9–11 September | University of Westminster, London
Critical Legal Conference 2026
PLENARIES
WEDNESDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER
Peter Goodrich, Professor of Law at Cardozo School of Law, and Director of the Program in Law and Humanities, he is an ardent advocate of argute alliterations and the habile silent ‘p’, as in raspberry and psittacist, ptomaine and rhubarb. Peter perturbs the Panglossian portals and protocols of panomian legalities and other plagiarisms with the pataphysical portents of posthuman sciences and their paromion postulates. A practitioner of widdershins in the circulus disciplinarum, he is author, recently and most compositely, of Advanced Introduction to Law and Literature (Edward Elgar) and of Judicial Uses of Images: Vision in Decision (Oxford University Press). Most recently, the co-edited volume Performing Law: Actors, Affects, Spaces hit the sidewalks to popular delight. To this coruscating, lucifugous, phoronomic and at times abishering erudition can be added a number of published recipes -- a greater claim to immortality -- utilizing primarily rhubarb or in the more elegant Italian, rhabarbaro. These appear in the main in copyrighted works but one recipe can be essayed on https://lawetcetera.wordpress.com/2018/03/22/goodrichs-fish-and-rhubarb.
THURSDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER
Ingrid Guardiola is a cultural theorist, essayist, curator, audiovisual filmmaker, and lecturer in the Department of Cultural Communication at the University of Girona. She holds a PhD in Humanities from Pompeu Fabra University. Her research explores the intersections of culture, technology, politics, and society, with a particular focus on digital culture, visual culture, media theory, and contemporary forms of power. Her books include L'ull i la navalla: un assaig sobre el món com a interfície / El ojo y la navaja: un ensayo sobre el mundo como interfaz (2018), recipient of the Serra d'Or Critics' Prize for Essay; Fils: cartes sobre el confinament, la vigilància i l'anormalitat (with Marta Segarra, 2020); La servitud dels protocols / La servidumbre de los protocolos (2025), winner of the Catalan Writers' Association (AELC) Award for Best Essay; Marge de maniobra (2025), which received the Catalan Association of Art Critics (ACCA) Award for Best Research; and Feminisme Gòtic: La construcció cultural de la "monstra" (with Núria Gòmez Gabriel, 2026). Her work has also been published in Italian and German translation. From 2021 to 2025, she served as Director of Bòlit Contemporary Art Centre (Girona), where she developed the award-winning programme De rerum natura. As a curator, she has organized exhibitions on contemporary art, ecology, feminism, visual culture, and technology in Spain and internationally, including at Museo Cabañas (Mexico). She is also the director of the feature documentary Casa de ningú (Nobody's House, 2017) and was one of the curators of the CCCB's documentary-essay programme Soy Cámara. Alongside her academic work, Guardiola has held advisory positions at several leading cultural institutions and has coordinated major cultural programmes at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB). She is a regular contributor to Spanish and Catalan newspapers, radio, and television, writing on culture, technology, and contemporary society.
FRIDAY 11TH SEPTEMBER
Dr Lola Olufemi is a black feminist writer and researcher from London. She is a lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies at Goldsmiths University. Her work focuses on the utility of the political imagination in the textual and visual cultures of radical social movements, examining the role cultural production plays in materialist resistance and collective conceptualisations of futurity. She is author of Feminism Interrupted: Disrupting Power (Pluto Press, 2020), Experiments in Imagining Otherwise (Hajar Press, 2021), the forthcoming Against Literature (Peninsula Press, 2027) and a member of 'bare minimum', an interdisciplinary anti-work arts collective. She occasionally curates and is a member of the organising team at the Feminist Library based in Peckham.
Bisi is a London-based multi-hyphenate with specialties in poetry, performing arts and modelling, as well as a Westminster Law School student. Through spoken word she explores journeys through faith, love, identity, reflection and the human experience. Her poetry invites the viewer, listener, reader to face themselves raw and in truth. With evocative storytelling she brings a one woman show.