CURRICULUM VITAE

Julia Bühner studied German and History at the University of Münster. Since 2018 she is Research Assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Martin Kintzinger. From 2018 to 2022 she was doctoral scholar of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes). In 2022 she received her doctorate in Medieval History. Her dissertation dealt with the international legal aspects of the conquest of the Canary Islands. The book will be published in 2024 in the series "Studien zur europäischen Rechtsgeschichte" of the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory.

RESEARCH

Research interests

• history of the Canary Islands
• School of Salamanca
• new approaches to the history of conquest and expansion
• global / international turn
• history of international law and international relations
• reception history: Spain in the 19th and 20th century

Organization of academic events

2021

Durham-Münster Workshop for doctoral students of the Universities Münster and Durham (UK), together with Helen Roche and Jacob Wiebel (via Zoom)

Forschung for Future. A colloquium organized by doctoral students for doctoral students, together with Anne Kluger

2020

Durham-Münster Workshop for doctoral students of the Universities Münster and Durham (UK), together with Helen Roche and Jacob Wiebel (via Zoom)

2019

Durham-Münster Workshop for doctoral students of the Universities Münster and Durham (UK) (at the University of Münster)

TEACHING

Summer term 2023

Seminar for Master's students together with Prof. Dr. Martin Kintzinger: Medieval Expansion in a Global World. Other Perspectives on the History of Expansion

Winter term 2022/2023

Seminar for Bachelor's students: Was Charles the Great really a Great Guy? Different perspectives on the most famous ruler of the Middle Ages

Tutorial: The "Global Turn" and the Middle Ages

Winter term 2021/2022

Tutorial: Cannibals and Idolaters. The "Savages" of the Middle Ages between Reality and Imagination

Winter term 2020/2021

Tutorial: Economy and Health in Conflict: Measures to Combat Epidemics in the Middle Ages

Winter term 2019/2020

Seminar for Bachelor's students: Continuities and Discontinuities: The 15th Century as the "Autumn of the Middle Ages"?

Publications

Papers

In preparation:

Die Señores der Kanarischen Inseln: Herrschaft zwischen Fragilitätsinszenierungen und Stabilitätsbestrebungen, in: Fragile Fürstenherrschaft im spätmittelalterlichen Europa, ed. by Klara Hübner and Martin Kintzinger, Herbsttagung des Konstanzer Arbeitskreises für mittelalterliche Geschichte.

Añadir un nuevo capítulo a la Historia del Derecho Internacional: La conquista de las Islas Canarias (1402-1496), prácticas y discursos, Kolloquiumsakten des XXV Coloquio de Historia Canario-Americana.

Menceyes und Guanartemes: Zur Rolle indigener Eliten bei der Eroberung des Kanarischen Archipels (1402-1496), in: Monarchische Herrschaftswechsel des Spätmittelalters im Vergleich. Aushandlungen – Akteure – Ambivalenzen, ed. by Wolfgang Huschner and Sven Jaros (= Europa im Mittelalter).

Published:

Furchtlos vor der Macht des Schicksals. Die Wiederentdeckung der ‚Insulae Fortunatae‘ im Spätmittelalter, in: Eroberte im Mittelalter. Umbruchssituationen erleben, bewältigen, gestalten, ed. by Andreas Bihrer and Rike Szill (= Europa im Mittelalter 39), Berlin/Boston 2023, pp. 267-294.

Histories Hidden in the Shadow: Vitoria and the International Ostracism of Francoist Spain, in: Politics and the Histories of International Law. The Quest for Knowledge and Justice, ed. by Raphael Schäfer und Anne Peters, Leiden/Boston 2021 (= Legal History Library 50), pp. 377-401.

Histories Hidden in the Shadow: Vitoria and the International Ostracism of Francoist Spain, in: Journal of the History of International Law 22 (2020), pp. 421-445.

Online articles

New Histories of International Law. The Conquest of the Canary Islands (1402–1496), in: Ibero-Mediaevistik. Mittelalterforschung zur Iberischen Halbinsel, published November 13th 2019 (https://iberome.hypotheses.org/69).

Conference Proceedings Historikertag 2018: Division se mist entre eulx. Politische Spaltungen im spätmittelalterlichen Europa. 25.09.2018–28.09.2018, Münster, in: H-Soz-Kult, online: https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-8022.

Conference Proceedings Historikertag 2018: „Bürgerkriege“ im Spätmittelalter: Frankreich, England, die burgundischen Niederlande, Katalonien und Neapel. Vergleichende Perspektiven. 25.09.2018–28.09.2018, Münster, in: H-Soz-Kult, online: https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-7974.

Conference Proceedings together with Marcel Bubert and Pia Döring: „Ich weiß nicht, wer wahr sagt, wer lügt“. Fake News und ihre kulturelle Aushandlung im europäischen Mittelalter. 01.07.2021–02.07.2021, Münster (digital), in: H-Soz-Kult, online: https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-127594.