CILCH presents Exploring Law’s Sensorium

• In-person event
• 2224, Richcraft Hall, Carleton University
• 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6

A symposium and book launch hosted by the Canadian Initiative in Law, Culture and Humanities

Schedule

1:00-1:20       Welcome and Introductory Remarks

1:20 – 2:40     Embodying Politics

“ ‘How She Appears’: Demeanor, Relationality and the Policing of Domestic Violence”

Dawn Moore, Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University

         “How to Make Sense: Legitimacy and Trans/Gendering Citizenship”

Anne Quéma, Department of English and Theatre, Acadia University

“Seeing and Unmaking Civilians: International Law and Military Technologies in Afghanistan”

Christiane Wilke, Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University

2:40 – 3:00     Health Break

3:00 – 4:30     Sensual Cultures

“Seeing the Similarities in Songs: Music Plagiarism, Forensic Musicology and the Translation of Sound in the Courtroom”

Michael Mopas, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University

“Visual Logics of Deduction: Ocular Presence and Ocular Distance in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Purloined Letter”

Neil Sargent, Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University

“Regulating Dirty Hands(hakes) in the Contemporary Haptic Economy of Sport”

Sheryl Hamilton, School of Journalism and Communication and Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University

4:30 – 6:00     Reception and Book Launch

Please join us for a wine and cheese reception to celebrate the publication of Anne Quéma’s new book, Power and Legitimacy: Law, Culture, and Literature (University of Toronto Press, 2015).