VACATURE (NL): Voltijds Pedagogisch Medewerker, Faculteit Recht en Criminologie (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, DEADLINE 31 MEI 2020)

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De faculteit Recht en Criminologie van de Vrije Universiteit Brussel zoekt een voltijds pedagogisch medewerker voor twee jaar (één keer hernieuwbaar) om mee de digitalisering van het onderwijsaanbod te ondersteunen en interactieve toepassingen uit te denken in samenspraak met de docenten. Een masterdiploma in een discipline die affiniteit vertoont met de opleidingen aan de faculteit is een vereiste. Affiniteit/ervaring met leeromgevingen als Canvas strekt tot aanbeveling.

De deadline is 31 mei 2020.

(le message étant destiné à des candidats néerlandophones ou maîtrisant le néerlandais à haut niveau, il n'est pas traduit en français)

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DIGITALISERING/NUMÉRISATION: Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience & Plantin-Moretus Museum: Google Books

Een grote hoeveelheid boeken uit de zestiende tot de negentiende eeuw worden de komende drie jaar gedigitaliseerd door Google Books. Omstreeks 85 000 werken zullen op die manier ontsloten worden voor een wereldwijd publiek en bewaard worden voor het nageslacht. 

(Bron/source: Stad Antwerpen)

Un grand nombre de livres du XVIe au XIXe siècle seront numérisés par Google Books. Environ 85 000 œuvres seront ainsi mises à la disposition d'un public mondial et conservées pour la postérité.

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Meer info/davantage d'informations: hier/ici.

ANNULATION ET REPORT/ANNULATIE EN UITSTEL: Lezing/conférence dr. Doz. dr. Miroslav Šedivý, 'The public response to international insecurity 1830–1848: The Europeans between the written law (Recht) and the law of the mightiest (Faustrecht)' - Elektronische AV/AG Electronique (21 APR 2020)

De Raad van Bestuur van Standen en Landen en de onderzoeksgroep CORE van de VUB moeten met spijt in het hart overgaan tot de annulatie en het uitstel van de lezing van Doz. dr. Miroslav Šedivý (Universiteit van West-Bohemen), gelet op de bewegingsbeperkende maatregelen die de overheid heeft genomen in het kader van de coronavirus-crisis.

De geplande Algemene Ledenvergadering voorzien voor 21 april 2020 gaat elektronisch door. Onze leden ontvangen hierover verder bericht.

Le conseil d'administration d'Anciens Pays et Assemblées d'États et le centre de recherches CORE de la VUB regrettent d'avoir à annuler et différer à une date ultérieure la conférence prévue du Doz. dr. Miroslav Šedivý (Université de Bohème occidentale), à cause des mesures de confinement prises dans le cadre de la crise du coronavirus.

L'Assemblée Générale prévue pour le 21 avril 2020 sera électronique. Nos membres en seront informés dans les délais convenables.

VACATURE/OUVERTURE DE POSTE: PhD-Position (The Rise of Public Law and the Re-Constitution of the Habsburg Netherlands ) - KULEUVEN (DEADLINE: 15 MEI/MAI 2020)

This PhD position is part of the interdisciplinary research project “Innovation through Education: Pioneering Change in Law and Theology in Louvain’s Golden Age”. The project is led by an interdisciplinary team of KU Leuven researchers consisting of LECTIO members Prof Wim Decock (Roman Law and Legal History, spokesperson), Prof Wouter Druwé (Roman Law and Legal History), Prof Randall Lesaffer (Roman Law and Legal History), Dr An Smets (KU Leuven Libraries) and Prof Violet Soen (Early Modern History), with the support of Prof Mark Depauw (Ancient History/Digital Humanities), Prof Wim François (History of Church and Theology) and Prof Jan Papy (Latin Literature). The successful candidate will be affiliated to the Department of Roman Law and Legal History at KU Leuven's Faculty of Law (https://www.law.kuleuven.be/romrecht/engels). For more information about LECTIO, please visit http://lectio.ghum.kuleuven.be/
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Project

