Talks and Lectures

Summer semester 2026 | Tea Time Talks

There will be no Tea Time Talks during the summer semester of 2026.
The fellows will present their projects during the Welcome Days. In addition, several reading sessions will take place. 

Winter semester 2025/2026 | Tea Time Talks

Programme

15. Oktober 2025 | Constanţa Vintilă
Foreign Subjects and Protégés in Court: Administering Justice in Modern Southeastern Europe, 1774-1830

22. Oktober 2025 | Joanna Simonow
Transnational Legal Landscapes of Cross-border Marriages: Examining Marriage Migration between South Asia and Europe ‘from Below’, c. 1914–1945

29. Oktober 2025 | Evgenia Kermeli 
Unity and Plurality in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: The Compilation of Non-Muslim Custom and its Use in Multiple Legal Spaces

12. November 2025 | Tim Neu
The Paymaster Multiple. Frühneuzeitliche Amtsträger zwischen Rechtsvielfalt und ständischer Praxis

10. Dezember 2025 | Jan-Hendryk de Boer 
The legal, intellectual and social conditions of Averroism from the 13th to the 15th century. Some preliminary observations

17. Dezember 2025 | Fernando Liendo-Tagle 
‘Under the Shadow of potestas’. Legal Capacity and Personal Status: A Fraught Relationship between Unity and Plurality. An Historical and Comparative Analysis of Legal Personhood (19th and Early 20th century)

18. Dezember 2025 | Gunnar Seelentag
Conflict Regulation in Early Greece

Summer semester 2025 | Tea Time Talks

Programme

16 April 2025 | Kostadin Karavasilev (EViR)
Global Rights, Local Applications: Doing Disability and LGBTQIA+ Activism and Advocacy in Bulgaria

23 April 2025 | Lena Klos (EViR)
Gedanken und Modelle zur Etablierung von Einheit unter den Rechtsanwälten im Königreich Westphalen (1807–1813)

18 June 2025 | Vera Teske (EViR)
Was ist ein Rechtsraum - und wenn ja, wie viele? Zum Umgang mit Rechtszersplitterung in der frühneuzeitlichen Stadt

Winter semester 2024/2025 | Tea Time Talks

Programme

06 November 2024 | Sophia Mösch (EViR)
Evolving Principles of Governance: Political Advice and Moral Frameworks in Dynastic Texts

04 December 2024 | Norbert Oberauer (Münster/EViR-Fellow)
Cohesion in a Non-Centralized Legal Discourse: The Islamic Schools of Law

22 January 2025 | Sebastian M. Spitra (Vienna/EViR)
On Colonialism, Cultural Heritage, the Habsburg Empire and What All This as to do with Legal Pluralism

Please also have a look at the fellow presentations on Welcome Day (16 October 2024).

Summer semester 2024 | Tea Time Talks

Programme

15 May 2024 | João Figueiredo (EViR)

12 June 2024 | Benjamin Seebröker (EViR)

19 June 2024 | Sophia Mösch (EViR)
The date has been cancelled. We will announce a catch-up date soon.

03 July 2024 | Claudia Lieb (EViR)

17 July 2024 | Daniel Witte (Bonn/EViR Fellow)

Please also have a look at the fellow presentations on Welcome Day (29 April 2024).

Winter semester 2023/2024 | Tea Time Talks

29 November 2023 | Yurii Zazuliak (Lviv/EViR Fellow)

17 January 2024 | Ferdinando Mazzarella (Palermo/EViR Fellow)

Summer semester 2023 | Fellow Lectures

Thu, 20.07.2023 | Olaf Zenker (Halle-Wittenberg)
„Land Restitution, Expropriation without Compensation and the Quest for Redistributive Justice in South Africa“

Venue: Käte Hamburger Kolleg (Iduna Building) | Servatiiplatz 9 | 48143 Münster
Start: 6.15 pm

Winter semester 2022/2023 | Fellow Lectures

Programme

Thu, 13.10.2022 | Susanne Lepsius (LMU Munich)
Unity Through Codification vs. Polyphonic Voices in the Glosses: Some Reflections on the Oldest Apparatus to the Constitutions of Melfi (1231 AD)

Wed, 26.10.2022 | Dieter Gosewinkel (WZB Berlin Social Science Center)
Ausbürgern und töten. Zur Ausstoßung von "Staatsfeinden" aus der Rechtsgemeinschaft – ein Forschungsprojekt
(at the same time: Rechtshistorisches Abendgespräch (Legal History Evening Talk), start: 7.30 pm, in lecture hall JUR 2, Juridicum)

