As part of the Seminar of Postgraduate Studies in History of the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Manuel Bastias Saavedra, of the Max Plant Institute, will be presenting the conference entitled: “Law in Global History: Towards a Decentered approach to the History of Law ”, on the 4th of December, at 2:30 pm.
The seminar will be held via Zoom.
Link:https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/84650381518?pwd=d0ZWS3N0SnFMWHY0eVUzU0xZOFdFZz09
ID of the meeting: 846 5038 1518
password: 889600
For those who wish, ICS will open room 3 to transmit the seminar has well
Abstract:
The field of global history has become an increasingly consolidated field in historical research over the past two decades. It has opened the possibility of exploring a wide range of new issues as well as rethinking many assumptions that derived from nation-centered or Eurocentric narratives. The deconstructive approach that drives much global historical research, however, has not been applied to questioning the ethnocentric conceptions of law. This lack of attention ultimately risks reintroducing Eurocentric narratives through the back door. Legal history has only recently begun to take the challenges of global history seriously and certainly much more research is required to produce truly global narratives of the development of law. The historical study of law, however, is moving in new directions and sustained dialogue with global and social history will contribute greatly to the development of these fields of research.