CONFERENCE: "The Vienna Congress and the Transformation of International Law" (Bonn, September 3-4 2015)

WHAT The Vienna Congress and the Transformation of International Law, Conference

 

WHEN September 3-4 2015

 

WHERE Poppelsdorfer Schloss, Meckenheimer Allee 171, 53115 Bonn

The Congress of Vienna was a landmark in the history of diplomacy and

international law. It symbolizes the specific and ambivalent features of

extrajudicial conflict resolution. The international and interdisciplinary

conference “The Vienna Congress and the Transformation of International

Law” aims at understanding the preconditions and consequences of the

change of international law from pre-modernity to the 19th century. An

investigation on the scientific literature on the Vienna Congress and its peace

order might help to understand what the contemporaries regarded as vital

and striking, how they understood their international order and how they

wanted to develop it. Early historiography may be a device to determine the

particularities of the international order in the beginning of the 19th century

and when and how this order was replaced by another regime. The

conference will examine the techniques how the treaties were set up and

which new institutions were founded in order to monitor the development of

international law issues. Investigations on economic issues will also be taken

into account. The conference aims at interdisciplinary and international

analysis of conflicts, conflict activities and conflict resolutions in one of the

most famous political institutions ever

 

Organizers

Prof. Dr. Mathias Schmoeckel

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Miloš Vec 

 

Program

 

Thursday, 3rd September 2015

8:30 – 9:00 Coffee & Welcome; Introduction (LOEWE)

 

09:00 – 11:00 Panel 1

Vienna 1814: A Turning Point of International Law? (Luigi NUZZO)

The Balance of Power (Frederik DHONT)

Discussion

 

 

11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 – 13:15 Panel 2

The Vienna Congress and State-Making Peace (Raymond KUBBEN)

Forms of International Governance in the 19th Century (Matthias

SCHULZ)

 

 

 

Discussion

 

 

13:15 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 16:30 Panel3

The Ordering of Trade at the Congress of Vienna (Koen STAPELBROEK)

The Vienna Congress and the (Non-)Abolition of Slavery (Anne-Charlotte

 

 

 

MARTINEAU)

Discussion

 

 

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 – 19:00 Panel 4

Swiss Neutrality (Andreas THIER)

Personal Unions (Mathias SCHMOECKEL)