Thu, 17.11.2022 | Hans Beck (University of Münster)
Rechtsvielfalt als Norm. Beobachtungen zur lokalen Kodierung griechischen Rechts in der Antike

Thu, 01.12.2022 | Mia Korpiola (University of Turku)
Dealing with Growing Diversity: Swedish Dynastic Change, Diplomacy and the Law, 1520-1620

Thu, 12.01.2023 | Andrea Nicolas (Käte Hamburger Kolleg Münster)
Law-making, and the New Democracies: Oromo (Neo-)Traditional Legislative and Juridical Procedures (Ethiopia)

Wed, 25.01.2023 | Kaja Harter-Uibopuu (University of Hamburg)     DATE CANCELLED!
Fremde und ihr Zugang zu den Gerichten in der griechischen Polis: lokale Modelle, gemeinsame Perspektiven
(in cooperation with Altertumswissenschaftliches Forschungskolloquium, in lecture hall F4, Fürstenberghaus)

Venue: Lecture hall DPL 23.102 (Philosophikum) | Domplatz 23 | 48143 Münster
Start: 6.15 pm

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Summer semester 2022 | Fellow Lectures

Programme

28.04.2022 | Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz (University of Helsinki)
Ports, Law and Material Culture: Negotiating Commercial Practice in the Roman Empire

05.05.2022 | Dorothea Schulz (University of Münster)
Between Law, Bureaucracy and De Facto Politics: Studying the Regulation of “Religion” in Uganda

23.06.2022 | Eva Schlotheuber (University of Düsseldorf)
Neue methodische Zugänge zur Goldenen Bulle 1356 als erster schriftlichen Verfassung des römisch-deutschen Reichs

POSTPONED !!! | Susanne Lepsius (LMU Munich)
Vereinheitlichung durch Gesetz und Vielfalt der Perspektiven in der Glossierung am Beispiel der Konstitutionen von Melfi (1231)

NEW: 30.06.2022 | Peter Oestmann (University of Münster)
Rechtsvielfalt als Problem der Rechtsgeschichte

Venue: Lecture hall JO 1 | Johannisstraße 4 | 48143 Münster
Start: 6.00 pm c.t.

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Fellow Lecture by Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz on 28 April 2022

Fellow Lecture by Dorothea Schulz on 5 May 2022

Fellow Lecture by Eva Schlotheuber on 23 June 2022

Winter Semester 2021/2022 | Fellow Lectures

The winter semester marks the launch of the first public lecture series ("Abendvorträge") of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg. The lectures take a look at very different phenomena of the tension between legal unity and plurality from Roman antiquity to the late Middle Ages.

Fellows and members of the Kolleg as well as guest speakers will contribute to the event. The lectures impressively show how societies at all times have been shaped by legal pluralism. It can occur as contradictions between norms, as competition between different jurisdictions, or as unequal treatment of individuals. At the same time, we can usually observe efforts to limit and standardize plurality. Under the theme "Exception and Plurality," this year's focus is on the question of how the inherent tension between unity and plurality corresponds to the relationship between rule and exception.

Format

!!! There have been changes in the event format !!!

The lecture series will take place both on-site (with 2G proof) and via Zoom. For online participation, register at wiko.evir@uni-muenster.de.

Programme

25.11.2021 | 7.30 – 9.00 pm
Karl-Bender-Saal (JUR 322, Juridicum) | Universitätsstraße 14-16 | 48143 Münster
Prof. Dr. Karl Ubl (Köln)
Aufstieg des Westens und Politische Theologie: Zwei Narrative der mittelalterlichen Rechtsgeschichte
(at the same time: 30. Rechtshistorisches Abendgespräch)

09.12.2021 | 6.00 – 7.30 pm
Lecture Hall F2 (Fürstenberghaus) | Domplatz 20-22 | 48143 Münster
and via Zoom
Dr. Clara Harder (Münster/Köln)
Illegitimate Clergy in the Middle Ages, or: How does an Exception become the Rule?

20.01.2021 | 6.00 – 7.30 pm
Lecture Hall F2 (Fürstenberghaus) | Domplatz 20-22 | 48143 Münster
and via Zoom
Prof. Dr. Patrick Sänger (Münster)
Legal Consultants in the Time of the Severan Dynasty (193–235 CE). Papyri and the Emperor’s Law

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Fellow Lecture by Patrick Sänger on 20 January 2022