Upcoming event
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Tid og sted: 22. mai 2024 15:00 – 16:30, M?terom 8113, Domus Juridica
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Conference on Medical and Legal Knowledge and the Problematic of Translation
Time and place: 6–7 March 2024 at the University of Oslo
Medicine and law are professions and systems of knowledge that carry great weight in society. While both are important in their own right, professionals working in these fields can only function by communicating their specialist knowledge and decisions to each other, to other professionals and to lay people effectively.
This conference will explore how medical and legal professionals reflect on and do such vital work of translation, and how communication of medical and legal reasoning and conclusions is received by a variety of parties involved in the interaction
Previous conference
Evidence in Motion: Collecting, Interpreting, Consolidating Evidence
Time and place: Nov. 29, 2022 9:00 AM–Nov. 30, 2022 2:00 PM, University of Oslo, Domus Juridica, Auditorium 2
The making of evidence to prove crimes in legal proceedings include the use of science. Hence, evidence is co-constituted by science and law. Evidence transforms in its trajectory from the scene of the crime to the courtroom. It experiences changes all the way from the molecular level as represented in collected biological samples to the overall appearance of evidence in court. Through these transitions the meaning of the evidence is shaped and stabilized. While all elements of evidence are under negotiation they consolidate and crystallize as facts over time. These processes are shaped by and shape medical, legal and lay understandings and knowledges, which create legible and legitimate knowledge.