01 April 2019

CONFERENCE: 25th Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians: Identity, Citizenship and Legal History [VUB-CORE/ULB-CHDAJ/USL-CHRiDI] (Brussels: Academy Palace/deMarkten, 5-8 JUN 2019)



PROVISIONAL PROGRAM

XXVTH FORUM OF YOUNG LEGAL HISTORIANS:

IDENTITY, CITIZENSHIP AND LEGAL HISTORY

(image source: Wikimedia Commons)

Wednesday 5 June 2019 (Palace of the Academies)

9.00-9.30           Registration and coffee

9.30-9.40           Welcome on behalf of the Association of Young Legal Historians

9.40-9.50           Opening remarks by Dave De ruysscher (Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Tilburg University) on behalf of the Committee for Legal History and the Young Academy of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science.

9.50-10.00         Opening remarks by Frederik Dhondt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Universiteit Antwerpen) on behalf of the Academic Committee.

10.00-10.10       Opening remarks by Caroline Pauwels (rector of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

10.10-10.40       Keynote speech on ‘Twenty-five years of AYLH: Some observations on legal historical scholarship since the nineties’ by Thomas Duve (Director of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt am Main)

10.40-11.10       Keynote speech on ‘Political Belonging in Empires and Composite Citizenship’ by Lauren Benton (Vanderbilt University, President-elect of the American Society for Legal History)

11.10-11.40       Keynote speech on ‘Citizenship in Old Regime societies: practices and legal norms’ by Simona Cerutti (Studies Director at the Centre of Historical Studies (CRH) of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris)

11.40-12.40       Panel discussion on ‘The role of legal history in current debates on identity and citizenship’. Moderator: Nathalie Tousignant (Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles)
Audience questions

12.40-14.30       Reception and lunch

14.30-16.30       Panel: ‘Identity and citizenship in ancient Rome’ (Chair: Nicolas Meunier, Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles)
                            -             Anna Iacoboni (Sorbonne University), ‘Cicero and Roman identity’
-             Jonathan Ainslie (University of Edinburgh), ‘Roman citizenship and the ius civile: the Constitutio Antoniniana in legal, political and economic context’
-             Duygu Tahan Orhan (Ankara University), ‘Being a gladiator in ancient Rome: legal aspects’
-             Diane Baudoin (Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas), ‘The citizenship of Roman priestesses’

Panel: ‘Identity and citizenship: a history of ideas’ (Chair: Raphael Cahen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
-             Balázs Rigó (Eötvös Loránd University), ‘The transformation of the concept of patriotism in early modern Europe in the sixteenth century’
-             Quentin Pironnet & Andy Jousten (Université de Liège), ‘Citizenship and electoral law in times of revolutions (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries)’
-             Edouard Delrée (Université libre de Bruxelles), ‘Questioning the reducibility of citizenship to the nation-state: a Weberian approach’
-             José Franco (University of Valencia, Universität Augsburg), ‘Citizenship and nation: An effectiveness review’

Panel: ‘The identity of Amsterdam and its mercantile citizens’ (Chair: Dave De ruysscher, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Tilburg University)
-             Marco in ‘t Veld (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), ‘The mercantile identity of early modern Amsterdam: An institutional overview’
-             Maurits den Hollander (Tilburg University), ‘Insolvents identities’ identities in late seventeenth century Amsterdam’
-             Manon Moerman (Maastricht University), ‘Private partnerships in early modern Amsterdam: the identity of the business partners in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries’
-             Maarten Draper (European University Institute Firenze), ‘Italian merchants in Amsterdam, 1650-1700’

19.00                  Excursion to Brussels Beer Project



Thursday 6 June 2019 (De Markten)

9.00-10.30         Panel: ‘Identity and citizenship during the nineteenth century’ (Chair: Jérôme de Brouwer, Université libre de Bruxelles)
-             Edoardo Fregoso (Università degli Studi di della Magna Graecia), ‘After the fall of the Empire. Citizenship in a little Italian state: The case of the duchy of Parma’
-             Christophe Maes (Catholic University of Leuven), ‘Sovereignty, representation and participation in 1830 Belgium’
-             Maria Lewandowicz (University of Gdansk), ‘Unity, diversity, identity: Remarks on codification struggles in Switzerland in the nineteenth century’

