Nomôdos: KU Leuven, LECTIO Internat. conf. "Theory and Practice of a Burgeoning Concept in the Netherlands", Louvain, 5-6 Febr. 2015

27 janv. 2015

KU Leuven, LECTIO Internat. conf. "Theory and Practice of a Burgeoning Concept in the Netherlands", Louvain, 5-6 Febr. 2015

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KU Leuven

De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy

Department of Roman Law and Legal History

Research Unit Early Modern History (15th-18th Centuries)

LECTIO International Conference

Theory and Practice of a Burgeoning Concept in the Netherlands

Leuven / Louvain

5-6 February 2015

Programme

Lectures by

D. BAUER (Leuven), H.W. BLOM (Rotterdam), E. DE BOM (Leuven), B. DE RIDDER (Leuven), A. ESTEBAN (Alcala), S. GROENVELD (Leiden), J.J. RUIZ IBANEZ (Murcia), G. JANSSENS (Leuven), J. MEARNS (Leuven), S. MUSA (Tilburg), L. VAN AELST (Rotterdam), G. VAN NIFTERIK (Amsterdam), R. VERMEIR (Gent), R. VON FRIEDEBURG (Rotterdam).

Organizing committee

Erik De Bom
Randall Lesaffer
Werner Thomas

Thursday 5 February 2015 | Conference day 1 | Irish College

09.30 Registration | Coffee

10.00 Opening of the Conference

Welcome: Luk Draye | Dean of the Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven
Opening remarks, Erik De Bom | KU Leuven

10.15 Session 1

Chair : Violet Soen

10.15-11.00: Robert Von Friedeburg (Erasmus Unversity Rotterdam), Bodin’s Promise to France’s Elites: Property and Security Through Sovereignty.
11.00-11.45: Lies Van Aelst (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Conform to the Government and Acknowledge the Sovereignty. Simon Stevin and Francois Vranck: A Practical Approach to Contested Sovereignty.

12.00 Lunch

13.30 Session 2

Chair : Erik De Bom

13.30-14.15: Hans W. Blom (Erasmus University Rotterdam), The Power of the State and its Legitimation in the Political Thought of Grotius and his Followers
14.15-15.00: Guus van Nifterik (University of Amsterdam), Ideas on Sovereignty: Soto, Vázquez and Grotius

15.00 Coffee

15.30 Session 3

Chair : Andrea Robiglio

15.30-16.15 : Dominique Bauer (KU Leuven), The Prince as a Self-Legislating Agent with Francisco Suárez
16.15-17.00: Erik De Bom (KU Leuven), What Makes a State a State? Humanist and Scholastic Perspectives in the Work of Nicolaus Vernulaeus

Friday 6 February 2015 | Conference day 2 | Irish College

09.30 Session 4

Chair : Randall Lesaffer

09.30-10.15: James Mearns (KU Leuven), The Legal Humanist Contribution to Concepts of Power in Early Modern France
10.15-11.00: René Vermeir (UGent), Representative Institutions and Law Making in the Habsburg Netherlands During the Early 17th Century

11.00 Coffee

11.30 Session 5

Chair : René Vermeir

11.30-12.15: Shavana Musa (Tilburg University), The Dutch: Their Wars, Their Gains and Their Losses
12.15-13.00: Bram De Ridder (KU Leuven), Territorial Strife and Sovereignty in the Aftermath of the Eighty Years War

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Session 6

Chair : Werner Thomas

14.00-14.45: José Javier Ruiz Ibáñez (Universitad de Murcia), On Electing a Prince. The Popular Transfer of Sovereignty at the End of the Sixteenth Century
14.45-15.30: Simon Groenveld (Leiden University), Dutch Sovereigns at Work in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century

15.30 Coffee

16.00 Session 7

Chair : Simon Groenveld

16.00-16.45: Gustaaf Janssens (KU Leuven), ‘The King is the Real Souvereign of this Countries'. Politics of Justice and Order of the Duke of Alba in the Netherlands
16.45-17.30: Alicia Esteban (Universidad de Alcalá), The Principality of the Archdukes: Project. Practice and Extinction of a "Separate Sovereignty"

17.30 Closing remarks