CONFERENCE: Minorités protestantes et droit(s) en Europe (17e-18e S.) (Le Mans: Le Mans Université, 11-12 DEC 2025)

 

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On 11 and 12 December 2025, the following conference took place in Le Mans:

Programme

11 décembre 2025

9 h 30 – 10 h | Accueil café

10 h – 10 h 15 | Ouverture du colloque

Session 1 – Droit et justice autour des guerres de Religion

10 h 15 – 10 h 45 | Réparations pour un massacre : la justice transitionnelle et la minorité protestante pendant les guerres de Religion

David van der Linden (université de Groningue)

10 h 45 – 11 h 15 | Le droit à une justice équitable : les justiciables protestants à la chambre de l’édit de Castres (1598-1679)

Sherylin Bouyer (université de Groningue)

11 h 15 – 11 h 45 | La conversion du protestantisme français à l’absolutisme des Bourbons : entre accommodements politiques et fermeté spirituelle (1629-1661)

Laurent Bouchard (université de Poitiers)

11 h 45 – 12 h 30 | Discussion collective

Session 2 – Contraintes et interprétations de la loi

14 h – 14 h 30 | Faire échec à la qualification de relaps pour préserver ses droits en Languedoc autour de la Révocation de 1685

Julien Broch (Aix-Marseille Université –CERHIIP)

14 h 30 – 15 h | “En attendant qu’il plaise à Dieu les éclairer comme les autres” : l’article XII de l’édit de Fontainebleau et la minorité de la minorité huguenote

Hubert Bost (EPHE-PSL – LEM)

15 h – 15 h 15 | Pause café

15 h 15 – 15 h 45 | Beaucoup de bruit pour rien ? Réactions huguenotes à la déclaration royale de 1724

Pauline Haour (EPHE-PSL)

15 h 45 – 16 h 15 | Interpréter l’édit de Versailles de 1787

Didier Boisson (université d’Angers – TEMOS)

16 h 15 – 17 h 30 | Discussion collective

Vendredi 12 décembre 2025

Session 3 – Les acteurs protestants face au droit

9 h – 9 h 30 | Avocats et experts : les protestants saumurois et leur rôle dans l’application du droit et de la justice sous l’édit de Nantes

Léo Maillé (Le Mans Université – TEMOS)

9 h 30 – 10 h | Pasteurs et droit(s) : usages, médiations et enjeux dans les protestantismes minoritaires (xvii^e-xviii^e siècles)

Céline Borello (Le Mans Université – TEMOS)

10h15 – 10h45 | Le pasteur doit-il se faire avocat ? Le Tabernacle de Dieu sous la nuée d’Alexandre Brissac (1666)

Julien Léonard (université de Lorraine – CRULH)

10 h 45 – 11 h | Pause café

11 h – 11 h 30 | La concurrence des capitulations. Les privilèges religieux des troupes étrangères dans les villes de garnison de la dorsale catholique (France, xvii^e-xviii^e siècles)

Paul Vo-Ha (université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne – IHMC/IUF)

11 h 30 – 12 h | Une diplomatie pour les droits des exilés : le cas des réfugiés huguenots (v. 1680 – v. 1720)

Naïma Ghermani (université Grenoble-Alpes – LAHRHA)

12 h – 12 h 45 | Discussion collective

Session 4 – Circulations et héritages du droit

14 h – 14 h 30 | L’Église réformée au Brésil : cadres institutionnels et enjeux coloniaux (1630-1654)

Matheus Vila Nova (EPHE-PSL – LEM)

14 h 30 – 15 h | D’une émancipation à l’autre : convergences entre non conformistes et anglicans autour de l’Émancipation des catholiques en Irlande (1791-1829)

Karina Bénazech Wendling (université de Lorraine)

15 h – 15 h 30 | La laïcité et l’intégration républicaine des minorités religieuses : le choix des protestants (xviii^e-xxi^e siècles)

Valentine Zuber (EPHE-PSL – GSRL)

15 h 30 – 16 h 15 | Discussion collective

Conclusion générale

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CONFERENCE: Diritto, minoranze. Storie (Catania, 2-4 maggio 2022)

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Nei giorni dal 2 al 4 maggio si terrà, presso il Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza dell'Università degli Studi di Catania, il convegno "Diritto, minoranze. Storie", parte del progetto Medita (Minoranza e Diritto. Esclusione, Discriminazione, Tolleranza, Accoglienza).

