BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Law, Culture, and the Humanities - ECPv6.18.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Law, Culture, and the Humanities X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://lawculturehumanities.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Law, Culture, and the Humanities REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20280312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20281105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261130T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261130T133000 DTSTAMP:20261015T145027Z CREATED:20261015T144624Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261015T145027Z UID:1783-1796040900-1796045400@lawculturehumanities.com SUMMARY:Zoom Session - Boccaccio and the Law DESCRIPTION:Zoom Session – Choreographic Attunements to the Legal Humanities\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Share this page \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nZoom Link: \n\n\n\nhttps://utoronto.zoom.us/j/86347350362 \n\n\n\nDescription: \n\n\n\nGrace Delmolino will present on “Law as Methodology in Boccaccio Studies”: \n\n\n\nBoccaccio attended medieval law school\, where he was trained as a legal thinker. He never practiced as a lawyer\, but his literary texts reference decretals and statutes\, they depict legal processes\, they make puns on legal language\, and they contemplate social practices (like marriage\, adultery\, consent) that the law seeks to define and restrict. At the same time\, medieval lawyers used stories and invented cases—that is\, fiction—to establish doctrine on difficult legal concepts like rape and sexual violence. Looking at the intertwinement of legal methods and literary methods in medieval thought\, this presentation asks how we might interpret the legal intertextuality of the Decameron as a methodology and a core component of Boccaccio’s literary project. \n\n\n\n\nGrace Delmolino is Assistant Professor of Italian at the University of California\, Davis\, Associate Editor of Digital Dante\, and recently a 2025-26 Solmsen Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities (UW Madison). Her research explores the many intersections of canon law and medieval Italian literature. Recent essays—on topics like legal impossibility in the Filocolo and a new source for Decameron 1.1 in the Decretals of Gregory IX—have been published in Heliotropia\, Speculum\, MLN\, and Lectura Boccaccii. Her first book tackles the question of Boccaccio’s youthful study of canon law\, showing how canonistic texts resurface in Boccaccio’s literary treatment of violence\, rights\, and consent. \n\n\n\n\nLorenzo Caravaggi will present on “The adventure of Ser Andrea and other stories: Itinerant notaries and the making of ‘judicial novellas’ in fourteenth-century Italy”:  \n\n\n\nIn 1331\, a civic official named Ser Andrea fell victim to an elaborate deception and robbery during a short visit in the central Italian city of Perugia. Both the subject matter of this story and\, most importantly\, the ways in which it is narrated bear striking similarities to the novella\, a literary genre that developed in Tuscany in around 1300 and which reached its apogee in Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron (c.1349-1370). What is striking about this case\, however\, is that the adventure of Ser Andrea was not narrated in a conventional literary text\, but in a criminal sentence produced by a Tuscan notary then working in Perugia. Its author\, as we shall see\, broke with many of the conventions of judicial record-keeping. However extraordinary\, this case is not unique. It exists alongside dozens of similar criminal records with literary underpinnings – what I have defined as “judicial novellas” – written in the course of the fourteenth century. In this paper I explore this phenomenon of literary judicial record-keeping. I suggest that\, like the novellas of Boccaccio and his contemporaries\, these complex narratives may have been intended to prompt their audiences – citizens involved in public life – to reflect on the social and moral ambiguities of the rapidly-changing society of the 1300s. “Judicial novellas” show that in the ‘age of Boccaccio’\, law and literature were engaged in a genuine two-way intellectual exchange. \n\n\n\nDr. Lorenzo Caravaggi (DPhil Oxon 2021) is lecturer in medieval history at Lancaster University (UK)\, where he teaches various aspects of the cultural\, legal\, and political history of late-medieval Europe and the Mediterranean. His first book\, Keeping the Peace in Dante’s Italy\, is under contract with Cambridge University Press (publication date 2027). The paper presented here is part of a new project on the interaction between criminal law and literature in the fourteenth century. URL:https://lawculturehumanities.com/event/zoom-session-boccaccio-and-the-law/ CATEGORIES:Zoom Session END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270527T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270528T190000 DTSTAMP:20260920T150603Z CREATED:20260920T150357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260920T150603Z UID:1596-1811404800-1811530800@lawculturehumanities.com SUMMARY:2027 Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference DESCRIPTION:Zoom Session – Choreographic Attunements to the Legal Humanities\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Share this page \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nEvery year\, the Association holds it annual conference\, usually a two-day affair\, as well as a graduate student workshop\, usually held the day before the annual conference. The 2027 annual meeting will be held at the University of California\, Berkeley from May 27-28. Our call for papers and submissions guidelines can be found below: \n\n\n\nDiscipline \n\n\n\nAs both noun and