WEBINAR: Grotian Theory Talks with Nehal BHUTA (Heidelberg: MPIL, 11 JUN 2021)

 

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The MPIL in Heidelberg hosts the 'Grotian' Theory Talks. Prof. Nehal Bhuta (Edinburgh) is announced for the 11 June at 15:00 CET.

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WEBINAR: Luigi NUZZO, Rethinking Eurocentrism: European Legal Legacy and Western Colonialism (Paris: EHESS, 1-15 JUN 2021)

 

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WEBINAR: European Approaches to International Law in a Historical Perspective. Taking Stock of Some Contemporary Appraisals (Firenze: EUI, 11 MAY 2021)

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This webinar aims to take stock of a series of recent publications adopting a critical and historical perspective to national approaches to international law in the European context.

The turn to history in international law has coincided with a heightened sensitivity to the need to explore international law from comparative and specific local/national perspectives. The intersection of these two movements has increased awareness of how national and local contexts have fundamentally contributed to shaping international legal rules, institutions and doctrines since the inception of the modern law of nations. It has also drawn attention to how the international dimension has influenced the conceptualization, interpretation and reform of law at the local/national levels. More and more, scholarship in international law has begun to uncover and scrutinize how political, economic, diplomatic, and historical elements affecting states might significantly contribute to introduce distinctive characteristics and peculiarities, or even diverging perspectives, to the international legal order and its rules.

Against this background, this webinar critically reflects on the legacy and characteristics (if any) of national approaches to international by bringing together recent scholarship on the European context as viewed from the perspective of broader debates in the history of international law.

The webinar is organized by the Department of Law of the EUI in cooperation with Roma Tre University and with the kind support of the European Society of International Law.

 

Session one (14.00-15.15)

The first panel will focus on overarching conceptual and methodological issues including the relevance of studies exploring potential national features; the relationship and dialogue (if any) among international scholars, legal historians and historians in this research; the long-term/contemporary legacy of national approaches; and the complex relationship between the domestic and global dimensions in the evolution of the discipline of international law.

Speakers:

Martti Koskennimi (University of Helsinki)

Inge van Hulle (University of Tilburg)

Jean-Marc Thouvenin (Hague Academy of International Law; University Paris X Nanterre)

Moderator: Neha Jain (European University Institute).

Q&A session with the virtual audience

Session Two (15.15-16.45)

The second session will take the form of an informal roundtable with the authors of some of the most recent scholarship in this area. Authors will be invited to discuss the rationale, methodological approaches, and main features of this scholarship. The conversation will be structured around a set of common themes such as points of commonality and divergence in the approach to national traditions present in such analysis; the role of international law and the academic community in signaling international/national historical markers in different contexts; and the potential legacy of national approaches in domestic contexts.

Speakers:

Peter Hilpold (University of Innsbruck)

Iulia Motoc (European Court of Human Rights, University of Bucharest)

Ignacio de la Rasilla del Moral (University of Wuhan)

Vincent Genin (Catholic University of Leuven)

Giulio Bartolini (University of Roma Tre)

Moderator: Lauri Mälskoo (University of Tartu)

Q&A session with the virtual audience

Concluding observations: Veronika Bilkova (ESIL Secretary-General; University of Prague)

Registration link here.

WEBINAR: Janne NIJMAN (Asser Institute/UvA), "Locating Gender and Race in the History of International Law" (Geneva: IHEID, 10 MAR 2021)

 

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The IHEID's Law Faculty announced a webinar with Prof. Janne Nijman (Asser/UvA) entitled "Locating Gender and Race in the History of International Law".

The link for the seminar is here. See earlier on this blog for the EJIL article.

ESIL RESEARCH FORUM CATANIA: Pre-Event Meeting, Research Forum “Solidarity: the Quest for Founding Utopias of International Law" (15 APR 2021, Online)

(image: Catania Port; source: Wikimedia Commons)

 

Welcome (09:00 CET)

Presentations (09:05 CET)

09:05

‘Louis Bara (1821-1857) and the Liberal-scientific Restatement of International Law in the Nineteenth Century Peace Movement’, Wouter De Rycke (Brussels) (30 minutes)

Discussion (15 minutes)

09:50

‘The Role of the Brazilian Academic Elite in the “Civilization Project” during the XIX Century: An Analysis from the Example of the Whitening of the Population’, Luisa Cortat Simonetti Goncalves-Renato Coutinho (Maastricht)

Discussion (15 minutes)

Break (5 minutes)

10:40

‘Views in the Literature on Interdisciplinarity Research Between History and Law’ Jaanika Erne (Tartu, ESIL IGHIL Steering Committee)

Discussion (15 minutes)

Interest Group Meeting (11:25 CET)

The Zoom-link or registration procedure will be shared as soon as possible.

ZOOM TALK: Berengère PIRET & Marie VAN EECKENRODE, Les dossiers de la colonie. Les archives de la colonisation belge, entre enjeux historiques et interrogations citoyennes (Bruxelles: Académie Royale de Belgique, 2 MAR 2021)

 

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Abstract:

Ces derniers mois, les statues coloniales ont été au cœur de nombreux et vifs débats ; les uns souhaitent les déboulonner jugeant qu’elles n’ont plus leur place dans la Belgique contemporaine quand d’autres réclament leur conservation sous peine « d’effacer l’histoire ». Les discussions concernant le patrimoine colonial sont plus complexes qu’il n’y parait et ne peuvent en aucun cas se limiter aux statues. Celui-ci comprend aussi les archives et les objets culturels produits à cette période ainsi que, de manière générale, le paysage urbain notamment. Les archives sont produites par les acteurs de la colonisation pour documenter leurs activités administratives, économiques ou missionnaires comme leur vie quotidienne. La plupart de ces documents ont été transférés à Bruxelles au moment de l’indépendance. Les biens culturels sont façonnés dans différentes régions du Congo avant d’être (mal) acquis par des ethnologues ou fonctionnaires coloniaux principalement pour les envoyer aux musées métropolitains. Le paysage urbain, et bruxellois en particulier, a été largement redessiné durant la période coloniale. Léopold II a veillé à inscrire le Congo dans l’espace public. À son instar, de nombreux édiles communaux et des entreprises ont érigé des monuments ou nommé des rues en référence à l’action coloniale. Après avoir envisagé ces trois éléments, ce cycle abordera le thème de leur devenir articulé en questionnant les notions de restitution et de réappropriation.

More information here. 

ONLINE SEMINAR: The History of International Law (Jindal Global University) (23 SEP-28 OCT 2020))

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The Jindal Global University announces a thrilling series of online lectures on the History of International Law, featuring Sarah C. Kovner (Columbia), Lisa Ford (UNSW), James Thuo Gath II (Chicago), Michael A. Becker (Trinity College Dublin), David Armitage (Harvard), Carl Landauer and Jennifer Pitts (Chicago) and Houchang Chehabi (Boston).

The series is organised by dr. Prabhakar Singh and Prof. Ajita Sharma.

More information on dr. Singh's twitter.