Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law

We are proud to announce that Karin van Marle will be joining our conference this year and hold a keynote on the topic “‘There is a Fiction in the Space Between’ – Borders, Human Rights, Aesthetics”!

Karin van Marle took up the Office of Jurisprudence more than 30 years ago. Her teaching, supervision and research are situated in Law and Humanities Scholarship and Critical Jurisprudence. She served two terms as Head of Department of Jurisprudence at the University of Pretoria and was also vice-dean at the University of the Free State, Research Coordinator at UP and Programme Director Research and Postgraduate Study at UFS. She currently holds a Research Chair in Gender, Transformation and Worldmaking  at the University of the Western Cape with the aim of creating conceptual and material spaces striving towards transformation and the creation of different and multiple words where everyone can enjoy freedom. The main focus of the chair is to create spaces where conversations can happen between scholars, students and the broader community and where knowledges can be taken apart, rearranged and reconfigured. Thirty doctoral candidates and numerous masters students have completed their projects under her supervision.
She has published widely nationally and internationally. She was recently appointed asvisiting professor at Birkbeck, School of Law.

We are so excited to announce the opening keynote of our symposium held by Angela Naimou!

Angela Naimou is an associate professor of literature at Clemson University. She is the author of Salvage Work: U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood, which won the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present book prize and was a finalist for the William Sanders Scarborough Award by the Modern Language Association. She is editor of the volume Diaspora and Literary Studies in the Cambridge Critical Concepts series, an associate editor of the journal Contemporary Literature, and co-editor of the journal Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development. Naimou is writing a short book on human rights with Sonali Perera. Since 2022, Naimou has led a campus initiative with students and locally resettled refugees as part of the Every Campus a Refuge network.

She will hold a lecture on the topic of “International Protection Stories”.