Swiss Law and Humanities Hub
About
The Swiss Law and Humanities Hub (SLHH) is a new initiative co-developed by the Art-Law Centre at the University of Geneva and the Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies at the University of Lucerne.
The guiding aim of the SLHH is to enable better connection and exchange of ideas between Swiss-based scholars with shared critical and theoretical interests around the intersections of law and the humanities, broadly defined.
At the heart of the project is an ethos of collegiality and community. More than a mere ‘network’ of individual undertakings, we envisage the hub as a kind of ‘collaboratory’ – a space for sharing thoughts and knowledge, for building intellectual capacity, for exploring new ways of working together, and for testing new ideas and approaches.
Our hope is that the hub establishes itself as a longstanding initiative with evolving purposes and reasons. For its launch phase, we have loosely identified the following four main priorities:
- to develop channels for sharing community news, advertising events, circulating calls and soliciting collaborations;
- to facilitate a range of activities including conferences, workshops, discussion groups, work-in-progress sessions and other innovative participation formats;
- to nurture connections with similar-minded groups worldwide and to link Swiss-based researchers with a global community of scholars working in this space (see further below);
- to embrace Switzerland’s humanist heritage, and its linguistic and cultural diversity, as a source of richness and discovery, and to promote new lines of law and humanities work that reflect and critically engage with local identities and Swiss legal-cultural traditions.
The SLHH is an informal academic community, not an association or society. There are no fees and joining is entirely commitment-free.
Expressions of Interest
The SLHH is open to all with interests and specialisms across diverse fields including (but by no means limited to) law, literature, art, film studies, cultural studies, media studies, history, philosophy, politics, ethics and critical theory. We hope it will be a home for scholars, students, artists and practitioners interested in new critical and creative encounters outside orthodox disciplinary spaces.
If you wish to join the hub or would like any additional information, please contact lucernaiuris@unilu.ch.
Convenors
Antoinette Maget Dominicé (Professor of Commercial Law and Director of the Art-Law Centre, University of Geneva)
Steven Howe (Senior Research Fellow and Associate Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, University of Lucerne)
Laura Petersen (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, University of Lucerne)
