Department of
Interdisciplinary Study of Law, Private Law and Business Law
Ghent Legal History Institute
Sarton Medal 2024 –
Sartonmedaille 2024
on Thursday, December 5th at 4 pm
in Auditorium
Leon De Meyer of the University Forum
Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat
33, 9000 GENT
The Ghent University Sarton Committee,
Prof. Dr. Michel Tison, Dean of the Faculty of Law and
Criminology,
Prof. Dr. Dirk Heirbaut and Prof. Dr. Georges Martyn, Co-Directors
of the Ghent Institute for Legal History
have the honour to invite you to the Sarton Lecture,
the laudatio and the handing over of the Sarton
Medal to
Prof. Dr. Arno Dal Ri Jr.
(Universidade Federal de
Santa Catarina, Brazil)
Programme
- Welcome by dean Michel Tison.
- Laudatio of Prof. Dr. Arno Dal Ri Jr. by
Prof. Dr. Georges Martyn.
- Sarton lecture, in French, by Prof. Dr. Arno Dal Ri
Jr. on
François Laurent au Brésil.
La diffusion du principe des nationalités outre-Atlantique
(1899-1978)
to
be published in Sartoniana as:
François Laurent in Brazil.
The
Defence of the Principle of Nationalities that Crossed the Atlantic (1899-1978)
- Handing over of the Sarton Medal by Prof. Dr. Guido
Van Huylenbroeck, Academic Secretary of the Sarton Committee
- Drink offered by the Faculty of Law and Criminology.
George Sarton
(1884-1956), one of the founding fathers of the history of science as an
academic discipline, was an alumnus of Ghent University. In 1912, one
year after his graduation in physics and mathematics, he wrote to a friend:
“J'ai décidé de vouer ma vie à l'étude désintéressée de l'histoire des
sciences”. He established
two leading journals in the field (Isis in 1912 and Osiris in
1934) and the History of Science Society. In 1984, at the centenary of Sarton's
birthday, Ghent University decided to establish a Sarton Chair of History of
Science. Each year the Sarton committee, consisting of representatives of the
faculties of Ghent University, selects the Sarton chair holder and the Sarton
medallists. The Sarton chair holder and the medallists are invited to lecture
on the history of science in the faculties of the university.. The lectures are
published in the annual journal Sartoniana. (www.sartonchair.ugent.be).