10.00-10.15

Welcome & Registration

10.15-10.30

10.30-11.00

Welcome by Prof. Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina

Opening Note by Bruno Demeyere

Chief Editor of the International Review of the Red Cross

11.00- 12.30

Panel 1: From the Origins to Reinterpretations of International Humanitarian Law

Raphael Schäfer, Max-Planck-Institut, Heidelberg

"Humanity as a Vehicle - A New History for the Laws of War"

Alexa Stiller, Zürich University

“Between Decolonization and the End of the Cold War: Reinterpretations and Applications of International Humanitarian Law, 1970s to 1990s”

Moderator: Prof. Benjamin Straumann, Zurich University

12.45-14.00

Lunch UZH Mensa

14.00- 15.00

Panel 2:

The archives, and the case of the ICRC in Northern Ireland

Hellen Kinsella, University of Minnesota

Giovanni Mantilla, Cambridge University

"Politics, Law, and Power in Detention Visits: the Case of the ICRC in Northern Ireland’s 'Troubles'”

Moderator: Prof. Elisabetta Fioochi Malaspina

Thursday November 28:

15.00-16.15

Panel 3: Art & Emotions in the History of International Humanitarian Law

Giacomo Pace Gravina, University of Messina

“Colonialist Emotions. The 'Nobility of Defeat' in Late 19th-Century Paintings”

Tania Atilano, Zurich University,

“The exchange of Belgian prisoners” in the painting of Francisco de Paula Mendoza Escobedo, Mexico, 1881

Moderator: Prof. Bardo Fassbender

University of St. Gallen

18.00-19.30

Guided Walking Tour: Colonial Legacy in Zurich

20.00

Dinner

Restaurant Zum Grünen Glas

Friday November 29:

09.00-10.30

Panel 4: Latin American Engagements with the Laws of War

Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg, LSE, London

“Recentering Quechua and Aymara Revolution in the History of Latin American International Law”

Liliana Obregón

“Racial Hierarchies in Early Latin American Military Codes”

Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia

Moderator: Tania Ixchel Atilano

10.30-10.45

Coffee Break

Friday November 29:

10.45- 12.15

Panel 5: New Insights on Non-State Actors

Samuel White, Adelaide University, Australia

“War Without Limits - A Historical Critique of Sharp War Theory through Forgotten Histories”

Roberta Arnold, Zurich University,

“Terrorism and War: A New «Partnership»?”

Moderator: Prof. Daniel Marc Segesser

University of Bern

12.30- 14.00

Lunch at the ETH Dozentenfoyer

14.00 - 15.30

Roundtable

How to expand the history (ies) of IHL?

Challenges and Future Perspectives

Next steps and publication of special issue in the IRRC

15.30

Farewell