Program
Thursday, October 25, 2012
14:00: Welcome and Introduction, Fabian Klose (München), Holger Nehring (Sheffield)
14:15-15:00: Keynote Lecture, Michael Geyer (Chicago), Humanitarianism and Human Rights: A Troubled Rapport
15:00-15:30: Coffee Break
15:30-17:30: Panel I: The Legal Discourse on Humanitarian Intervention and the Role of Public Opinion in the 19th Century
- Daniel Segesser (Bern), Humanitarian Intervention and the Issue of State Sovereignty in the Discourse of Legal Experts of the Second Half of the 19th Century
- Stefan Kroll (Toronto), Intervention and Justification
- Jon Western (South Hadley, MA), “Prudence or Outrage? Public Opinion and Influence on Humanitarian Intervention in Historical and Comparative Perspective”
- Chair: Christa Hämmerle (Wien)
Commentary: Martin Aust (München)
17:30-18:30: Break
18:30-20:00: Public Panel Discussion, Detlef Bald (München), Corinna Hauswedell (Bonn), Lawrence Moss (New York), Ulf Häußler (Berlin): „Protecting Human Rights by Force? Military and Political Perspectives in the 21st Century”
20:00: Reception
Friday, October 26, 2012
09:00-11:00: Panel II: Humanitarian Intervention in the 19th Century, Part I: Fighting the Slave Trade
- Fabian Klose (München), Enforcing Abolition: The Congress of Vienna and the Origins of Humanitarian Intervention
- Bronwen Everill (Warwick), Colonial Anti-Slavery and Humanitarian Intervention: Sierra Leone and Liberia from 1821-1861
- Mairi MacDonald (Toronto), Colonial Rule as Humanitarian Intervention: The Brussels Conference relative to the African Slave Trade 1890
- Chair: Jost Dülffer (Köln)
Commentary: Philipp Gassert (Augsburg)
11:00-11:30: Coffee Break
11:30-13:00: Panel III: Humanitarian Intervention in the 19th Century, Part II: Protecting Religious and Ethnic Minority Groups
- Davide Rodogno (Genf ), Interventions in the Ottoman Empire
- Abigail Green (Oxford), Patterns of Intervention: the Jewish Question as an International Problem in the 19th Century
- Chair: Fabian Klose (München)
- Commentary: Brendan Simms (Cambridge)
13:00-14:00: Lunch Break
14:00-16:00: Panel IV: Humanitarian Intervention in the Interwar Period
- Daniel Maul (Gießen), Questions of War and Peace: Quaker Relief and the Problem of Humanitarian Intervention 1870 to 1945
- Jost Dülffer (Köln), Humanitarian Intervention as Legitimation - the German Case 1937/1940
- Chair: Martin Geyer (München)
Commentary: Claudia Kemper (Hamburg)
16:00-16:30: Coffee Break
16:30-19:00: Panel V: Humanitarian Intervention during the Cold War
- Jan Erik Schulte (Dresden), From the Protection of Sovereignty to Humanitarian Intervention? Traditions and Developments of United Nations Peacekeeping in the 20th Century
- Norrie MacQueen (Dundee), Cold War Peacekeeping versus Humanitarian Intervention: Beyond the Hammarskjoldian Model
- Gottfried Niedhart (Mannheim), Humanitarian Catastrophies and the Problem of Intervention in the East-West Conflict: from Hungary 1956 to Helsinki 1975
- Patrick Merziger (Berlin), Civil-Military Cooperation in Humanitarian Missions of the Federal Republic of Germany 1960-1992
- Chair: Detlef Bald (München)
Commentary: Holger Nehring (Sheffield)
Saturday, October 27, 2012
09:00-11:00: Panel VI: A New Century of Humanitarian Intervention?
- Eric J. Morgan (University of Wisconsin), From Intervention to Non-Intervention: The United States and the Rwandan Genocide
- Bradley Simpson (Princeton), Realpolitik Praxis in Humanitarian Garb: The International Community’s Intervention in East Timor in 1999
- Manuel Fröhlich (Jena), The Responsibility to Protect as Normative Change: The Case of Libya
- Chair: Corinna Hauswedell (Bonn)
Commentary: Marie-Janine Calic (München)
11:00-11:30: Coffee Break
11:30-12:00: Final Commentary: Andrew Thompson (Exeter)
12:00-13:00: Final Discussion