Dr Elena Cooper

And why stop there? What does the intricate connection between the arts & the psyche of those who produce them, which can inc disabilities like ASD, mean for me as Arts Editor @law-and-humanities.bsky.social re how we define the interdisciplinary lens through which scholars view the arts? 🤔

As copyright lawyers, we study creativity - we know there is 'creativity that counts' in law, & that that doesn't': copyright's rules have blind spots & privilege certain cultural practices & marginalise others. But have we thought about creativity & disabilities like ASD? tinyurl.com/3yrdvwwp

“The more fruitful question is not whether Woolf fits a medical category, but whether traits linked with autism shaped the originality of her vision – and what that possibility might illuminate.” ‘Why I wonder if Virginia Woolf was Autistic’, new blog on Aeon 👇

Historicising Extradition, Deportation, and ‘Disguised Extradition’

Prof Lee’s lecture explores interwoven histories of “British colonial rule in Hong Kong, British imperialism in China, & tBritish imperial law of extradition, 1842-1873”drawing on his book Extradition and Empire: Sovereignty and Subjecthood in Hong Kong. Great abstract 👇https://tinyurl.com/ysyknmyc

Congrats to my fab student @alineiramina.bsky.social who now has a PhD! Aline's empirical legal thesis is on impact of tech on culture/arts: how do 'invisible' recommender algorithms, which push content to consumers, impact on creators? ⭐ 👏 🎓 Privilege to co-supervise with Martin Kretschmer.

Dr Nomi Dave, Fictions of Hearing in the Law Law and the Humanities Seminar

The LHUB programme @ials.bsky.social has been published & 2 items caught my eye: The Dance and Legal Materialities research network & the lecture 'Fictions of Hearing in the Law' by music scholar Dr Nomi Dave with Dr Danilo Mandic as discussant. 👏 Prof. Anat Rosenberg! ials.sas.ac.uk/events/dr-no...

Horticultural titles. Seeds, gardens, and English law in seventeenth-century Virginia plantations The article examines the production of English colonial legal spaces in seventeenth-century North America. Particularly in Virginia, their production revolved around the concept of ‘plantation’, wh...

'Planting of countries is like planting of woods. (Sir Francis Bacon, 1601)'... Metaphors abound in Prof Matteo Nicolini's new article on the 17thC transplantation of English law to America👉 doi.org/10.1080/1752... -
@matteo1977.bsky.social @lawresearch-ncluk.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social

Out now in The Burlington: my review of Martinez & Roman Female Printmakers, Printsellers & Print Publishers: The Imprint of Women 1700-1830'. "pushes
back against the archival gender bias
that has informed
record creation & preservation"; important focus on prints, understudied cf to painting.

Our colleague @drelenacooper.bsky.social will be speaking at @rhul-cvs.bsky.social where she will launch the new online exhibition 'Painting and Copyright in the Nineteenth Century' 🖼

📅 20 November
📍Royal Holloway, Picture Gallery

Learn more 👉 www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/eve...

Exhibition Launch: "Painting and Copyright in the Nineteenth Century"
Thurs 20 Nov, 6–8pm
Picture Gallery, Royal Holloway, Egham.
Time travel with me back to the late 19th cent, the time of the emergence of modern copyright, in the presence of one of the best collections of Victorian modern art.

photograph of one of the two grand courtyards of Royal Holloway's Founders Building, with sculpture of Thomas and Jane Holloway.

Lovely to see you all here! We are a group of researchers based at Royal Holloway, University of London, a very Victorian place, studying the nineteenth century around the world, and particularly the products and legacies of Victorian Britain and its empire.

This fab essay is now on my desk - should be online soon in @law-and-humanities.bsky.social !

as @create-glasgow.bsky.social academic, I like @josephowen.bsky.social's @law-and-humanities.bsky.social essay re adaptation: "Radio, theatre, & cinema each mobilise distinctive formal grammars to transpose Kafka’s textual strategies through aural dissonance, scenic abstraction, visual distortion."

