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Law and Humanities @law-and-humanities.bsky.social · 2d

'Planting of countries is like planting of woods. (Sir Francis Bacon, 1601)'... Metaphors abound in Prof Matteo Nicolini's new article on the 17thC transplantation of English law to America👉 doi.org/10.1080/1752... -
@matteo1977.bsky.social @lawresearch-ncluk.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social

Horticultural titles. Seeds, gardens, and English law in seventeenth-century Virginia plantations

The article examines the production of English colonial legal spaces in seventeenth-century North America. Particularly in Virginia, their production revolved around the concept of ‘plantation’, wh...

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Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · 8d

Out now in The Burlington: my review of Martinez & Roman Female Printmakers, Printsellers & Print Publishers: The Imprint of Women 1700-1830'. "pushes
back against the archival gender bias
that has informed
record creation & preservation"; important focus on prints, understudied cf to painting.

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CREATe @create-glasgow.bsky.social · 8d

Our colleague @drelenacooper.bsky.social will be speaking at @rhul-cvs.bsky.social where she will launch the new online exhibition 'Painting and Copyright in the Nineteenth Century' 🖼

📅 20 November
📍Royal Holloway, Picture Gallery

Learn more 👉 www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/eve...

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Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · 10d

Exhibition Launch: "Painting and Copyright in the Nineteenth Century"
Thurs 20 Nov, 6–8pm
Picture Gallery, Royal Holloway, Egham.
Time travel with me back to the late 19th cent, the time of the emergence of modern copyright, in the presence of one of the best collections of Victorian modern art.

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Royal Holloway Centre for Victorian Studies @rhul-cvs.bsky.social · Dec 13

Lovely to see you all here! We are a group of researchers based at Royal Holloway, University of London, a very Victorian place, studying the nineteenth century around the world, and particularly the products and legacies of Victorian Britain and its empire.

photograph of one of the two grand courtyards of Royal Holloway's Founders Building, with sculpture of Thomas and Jane Holloway.

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Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · 20d

This fab essay is now on my desk - should be online soon in @law-and-humanities.bsky.social !

Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · 20d

as @create-glasgow.bsky.social academic, I like @josephowen.bsky.social's @law-and-humanities.bsky.social essay re adaptation: "Radio, theatre, & cinema each mobilise distinctive formal grammars to transpose Kafka’s textual strategies through aural dissonance, scenic abstraction, visual distortion."

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Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · 20d

@josephowen.bsky.social's fab essay speaks to me both as @law-and-humanities.bsky.social Arts Editor: how adaptations of Kafka's The Trial, though referencing different times/places, nevertheless enable us to distil something abstract re law as "inseparable from social and sexual hierarchies" &...

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Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · 20d

"Kafkaesque is not always an inert descriptor but a live aesthetic mode... capable of being retooled to articulate anxieties about surveillance, nationalism & the shrinking space for political dissent." Arts essay by @josephowen.bsky.social for @law-and-humanities.bsky.social on my desk. I love it 👍

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Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · 23d

Have you ever wondered: what’s in the numerous domes of the Royal Pavilion Brighton? One houses the archive & did some digging there today also re 19th century painter Rosa Bonheur, one of the few women to infiltrate a male dominated arts elite, whose work is discussed in Gambart v Ball (1863).

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Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · 23d

Just arriving at Royal Pavilion Brighton, which houses part of the Royal Collection, to talk to their Collections team: how can scholars help galleries navigate historic donor restrictions? I’ll be drawing on my research with Steph Scholten @hunterianglasgow.bsky.social & funded by ESRC impact grant

Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · 27d

As always, @create-glasgow.bsky.social at EPIP in full force …. 👇👏

CREATe @create-glasgow.bsky.social · Sep 8

📌 Ula Furgał – Remunerating journalists: an appropriate share of the unknown.

