Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law

We are pleased to officially announce the call for applications for the 9th International Osnabrück Summer Institute (OSI), Rights without Borders? Subjects, Precarity, Agency, that will take place July 06 to 14, 2024. Hosted by the Institute of English and American Studies (IfAA), the Summer Institute seeks to promote and examine the interdisciplinary study and research of law and culture.

Applicants should submit:

• An application form.
• A statement of purpose.
• A curriculum vitae.

Both PhD students and post-docs interested in taking part in the OSI should submit their applications by April 1st, 2024.

Information on eligibility, the application process and fees are available on our application page. Questions about the OSI may be directed at the Summer Institute Coordinators via email: lawandculture@uos.de.

We are so excited to announce that the concluding keynote of our conference will be held by Gesa Mackenthun!

Gesa is professor of American Studies at Rostock University, Germany. Her books include Embattled Excavations. Colonial and Transcultural Constructions of the American Deep Past (2021), Metaphors of Dispossession. American Beginnings and the Translation of Empire (1997), Fictions of the Black Atlantic (2004), and many edited volumes, among them Decolonizing ‘Prehistory’. Deep Time and Indigenous Knowledges in North America (with Christen Mucher, 2021), Sea Changes. Historicizing the Ocean (with Bernhard Klein, 2004), Entangled Knowledge. Scientific Discourses and Cultural Difference (with Klaus Hock, 2012), and DEcolonial Heritage: Natures, Cultures and the Asymmetries of Memory (with Aníbal Arregui, 2017). Her current research deals with representations of the transatlantic history of enclosures, evictions, and ecocide.

She will be holding a Keynote on the topic “Ghostly Gardeners: America’s Ambivalent Discourse on Indigenous Land Tenure.” Join us on the 24.07. at 10:30 am to listen to her exciting talk! Please note that there has been a change in venue! The talk will take place in room 11/212!