Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Stanford Center for Law and History workshop schedule

[We share the following speaker line-up.]


Stanford Center for Law and History Workshop: 2019-20 Schedule

The Stanford Center for Law and History has announced the lineup for its 2019-20 workshop:

Oct. 1, 2019 — Corinne Leveleux-Teixeira, Université d'Orléans
Between theology and canon law. Oath and truth in late Middle Ages and early modern times (XIIth-XVIth centuries)

Oct. 29, 2019 — Richard Ross, University of Illinois Law and History
Anglicization of and through Law: British North America, Ireland, and India Compared, 1540-1800

Nov. 19, 2018 — Stephanie Jones-Rogers, UC Berkeley History
‘She had…a Womb Subjected to Bondage’: The Afro-Atlantic Origins of British Colonial Descent Law

Jan. 14, 2020 — Brent Salter, Stanford Law
The Publisher’s Unpublished Empire: Samuel French and Authority Over Theatrical Copyright, 1856-1891

Feb. 4, 2020 — Rachel St John, UC Davis History
The Imagined States of America: The Unmanifest History of Nineteenth-century North America

Feb. 25, 2020 — Preetam Prakash, Stanford History
'Sufficient to Tame Their Brute Nature': Prison Management, Incarceration, and Escape in Qing China

April 7, 2020 — Ari Bryen, Stanford Humanities Center and Vanderbilt University
Law and/as Flesh: Some Thoughts on the Legal Cultures of the Eastern Roman Empire

April 28, 2020 — Kimberly Welch, Vanderbilt University History and Law
Free Black Creditors and the Law in the Early U.S. South

May 19, 2020 — Francesca Trivellato, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies
Property Rights vs. Social Ties? Old and New Perspectives on the Origins of Capitalism in Renaissance Florence

--posted by Mitra Sharafi