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07 November 2024

WORKSHOP: 'International Humanitarian Law: Expanding its History(ies), Prospects and Challenges' (Zurich: University of Zurich, 28-29 NOV 2024) [HYBRID]

 


With the generous support of UZH GRC Grants



International Humanitarian Law:

Expanding its History (ies), Prospects and Challenges

 

November 28-29

University of Zurich, KO2-F-152 EV, Karl Schmid-Strasse 4


 

The Workshop Program:


Thursday November 28:

10.00-10.15

 

Welcome & Registration

 

10.15-10.30

 

10.30-11.00

Welcome by Prof. Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina

 

Opening Note by Bruno Demeyere

Chief Editor of the International Review of the Red Cross

 

11.00- 12.30

 

Panel 1: From the Origins to Reinterpretations of International Humanitarian Law

 

Raphael Schäfer, Max-Planck-Institut, Heidelberg

"Humanity as a Vehicle - A New History for the Laws of War"

 

Alexa Stiller, Zürich University

“Between Decolonization and the End of the Cold War: Reinterpretations and Applications of International Humanitarian Law, 1970s to 1990s”

 

Moderator: Prof. Benjamin Straumann, Zurich University

 

12.45-14.00

Lunch UZH Mensa

 

14.00- 15.00

Panel 2:

The archives, and the case of the ICRC in Northern Ireland

 

Hellen Kinsella, University of Minnesota

Giovanni Mantilla, Cambridge University

"Politics, Law, and Power in Detention Visits: the Case of the ICRC in Northern Ireland’s 'Troubles'”

 

Moderator: Prof. Elisabetta Fioochi Malaspina



Thursday November 28:

 

15.00-16.15

 

Panel 3: Art & Emotions in the History of International Humanitarian Law

 

 

 

Giacomo Pace Gravina, University of Messina

“Colonialist Emotions. The 'Nobility of Defeat' in Late 19th-Century Paintings”

 

Tania Atilano, Zurich University,

“The exchange of Belgian prisoners” in the painting of Francisco de Paula Mendoza Escobedo, Mexico, 1881

 

Moderator: Prof. Bardo Fassbender

University of St. Gallen

 

18.00-19.30

Guided Walking Tour: Colonial Legacy in Zurich

 

20.00

Dinner

Restaurant Zum Grünen Glas

 

Friday November 29:

 

 

09.00-10.30

 

 

Panel 4: Latin American Engagements with the Laws of War

 

Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg, LSE, London

“Recentering Quechua and Aymara Revolution in the History of Latin American International Law”


Liliana Obregón

“Racial Hierarchies in Early Latin American Military Codes”

Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia

 

Moderator: Tania Ixchel Atilano

 

10.30-10.45

Coffee Break

 

Friday November 29:

 

10.45- 12.15

 

Panel 5: New Insights on Non-State Actors

 

Samuel White, Adelaide University, Australia

“War Without Limits - A Historical Critique of Sharp War Theory through Forgotten Histories”

 

Roberta Arnold, Zurich University,

“Terrorism and War: A New «Partnership»?”

 

Moderator: Prof. Daniel Marc Segesser

University of Bern

 

12.30- 14.00

Lunch at the ETH Dozentenfoyer

 

14.00 - 15.30

Roundtable

How to expand the history (ies) of IHL?

Challenges and Future Perspectives

Next steps and publication of special issue in the IRRC

 

15.30

Farewell

 

 

Location:

University of Zurich, KO2-F-152 EV, Karl Schmid-Strasse 4




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Contact details


Elisabetta Fiocchi:  Elisabetta.fiocchi@ius.uzh.ch

Tania Atilano: tania.atilanocamacho@uzh.ch


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