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PROGRAM: Peak Event Connected Learning Community Legal History: Connectedness in Legal History (Brussels: KBR/VUB, 14-15 March 2024)



(image: Koningsplein/Place Royale, Brussels; September 2023)
 

Day 1 (14 March)

Working Sessions

09:00 Welcoming on behalf of EUTopia, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Faculty of Law and Criminology

Prof. em. dr. Rosette S’Jegers (EUTopia)

Prof. dr. Karin Vanderkerken (VUB, Vice-Rector Internationalisation)

Prof. dr. Frederik Dhondt (VUB, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Law)

09:30 Working Session 1 (Warwick)

Nia Belcher: Penal Transportation in the Nineteenth-Century: Britain and Australia

Ash Fowkes-Gajan: The Risorgimento as a Fragmented Paradigm: Was Italy, by 1871, any more than a 'mere geographical expression'?

Tom Posnic-Boyce: Afro-Latin American Legacies

Mayukha Rodrigo: Indian Indenture and its Effect on Modern Demographics and Politics

10:45 Coffee Break

11:00 Working Session 2 (Ljubljana), The (right of) association before and after 1848/1867 in the Habsburg monarchy: the genesis of modern organizational forms of political and commercial life and the challenges of multi-level governance

Vida Babic: Freedom of expression and political association in the interplay between the state and province in the post-enlightenment period  in Carniola: the circle of baron Zois and the role of count Metternich in envisaging the Kingdom of Illyria

Teja Benčič: From a reading club to a political association after 1848/1867  in Ljubljana, the capital of Carniola: local initiative in a multi-level governmental space?

Ajra Šisernik: From an association to a credit union in Southern Styria after the 1873 Credit Union Act: local initiative and connectedness in the municipality of Ljutomer

Lovro Čeh Breznik: From fields to pints: the evolution of hops and beer production in Styrian Savinja Valley - exploring post 1848 rural crisis, multi-governmental space and global market challenges in the long 19th century

12:30 Lunch Break on the Mont des Arts

13:30 Working Session 3 (CY)

Maeva Le Bot: Women and Union Organization in France (19th - 20th century)

Sabrina Thieux: Death Penalty: the abolition fight in France and Canada

14:30 Coffee Break

14:45 Working Session 4 (VUB)

Solom Beck Betelguierev, The legal debate around the Ostend Company (1722-1727)

Maxime Gabriel Desmet, Enlightenment and Reform under Joseph II (1780-1790)

Cheyenne Larivière & Dribardh Rexha, Constitution and multi-level governance in the Austrian Low Countries (1713-1790)

Manon Hofströssler, Legal status in the Congo Free State and Belgian Congo (1885-1960)

Lentl Vanhouche, Belgian feminism and as human rights activism

16:00 Coffee Break

16:15 Keynote by Prof. Cristina Nogueira da Silva (Nova Lisboa): 'Exploring the Status of Individuals of 'Black Race' in Portuguese Legal Doctrine during the Twentieth Century'

17:00 Historical Tour of Brussels

Experts:

Dr. Elisabeth Bruyère (Università Federico II Napoli/VUB - Dr. Raphaël Cahen (Justus Liebig Universität Gießen/VUB) - Dr. Jonathan Singerton (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)


Day 2 (15 March)

(VUB campus, Autumn 2023)

10:00

Visit of the House of European History
Rue Belliard – Belliardstraat 135
1000 BRUSSELS

11:45

Walk in the European quarter

13:00

Visit of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
=> Tour of campus
=> Lunch

14:00

Discussion of online exhibition (Lewis Twiby, University of Warwick)


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