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The end of the First
World War
with its history, Program
remembrance and
current challenges
11 - 12 October 2018
Federal Foreign Office
Berlin
The End of the First World War
with its History,
Thursday, 11 October 2018
8.00 Registration
9.30 – 10.00 Welcome
Heiko Maas, German Minister for Foreign Affairs
Jean-Yves Le Drian, French Minister for Europe and Foreign
Affairs (video message)
10.00 – 10.30 Keynote
Carl Bildt, Co-Chair of the European Council on Foreign
Relations
10.30 – 12.00 Panel 1: From the Paris peace treaties to today’s
visions of a just world order
Prof. Laurence Badel, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Dr. Alexey Fenenko, Moscow State University
Prof. Jennifer Keene, Chapman University, California
Prof. Jörn Leonhard, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Prof. Achille Mbembe, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg
Chair: Prof. Christopher Clark, University of Cambridge
12.00 – 12.30 Questions from the audience
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch break
A buffet will be served at the venue.
Remembrance
and Current Challenges with its History,
13.30 – 15.00 Panel 2: The long shadow of the First World War
Prof. Marie-Janine Calic, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München
Prof. Edhem Eldem, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul and Collège
de France
Prof. Yaroslav Hrytsak, Ukrainian Catholic University and Lviv
National University
Prof. Rana Mitter, University of Oxford
Hanna Radziejowska, Director of the Wola Museum, Warsaw
Chair: Michael Thumann, Foreign Policy Correspondent
for DIE ZEIT, Berlin
15.00 – 15.30 Questions from the audience
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 – 17.30 Panel 3: Societies between war and peace
Prof. Robert Gerwarth, University College Dublin
Lotte Leicht, Director of Human Rights Watch, Brussels office
Engjellushe Morina, Project Manager at the Berghof
Foundation, Berlin
Heidi Tagliavini, Former Ambassador and Special
Representative of the UN Secretary General, of the OSCE and
of the EU
Chair: Dr. Christian F. Trippe, Correspondent for Deutsche
Welle, Berlin
17.30 – 18.00 Questions from the audience
The End of the First World War
with its History,
Evening Program
At the Deutsches Historisches Museum
18.30 Reception
19.00 Blue Charles ~ Some of these Days (1910)
Greeting by Ulrike Kretzschmar, Vice President of the
Deutsches Historisches Museum
Greeting by Dr. Andreas Görgen, Head of the Directorate-
General for Culture and Communication, German Federal
Foreign Office
Greeting by Her Excellency Anne-Marie Descôtes, French
Ambassador in Germany
Blue Charles ~ St. Louis Blues (1914)
Reading by Daniel Kehlmann, from his latest novel Tyll
Followed by a short conversation with Dr. Andreas Görgen
Blue Charles ~ After you’ve gone (1918)
20.00 Buffet with Musical Accompaniment
Remembrance
and Current Challenges
FINDING THE WAY
Please bring your conference badge
Distance: 500 meters
Schlüterhof, Deutsches Historisches Museum
Main Entrance
Unter den Linden 2
10117 Berlin
The End of the First World War
with its History,
Friday, 12 October 2018
7.30 Registration
9.00 – 10.30 Panel 4: Peace and power after the First World War
Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, Vice-President of the International
Criminal Court, The Hague
Dr. Volker Stanzel, Vice-President of the German Council on
Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin
Prof. Adam Tooze, Columbia University, New York City
Chair: Mikhail Zygar, Journalist and author, Moscow
10.30 – 11.00 Questions from the audience
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 13.00 Panel 5: Commemorating war and peace - the
centenary of the First World War
Prof. Joan Beaumont, Australian National University, Canberra
Dr. Elise Julien, University of Lille
Markus Meckel, Former Member of the German Bundestag
Dr. Arndt Weinrich, Sorbonne University, Paris
Chair: Natalie Nougayrède, Foreign Affairs Commentator
for The Guardian, London
13.00 – 13.30 Questions from the audience
Remembrance
and Current Challenges
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch break
A buffet will be served at the venue.
14.30 – 16.00 Concluding discussion: Learning from the First
World War? Designs, instruments and actors of
peace
Ayham Kamel, Head of the MENA research team at the
EURASIA Group, London
Dr. Volker Perthes, Director of the German Institute for
International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin
Dr. Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, Former President of the Republic of
Latvia
Dr. Justin Vaïsse, Director of the Centre for Analysis, Planning
and Strategy in the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign
Affairs
Chair: Stefan Kornelius, Foreign Editor for Süddeutsche
Zeitung, Munich
16.00 – 16.30 Questions from the audience
16.30 – 16.45 Closing statement
Michael Roth, Minister of State for Europe, Federal
Foreign Office, Berlin
Simultaneous translation into English,
French and German will be provided.
