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
