2020 Reading Group
We are holding the IILAH Reading Group by Zoom for the remainder of this year. If you would like to join online, please RSVP to Connor Foley at connor.foley@unimelb.edu.au
The IILAH Reading Group will recommence for Semester 2, 2020 on Wednesday 29 July from 12:00 pm (meeting fortnightly).
Examinations in the Great Hall at Sydney University, 1927
Semester 2, 2020
The University
The theme for semester 2 is 'the University'. The reading group will examine texts concerned with the past, present and future of the university. In reading these texts, the reading group aims to explore the purpose, politics, and economics of the university at a time of crisis for public institutions and for the world.
Wednesday
29 July 2020Session I
Raimond Gaita, 'To Civilise the City?’ Meanjin Quarterly (2012) 71(1).
Glyn Davis, 'The Australian Idea of a University’ The Conversation online (2013).
Wednesday
12 August 2020Session II
Stefan Collini, 'The Marketisation Doctrine’ London Review of Books (2018) 40(9).
Wednesday
26 August 2020Session III
Raewyn Connell (2017) 'Southern theory and world universities', Higher Education Research & Development (2017) 36(1).
Wednesday
9 September 2020Session IV
William Jamal Richardson, 'Understanding Eurocentrism as a Structural Problem of Undone Science’ in Bhambra et al (eds) Decolonising the University (Pluto Press, 2018) 231-248.
Wednesday
23 September 2020Session V
Jacques Derrida, ‘The future of the profession or the university without condition (thanks to the ‘Humanities’ what could take place tomorrow) in Tom Cohen (ed) Jacques Derrida and the Humanities: A Critical Reader (Cambridge University Press, 2002), 24-57.
Wednesday
7 October 2020Sesion VI
Sara Ahmed, 'Use and the University’ in What’s The Use: On the Uses of Use (Duke University Press, 2019), 141-196.
Wednesday
21 October 2020Session VII
Margaret Thornton, ‘Research in the corporatised university’ in Privatising the Public University: The Case of Law (Routledge, 2011), 165-205.
Wednesday
4 November 2020Session VIII
Jake Goldenfein et al, 'Private Companies and Scholarly Infrastructure - Google Scholar and Academic Autonomy', SSRN (2019).
Wednesday
18 November 2020Session IX
John Borrows, 'Heroes, Tricksters, Monsters, and Caretakers: Indigenous Law and Legal Education', McGill Law Journal (2016) 61(4).
The 1939 World's Fair, New York - the audience looks down at General Motor's Futurama exhibition
Semester 1, 2020
World-Making: Technologies/Histories/Laws
This semester’s reading group examines texts concerned with the world-making potential of technology and law. In reading these texts, the reading group aims to explore both the role of law in the creation and maintenance of socio-technical imaginaries, and the role of technologies in creating and maintaining legal orders.
Wednesday
4 March 2020Socio-Technical Imaginaries
Sheila Jasanoff, ‘Future Imperfect: Science, Technology, and the Imaginations of Modernity’ in Sheila Jasanoff and Sang-Hyun Kim, Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power (University of Chicago Press, 2015).
Room 831, Level 8
Wednesday
18 March 2020Imagining Outer Space
Matt Craven, ‘“Other Spaces”: Constructing the Legal Architecture of a Cold War Commons and the Scientific-Technical Imaginary of Outer Space’ (2019) 30(2) European Journal of International Law 547
Room 831, Level 8
Wednesday
1 April 2020Imagining the Sea (I)
Renisa Mawani, 'Introduction', (partial) Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire (Duke University Press, 2018).
Renisa Mawani, ‘The Free Sea: A Juridical Space' in Renisa Mawani, Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire (Duke University Press, 2018).
Room 831, Level 8
Wednesday
15 April 2020Imagining the Sea (II)
Fahad Bishara, ‘A Geography of Obligation’ in Fahad Bishara, A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950 (Cambridge University Press, 2017), 24-57.
Room 831, Level 8
Wednesday
29 April 2020
2:30 pm start timeCrossing the Sea
Eugene TeSelle, 'Looking for Home: Travel a metaphor in Augustine’ (1996) 14 Annali d‘Italianistica 103-120.
Room 831, Level 8
Wednesday
13 May 2020Materialities/Files (I)
Bruno Latour, ‘How to make a file ripe for use’ in Bruno Latour, The Making of Law: an ethnography of the Conseil d’Etat (Polity Press, 2010).
Room 831, Level 8
Wednesday
27 May 2020Materialities/Files (II)
Alain Pottage, ‘The Materiality of What?’ (2012) 39(1) Journal of Law and Society 167.
Room 831, Level 8
Wednesday
10 June 2020Digital Materialities (I)
Cornelia Vismann, ‘From the Bureau to Data Protection’ and ‘Files into Icons’, in Cornelia Vismann, Files: Law and Media Technology, 123-164.
Room 831, Level 8
Wednesday
24 June 2020Digital Materialities (II)
Julie Cohen, ‘The Future(s) of Fundamental Rights’ in Julie Cohen, Between Truth and Power: The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism (2019, Oxford University Press), 238-268.
Room 831, Level 8