Law as Perfomance
The affinity between Law and Performance (think theatrical performance in any of its broad possibilities) opens up a series of questions that need to be analyzed both in history and in theory. We live in a world in which performances of all kinds interact with the law –which, in the end, is supposed to be interested in actions for which there are actors (state actors, non state actors, good actors, bad actors, etc.) With this issue we open up, in the company of the extraordinary book recently authored by Julie Stone Peters, a productive line of analysis that will find important responses and reflections. Indeed, Peters has opened a door that immediately shows the need to speak about intersectional issues, race, gender, dis/abilities. Under the magnifying glass of law as performance this issues will engage with new forms of understanding the emergence of legal subjectivity.
Sessions
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Session 01 — March 1, 2023 — 2:00 pm
HQ 276Open or CloseOn Julie Stone Peters' Law as Performance
In this session, Julie Stone Peters (Columbia), Lindsay Stern (Yale), and Emanuele Conte (University of Roma Tre & École des Haute Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris) will engage in a critical reading of Peters’ research, and of its important consequences in the historical and contemporary questions raised by the difficult interconnection between law and performance. Theatricality, antithreatricality, spectatorship, will be on the spinning wheel of intellectual inquiry to better understand not just this affinity between law and theater, but to see its theoretical and practical productivity in contemporary legal events.
