BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260630T092450EDT-1524UoNXfu@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260630T132450Z DESCRIPTION:The Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law c ontinues its 2016-2018 Civil Law Workshops series\, “Le public en droit pr ivé”\, with a talk by Vanja Hamzić (School of Oriental and African Studies \, University of London).\n\nAbstract\n\nThe eventful twelfth century was\ , in many ways\, a veritable paradox. On the one hand\, it saw a sudden su rge in academic works and universities in Western and Southern Europe that sought to bridge the worlds previously thought entirely incommensurable a nd usher in an age of scholasticism that would eventually lead to the four teenth- to seventeenth-century Renaissance. For this reason\, it has been a staple of mediaevalist scholarship to describe those thorough-going chan ges as the ‘renaissance of the twelfth century’. On the other hand\, the s ame century also reads as a striking catalogue of most violent acts and di sasters: from the rise of inquisition and merciless Christian infighting\, over the first expulsions of Jews and the intensification of the Reconqui sta on Muslim Spain to the blood and gore of the Second\, Third and German Crusades. Might it not be more appropriate\, then\, to characterise this period as an age of profound crisis\, in which the true contours of a ‘per secuting society’ were drawn?\n\nThis talk seeks to make a modest contribu tion to that debate\, by guiding the audience’s attention to a tell-tale p ublic aspect of high mediaeval life—that of sexual and gender diversity—an d by expanding the view over the twelfth century so as to include the affa irs in the Great Seljuk Empire (1037–1194)\, a vast Turko-Persianate Sunnī Muslim state that originated in Anatolia\, but quickly came to rule over much of the then Islamicate world.\n\nThe talk considers\, in particular\, an unlikely rise of neo-Roman European civil law and Seljuk proto-civil l egality and its formidable effect on two paradigmatic twelfth-century inte llectual debates on the public\, legal and theological standing of ‘sodomy ’ (peccatum sodomiticum\, liwāṭ): one in amongst prominent Benedictines an d the other between the leading Ḥanafī scholars. It is argued that these d ebates\, led in the distinct spirit of concordia discors (discordant harmo ny) or ikhtilāf (permissible scholarly disagreement)\, are indispensable f or our understanding of legal and social aspects of sexual and gender dive rsity in the twelfth century and\, in turn\, the way in which certain rapt urous pluralities were continued and ruptured—concomitantly.\n\nThe speake r\n\nDr Vanja Hamzić is a Senior Lecturer in Legal History and Legal Anthr opology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)\, University of London\, an Academic Fellow of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temp le and a former Member of the School of Social Science in the Institute fo r Advanced Study at Princeton. His main body of work interrogates historic al and present-day formations of gender and sexual diversity in various Is lamicate societies of South Asia\, Southeast Asia and West Africa. His pub lished books include Control and Sexuality: The Revival of Zinā Laws in Mu slim Contexts (2010\; with Ziba Mir-Hosseini) and Sexual and Gender Divers ity in the Muslim World: History\, Law and Vernacular Knowledge (2016).\n \nCivil Law Workshops\n\nIn order to promote fundamental research in priva te law\, the Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law ini tiated the “Civil Law Workshops” series\, bringing together jurists from Q uébec and beyond to work on related research topics. With their cross-disc iplinary focus\, the “Civil Law Workshops” contribute to enriching and sti mulating fundamental research in private law.\n\nThe 2016-2018 series of C ivil Law Workshops presented by the Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law explore “Le public en droit privé”.\n\nThe workshops a re presented with financial assistance from Justice Canada’s Support Fund for Access to Justice in Both Official Languages.\n\nRegistration is not r equired. Each workshop has been accredited for 1.5 hour of continuing lega l education by the Barreau du Québec and the Chambre des notaires du Québe c.\n\n \n DTSTART:20180327T170000Z DTEND:20180327T183000Z LOCATION:NCDH 202 (tentative)\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel SUMMARY:A Renaissance Interrupted?: Personhood\, “Sodomy” and the Public in Twelfth-Century Christian and Islamic Proto-Civil Legality URL:/law/channels/event/renaissance-interrupted-person hood-sodomy-and-public-twelfth-century-christian-and-islamic-proto-283832 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR