PRIZE LECTURE: Sarton Medal for Legal History 2025 to Prof. em. dr. Lucien BÉLY (Sorbonne-Université/Institut de France-Académie des sciences morales et politiques), "Les femmes dans la diplomatie aux temps modernes" (Ghent: UGent, 13 NOV 2025)

 

Sarton Medal 2025 – Sartonmedaille 2025

on Thursday, November 13^th 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

 

have the honour to invite you to the Sarton Lecture,

the laudatio and the handing over of the Sarton Medal to

 

Prof. Dr. Lucien Bély

(Institut de France – Sorbonne Université)

 

 

Programme

 

- Welcome by dean Michel Tison.

 

- Laudatio of Prof. Dr. Lucien Bély by Prof. Dr. Rik Opsommer.

 

- Sarton lecture, in French, by Prof. Dr. Lucien Bély on

 

Les femmes dans la diplomatie aux temps modernes

to be published in Sartoniana as:

Women in diplomacy in the Early Modern Era

 

- Handing over of the Sarton Medal by Prof. Dr. Maarten Van Dyck, Academic Secretary of the Sarton Committee

 

- Drink offered by the Faculty of Law and Criminology.

 

Please register: https://event.ugent.be/registration/SartonmedailleProfBely

 

 

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).

LECTURE AND MEDAL: Sarton Medal for Legal History to Prof. dr. Paul BRAND (Oxford) (Ghent: Ghent University, 22 NOV 2018): 'The beginning of the English common law (to c. 1350)'

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Prof. Dr. Paul Brand (Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford) will receive the George Sarton Medal for the History of Sciences for the History of Law at Ghent University. Collega Proximus is Prof. dr. Dirk Heirbaut (Ghent Legal History Institute). Previous laureates include Serge Dauchy (Lille/St-Louis), Jos Monballyu (KULeuven), Raoul Van Caenegem (UGent), Anne Lefèbvre-Teillard (Paris II), Jean-Louis Halpérin (Ecole Normale Supérieure), Ignacio Czeghun (FU Berlin), Jürgen Weitzel (Würzburg), Emanuele Conte (Roma III).

Professor Brand will pronounce an oration entitled 'The beginning of the English common law (to c. 1350)'.

The event will take place at 4PM in auditorium NBIII. See Google itinerary below:


Please notify your presence with Mrs. Karin Pensaert.

MEDAL AND LECTURE: Sarton Medal for Legal History for Prof. Ignacio CZEGHUN (FU Berlin), Ghent, Ghent University, 23 Nov 2017

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The George Sarton Committee for the History of Sciences at Ghent University awards the Sarton Medal for Legal History to Prof. Dr. Ignacio CZEGHUN (FU Berlin).

Previous medal holders include Jean-Louis Halpérin (ENS), Serge Dauchy (Lille II), Jürgen Weitzel (Würzburg), Heiner Lück (Halle), Raoul Van Caenegem (Ghent), Jos Monballyu (Leuven), Anne Lefebvre-Teillard (Paris II), Fred Stevens (KUL), Louis Berkvens (Maastricht), Randall Lesaffer (Leuven/Tilburg), Emanuele Conte (Roma III) and Sean Donlan (Southern Pacific).

Prof. Czeghun will pronounce an honorary lecture entitled ‘The German colonial companies (1884-1918)'. 

On George Sarton:

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.
Next to the Sarton Chair of History of Science and the Sarton Lectures Ghent University also hosts a Museum for the History of Sciences and a Centre for History of Science.

The event takes place in auditorium NBIII of Ghent Law School's Aula Campus at 16:00.