The deadline for the call for papers has passed, so the workshop itself is now restricted to speakers and presenters. The keynote address by Professor Markus Krajewski is, however, open to all who are interested. If you would like to attend Professor Krajewski’s keynote address but are not a workshop participant, kindly register your interest to do so by filling in this e-form by Monday, 15 January 2024.
Programme outline (provisional)
Workshop venue: Porthania, University of Helsinki, Yliopistonkatu 3, 00100 Helsinki. All sessions take place in the Faculty Room (P545, 5th floor) unless otherwise specified.
Wednesday, 17 January 2024
- 10am-11.30am
Registration and light lunch - 11.30am-12noon
Welcome and opening words - 12noon-1.30pm
Paper session I - 1.30pm-2pm
Refreshments - 2pm-3.30pm
Paper session II - 3.30pm-4pm
Refreshments - 4pm-5.30pm
Keynote (P674, 6th floor)
Professor Markus Krajewski (Basel), AD COMMENTARIUM. From Aperitif to Digestif. Comments on the Occidental History of Comments - 6pm-7.30pm
Faculty reception. Welcome by Dean, Professor Johanna Niemi. - 7.30pm onwards
Dinner on your own
Thursday, 18 January 2024
- 9.30am-10am
Coffee - 10am-11.30am
Paper session III - 11.30am-12noon
Refreshments - 12noon-1.30pm
Paper session IV - 1.30pm-2.30pm
Lunch at Restaurant Sunn. Aleksanterinkatu 26 (Senate Square). - 2.30pm-4pm
Paper session V - 5pm-7pm
Sauna and winter sea swimming
Löyly. Hernesaarenranta 4, 00150 Helsinki - 7pm onwards
Workshop dinner
Löyly. Hernesaarenranta 4, 00150 Helsinki
Friday, 19 January 2024
- 10am-11.30pm
Paper session VI - 11.30pm-1pm
Closing session including panel discussion with Alexandra Kemmerer, Markus Krajewski, and Fabian Steinhauer. Followed by business meeting over refreshments.
Workshop participants and papers (provisional)
Arvidsson, Matilda (University of Gothenburg, Sweden), title tbc
Bennke, Johannes (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel), Governing/Relying: Smart Contracts as a Cultural Technique of Law
Boehncke, Clemens (Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Germany)‚ Can Law Publishers Change the Law? The Case of Otto Liebmann, 1890-1933
Campbell, James (University of Oxford, UK), Im/mobilities (Before the Law)
Cirkovic, Elena (Max Planck Institute for International, European, and Regulatory Procedural Law, Luxembourg), Legal Hardware and Architectural Flexibility
Dahlberg, Leif (KTH, Sweden), The Trial as Cultural Technique: Reading Peter Weiss’ Die Ermittlung
Damianos, Alexander (Univeristy of Kent, UK), Techno-Juridicalities of the Anthropocene: Geology, Forensics, Law
Finchett-Maddock, Lucy (Bangor University, UK) and Sabrina Gilani (University of Sussex, UK), Electricity and the ‘Force’ of Law
Fusco, Gian Giacomo (University of Kent, UK), Iconography of the Exception: (Legal) Operative Images and the Law of Emergency
Giddens, Thomas (University of Dundee, UK), Law Reports and the Cultural Techniques of Digital Typography
Goh, Benjamin (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Cultural Techniques of Memory Between Law and Literature
Huggins, Julia (Brown University, USA), Forensic Dust, DNA, and the Politics of Scatter
Johansen, Tormod (University of Gothenburg, Sweden), The Two Bodies of the Legal Text
Joyce, Daniel (UNSW, Australia), How Do We Understand the ‘Media’ of Media Law?
Keenan, Bernard (Birkbeck University of London, UK), An Archaeology of the Interception Warrant
Kemmerer, Alexandra (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Germany), title tbc
Krusell, Mathias (University of Gothenburg, Sweden), The De-administration of IT-Work
Kuntz, Friederike (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany), Instructions – Cultural Techniques of Legal Worlds of Sovereignty
Käll, Jannice (Lund University, Sweden), Operating (against) Vulnerabilities of the Automated Welfare State
Luker, Trish (University of Technology Sydney, Australia), Law’s Signature Acts
Minkkinen, Panu (University of Helsinki, Finland), ‘La salle des pas perdus’: Communicating Judicial Transparency in Paris
Mendez, Matthew (Yale University, USA), Putting the Voice Right: Cultural Techniques and the Artifactuality of Rights
Parsley, Connal & Heaney, Conor (University of Kent, UK), Cultural Techniques and ‘Good’ Decisions: Vismann and Simondon
Pearson, Ashley (University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia), From Pixels to Presence: Legal Interactions in an Embodied Virtual Universe
Steinhauer, Fabian (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Germany), Imaging as a Cultural Technique: The Example of Aby Warburg
About the Keynote speaker
The keynote address of the workshop will be presented by Markus Krajewski, Professor of Media History and Media Theory at the University of Basel, and it is entitled AD COMMENTARIUM. From Aperitif to Digestif. Comments on the Occidental History of Comments. His current research interests focus on marginal epistemologies, the history of epistemic accuracy, as well as media and architecture. His recent publications include Bauformen des Gewissens: Über Fassaden deutscher Nachkriegsarchitektur [‘Structures of conscience: on the facades of German post-war architecture’] (Stuttgart, 2016), Lesen Schreiben Denken: Zur wissenschaftlichen Abschlußarbeit in 7 Schritten [‘Reading, writing, thinking: On the academic thesis in 7 steps’] (Wien et al, 2013), Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548–1929 (MIT Press, 2011), and The Server: A Media History from the Present to the Baroque (Yale University Press, 2018). Professor Krajewski also co-autored the 2007 article ‘Computer Juridisms’ together with Vismann (Grey Room, issue no. 29), and he has co-edited two of Vismann’s posthumous publications. For more information about our keynote speaker, kindly visit his personal web page at markus.krajewski.ch.