History of International Law @World

Between 10-13 June 2020, a new edition of the Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians will be organised in Istanbul. The team for 2020 is 'Liability and Responsibility in Legal History'. Interested PhD fellows and early carreer researchers are invited to submit their abstracts before 21 February 2020. More information can be found here.

At 19 May 2020, the Erasmus University in Rotterdam will host the next session of the 'Workgroup Law in Amsterdam and the Dutch Republic (17th-18th centuries)'. The event will take place in the Theil Building, Room C1-3, between 12:00-17:00. There is still room for more presentations. Interested (young) researchers can obtain more information from prof. Matthijs de Jong (dejongh@law.eur.nl). 

On 10 and 11 December 2020, the University of Auckland will organize an interdisciplinary workshop titled 'Warfare, Weapons, Wounds'. It explores the cultures of violence and control that form around military weaponry by focusing on the wounds they inflict and the (at least perceived) pain and suffering they provoke. It investigates the ways in which individuals, communities, states, and militaries imagine, represent, adapt, and receive military technologies in the context of their wounding capacity. 

Interested scholars are invited to send in proposals for papers (30min, followed by 10min for questions and discussion) that focus on particular weapons (or types of weapons), the context in which they are used, and the ‘wounds’ they cause. The organisers welcome papers from any historical period, including today, and hope to attract scholars from a wide range of disciplines and cultural perspectives. As such, ‘wounds’ can, and indeed should, be interpreted in a broad way and can encompass not only physical, but psychological, social, cultural, and political damage. It is planned that the workshop will form the core of a publication - either an edited collection or special edition of an academic journal.

Proposals should be send in before 1 June. More information can be found here.