The Dutch Revolt put questions of the constitutional and political order of the Netherlands at the centre of academic and public debate during early 17th century. The question of the international legitimacy of the Revolt spurred interest in the laws of war and peace. The secession of the northern provinces from the Habsburg conglomerate in the Netherlands fostered debate on the reconstitution of the Habsburg ‘state’ in the Southern Netherlands, first under the Archdukes Albert and Isabel (1598-1621), and then under the restored Spanish regime after Albert’s death. The Leuven faculty of secular law and its professors rose to the challenge of the reconstitution of the Habsburg state, with its implied need for legally-trained officials who were attuned to the changing context, by exploring novel pathways in the understanding and teaching of the learned, Roman law.  The project on two leading Leuven law professors from the early 17th century: Petrus Gudelinus (1550-1620) and Antonius Peresius (1583-1672). The research project aims to map and analyse three major innovations in the teaching and study of law. Firstly, in line with a wider European movement, the Leuven law professors pioneered the gradual emergence and gradual emancipation of public law, and its international pendant the law of nations, into autonomous legal categories. Secondly, it will be assessed whether and to what extent these Leuven law authors operated a theory and discourse of natural law as part of a strategy to define, defend or limit royal authority in relation to individual rights. Thirdly, there is the role of the influence of the humanist revival at Leuven on the Leuven jurisprudence to consider.

This vacancy is part of the large-scale project "Innovation through Education. Pioneering Change in Law and Theology during Leuven's Golden Age”, which will be conducted by 5 PhD students and their supervisors in the Faculties of Arts, Law and Theology. It investigates how Louvain professors in law and theology during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries adapted the content and methods of their teaching to the changing needs of society, in order to prepare the future elites for tackling the religious, political and economic challenges of their time. The source material consists of student notes that will be compared with printed material such as treatises and textbooks of the professors involved.

Profile

• You have a master's degree in law, history, Latin language and literature or equivalent, with excellent results. Students who will obtain their master’s degree in 2020 are invited to apply.

• You have an interest in the history of constitutional and international law.

• You are able to read printed and/or written historical sources from the new era.

• You have good Latin skills or are willing to brush them up.

• You have good paleographic skills or are willing to acquire them.

• You have a good command of modern languages (oral and written), especially of English, French, German and Italian. Knowledge of Spanish is an asset.

• You are prepared to carry out library and archive research in Belgium and abroad.  

• You are good at dealing with deadlines. 

• You are communicative, creative, cooperative and interdisciplinary, given the team-based character of the project. 

• You will be present at your office in Leuven several days a week.

Offer

The net amount of the scholarship will be approx. 2000 euro/month, depending on age, professional experience and family status; in addition, the fellowship provides for social and health benefits, office space and a benchfee for research expenses.

 Subject to positive evaluation after the first year and the second year, the scholarship has a total duration of 48 months (1+1+2).

The start date of the doctoral position is negotiable, but should not be later than 1 September 2020.

KU Leuven offers a wide variety of courses for PhD candidates, a minimum of which must be followed as part of the compulsory doctoral training program, the specific content of which may vary from one faculty to another.

The PhD candidates will benefit from a unique experience in an interdisciplinary environment with junior and senior experts in the fields of book history, digital humanities, history of law, history of church and theology, early modern history, religious history, and philology.

Interested?

For more information please contact Prof. dr. Randall Lesaffer, tel.: +32 16 32 53 32, mail: randall.lesaffer@kuleuven.be or Prof. dr. Wim Decock, tel.: +32 16 32 52 39, mail: wim.decock@kuleuven.be.

You can apply for this job no later than May 15, 2020 via the online application tool 

 

KU Leuven seeks to foster an environment where all talents can flourish, regardless of gender, age, cultural background, nationality or impairments. If you have any questions relating to accessibility or support, please contact us at diversiteit.HR@kuleuven.be.

Meer info/davantage d'informations: hier/ici.

