Thursday, 1 September 2022
10.00 am
Peter Oestmann and Ulrike Ludwig (EViR Directors)
Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz and Zoe C. Jay (Organisers) - Welcome notes
10.15 am Keynote
Sebastian M. Spitra: An Archaeology of European Legal Pluralism: Geography, Identity, Narratives
11.00 am Coffee break
Session 1: Unity – What Have the Ancient Ever Done for Us?
Chair: Gregor Albers
11.30 am
Jacob Giltaij: Separating the Universal and the Local: Ideas of Subsidiarity in Classical Roman Law?
12.00 am
Marian Helm: Enabling Consensus: The Legislation of the Early Roman Republic
12.30 am
Matthias Sandberg: Riding the Bull: Europe between Orient and Occident
1.00 pm Lunch break
Session 2: Diversity – Narratives and Interaction
Chair: Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz
2.00 pm
Jan Matthias Hoffrogge: How is the History of the European Union presented in European Schoolbooks?
2.30 pm
Ville Erkkilä: On Continuity and Change in a Socialist Dictatorship. A Conceptual History of Law and Morals in the GDR
3.00 pm
Ville Suuronen: German Legal Science against Received Roman Law? Reflections on the Banality of Evil and Fascist Legal History
3.30 pm Coffee break
Session 3: Exceptionality – The World of Beliefs
Chair: Pamela Slotte
4.00 pm
Zoe Charlotte Jay: Competing Visions of Subsidiarity: Diversity and Responsibility in the European Human Rights System
4.30 pm
Marianne Sandelin: The Paradox of Pluralism and Universalism: Joseph de Maistre’s Critique of the Enlightenment
5.00 pm
Ville Louekari: Ernst Bloch and Counternarratives of Natural Law
7.00 pm Dinner
Friday, 2 September 2022
10.00 am Keynote
Stefania Gialdroni: Unity, Diversity or Exceptionality? The Enigma of the Medieval Lex Mercatoria
10.45 am Coffee break
Session 4: Unity – Narratives and their Controversial Origins
Chair: Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz
11.30 am
Kaius Tuori: Roman Law and the European Pasts
12.00 am
Benjamin Seebröker: Homicide Rates in Europe and the Myth of a Long-Term Decline
12.30 am
Quentin Verreycken: The Legal Heritage of the Power to Pardon in Europe: Not One but Many
1.00 pm Lunch break
Session 5: Diversity – Universal Values, Divergent Realities and Integration
Chair: Sophia Mösch
2.00 pm
Karolina Stenlund: Legal Pluralism and the Lack of a Legislator’s Will: The Case of Genocide Denial
2.30 pm
Kostadin Karavasilev: Using Human Rights to Challenge Legal Incapacitation of People with Mental Illnesses and Intellectual Disabilities in Bulgaria
3.00 pm
Lena Klos: Narratives of Dependence: Kingdom of Westphalia and the French Empire
3.30 pm Coffee break
Session 6: Exceptionality – Intersectional Identities and Narratives across Boundaries
Chair: Zoe Charlotte Jay
4.00 pm
Reetta Toivanen: History of a Unified Europe: Shared History Means Sustainable (and Safe) Future?
4.30 pm
Clara Harder: From Coercion to Consent? Medieval Perspectives on the European Marriage Pattern
5.00 pm
Tuukka Brunila: Narrating State Sovereignty
5.30 pm
Final discussion and closure
Concluding remarks by the organisers