Grüß Gott!
The last few months have been incredibly busy, and this has meant that even the act of updating my website has been something that has taken a backseat to preparing work for publication deadlines, preparing class plans for the new semester, and preparing grant applications for…well, grant application deadlines. There’s also the small matter of “conference season”, which seems less to be a season and more of a mode of existence.
First, to the immediate news: on Sunday, I travel north — way, way, way north — to the Universität Greifswald. There, I’m giving a guest lecture on Monday evening, with the topic being Europäischer Konstitutionalismus und europäische Kolonialisierung in South Australia Colony: Eine Agenda für künftige Forschung. Greifswald is the fourth-oldest university in Germany (founded in 1456), and it is an honour to be asked to lecture there. It is also a very long way from Passau, so I will spend most of Sunday and most of Tuesday as a guest of Deutsche Bahn. I don’t mind this, because I love travelling by train, and it will also be my first time on the Baltic.
Once I get back from Greifswald, I have a couple of weeks and then I will be off to Houston for the American Society for Legal History conference, this year held in Houston. I’m fortunate to be presenting alongside some excellent scholars of legal history, and it promises to be another adventure.
And, in the midst of all this, I am once again teaching at Uni Passau — this time an English course on argumentation, as well as a legal history course on Verfassungs- und Staatstheorie.
There are also a couple of publications that will be appearing in the not-so-distant future (at the moment looking like early in the New Year), so watch this space!