The Käte Hamburger Kolleg's event programme for the 2025/2026 winter semester has been published. In addition to the ceremonial opening of the Kolleg's second funding phase, numerous ‘Tea Time Talks’ and interdisciplinary discussions are planned as part of two concept forums.

For the academic year 2026/27, the Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Einheit und Vielfalt im Recht | Legal Unity and Pluralism” (EViR) at the University of Münster invites applications for fellowships for projects in the fields of history, law and legal history for 6 to 12 months. The final date for applications is 15 October.

A new volume on sorcery and jurisdiction in early modern Angola has been published in the Käte Hamburger Kolleg series. João Figueiredo uses Angola as an example to examine the encounter between two normative worlds in West-Central Africa.

A new volume has been published in the open access series EViR Working Papers, in which Sophia Mösch examines the hitherto lesser-considered conceptual framework of worldly rule in Augustine's De civitate Dei (The City of God). The paper opens up new perspectives on the role of political advice in the Carolingian Empire and the interplay between divine and secular law.