{"id":1419,"date":"2009-03-27T10:50:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T08:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.univie.ac.at\/Geschichte\/salon21\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2022-05-19T16:19:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T16:19:58","slug":"international-conference-new-perspectives-on-gender-and-legal-history-european-traditions-and-the-challenge-of-global-history-02-04042009-frankfurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/?p=1419","title":{"rendered":"International Conference: New Perspectives on Gender and Legal History: European Traditions and the Challenge of Global History, 02.-04.04.2009, Frankfurt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fifth conference of the international research network \u201eGender Difference in the History of European Legal Cultures\u201c <\/strong>
\nApril, 2nd-4th 2009
\nGoethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Campus Westend, IG Farben Haus, Room 411
\nOrganizers<\/strong>
\nDr. Karin Gottschalk, Historisches Seminar, Goethe-Universit\u00e4t Frankfurt am Main
\nDr. Grethe Jacobsen, Danish Department, Royal Library Copenhagen
\nProf. Dr. Dr. h.c. Heide Wunder, Fachbereich 5 Gesellschaftswissenschaften, Universit\u00e4t Kassel
\nAims of the Conference<\/strong>
\nLaw is a central element of social and political order – with it, power is institutionalized, actions are structured and sanctioned. Fundamental concepts of order are expressed and legitimised by law. This is especially true of gender difference. Until equal rights won out as the norm, differentiating legal capacities of persons by their gender meant assigning distinct forms of legally defined agency to men and women and fixing gender hierarchy. Nevertheless, even while formal equality is established throughout Europe since the 20th century, gender difference in law remains a precarious question.
\nThe international research network \u201eGender Differences in European Legal Cultures\u201c aims at bringing together scholars who analyse in historical perspective the significance and function of gender differences in European legal cultures. This will help widen the possibilities of interdisciplinary and comparative work. The network is concerned with all fields of law \u2013 such as criminal, public, civil and procedural law \u2013 although focusing especially on civil law.
\nOur intention is a gendered history of law which not only increases our knowledge of legal norms explicitly concerning women or men, but also questions the construction of law itself. In addition, the network directs its special attention to legal practice inside as well as outside the court and to relations of legal and social norms. Legal pluralism, the subsidiary of legal norms and competitive jurisdiction of different institutions concerned with the administration of justice are analysed as to the agency they grant women and men and to their influence on shaping gender difference.
\nAfter the network\u2019s meetings in Frankfurt am Main (2000), Trent (2002), Copenhagen (2004) and Crete (2006) the fifth conference will again take place in Germany, this time hosted by the Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main. The aim of this conference is twofold: to work out common traditions and different traits of European legal cultures by comparative research and to enrich our perspective by the flowering research on gender and global history. This research has shown the necessity to extend our focus of attention and marks a challenge to concepts, methods and narratives of gender and legal history.
\nThe conference will be composed of three parts, each starting with a lecture given on general considerations:<\/p>\n