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FIVE LEAF Institute for Law and Aesthetics Conference Programme

View the speakers and topics for each of the panels of the FIVE LEAF Institute for Law and Aesthetics Conference Programme.

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Day one - 1 June 2026

10.00 Registration and Refreshments

10.30 Welcome Address

  • Professor Johanna Gibson, Director - FIVE LEAF Institute for Law and Aesthetics - Why We Need Interdisciplinary Aesthetics in Commercial Law.

11.00 Coffee break

11.30 Leaf 1 - Fashion and Luxury

  • Mark Jetsaphon Niyompatama (Law, Queen Mary) - Clothing Silhouettes in High Fashion: Consumers and Copies.
  • Kiera Vaclavik (Modern Languages and Comparative Literature, Queen Mary) - Fashion: The terra incognita of Adaptation.
  • Erik Gustafsson (University of Gothenburg) - Fashioning the Future: Interlinking Industry, Sustainability, and Higher Education in Fashion Design.
  • María José Munguía Romero (Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary) - A Shoe In? Sustainable Design in Footwear.

Chair: Frantzeska Papadopoulou Skarp (Stockholm University).

13.00 Lunch

13.30 Tattoo art demonstration - Dr Adam McDade

14.00 Leaf 2 - Film and Photography

  • Lucy Bolton (Film, Queen Mary) - Anatomy of a Murder and the Cinematic Aesthetics of the Rape Trial.
  • Ogulcan Ekiz (Cardiff University) - Looking at Photographs: Rules, Rules, and More Rules! Image Licensing in Academic Press.
  • Uche Bagot-Sealey (University of Westminster) - Authorship as Resistance: Black Women, Collaboration and Cinema.

Chair: Alasdair King (Film, Queen Mary).

15.30 Coffee break

16.00 Aesthetics of story

  • Presentation by Carey Young (Slade School of Art) - A Juridical Aesthetic: Art at the Edges of Legal Form.
  • Rose Sinclair MBE (Goldsmiths, University of London) - Textile Stories: The aesthetics of craft, cultural identity and personal narratives.
  • Odissi classical dance presentation and performance curated by Trupti Panigrahi (CCLS, Queen Mary) - Dance Stories.

17.30 Drinks 

Day two - 2 June 2026

10.00 Leaf 3 - Theatre and Performing Arts

  • Metka Potocnik (University of Wolverhampton) - Humanity of Songs: Feminist Reflections on Copyright Law and Creativity.
  • Aoife Monks (Director, Centre for Creative Collaboration, Queen Mary) - The Historical Category of the “Artist” Revised Through Theatre and AI.
  • Eden Sarid (King’s College London) - Aesthetics of Drag.

Chair: Gavin Sutter (CCLS, Queen Mary).

11.30 Coffee break

12.00 Ocean-Lands - Film screening and discussion with Rikke Luther (artist, Denmark) 

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Leaf 4 - Live art and performance

  • Astrid-Marie Heimer (Oslomet, Norway) - The Creative Space: Interplay between Intuition and Intention (includes demonstration).
  • Rikke Luther (artist, Denmark) - Mud … and the Earth System. Thinking the Ocean-Lands.
  • Marie Hadley (University of Newcastle, Australia) - Navigating Grey Lines: Co-Producing Knowledge Across Disciplines and Boundaries.

Chair: Johanna Gibson (CCLS, Queen Mary).

15.30 Coffee break

16.00 Leaf 5 - Architecture and culture

  • Jaime Stapleton (artist and writer, Denmark) - Law and Aesthetics: Generic Imagination and the Limits of the Earth System.
  • Stina Teilmann-Lock (Copenhagen Business School) - From Pylons to NanoBanana: Plagiarism in Architecture.
  • Guilherme Vasconcelos Vilaca (ITAM, Mexico) - The House as Vision and Site of Justice.

Chair: Laura Edgar (CCLS, Queen Mary).

17.30 Closing Reception

Address - Lord Justice Arnold.

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