[Hamp-law] Fwd: Amherst College LJST Dept. Lecture series - April 20 - 4:30pm - Reenactability

[Flavio Risech]

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> Subject: Amherst College LJST Dept. Lecture series - April 20 - 4:30pm - Reenactability
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> 2014-2015 Lecture Series – LAW and/as PERFORMANCE
> MONDAY – April 20 -  Ann Pellegrini & Karen Shimakawa
> “REENACTABILITY”
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> On Monday, April 20 at 4:30pm in Room 100 Clark House at Amherst College, Ann Pellegrini and Karen Shimakawa, Associate Professors of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, will present a paper entitled “Reenactability.” This is the fourth presentation in a series of seminars this year on the theme “Law as Performance.”
> Pellegrini is the author of Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race (Routledge, 1997), and Excess and Enchantment: Queer Performance Between the Religious and the Secular.  In addition to teaching, Ann Pellegrini is also the director of NYU’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. Karen Shimakawa’s interests include Asian American performance, critical race theory and intercultural performance.
> To receive a copy of the paper being presented which will investigate the various forms legal reenactment takes, please email the LJST Dept. Coordinator at mlestes at amherst.edu.
> This event is co-sponsored by The Lamont Lecture Fund.
> ABOUT The Lecture Series – LAW and/or PERFORMANCE
> Our seminar series for 2014-2015 will explore Law – at least law legitimated in a democracy that holds certain commitments to transparency – inevitably and constitutively has a public dimension.  And in public, law wears different guises:  the congressional hearing, the published opinion, the presidential signing, the trial process, and so forth.  While many scholars have taken up the question of law’s public nature, few have conceived of it as embodied in performances, played out in front of various audiences, with specific communicative effects derived from its liveness, its dialogism, and its theatricality.  In this series we wish to explore what difference it might make to conceive of law as performance.  How might such a frame help us analyze legal aesthetics and reconceive the dynamics of law’s legitimization?   What kinds of audiences does law imagine and constitute?  What is left behind the curtain, so to speak, while those audiences are preoccupied with the performances in front of them?
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>  Please Mark your calendars!
> Law as Performance lecture series is sponsored by the Lamont Fund and the Department of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought at Amherst College.
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> Megan L. Estes Ryan
> Academic Department Coordinator
> Department of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought
> Amherst College
> mlestes at amherst.edu
> 413-542-2380
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> <Pellegrini - 2-15-Reenactability Abstract.doc>
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