How to write five journal articles in five days

In late April 2026, Katarina Hovden travelled to the University of Southampton for a two week research trip. During her time, she participated in workshops, presented her PhD research, and ran a final year law class on the rights of nature. In addition, she participated in the first writing retreat of the Home in Crisis project. We had an ambitious plan for the writing retreat: … Continue reading How to write five journal articles in five days

From modest to ambitious interdisciplinarity 

A talk by Dina Lupin at the University of Southampton Faculty of Social Sciences Research Away Day Interdisciplinarity comes in many different forms and shapes but today, for the sake of making a point, I am going to divide all of it into two categories: modest interdisciplinarity, which is fine if modesty is your thing, and ambitious interdisciplinarity which I am going to argue is the … Continue reading From modest to ambitious interdisciplinarity 

Resistance, Writing, and Reclaiming the Law

A talk by Dina Lupin, presented at LitFest 2026: Acts of Resistance 13 March 2026 The thing that makes writing law a little bit different from other kinds of writing, is that most of us are not allowed to do it. Law-writing is reserved for a small number of authorised and authoritative authors – the judges, legislators, regulators, administrators and policy-makers who write the words … Continue reading Resistance, Writing, and Reclaiming the Law

Tyranny’s law

This is the transcript of a presentation by Dr Dina Lupin at the symposium, “Intimacies & Tyrannies: The Colonial Topographies of the Internet“, at the John Hansard Gallery, engaging with the work of Osman Yousefzada Whenever I have the enormous privilege to join a panel like this, with artists and media theorists and writers and digital theorists, I feel like such a lawyer, because I … Continue reading Tyranny’s law