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Open Kinship?
Social and Legal
Practices from Gender
Perspectives (1450–1900)10th
Conference of the international research network “Gender Differences in the
History of European Legal Cultures
”University of
Vienna, 26-28 September 2019| Hauptgebäude(Main Building), Seminarraum
Geschichte 1 (first floor) Conveners: Margareth Lanzinger, Julia Heinemann,
Johannes Kaska and Janine Maegraithin cooperation with the FWF research project
“The Role of Wealth in Defining and Constitut-ing Kinship Spaces from 16th to
the 18th Century”,the research area “Economy and Society from a Perspective of
Historical and Cultural Studies”and the Department of Economic and Social
History
Thursday,
26September 2019
13.30|Reception
&Registration14.00|Welcome & GreetingsIntroduction|Margareth
Lanzinger(Vienna) and Janine Maegraith(Cambridge/Vienna)14.30-18.00|Session 1:
Labelling and KinningChair: Grethe Jakobsen (Copenhagen)14:30-15:15 | Jasmin
Hauck(Eichstätt-Ingolstadt/Rome), Personae coniunctae: The limits of kinship in
doctrine and practice of legal representation in the Later Middle
Ages15:15-16:00| Sophie Ruppel (Basel),
I offered him
brotherhood, but he
would only accept me as a father.“Kinning” in
seventeenthcentury high aristocracy16:00-16:30: Coffee Break16:30-17:15 | Regina
Schäfer (Mainz), Who is
kin? Labelling family
in court records
of the fifteenthand sixteenth
century17:15-18:00| Andrea Griesebner
(Wien), Kinning and
de-kinning in the
context of marital conflicts and separation from bedand
board19:30| Dinner
Friday,
27September 2019
9:00-12.30 |Session 2: Rearranging KinChair: Johannes Kaska
(Vienna)9:00-9:45| Siglinde Clementi
(Bozen/Brixen), Remarriage arrangements and
inheritance practices in stepfamilies of the Tyrolean nobility in the
early modern period9:45-10:30
|Christine Walker
(Singapore), Baptisms and
the re-formation of the
family in colonial
Jamaica10:30-11:00 Coffee Break/ 11:00-11:45 | Luisa Stella de Oliveira
Coutinho Silva (Frankfurt), Illegitimate children in the Captaincy of Paraíba:
kinship and family relations inthe colonisation of Brazil11:45-12:30| Rebecca
Mason (Glasgow), Women on the margins: blended families and legal practices in
the courts of seventeenth-century Glasgow12:30-14:00 Lunch14:00-18:00 |Session
3: Family and Household ConfigurationsChair: Janine Maegraith
(Cambridge/Vienna)14:00-14:45 |
Marina Garbellotti (Verona), Whatmade a
man a ‘father’ or a woman a ‘mother’? Adoption and fosterage practices in early
modern Italy14:45-15:30 | Adina Eckart (Bamberg), Lucrezia de’Medici Salviati
–a case study concerning the role of mothers in familial capital
accumulation15:30-16:00 Coffee Break16:00-16:45 |Evdoxios Doxiadis (Burnaby),
Fathers and married daughters16:45-17:30
|Benedetta Borello(Cassino),
Brotherhood and brothers
in seventeenth-century Rome: the
casesof merchants, artisans, inn-keepers and painters17:30-18:00 Coffee
Break18:00-19:00 | Keynote|
Michaela Hohkamp(Hanover),
Favourites, sweethearts and
dar-lings–akaleidoscopic
survey of early
modern modes of
kinship and their
epistemological settings from a historical-anthropological perspective
–and beyond19:30 Dinner
Saturday,
28September 2019
9:00-11:15|Session
4: Law and Conflict. Chair: Julia Heinemann (Vienna)9:00-9:45| Marie Malherbe
(Vienna/Rouen), Gender perspectives on civil trials in Venetian aristocratic
families (1710-1820)9:45-10:30 | Nicoleta Roman (Bucharest), Law, women and
family. Dowry and inheritance in mid-nineteenth century Wallachia10:30-11:15| Isabelle
Chabot (Padova), A fraternity without blood ties? Relations between
brothers-and sisters-in-laws in Florence in the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries11:15-11:45 Coffee Break11:45-13:15 |Session 5:Inclusion
–Exclusion11:45-12:30| Nathalie Büsser (Zurich),
The patrimonialisationof the
communal offices in the Old Swiss Confederation (fifteenth to
eighteenth century)12:30-13:15 | Dmitry Mukhin (Vologda), Setting the
boundaries of familiesinnorthern Rus-sian villagesatthe end of the nineteenth
century13-15-13:45 |Final comment| Anna Bellavitis(Rouen)13.45 Lunch
All conference info can be found here
