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))

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 CentreLink 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 translation 2014), explores the themes of honour, speech, public opinion and political violence. It shows how debates over limits to free expression contributed to political radicalisation before and during the Revolution. He has edited a collection of essays in honour of Robert Darnton on print culture and the Enlightenment, Into Print: Limits and Legacies of the Enlightenment (2011).
More recently, his research has centred on the history of social rights. He is co-editor (with Steven L. B. Jensen) of Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History (Cambridge, 2022) and editor of a special issue of French History on social rights (2019).

This lecture will be public, on Microsoft Teams. The event starts at 18:00 Brussels Time (17:00 GMT) and will last until 19:30 (18:30 GMT).

RSVP with frederik dot dhondt at vub be to confirm your online attendance.

The recording can be watched here (with the kind permission of the speaker; lecture only, without Q&A).

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