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The Universities of Bonn and Vienna organize a two-day conference, in cooperation with the Landesprogramm LOEWE (Land Hessen)
Summary:
The Congress of Vienna was a landmark in the history of diplomacy and international law. It symbolizes the specific and ambivalent features of extrajudicial conflict resolution. The international and interdisciplinary conference “The Vienna Congress and the Transformation of International Law” aims at understanding the preconditions and consequences of the change of international law from pre-modernity to the 19th century. An investigation on the scientific literature on the Vienna Congress and its peace order might help to understand what the contemporaries regarded as vital
and striking, how they understood their international order and how they wanted to develop it. Early historiography may be a device to determine the particularities of the international order in the beginning of the 19th century and when and how this order was replaced by another regime. The
conference will examine the techniques how the treaties were set up and which new institutions were founded in order to monitor the development of international law issues. Investigations on economic issues will also be taken into account. The conference aims at interdisciplinary and international analysis of conflicts, conflict activities and conflict resolutions in one of the most famous political institutions ever.
Program:
Thursday, 3rdMore information with Professors Milos Vec (Wien) and Matthias Schmoeckel (Bonn).
September 2015
8:30 – 9:00 Coffee & Welcome; Introduction (LOEWE)
09:00 – 11:00 Panel 1
Vienna 1814: A Turning Point of International Law? (Luigi NUZZO)
The Balance of Power (Frederik DHONDT)
Discussion
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 13:15 Panel 2
The Vienna Congress and State-Making Peace (Raymond KUBBEN)
Forms of International Governance in the 19th Century (Matthias
SCHULZ)
Discussion
13:15 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 16:00 Panel3
The Ordering of Trade at the Congress of Vienna (Koen STAPELBROEK)
The Vienna Congress and the (Non-)Abolition of Slavery (Anne-Charlotte
MARTINEAU)
Discussion
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:30 Panel 4
Swiss Neutrality (Andreas THIER)
Personal Unions (Mathias SCHMOECKEL)
Discussion
Friday, 4th
September 2015
7:45 – 8:00 Coffee & Welcome
08:00 – 10:00 Panel 5
Democracy and Public International Law in the 19th
Century (Thomas HIPPLER)
The Congress of Vienna and the Vienna System in the French « Medias »
and « Publizistik » (Raphaël CAHEN)
Discussion
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:30 Panel 6
The Congress of Vienna in International Legal History Narratives (Liliana
OBREGÓN)
Juridification and Legal Avoidance: The Congress of Vienna and 19th
Century European Law of Nations (Miloš VEC)
Discussion
12:30 – 13:00 Closing & Lunch
(see also HSozKult and ESCLH)
