A Symposium at the University of Plymouth, "Empire: Legality, Locality, Authority", Plymouth, 10 sept 2010

Information transmise par Fr. Audren:

Empire: Legality, Locality, Authority

A Symposium at the University of Plymouth 

10 September 2010

Plymouth

 

The trial of Warren Hastings by J.R. Polland (1789), courtesy British Library

Organizers: 
Dr Nandini Chatterjee and Dr Kim Stevenson

 

PrésentationThis multi-disciplinary symposium draws together scholars working within their own disciplinary contexts on the historical connection between law and empire, with the following aims:

• Bringing together a variety of discipline-specific analytical tools to explore how law-bound power is constituted, exercised, justified, represented and transgressed in the inherently unequal context of empire;
• Grappling with methodological problems to identify the most convincing and productive uses of the Privy Council’s records, recently transferred to the National Archives;
• Building a core research team and larger advisory committee to help in conceptualizing, executing, publicizing and attracting funds for the Privy Council project as its grows.

Further details about the project: ‘Judging empire: the global reach of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council’; Programme and Abstracts are available from the website of the Centre for Humanities, Music and Performing Arts Research, University of Plymouth.

Speakers:  

Nandini Chatterjee; Lin Holdridge; Stacey Hynd; Diana Jeater, Justin Jones, Stephanie Jones;  Stephanie Pratt; Charlotte Smith; Judith Rowbotham; Kim Stevenson; Elizabeth Tingle 

 

Participation in the symposium is free, but spaces are limited.

Contact & inscriptions:

To register, contact: nandini.chatterjee@plymouth.ac.uk before 16 July 2010. 

 

Poster: 

Download the above information as a PDF file

Source: http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/dynamic.asp?page=events&eventID=5347&showEvent=1