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On August 26-28 2021, Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ will be hosting the conference "Forensic Cultures", an international online conference on forensic cultures. This conference is part of the ERC Consolidator project "Forensic Culture in Europe, 1930-2000".

Forensic cultures

In recent years research into the history of forensic science has expanded, specifically into the entanglements between legal frameworks, forensic institutes, technology and culture. These entanglements come together in the notion of ‘forensic cultures’, which can refer to both the representation and the practice of forensics. The conference aims to explore these different forensic cultures through a critical review of its constituting components and through different lenses such as Science and Technology Studies, praxiography, new materialism, history of knowledge, cultural theory, critical legal studies, and gender and queer theory.

Programme

The programme will feature keynote speaker professor Alison Adam, who will be discussing blood typing, gender, and forensic objectivity. Other contributors will focus on local, national or transnational forensic cultures from different perspectives, discussing subjects such as the development of sexology in Czechoslovakia, the performance of expertise in courtrooms in England, and the representation of rape in the Chile.

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 770402).