2025
16. April – 18. Juni
Tea Time Talks in summer semester 202511 June 2025
Lecture "Max M. Laserson (1887 - 1951) as an intermediary between legal cultures"22–23 May 2025
Workshop "Freedom and Mobility. Norms and Practices in Iberian Worlds"22–23 May 2025
Workshop "Freedom and Mobility. Norms and Practices in Iberian Worlds"7–9 April 2025
3rd Annual Conference"Ursachen für Vielfalt im Recht | Causes of Plurality in Law"3–4 April 2025
Welcome Days26–28 March 2025
Academic Conference "Ausnahme und Vielfalt im Recht seit der Französischen Revolution"17–21 March 2025
Material Entanglement and Normative Constellations: Atlantic and Indian Ocean Histories of Exchange and Exploitation (18th to 20th Centuries)4 February 2025
Konzeptforum Justiznutzung17 January 2025
Masterclass zum Bauernkrieg16 January 2025
Public discussion on the Peasants‘ War 1525
Event History
2024
21–22 November 2024
Workshop "The Dark Side of the Moon: Church Legal Regimes between Unity and Plurality (XVI-XVIII centuries)"
More details13–15 November 2024
Conference "Das antike römische Recht der Kodizille. Letztwillige Verfügungen im Imperium Romanum"
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22 October 2024
Workshop "Indigenous Law: Plural Pathways to Reclaiming Heritage"
More details21 October 2024
Presentation and public discussion "Orte des Rechts in Münster - früher und heute"
More details16 October 2024
Welcome Day
More details18 August 2024
Fellow Lecture
Prof. Dr. Ido Shahar
„The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Historical Background, Current Developments and Future Possibilities”19 July 2024
MS Wissenschaft - Dialog an Deck: "Stadtluft macht frei". Freiheitskonzepte im mittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen Münster
More details18 July 2024
MS Wissenschaft - Meet the Scientist
More details04–05 July 2024
Workshop "Vormoderne Verfahren und Prozesse des Aushandelns: Perspektiven und Potenziale einer Unterscheidung"
More details27–28 June 2024
Workshop "Notes from the Margins: Human-Rights Related Activism, Advocacy, and Humanitarianism in Southeast Europe"
More details20–21 June 2024
Workshop "Geographies of Law in the Age of Late Liberalism: Emergent Perspectives for the Study of Space and Legal Regimes"
More details15 May–17 July 2024
Tea Time Talks in summer semester 2024
More details29 April 2024
Welcome Day
More details29 April 2024
Panel Discussion "Auf dem Flickenteppich bleiben. Was der deutsche Föderalismus leistet - und wo seine Grenzen liegen"
More details22–23 February 2024
Workshop "Unity and Plurality in Canon Law between the Concil of Nicaea and the Decretum Gratiani"
More details8–9 February 2024
Workshop "The Forensics of Provenance: Colonial Translocations through the Lenses of Legal Pluralism"
More details2023
30 November–2- December 2023
Workshop "Consolidation of Law. Experiencing Ancient Documents"
More details21.–22. November 2023
Workshop "Variety of Legal Spaces in Ruthenian Lands of Poland-Lithuania during the Medieval and Early-Modern Times"
More details13. November 2023
Conceptual Forum "Normenkonkurrenz und kulturelle Ambiguität"
More details2.–3. November 2023
Workshop "The Power to Pardon in Medieval and Early Modern Christianity: Exceptions and Diversities"
More details19 October 2023
Welcome Day
More details12–13 October 2023
Conceptual Forum "Fraktalität"
More details25–27 September 2023
2nd Annual Conference of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Formen der Vereinheitlichung | Modes of Standardization"
More details7–9 September 2023
Conference "Ausnahme und Vielfalt im Recht der Vormoderne"
More details24–28 July 2023
EViR Summer School
"Gesellschaftliche Diversität und Recht im Alten Reich 1500–1800"
More details20 July 2023
Fellow Lecture
Prof. Dr. Olaf Zenker
"Land Restitution, Expropriation without Compensation and the Quest for Redistributive Justice in South Africa"
Watch lecture on YouTube22 June 2023
Gesprächsabend "Wie sicher ist der Frieden? Der Westfälische Friede als völkerrechtlicher Vertrag"
Watch Event on YouTube
More details25–26 May 2023
Workshop "Court Cases in African Archives"
More details20–21 April 2023
Workshop "Cultures, Sources and Ideas in the Traditions of Political Advice"
More details23–24 February 2023
International Symposium "Ancient Greek Law. Vectors of Local Idiosyncrasy and Unity"
More details12 January 2023
Fellow Lecture
Dr. Andrea Nicolas
"Law-making, and the New Democracies: Oromo (Neo-)Traditional Legislative and Juridical Procedures (Ethiopia)"
Poster2022
15–16 December 2022
Conceptual Forum "Normative Knowledge"
More details1 December 2022
Fellow Lecture
Prof. Dr. Mia Korpiola
"Harmonizing the Law in an Era of Greater Multiplicity: Sweden 1350-1750"
Watch lecture on YouTube
Poster25 November 2022
Workshop "What is a pluri-legal Perspective?" with Dr Ido Shahar (Haifa)
