This page aims to provide information on upcoming sessions. For previous sessions, please refer to “Past Common Sessions”
Middlesex University in London will organise the upcoming Fall 2026 Common Study Sessions.
The welcome event will take place on Sunday, 13 December 2026 and the three-day sessions will start on Monday 14 December and end on Wednesday 16 December 2026.
The conference theme is ‘Bordering and Liminality’ within which we invite papers that align with the tightening of physical regional borders and all of what is bound up within that, as well as the invisible thresholds within other institutional and societal domains.
Key Themes
- Physical Borders: State control, migration enforcement, and the fortification of national boundaries.
- Legal Thresholds: Discretionary decisions in criminal justice lawmaking ie. in sentencing, bail and remand, and prison release.
- Systemic Liminality: The in-between spaces experienced by marginalized groups within the justice system.
- Civil Liberties: State overreach, surveillance, and the undermining of democratic rights.
The abstract submission deadline will be the 6th of November 2026 17:00.
