REMINDER: CORE Seminar in Legal Theory under the auspices of Prof. Dr. Laurent DE SUTTER: Marco WAN on "Law & Literature" (Brussels: VUB, 27 OCT 2022 [HYBRID EVENT])

Law and Literature

Introduction

Law and Literature is a vibrant area of interdisciplinary inquiry whose origin is often traced to the publication of James Boyd White’s The Legal Imagination in 1970s America. In recent years, scholars have explored different possibilities for the future development of the interdiscipline, and my presentation is an attempt to contribute to this discussion. I will begin with a brief account of Law and Literature's historical development, and offer some anecdotal comments on my own engagement with it. In the second part of the presentation, I will take a single novel, Dai Sijie’s Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2000), to reflect upon what it might mean to examine the interaction between literature and law in an expanded, global frame.

Biographical note

Marco Wan is Professor at Hong Kong University, where he serves as Director of the Law & Literature Studies Program. He is also Visiting Professor at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, and the Managing Editor of "Law & Literature" (Routledge), the leading academic journal in the field of L&L. He is the author of "Masculinity and the Trials of Modern Fiction" (Routedge, 2016) and "Film and Constitutional Controversy: Visualizing Hong Kong Identity in the Age of 'One Country, Two Systems'" (Cambridge UP, 2021).

Practical information

Thursday 27 October 2022, 12 am  

Vrije Universiteit Brussel Room: C409 / (contact laurent at de sutter at vub dot be for the Teams-link)

Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering Campus