a verb\, “discipline” is one of many provocative cognates across law and humanistic fields of study. The word simultaneously suggests punishment\, intellectual tradition\, ritual\, practice\, refinement\, and improvement. Each of these meanings of “discipline\,” while varying widely in their applications\, maintains a shared command of subordination: subordination of knowledge traditions to their larger structures; subordination of the criminal to the state; subordination of the individual to a higher purpose. \n\n\n\nIs discipline\, then\, a problem\, or a solution (or something else altogether)? Is discipline too mired in logics of authority and punishment to be redeemed? Is it a useful point of friction that can be leveraged\, innovated\, and adapted to expand both legal and humanistic frameworks? What does it mean to produce knowledge from within structures that use discipline as their organizing logic\, and who or what is erased\, illegible\, or silent as a result? What logics and structures of discipline underwrite specific areas of law and legal history\, whether in criminal or civil law? How is law in the process of defining or redefining punishment and carcerality? How do works of art and literature take up these questions or theorize discipline themselves? By treating discipline as a starting point for inquiry\, this conference invites submissions that explore discipline from any angle. In addition to the concepts and questions outlined above\, papers and panelists might consider how scholars in recent years have applied pressure to the concepts of discipline and disciplinarity. On one hand\, scholars are tasked with developing projects that are “interdisciplinary\,” a feature thought to produce innovation\, but one that often poses challenges of institutional legibility and support. How does disciplinarity promote or inhibit the future of the humanities\, particularly in relation to law and legal studies? What are the future possibilities for interdisciplinarity\, multidisciplinarity\, and antidisciplinarity? As a community of scholars and practitioners working across and between disciplines\, LCH is uniquely poised to think about these problems and potentials of discipline. \n\n\n\nSubmission Guidelines \n\n\n\nWe encourage the submission of fully constituted panels\, as well as panels that reimagine or experiment with models for academic presentation\, including for example roundtables\, “author meets reader” sessions (which may include multiple books and their authors in conversation)\, works-in-progress sessions\, workshop-format sessions that engage participants in shared thinking or other productive co-creation\, multi-panel streams\, etc. Panels should include at least three\, ideally four\, papers/presenters. Please specify a title and designate a chair for all panel proposals (the panel chair may also be a panel presenter). It is not necessary to write an abstract or proposal for the panel itself. However\, all individual proposals should include a title and abstract of no more than 250 words. \n\n\n\nFor pre-constituted panels\, roundtables\, or streams\, all participants must complete an individual submission on the registration site. Please ensure that each individual participant includes the name of the panel and the chair in their individual submission. We also ask that registrants identify two to three keywords to help us align sessions with each other. \n\n\n\nMode \n\n\n\nThe twenty-ninth annual conference will emphasize the LCH tradition of in-person conversation. While we encourage participants to join us in Berkeley\, we recognize that in-person attendance may be prohibitive for some. To that end\, we will also accept the submission of virtual panels and papers. \n\n\n\nWe will not be providing technical support for virtual participants; panel chairs will be responsible for providing Zoom links that will be listed in the program. All plenary sessions will be available streaming online as well as in person. \n\n\n\nCreating a Panel: Our Program Archive and Program Coordinators \n\n\n\nWhile participants may submit individual paper proposals that the Program Committee will later combine into full panels\, we strongly encourage applicants to create full panels prior to submission. Pre-formed panels may cohere better\, and allow collaborators to craft focused scholarly exchanges. Panels comprising a diversity of institutions\, academic ranks\, disciplines\, and identities are often the most rewarding. \n\n\n\nIf you would like support in finding others who might be interested in forming a panel\, have a look at our archive of past conference programs\, which can be found here. Our recent programs may contain the names of scholars working in fields related to your research. Reaching out to scholars who have previously presented at LCH about creating a panel can be a good place to start. For additional assistance\, please feel free to contact our Program Coordinators\, Aditya Banerjee (adityabanerjee@g.harvard.edu) and Jack Quirk (john_quirk@brown.edu) with “LCH panel” in the subject line. The Program Coordinators will act as intermediaries\, and may be able to put you in contact with others working on related topics. Please contact them well before the submission deadline\, to allow time for follow-up. \n\n\n\nWe especially encourage graduate students and those new to LCH to consider reaching out to the Program Coordinators if they’re struggling to identify potential co-panelists. \n\n\n\nHow to Submit \n\n\n\nSubmissions should be made through the following link: \n\n\n\n\nSubmit a Proposal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSubmission Deadline \n\n\n\nThe deadline for all conference submissions is January 31\, 2027. \n\n\n\nContact Information \n\n\n\nPlease email lch@lawculturehumanities.com with any queries. 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