Law School)
- Keynote Speaker: Prof. Alex Sharpe, Warwick Law School
Title: Hopeful Monsters: the Queer undecidability of David Bowie
Provisional Schedule:
- Registration/Networking 3:00pm.
- Roundtable/Panel Discussion (Led by Dr Jenny Kanellopoulou and Dr Senthorun Raj) Location: MLS Moot Court Room, SBG.06.
- Networking/break again.
- Keynote (Led by Dr Kay Lalor) Location: MMU’s SODA, Cinema, G.05
- The Social: Canal st. for dinner and drinks (optional, going Dutch!).
Second Roundtable: May 2024: Date/Time TBC, hosted by Westminster Law School
- Keynote Speaker: Prof. Eric Heinze, Queen Mary, University of London
Title: From Knowledge to Power: Revisiting LGBTQ+ epistemologies
Third Roundtable: Friday 14th June 2024, 12pm-5pm,hosted by Leeds Law School
Organising Team:
Dr Rosie Fox (Leeds Law School)
Dr James Greenwood-Reeves (Leeds Law School)
- Keynotes: Drag artists Dan Glibits, Ian Cell, Pop Tart, AJ-47 and The Witch Blair
Title: Law’s a Drag, and So is Researching Law
Location: School of Law, Liberty Building, University of Leeds
Brief synopsis:
In this roundtable event, local drag artists will co-host discussions as part of the Law’s a Drag network, and talk to us about including and empowering queer people in the design of our future research projects. The three main themes of the session are: a) inclusion of queer voices in identifying the subject of legal research; b) how to empower drag artists, and queer people more broadly, in the design and execution of legal research; c) consultation methods for including queer people in that process, e.g. advisory boards. Throughout these discussions, we will be referring to plans for Law’s a Drag’s future research project as an example of how we can apply these themes to concrete research design proposals.
Keynote Speaker: TBC (Drag artists from the Law’s a Drag network)
Provisional schedule:
Registration/Networking 1200-1300
1300-1330 Introduction to Law’s a Drag (Led by Dr James Greenwood-Reeves and Dr Rosie Fox)
1330-1415 Theme 1: Inclusion of queer voices
1415-1430 Break
1430-1515 Theme 2: Empowering research design
1515-1530 Break
1530-1615 Theme 3: Queer consultation
1615-1630 Break
1630-1700 Summary and closing remarks
The Social: Leeds city centre for optional dinner and drinks
Final event:
The series will culminate in a one-day event in September/October 2024 where attendees can present papers that have been updated as a result of the series.
We are currently in discussions with Hart as to the possibility of publishing presented papers as an edited collection.
Participation:
If you are interested in sending an abstract (up to 500 words) for consideration or simply taking part in our roundtables, please send your email to j.nunez@mmu.ac.uk by Friday 29th March 2024.
The e-mail accompanying your abstract should also contain the following information:
- Name;
- Institutional affiliation (if any);
- Whether you hope to present in-person or online;
- A ranked indication of your preference with regards to the month of your participation (if applicable).
Thursday 21st December 2023
Dr Jorge Emilio Núñez
Twitter: @DrJorge_World
Dr Jorge's World 