THURSDAY, 5 June
12.30 – 13.30
Coffee and Registration
13.30 – 14.00
Claus Leggewie (KWI Essen): Welcome
Volker Heins (KHK/GCR21 / University of Bochum): Opening Remarks
14.00 – 15.30
Opening Lecture: Michael Barnett (George Washington University):
Periodizing Humanitarianism
15.30 – 16.00
Coffee Break
16.00 – 18.00
PANEL 1: HISTORIES OF HUMANITARIANISM: COOPERATION AND PATERNALISM
Chair: Alexandra Przyrembel (Freie Universität Berlin)
Francesca Piana (Swiss National Science Foundation / Columbia University):
‘A Red Crux on a White Flag': The Visual Politics of the ICRC after WWI
Florian Hannig (University of Halle-Wittenberg):
The Biafra concern in West Germany: Historicizing empathy
Charlotte Walker-Said (City University of New York):
Science and Charity: Humanitarianism and the End of Empire
Jeff Roquen (Lehigh University, Pennsylvania):
America’s first humanitarian intervention, 1895-1898
18.00 – 19.00
Break: Snacks
19.00 – 20.30
Käte Hamburger Lecture:
Thomas G. Weiss (CUNY Graduate Center):
Humanitarianism's Contested Culture
Discussants: Dennis Dijkzeul (University of Bochum) and
David Chandler (University of Westminster)
FRIDAY, 6 June
10.00 – 12.00
Opening Lecture:
Fritz Breithaupt (Indiana University):
The Dark Sides of Empathy: Nietzsche’s Objection Against Empathy and the Future of Humanitarianism
Discussants: Frank Adloff (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg) and Christine Unrau (KHK/GCR21 Duisburg, University of Cologne)
12.00 – 13.30
Lunch
13.30 – 15.00
PANEL 2: HUMANITARIANISM, RELIGION AND TRANSCULTURALITY: COOPERATION AND SENSIBILITY
Chair: Claus Leggewie (KWI Essen)
Mathis Danelzik (KWI Essen):
Shaping, marginalizing and cooperating with religious authority: The case of campaigns to end female genital mutilation
Jochen Kleres (University of Gothenburg):
Humanitarianism, Development and Shifting Emotional Climates
Mayke Kaag (University of Leiden):
Islamic charities from the Arab world in Africa: Transcultural encounters of humanitarianism and morality
15.00 – 15.30
Coffee Break
15.30 – 17.30
PANEL 3: HUMANITARIANISM, PEACEBUILDING AND THE MILITARY: COOPERATION AND COMPLICITY
Chair: Dirk Messner (German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik)
Antonio Donini (Feinstein International Center at Tufts University and Graduate Center, Geneva):
Deep lessons from Afghanistan
Adam Branch (Makerere Institute of Social Research, Uganda):
Assembling for protection: The politics of transnational militarization in Africa
Kai Koddenbrock (KHK/GCR21, Duisburg):
Reconfiguring Goma: The political economy of humanitarianism and peacebuilding in Eastern Congo
Aidan Hehir (University of Westminster):
R2P after the Arab Spring: The perennial need for UN military reform?
SATURDAY, 7 June
10.30 – 12.00
PANEL 4: NEW PLAYERS IN GLOBAL HUMANITARIANISM: COOPERATION AND COMPETITION
Chair: Kai Koddenbrock (KHK/GCR21, Duisburg)
Cindy Horst (Peace Research Institute Oslo):
Diaspora humanitarianism: The invisibility of a third humanitarian space
Devon Curtis (University of Cambridge):
China and the Insecurity of Development in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
Jutta Joachim (University of Hannover) / Andrea Schneiker (University of Siegen):
Private military and security companies: New players in global aid governance
12.00 – 13.30
Lunch
13.30 – 14.30
Dennis Dijkzeul (University of Bochum) and David Chandler (University of Westminster):
Concluding Remarks