The IILAH Podcast

In this episode Dr Kathleen Birrell and Tim Lindgren were joined by Dr Daniel Matthews (University of Warwick) to discuss his new book Earthbound: The Aesthetics of Sovereignty . The conversation traversed the aesthetic force of sovereignty as a framing device of modern legal and political forms and the possibility of an alternative political aesthetics for the Anthropocene.

In this episode join James Parker, Jake Goldenfein, Fleur Johns, Andrea Leiter and Andre Dao in conversation on the questions of international law and technopolitics in the humanities.

Critique in the Tropics: The Crisis of Indian Legal Education and Scholarship, convened by Adil Hasan Khan. This panel featured contributions from academics trained in the law in India, and who are currently teaching at Indian universities, and reflected on the inheritances, futures and failures of a critical legal project for Indian legal education and scholarship. Featuring Dr. Anuj Bhuwania (Jindal Global Law School), Dr. Oishik Sircar (Jindal Global Law School), Dr. Debolina Dutta (Jindal Global Law School), and Professor Rukmini Sen (Dr B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi).

Join Hilary Charlesworth (MLS) in conversation with Roland Bleiker (Director of a cross disciplinary project on Visual Politics at UQ) to discuss the role of images and emotions in global politics, and in particular the politics and ethics of visualising humanitarian crises which is the subject of Professor Bleiker's new ARC Linkage project.

In this event, we talked about doing fieldwork, and were joined by special guests, Dr Debolina Dutta and Dr Amanda Gilbertson. The session was convened jointly with Dr Ben Golder and the UNSW Critique Network.

Join Johanna Commins, Ann Genovese for this conversation with Professor Margaret Thornton which reflects on the 2000 conference, Romancing the Tomes, which brought together feminist scholars working across law and the humanities under the auspices of the ANU Humanities Research Centre to address the fictions of law, the legal academy and judges through the lens of popular culture.

The Amsterdam Center for International Law and IILAH present Unpacking Transitional Justice: International Law, Memory, and Power, convened by Dr Eliana Cusato (ACIL) and Valeria Vázquez Guevara (MLS). The aim of the Series is to bring together scholars from around the world employing interdisciplinary and critical approaches to the study of transitional justice and international law, broadly understood. This episode is the final seminar of a four-part series on Unpacking Transitional Justice. Our speakers include Associate Professor Oishik Sircar (Jindal), Associate Professor Sara Kendall (Kent) and Christopher Gevers (University of KwaZulu-Natal). Join us as we discuss 'Dealing with...the past? Reconciliation, reparations, and beyond'.

The Amsterdam Center for International Law and IILAH present Unpacking Transitional Justice: International Law, Memory, and Power, convened by Dr Eliana Cusato (ACIL) and Valeria Vázquez Guevara (MLS). The aim of the Series is to bring together scholars from around the world employing interdisciplinary and critical approaches to the study of transitional justice and international law, broadly understood. This episode is the third seminar of a four-part series on Unpacking Transitional Justice. Our speakers include Associate Professor Christine Schwöbel-Patel (Warwick) and Dr Hannah Franzki (Bremen). This episode discusses 'Justice: The political economy of international law'. Dr Christine Schwöbel-Patel is an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick School of Law. Her research spans areas of international law, global constitutionalism, governance, and critical pedagogy. Dr Hannah Franzki is a Research Fellow in the Transnational Force of Law Project since 2015. Her research interests include legal theory and philosophy, international political economy with a particular focus on transnational investment law and international criminal law.

The Amsterdam Center for International Law and IILAH present Unpacking Transitional Justice: International Law, Memory, and Power, convened by Dr Eliana Cusato (ACIL) and Valeria Vázquez Guevara (MLS). The aim of the Series is to bring together scholars from around the world employing interdisciplinary and critical approaches to the study of transitional justice and international law, broadly understood. This episode is the second seminar of a four-part series on Unpacking Transitional Justice. Our speakers include Professor Lucas Lixinski (UNSW) and Dr Maria Elander (La Trobe). This seminar focuses on how transitional justice institutions and international law shape post-conflict societies by giving meaning, or organising in particular ways the meanings, to culture, cultural heritage, victimhood and victims, broadly speaking. Lucas Lixinski is a Professor at the Faculty of Law and Justice at UNSW Sydney. He researches and teaches across a range of fields in international law, primarily international cultural heritage law and international human rights law. Maria Elander is a senior lecturer at La Trobe Law School. Her research is primarily in the broader field of international criminal justice, and engages with theories in cultural and feminist legal studies.

The Amsterdam Center for International Law and IILAH present Unpacking Transitional Justice: International Law, Memory, and Power, convened by Dr Eliana Cusato (ACIL) and Valeria Vázquez Guevara (MLS). The aim of the Series is to bring together scholars from around the world employing interdisciplinary and critical approaches to the study of transitional justice and international law, broadly understood. For the first seminar of the series, our convenors, Valeria Vazquez Guevara and Dr Eliana Cusato, provide a series introduction with a discussion on the role of international in truth commissions and post-conflict state-building, in the aftermath of the 1980s-1990s civil wars of El Salvador (1980-1992), Liberia (1989-1996) and Sierra Leone (1991-2002). Professor Sundhya Pahuja provides the series opening. A selection of the presentation slides displayed at the seminar are available for context here: https://law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/powerpoint_doc/0004/3644140/UTJ-seminar-one-slides.pptx Valeria Vazquez Guevara is a doctoral candidate at the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. Dr Eliana Cusato is Marie Skłodowska Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Amsterdam Center for International Law, University of Amsterdam.