Forthcoming Conferences:
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PUNCS/Solon A Time of Judgement: The Operation and Representation of Judgement in Ninteenth Century Cultures. Plymouth University 23rd, 24th June 2016
Key Speakers: Professor Lesley Moran & Proffesor David Amigoni
SOLON Conferences and Archive:
SOLON Conference Modern Activism 27-30 June 2012 Liverpool Programme - Abstracts
This interdisciplinary conference was a joint initiative between SOLON at Liverpool John Moores, the Centre for Contemporary British History at KCL, ESRC, and Liverpool University, and the University of Hull addressing a range of issues relating broadly to modern activism. There were two broad stands: Modern Activism (managed by SOLON) and Criminal Justice History, and Activism (managed by Liverpool and Hull with funding support from the ESRC). Speakers included Lesley Abdela, Frances Crook, Barry Godfrey, Frank McDonaugh, Richard Monkhouse, and Judith Rowbotham.
Full Conference Report has been published in Law, Crime and History ;
Experiencing the Law
- Experiencing The Law: Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Human Rights
10 December 2015 King’s College London: Institute of Contemporary British History 9.30am-6.00pm Programme - Experiencing the Law, VI, IALS, Accessing Justice:
Rights, responsibilities and effective strategies
22 February 2012, for Programme - Experiencing the Law, V, IALS, Sex, Sexualities and Law: changing attitudes or perpetuating stereotypes?
3 December 2010, for Programme - Experiencing the Law, IV, Objectifying Children: Policy-making, Law and Human Rights Responses
4 December 2009, IALS, . Key speakers included Professor Jean La Fontaine, Dr Rebecca Probert, Dr Penny Booth, Dr Kate Bradley. Programme Abstracts - Experiencing the Law III: From Globalisation to Poverty; the Implications of a 'Credit Crunch'
5 December 2008 IALS: Keynote speaker: Ed Gibson Head of Security at Microsoft, also Rob Merkin (Southampton);Dinah Greek (Computer Active); Nick Ryder (UWE); Sarah Wilson (Manchester Met) Final Programme - Experiencing the Law II: Activity or Inactivity? The Issue of Failure in Law’s Responses to Violence
7 December 2007 IALS Abstracts Speakers included: Heather Harvey (Amnesty International), Nazir Afzal (CPS), Jasvinder Sanghera (Karma Nirvana) Alisdair Gillespie, Les Moran
Crime Violence and the Modern State
- Crime Violence and the Modern State III Law, Order and Individual Rights – Theory, Intent and Practice SOLON in association with the Université Lyon Lumière September 8-10 2011.
Speakers include: Antonella Bettoni, Neil Davie, Barry Godfrey, Eric Heinze, Marianna Muravyeva, David Nash, Judith Rowbotham, John Walton, Garthine Walker
Conference Report: Crime, Violence and the Modern State III
- Crime, Violence and the Modern State II; Blame, Culpability and Shame, Herzen State University, St Petersburg, 15-17 May 2009. Key speakers included Joanne Bourke, Clive Emsley,Barry Godfrey,Tom Gallant Marianna Muravyeva, Natalia Pushkareva.Programme Speaker Abstracts
Conference organised by SOLON in association with Oxford Brookes University, Herzen State University and the University of Crete at Rethymno
Conference Report: Crime Violence and the Modern State II
- Crime, Violence and Modernity March 9-11 2007 in association with the University of Crete, Rethymno
Speakers included: Joanna Bourke, Clive Emsley, James Sharpe, Haia Shpayer Makov, Martin Wiener Abstracts and Speakers Edited volume of conference papers publisher Edwin Mellon Press
War Crimes
- 2nd Biennial War Crimes Conference Justice? – Whose Justice? Punishment, Mediation or Reconciliation?
3-5 March 2011 at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies School of Advanced Studies, University of London.Programme , Abstracts, Speaker Biographies - War Crimes – Retrospectives and Prospects 19-21 February 2009 IALS Speakers included: Lesley Abdela, David Fraser, Michael Kandiah, Frank McDonough, Hans Pawlisch, David Seymour, David Sugarman Final Programme, Conference Report
SOLON and the War Crimes Conference are pleased to promote the Putis Peace Advocacy Project
Archive: Abstracts, Programmes and Reports:
Programmes, Abstractsand Reports from previous conferences are now available on-line.
- Behaving Badly 2 2005 Abstracts
- Frauds, Fakes & Deceptions: Annual Conference 2003 Abstracts
- Who Dunnit? 2002 Report
- Behaving Badly 2001
SOLON Hate Crimes Conferences Abstracts, Programmes and Reports