Presentation

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 and Giovanni Roggia, Sciences Po, CHSP / Roma Tre University

Programme

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 : Keynote Lecture - What is International Law and Who are International Actors ? A View from the Sideline
Tamar Herzog, Harvard University

Chair : Conor Muller, University of Oxford / Sciences Po, CHSP

Discussants : Laurine Manac’h, Université Paris I
Benjamin Peters, Geneva Graduate Institute

15:45 : Coffee break

Panel 1 - Making international law in the shadows of (non-)sovereigns

Chair : Amina Hassani, Sciences Po, École de Droit / Geneva

16:00 : Sans Patrie, Sans Protection : Statelessness and Non-Sovereignty in International Legal History, 1850-1900
Ayse Polat, Oxford University

Those public emblems of the law of nations’: The Misuse of the Imperial Flag as a Breach of Interpolity Law (Mediterranean, 1750-1770)
Costanza Lugnani, Université Paris I

Shadow Sovereigns : Women, Migrants, and the Making of International Law in Sikkim
Meghashree Dev, National Law School of India University, Ben galuru

Discussants : Horatia Muir-Watt, École de droit Sciences Po
Nicolas Delalande, Sciences Po, CHSP

18:00 : End of the firth day

28 November 2025

9:30 : Welcome coffee

Panel 2 - Shaping the textualities of international law

Chair : Clarisse Anceau, Sciences Po, École de Droit

10:00 : Recasting the Terms of Empire : How Indigenous Translators and Scribe Mediated the Legal Vocabulary of Empire through Treaty-making in Southeast Asia (c. 1750-1900)
Maarten Manse, Linnaeus University

Cultural Brokers of International Law : Librarians, Rare Books, and the Global Competition for De Iure Belli ac Pacis
Matthew Cleary, Independent

Deceiving with a Sweet Banana : Petitioners in Trust Territories as Theorists of International Law
Nicole Stybnarova, Copenhagen Business School

Discussants : Jean d’Aspremont, Sciences Po, École de droit
David Todd, Sciences Po, CHSP

Panel 3 - Building collective visibilities within international law

Chair : Giovanni Roggia, Sciences Po, CHSP / Roma Tre University

14:00 : Pan-Africanism, Nationalism, and 19th Century Discourses on International Law-Making
Apeike Umolu, Cambridge University

Reassembling the Global Black Armada, 1945-1949
Michelle M. Ong, Harvard University

Migrant workers from French former colonies : Vietnamiese Migrant Unions within the emergence of EEC’s freedom of movement
Nhi Yen Le, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Discussants : Ville KARI, Tilburg University
Mohamed-Ali Adraoui, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord

16:00 : Coffee break

16:30 : Concluding Remarks
Daniela Luigia Caglioti, University of Naples Federico II
Chair: Lorenzo Bonomelli, Sciences Po, CHSP / SSM Naples

17:15 : Closure

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