PODCAST: EuroStorie podcast (University of Helsinki, ONLINE)

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The EuroStorie Podcast presents you with fresh and intriguing perspectives on European issues. In every episode we interview one specialist and focus on a certain topic related to Europe, its history, people, problems, institutions and futures. The podcast is hosted by Aada Pettersson and Floris van Doorn from the EuroStorie Centre of Excellence.

It's possible to listen to it on Spotify, Breaker, Google Podcasts, Pocket Casts and Radio Public.

LIST OF EPISODES

• Episode 1: Europe, its hopes and fears;
• Episode 2: The many faces of migration; 
• Episode 3: Liberties versus restrictions; 
• Episode 4: Looking away from Europe; 
• Episode 5: Populism through a philosophical lens; 
• Episode 6: Striving for Whiteness; 
• Episode 7: European Disintegration - Is Differentiated Integration the Answer to Euroscepticism?
• Episode 8: Belonging, Community and Solidarity: Queer Experiences of Migration; 
• Episode 9: Visions of Europe! Politics and Identity at the Eurovision Song Contest; 
• Episode 10: Is This Building European? Architecture, Europe and Empire; 
• Episode 11: Vaccine Hesitancy, Health and Human Rights; 
• Episode 12: What Is Sustainability? An Anthropologist’s Guide to Culture and the Environment; Episode 13: Socialist Justice in the GDR; 
• Epis­ode 14: Legal Imagination and the History of International Power; 
• Episode 15: What is biopolitics?
• Episode 16: Sovereignty, Time and the Death of Empire in Europe

More information can be found here.

PODCAST SERIES: Legal History from a European Perspective - A Podcast Course by Emanuele Conte

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By Emanuele Conte, with: John Hudson, Matthew McHaffie, Sarah White, Attilio Stella, William Eves, Andrew Cecchinato, David De Concilio, Dan Armstrong, and Kim Tao Le.

Special guests: Caroline Humfress, Robert Bartlett, and Piotr Gorecki. Music by Piero Conte

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This series of podcasts is meant as a tool to help to improve the quality of the teaching and learning of legal history. It has been produced during the 2020/21 pandemic when teaching was compelled to move online. This created the possibility of freeing the limited time in the class from forms of teaching that go just one way, from the teacher to the listeners. The podcast course does not aim to replace real classes, held in person. Indeed, the pandemic confirmed to all of us the irreplaceable importance of face-to-face teaching.  Shifting such unidirectional teaching into podcasts, providing a body of shared listening, frees class time to allow discussion of uncertainties, doubts, tentative interpretations, free speculations.

The series of podcasts recorded by Emanuele Conte for his Legal History class has been enriched and improved thanks to the collaborative work of the research group of legal historians based at St. Andrews University and led by John Hudson.

We believe that the study of legal history can be a powerful instrument in educating the critical senses of both students of history and students of law. That is why this course gives the points of view of the participants about many legal historical problems ranging from late Antiquity to the 19th Century. Some teachers may disagree with our choices, or with our views, and this can help to develop a critical attitude in the students. You can agree or (still better) disagree with the content of the podcasts. You may think that some crucial topics have been neglected or superficially treated. Your students may also remark that some passages are not clear enough, or contradict books and articles which they have read. This should encourage debates and discussions in class.

The collection is meant to be open to external collaboration, as a work in permanent progress. Teachers and students wanting to suggest more podcasts, topics to deal with, issues to be clarified, and discussions of specific points to be added to the collection can write to emanueleconte@gmail.com.

PODCAST: New Books in Law

 

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We had not yet reported on the New Books in Law podcast hosted by the New Books Network, and which includes several episodes discussing new books in the field of legal history. The podcast can be found here

PODCAST: Jack Goldsmith and John Fabian Witt on 'To Save the Country' at the Lawfare Podcast

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The Lawfare Podcast discusses the recently published book "To Save the Country: A Lost Treatise on Martial Law", about which we blogged at the beginning of this month.

Jack Goldsmith sat down with John Fabian Witt, professor of law at Yale Law School, to talk about Witt’s new book, "To Save the Country: A Lost Treatise on Martial Law," which features a previously undiscovered manuscript written by Francis Lieber, a legal adviser to Lincoln’s White House and key thinker in the development of American laws of war. Witt explained Lieber’s impact on the development of American war-time law and talked about what the manuscript has to say about Lieber’s views of martial law and his unorthodox understanding of military necessity. The two also discussed the famous Reconstruction-era military commissions precedent Ex parte Milligan, Lieber’s anxieties about congressional power, and more. 

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PODCAST: HistoryHub – Kingdom, Empire and Plus Ultra

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We learned of a Podcast series by HistoryHub on the domestic and overseas histories of Portugal and Spain. The latest podcast deals with the topic of Spanish imperial bureaucracy and is called “Petition and Response: Spanish America and the Council of the Indies in the 16th Century”:

History Hub is delighted to present Kingdom, Empire and Plus Ultra: conversations on the history of Portugal and Spain, 1415-1898. This new podcast series features interviews with experts in the areas of Portuguese and Spanish history, from the beginning of the Portuguese discoveries in 1415 to the end of Spanish dominion in America in 1898.

The interviews, conducted by historian Dr. Edward Collins, will cover a range of topics on the domestic and overseas histories of both nations, which include, among others: the Portuguese explorations of Africa and Asia, Spanish navigation and settlement in America, the church in Portugal and Spain, monarchy and intermarriage in the Iberian kingdoms, natural science and mapping in America, the role of nautical science, Irish historical relations with Portugal and Spain, and imperial competition in Europe and overseas.