CALL FOR PAPERS: International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions – Commission Sessions at the American Historical Association 2021 (Seattle, 7-10 January 2021)

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The International Commission for the History of Representative & Parliamentary Institutions scholars in the United States announce the following Call for Papers to be presented at the annual conference of the American Historical Association at Seattle, 7–10 January 2021. The International Commission has been an Affiliated Society of the AHA since May, 2019.

Topic A:

Pacific Rim parliamentary history: 1850-1945

The panel will survey parliamentary institutions from 1850 to 1945 in countries that face the Pacific Ocean: during this interval, what role do technological progress and economic change play in the history of these institutions?

Topic B:

Constitution writing and parliamentary organization in the Atlantic World 1775-1815

In the forty year study interval (1775-1815) 523 constitutional instruments were composed or proposed.  What do they have in common? Given the high failure rate of these constitutions, what were the enduring achievements of this outburst of top-down modelling? If enough proposals are received on the subject of constitutions imposed by force of French arms or on the subject of state constitution-making in the US, we will organize separate panels directed to these topics.

Topic C:

Elements of European political culture from the 11^th century

Medievalists have isolated and studied specific elements in statecraft, such as consultation, negotiation, recording of disputes, choreography in ordered discourse, and the composition of procedural treatises.  What is the state of today’s scholarly art in the study of statecraft as an emerging collection of skills and logics? Presenters are invited to center their attention on an author who has made a major contribution to the elements of statecraft from the 11^th century or on an interval in which notable progress was made.

The International Commission welcomes submissions from scholars interested in the history of parliamentary institutions. The Commission is an American Historical Association Affiliated Society. Its scholars participated in AHA’s most recent conference (New York City, 3–6 January 2020). The ICHRPI was founded in Lausanne in 1936 and has been continuously active throughout the world since its re-founding in 1950 in Paris. Please see the commission webpage for further information regarding the history of the organization and its purposes, as well as updates on the evolution of this panel. Please note: H-Net does not permit the commission to update its postings on the H-Net webpages.

Contact Dr. Peter J. Aschenbrenner, National Convenor (US) regarding this announcement: aschenbrenner.historian@gmail.com

The Commission is also interested in hearing from scholars wishing to serve as panel chairs and commentators.

The scholarly journal of the Commission is the Parliaments, Estates and Representation and welcomes submissions from academic or independent scholars on all aspects of parliamentary and political history throughout the world. Please refer to www.ichrpi.info/journal/ for further information on the Journal.

More info can be found here

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BOEK/OUVRAGE: Jörg TELLKAMP: A Companion to Early Modern Spanish Imperial Political and Social Thought (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 340 p. ISBN 978-90-04-41279-8, € 156

This Companion aims to give an up-to-date overview of the historical context and the conceptual framework of Spanish imperial expansion during the early modern period, mostly during the 16th century. It intends to offer a nuanced and balanced account of the complexities of this historically controversial period analyzing first its historical underpinnings, then shedding light on the normative language behind imperial theorizing and finally discussing issues that arose with the experience of the conquest of American polities, such as colonialism, slavery or utopia. The aim of this volume is to uncover the structural and normative elements of the theological, legal and philosophical arguments about Spanish imperial ambitions in the early modern period. 

Contributors are Manuel Herrero Sánchez, José Luis Egío, Christiane Birr, Miguel Anxo Pena González, Tamar Herzog, Merio Scattola, Virpi Mäkinen, Wim Decock, Christian Schäfer, Francisco Castilla Urbano, Daniel Schwartz, Felipe Castañeda, José Luis Ramos Gorostiza, Luis Perdices de Blas, Beatriz Fernández Herrero. 

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Meer info/davantage d'informations: hier/ici & ESCLH.