@josephowen.bsky.social's fab essay speaks to me both as @law-and-humanities.bsky.social Arts Editor: how adaptations of Kafka's The Trial, though referencing different times/places, nevertheless enable us to distil something abstract re law as "inseparable from social and sexual hierarchies" &...

"Kafkaesque is not always an inert descriptor but a live aesthetic mode... capable of being retooled to articulate anxieties about surveillance, nationalism & the shrinking space for political dissent." Arts essay by @josephowen.bsky.social for @law-and-humanities.bsky.social on my desk. I love it 👍

Have you ever wondered: what’s in the numerous domes of the Royal Pavilion Brighton? One houses the archive & did some digging there today also re 19th century painter Rosa Bonheur, one of the few women to infiltrate a male dominated arts elite, whose work is discussed in Gambart v Ball (1863).

Just arriving at Royal Pavilion Brighton, which houses part of the Royal Collection, to talk to their Collections team: how can scholars help galleries navigate historic donor restrictions? I’ll be drawing on my research with Steph Scholten @hunterianglasgow.bsky.social & funded by ESRC impact grant

As always, @create-glasgow.bsky.social at EPIP in full force …. 👇👏

“the UK curator, gallerist & video essayist James Payne …details how Blake’s worldview was shaped by … the principles of the French Revolution, particularly the concept of liberty” re Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience. 👇From one of my favourite blogs: @psyche.co

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Thanks to Dan, Charlotte and Amanda for another fab legal history gathering! 👍

Why was bigamy a crime of mobility in 18th cent? How was 19th cent public nuisance impacted by tech change/railways? What can 19th cent depositions tells us re marginalised communities? How did Stoker protect Dracula against ‘dramatic pirates’? All answered @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy today

“Deafness passes through us like a police-whistle”.👇In time of tyranny, what if regime is fighting to be heard & people can’t hear them & declare a ‘Deaf Republic’. What depths of human understanding do we discover in a Republic formed by a basic form of human resistance. At @royalcourt.bsky.social

Looking forward to seeing this at @royalcourt.bsky.social this weekend. “More than a straightforward anti-war parable, the piece interrogates the challenges of truly understanding another person’s experiences, driving home the point that peace can never be achieved without empathy.” 👇

And both the account of Cosway (in Martinez & Roman) and McNulty's reading of Austen, linked to impact of ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft.

Maria Cosway's proto-feminist prints 'A Progress of Female Dissipation' & 'A Progress of Female Virtue' were published in 1800. That's contemporary with Austen. Recalling Dr Nichola McNulty's paper at @law-and-humanities.bsky.social roundtable: Austen's literary works as proto-feminist activism...

Framing Women in Revolt! as a feminist expression of women’s lived experiences of law Published in Law and Humanities (Vol. 18, No. 2, 2024)

Out in The Burlington soon: my review of Martinez & Roman 'Female Printmakers in 18th cent'. I ask if art of Maria Cosway (1760-1838) is forerunner to art as activism explored in Tate's 'Women in Revolt' reviewed in @law-and-humanities.bsky.social by @sophiedoherty.bsky.social here shorturl.at/UKZ1n

I will indeed check this out as should all who were at ECS hosted by @create-glasgow.bsky.social earlier this year…

How do we dance law?

Forthcoming Event at IALS: 'How do we Dance law?' S Mulcahy, M Moscati and R Viswanath. I just might make it... ials.sas.ac.uk/events/how-d...

Dialogue on justice sparked by art: "art commenting on legal scholarship that commented on copyright law’s regulation of protest art on public art.  …kaleidoscope of law & creative practice, ever shifting into new arrangements & each time, new angles, new depth." In @law-and-humanities.bsky.social 👇

A very good reason to do a couple of monograph peer reviews for @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social : you could get a free copy of the Cultural History of Law series (gen ed Gary Watt) which usually costs over £400. Great to have a copy on my bookshelf 🌟