📌 Arthur Ehlinger, Martin Kretschmer & Amy Thomas – Copyright earnings and labour markets in creative industries: what have we learned from a series of UK surveys since 2006. 🧵2/3

Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · 29d

“the UK curator, gallerist & video essayist James Payne …details how Blake’s worldview was shaped by … the principles of the French Revolution, particularly the concept of liberty” re Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience. 👇From one of my favourite blogs: @psyche.co

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Embrace conflict, reject authority – William Blake’s radical vision of a meaningful life | Psyche Videos

Moved by mystical visions and the French Revolution, William Blake crafted a radical blueprint for living with purpose

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Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thanks to Dan, Charlotte and Amanda for another fab legal history gathering! 👍

Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · Sep 8

Why was bigamy a crime of mobility in 18th cent? How was 19th cent public nuisance impacted by tech change/railways? What can 19th cent depositions tells us re marginalised communities? How did Stoker protect Dracula against ‘dramatic pirates’? All answered @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy today

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Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · Sep 6

“Deafness passes through us like a police-whistle”.👇In time of tyranny, what if regime is fighting to be heard & people can’t hear them & declare a ‘Deaf Republic’. What depths of human understanding do we discover in a Republic formed by a basic form of human resistance. At @royalcourt.bsky.social

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Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · Sep 5

Looking forward to seeing this at @royalcourt.bsky.social this weekend. “More than a straightforward anti-war parable, the piece interrogates the challenges of truly understanding another person’s experiences, driving home the point that peace can never be achieved without empathy.” 👇

The Stage @thestage.co.uk · Sep 5

★★★★ Review: Deaf Republic - Dreamlike, conceptually ambitious adaptation of Ilya Kaminsky’s poems of occupation and resistance 👇

Deaf Republic review at the Royal Court, London: powerful and pertinent

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Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · Sep 4

And both the account of Cosway (in Martinez & Roman) and McNulty's reading of Austen, linked to impact of ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft.

Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · Sep 4

Maria Cosway's proto-feminist prints 'A Progress of Female Dissipation' & 'A Progress of Female Virtue' were published in 1800. That's contemporary with Austen. Recalling Dr Nichola McNulty's paper at @law-and-humanities.bsky.social roundtable: Austen's literary works as proto-feminist activism...

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Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · Sep 4

Out in The Burlington soon: my review of Martinez & Roman 'Female Printmakers in 18th cent'. I ask if art of Maria Cosway (1760-1838) is forerunner to art as activism explored in Tate's 'Women in Revolt' reviewed in @law-and-humanities.bsky.social by @sophiedoherty.bsky.social here shorturl.at/UKZ1n

Framing Women in Revolt! as a feminist expression of women’s lived experiences of law

Published in Law and Humanities (Vol. 18, No. 2, 2024)

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Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · Sep 2

I will indeed check this out as should all who were at ECS hosted by @create-glasgow.bsky.social earlier this year…

Zvi S. Rosen @zvirosen.bsky.social · Aug 20

Our webinar on the Library of Congress / Copyright Office and the Constitution is available for viewing - check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHCE...

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Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · Sep 2

Forthcoming Event at IALS: 'How do we Dance law?' S Mulcahy, M Moscati and R Viswanath. I just might make it... ials.sas.ac.uk/events/how-d...

How do we dance law?

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Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · Sep 2

Dialogue on justice sparked by art: "art commenting on legal scholarship that commented on copyright law’s regulation of protest art on public art. …kaleidoscope of law & creative practice, ever shifting into new arrangements & each time, new angles, new depth." In @law-and-humanities.bsky.social 👇

Marie Hadley @drmarieip.bsky.social · Aug 31

Over the moon to see my paper with artist Travis De Vries has been published in @law-and-humanities.bsky.social. Our paper is framed through a series of conversations about art, law, and justice.

You can read it here: doi.org/10.1080/1752...

Entropy Awakening or Tear it Down? A conversation about contested statues

This paper explores the challenges faced by states with colonial or slavery histories in addressing contested statues or monuments whose messages no longer align with contemporary societal values. ...

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Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · Sep 2

A very good reason to do a couple of monograph peer reviews for @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social : you could get a free copy of the Cultural History of Law series (gen ed Gary Watt) which usually costs over £400. Great to have a copy on my bookshelf 🌟

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Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · Sep 1

“The essay also considers how legal frameworks, cultural protection policies,& arts funding impact… ability to sustain creative work”;“structural barriers – such as limited access to funding or recognition – that shape these artists’ opportunities & visibility”; “the process of making & sharing art”

Law and Humanities @law-and-humanities.bsky.social · Aug 28

New essay by Chi Ying Lam @uosmusic.bsky.social on the experiences of artists displaced from Hong Kong arriving in the UK - addressing questions of 'identity, and the transformative role of creativity in diasporic experiences'. *Read it here*: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thank you for listening: creative practices and cultural adaptation tensions among Hong Kong migrant artists in the UK

This essay explores how migrant artists from Hong Kong have used creative practices to adapt to life in the UK. Through personal narratives expressed in songwriting, theatre, and blogging, it highl...

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