SYMPOSIUM: 'Imagining Peace in the Long Nineteenth Century (1789-1914). In Search of New Actors and Vocabularies' (Brussels: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 15 SEPT 2023) [Hybrid]

Imagining Peace in the Long Nineteenth Century (1789-1914)  

In Search of New Actors and Vocabularies  

Programme

15 September 2023

Room I.0.02

9:30 – 9:45
Opening remarks and introduction by Wouter De Rycke & Raphaël Cahen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

9:45 – 10:30
Public keynote by Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki)

The Law of an International Civil Society: The Road not Taken.

10:30 – 11:00
Discussion and audience questions

Room PL.5.5.61

11:30 – 12:00
Stella Ghervas (University of California – Los Angeles)

From Projects to Pacts: The Peace Plan as Genre in the Age of Revolutions.

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch break

13:00 – 13:30
Hendrik Simon (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt)

Imagining Perpetual Peace - A Forgotten Kantian Debate in Early 19th Century.

13:30 – 14:00

Jakob Zollmann (Berlin Social Science Center)

Eduard Loewenthal and the Future of Peace in Imperial Germany. Considerations of a would-be Nobel Peace Prize Winner.

14:00 – 14:30
Miroslav Šedivý (University of Pardubice)

The Search for New International Law and Lasting Peace in Mid-19th Century Geopolitical Debates. German and Italian Nationalist Responses to Insecurity.

14:30 – 15:00
Wouter De Rycke (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Justifying Utopia. The Mid-Nineteenth Century International Peace Movement and International Law.

15:00 – 15:30

Coffee break

15:30 – 16:00
Eliana Augusti (University of Salento)

The Imagined Peace and the Lost Words in the European Long Nineteenth Century.

16:00 – 16:30
Miloš Vec (University of Vienna)

Neither War nor Peace? Armed Reprisals in 19th-Century International Legal Doctrine.

16:30 – 17:00
Thomas Hippler (University de Caen Normandie)

17:00 – 17: 30

Concluding remarks