PRESENTAZIONE

Il termine minoranza si definisce solo in relazione al suo opposto, maggioranza. Ma è un termine di per sé neutro. Una minoranza, infatti, può essere l’oligarchia che detiene il potere o, al contrario, un gruppo marginale che chi detiene il potere vuole ulteriormente marginalizzare, escludere, eliminare.

Ciascuna minoranza è stata definita per ragioni culturali, etniche, religiose, linguistiche, razziali e gli ordinamenti nel corso della storia si sono dotati degli strumenti più diversi per definire, discriminare, combattere, limitare, escludere, eliminare, contenere, proteggere, conservare gruppi che ritenevano ostili, pericolosi, o solo diversi, le minoranze.

PROGRAMMA

2 maggio, ore 15.00, Auditorium della Purità

Introduce Rosalba Sorice e coordina Francesco Arcaria

• Francesco Priolo, Saluti del Magnifico Rettore dell’Università degli studi di Catania
• Salvatore Zappalà, Saluti del Direttore del Dipartimento
• Rosalba Sorice,  Lo spazio giuridico degli esclusi nel Medioevo. Aspetti penali (I)
• Antonia Fiori,  Lo spazio giuridico degli esclusi nel Medioevo. Aspetti processuali (II)
• Beatrice Pasciuta,  Diritti e culture nella Sicilia normanna. Cronache e documenti
• Giovanni Rossi, Privilegia universitatum, collegiorum, scholasticorum: il trattato di Pierre Rebuffi sulle tutele previste per la comunità universitaria 
• Manlio Miele,  I Greci a Venezia

3 maggio, ore 9.00, Auditorium della Purità

Coordina Carlo Fantappié

• Aldo Andrea Cassi, La minorità della maggioranza. Gli indios all'alba della 'Conquista' tra schiavitù e tutela
• Marco Cavina,  Puné Zeruzeru. Gli albini nel diritto tradizionale africano
• Valerio Gigliotti,  Profili comparati della condizione giuridica di Ebrei e Valdesi in area subalpina
• Stefano Solimano, Gli ebrei e la prima emancipazione: da Giuseppe Il a Napoleone
• Orazio Condorelli, La minoranza albanese in Sicilia (secoli XV-XVIII): modi e problemi dell’integrazione civile e religiosa
• Francesco Mastroberti, La condizione giuridica delle minoranze albanesi nel Regno di Napoli 

3 maggio, ore 15.00, Auditorium della Purità

Coordina Cristina Vano

• Daniele Edigati, La tolleranza religiosa al crepuscolo dell'Antico Regime
• Paolo Alvazzi del Frate, Anti-individualismo e compressione delle minoranze: considerazioni sulla crisi dello Stato liberale
• Loredana Garlati, Dietro le sbarre: escludere per includere? La segregazione carceraria tra Otto  e Novecento 
• Carlotta Latini,  I devianti e la Scuola positiva. Tra malattia mentale e criminalità
• Elio Tavilla, La pederastia come devianza penalmente rilevante, tra medicina legale e scuola positiva
• Cristina Ciancio,  Corpi morti nelle vetrine etnografiche. Profanazioni o strumenti di conoscenza?
• Alessia Di Stefano, “Una raffica incivile di protezionismo”: gli effetti dell'exclusionist legislation sugli emigranti italiani negli Stati Uniti tra XIX e XX secolo

