New Law – New Gender Structure? Codifying the Law as a Process of Inscribing Gender Structures

New Law – New Gender Structure? Codifying the Law as a Process of Inscribing Gender Structures

Veranstalter
Institute for History and European Ethnology, University of Innsbruck; Research Cluster "Political Communication" (Research Platform "Politics - Religion - Art"), University of Innsbruck
Veranstaltungsort
University of Innsbruck, Main Building, Room "University of New Orleans" (First Floor), Innrain 52, Innsbruck
Ort
Innsbruck
Land
Austria
Vom - Bis
13.09.2012 - 15.09.2012
Von
Ellinor Forster

7th Conference of the International Research Network "Gender Difference in the History of European Legal Cultures"

Programm

Thursday, 13th September 2012

11.00 – 11.30
Ellinor Forster (Innsbruck): Opening and Welcome
Sabine Schindler (Vice Rector of Research, Innsbruck): Welcome
Margareth Lanzinger (Hannover): Introduction

Section 1: Chances and Boundaries of Law

11.30 – 13.00
Chair: Margret Friedrich (Innsbruck)

Helene Schiffbänker (Vienna), Angela Wroblewski (Vienna), Monica Wirz (Cambridge): Gender Quotas: Beyond the Numerical Aspect of the Law

13.00 Lunch

Section 2: Legal Plurality in Early Modern History

14.30 – 16.30
Chair: Heide Wunder (Kassel)

Natalija Ivanusa (Gießen): Transmission and Adjustment of Magdeburg Law: Women and Heritage According to Normative Sources and Legal Practices

Pavla Jirková (Prague): Wills and Marriage Contracts from the Royal Moravian City of Jihlava at the Turn of the 16th-17th Centuries: Gender Aspects of Inheritance Matters within the Early Modern City Law

Svenja Schmidt (Berlin): The Figure of the “Child Murderess” in Law and Practice: The Infanticide Trial of Maria Magdalena Kaus in Assenheim, 1760–66

16.30 Coffee Break

17.00 – 18.30
Chair: Gunda Barth-Scalmani (Innsbruck)

Andrea Griesebner (Vienna): Roman-Canon Procedural Law. Marriage Litigations at the Passauer and the Viennese Consistorial Court between 1776 und 1783

Georg Tschannett (Vienna): Codification and Application of the Marriage Ordinance 1783. Litigations on Divorce from Bed and Board at the Municipal Council of Vienna between 1783 and 1811

Dinner

Friday, 14th September 2012

Section 3: Changes of Law in the Codification Era – Norms and Practice

9.30 – 11.00
Chair: Ellinor Forster (Innsbruck)

Margret Friedrich (Innsbruck): New Law – Veiling Old Orders? The Austrian Case

Evdoxios Doxiadis (Vancouver): Class and Gender in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Greek Courts

11.00 Coffee Break

11.30 – 13.00
Chair: Birgitta Bader-Zaar (Vienna)

Beatrice Zucca Micheletto (Rouen): Women’s Property Rights and Gender Identity at the Turning Point of the Napoleonic "Code Civil" (Turin, 18th Century, Beginning of the 19th Century)

Mirela Krešić (Zagreb): The Equality of Spouses as Successors? (According to Austrian General Civil Code in the Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia)

13.00 Lunch

Section 4: Old and New Female Role Models

14.30 – 16.00
Chair: Brigitte Mazohl (Innsbruck)

Katharina Stornig (Mainz): Negotiating Authority, (Re-)producing Religious Structures. Catholic Nuns Striving for Self-Administration 1889–1918

Eva Schäffler (Salzburg): Two Laws, Two Gender Structures: Abortion Law and German Reunification

16.00 Coffee break

16.30 – 18.30 Round table: What have we said that's new? Fifty years of women historians' presence in research and university teaching

Keynote: Silvana Seidel Menchi (Pisa)
Heide Wunder (Kassel), Brigitte Mazohl (Innsbruck),
Thomas Simon (Vienna)
Moderation: Gunda Barth-Scalmani (Innsbruck)

Saturday, 15th September 2012

Section 5: Body and Law

9.30 – 11.00
Chair: Margareth Lanzinger (Hannover)

Caroline Voithofer (Innsbruck): The Binary Gender Structure as (Re)Construction of Law

Betina Aumair (Vienna): Intersections of Gender and Disability – Gender Aspects in Current Austrian Disability Laws

11.00 Coffee Break

11.30 Final discussion: Moderation Karin Gottschalk (Frankfurt/M.)

12.00 Next Conference

Kontakt

Ellinor Forster, Institute for History and European Ethnology, University of Innsbruck
ellinor.forster@uibk.ac.at

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