Come along for coffee and refreshments and to catch up with PGR staff and students.

Guest Speaker: Dr James Thornton, Nottingham Trent University

Title: 'Criminal Justice in Austerity: Legal Aid, Prosecution and the Future of Criminal Legal Practice'

Chairs: Lotte Young Andrade and Tara Mulqueen, Warwick Law School

Starting with lunch at 12:30pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 1:00pm in Room S2.12

Monthly writing workshop for PhDs, Postdocs, and Early Career Researchers. These sessions offer a unique opportunity to present and receive feedback on your work in an innovative format. The platform is not limited to but focuses on work that uses critical approaches to questions of race, class, gender and other intersections. Staff and CCLS members are all warmly invited to participate in the writing workshops and support early career researchers with their insights and feedback.

Writing Workshop Format

We've organized these sessions with a twist: rather than presenting your own work, we will present each other's papers. This approach offers several benefits

• Removes the pressure of self-presentation
• Allows authors to focus on receiving feedback
• Encourages constructive discussion rather than defensive responses

Session Structure

Each one-hour session will be structured as follows:

• 15 minutes: Presentation of the paper by an assigned presenter/discussant
• 5 minutes: Initial feedback from the presenter kicking off the conversation
• 40 minutes: Open discussion and further feedback

Participation Guidelines

• Participants will be assigned one paper to present
• All attendees are expected to read and comment on all papers carefully
• Authors should come prepared to receive feedback and consider ways to advance their work
• Papers must be provided at least 10 days prior to the session

You are all welcome to come and share your work. This is a splendid opportunity for postdocs and early career researchers to share their writing in a safe and supportive environment. Whether you are preparing for your upgrade, the PGR conference or any other publication, funding application or presentation, we encourage all ECRs to take advantage of this valuable platform for academic growth and collaboration.

If you have any questions or would like to participate, contact Berit Berit.i.merla@stud.leuphana.de and Paola Paola.Zichi@warwick.ac.uk

Guest Speaker: Professor Henrique Carvalho, Warwick Law School

Title: (Work-In-Progress) 'Love, Hate, Beauty and Justice: Exploring the Affective and Aesthetic Economies of Criminalisation'

Starting with lunch at 12:30pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 1:00pm in Room S2.12

Come along for coffee and refreshments and to catch up with PGR staff and students.

Guest Speaker: Professor Mohammed Shahabuddin, University of Birmingham

Title: 'Decolonising Minority Rights Discourse'

Starting with lunch at 12:30pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 1:00pm in Room S2.12

Guest Speaker: Professor Christian Twigg-Flesner, Warwick Law School

Title: (Work-In-Progress) 'Algorithmic Consumer Contracts and the European Law Institute's Guiding Principles and Model Rules'

Starting with lunch at 12:30pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 1:00pm in Room S2.12

Speaker: Professor Alex Sharpe, University of Warwick

This audio-visual lecture considers the relationship between the aesthetic evaluation of art and ethics. To do so, it draws on Bowie’s 1976 Isolar World tour, through which, as the Thin White Duke, Bowie performed his brilliant Station to Station album. Through this artwork (the performance, the music, the stagecraft), Bowie conjured up Nuremberg. He did so in order to explore in a more intense way a theme that had long interested him, the relationship between leader (star) and followers (audience), especially those moments when the latter give themselves over to the former, to power. This Bowie provides our focus for two reasons. First, during his Thin White Duke period, Rock Against Racism accused Bowie of flirting with fascism, and second, the music he produced, its artistic presentation and the sublime affect it had on his audience, make this period of Bowie’s creative output stand out as exceptional. In other words, some of Bowie’s greatest work drew on national socialism, or at least, its theatricality and other artistic props. That is, Bowie adopted a fascist icon character and built his 1976 world tour, at least in part, around national socialist stagecraft, the implications of which the lecture will explore.

This is an in-person event. It will be followed by a Q&A and drinks reception.

Harriet Wistrich, solicitor and director of Centre for Women’s Justice, and author of ‘Sister in Law’ will talk about some of the landmark legal cases she has fought aimed at getting justice for women failed by the state and challenging discrimination inherent in the criminal justice system. Her talk will feature discussions of:

• the battles for justice by women who have killed violent partners, including acting for Emma Humphreys and Sally Challen
• the story of the eight women, deceived into sexual relationships by undercover police officers, who sought to hold the police accountable
• the battles by two survivors of rape by the notorious taxi driver John Worboys, to hold the police accountable for their failures to investigate him and their later judicial review challenge of the parole board’s decision to release him
• the work of Centre for Women’s Justice to hold the state accountable and bring about lasting change for women subject to male violence.

Register to attend!

Guest Speakers: Christopher Brian and Eveline Lubbers

Title: 'The Undercover Research Group and the Spycops Scandal'

Chairs: Professor Jackie Hodgson, Warwick Law School and Professor Kimberley Wade, Warwick Psychology Department

Come along for coffee and refreshments and to catch up with PGR staff and students.

