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27
jan
2020
28
jan
2020
Centre Assas - Le Patio
(92 rue d'Assas 75006 PARIS)
Inscription obligatoire
Graduate Conference of the European War Studies Network

Organisée cette année par le Centre Thucydide

Programme

January 27, 2020.

9h: Welcoming participants. (Le Patio)
9h15: Introductory remarks and presentation of the European War Studies Network.

9h30- 10h30: KEYNOTE SPEAKER. Thierry Balzacq -Sciences Po (to be confirmed)

10h30-12h: Panel 1: How to create novelty? The challenges of military innovation
Chair and discussant: Dr. Océane ZUBELDIA, IRSEM

Speakers:

  • Lucie PEBAY, University of Bath, Contemporary French Military Transformation: Towards Innovation?
  • Rupert CULYER, University of Sussex, The Death of Orientalism? Cybernetic thought and homogenizing the battlefield
  • Laura HOLLÆNDER SCHOUSBOE, University of Southern Denmark, How innovations cease to be new: Routinizing technological innovations within military organizations.
  • Thomas HUGUES, Queen’s University (Canada), New Day, New rules: the logic of regime-based confidence building in the cyber arena.

12h-14h: AEGES Working Lunch: Publication workshop. What does it mean to be a PhD student working on war in Europe today? For participants only.

14h-15h30: Panel 2: New actors?
Chair and discussant: Pr. Daniel BRUNSTETTER, UC Irvine.

Speakers:

  • Hannah WEST, University of Bath, Pregnant, Unarmed, in command: Women as weapon systems in front line combat
  • Raphael DANINO-PERRAUD, Laboratoire d’économie d’Orléans & IRSEM, Critical Raw materials in the value chain of the European Defense Industry.
  • Eva PORTEL, Sciences Po Bordeaux, Cultural Destructions by the Islamic State group: a strategic issue.
  • Martino TOGNOCCHI, University of Milan, The making of war at a distance: how modern technologies in the Crimean war recast the “present of war”;  

16h-17h30: Panel 3: L’extension du domaine de la guerre. New domains, new disciplines?
Chair and discussant: Dr. Amelie THEUSSEN, University of Southern Denmark

Speakers:

  • Megan KARLSHOEJ-PEDERSEN, Oxford Research Group, Strategy on a light footprint? Unpicking contemporary remote warfare in Africa.
  • Matthijs OOMS, Royal Netherlands Navy, Maritime Trade Protection: is the West prepared?
  • Emma CAMPBELL-MOHN, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Blood and Treasure: The Ethics of Using Economic Coercion instead of Military Conflict.
  • Marie ROBIN, Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas/ University of Southern Denmark, Fighting with words. A strategic analysis of jihadists’ revenge.

19h: Dinner in town – for participants only.

January 28, 2020.

9h30-11h: Panel 4. Thinking anew. New paradigms in war studies?
Chair and discussant: Dr. Vincent C. KEATING, University of Southern Denmark.

Speakers:

  • Chiara LIBISELLER, King’s College London, Fashionable Concepts in the field of Strategic Studies.
  • Jakob HAUTER, University College London, Forensic War Studies: A research Agenda to Counter the Challenge of Disinformation.
  • Johanna MOEHRING, Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas, Fighting that doesn’t go “bang”: military power and political warfare.
  • Marshall PALMER, NPSIA, Carleton University, Political warfare in the 21st century: Evaluating Russia’s intervention in the 2016 Election.

11h30-13h: Panel 5: Is there such a thing as a new war?
Chair and discussant: Pr. Jean-Vincent HOLEINDRE, Université Paris 2

Speakers:

  • Silvie JANICATOVA, Masaryk University, Air Power in Contemporary Conflicts: A weapon of first choice?
  • Sorina TOLTICA, University of Portsmouth, Old Actors, New practice? An Analysis of UK&US Remote Warfare Strategy in Nigeria
  • Guna ZACESTE, University of Latvia, Decision making of Nordic and Baltic States between military conscription and All-Volunteer force after the Cold War.
  • Ruben STEWART, International Red Cross, Civilian Harm and the Shape of the Future of War.
  • Benjamin HARRIS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Future of Great Power Military Intervention.

LUNCH – For participants only.

14h30-16h: Panel 6: The consequences of new technologies on warfare.
Chair and discussant : Pr. Olivier SCHMITT, University of Southern Denmark.

Speakers:

  • Laure DE ROCHEGONDE, CERI Sciences Po, LAWS in War and Laws of war: Are Killer Robots Compatible with International Humanitarian Law?
  • Anneleen VAN DEN MEER, University of Saint-Andrews, Blueprints: Using the chemical weapons debate to imagine an RAS-free future.
  • Joanne KIRKHAM, Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas, Autonomous Weapons: Between the quest for power and humanitarian concerns, a study of legal discourses
  • Vicky KARYOTI, University of Southern Denmark, 21st Century Soldiers: Military Professionalism in the Era of Artificial Intelligence.
  • Ibrahim TEKES, Marmara University, What happens in terms of law of war if the robots come into the battlefield?

Concluding Remarks: Pr. Olivier SCHMITT, University of Southern Denmark.

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