Panel: ‘Identity, citizenship in the Middle East and Morocco’ (Chair: Stephanie Plasschaert, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
-             Kassim Alsraiha (Ben-Gurion University), ‘Sharia law and citizenship in the Gulf States: The thinking of contemporary Muslim intellectuals’
-             Omer Aloni (University of Potsdam), ‘Traditional Identities confronting a new citizenship: Early Israeli law and the dilemma of bigamy and polygamy among eastern communities’
-             Siham Darkaoui (Université Lille II), ‘Reforms of family law in Morocco: The confrontation around the reference system’

Panel: ‘Identity and citizenship in Poland (I)’ (Chair: Joanna Kulawiak-Cyrankowska, University of Łódź)
-             Thomasz Krolasik (University of Warsaw), ‘Creating a modern state without a modern nation. The case of the Duchy of Warsaw in the nineteenth century’
-             Piotr Pomianowski (University of Warsaw), ‘The civil code as part of national identity in the Congress Kingdom of Poland’
-             Anna Klimaszewska (University of Gdansk), ‘Searching for national identity in building own legal culture. “Polish” civil procedure in the constitutional Kingdom of Poland’

10.30-11.00       Break

11.00-12.30       Panel: Ideas on identity and citizenship during the nineteenth century (Chair: Jérôme de Brouwer, Université libre de Bruxelles)
-             Elisabeth Bruyère (Ghent University), ‘Mancini’s international children: a closer look into the Italian school of international private law and its European heirs’
-             Wouter De Rycke (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), ‘Peace through justice. Legal reformism in the press of the transnational peace movement of the nineteenth century’
-             Raphael Cahen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), ‘Joseph Marie Portalis (1778-1858): From comparison to the idea of a European code of citizenship’

Panel: ‘Citizenship an religious identity’ (Chair: Omer Aloni, University of Potsdam)
-             Antoni Lahondes (Université Paris II Pantéon-Assas), ‘Religious disruption and change of subjecthood in Canada, Grenada and Florida (1759-1783)’
-             Florian Reverchon (Université Jean Moulin Lyon III), ‘Citizenship, civil rights and religious identity in the nineteenth century of Staatskirchenrecht in Germany’
-             Rafal Kaczmarcyk (University of Warsaw), ‘Identity of indigenous Polish muslims’

                            Panel: ‘Austria after World War One – Old and new questions’ (Chair: Sebastiaan Vandenbogaerde, Ghent University)
-             Stefan Wedrac (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Wake Forest University), ‘Cutting in half an identity. Art. 27 of the Treaty of St. Germain and the partition of the Tyrol’
-             Laura Rathmanner (University of Vienna), ‘A new identity but which one?’
-             Esther Ayasch (University of Vienna), ‘The new role of women in post war Austria using the example of the discussion on the law concerning veneral diseases’

Panel: ‘Identity and citizenship in Poland (II)’ (Chair: Anna Klimaszewska, University of
Gdansk)
-             Jakub Pokoj (Jagiellonian University of Kraków), ‘Citizenship during transition period. The regulation of Polish citizenship in the first years of the Second Polish Republic (1918-1926)’
-             Marcin Lysko (University of Bialystok), ‘The position of national minorities in the Second Republic of Poland. Legal institutions and practice.’
-             Dawid Michalski (University of Gdansk), ‘Identity and citizenship in Polish and Finnish legal regulations in the interwar’

12.30-13.30       Lunch

13.30-15.30       Panel: ‘Identity and citizenship in the Middle Ages I’ (Chair: Wouter Druwé, Catholic University of Leuven)
-             Vincenzo Toscano (University of Milan ‘La Statale’), ‘Inside or outside the perimeter? The importance of the community in the medieval context’
-             Stephen Hewer (Trinity College of University of Dublin), ‘Eadem/idem non est Anglica/-us, sed possit uti legibus et libertatibus Anglorum in Hebernia: “citizenship” and medieval English Ireland’
-             Alec Thomson (Cambridge University), ‘Civic identity in English Legal History: Feudalism and Boroughs’
-             Alicja Bancyk (Jagiellonian University of Kraków), ‘Being subject of the French king – being French? – literary presentations of medieval perception of legal identity’

