Conference: Behaviour Guides and Law

Behaviour guides and law each define specific settlements for social life. In bourgeois modernity the juridification of the social sphere long has been understood as a triumph of rationality over partial interests, and of rising civilizing of physical violence. Today media and politics often criticize a lack of legal sanctions; in the meantime popular companions as a genre and Soap operas which pretend to give orientation for decent behaviour are booming. In the context of this debate researcher of international law, cultural studies, and other disciplines will inspect and discuss new interpretations of the relation between behaviour guides and law.

Conception:
Karin Harrasser (Kunst- und Medienwissenschaften, Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln); Elisabeth Timm (Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Universität Wien/IFK_Research Fellow)

BEHAVIOUR GUIDES AND LAW.
The Particular and the Universal of the (In)formal
3-4 December 2009
3 December, 9:00-17:30
4 December, 9:30-13:30

Conference at IFK, 1010 Wien, Reichsratsstraße 17/DG (free entry)

PUBLIC EVENING LECTURE
Jack Goody: Behaviour and Literacy
3 December, 18:30
Kleiner Festsaal der Universität Wien, 1010 Wien, Dr. Karl Lueger-Ring 1 (free entry)

Conference language is English.

With friendly support of the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna.

Program

Friday, 4 December 2009
Venue: IFK

Chair: Florencia Benitez-Schaefer

THE INFORMAL SPHERE AND THE LAW/POLITICS

9.30
Tobias Nanz
Governing in Crisis

10.15
Christina Knahr
The role of NGOs in the WTO and in International Investment Arbitration

11.00
Coffee Break

11.30
Marcel Senn
Sovereignty - some critical remarks on the Genealogy of Governance

12.15
Summary: Karin Harrasser, Elisabeth Timm
Discussion

Ca. 13.30
End