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Le droit talmudique saisi par le droit comparé

22 & 23 novembre 2017, Nancy. Download the conference program / Téléchargez le programme du colloque

Call for Papers - Flags, Identity, Memory: Critiquing the Public Narrative through Color

Flags, Identity, Memory: Critiquing the Public Narrative through Color Anne Wagner and Sarah Marusek (eds) In our project, the identification of “identity” employs culturally specific color codes and images that conceal assumptions about members of a people comprising a nation, or a people within a nation. Flags narrate constructions of belonging that become tethered to negotiations for power and resistance over time and throughout a people’s history. Bennet (2005) defines identity as “the imagined sameness of a person or social group at all times and in all circumstances”. While such likeness may be imagined or even perpetuated, the idea of sameness may be socially, politically, culturally, and historically contested to reveal competing pasts and presents. Visually evocative and ideologically representative, flags are recognized symbols fusing color with meaning that prescribe a story of unity. Yet, through semiotic confrontation, there may be different paths leading to different trut

New Publications from Klaus Schwarz Verlag, Berlin

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New Publications / Neuerscheinungen Klaus Schwarz Verlag New releases / Neuerscheinungen 2017/2018 Gábor Hamza Studies on Legal Relations between the Ottoman Empire/the Republic of Turkey and Hungary, Cyprus, and Macedonia Selected Essays in Hungarian, English, German, and Turkish With a foreword by Kinga Hazai, a postface by J. Hóvári, and a devotement by György Hazai Berlin 2017, Hardcover, 240 pp., 978-3-87997-463-4 € 48,00 Gábor Hamza's studies contribute immeasurably to the understanding of the history of civil law, the different codification processes and its cross-border influence. Comparative legal studies such as his are not only invaluable for fathoming the various ways in which society can exist but also pave the way for future legal experts to one day achieve the long desired co-existence and mutual respect between differencing cultures and religions. Şuayip Seven Traditionelle Hadith-Hermeneutik im Zusammenhang mit modernen Ansätzen der Ankaraner Schule Islamk

Juris Diversitas 6th Annual Conference, Call for Papers

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CALL FOR PAPERS JURIS DIVERSITAS 6 th ANNUAL CONFERENCE June 25-27, 2018 Potchefstroom, South Africa In partnership with Faculty of Law, North-West University, Potchefstroom & the Centre for Comparative Law in Africa Law, Roots & Space The Theme: A couple of lawyers’ old friends: ‘Sources’ and ‘Jurisdictions’. In their parlance, these notions are often associated to modern, ‘positive’ law. The idea of ‘Legal formants’ has been introduced to complete the picture, flexibilising it, making it more accurate, nuanced, realistic; an idea associated to comparative, socio-legal, anthropologic studies. With ‘Roots’ and ‘space’ geographers, historians, political scientists get involved. These are certainly less frequent notions in legal circles: we may still wish to make friends with them, to enrich our perception of legal phenomena. ‘ Roots ’ is often associated to history of law and related discourses – if legal formants may complete a picture, legal roots do complete the movie,