Panel: ‘The identity of the Southern Netherlands’ (Chair: Nicolas Simon, Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles)
-             Annemieke Romein (Ghent University), ‘Researcher-in-Residence Project (Royal Library, The Hague): Entangled history! Making ordinances searchable’ (poster presentation)
-             Annemieke Romein (Ghent University), ‘Shared legal history and identity: divided and detached? How do ordinances in Holland and Flanders differ from each other (1579-1701)?’
-             Gijs Dreijer (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, University of Exeter), ‘Outsiders or insiders? The consular jurisdiction of the Spanish and Portugese nations in Bruges and Antwerp’
-             Marc Ronvaux (Université Catholique de Louvain), ‘Nationality and citizenship in the old private law of Namur’

Panel: ‘Understanding Hungarian and Romanian identity’ (Chair: Valerio Massimo Minale, Universita Bocconi)
-             Zsófia Biró (University of Pécs), ‘The role of the Holy Crown in the Hungarian constitutional identity: the king’s judicial power’
-             Dóra Frey (Andrássy Gyula German Speaking University), ‘Regulation of the citizenship of ethnic Hungarians living abroad: ethnopolitics, demographical issues and humanitarian aspects’
-             Izabella Drócsa (Pázmány Péter Catholic University), ‘From president to political convict: Criminal procedures against Mihály Károlyi at the interwar period, with special regards to the “libel against the nation” proceedings’
-             Roghina Razvan-Cosmin (University of Sibiu), ‘When legal transplant is legal identity?! Seeking (constitutional) signs of identity in pre- and post-communist Romania’   

15.30-16.00       Break

16.00-18.00       Panel: ‘Identity and citizenship in the Middle Ages II’ (Chair: Wouter Druwé, Catholic University of Leuven)
-             Federica Paletti (University of Brescia), ‘The other side of citizenship. Foreigners, vagabonds, miserabiles personae in the Republic of Venice (16-17th century)
-             Marta Lupi (Tilburg University), ‘The ban as deprivation of citizenship within bankruptcy law of medieval Florence’
-             Andreja Katancevic (University of Belgrade), ‘Identity, citizenship and the Minčetić case’
-             Joost Possemiers (Catholic University of Leuven), ‘The usurer as an enemy of the state in the writings of Conrad Summenhart’

Panel: ‘Identity and citizenship of minorities’ (Chair: Frederik Dhondt, Vrije Universiteit Brussels & Universiteit Antwerpen)
-             Emma Bellino (University of Wollongong), ‘Establishing and repealing women’s dependent nationality in Australia (1920-1949)’
-             Markus Kari (University of Helsinki), ‘Ethnic cleansing or rule of law: Solving the question of local political participation (Finland, 1918)’
-             Ekaterina Shebalina (MGIMO University), ‘The Vatican citizenship in the history and nowadays’
-             Filip Batselé (Ghent University), ‘Protecting the State’s citizens abroad. Western Europe and the birth of bilateral investment treaties’
             
Panel: ‘Understanding Hungarian and Slovakian identity’ (Chair: Dóra Frey (Andrássy
Gyula German Speaking University)
-             Krysztof Bokwa (Jagiellonian University Kraków), ‘”A prison of nations?” Austria-Hungary, its law and citizens’
-             Imre Képessy (Eötvös Loránd University), ‘The emergence of Slovak identity by the means of autonomy between 1848 and 1868’
-             Máté Pétervári (University of Szeged), ‘The administrative officials’ sense of identity in Hungary after the Austro-Hungarian compromise’
-             Gábor Bathó (Eötvös Loránd University), ‘Issues of the first act on the Hungarian citizenship’





