New podcast episode released by History students at Warwick following the 2024 Legal History CC Peak Event

Within the EUTOPIA Connected Learning Community Legal History, students collaborate across universities in Europe and respective student groups on common themes through the use of active learning methods. The fellows work individually and collectively on a case study connected to the transversal theme of minority rights. The theme is studied from the perspective of legal history. Each year, a Peak Event gathering the community is hosted by one of the partner universities.

In March 2024, students from Vrije Universiteit Brussel, CY Paris University, the University of Ljubljana, NOVA University of Lisbon and the University of Warwick converged to Brussels around the theme 'Connectedness in Legal History'. They focused on multilevel governance, legal transfers, circulation of ideas and advocacy in various legal spaces, highlighting the relativity of the Nation-State as a point of departure for legal history and the richness of the various legal traditions connected to our institutions and jurisdictions.

Following their participation in this 2-day event, history students at the University of Warwick released a podcast episode sharing their thoughts about this unforgettable experience and the presentations they gave:

• Ash Fowkes-Gajan: The Italian Risorgimento as a Fragmented Paradigm: Was Italy, by 1871, any more than a 'mere geographical expression'?
• Mayukha Rodrigo: Indian Indenture and its Effect on Modern Demographics and Politics
• Nia Belcher: Penal Transportation in the Nineteenth-Century: Britain and Australia
• Tom Posnic-Boyce: Afro-Latin American Legacies

Dr Rosie Doyle, Assistant Professor in Latin American History at the University of Warwick, who accompanied them also provides some insights.

>> Listen to the podcast episode on Spotify.