The Annual Minority Research Seminar 2024, Many Gazes of Law, is organizing a workshop for doctoral researchers on the 12th of April 2024 at Åbo Akademi University (Turku). The workshop on Methods, Minorities and Law encourages interdisciplinary engagement, enabling participants to draw from diverse perspectives to help enrich the discourse on minority encounters with the law, ensuring that research in this vital area continues to evolve and make meaningful contributions to scholarship, methodology, social justice and equity. We are welcoming participants from different backgrounds and fields whose research orbits the nexus of linguistic, religious, ethnic and cultural minorities and their encounters with diverse systems of law. Participants are encouraged to contribute to the discussion in one of two key fronts: methodological innovation or substantive content. 

As the workshop aims to be interdisciplinary, we hope to see contributions from various fields and employing various methodologies, with links to the realm of law. This could entail, but is not limited to, critical legal studies, critical race theory, intersectional research, legal-dogmatic research, sociology of law, legal anthropology, case studies, empirical or qualitative research, or legal activism. Topics on legal developments, law as a form of oppression, resistance towards laws, or empowerment of minority groups through human rights regimes are welcome.

Participants are required to send in a paper of about 5000 words prior to the workshop. The workshop is intended to be interactive, meaning every paper will receive comments and will be discussed by the group. 

Doctoral researchers are invited to submit their abstract (max. 300 words) online latest by January 31st, 2024.

Other important dates are: 
Notification of abstract acceptance: End of February 2024

Paper submission deadline: 18th of March 2024

More detailed information about the workshop can be found here: https://www.abo.fi/en/event/ph-d-workshop-call-for-papers/ . 

Please do not hesitate to contact us via email should you require more information. You can contact Isabell Junkkari at isabell.junkkari@abo.fi or Karla Schröter at karla.schroter@abo.fi.