SUMMER SCHOOL: PHEDRA Summer School (La Rábida, Palos de la Frontera: University of Andalusia, 25-28 JUN 2024); DEADLINE 31 JAN 2024

 

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Prof. Dave De ruysscher is a member of the panel of the PHEDRA Summer School organised in Spain this Summer.

Call:

The International Research Network I.R.N. PHEDRA organizes its second summer school in La Rábida (Palos de la Frontera, Spain) on 25-28 June 2024.

Following the basis of the first summer school, the purpose of the event is to provide an exceptional opportunity to the participants to present their ongoing research before a group of specialists in commercial legal history matters, in order to generate fruitful discussions resulting in valuable feedback that will enrich and improve their work.

PHEDRA project concerns the history of business law, from Antiquity to the present day, focusing on norms and practices that developed around Europe to support commerce and business exchange which led to the transformation of societies and gave commercial law its features. The project is particularly interested on the sources we use to trace and reconstruct the evolution of commercial law, paying careful attention to the cultural background that constitutes its “European legal ecosystem”.

The summer school is addressed to PhD students and young post-doc working on related topics to business law history in the framework of the chronological and geographical scope of PHEDRA project.

Opening up to the social sciences being one of the methodological pillars of PHEDRA, the organizers not only encourage the application of legal history PhD students and young post-doc, but also historians, economists and social scientists in general. The second PHEDRA summer school intends to produce stimulating interdisciplinary discussions in a very international and friendly academic atmosphere.

All travel, accommodation and meal costs of participants will be covered by the organization.

Structure of the sessions

A key goal of the summer school is to create a useful and stimulating academic experience for all participants.

Ample space will be given to the presentation and discussion of research work by PhD students and young postdocs.

Each session will also consist of a lecture or workshop led by one or more members of the pedagogical team. This will facilitate active exchanges between participants and lectures throughout the event. Since the main objective of the summer school is to provide feedback to PhD student and young researchers, the structure of the sessions prioritizes discussions rather than long presentations.

The panel of the PHEDRA Summer School 2024: 

Anja Amend-Traut – Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

Luisa Brunori – Cnrs/École Normale Supérieure/Université Paris Nanterre

Giovanni Chiodi – Università di Milano Bicocca

Olivier Descamps – Université Paris Panthéon-Assas

Dave De ruysscher – Tilburg University/Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Ana Belem Fernández Castro – Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples

Florent Garnier – Université Toulouse Capitole

Stefania Gialdroni – Università di Padova

Ron Harris – Tel Aviv University

Dario Mantovani – Collège de France

Georges Martyn – Gand University

Annamaria Monti – Università Statale di Milano

Carlos Petit Calvo – Universidad de Huelva

Heikki Pihlajamäki – Helsinki University

Xavier Prévost – Université de Bordeaux - IUF

Guido Rossi – Edimburgh University/Università di Palermo  

Date and location

The PHEDRA summer school will take place between Tuesday 25 and Friday 28 June 2024, at the International University of Andalusia, in La Rábida, Palos de la Frontera, Spain.

Reimbursement of travel expenses and accommodation:

All participants' travel expenses will be reimbursed.

Accommodation and meals from dinner on 25 June to breakfast on 28 June will be fully covered by the organization.

PHEDRA promotes sustainable mobility of researchers: as far as is reasonable, rail travel should be preferred to air travel.

How to Apply

Applicants are requested to send a CV and an abstract of their PhD thesis (maximum 1 page) to the email address phedrasummerschool@gmail.com

The deadline for submitting applications is 31 January 2024.

Accepted applicants will be notified by 15 February 2024

See further here.