Guest Speaker: Dr Maryna Utkina, Warwick Law School

Title: (Work-In-Progress) 'Redefining Accountability: Is Financial Monitoring the Ultimate Weapon Against Corruption?'

Starting with lunch at 12:30pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 1:00pm in Room S2.12

Monthly writing workshop for PhDs, Postdocs, and Early Career Researchers. These sessions offer a unique opportunity to present and receive feedback on your work in an innovative format. The platform is not limited to but focuses on work that uses critical approaches to questions of race, class, gender and other intersections. Staff and CCLS members are all warmly invited to participate in the writing workshops and support early career researchers with their insights and feedback.

Writing Workshop Format

We've organized these sessions with a twist: rather than presenting your own work, we will present each other's papers. This approach offers several benefits

• Removes the pressure of self-presentation
• Allows authors to focus on receiving feedback
• Encourages constructive discussion rather than defensive responses

Session Structure

Each one-hour session will be structured as follows:

• 15 minutes: Presentation of the paper by an assigned presenter/discussant
• 5 minutes: Initial feedback from the presenter kicking off the conversation
• 40 minutes: Open discussion and further feedback

Participation Guidelines

• Participants will be assigned one paper to present
• All attendees are expected to read and comment on all papers carefully
• Authors should come prepared to receive feedback and consider ways to advance their work
• Papers must be provided at least 10 days prior to the session

You are all welcome to come and share your work. This is a splendid opportunity for postdocs and early career researchers to share their writing in a safe and supportive environment. Whether you are preparing for your upgrade, the PGR conference or any other publication, funding application or presentation, we encourage all ECRs to take advantage of this valuable platform for academic growth and collaboration.

If you have any questions or would like to participate, contact Berit Berit.i.merla@stud.leuphana.de and Paola Paola.Zichi@warwick.ac.uk

Come along for coffee and refreshments and to catch up with PGR staff and students.

Guest Speaker: Lotte Young Andrade, Warwick Law School

Title: (Work-In-Progress) 'From Activist to Caseworker: 50 years of Feminist Activism'

Starting with lunch at 12:30pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 1:00pm in Room S2.12

Come along for coffee and refreshments and to catch up with PGR staff and students.

Guest Speaker: Professor Vanessa Munro, Warwick Law School

Title: 'Impact Case Study'

Please note earlier start and finish time due to Staff Meeting: Starting with lunch at 12:00pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 12:30pm to 1:30pm in Room S2.12

Speaker: Professor Alex Sharpe, University of Warwick

This audio-visual lecture will consider the biggest of themes, death. More particularly, it will consider three ways of ‘being with death’ that are apparent in the life and work of the late David Bowie (religious transcendence, existential defiance, and acceptance). It draws, in particular, on the philosophy of Simon Critchley, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Tibetan Buddhism to explore these themes in Bowie’s work. Starting from Critchley’s premise that we should face down death, neither succumbing to escapism (oblivion) nor to the temptations of an afterlife (redemption), it argues, following Nietzsche, that we must, in order to avoid nihilism, make meaning in the world, and following Heidegger, that we must do so with others.

Freedom is understood as only taking shape once the inevitability of death is faced, and ideally when we live our life in readiness for it with others. David Bowie’s work can be viewed as a meditation on death. Importantly, he helped shape a meaningful experience of death, including his own, through a lifelong and open dialogue with fans about questions of alienation, anxiety, fear and mortality.

This is an in-person event. It will be followed by a Q&A and drinks reception.

Please register to attend!

Guest Speaker: Professor Judy Fudge, McMaster University

Title: TBC

Starting with lunch at 12:30pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 1:00pm in Room S2.12

Guest Speaker: Dr Asuman Ozgur Keysan, Atilim University

Title: 'Unveiling the Digital Dynamics: Anti-Gender Ideology and LGBTQ+ Opposition in Contemporary Turkey'

Starting with lunch at 12:30pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 1:00pm in Room S2.12

Guest Speaker: Dr Siddharth De Souza

Title: 'Data law and data justice'

Starting with lunch at 12:30pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 1:00pm in Room S2.12

Guest Speaker: Dr Caroline Bertram, University of Copenhagen

Title: 'Trade, development and human rights'

Chair: Professor James Harrison, Warwick Law School

Starting with lunch at 12:30pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 1:00pm in Room S2.12

LLM students will have the opportunity to present their research questions to a thematic panel of academics and their peers to gain feedback. LLM supervisors are invited to join us on that day.

The full programme will be shared nearer the time.

Guest Speaker: Dr Caesar Alimsinya Atuire, University of Oxford and University of Ghana

Title: TBC

Please note earlier start and finish time due to Staff Meeting: Starting with lunch at 12:00pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 12:30pm to 1:30pm in Room S2.12