5 november 2014: public event (National Archives, The Hague)
1814 - 1914 - 2014: lessons from the past, challenges for the future
Moderator: Prof. Beatrice de Graaf (Utrecht University)
7:30 p.m.: registration and welcome.
8:00 p.m.: Opening
- Jozias van Aartsen (mayor of The Hague, former minister of foreign affairs): 200 years Conference of Vienna and the Creation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
8:15 p.m.: Keynotes
- Prof. Christopher Clark (Cambridge University): From collective security to European catastrophe, 1815-1914.
- Prof. Niek van Sas (University of Amsterdam): The United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1814-1831). European Bulwark or Security Risk
9:10 p.m.: Commentary
- Mark Jarrett (Author of the book ‘The congress of Vienna and its legacy’): Architects versus Sleepwalkers? Discussing the system of Vienna for today
9:20 p.m.: Discussion
6 november 2014: conference day 1 (Trippenhuis, Amsterdam)
Day chair: Prof. Ido de Haan (Utrecht University)
9:00 a.m.: Registration & coffee
9:30 a.m.: Welcome and opening
9:40 a.m.: Prof. Marieke de Goede (University of Amsterdam). Reflections on position paper.
10:00 a.m.: Prof. Matthias Schulz (University of Geneva). After Napoleon, the construction of a new European security culture: Institutional innovations, norms, paradoxes.
10:45 a.m.: Break
11:00 a.m.: Session 1: 1815 and its old and new threats
1:00 p.m.: Lunch break
1:45 p.m.: Session 2: 1815 and its cultural memory I
3:00 p.m.: Break
3:15 p.m.: Session 3: 1815 and its new institutions
5:00 p.m.: Drinks
7 november 2014: conference day 2 (Trippenhuis, Amsterdam)
Day chair: Prof. Herman Paul (Leiden University)
9:00 a.m.: Registration & coffee
9:30 a.m.: Welcome
9:45 a.m.: Prof. Eckart Conze (Philipps-Universität Marburg). Lessons from 1815. Peace, Security and the Vienna System in History
and Politics (1815 to present).
10:30 a.m.: Break
10:45 a.m.: Workshop 4: 1815 and its professional agents
12:45 p.m.: Lunch break
1:45 p.m.: Workshop 5: 1815 and its Cultural memory II
3:00 p.m.: Break
3:15 p.m.: Concluding remarks and research desiderata
4:00 p.m.: Farewell reception
Speakers of the conference sessions include:
- Stella Ghervas (Harvard University, United States)
- Christoph Nübel (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)
- Claudia Reichl-Ham (Universität Wien, Austria)
- Karl Härter (Max Planck Institut Frankfurt, Germany)
- Thierry Lentz (Director of the Fondation Napoléon, Paris, France)
- Robert Mark Spaulding (University of North Carolina Wilmington, United States)
- Eva Maria Werner (Universität Innsbruck, Austria)
- Markus Kirchhoff (Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany)
- Eckart Conze (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
- Matthias Schulz (University of Geneva)
- Marieke de Goede (University of Amsterdam)
- Stella Ghervas (Harvard University, United States)
- Mark Jarrett (Author of The Congress of Vienna and its Legacy: War and Great Power Diplomacy after Napoleon)
- Jos Gabriëls (Huygens ING, The Netherlands)
- Lotte Jensen (Radboud Universiteit, The Netherlands)
- Jeroen van Zanten (University of Amsterdam)
- Matthijs Lok (Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Janneke Weijermars (Huygens ING, The Netherlands)
and many more