The literature of the skin: tattooing and the challenge of the law
La littérature dans la peau : le tatouage à l’épreuve du droit
Published on Tuesday, February 04, 2020
Abstract
The aim of the project is to foster scholarly exchanges and explore how literature and tattooing practices intersect via the reproduction on the skin of texts, quotes, illustrations, portraits of authors or characters, autographs, ornamental symbols and signs. How does fiction address the legality of tattoos? How does it represent tattooed characters on the wrong side of the law? How do tattoos celebrate the law?
Announcement
Tattoos, Literature and the Law, June 11, 2020, Paris (Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Paul Eluard) France
Presentation
This conference is part of the collaborative project "La littérature dans la peau" organized by the Université Paris 8 and the Université Polytechnique Hauts de France.
The aim of the project is to foster scholarly exchanges and explore how literature and tattooing practices intersect via the reproduction on the skin of texts, quotes, illustrations, portraits of authors or characters, autographs, ornamental symbols and signs.
How does fiction address the legality of tattoos?
How does it represent tattooed characters on the wrong side of the law?
How do tattoos celebrate the law?
We would like to address tattooing and the law in so far as the act of reproducing images, marking or preserving skins, raises a number of social, ethical and philosophical questions. We are particularly interested in convening events where professionals, artists and academics, from a large range of disciplines, can share their knowledge and research. We do not privilege any literary genre, style or form in particular.
Themes for consideration might include but are not limited to:
- Literary works involving a tattoo of a legal document
- The legality of tattoos in fiction
- Tattoos and ethical issues in literature
- Literary tattoos and discrimination
- Tattoos and copyright
- Social media and legal tattoos
- Law-inspired tattoos
- Tattoo Identification/Tattoo Recognition and Law Enforcement
- Human Trafficking and Tattoos
- The legal and medical impact of tattooed texts such as “do not resuscitate”
- Anthropodermic bibliopegy
- Preserving Tattoos after Death
Submission Guidelines
Please send a 250-word abstract either in French or in English, a brief biographical note, and 5 keywords both to Anne Chassagnol anne.chassagnol@univ-paris8.fr and Brigitte Friant-Kessler bfriantk@uphf.fr by March 1, 2020. Submissions should be in Word of pdf format.
The event will take place on June 11, 2020 at the Musée d’Art et d’histoire, Paul Éluard (Saint-Denis), Paris.
Deadline for abstracts: March 1, 2020.
Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2020.
A selection of papers will be published in 2020-21.
Subjects
- Law (Main category)
- Periods > Modern > Nineteenth century
- Periods > Modern > Twentieth century
- Society > Law > Sociology of law
- Mind and language > Language > Literature
- Mind and language > Information
- Mind and language > Representation
Places
- Musée d'art et d'histoire Paul Eluard, Saint-Denis
Paris, France (75)
Date(s)
- Sunday, March 01, 2020
Keywords
- droit, éthique, littérature, religion, tatouage,
Contact(s)
- Brigitte Friant-Kessler
courriel : bfriantk [at] uphf [dot] fr - anne Chassagnol
courriel : anne [dot] chassagnol [at] univ-paris8 [dot] fr
Information source
- anne Chassagnol
courriel : anne [dot] chassagnol [at] univ-paris8 [dot] fr
License
This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
To cite this announcement
« The literature of the skin: tattooing and the challenge of the law », Call for papers, Calenda, Published on Tuesday, February 04, 2020, https://doi.org/10.58079/14da
