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TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCEMARCH 22 - 23, 2019OTTAWA, CANADAWe are pleased to announce that the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities will be held at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier, Ottawa, Canada on March 22-23, 2019. This year's conference is hosted by Carleton University's Department of Law and Legal Studies, as well as the Joint Chair in Women's Studies at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University.The call for papers is now closed. The program will be circulated shortly. In the meantime, here is some IMPORTANT INFORMATION to plan your attendance.KEYNOTE ADDRESS | DAWN DUMONT (AUTHOR, JOURNALIST, COMEDIAN)We are pleased to announce that the conference’s keynote address will be given by Dawn Dumont. She is the award winning author of Nobody Cries at Bingo (2011), Rose's Run (2014) and Glass Beads (2017). She is also a comedian and comedy host who has been featured on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN), and was once on an episode of ABC’s “One Life To Live”. She is a mom to a not-precocious 3 year old. Her keynote is titled: “Indigenous Voice: Directions on my Rez”.REGISTRATIONAll presenters and participants must register for the conference. Please register for the conference here. Fees in US dollars are based on income band (also in US dollars). Registration will increase by $75 after 20 February 2019.Graduate students and post-doctoral scholars: $35Income less than $75,000: $125Income between $75,000-$99,999: $155Income between $100,000-$124,999: $210Income $125,000 and over: $260The conference registration fee includes the annual fee for membership in the Association.HOTELBook your room at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier (1 Rideau St, Ottawa, (613) 241-1414) by Wednesday 20 February 2019. The group rate of $245 CAD is available from 18-25 March for those who want to come early/stay later. You can reserve your room right now via this link. Or you can call Global Reservations (1-866-540-4410) to make a reservation and quote the group block code: SLCH0319 or the conference name: Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities.CHILD CAREWe are able to subsidize childcare on Friday 22 March 2019. Please email law.culture.humanities@gmail.com by Thursday January 31 if you anticipate you will need childcare. Please write 'child care' in the subject line.AUDIO/VISUAL For reasons of cost, many of the conference rooms will not have audio/visual equipment. If it is essential for your presentation to use Audio/Visual, please email law.culture.humanities@gmail.com by Thursday January 31 with a breakdown of your requirements. Please write 'AV' in the subject line.VISITING OTTAWA There is lots to see in Ottawa! You can get discounts simply by presenting your conference badge. Check out the details here. https://www.ottawatourism.ca/fyb/pdfs/Flash-Your-Badge-2018.pdf. A map and list of restaurant suggestions will be included in the program. New to LCH? Interested in meeting some new folks? Too tired to look at the map of local restaurants? Join conference organizers for a group dinner. Email law.culture.humanities@gmail.com no later than Wednesday 20 March to indicate your interest.There will be more tourism information supplied at registration, but if you have pressing questions about Ottawa, please email our local coordinator, stacy.douglas@carleton.ca.The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities is an organization of scholars engaged in interdisciplinary, humanistically-oriented legal scholarship. The Association brings together a wide range of people engaged in scholarship on legal history, legal theory and jurisprudence, political, law and cultural studies, law and anthropology, law and literature, law and the performing arts, and legal hermeneutics. We want to encourage dialogue across and among these fields about issues of interpretation, identity, and values, about authority, obligation, and justice, and about law's role as a constituent part of cultures and communities. If you have any general questions about the conference, please do not hesitate to contact us at law.culture.humanities@gmail.com.