BOEK/OUVRAGE: Sylvie DAUBRESSE: Conjurer la dissension religieuse La justice du roi face à la Réforme (1555-1563) (Ceyzérieu: Champ Vallon, 2020), 464 p. ISBN ISBN 979-10-267-0888-9, € 29

(Source: Champ Vallon)

Les années de la fin du règne de Henri II jusqu’à la fin de la première guerre de religion en mars 1563 voient s’accélérer la rupture religieuse entre catholiques et protestants. En témoignent les arrêts criminels rendus par le parlement de Paris, cour souveraine qui rend la justice au nom du roi. Ils sont un observatoire privilégié, sorte de caisse de résonance de leur époque. L’activité criminelle d’une haute cour de justice montre qu’en matière de religion, la politique royale est souvent hésitante, parfois volontariste, et qu’elle finit par se heurter à l’opposition des sujets, laquelle entraîne l’inapplication des lois et le développement de la violence. Cette étude révèle à quel point la Réforme protestante a ébranlé le royaume de France ainsi que la monarchie.

Archiviste paléographe, Sylvie Daubresse est ingénieur de recherche CNRS au Centre Roland Mousnier (UMR 8596), Sorbonne Université. Ses travaux portent sur l’histoire politique et judiciaire du XVIe siècle. Elle a publié Le parlement de Paris ou la voix de la Raison (Droz, 2005), collaboré à un ouvrage collectif sur Le Parlement en exil (H. Champion, 2007), et édité un recueil de textes sur la période de la Ligue (H. Champion, 2012). Le présent ouvrage est le mémoire inédit de son habilitation à diriger les recherches.

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Davantage d'informations ici.

BOEK/OUVRAGE: Vincent DENIS, Isabelle FOUCHER, Vincent MILLIOT (éds.): La police des Lumières. Ordre et désordre dans les villes au XVIIIᵉ siècle (1830-1850) (Paris: Gallimard, 2020), 256 p. ISBN 978-2-0728-8629-4, € 35,-

(Source: univ-droit.fr)

Lorsque la Bastille tombe le 14 juillet 1789, c'en est fini du despotisme de la police. Lettres de cachet, mouches, espions sont devenus insupportables à un peuple en quête de liberté et d'égalité. Pourtant, l'histoire de la police de l'Ancien Régime ne peut se résumer à ce sombre portrait. Présentés pour la première fois, deux cents documents exceptionnels conservés aux Archives nationales nous plongent dans le quotidien du travail policier. On y voit Rousseau déclarer un vol de chemises, Sade protester contre son enfermement, Diderot et d'Alembert fichés, des prostituées sous contrôle. Mais l'on découvre aussi des lettres, des rapports, des projets qui dessinent une autre police, fille du siècle des Lumières. Prétendant vouloir «faire le bonheur des hommes en société», elle approvisionne les villes en blés, organise le travail ou veille à l'hygiène des populations. Cet ouvrage richement illustré offre un nouvel éclairage sur la naissance de la police moderne à la veille de la Révolution française.

Davantage d'informations ici.

BOEK/OUVRAGE: Isabelle BRANCOURT (éd.): Au cœur de l’État - Parlement(s) et cours souveraines sous l’Ancien Régime [Constitution de la modernité; 20] (Paris: Garnier, 2020), 431 p. ISBN 978-2-406-09785-3

(Source: Classiques Garnier)

En trois parties, les dix-huit chapitres de ces actes passent en revue cet objet complexe, du Moyen Âge à la Révolution, sous les angles divers des institutions autant que de la philosophie, du droit, de la religion ou de la société, pour en révéler le caractère de creuset d’une modernité politique.

Davantage d'informations (dont table des matières) ici. DOI DOI 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-09785-3.

ANNULATION ET REPORT/ANNULATIE EN UITSTEL: Journées internationales de la Société d'histoire du droit et des institutions des pays flamands, picards et wallons (Middelburg, nouvelle date/nieuwe datum: 14-15 MAI/MEI 2020)

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Les Journées internationales de la Société d'histoire du droit et des institutions des pays flamands, picards et wallons: histoire du droit et art ont été annulées et reportées à cause de la crise du Coronavirus. Nouvelle date: 14 et 15 mai 2021.

De Internationale dagen van de Société d'histoire du droit et des institutions des pays flamands, picards et wallons: histoire du droit et art zijn geannuleerd en verplaatst wegens de COVID19-crisis. Nieuwe datum: 14 en 15 mei 2021.