East Meets West: A Gendered View of Legal Tradition

Type: 
Conference
Audience: 
Open to the Public
Building: 
Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Room: 
Popper room
Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 9:00am
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Date: 
Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 9:00am to Saturday, March 12, 2011 - 6:00pm

Thursday, March 10,  2011 – Popper Room

 

  9:00-10:30

Registration

 

 

  9:30-10:00

Welcome

John Shattuck, president and rector of CEU;

HeideWunder;

Grethe Jacobsen

 

10:00-11:00

Keynote

Hanne Petersen

Multiple Masculinities, Legal Tradition and Contemporary Conditions

11:00-11:30

Coffee break

 

 

11:30-13:00

Law and gender 20th century

Eva Schandevyl

Women’s Access to Law Courts in Belgium in the Twentieth Century: Gendered Work Roles under Discussion

 

Law and gender 20th century

Barbara Havelkova

European Gender Equality under and after State Socialism: Legal Treatment of Prostitution in the Czech Republic

13:00-14:00

Lunch break

 

 

14:00-15:30

Panel on

transitional justice and gender.

Interna­tional perspectives and considerations

Ildikó Barna

 

 

Andrea Pető

 

Commentator: Michael Hamilton

Methodological Problems of Quantitative Analysis of Legal Databases

 

First Results of the Analysis: Gender Aspects of a Transitional Justice Database

 

15:30-16:00

Coffee break

 

 

16:00-17:30

Panel (cont'd)

Wolfgang Form;

Susanne Raidt

 

Female Perpetrators of War Crimes in the American and British Zones of Occupation in Germany (1945-49): Context and Considerations

17:40

Film screening with discussion in the Auditorium

Moderator: Constantin Iordachi

4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, directed by  Cristian Mungiu (Romania, 2007)

followed by

Reception

 in front of the Auditorium

for registered participants only

 

 

 

Friday, March 11,  2011 – Popper Room

 

  9:00-10:00

Keynote

Anna Loutfi

The Struggle for Gender Order in Nineteenth-Century Europe

10:00-10:45

Transition: 18th - 19th Century 

Stefania Licini

Family Law, Property Rights and Women’s Economic Activity

10:45-11:15

Coffee break

 

 

11:15-12:45 

Transition: 18th - 19th Century 

Ellinor Forster 

„The West“ Transformed the Norms of „the East“ – or vice versa? 

 

Transition: 18th - 19th Century 

Evdoxios Doxiadis

The Transformation of Women’s Property and Work Rights with the Establishment of the Modern Greek State in the Early 19th Century

13:00-14:00

Lunch break

 

 

14:00-15:30

Transition: 4th - 5th Century 

Cristian Gaspar

Sacrosanctum ... hospitium virilis animae: Reasserting Masculinity in Late Roman Imperial Legislation

 

The Middle Ages  

Tomislav Popic

Who Owns the Dowry? Tracing One Dubrovnik-Zadar Story from the Late 14th Century

15:30-15:45

Coffee break

 

 

16:00-17:45

The Middle Ages 

Marija Karbić

The Role of Women in the Economic Life of Medieval Slavonian Towns as Reflected in Urban Legislation and Everyday Life

 

The Middle Ages

Etleva Lala

Women’s Status in Albanian Medieval Laws

 

The Early Modern Period

Begzad Baliu

Three Views of Albanian Women: Oral Literature, Vernacular Law and Ancient Greek Literature

18:00-18:30

Book launch with sale

Előd Nemerkényi &

Judit Majorossy

 

Violence and the Medieval Clergy  Gerhard Jaritz, Ana Marinković (eds.), Budapest, 2011

&

Isolated Islands in Medieval Nature, Culture and Mind

Torstein Jørgensen, Gerhard Jaritz (eds.), Budapest 2011

19:00 – 21:45

Opera

for registered participants only

Don Pasquale by Donizetti, G.

 

 

 

Saturday, March 12, 2011 – Popper Room

 

  9:00-10:30

The Early Modern Period 

Dave De Ruysscher

The Legal Capacity of Married Women to Contract in the Early Modern Period: New Approaches

 

The Early Modern Period 

Jurgita Kunsmanaité

Gender, Community and Law - Property Rights and Economic Influence

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

 

 

11:00-12É30

Projects - comparisons 

Dorothee Rippmann

Marriage and Marriage Contracts in the 15th and 16th  Centuries

 

Projects - comparisons 

Anna Bellavitis

Gender and Apprenticeship in Early Modern Western Europe (especially France and Italy)

12:30-13:30

Buffet Lunch

In front of the Monument bulding 203

(for registered participants only) 

 

13:30-14:15

Projects - comparisons

Elke Kamm

“My Virginity Is My Honour”: Women and Honour in Tetritskaro, Georgia

14:15-15:15

Keynote

Merry Wiesner-Hanks

A Global Perspective

15:15-16:00

Next conference

Margareth Lanzinger and Ellinor Forster

16:00-16:30

Closing

Heide Wunder and Grethe Jacobsen