The End of the First World War
with its History,
Panel descriptions
Panel 1: From the Paris peace treaties to today’s visions of a just world
order
The first panel will analyze the outcome of the peace negotiations,
including a re-examination of the problems that were solved, left
unsolved, or newly created. The discussion will look at the
attempts to establish a new international order and the rise of new
norms and concepts after 1918. To what extent have these efforts
been successful? What are today’s visions of a just world order?
What should it look like, and how can it last?
Panel 2: The long shadow of the First World War
The second panel is dedicated to the longue durée – the long
shadow of the First World War – from 1918 until today, looking at
different regions of the world, such as Europe, the Middle East,
and Africa, and including former colonies. To what extent do
current conflicts originate from the decisions made at the end of or
after the First World War, and how should we address them?
Panel 3: Societies between war and peace
The conference’s third panel will consider various consequences of
war and armed conflicts within and between societies, such as
migration, forced displacement, brutalization, violence, and
demobilization. How do societies address these challenges, and
how can they successfully transition from war to peace? To what
extent are better concepts available today?
Remembrance
and Current Challenges
Panel 4: Peace and power after the First World War
The fourth panel will focus on various dimensions and principles of
attaining and maintaining peace, such as rule-based
multilateralism, international law and the international economic
order, contrasted with geopolitics and the use of military power.
Finally, among other questions, are democracies more likely to
avoid war than authoritarian regimes?
Panel 5: Commemorating war and peace – the centenary of the First
World War
This panel will look at different approaches to and cultures of
remembrance. How has the centenary been commemorated in
different countries? How can similarities between, and shared
aspects of, cultures of remembrance be created and strengthened
in a way that does not cast aside national experience, in order to
enable shared learning?
Concluding discussion: Learning from the First World War? Designs,
instruments and actors of peace
The final discussion will draw on the previous themes of the
conference and consider what can be learned from decisions and
developments at the end of the First World War as well as from
other pivotal moments from the 20th century until today. We will
look at persisting responsibilities with a view to present-day
conflicts. Which instruments, designs and actors of peace remain
or have become relevant today? To what extent are we able to
learn from history, and which lessons need to be drawn regarding
current challenges?
The End of the First World War
with its History,
Welcome
Heiko Maas is the German Minister for
Foreign Affairs. He was Minister
for Justice and Consumer
Protection from 2013 to 2018 and
is member of the Social
Democratic Party of Germany.
Jean-Yves Le Drian is the French Minister for
Europe and Foreign Affairs. He
served as Minister for Defense and
Veteran Affairs from 2012 to 2017.
A member of the Socialist Party
from 1974 to 2018, he is now
without party affiliation.Remembrance
and Current Challenges
Keynote
Carl Bildt was Sweden’s Foreign Minister from
2006 to 2014 and Prime Minister from
1991 to 1994. He is the chair of the
Global Commission on Internet
Governance, co-chair on the European
Council on Foreign Relations and a
member of the World Economic
Forum’s Global Agenda Council on
Europe.PANEL 1 1
Panel
From the Paris peace treaties
Laurence Badel is a professor of international history at
the University Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris-I)
and the director of the Center of the History of
Contemporary International Relations. Her work
focuses on economic diplomacy, European
diplomatic practices, globalization,
regionalization, and interregionalism between the
European Union and Asia.
Alexey Fenenko is a senior lecturer at the department of
international security, faculty of world politics at
Moscow State University. Furthermore, he works
as an expert for the Russian International Affairs
Council. Previously, he was a leading researcher
at the Institute of International Security Studies of
the Russian Academy of Sciences (2004-2013).
He frequently comments on questions of interna-
tional order and the role of Russia therein.
Jennifer Keene holds the chair of the department of
history at Chapman University, California. She
specializes on the American military experience
during World War I and is currently president of
the Society of Military History. Her last book,
World War I: The American Soldier Experience
(2011) received international praise.to today’s visions of a just world order
Jörn Leonhard is a professor for the modern history of
Western Europe at the Albert-Ludwigs-
Universität Freiburg. His main areas of expertise
are the history of liberalism and nationalism,
research on multi-ethnic empires, and the history
of war and peace. His monograph Pandora's
Box. History of the First World War (2014/2018)
was critically acclaimed by both academic and
general audiences.
