KEYNOTE LECTURE: Charles WALTON (University of Warwick), "Between Redistribution and Theories of Abundance: Toward a Deep History of Social Rights" (26 NOV 2024, 18:00 CET/17:00 GMT, Teams))
(image source: University of Warwick ) The EUTopia Connected Learning Community Legal History, which unites staff and students as well as external experts around the theme Collective and Individual Rights in Legal History , is delighted to announce the Opening Keynote Lecture for this year, to be given by dr. Charles Walton (University of Warwick) on Tuesday 26 November . Biography: Charles Walton is a historian of France and Director of the Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre Link opens in a new window . Before joining the History Department at Warwick, he taught at Yale University, the University of Oklahoma (Norman) and Sciences Po (Paris). His research focuses on Ancien Régime, Enlightenment and Revolutionary France, with emphases on rights, political economy and socio-economic justice. His prize-winning book, Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution: the Culture of Calumny and the Problem of Free Speech (2009, paperback 2011, French tr...