Dr. Jędrzej Górski, Gokce Mete, and Hon.
Call for Articles: Special Issue ‘Woman Suffrage’
Dear Colleagues,
Disability Human Rights Law is an emerging field that this Special Issue will help to shape. It is an amalgamation of human rights law, disability studies, and disability rights law. It views rights in novel way, opening a new line of scholarly inquiry. It sees rights as they apply to the individual, with regard to the individual’s particular abilities, needs, and circumstances.
Drugs and spices have long been at the center of global trade, but the concept of “drug” in its modern, Western sense is particularly derived from interactions with cultural “others.” Thinkers such as Jacques Derrida have written on the ancient Pharmakon and its relationship to signification and sacrifice.
The Faculty of Law & Institute of Gender & Development Studies (IGDS) UWI, St. Augustine Campus in collaboration with The University of Houston's Graduate Certificate in Global Energy, Development, and Sustainability (GEDS) & The UH Law Center's Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources Center
The aim of this edited collection will be to provide one of the leading guides on the intersections between law and art. The edited collection will therefore bring together a wide range of theorists in relation to, amongst other things, critical approaches to law and art, the intersection between law and art and their mutual relationship, legal categories and definitions and vis-à-vis art movements and particular artworks, and law and art theories.
This special edition of SACQ seeks to explore impediments to social justice advancement towards real prison reform globally. Emerging societies Like South Africa and marginalized communities in the developed world like North America and Europe continue to bear the brunt of incarceration, violent policing and other forms of institutionalisation. Globalization of incarceration and penitentiary systems in both the developing and the developed world do nothing to challenge criminalization of poverty. Instead, progress is marked by advances in incarceration technologies.
Proposals for 20-minute papers are invited for an interdisciplinary panel on boundaries of the law in medieval and early modern societies, to be convened at the ANZAMEMS 2019 conference, 5-8 February 2019, University of Sydney. The conference theme is Boundaries, Categories, Horizons.
This is to announce the publication of a special issue of the journal Asian Affairs: 'Ghosts from the Past? Assessing Recent Developments in Religious Freedom in South Asia' guest-edited by Neeti Nair and Michael Kugelman. The contributors include scholars working on India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
Principal Contents
Preface – Bijan Omrani
Introduction – Neeti Nair
The Indian Constituent Assembly and the Making of Hindus and Muslims in Jammu and Kashmir – Mridu Rai
Call for Papers: Rethinking Peace Mediation
Durham University and the European University Viadrina are inviting paper proposals on critical approaches to peace mediation for a workshop that will take place in New York City in November.
