Lawless Justice or Lawful Injustice?
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM)
Organizer Name
Toy-Fung Tung
Organizer Affiliation
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Presider Name
Toy-Fung Tung
Paper Title 1
"Si guardo di mai piú non beffarlo": The Semiotics of Hunger and Thirst in Decameron 9.8
Presenter 1 Name
Margaret A. Escher
Presenter 1 Affiliation
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Paper Title 2
Anti-Trafficking Awareness and the Fouquet Circle
Presenter 2 Name
Margaret E. Hadley
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Independent Scholar
Start Date
9-5-2019 1:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1345
Description
This paper session proposes to examine literary, historical, theological, philosophical, and artistic representations of the complex relationship between justice and law, as this relationship is envisioned in political, social, natural, and supernatural contexts. Are the cities of justice and law irreconcilable, as Augustine thought, or intermeshed as in Dante's Commedia, and what kind of continuum could connect what Foucault called the "blood that has dried on the [law] codes" with the blood of martyrs? Especially welcome are interdisciplinary approaches to this question. Alison Langdon
Lawless Justice or Lawful Injustice?
Schneider 1345
This paper session proposes to examine literary, historical, theological, philosophical, and artistic representations of the complex relationship between justice and law, as this relationship is envisioned in political, social, natural, and supernatural contexts. Are the cities of justice and law irreconcilable, as Augustine thought, or intermeshed as in Dante's Commedia, and what kind of continuum could connect what Foucault called the "blood that has dried on the [law] codes" with the blood of martyrs? Especially welcome are interdisciplinary approaches to this question. Alison Langdon