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on November 26, 2024
Published on November 12, 2024– Updated on November 12, 2024

EUTOPIA Connected Learning Community Legal History: Opening Keynote Lecture on 26 November 2024


The EUTOPIA Connected Learning Community Legal History, which unites staff and students as well as external experts around the theme Collective and Individual Rights in Legal History, is delighted to announce the Opening Keynote Lecture for this year, to be given by Dr. Charles Walton (The University of Warwick) on Tuesday 26 November online. He will discuss the theme "Between Redistribution and Theories of Abundance: Toward a Deep History of Social Rights". The event starts at 6pm Brussels Time (5pm GMT) and will last until 7:30pm (6:30pm GMT). 
 
Charles Walton is a historian of France and Director of the Early Modern and Eighteenth Century. Before joining the History Department at Warwick, he taught at Yale University, the University of Oklahoma (Norman, USA) and Sciences Po (Paris). His research focuses on Ancien Régime, Enlightenment and Revolutionary France, with emphases on rights, political economy and socio-economic justice.

His prize-winning book, Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution: the Culture of Calumny and the Problem of Free Speech (2009, paperback 2011, French translation 2014), explores the themes of honour, speech, public opinion and political violence. It shows how debates over limits to free expression contributed to political radicalisation before and during the Revolution. He has edited a collection of essays in honour of Robert Darnton on print culture and the Enlightenment, Into Print: Limits and Legacies of the Enlightenment (2011).

More recently, his research has centred on the history of social rights. He is co-editor (with Steven L. B. Jensen) of Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History (Cambridge, 2022) and editor of a special issue of French History on social rights (2019).


>> Please contact Frederick Dhondt, Assistant professor of legal history at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and leader of the Research Group Contextual Research in Law (CORE) to confirm your online attendance.