Law, Empire, and Global Intellectual History

The conference aims at bringing together international scholars from various disciplines into a two-day discussion forum. It will chart the ways in which future areas of legal-historical research can be informed by critical perspectives derived from the discipline of global intellectual history. The assumption is that this nascent academic field can offer new methodologies for studying the transnationally-constructed and globally-entangled emergence of fundamental legal concepts that inform juridical, social, political, economic, and religious frameworks today. Taking a cue from broader debates on transculturality carried out at the Cluster of Excellence 'Asia and Europe' in Heidelberg University, this conference hopes to bring scholars together to analyze the multi-sited origins of legal-conceptual foundations that inform present-day debates.

More information:
http://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/termine-29839

Deadline for CFP: 30 January 2016