The Wake Forest Law Review will host its Spring 2014 colloquium – “The Law As Violence: An Interdisciplinary Conversation” – starting on April 10th. The colloquium is co-sponsored by the Wake Forest Law Review, the Wake Forest Humanities Institute, and Wake’s Interdisciplinary Performance and the Liberal Arts Center (IPLACe). The colloquium will kick off on with a reading from Zong! by M. NourbeSe Philip, an acclaimed professional poet, author, and playwright. The reading will be at 6:30pm in the Byrum Welcome Center auditorium. It is free and open to the public.
On Friday, April 11th, roundtable discussions will begin at 8:30am in the lower auditorium at Wingate Hall. The colloquium’s focus will be on the various ways in which law effects violence on all within its purview. As Robert Cover poignantly put it: “Legal interpretation takes place in a field of pain and death….A judge articulates her understanding of a text, and as a result, somebody loses his freedom, his property, his children, even his life.” This is an aspect of the law that many of us either forget or do not fully comprehend.
The colloquium will be followed by a free play, Our Country’s Good, at 7:30pm at the Main Stage in the Scales Fine Arts Center. It is open to the public.
| The Law As Violence: An Interdisciplinary Conversation Schedule of Events |
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| 8:30 AM | Policing Violence and Alternatives |
| Kami Simmons | Professor at Wake Forest University School of Law and Visiting Professor at University of Maryland,Frances King Carey School of Law |
| Rima Veseley-Flad | Professor at Warren Wilson College |
| Dean Franco | Professor at Wake Forest University |
| 10:00 AM | Conceptions of Violence in the Humanities |
| Audrey Golden | Professor at University of Virginia |
| Richard Schneider | Professor at Wake Forest University School of Law |
| Sarah Higinbotham | Professor at Georgia State University |
| James Martel | Professor at San Francisco State University |
| 12:00 PM | Break for Lunch |
| 1:00 PM | “Violence, the Strong State, and the Crisis of Mass Incarceration”,Keynote Speech, for Stuart Hall, 1932-2014 |
| Jonathan Simon |
Professor at University of California at Berkeley |
| 2:00 PM | The Intersection of Law’s Violence with Race and Poverty |
| Gregory Parks | Professor at Wake Forest University School of Law |
| Gene Nichol | Professor at UNC School of Law |
| Sarah Krakoff |
Professor at Colorado Law |
| Lisa Epperson | Professor at American University Washington College of Law |
| 3:30 PM | The Law’s Violence in the Every Day |
| Rebecca Morrow |
Professor at Wake Forest University School of Law |
| Katherine Federle | Professor at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law |
| Andrew Verstein |
Professor at Wake Forest University School of Law |
| Sidney Shapiro | Professor at Wake Forest University School of Law |
| Vince Cardi | Professor at West Virginia University College of Law and Visiting Professor at Wake Forest University,School of Law |
| 5:30 PM | Break for Dinner |
| 7:30 PM | Performance of Our Country’s Good at the MainStage Auditorium in Scales Fine Arts Center |
