Law and Literature in the Global South: Two-Day Event
Stanford Global Studies Division
"Framing Law and Humanities in/from the Global South," co-sponsored by Stanford Global Studies, materia, and the Modern Thought & Literature program, will take place over two days next week. The first session seeks to broaden the horizons of the Law and Humanities critical paradigm, and the second centers on the juridical personhood of nature, nonhuman rights, and the role of cultural production in conceptualizing these problems. Details are as follows:
Day 1: Opening Roundtable - Wednesday, March 2 at 5pm (PST)
Diana Esther Guzmán Rodríguez, Associate Professor of Law, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Leila Neti, Professor of English, Occidental College
Beth Piatote, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Native American Studies, UC Berkeley
Marco Wan, Professor and Director of the Programme in Law and Literary Studies, University of Hong Kong
Day 2: The Rights of Nature and the Imagination - Thursday, March 3 at 5pm (PST)
Alberto Acosta, Economist and Political Thinker, Former Minister of Energy and Mines in Ecuador
Alyse Bertenthal, Assistant Professor of Law, Wake Forest University
Allison Bigelow, Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Virginia