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