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Re-enacting ourselves: academic behavior in research seminars

This blog is about two similar events: one in Amsterdam, the other in Florence. Both events looked like a normal research seminar. We booked a room, circulated a paper in advance, we arranged a discussant and a chair. A paper was presented and comments and questions followed. It was also meant as a normal seminar, except for one thing: it was not. This was a re-enactment of a typical research seminar.  The focus was not on the paper, nor on the comments or questions. The main focus was on the behavior of the participants. What happens if we take an ironical distance towards our own behavior in research seminars? What happens if we adopt roles of typical academics and re-enact them in a staged research seminar? Why did we choose to do this? It all started with a question from a first year’s PhD candidate. An obvious and legitimate question-- and yet it came as a surprise.  “How should I behave in research seminars, conferences or workshops?” I was puzzled: How to answer a…

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Symposium on the Genocide Convention: Reflecting on the Genocide Convention at 70: How genocide became a crime subject to universal jurisdiction

Editor's note: This is the second post in our blog symposium arising out of the Nottingham International Law and Security Centre conference to mark the 70th Anniversary of the Genocide Convention. Read the first post here. The 9th of December 2018 marked the 70th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Prevention…

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Symposium on the Genocide Convention: Codification of the Crime of Genocide – a Blessing or a Curse?

Editor's note: This is the first post in our blog symposium arising out of the Nottingham International Law and Security Centre conference to mark the 70th Anniversary of the Genocide Convention.  Codification of the crime of genocide A lot has been written about the origins of the crime of genocide that need…

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Introducing Upcoming Blog Symposium on the Genocide Convention

Editor's note: Starting this afternoon, the blog will host a symposium arising out of the Nottingham International Law and Security Centre conference to mark the 70th Anniversary of the Genocide Convention. On 9 December 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in…

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Joint Blog Series on International Law and Armed Conflict: Urban Warfare: The Obligations of Defenders

The fifth post in our joint series hosted by the ICRC Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog, EJIL Talk! and Lawfare, and arising out of the 6th Transatlantic Workshop on International Law and Armed Conflict, 'Urban Warfare: The Obligations of Defenders', by Aurel Sari available now over on Lawfare. Here’s a taster from Aurel's post: …

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