Friday 7 June 2019 (De Markten)

9.00-11.00         Panel: ‘Petitioning and expressing identities in late medieval and early modern Europe’ (Chair: Annemieke Romein, Ghent University)
-             Rudi Beaulant (Université de Bourgogne), ‘The narrative of the pardoned crime. The issues of the confrontation of judicial sources’
-             Pablo Gonzalez Martin (University of Oxford), ‘In the name of whom? Petitioning and representation in late medieval towns’
-             Nicolas Simon (Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles), ‘Printing and publishing the law in the Habsburgs Netherlands: printers’ petitions to the Privy Council between 1600 and 1665’
-             Quentin Verreycken (Harvard University), ‘The experience of war according to late medieval petitions in France, England and the Low Countries’

Panel: ‘Identity and citizenship in Latin America I’ (Chair: Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History)
-             Oscar Hernández Santiago (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico), ‘Discussions about the citizenship in the New Spain (Mexico) in the Constitution of Cadiz (1811-1812)’
-             Bruno Lima (University of Brasília, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History), ‘A former slave and black lawyer reader of August Heffter: The principle of free soil in the legal thought of Luiz Gama (Brazil, 1870-1880)’
-             Tatiana Castro (Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro), ‘The exercise of citizenship through the use of habeas corpus as legal remedy in the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil (1990-1929)’
-             Gabriel Faustino Santos (Università Degli Studie di Macerata), ‘From the juico de amparo to the mandado de segurança: For a comparative history of the legal dimensions of justice in Brazil, Mexico and Argentina’

Panel: ‘Roman identity and citizenship: centre and periphery’ (Chair: Andreja Katancevic, University of Belgrade)
-             Joanna Kulawiak-Cyrankowska (University of Łódź), ‘Was ius civile exclusively Romanum? Grasping the idea of civil law in the light of Roman legal sources one more time’
-             Szilvia Nemes (Eötvös Loránd University), ‘Civis romanus et rusticus sum! How agriculture had a huge impact on Roman identity’
-             Jan Lukas Horneff (University of Dresden), ‘Elitist identity questioned. Apuleius and the defence of cosmopolitan identity against provincials’
-             Marko Sukacic (J.J. Strossmayer University of Osijek), ‘Legal position of the peregrini dediticii compared to contemporary refugees’

11.00-11.30       Break

11.30-13.00       Panel : ‘Citizens and their property: the insurance market’ (Chair: Dave De ruysscher, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Tilburg University)
-             Sinem Ogis (Universität Augsburg), ‘The history and the development of marine, life and fire insurance in England’
-             Delphine Sirks (Universität Augsburg), ‘The development of mutual fire insurance in the Zaanstreek during the seventeenth and eighteenth century’
-             Stephanie Plasschaert (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), ‘Competition or cooperation? Analysis of the marine insurance market in nineteenth century Antwerp’

Panel: ‘Colonial identity and citizenship’ (Chair: Romain Landmeters, Université Saint- Louis Bruxelles)
-             Marvin Messinetti (University of Camerino), ‘The Itialian-Libyan citizenship in Italian colonial and post-colonial experience’
-             Clotilde Fontaine (Université de Lille), ‘Sovereignty and citizenship in New-Caledonia: a specific example among French colonies’
-             Maarten van Opstal (Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Université libre de Bruxelles), ‘Community Rights and Forest Governance in India: A Genealogy of Subjectification of "Tribals" in Mewar’

Panel: ‘Identity and citizenship in Latin Amercia II’ (Chair: Oscar Hernández Santiago,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico)
-             Luisa Stella de Oliveira Silva (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History), ‘Identity and Belonging in the Portugese Empire: The Baptisms and Marriages of Indians in the Captaincy of Paraíba, Brazil’
-             Anna Clara Lehmann Martins (Federal University of Minas Gerais; Max Planck Institute for European Legal History), ‘Between a national church of citizens and citizens of a universal church. Citizenship and foreignness in the governance of ecclesiastical affairs in Brazil (nineteenth century)’
-             Arthur Barrêto de Almeida Costa (Federal University of Minas Gerais), ‘Protecting the “sacred” property against “state violence”: Expropriation and the construction of citizenship through property rights in Brazil (1826-1930)’

