Events

Wednesday, 7 October 2026, 17.00

At the Welcome Evening, Prof. Dr Sarah Albiez-Wieck will give the keynote lecture ‘Legal categorisations and petitions in the Spanish Empire’.

Thursday, 15 October 2026, 17.00

We warmly invite you to our official semester opening. Have a chat with our new fellows and learn about their research projects.

Monday, 26 October 2026, 17.00

We warmly invite you to the launch of the book ‘The Spanish Empire: A Global History (c. 1478–1975)’ by Sarah Albiez-Wieck, Raquel Gil Montero and Xosé M. Núñez Seixas.

Friday, 30 October 2026, 9.00–17.15

Legal transfer is usually understood as a collective undertaking, while individuals have rarely been placed at the centre of analysis. The workshop proposes a shift in ...

Patchwork, Regenbogen und Co. im Fokus des Familienrechts 

Tuesday, 24. November 2026, 18.00 – 19.30
The lecture will be held in German.

Spaces, Actors and Power Dynamics in Legal Knowledge Production on Interracial Marriages since 1900 to the present

Thursday, 26 November 2026, 9.00–16.00
This interdisciplinary workshop examines how legal knowledge on interracial marriages between Europe and the Global South ...

3.–4. December 2026

The forum is devoted to Olaf Zenker’s concept of Nomocidal Closure. Building on contemporary debates on epistemic violence, epistemicide and jurispathic law ...

Die Rückkehr des Kriegs und der Menschheitsverbrechen

Wednesday, 9 December 2026, 19.00
Nach einer Buchvorstellung durch den Autor Christoph Safferling folgt ein gemeinsames Gespräch mit Nora Markard und Ulrich Schneckener über seine Thesen.
The event will be held in German.