2009-2010 Reading Groups
ANARCHISM AND POPULAR CONCEPTS OF JUSTICE: JUDICIAL REVIEW, POPULAR CONSTITUTIONALISM, AND THE LIMITS OF POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY
Organized by Bron Tamulis (btamulis@uci.edu) & Diren Valayden (cvalayde@uci.edu). More information and schedule tba.
GENDER AND POWER IN LAW AND SOCIETY
Organized by Akhila Ananth (aananth@uci.edu) & Kate Henne. More information and schedule tba
HOW NEW TECHNOLOGIES SHAPE AND AFFECT OUR UNDERSTANDING OF CULTURE AND SPAWN NEW AND EMERGENT UNDERSTANDINGS OF LAW AND LEGAL INSTITUTIONS
Organized by Remy Cross (bcross@uci.edu), Alice Motes (amotes@uci.edu) & Beth Gardner (gardnerb@uci.edu). More information and schedule tba.
SOCIOLOGY OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION
Organized by Steven Boutcher (sboutche@uci.edu) & Yung-Yi Diana Pan (yungyip@uci.edu). More information and schedule tba.
2008-2009 Reading Groups
SOFTWARE AND SOCIETY READING GROUP
Organized by Marisa Cohn (mcohn@uci.edu), Lilly Irani, Josef Nguyen, and Six Silberman. This reading group will bring together faculty and students from the arts, humanities, social sciences, and computer sciences to discuss software. It will consider what it means to study software both empirically and analytically. There is a nascent field of Software Studies developing within the UC system, and the group will consider what students and faculty at UCI might make of such a field -- how they can contribute to shaping it.
For more information please visit the blog at: http://cruftomatic.factorialthree.org/
POLITICAL THEOLOGY READING GROUP
Organized by Jeffrey Wilson (jrwilson@uci.edu), Robin Stewart (stewartr@uci.edu) and C.J. Gordon. Political theology is broadly defined as the historical relationship between worldly action in power and speculative thought of the beyond. The group is designed not only to study the intellectual history of chosen texts, but also to ask how each group member can mobilize these texts as conceptual aids for his or her own unique interests and arguments. The group encourages participation from those in political science, history, sociology, and other disciplines.
Spring 2009 Schedule and reading list.