Cfp: "Translegality," Law and Literature Association of Australia and Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand, December 2–5, 2009.

What is this era if not one of transformation, both good and bad - of boom becoming bust; tension, becoming truce; climate, catastrophe; despair, the “audacity of hope”? Unless, of course, it is an era in which these differences are transcended, their sublation promising a new synthesis, a law of hybridity that blurs binaries, collapses boundaries. Trans(l)egalité enacts, as well as engages with, this twinned, yet conjoint thematic, being, itself, a unique institutional merger: that is, the collaborative coming together, for the purposes of this event, of the LLAA and LSAANZ, the former addressing “Transformation”, the latter, “Transcendence”. Despite this (seeming) reinscription of dualism, LLAA and LSAANZ are united by, and in their shared explication of the topos of “trans”, exploring its manifold meanings: from the micro- to the macro, from the trans-body to the trans-planetary. In so doing, this trans-conference holds out the prospect of a new trans-discipline, blending the semiotic and the socio-legal: namely, the jurisprudence of trans(l)egalité. Visit the conference homepage here: http://www.griffith.edu.au/conference/translegality.