Varied workshop programme in summer
In the summer semester, the Käte Hamburger Kolleg is organising three academic workshops with international participation. The programme focuses on the relationship between law and space, human rights activism in Southeast Europe and pre-modern procedures.
The workshop Geographies of Law in the Age of Late Liberalism: Emergent Perspectives for the Study of Space and Legal Regimes on 20 and 21 June 2024 is organised by the legal anthropologist Sandra Brunnegger (former EViR Fellow/Cambridge) and the anthropologist Juan Pablo Vera Lugo (Bogotá). Using case studies from around the world, it will explore the methodological dimensions of the study of socio-spatial legal regimes and illustrate the close entanglement of law, power, knowledge and space.
The workshop Notes from the Margins: Human-Rights Related Activism, Advocacy, and Humanitarianism in Southeast Europe on 27 and 28 June will focus on the practical application of human rights in the context of activism and humanitarian engagement. Organised by anthropologist Dorothea Schulz (Münster Fellow in 2022) and Junior Fellow Kostadin Karavasilev, it brings together researchers, activists and advocates. The aim is to show the connection between local action and pursuits for political change, that draw on transnational human rights discourses.
On 4 and 5 July, the workshop Vormoderne Verfahren und Prozesse des Aushandelns: Perspektiven und Potenziale einer Unterscheidung, organised by Junior Fellow Vera Teske and Kolleg Director Ulrike Ludwig, will deal with methodological questions of early modern research. "Negotiation process" has become an undifferentiated collective term that can be used to summarise almost all forms of interaction and communication that lack a clear structure. The workshop aims to determine its interpretative potential for making compromises in the premodern period and its relationship to premodern procedures.