"The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils..."
*Law and Humanities*
'Shakespeare and the Law', a major international conference
earlier this month at the University of Warwick, featured keynote
papers from Jonathan Bate and Germaine Greer and also saw the
launch of a new journal, 'Law and Humanities', edited by the
conference organizers, Paul Raffield and Gary Watt. Although I'm
delighted to be on the Advisory Board of 'Law and Humanities', I
have contributed nothing to this first edition, so can recommend
it objectively to those who enjoy thought provocation - there's a
particularly striking article on 'Terrorists and Equivocators" by
Ian Ward. You can download the inaugural editorial via:
http://www.hartjournals.co.uk/lh/.
"Law and Humanities is a peer-reviewed journal, providing a
forum for scholarly discourse within the arts and humanities
around the subject of law. For this purpose, the arts and
humanities disciplines are taken to include literature, history
(including history of art), philosophy, theology, classics and
the whole spectrum of performance and representational arts.
"The remit of the journal does not extend to consideration of the
laws that regulate practical aspects of the arts and humanities
(such as the law of intellectual property). Law and Humanities
is principally concerned to engage with those aspects of human
experience which are not empirically quantifiable or
scientifically predictable. The general editors welcome
scholarly submissions in the English language from writers,
regardless of their particular background discipline or
disciplines. Each issue will carry four or five major articles
of between 8,000 and 12,000 words each. The journal will also
carry shorter papers (up to 4,000 words) sharing good practice in
law and humanities education; reports of conferences; reviews of
books, exhibitions, plays, concerts and other artistic
publications. Law and Humanities is published by Hart Publishing
twice a year, appearing in July and December."
http://www.hartjournals.co.uk/lh/
*When is a blog not a blog? When it's on YouTube? Who needs TV?*
Blogger-pioneer Bob Shingleton keeps up an impressive stream of
cultural comment 'On an overgrown path', and over the last couple
of years has more than once taken note of content appearing in
this newsletter (some of which can be found at
http://theovergrownpath.blogspot.com/search/label/antony%20pitts).
His latest move is into video, and serves to highlight the
growing convergence of media and the consequent levelling of the
playing field for content providers big and small. Watch the
world change as it turns...
http://theovergrownpath.blogspot.com/2007/07/read-blog-now-watch-movie.html
Thank you, as usual, for "listening",
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