6th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law
SIGNS OF THE TIMES
University of Wollongong 28 - 30 June 2007
FINAL PROGRAM
THURSDAY 28 JUNE
Bus pick-ups: 9.00 Novotel (Bourke St bus stop), 9.10 Ibis Hotel, Wollongong
9.00 - 9.30 Program and material distribution
9.30 Welcome, introductions
Welcome to country: Reuben Brown
Introduction to the Roundtables: Deborah Cao
10.30 Coffee/tea break
11.00 Session 1: Time, law & history
Victoria Kravchenko, Russian State Social University, Moscow
The Legal Norm as a Sign of the Chronotope
Luke Strongman, The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, Lower Hutt
Law and Temporality as Expressed in the Transition Between Colonial and Postcolonial New Zealand
Sophie Cacciaguidi, National University of Ireland, Galway
‘Though leaves are many, the root is one’
1.00 LUNCH
2.00 Session 2: Culture & time
Jerome Hall, University of San Diego, California
Jack B. Hamlin, National University, San Diego, California
Legal and Anthropological Evolution of Southern California “Aloha” Culture through Semiotics
Scott Beattie, Victoria University Law School, Melbourne
Gods of Death Love Apples: Rules, Strategy and Deceit in ‘Death Note’
3.20 Coffee/tea break
3.50 Session 3: Knowledge & disciplines
Jo Goodie, Law School, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia
The Emergence of the Environment as a Legal Subject
Robin Paul Malloy, College of Law, Syracuse University, NY
Property in a Market Context
5.10 END
5.30 Bus pick-up: Hope Theatre, University
FRIDAY 29 JUNE
Bus pick-ups: 9.00 Novotel (Bourke St bus stop), 9.10 Ibis Hotel, Wollongong
9.30 Session 4: Rhetoric & narrative
Richard Mohr, Legal Intersections Research Centre, University of Wollongong
Time and Possible Narratives
Rebecca Tai, Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei
The Art of Extreme Conciseness: A Linguistic and Rhetorical Analysis of Accusations and Rebuttals in Late Imperial China
10.50 Coffee/tea break
11.20 Session 5: Metaphors
Mark Antaki and
Karen Crawley, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montréal, Québec
The Constitution of Then and Now: Metaphors of Time and the Temporalization of Justice in Legal Judgments
Sze Man Simone Yeung, School of English, The University of Hong Kong
Legal Metaphors, Time and Semiotics
12.40 LUNCH
[ + Planning meeting of the committee]
2.00 Session 6: Interpreting criminal codes
Pi-chan Hu, National Cheng-chi University, Taipei
Time to Kill
Meghana Sharafudeen and
Rahul Singhdeo, National Law University, Jodhpur, Rajasthan
A Semiotic Analysis of Recent Legal Struggles Regarding Homosexuality
3.20 Coffee/tea break
3.50 Session 7: Interpretation & semiotics
Deborah Cao, Faculty of Law, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland
Many Signs, One Interpretation
Christopher Hutton, School of English, The University of Hong Kong
Ordinary Meaning, Change and the Law
5.10 END
5.30 Bus pick-up: Hope Theatre, University
7.00 Bus pick-ups: Novotel (Bourke St bus stop), Ibis Hotel, Wollongong
7.30 CONFERENCE DINNER: Thai banquet
Jasmine Rice Restaurant, Corrimal & Stewart Streets, Wollongong
SATURDAY 30 JUNE
9 Bus pick-ups: 9.00 Novotel (Bourke St bus stop), 9.10 Ibis Hotel, Wollongong
9.30 Session 8: Speech & the nature of time
Alexei Medvedev, International Studies, University of South Australia and
Kateryna Medvedeva, Applied Linguistics, University of Adelaide, South Australia
Phonosemantic Tenets of Time
Remedios Regina de Vela-Santos, Law School, Macquarie University, Sydney
Cupid’s Arrows, Law and the Matter of Time
10.50 Coffee/tea break
11.20 Session 9: Legitimacy & emergency
Ian Duncanson, Faculty of Law, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland
Sovereignty, e-mergency, authority: Icons of dominance
Paul Clark, Institute of Comparative Law, McGill University, Montréal , Québec
Time and Autonomy: Where is the root of legal legitimacy?
12.40 LUNCH
1.40 Session 10: Historical positions
Geoffrey Sykes, Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong
“A Short Genealogy of ‘Realism’”: Peirce, Kevelson and Temporality.
Gary Wickham, Sociology, Murdoch University, Western Australia
Law, History, and Rival Positions: Time does not weary rivalries
3.00 Conference close and information on future plans
3.40 Bus pick-up: Hope Theatre, University
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