Law, Empire, and Global Intellectual History

Law, Empire, and Global Intellectual History

Veranstalter
Dr. Kerstin von Lingen, JRG "Transcultural Justice", Exzellenzcluster "Asia and Europe in a Global Context", Heidelberg
Veranstaltungsort
Heidelberg
Ort
Heidelberg
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
20.06.2016 - 22.06.2016
Deadline
30.01.2016
Von
Dr. Kerstin von Lingen

In the last few years, the domain of global intellectual history has emerged as one of the most exciting and debated fields of academic research. Nevertheless, there exists a relative desideratum in terms of bringing studies of law and empire together in relation to global intellectual history, and of examining, from transnational and transcultural perspectives, the relationships between legally-oriented ideological structures and changing notions of state sovereignty, economic production, and selfhood.
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 aims at bringing together international scholars from various disciplines into a two-day discussion forum. It 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.
We invite papers from emerging as well as advanced scholars. Three main panels have been planned for the moment, but contributions are also welcome from themes outside these.
Panel I: Sovereign States, Rule of Law, and Violence: Rethinking Legal Idioms
Panel II: Law, Economic Production, and Global Intellectual History
Panel III: Transnational Constitutionalisms, Imperial Residues, and Postcolonial Statehood
A thematic issue of a journal is planned as publication out-come of this conference.
Deadline: January 30th, 2016.

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Kerstin von Lingen

Exzellenzcluster "Asia and Europe in a Global Context", Vossstr. 2/4400, 69115 Heidelberg

lingen@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de

http://www.transcultural-justice.uni-hd.de
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