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Friday, October 23, 2020

Legal Histories of Empire Symposium, 30/31 October 2020, by zoom: time dependent on time zone, free but registration required

h/t Lyndsay Campbell Legal Histories of Empire Symposium: Rohit De and Catherine Evans Posted on October 15, 2020by anzlhswebsite Please join us for the first of several planned symposia in 2020 and 2021 for Legal Histories of Empire and for the celebration of a special birthday of the founder of the Legal Histories of Empire Conferences. Our speakers: Rohit De: “Brown Lawyers, Black Robes: Decolonization, Diasporic Lawyers and Minority Rights” Rohit De is Associate Professor of History at Yale University and is the author of A People’s Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic (2018). As a Carnegie Fellow, he is currently working on a book on a history of rebellious lawyering and decolonization Catherine Evans: “Civilization as Sanity in the Victorian Empire” Catherine L. Evans is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. Her first book, Unsound Empire: Civilization and Madness in Late-Victorian Law, comes out next fall (Yale University Press, 2021). Timezones: New Haven/Toronto @ 4 pm on 30 October Vancouver @ 1pm on 30 October Sydney @ 7 am on 31 October Auckland @ 9 am on 31October London/Dublin @ 8 pm on 30 October Singapore @ 4 am on 31 October Registration: Free via Eventbrite. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/legal-histories-of-empire-symposium-tickets-125282891501 Registration is required. You will be emailed a Zoom link 36 hours before the event.

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