Thursday, 11 October
2.00 – 2.15 p.m. Introduction:
Daniel Maul (Gießen)/Dietmar Süß (Jena)
2.15 – 4.00 p.m. Panel I: Impulses
Davide Rodogno (Geneva)
Dietmar Süß (Jena)
Bertrand Taithe (Manchester)
4.30 – 7.00 p.m. Panel II: Civilizing War: The International Red Cross Movement:
Chair: Annette Weinke (Jena)
Daniel Palmieri (ICRC, Geneva): Humanitarianism After War: The
Example of the ICRC, 1918-1925
Esther Möller (Mainz): Non-European Humanitarian Aid in Times of
War: The Red Crescent Societies 1868-1930
Aelwen Wetherby (Oxford): Medical Activism and the Limits of
Neutrality: The American Red Cross and American Wartime Medical
Relief to Spain and China, 1936-1940
Jennifer Johnson Onyedum (New York): The Humanitarian Tie that
Binds: The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Algerian Red Crescent, 1954-1962
Commentator: Jan Eckel (Freiburg)
Friday, 12 October
9:00 – 12:00 a.m. Panel III:
Facing the Consequences of War –
Humanitarian Action Between Voluntary Agencies, the
State and the Military
Chair: Dirk van Laak (Gießen)
Heike Wieters (Berlin): From the Korean Conflict to Vietnam War: American Voluntary Agencies as Civil Advocates of U.S. Foreign Policy Objectives?
Miriam Rürup (Hamburg): "The problem can be solved - if it is
shared": The Issue of Statelessness in Europe after Two World Wars
Jennifer Rodgers (Philadelphia): “Serving Primarily
Humanitarian Purposes”? Refugee Tracing in the Cold War Era
Commentator: Patricia Clavin (Oxford)
2.00 p.m. – 4.00 p.m. Panel IV:
Representing War and Humanitarianism – The Role of the Media
Chair: Peter Hoeres (Gießen/Mainz)
Francisco Martinez-Antonio (Madrid): News and Beyond: Public Impact and Humanitarian Involvement of International War Correspondents during the Rif War
Annette Vowinckel (Potsdam): Photojournalism as Humanitarian Action
Julia Irwin (Tampa): Visual Media and the Construction of U.S.
Humanitarian Obligation in the First World War Era
Commentator: Volker Barth (Köln)
4.30 – 6.30 p.m. Panel V:
Humanitarianism and Prisoners of War
Chair: Jost Dülffer (Köln)
Fabien Theofilakis (Paris-Nanterre/Augsburg): Red Cross coping with
the German Captivity in France (1944-1948): A Second Solferino?
Julia Walleczek-Fritz (Innsbruck): Humanitarianism with Handicaps. Neutral
States, Humanitarian Organizations and their POW Relief in Austria-
Hungary 1914-1918
Brian Feltman (Statesboro): “Denkt an unsere
armen Gefangenen”: Humanitarian Aid for German Prisoners of the
Great War, 1914-1920
Commentator: Hubertus Büschel (Gießen)
Saturday, 13 October
09.00– 12.30 a.m.
Panel VI: New Wars, New Humanitarianism: Post 1945
Chair: Norbert Frei (Jena)
Silvia Salvatici (Teramo): An Army without Weapons. UNRRA Relief
Officers in Europe
Young-Sun Hong (New York): From the Korean War to the Congo
Crisis: Humanitarian Crisis and the International Humanitarian Regime,
1950-1960
Florian Hannig (Halle): The Biafran War or when International
Humanitarianism became Global – a West German Perspective
Michael Vössing (Mainz): Captives of the Vietcong: The West-German Malteser Hilfsdienst in South-Vietnam (1966-1975) and the risks for Humanitarian actors in war zones
Commentator: Alexander Nützenadel (Berlin)
Concluding Discussion