This session interrogates the temporality of law by theorising the relationship between law and coloniality in African fictions and literature across the twentieth century, illuminating the contradictory temporalities that underlie narrative of progress, modernization, and development.

Speakers: Olauluwa Oni
Chair: Paola Zichi

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‘Contesting Popular Representations of Imprisonment through Transatlantic Cultural Exchange’, Josephine Metcalf, University of Hull

‘The art of innovation? Effecting change in police custody through theatre and animation’, Layla Skinns, University of Sheffield

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This session interrogates whether and how racism and patriarchy have permeated the international child rights and child protection field. Taking its cue from the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCR), the session tackles the history of power dynamics and colonial legacy upon which views of children are formed, disrupting the success story often told about the UNCR. Either due to its intrinsic failures or extrinsic legacies, the session tackles the epistemologies of children’s rights and the overall legal architecture of children’s protection, which positions international (often criminal) justice as the saviour of ‘innocent victims’ while erasing more complex and structural causes of international crimes.

Speakers: Mark Drumbl, Natalia Krestovska, Aisel Omarova
Chair: Paola Zichi

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‘Sounds of the Old Bailey’, Laudan Nooshin, City, University of London

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This session tackles the promises and pitfalls of the international criminal and transitional justice system in cases of war crimes and/or crimes against humanity from a gender and critical perspective. Starting from the consolidation of gender-based crimes in international law and following on problematising the notion of the ‘woman victim’, the aim of this session is to reveal problematic assumptions about how gender operates in conflict, which are embedded in the very foundations of legal imagination. The session will be of interest for those working on gender in international criminal legal history, but also to those interested in contemporary feminist approaches to law.

Speakers: Sir Howard Andrew Clive Morrison, Solange Mouthaan, Loveday Hodson, Charlotte Higgs
Chair: Christine Schwobel Patel

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'Title TBC', Desmond Manderson, Australian National University

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This session takes its cue from the understanding that the dismantlement the Zionist settler colonial project in Palestine is, among other things, a project against gender and sexual violence and oppression. From both a historical and contemporary historical lens, the panel tackles the variety of gendered and sexualised abuses that have characterised the experiences of Palestinians from the mandate period to the contemporary genocide in Gaza. Reclaiming the term feminism beyond its middle class, white, western, liberal, and orientalist view on Palestinians, the panel also tackles the importance for Palestinian communities to self-determine the meaning of feminism that works for the conditions of the country, one that is rooted in grassroots resistance to imperialism and settler-colonialism, entailing an understanding that national liberation is incomplete without gender justice.

Speakers: Paola Zichi, Christine Schwobel Patel, Michelle Burgis-Kashala and Nahed Samour
Chair: Aisel Omarova

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