Fachtagung "Law and Literature. Possibilities and Boundaries of Inter- and Transdisciplinarity"

Literary studies as an intrinsically interdisciplinary field of study have been a referential science for

other disciplines for quite some time. A number of aesthetic but also non-aesthetic disciplines have

referred to literature and literary theory in order to open up new perspectives on their own disciplines

and theoretical and methodological approaches. At the same time, literary studies have been

increasingly interested in determining their own position and potential within the wider scientific

community. This is the precondition for the appearance of an unprecedented number of interdisciplinary

approaches over the last decades visible in several fields of research that essentially consist

of two disciplines connected with the conjunction “and”: literature and medicine, literature and

science, literature and history, literature and economics and law and literature. The intersection of

law and literature, as well as legal and literary studies, is on this account a particularly dynamic field

of research on many levels. The focus of this symposium are thus theoretical reflections aimed at

investigating the possibilities of inter- and transdisciplinary transfer of discipline-specific concepts

and methods.