[Hamp-law] Fwd: LJST Lecture Series kicks off Sept. 22 with Julie Peters from Columbia University

[Flavio Risech]

Begin forwarded message from Amherst College LJST dept:

> From: Megan Estes <mlestes at amherst.edu>
> Date: September 10, 2014 at 10:16:54 AM EDT
> To: undisclosed-recipients:;
> Subject: LJST Lecture Series kicks off Sept. 22 with Julie Peters from Columbia University
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> On Monday, Sept. 22 at 4:30pm in Room 100 Clark House at Amherst College, Julie Peters, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University will present a paper entitled “ Theatres of Punishment: Dramaturgy, Spectacle, and Spectatorship from the Guillotine to Abu Ghraib.” This is the first presentation in a series of seminars that will take place this year on the theme “Law as Performance.”
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> Professor Peters teaches and writes on theatre, film, and other media, as well as on legal history and culture. Her publications include Theatre of the Book: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe 1480-1880, (Oxford, 2000) and Women’s Rights, Human Rights: International Feminist Perspectives, (Routledge 1995). Currently, she is working on a historical study of legal performance and law’s fraught relationship with its own theatricality.
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> To receive a copy of the paper which will examine the ongoing centrality of performance and spectatorship to practices of punishment, please email the LJST Dept. Coordinator at mlestes at amherst.edu.
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> This event is co-sponsored by The Lamont Lecture Fund. https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/ljst/events
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> Megan L. Estes Ryan
> Academic Coordinator
> Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought
> Amherst College
> PO Box 5000
> Amherst, MA   01002
> 413-542-2380
> mlestes at amherst.edu
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> <Peters922.pdf>
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