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The principal aims of the EHRC are:
- to support research related to European History, including work which examines the construction of Europe’s borders and boundaries, and explores European links to the wider world.
- to support early-career researchers and help develop their careers
- to facilitate collaboration across the academic departments of the University
- to facilitate collaboration with colleagues across Europe
- to promote impact activities
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From Duties to Rights in History
The EHRC will be hosting a workshop at our Venice Centre organised by Charles Walton.
When: 3 - 4 April 2025
Where: Warwick in Venice Centre, San Marco 2893, 30124 Venice, Italy
The purpose of this workshop is to begin conceptualising the history of ‘duties’ and their relationship to ‘rights’. Historians have long treated duties either parenthetically or as afterthoughts in their histories of rights. Although legal scholars are well-aware of the problems of ‘duties’ and ‘duty-bearing’ in law, historians have tended to neglect them. But what would a history of ‘rights’ look like by foregrounding the problem of ‘duties’? How might this history be approached? And is a ‘long’ or ‘deep’ history of duties (the two are not the same) possible and useful?