This interdisciplinary workshop examines how legal knowledge on interracial marriages between Europe and the Global South was produced, circulated and operationalised across imperial and post-imperial contexts from 1900 to the present — foregrounding the role of experts, state institutions, civil society and couples in shaping marital and migratory boundaries over the longue durée.
Anmeldung bis zum 11. November 2026 via uni.ms/kif67
Programme
09.30-10.00 Welcome / PD Dr. Christoph Lorke and Dr. Joanna Simonow
Chair Nina Dethloff
10.00-11.00 Betty de Hart / Exploring the legal archive: how legal scholars have contributed to race-thinking in Europe
Chair: Sarah Albiez-Wieck
11.00-12.00 Christoph Lorke / Race without Empire? Legal Knowledge and the Governance of “Suspicious” Marriages in Divided Germany
12.00-13.00 Light Lunch at the Kolleg
Chair: Anastasia Hammerschmied
13.00-14.00 Catherine Phipps / Colonial Marriage Migration: Visa Bans for Mixed Marriages and Passionate Mobility in the French Protectorate in Morocco, 1912–1956
Chair: Aparna Balachandran
14.00-15.00 Joanna Simonow / Encountering and Navigating Legal Conflict: Consulates and the History of South Asian-European Marriage, c. 1914–1939
15.00-15.30 Tea and Coffee break
15.30-16.00 Final Discussion/Conclusion