organised by Norbert Oberauer and Peter Oestmann17 November 2022
Fellow Lecture
Prof. Dr. Hans Beck
"Rechtsvielfalt als Norm. Beobachtungen zur lokalen Kodierung griechischen Rechts in der Antike"
Watch lecture on YouTube
Poster26 October 2022
Fellow Lecture
Prof. Dr. Dieter Gosewinkel
"Ausbürgern und töten. Zur Ausstoßung von "Staatsfeinden" aus der Rechtsgemeinschaft – ein Forschungsprojekt"
Poster13 October 2022
Fellow Lecture
Prof. Dr. Susanne Lepsius
"Unity Through Codification vs. Polyphonic Voices in the Glosses: Some Reflections on the Oldest Apparatus to the Constitutions of Melfi (1231 AD)"
Poster5–6 October 2022
Workshop "How to Ensure Predictability in Legal Pluralism. Northern Europe in the Later Middle Ages"
More details15–17 September 2022
1st Annual Conference of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: “Ausnahme und Vielfalt | Exception and Plurality”
More details6 September 2022
Workshop "Gesellschaftliche Diversität und Phänomene rechtlicher Einheit und Vielfalt in der vormodernen Stadt (II). Effekte konfessioneller und religiöser Vielfalt"
More details1–2 September 2022
Workshop "Narrating Europe's Pluralities: Unity, Diversity and Exceptionality"
More details7–9 July 2022
Conference „Ausnahme und Vielfalt im römischen Recht“
More details30 June 2022
Fellow Lecture
Prof. Dr. Peter Oestmann
"Rechtsvielfalt als Problem der Rechtsgeschichte"
Poster23 June 2022
Fellow Lecture
Prof. Dr. Eva Schlotheuber
"Neue methodische Zugänge zur Goldenen Bulle 1356 als erster schriftlichen Verfassung des römisch-deutschen Reichs"
Watch lecture on YouTube
Poster8-10 May 2022
7. Kolloquium zu Kriminalität und Strafjustiz in der Neuzeit
More details5 May 2022
Fellow Lecture
Prof. Dr. Dorothea Schulz
"Between Law, Bureaucracy and De Facto Politics: Studying the Regulation of 'Religion' in Uganda"
Watch lecture on YouTube
Poster28 April 2022
Fellow Lecture
Dr. Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz
"Ports, Law and Material Culture: Negotiating Commercial Practice in the Roman Empire"
Watch lecture on YouTube
Poster6-8 April 2022
Conference "Von Bußen und Strafen. Gerichtliche Verfolgung von Unrecht"
More details20 January 2022
Fellow Lecture
Prof. Dr. Patrick Sänger
"Legal Consultants in the Time of the Severan Dynasty (193-235 CE). Papyri and the Emperor's Law"
Watch lecture on YouTube
Poster2021
9 December 2021 | Thursday | 6.00 pm (CEST)
Fellow Lecture
Dr. Clara Harder
"Illegitimate clergy in the Middle Ages, or: How does an exception become the rule?"
Download Poster3 December 2021 | Friday | 3.00 pm (CEST)
Workshop "Gesellschaftliche Diversität und Phänomene rechtlicher Einheit und Vielfalt in der vormodernen Stadt (I): Handel als Faktor"
More details25 November 2021 | Thursday | 7.30 pm (CEST)
Fellow Lecture
Prof. Dr. Karl Ubl
"Aufstieg des Westens und Politische Theologie: Zwei Narrative der mittelalterlichen Rechtsgeschichte"
Download Poster28 October 2021 | Thursday | 6.00 pm (CEST)
Digital Fellow Lecture
Prof. Dr. David Bachrach
"Royal Courts in Salian Germany?"
Download Programme21 October 2021 | Thursday | 6.00 pm (CEST)
Digital Fellow Lecture
Dr. Sandra Brunnegger
"States of Uncertainty: Coordination, Legal Experimentation & Possible Futures in Colombia"
Download Programme14 October 2021 | Thursday | 6.00 pm (CEST)
Digital Fellow Lecture
Dr. Quentin Verreycken
"Forgiving at the Crossroads of Norms: The Power to Pardon in Late Medieval England and France"
Download Programme7 October 2021 | Thursday | 6.00 pm (CEST)
Digital Fellow Lecture
PD Dr. Gregor Rohmann
"Pirates in the North? The “Vitalian Brothers” between Fact and Fiction"
Download Programme23 September 2021 | Thursday | 6.00 pm (CEST)
Digital Fellow Lecture
Prof. Dr. Dr. Eyal Katvan
"An Exceptionally Exceptional Exception: Family Litigation in Mandatory Palestine Communal-Informal Tribunals"
Download Programme16 September 2021 | Thursday | 6.00 pm (CEST)
Digital Fellow Lecture
Prof. Dr. Kay Peter Jankrift
"Johann Nicolaus Pfizer’s (1634-1674) »Vernünfftiges Wunden-Urtheil« and the Role of Medical Practitioners in Criminal Proceedings in Nuremberg (17th-18th century)"
Download Programme9 September 2021 | Thursday | 6.00 pm (CEST)
Digital Fellow Lecture
Dr. Sebastian M. Spitra
"Negotiating Pluralism Transnationally in 19th Century’s Private International Law"
Download Programme2 September 2021 | Thursday | 6.00 pm (CEST)
Digital Fellow Lecture
Prof. Dr. Mirjam Künkler
"Legal Pluralism in the Post-Colony"
Download Programme8 July 2021 | Thursday | 4.00-8.00 pm (CEST)
Introduction Day
The new fellows introduce themselves and their research projects.
internal Zoom event1 July 2021 | Thursday | 7.00-8.30 pm (CEST)
Welcome Day
The Kolleg welcomes the new fellows and presents the research agenda, event programme and staff.
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