International Scientific Conference ‘Legal Imaginaries of Crisis and Fear’, 9 November 2024, 8:30 – 18:30
On 9 November 2024 at the New Conference Hall, Main Building (Rectorate) of the University of Sofia ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’ will be held the International Scientific Conference ‘Legal Imaginaries of Crisis and Fear’.
Download the conference programme here.
The conference ‘Legal Imaginaries of Crisis and Fear’ aims at exploring the legally relevant feelings, emotions, and imaginaries of fear. It will present the outcomes of a multifaceted scientific analysis of the constitutional and international law dimensions of crisis and fear. Dark feelings and the (un)constitutional politics of fear are at the core of the research interest of a group of leading and internationally recognized scholars that have been gathered by prof. Dr. Martin Belov of Sofia University in a network researching the legal imaginaries of fear.
The conference will be the climax and culmination of the research effort of this group of 13 scholars coming from three continents and representing 13 leading universities from Europe, Asia, and North America. These are University of Sofia ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’, Bulgaria, Sciences Po, France, University of Manchester, UK, University of Torino, Italy, New York Law School, USA, Pennsylvania State University, USA, National University of Singapore, Jindal Global Law School, India, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland, University of Teramo, Italy, University of Zagreb, Croatia, and University of Strathclyde, UK.
The conference shall start with an outline of fear constitutionalism. It will present the epistemological, semiotic, semantic, and heuristic approaches to dark emotions in constitutions and constitutional law. Special attention shall be devoted to affectual constitutionalism and the collective emotional self-identification of the constitutionally framed socio-political communities and the various groups that are framed by them. Dark constitutional memories, memory politics of fear, and the emotions of constitutional transition and social transformation will be assessed marking the transtemporal research of constitutional darkness and fear politics. Special part of the conference shall be devoted to the international and transnational imaginaries of crisis and fear. The conference shall conclude with heuristic analysis of the images of fear.
To follow the event, register on this link and join us on 9 November 2024, at the New Conference Hall of Sofia University. Welcome coffee starts at 8:30. The event will last until 18:30.
The conference is part of the Sofia University Marking Momentum for Innovation and Technology Transfer (SUMMIT) project, implemented by the University of Sofia. It is organised by Prof. Dr Martin Belov, leader of research strand “European Constitutionalism in Times of Constitutional policrisis, Extraordinary Constitutionalism and Transitional Constitutionalism”.