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Re-enacting ourselves: academic behavior in research seminars

June 29, 2023

Wouter Werner

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…

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

May 16, 2019

Amina Adanan

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…

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

May 15, 2019

Maja Munivrana Vajda

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…

Introducing Upcoming Blog Symposium on the Genocide Convention

May 15, 2019

Edoardo G. Vacca

Jennifer Giblin

Katarina Schwarz

Sarina Landefeld

Richard Mackenzie-Gray Scott

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…

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

January 26, 2019

Helen McDermott

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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In late July, a group of academic, military, and governmental experts from both sides of the Atlantic gathered at the University of Oxford for the fourth annual “Transatlantic Workshop on International Law and Armed Conflict”. The roundtable, held under the Chatham House Rule, and which this year included participants from Australia was held over two days and examined contemporary questions of…