This lecture explores to what extent one can discern a concept of personal freedom as a basic right in the first century CE. Philo's tractate "On the Freedom ...
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How did an alleged sodomy case in 1648 on an English East India Company ship shape social dynamics and attitudes towards homosexuality? Examining the events ...
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How did slavery and forced labor coexist in Tahoua? In our next JCMML, Benedetta Rossi will discuss the labor regimes and their implications in this West ...
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How did political shifts in southern Babylonia during the third millennium BCE impact land and social status? For most of this period, independent city-states ...
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Did the ancient Greek sex trade rely on enslaved labor? This Lecture delves into the link between sexual labor and slavery in Greek comedy and oratory, ...
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In 2008, Joseph C. Miller explored the historical process of slaving, aiming to understand why people repeatedly engaged in this strategy throughout history. ...
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The lecture will discuss the still emerging field of global legal history and provides an approach to legal history that draws on the history of knowledge and ...
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This presentation explains how the archives created a wall of silence regarding issues of slavery and race. The archival silence created an intentional gap in ...
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Forced migration and compulsory foreign labour in the rise of Egypt as a regional great power and cultural powerhouse? Connecting with research on ...
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How did labor relations evolve in colonial Hispanic America, and what factors contributed to the increased coercion in the seventeenth century? Hypothesizing ...
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