Events

Feb
05
David Bell - Napoléon Bonaparte, Simón Bolívar, and the Modeling of Charisma
4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
Davis Center Works in Progress
Feb
07
Satyel Larson - The Gendered Subject of Violence: Risk, Responsibility, and the Force of Islamic Law in Contemporary Morocco
10:15 AM to 12:00 PM
Davis Center Seminar
Feb
14
Mary Mitchell - Law and Nuclear Weapons Testing in Postwar Oceania
10:15 AM to 12:00 PM
Davis Center Seminar
Feb
21
Judith Surkis - Children, Development, and International Law in Decolonization
10:15 AM to 12:00 PM
Davis Center Seminar
Feb
25
Vera Candiani - Peasants and Commons; Liberals and Communists: A View from the Americas
4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
Davis Center Works in Progress
Feb
28
Malachi Crawford - U.S. Courts and African-American Free Speech in the Nation of Islam
10:15 AM to 12:00 PM
Davis Center Seminar
Mar
03
Sean Wilentz - The Political Origins of American Antislavery
4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
Davis Center Works in Progress
Mar
06
Thomas Duve - Global Legal History: Goals and Methods
10:15 AM to 12:00 PM
Davis Center Seminar
Mar
06
Global Legal Histories Workshop
10:15 AM to 5:00 PM
Mar
10
Modern Europe Workshop - “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: Family and Legal Ties Between France and Algeria after Decolonization”
4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
Modern Europe Workshop
Mar
13
Iryna Vushko - Imperial Golgotha: Political Prison in the Habsburg Empire
10:15 AM to 12:00 PM
Davis Center Seminar
Mar
27
Sarah L. H. Gronningsater - Poor Law, Slave Law, and the Golden Rule: Quaker Antislavery and the Early Modern Origins of Gradual Abolition Policy
10:15 AM to 12:00 PM
Davis Center Seminar
Apr
03
Eve Krakowski - Early Medieval Judaism and the Rabbinic Courts of Fustat
10:15 AM to 12:00 PM
Davis Center Seminar
Apr
10
Rohit De - Rebellious Lawyers and the Jurisprudence of Decolonization
10:15 AM to 12:00 PM
Davis Center Seminar
Apr
14
Book Talk: "Capital and Ideology" by Thomas Piketty
4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
Apr
17
Thomas McSweeney - Rights in Medieval England
10:15 AM to 12:00 PM
Davis Center Seminar
Apr
21
Katja Guenther - Who's That in the Mirror? Self-Recognition and the Question of Human Specificity
4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
Davis Center Works in Progress
Apr
24
Adam Clulow and Xing Hang - The Limits and Boundaries of Our Realm: War and Law in Seventeenth-Century Maritime Asia
10:15 AM to 12:00 PM
Davis Center Seminar
May
01
Margot Canaday - Trouble Came with Revolutionary Action: Gay Liberation and Work
10:15 AM to 12:00 PM
Davis Center Seminar
May
04
Maya Jasanoff: Part One, Lawrence Stone Lecture
4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
Lawrence Stone Lectures