4 maggio, ore 9.00, Auditorium della Purità

Coordina Emanuele Conte

• Elisabetta Fusar Poli, Powerful minorities. Gli Europei d'Egitto e il diritto misto
• Irene Stolzi,  Lo sguardo del giuridico: un itinerario primo-novecentesco
• Giuseppe Speciale, La legislazione razziale antiebraica: discriminazioni e sistema graziale
• Alessandro Tira, Le minoranze religiose nella politica ecclesiastica italiana dal Fascismo alla Ricostruzione
• Ida Nicotra, Le prerogative costituzionali delle minoranze
• Cristiana Pettinato, Spinte nazional sovraniste e semi di neoconfessionalismo in Lituania. Al vaglio della Corte di Strasburgo le relazioni pericolose tra Chiesa e Stato

Ulteriori informazioni possono essere reperite a questo link.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Territoriality and Non-territoriality in Accommodating National Diversity within States, 1789-1989 (University of Vienna, 2-4 April 2020) (DEADLINE: 8 January 2020)

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We learned of a call for papers for a conference on territorial and non-territorial aspects in accommodating national diversity within states at the University of Vienna.

We invite scholars for an in-depth exploration of territorial and non-territorial aspects in accommodating national diversity within states, from the French Revolution to the end of the Cold War in Europe and beyond.

We welcome proposals that tackle the interplay between the dimensions of territory, group, and the individual from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Since the late 18th century states have increasingly perceived ethno-national diversity as an issue to be addressed through policy. Voluntarily or not, some of them responded to this challenge by granting positive rights to individuals, groups or territories. What interests us is the relationship between these various approaches and whether they can be treated separately at all. While the accommodation of national diversity is commonly associated with territorial arrangements, ethno-national groups could also be conceived of separately from specific territories. Yet, one could also argue that even fully fledged non-territorial solutions based solely on the “personality principle” nevertheless have to take territorial issues into account for administrative purposes. By exploring how theoreticians or political protagonists engaged in entangling or disentangling both ideas and policies about territory and nation, we hope to shed new light on the chequered history of accommodating national diversity. We invite a broad range of scholars (historians, political scientists, legal scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, geographers and political philosophers) to submit papers dealing with the above-outlined problems.

We are especially interested in presentations that focus on one or several of the following agents: governments, bodies claiming to represent national groups, parties and other political organisations, supranational organisations, as well as individual politicians, scholars (including legal scholars) and national and minority activists.

Possible topics to be addressed through the lens of territoriality and non-territoriality include, but are not limited to:

- Theories of national diversity accommodation

– federalism, non-territorial autonomy, consociationalism, collective rights

- Case studies of attempts to accommodate national diversity - Discourses on territoriality and groupness - National ideologies and party programmes - Liberal citizenship, legal equality and group rights

– complementarity and conflict

- Accommodating national diversity in non-liberal and authoritarian settings

- The scope, extent and content of national autonomy - managing national diversity in colonies and former colonies

- Indigenous groups and state territory

- International minority protection

The conference will take place at the University of Vienna between April the 2nd and 4th of 2020. Keynote addresses will be given by Prof. Jana Osterkamp (University of Munich) and Prof. Yonatan Fessha (University of the Western Cape). Accommodation will be fully covered by the organisers. Partial reimbursement of travel costs will also be available. The working language of the conference will be English. Please send paper proposals of no more than 400 words and a brief CV to ntautonomy.iog@univie.ac.at by January the 8^th 2020.

More info at the project website

JOB: Research Position on “Non-territorial autonomy elements in international minority protection in the twentieth century (ERC Project NTAutonomy, University of Vienna; DEADLINE 27 MAY 2019)

Research Position on “Non-territorial autonomy elements in international minority protection in the twentieth century“

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The European Research Council funded research project „Non-Territorial Autonomy as Minority Protection in Europe: An Intellectual and Political History of a Travelling Idea, 1850–2000“ (NTAutonomy) invites prospective candidates to join a team of five researchers.

