ENTANGLED STORIES OF LAW AND LITERATURE: A HUNGARIAN-ROMANIAN CONVERSATION
organized by Alexandra Mercescu (West University of Timisoara) and Balázs Fekete (ELTE Faculty of Law and Centre for Social Sciences)
March 12, 2021 • 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Zoom
(passcode: 778358)
https://zoom.us/j/99851013180?pwd=K1owSm14ZlFCN2p2NDl1Myt3Mnd5Zz09
Workshop Schedule Friday, 12 March 2021
09.45-10.00 Check-in and Welcome by the organizers
10.00-11.30 Panel 1: Law, Fiction and the Border
- Flaminia Stârc-Meclejan (West University of Timisoara) Breaking the Waves of Šehić’s Una vs. the Irreversible
- András Molnár (University of Szeged, Faculty of Law) Representations of Law in Speculative Fiction
- Simona Catrinel Avarvarei, Nicoleta Rodica Dominte (“Al. I. Cuza” University, Iasi) On Fandom, Copyright Law and Fictional Characters with Sherlock Holmes and Holden Caulfield
12.00-13.30 Panel 2: Legal Culture by Way of Literature
- Márton Matyasovszky-Németh (ELTE Faculty of Law, Budapest) The Benefits of Ethnography in the Field of Law and Literature
- Violeta Stratan (West University of Timisoara) Exile as a Way Back Home
- Balázs Fekete (ELTE Faculty of Law, Budapest) On the Legal Culture of the “Puszta”. Socio-Legal Issues in the Mirror of the Art of Gyula Illyés
- Alexandra Mercescu (West University of Timisoara) Synecdoche, Comparison (of Laws)
Panel 3: A Literary Eye on Justice 15.00-16.30
- Cosmin Cercel (University of Nottingham) A Dark Nomos: Narratives of Law and Authority in Interwar Romania
- Katinka Tóth (ELTE Faculty of Law, Budapest) Poetic Justice in Kohlhaas-paraphrases
- Nicoleta Rodica Dominte, Simona Catrinel Avarvarei (“Al. I. Cuza” University, Iasi) An Author's Spark of Creation versus American Legal Piracy at the Dusk of the XIX century and the Dawn of the XX century
- Nóra Pethő (ELTE Faculty of Humanities, Budapest) Judicial Narrative, Rhetoric, Interpretation, and Equivocation - Some Aspects of Law and Language in Shakespeare
16.30-16.45 Concluding remarks: Alexandra Mercescu and Balázs Fekete