Achille Mbembe is a philosopher, political scientist, and
public intellectual. He is a research professor of
history and politics at the Wits Institute for Social
and Economic Research at the University of the
Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
He is the author of On the Postcolony
(2000/2001) and Politiques de l’inimitié (2016).
CHAIR:
Christopher Clark is the Regius Professor of history at
the University of Cambridge. His research
interests are centered on the history of
nineteenth and twentieth-century Germany and
continental Europe. His latest book, The
Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
(2012) analyzes the causes for the outbreak of
the First World War.PANEL 2 2
Panel
The long shadow
Marie-Janine Calic holds the chair of the department for
the history of Eastern and Southeastern Europe
at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
She focuses on the history of Yugoslavia and its
successor states. Her newest monograph,
Südosteuropa. Weltgeschichte einer Region,
was published in 2016.
Edhem Eldem is a professor at the department of history
at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, and holds the
chair of Turkish and Ottoman history at the
Collège de France, Paris. He is an internationally
recognized expert on late Ottoman history.
Yaroslav Hrytsak is the director of the Institute for
Historical Research at the Lviv National
University. His research interests include the
modern history of Eastern Europe, modern
intellectual history, nationalism studies, cultural
history and historical memory.of the First World War
Rana Mitter is a professor of the history and politics of
modern China at the University of Oxford and
the director of the University of Oxford China
Centre. He studies the emergence of
nationalism in modern China, both in the early
20th century and in the contemporary era. His
most recent publication, China’s War with
Japan, 1937-45: The Struggle for Survival
(2013) gained international attention.
Hanna Radziejowska is the curator, producer and
author of numerous cultural and museum
projects. She is currently head of the Wola
Museum in Warsaw. In this role, she created
two programs, “City Laboratory” and “Museum
Laboratory”.
CHAIR:
Michael Thumann is a Berlin-based foreign policy
correspondent for the German newspaper DIE
ZEIT. From 2014 to 2015, he was the director of
the Moscow office of DIE ZEIT. Before that, he
was the newspaper’s chief editor for the Middle
East.Panel 3
Societies between
Robert Gerwarth is professor of modern history at
University College Dublin and the director of the
Centre for War Studies. He is an elected
Member of the Royal Irish Academy, the
Academia Europaea, and a Fellow of the Royal
Historical Society. His third monograph, The
Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to
End (2016), was nominated book of the year by
the Times Literary Supplement, The Financial
Times and the BBC History Magazine.
Lotte Leicht has been the Human Rights Watch's EU
Advocacy Director and Director of the
organization's Brussels office since 1994. She is
responsible for strategic advocacy vis-à-vis
European governments, the European Union
and other international and regional inter-
governmental organizations.
Engjellushe Morina works as a project manager in
the Berghof Foundation’s Conflict
Transformation Research Program. She
focuses on the project “Opportunities for
Prevention of Violent Extremism (PVE) in
the Western Balkans”. Furthermore, she is
part of the Dialogue Mediation and Peace
Support Structures Program.war and peace
Heidi Tagliavini is a Swiss diplomat and former
Ambassador noted for her service in international
peacekeeping missions and peace negotiations.
After the release of the EU-commissioned report
on the conflict in Georgia in 2009, she served as
the head of the Organization for Security and Co-
operation in Europe’s (OSCE) election
observation mission in several parliamentary and
presidential elections in Ukraine, Russia and
Armenia. She also represented the OSCE in the
2014-2015 negotiation of the Minsk I & II
agreements concerning the war in Ukraine.
CHAIR:
Christian F. Trippe is the head of the department for
security and social policy at the Deutsche Welle
(DW), Germany’s public international
broadcaster. Previously, he was head of the DW
studios in Kiev, Brussels and Moscow. Trippe’s
work focuses on foreign and security policy.Panel 4
Peace and power
Marc Perrin de Brichambaut has been Vice-President of
the International Criminal Court in The Hague
since 2015. He has served in numerous senior
positions in the French Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and the Ministry of Defense as well as
the United Nations Secretariat. He served as
Secretary General for the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
from 2005 to 2011.
Volker Stanzel served in the German foreign service from
1979 to 2013. He is currently vice-president of the
German Council on Foreign Relations and a senior
distinguished fellow at the German Institute for
International and Security Affairs (SWP). He works
on themes in political science, specifically modern
diplomacy and Japanese-Chinese relations. His
newest publication, on collective trauma, was
published in 2016 with the title Aussöhnung und
Gesellschaft. Zur Überwindung kollektiv erlebten
Leids.after the First World War
Adam Tooze holds the Shelby Cullom Davis chair of
history at Columbia University and serves as the
director of the European Institute. His research
interests cover themes in political, intellectual
and military history, and stretch across a canvas
from Europe over the Atlantic. His last book,
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises
Changed the World (2018), attempts to
historically analyze the financial crisis of 2008.
