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27.11.2025
Conference Junior | Invisible Actors in the Making of International Law
À propos de cet événement
Du 27 novembre 2025 à 13:30 au 28 novembre 2025 à 18:00
INVISIBLE ACTORS IN THE MAKING OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (1750-2000)
Organising committee
Clarisse ANCEAU (Sciences Po, Ecole de Droit), Lorenzo BONOMELLI (Sciences Po, CHSP/SSM Naples), Amina HASSANI (Sciences Po, Ecole de Droit/ Geneva), Conor MULLER (Oxford / Sciences Po, CHSP),
Giovanni ROGGIA (Sciences Po, CHSP / Roma Tre University)
Scientific committee
Daniela Luigia CAGLIOTI (Univ. Federico II Napoli), Jean D’ASPREMONT (Sciences Po, Ecole de Droit/Manchester), Renaud MORIEUX (Cambridge), Horatia MUIR WATT (Sciences Po, École de Droit),
Paul-André ROSENTAL (Sciences Po, CHSP), David TODD (Sciences Po, CHSP / CHEP), Dina WAKED (Sciences Po, École de Droit, École de la recherche)
DAY 1 – 27 NOVEMBER 2025
13:30 - Welcome coffee
14:00 - Institutional greetings:
Dina WAKED (Sciences Po, École de Droit, École de la recherche) ; Guillaume PIKETTY (Sciences Po, CHSP)
14.15 - 15.45
Roundtable: (Re)thinking international law and its actors: Historians and lawyers in conversation
Chair: Dina WAKED
Participants: Laurine MANAC’H (PhD in History, Université Paris I), Benjamin PETERS (International Law PhD Student, Geneva Graduate Institute), Horatia MUIR-WATT (Professor at the Sciences Po Law School), and Jakob VOGEL (Sciences Po, CHSP).
T. Herzog's text will be read by Professor Caglioti during the roundtable.
15:45-16:00 - Coffee break
16:00-18:00 - Panel 1: “Making international law in the shadows of (non-)sovereigns”
Chair: Amina HASSANI (Sciences Po, École de Droit / Geneva)
- Ayse POLAT (Oxford University), “Sans Patrie, Sans Protection: Statelessness and Non-Sovereignty in International Legal History,
1850-1900”
- Costanza LUGNANI (Université Paris I), “Those public emblems of the law of nations’: The Misuse of the Imperial Flag as a Breach of Interpolity Law (Mediterranean, 1750-1770)”
- Meghashree DEV (National Law School of India University, Ben galuru), “Shadow Sovereigns: Women, Migrants, and the Making of International Law in Sikkim”
Discussants: Horatia MUIR-WATT (École de droit Sciences Po), Nicolas DELALANDE (Sciences Po, CHSP)
DAY 2 – 28 NOVEMBER 2025
9:30 - Welcome coffee
10:00-12:00 - Panel 2: “Shaping the textualities of international law”
Chair: Clarisse ANCEAU (Sciences Po, École de Droit)
- Maarten MANSE (Linnaeus University), “Recasting the Terms of Empire: How Indigenous Translators and Scribe Mediated the Legal Vocabulary of Empire throughTreaty-making in Southeast Asia (c. 1750-1900)”
- Matthew CLEARY (Independent), “Cultural Brokers of International Law: Librarians, Rare Books, and the Global Competition for De Iure Belli ac Pacis”
- Nicole STYBNAROVA (Copenhagen Business School), “Deceiving with a Sweet Banana: Petitioners in Trust Territories as Theorists of International Law”
Discussants: Jean d’ASPREMONT (Sciences Po, École de droit), David TODD (Sciences Po, CHSP)
14:00-16:00 - Panel 3: “Building collective visibilities within international law”
Chair: Giovanni ROGGIA (Sciences Po, CHSP / Roma Tre University)
- Apeike UMOLU (Cambridge University), “Pan-Africanism, Nationalism, and 19th Century Discourses on International Law-Making”
- Michelle M. ONG (Harvard University), “Reassembling the Global Black Armada, 1945-1949”
- Nhi Yen LE (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), “Migrant workers from French former colonies: Vietnamiese Migrant Unions within the emergence of EEC’s freedom of movement“
Discussants: Ville KARI (Tilburg University), Mohamed-Ali ADRAOUI (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord)
16:00-16:30 - Coffee break
16:30-17:15 - Concluding Remarks
Daniela Luigia CAGLIOTI (University of Naples Federico II)
Chair: Lorenzo BONOMELLI (Sciences Po, CHSP / SSM Naples)
17:15 - Closure
