ESIL 2017 Annual Conference
Symposium of the
Interest Group on the History of International Law
“Evaluating the Turn to History of International Law”
Naples, Wednesday, 6 September 2017
13:00-17:00, Venue TBA
13:00: Welcome and Opening Remarks
Thomas Skouteris (The American University in Cairo)
13:00-14:30: Session 1
Martin Clark (London School of Economics): “Ambivalences, anxieties / Adaptations, advances”
Valentina Vadi (Lancaster University): “International Law and its Microhistories”
Amrita Mukherjee (University of Leeds): “Subaltern Studies & International Law”
Discussant: Gerry Simpson (London School of Economics)
15:00-16:30: Session 2
Miriam Bak Mackenna (Lund University) & Matilda Arvidsson (Lund University): “The ‘turn to history’ and the sources doctrine in international law: disruption, democratization, and distress”
Jan Martin Lemnitzer (University of Southern Denmark): “Writing a new history of international criminal law – where do we start?
Immi Tallgren (University of Helsinki): “A turn to women? Histories of ‘international criminal lawyers”
Discussant: Ignacio de la Rasilla del Moral (Brunel University)
Moderator: Inge van Hulle (Tilburg University)
16:30: Closing remarks and discussion on future activities of the IGHIL
Symposium Conveners/ IGHIL Coordinating Committee Members
Frederik Dhondt, Inge van Hulle, Ignacio de la Rasilladel Moral, and Thomas Skouteris
