15 & 16 August 2023 - Workshop: Visualising Corporate Authority: Archive, Representation, Imagination
Tuesday 15 and Wednesday 16 August, 2023
Melbourne Law School
Image credit Etsy.
From branding to trade marks and corporate seals, from representations of corporate personae to narratives of value and purpose, from corporate art collections to cinematic representations, this workshop will to explore the way in which corporate authority is symbolised, imagined, materialised, critiqued and instantiated through images, films and other visual forms.
The organisers invited proposals for individual papers on any aspect of visual forms and corporate authority – historical and contemporary, fictional and factual. Our goal is to find ways of understanding and making sense of corporate authority now and historically, through attending to its representation in and through visual forms.
By visual forms, we include film, television, comics and graphic novels, visual advertising, logos and branding, social media, memes, fine art, photography, illustration, documentaries and visual archives. Within ‘corporate authority’, we include ‘rightful’ corporate power, corporations and law, law and development, and Corporate (colonial/imperial) rule. Proposals that address both the visual and corporate authority were invited from scholars, film-makers and graduate students from any discipline.
Keynote speakers at the workshop will include Associate Professor Timothy D Peters (ARC DECRA Research Fellow, University of the Sunshine Coast) and Professor Ruth Buchanan (Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Canada). The workshop will include a film screening of Strong Female Lead and a discussion on making films from archival footage with the film’s director, Tosca Looby on Tuesday evening (open to MLS students too. Please register here, and just choose the film).
Click here for the Program. - Please note - late Program change due to Illness. First Keynote cancelled. 11am start with Welcome, then Panel 1 as planned.
Workshop attendance is limited to those presenting and registered for the whole event, however Melbourne Law School colleagues and graduate students can attend individual sessions if they would like to. If you are based at the MLS (or currently visiting the MLS), please click here to register for the individual sessions, including the film screening, that you would like to attend.
The workshop is a collaboration between the Laureate Program in Global Corporations and International Law, the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia, and the SSHRC Insight Grant ‘Visualizing Development’. There will be no registration fee.
For those who can’t attend in Melbourne, a second workshop will be held in Toronto, Canada in October 2023 (call coming soon). You might also be interested in the ‘Cultural Legalities of Corporate Technologies’ sub-stream of the 2023 Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia conference (11-14 December, Brisbane, Australia) - more information available here.
