Workshop programme in the summer semester 2025
The programme of events of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg for the summer semester 2025 has been published. In addition to the Kolleg's annual conference, the programme includes two workshops dealing with legal developments in the Iberian world and the Islamic world as well as India.
The 3rd Annual Conference of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg from 7 to 9 April 2025, entitled ‘Causes of Plurality in Law’, will focus on the reasons for the fragmentation of law in spatial, personal and temporal terms. The conference is organised by EViR Directors Ulrike Ludwig and Peter Oestmann (both Münster) and brings together numerous international researchers from various disciplines. The discussion will focus on the relationship between social diversity and legal plurality, political and religious demarcations and legal plurality in empires.
From 22 to 23 May 2025, the Kolleg will host the workshop ‘Freedom and Mobility. Norms and Practices in Iberian Worlds', organised by the historians Raquel Gil Montero (Mendoza) and Sarah Albiez-Wieck (Münster). It will address the degrees of freedom enjoyed by those ordinary people who were subject to a lord or master. Participants will also discuss the role of mobility and migration.
Finally, historian Kaveh Yazdani (Connecticut) will organise the workshop ‘Capitalism, Modernity and the Legal History of Precolonial India’ from 27 to 28 May 2025. It will analyse the relationships between law, capitalism and modernity in pre-colonial India and the Islamic world.
In addition, the Kolleg will also be organising a series of lectures and public discussions in the summer semester 2025.