The Project in its Entirety

NTAutonomy explores the history of non-territorial autonomy, which was a means of granting cultural rights to a national group as a corporate body within a state. Without any normative intention, our project investigates this form of national self-rule as both an intellectual concept and an applied policy across Europe. We will examine the origins of this idea in both parts of the Habsburg Empire and conduct research on how this concept travelled to the interwar period. Starting from the assumption that non-territorial autonomy was not specific to a particular political current, we will analyse how this concept translated into the early Soviet Union, the socialist Ukrainian People’s Republic, the liberal democracies in the Baltic States, and the far-right Sudeten German Party in Czechoslovakia. Finally, we want to trace non-territorial autonomy elements in the policies of European minority protection institutions until the end of the twentieth century.

For more information, please refer to our project website: https://ntautonomy.oeaw.ac.at/en/

Job Description

You will be in charge of the project’s work package that analyses continuities and breaks in the ways non-territorial autonomy has been considered in international minority protection throughout the twentieth century. Ideally, you cover the period of the interwar period and the period after WWII. Yet, applications with a focus on either period are also possible.

You should collect and analyse material on transnational minority networks, like the Congress of European Nationalities or the Federal Union of European Nationalities, pertaining to the topic of non-territorial autonomy. Furthermore, you should collect and analyse material of international organisations’ position towards non-territorial arrangements, including e.g. the League of Nations, the United Nations, the OSCE and/or the Council of Europe.

You are expected to participate in the bi-monthly meetings of the project team, discuss your findings, make them accessible in our EndNote database, help to organise a conference, participate in editing the conference proceedings, and assist in the maintenance of our website.

If you apply as a doctorate student, you should complete a PhD thesis on a topic in the wider field of your work package and publish preliminary results. If you apply as a post-doctoral researcher, you are expected to publish your findings in leading peer-reviewed journals and produce a draft of a book / habilitation on a topic in the wider field of your work package.

Starting date is autumn 2019. You are expected to take your permanent residence in Vienna.

We Offer

We offer a 12 months contract, renewable for 30 months (PhD students) or 24 months (post docs) after an interim evaluation. PhD students will receive a gross salary of approx. 30,000 € per year, corresponding to 75% (30 h) of a full position. Post-doctoral researchers will receive a gross salary of approx. 42,000 € per year, corresponding to 80% (32 hours) of a full position. The total duration of employment and the extent of part-time employment is negotiable.

You will have a fully equipped workspace at the Institute in Vienna. Funding for research missions and participation to international conferences will also be provided.

You will be part of a research team of six scholars in an intellectually ambitious and challenging project funded by the European Union in one of Europe’s most pleasant cities.

The Austrian Academy of Sciences is an equal opportunity employer.

Your Qualifications

You must hold at least an MA degree (or equivalent), ideally with a scholarly background in modern, contemporary and/or legal history or in nationalism studies. You should demonstrate a strong interest in minority issues as well as in historical and comparative research questions. You need very good language skills in English and good reading skills in German and French. You should like working in teams and be familiar with the reference management software EndNote.

How to Apply

You can apply in German or English not later than 27 May 2019. Please send the following documents as a single PDF document (entitled: SURNAME, NTAutonomy, application 2019) to barbara.saringer-bory@oeaw.ac.at

1) Short motivation letter.

2) Curriculum vitae, including a list of publications (if applicable).

3) Name, email and telephone number of at least two referees (no recommendation letters).

4) An exposé of your planned doctoral thesis / monograph. Please outline how your sketched project relates to the objectives of NTAutonomy in general and to your specific work package in particular (approx. 1000 words, excluding bibliography).

5) A writing sample (e.g. an article, or a significant chapter of your MA/PhD thesis). It is not necessary that it has already been accepted for publication.

6) A certificate of your degrees.

You will be informed of the outcome of the selection process by early June 2019. Shortlisted candidates will be invited for interviews on 25 June 2019.

For any further information, do not hesitate to contact the project’s principal investigator:

Dr. Börries Kuzmany

ERC-Projekt NTAutonomy

ÖAW / INZ

Hollandstraße 11-13, 1. Stock

A-1020 Wien / Austria

Tel.: +43-1-51581-7332

boerries.kuzmany@oeaw.ac.at

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