H-Soz-Kult: „Figures, Methods, and Moments of the Institutionalisation of Legal History in ca. 1500–1900 Europe“. Organisiert von Frank Ejby Poulsen (Universität Bayreuth, Centre of International Excellence „Alexander von Humboldt“) fand die internationale Tagung „Figures, Methods, and Moments of the Institutionalisation of Legal History in ca. 1500–1900 Europe“ hybrid am 12.–13. Juni 2025 im Institut für... Continue Reading →
I have made a video (on my Youtube Channel) on the two famous paintings representing the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, attributed to Jean-Jacques Le Barbier (and his engraving). https://youtu.be/9wESIPLh7JQ Based on my article published in the art history journal POTESTAS, I combine art history and intellectual history to... Continue Reading →
The symposium "INTELLEX: An Intellectual History of Legal History" I organised on 12-13 June 2025 at the Institute for Franconian Regional History (IFLG) in the Thurnau castle led to many fruitful connections and discussions for the future. The symposium was financed by my Junior Fellowship grant from the University of Bayreuth Centre of International Excellence... Continue Reading →
Symposium 12-13/06/2025 on an intellectual history of legal history
This January 2025, I have started my Junior Fellowship awarded by the University of Bayreuth Centre of International Excellence "Alexander von Humboldt". For six months my project on "Hermann Conring's Teaching of Legal History" will be hosted at the Institut für Fränkische Landesgeschichte, located in this enchanting Thurnau Castle. This is part of a larger... Continue Reading →
Back in June 2020, I made this recorded lecture for the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) summer school organised at the Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen. I present a long history of human rights in the history of political thought and legal history leading up to the right to privacy. I uploaded... Continue Reading →
Frank Ejby Poulsen 