Call for Papers and other Contributions
What are we fighting for, if not the right to express our humanity in all its forms, including our sense of fun and capacity for love and tenderness and our appreciation of the beauty of the world.
Albie Sachs in Preparing Ourselves for Freedom, in Spring is Rebellious – Arguments about Cultural Freedom, 1990.
Albie Sachs, in the preface of his book, The Alchemy of Life and Law, writes about how ‘life prepared [him] in a most bizarre way for becoming a judge’. Sachs’s life is indeed a manifestation of tensions and relations, rather than contradictions: lawyer/ outlaw; justice/ injustice; freedom fighter/ judge; struggle/ laughter; enlightenment/ alchemy. Sachs’ writings and judgments reflect his knowledge of law, art, and literature, but more than that, his insight and care for humanity.
We invite individual papers, stories, poems and art works as well as proposals for thematic panels from those interested in Sachs’s engagement with law, politics, literature, art, architecture, film and more, taking up these tensions and relations and their (im)possibilities in critical and ‘unexpected’ ways.
Suggested themes
The conference will be hosted jointly by the Law Faculties of the University of Western Cape, the University of Stellenbosch, and the University of Cape Town. It will take place in person on 13 -14 February 2025, in Cape Town, South Africa.
Proposal submissions are now closed.
For further information, you may contact Prof Pierre de Vos at 0216503079 or at pierre.devos@uct.ac.za.