Veranstaltungsreihen

Das Seminar “Methoden der Rechtsgeschichte” dient der Diskussion von Methoden und Praktiken rechtshistorischer Forschung. Es findet in unterschiedlichen Sprachen statt und ist offen für Mitarbeitende und Gäste des MPI. mehr

Das Seminar ist zu einem festen Forum für die Diskussion von Forschungsprojekten unter Kolleg^*innen en geworden. Es ist auch ein Raum für die Integration von Stipendiat^*innen und Gästen, die ihre eigenen Projekte vorstellen und unsere zentralen Fragen diskutieren. Zusätzlich zu den monatlichen Forschungspräsentationen und wöchentlichen Treffen etablieren wir unter anderem neue Diskussionsformate wie Filmvorführungen und Lunch-Sessions. mehr

The workshop series focuses on the global circulation of a technique (rather than a concept) known as ‘custom’, which has continued to develop since early modern legal practices. This technique is dedicated to employing a collaboration of bureaucratic knowledge and legal knowledge to register, investigate and ultimately ‘discover’ the normative ‘nature’ or ‘general spirit’ of different regions, thus weaving a mosaic of legal traditions. Legist-ethnographers monopolised the legitimacy to define the nature and expected behaviours of the surveyed subjects, effectively using empirical knowledge to establish normativity and transform empirical knowledge into normative knowledge. These legist-ethnographers may include jurists, judges, missionaries, moral theologians, legislators and legal historians. mehr

For several years at the Department Historical Regimes of Normativity, various research groups and personal research projects have been actively integrating the methods offered by the Digital Humanities into their theoretical research perspectives and activities. The permanent seminar Legal History Meets Digital Humanities intends to provide a space for discussion and in-depth analysis of the numerous themes, techniques and challenges Digital Humanities offers to historical research, in particular to legal history. mehr

The Research Colloquium offers a space to discuss current research. It is held monthly during the academic year. Researchers are invited to present their current work, followed by a discussion that will focus especially on the methods of global legal history. The Research Colloquium is open to the public. mehr

Over the years, the department Historical Regimes of Normativitiy has developed various perspectives, methods, and themes regarding global legal history, and conducted glocalized case studies distributed across Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe. From this starting point, we seek to continue an ongoing dialogue on some intersecting global legal history topics (e.g., rites controversies) to transcend boundaries of our individual nations, epistemologies, and traditions, engaging in continual exchanges situated within entangled historical contexts and future expectations. mehr

Das Kolloquium des Akademieprojekts „Die Schule von Salamanca. Eine digitale Quellensammlung und ein Wörterbuch ihrer juristisch-politischen Sprache“ beschäftigt sich mit der Schule als Phänomen globaler Wissensproduktion, außerdem mit der Konzeption des im Projekt zu erarbeitenden Wörterbuchs sowie den Herausforderungen einer digitalen Edition im Umfeld der Digital Humanities-Community. mehr