The interviewees comprise a number of established and renowned academics, as well as up-and-coming researchers from universities and institutions worldwide. This History Hub series is funded by UCD Seed Funding and supported by UCD School of History. The series editor is Mike Liffey (Real Smart Media).

Kingdom, Empire and Plus Ultra is available via iTunes and Soundcloud.

The latest Podcast can be found here

NEWS: Patrick Boucheron appointed at the College the France, chair "A History of Powers in Western Europe, 13th-16th Century"

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The Collège de France, prestigious areopagus of French academia founded by Francis I, where among others Michel Foucault, Pierre Rosanvallon, Georges Duby or Pierre Bourdieu taught, has decided to appoint the historian Patrick Boucheron (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, LAMOP) to a chair entitled "A History of Powers in Western Europe, 13th-16th Century", a topic relevant to legal historians.

An interview with professor Boucheron can be found on France Culture ("La fabrique de l'histoire").

All courses of the Collège de France are available for free online, on the institution's website, or on iTunesU.

PODCAST: Giacomo Todeschini on Economics and Trade in Medieval Canon Law and Theology (France Culture, 24 April 2015)

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 La Fabrique de l'Histoire received Prof. Giacomo Todeschini (Trieste) to discuss his work on "Richesse franciscaine : de la pauvreté volontaire à la société de marché" (Lagrasse: Éditions Verdier, 2008, 281 p., ISBN 9782864325499; translation from Italian). A rich interview on property and possession, usury, credit, creditworthiness and reputation, or the erroneously "primitivist" nature of economic concepts in 13th century theology.

Full podcast available here.

PODCAST: Is Jihadism a New Brigadism ? (France Culture, La Fabrique de l'Histoire, 1 May 2015)

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La Fabrique de l'Histoire, a radio show by and for historians, aired a debate held in the Sorbonne on 25 April on the problem of "alien enlistment". Professors Olivier Forcade (Paris IV-Sorbonne) and Jean-Pierre Filiu (Sciences Po Paris) debated with Hervé Mazurel (lecturer, University of Burgundy) and Gilles Pecout (Mediterranean historian) on parallels, recurrences and dissimilarities between the Syrian conflict and earlier episodes of European history. Particularly the Spanish Civil war and the liberal support for Greek independence, massively mobilising volunteers in France or Britain in the 20th and 19th centuries, come across when the problem of European Jihadi fighters appears in our newspaper columns today.

The full podcast can be found on France Culture's website (here).

PODCAST: Charlie Hebdo and Legal History (Concordance des Temps, France Culture)

 

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The traumatic event of the Charlie Hebdo shooting and the unexpected national resilience last January have produced countless observations. As almost two months have passed -an eternity in the world of instant mass-media infotainment-, some thematic historical comparisons can be rendered audible with the necessary distance.

Jean-Noël Jeanneney (Sciences Po) received three renowned (legal) historians to treat three themes of social and legal history relevant to a reading on the long term. Links to the episodes come with a specific bibliography for every theme:
- Patrick Eveno (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) on press freedom, press trials and freedom of expression (click here)
- Daniele Tartakowsky (Paris VIII Denis Diderot) on mass mobilisations in France, from the Revolution to the present day, pointing out that the 11 January demonstrations in Paris are actually the biggest ever seen, more important than 1936 or 1968 (click here)
- Anne Simonin (CNRS) on the penalty of "national indignity" established after World War II, putting in perspective recent French or Belgian proposals to deprive jihadi's from their nationality (click here)

PODCAST: Alain Wijffels on the endgame between the Hanse and England

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Prof. dr. Alain Wijffels (KUL/UCL/CNRS) held the annual lecture of the Stair Society on 15 November 2014, on the theme 'England and the German Hanse: The Long Endgame (1474-1604)'.

The event has been broadcast as a podcast (Soundcloud), available here.

PODCASTS: 2013 UK IVR Annual Conference - Legal Theory and Legal History: A Neglected Dialogue?

The 2013 UK IVR Annual Conference - Legal Theory and Legal History: A Neglected Dialogue? (12-13 April 2013) has made Podcasts of their keynotes and plenaries available here.

These are very highly recommended.

The conference was organised by the Legal Theory and Legal History Research Group at Queen Mary, University of London. The Group is convened by Professor Michael Lobban and Dr Maksymilian Del Mar.

To hear the Podcasts, click 'Launch Echoplayer' on the links below to play video, slides and audio:
 

Legal Theory and Legal History: A neglected dialogue - Keynote 1

Professor Quentin Skinner, The Concept of the State in Legal History and Theory

Legal Theory and Legal History: A neglected dialogue - Keynote 2

Professor John Bell, Is Comparative Law Necessary for Legal Theory?

Legal Theory and Legal History: A neglected dialogue - Keynote 3

Professor Joshua Getzler, Law and Self-Interest

Legal Theory and Legal History: A neglected dialogue - Plenary

Dr Eric Descheemaeker, Legal Rationality as Legal History, with commentary by Professor William Lucy.
Dr Ian Williams, The Role of Rules: Legal Maxims in Early-Modern Common Law Principle and Practice, with commentary by Dr Thomas Poole.
 

Legal Theory and Legal History: A neglected dialogue - Closing Panel

Professor David Ibbetson and Professor Philip Schofield

The 2013 annual conference of the UK Branch of the IVR was: