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2024 Mar 25

Global History Seminar: "Nations Ascendant: The Global Struggle Against Empire and the Making of Our World"

3:45pm to 5:45pm

Location: 

Robinson Hall, History Department Conf. Room (#125), 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138

"Nations Ascendant: The Global Struggle Against Empire and the Making of Our World "Zaib AzizPostdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History; Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of South Florida, TampaComments:...

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2024 Mar 25

Global History Seminar: "Empire's Workers: The Labour Question in the Age of Decolonization"

3:45pm to 5:45pm

Location: 

Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Conference Room 125

"Empire's Workers: The Labour Question in the Age of Decolonization"Zaib AzizPostdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History; Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of South Florida, Tampa

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2024 Mar 26

How Ill-Gotten Gains Produced Public Good in Late Medieval Canon Law

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall (WCC), 18 Everett Street (corner with Mass Ave) room 3008.

A talk by Prof. Silvia Di Paolo (Law Faculty, University of Roma III, Italy), with the title “Restitution: How ill-gotten gains produced public good in Late Medieval canon law”

 

Abstract: This talk will examine how the Augustinian principle "Sin is not wiped out unless the ill-gotten gains are returned," led to the development of a particular vision of justice and economic equity in medieval canon law. This vision held that every illicit form of appropriation and gain was an injury to equality and justice that was reparable only by means of restitution....

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