Law and New Media

This two-day conference turns the spotlight on recent thinking about art, legal evidence, media, and history. Speakers will stimulate new conversation about the ways in which new technologies of print media, photography, communications, film and digital culture impact and change the history of art and law. The term "new media" is here understood as the long and ongoing transformation of cultural forms and technologies, from illustrated legal texts to cartoons and mass media campaigns around famous trials, to the regulatory effects of law in digital culture. We ask the question: how have media production and law been co-produced and entangled, and with what consequences?

• Plenary talk by Martin Rowson the evening before, Thurs., Sept. 15, 7: 30 p.m. - register below) 
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CONFERENCE OVERVIEW

THURSDAY, SEPT. 15

7:30–9 p.m. | Plenary Talk (Free with separate registration) REGISTER
Martin Rowson (multi-award-winning Guardian editorial cartoonist, illustrator, author, graphic novelist, broadcaster & poet) “Mocking the Preposterous: How to Taunt Tyrants and Survive - A Short Guide to 45,000 Years of Visual Satire"

FRIDAY, SEPT. 16

8:30–9:30 a.m. | Registration & Coffee

9:30–10 a.m. | Welcome & Remarks
Natalia Molina (The Huntington) & Jennifer Tucker (Wesleyan University)

10–11:30 a.m. | Session 1—The Equivocal Image
Moderator: Paul Halliday (University of Virginia)

• Paul Raffield (University of Warwick), “Richard II, Elizabeth I, Arachne, and Lady Hale's Spider Brooch: Images of Sovereignty, 1395-2019”
• Lynda Nead (Birkbeck, University of London), “The Persistence of Old Media: The Law and Visual Representation”

11:30 a.m.–1 p.m. | Lunch (extra charge)

1–2:30 p.m. | Session 2— Courting Public Opinion
Moderator: Paul Raffield (University of Warwick)