Law, Empire, and Global Intellectual History

Law, Empire, and Global Intellectual History

Veranstalter
JRG "Transcultural Justice" (A 16), Dr. Kerstin von Lingen, Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context", in collaboration with Assistant Professor Milinda Banerjee, Presidency University, Kolkata
Veranstaltungsort
Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg (IWH), Hauptstr. 242, Heidelberg
Ort
Heidelberg
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
19.06.2016 - 21.06.2016
Deadline
15.06.2016
Von
Dr. Kerstin von Lingen

Legal concepts have served as fundamental tools in re-shaping power relations, in normativizing imperial structures as well as in challenging and destabilizing them. Law has offered an intellectual framework for positing new concepts of civilization, ethics, rights, and resilience, in constructing new kinds of individual as well as social selves. The mutual entanglements of legal ideas, imperial power relations, and globalized encounters therefore constitute a key site of interrogation through which one can study the emergence of the world today, while also imagining sites of radical resistance and transformation. This conference will address such issues, raising questions that also have a broader extra-academic ethical and political significance.
The conference will chart the ways in which future areas of legal-historical research can be informed by critical perspectives derived from the discipline of global intellectual history. The assumption is that this nascent academic field can offer new methodologies for studying the transnationally-constructed and globally-entangled emergence of fundamental legal concepts that inform juridical, social, political, economic, and religious frameworks today. Taking a cue from broader debates on transculturality carried out at the Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe’ in Heidelberg University, this conference hopes to bring scholars together to analyze the multi-sited origins of legal-conceptual foundations that inform present-day debates.

Programm

Conference “Law, Empire, and Global Intellectual History”
Program
SUNDAY, JUNE 19, 2016:
18.00: Introduction-Conceptual remarks by the organizers Kerstin von LINGEN AND Milinda BANERJEE (HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY/ PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY)
18.20: Opening Speech by Andrew SARTORI (NEW YORK):
Property, Law, and the Histories of Muslim Freedom in Bengal
MONDAY, JUNE 20, 2016:
9.00-12.00:Panel I: Ordering the World through Law: From the Early Modern to the Contemporary
09.00-09.25am
Philip STERN (DUKE UNIVERSITY):
‘A Radical Vice in the System of Government’: Law, Empire, and the Nineteenth-Century Colonial Corporation.
09.25-09.50am
Matthew NELSON (SOAS LONDON):
Religious Freedom and Public Order: Tracing a Familiar Constitutional Tension in Two Islamic States
09.50-10.30
COFFEE BREAK
10.30-10.55
Roni WEINSTEIN (HEBREW UNIVERSITY JERUSALEM):
The Formation of Modern Jewish Law in the Early Modern Period: A Global Perspective
10.55-11.20
Discussion
12.00-14.00
LUNCH BREAK
14.00 - 17.00:Panel II: Legal Normativities and Globalized Confrontations
14.00-14.25
Milinda BANERJEE (PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA):
Sovereignty as a Motor of Global Conceptual Travel: Sanskritic Translations of ‘Law’ in Bengali Discursive Production
14.25-14.50
Kerstin von LINGEN (HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY):
Civilizing Warfare? The Hague Conferences and the Emergence of ‘Humanity’ as a New Paradigm of Transnational Legal Thought
14.50-15.30
COFFEE BREAK
15.30-15.55
Dirk MOSES (UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY):
Genocide as a Globally Contested International Law
15.55-16.20
Discussion
TUDESAY, JUNE 21, 2016:
9.00-12.00: Panel III: Imperial Residues and the Emergence of Postcolonial Legal Worlds
09.00-09.25
Ivan SABLIN and Alexander SEMYONOV (HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, ST. PETERSBURG):
Diversity Management and the Russian Empire: Autonomy and Decentralization in the Global Imperial Crisis, 1905-1924
09.25-09.50
Barnaby CROWCROFT (HARVARD UNIVERSITY/ SOAS):
The First Struggle for Sovereignty: Decolonization in Britain’s Empire of Protectorates, 1945-1951
09.50-10.30
COFFEE BREAK
10.30-10.55
Mira SIEGELBERG (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY):
Post-Imperial Constitutions and International Legal Expertise (ca. 1947-62)
10.55-11.20
Sebastian Gehrig (Oxford University):
Dividing National Sovereignty? Cold War Re-configurations of German Sovereignty within the United Nations
11.20-12.00
Discussion
12.00-14.00
LUNCH BREAK
14.00-16.00: Panel IV: Law, Imperial Violence, and ‘Cultural’ Alterity
14.00-14.25
Ines EBEN VON RACKNITZ (NANJING UNIVERSITY):
International Law as “Civilizing Mission”? Lord Elgin’s Introduction of the Concept of “International Law” during the China Expedition of 1860
14.25-14.50
Kiri PARAMORE (LEIDEN UNIVERSITY):
The Culturalization of Liberalism in East Asian Intellectual History: Competition and Collaboration in Imperialist and Nativist Otherings of the East Asian Liberal
14.50-15.15
Discussion
15.15-16.00
COFFEE BREAK
16.00: Concluding debate
Registration possible upon written request until June 15 via lingen@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de
(Seats are limited, and Registration involves a modest fee)

Kontakt

Kerstin von Lingen

Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context", Vossstr. 2/4400, D - 69115 Heidelberg

lingen@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de

http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/a-governance-administration/a16-transcultural-justice.html
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