Panel: ‘Identity and citizenship in Poland (III)’ (Thomasz Królasik, University of Warsaw)
-             Lukasz Golaszewski (University of Warsaw), ‘The concept of urban citizenship in the light of urban chronicles from early modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Law and reality’
-             Premyslaw Gawron & Jan Jerzy Sowa (University of Warsaw), ‘Military service in the foreign enlistment as a way of social promotion in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1587-1696’
-             Stanislaw Zakrocynski (University of Warsaw), ‘Forms of the lawyers’ participation in the “solidarity” movement (1980-1981)’
               
13.00-14.00       Lunch

14.00-16.00       Panel: ‘Damaged identity: Reputation and Bankruptcy’ (Chair: Dave De ruysscher, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Tilburg University)
-             Jan Siegemund (Technische Universität Dresden), ‘Fights for social affiliation. Norms and practice in libelling trials of the sixteenth century’
-             Remko Mooi (Tilburg University), ‘Securing foreign claims: Early modern Frankfurt am Main’s development towards an inclusive bankruptcy regime’
-             Pieter de Reu (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), ‘Shaping procedural practices and economic identities. An inquiry into middling groups in financial distress and negociated debt adjustment during Belgian’s Second Industrial Revolution, 1890-1914’
-             Zachary Stoltzfus (Florida State University), ‘Codifying credit: The 1804 civil code and the organisation of hypothèque

                            Panel: ‘Identity and citizenship in Belgium’ (Chair: Frederik Dhondt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Universiteit Antwerpen)
-             Katrin Vanheule (Catholic University Leuven), ‘(Re-)constructing Belgian identity after the First World War’
-             Linde Declercq (Ghent University), ‘The Belgian monarchy at odds with the Flemish movement: a study from the point of view of the legal and political advisers of the king (1909-1950)’
-             Romain Landmeters (Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles), ‘Burundian, Congolese and Rwandan in Brussels city after WWII. Evolved immigrants in (de)colonial context’
-             Nissaf Sgaier & Hajab Oulad Ben Taïb (Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles), ‘Memory and citizenship: analysis of projects carried out within the framework of the “Memory Decree” of 9 March 2009 (Wallonia-Brussels Federation)’
               
Panel: ‘National, supranational or international identity?’ (Chair: Piotr Pomianowski, University of Warsaw)
-             Damian Szczepaniak (Jagiellonian University of Kraków), ‘The factors of shaping European identity in George of Podiebrady’s project of a union of rulers’
-             Marcin Michalak (University of Gdansk), ‘Citizen of the Polish State. Who is he? On the problem of nationality in the country that has returned to the map of Europe after 123 years of absence on it’
-             Wojciech Bacyck (Jagiellonian University of Kraków), ‘Between national specificity and internationalisation. About gradual unification of inheritance law and expansion of international inheritance law’

Panel: ‘“Classical” identity and citizenship’ (Chair: Nicolas Meunier, Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles)
-             Tea Dularize (Ivane Javakhishvilli Tblisi State University), ‘The function of the embassy in the conflict resolution process. The structure of diplomatic speeches in the Iliad
-             Delios Athanasios (Democritus University of Thrace), ‘Atimia as a penalty for parents’ abuse in classical Athens’
-             Emmanuel van Dongen (Utrecht University), ‘Nullus videtur dolo facere, qui suo iure utitur. On the concept of abuse of rights in Roman law’

16.00-16.30       Break

16.30-17.30       General Assembly

20.00-                 Gala dinner

Saturday 8 June 2019



10.30-12.00       Excursions

 


This conference received the generous support of the Research Foundation Flanders, the FNRS/FRS of the French-Speaking Community of Belgium, the VUB Doctoral Schools, the VUB Hoover Fund, the VUB's Faculty of Law and Criminology, the Université Saint-Louis (CRHiDI)the Young Academy and the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for the Arts and Sciences.






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