CHAIR:
Mikhail Zygar is a Russian journalist and former editor-in-
chief of the independent TV channel “Dozhd”. He
became known for his critical coverage of the
mass protests in Russia in 2011 and Ukraine in
2013 and received the International Press
Freedom Award in 2014. His 2017 book The
Empire Must Die. Russian’s Revolutionary
Collapse, 1900-1917 puts forward a perspective
in which the realities of today can be recognized
in the past.Panel 5
Commemorating war and peace
Joan Beaumont is a professor emerita at the Strategic
and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian
National University. She is internationally
recognized for her work on Australia in the two
world wars, Australian defense and foreign
policy, the history of prisoners of war and the
memory and heritage of war. Her last
monograph, Broken Nation: Australians and the
Great War (2013) was critically acclaimed and
awarded various prizes.
Elise Julien teaches modern history at Sciences Po Lille
and works for the research centre IRHiS (CNRS/
Université de Lille). She specializes in the history
of World War I, its consequences, memory and
historiography. Her doctoral thesis, Paris, Berlin.
La mémoire de la guerre, 1914-1933 (2010)
explores the way inhabitants of the German and
French capital cities recalled the First World War.
Markus Meckel is a former Member of Parliament (SPD)
and former Foreign Minister of the German
Democratic Republic (April-August 1990). He is
a Senior Associate Fellow for the German
Council on Foreign Relations and a member of
numerous foundations and societies.The centenary of the First World War
Arndt Weinrich currently works as a DAAD lecturer at the
University Paris Sorbonne (Paris-IV). From
2011 to 2017 he led the research group First
World War at the German Historical Institute in
Paris. His latest book, La longue mémoire de la
Grande Guerre. France, Allemagne 1918-2014,
published in 2017, is an inquiry into different
cultures and politics of the remembrance of
World War I in France and Germany
respectively.
CHAIR:
Natalie Nougayrède is a columnist, lead writer and
foreign affairs commentator for The Guardian,
and the former editor-in-chief of Le Monde. She
is a specialist in international questions relating
to Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet space.Concluding discussion
Learning from the First World War?
Ayham Kamel is the head of the Eurasia Group's Middle
East and North Africa research team. He leads the
coverage of regional geopolitics, Saudi Arabia, the
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Iraq, and the
Levant area (Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon). His
work focuses on the roles of the US and Russia in
the Middle East, Iran-Saudi relations, energy
policy, terrorism threats, and financial trends in the
region.
Volker Perthes has been the chief executive officer and
director of the German Institute for International
and Security Affairs (SWP) since October 2005.
Since September 2015, he has also served as
Senior Advisor to the UN Special Envoy for
Syria and he is currently chairing the Ceasefire
Task Force for Syria within the International
Syria Support Group on behalf of the UN.
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga is a former President of the Republic
of Latvia. She was first elected in 1999 and re-
elected for a second term in 2003. She currently
serves as the president of the Club of Madrid, the
world’s largest forum for former heads of state and
government, which she co-founded.Designs, instruments and actors of peace
Justin Vaïsse has been the director of the Centre for
Analysis, Planning and Strategy in the French
Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs since
2013. After obtaining a PhD from the Institut
d’études politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris in
2005, he worked as the director of research for
the Center on the United States and Europe of
the Brookings Institution in Washington from
2007 to 2013. He specializes in French and
American foreign policy, transatlantic relations
and American neoconservatism.
CHAIR:
Stefan Kornelius is the foreign editor of the German
newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). For the
SZ, he was a correspondent in Bonn (1993-
1996) and Washington, D.C. (1996-1999). His
work has closely followed the German
chancellery, as well as German defense and
security policy. He is a member of various
organizations and think tanks focusing on
international and security policy.The End of the First World War
with its History,
Closing statement
Michael Roth has been the German Minister of State for
Europe since 2013, and Commissioner for
Franco-German cooperation since 2014. He
represents the Federal Government on the EU’s
General Affairs Council and has been a member
of the Bundestag for the Social Democratic
Party of Germany since 1998.Remembrance and Current Challenges
The End of the First World War
with its History,Remembrance and Current Challenges
The End of the First World War
with its History,Remembrance and Current Challenges
The End of the First World War
with its History,Remembrance
and Current Challenges
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