What is a Treaty?
28.–29. März 2019
Answers to the question “What is a treaty?” are at once deceptively simple and dizzyingly complex, depending on who is asking it and for what reasons. The meaning of a treaty in the ancient world was evidently not the same as its significance in the contemporary era of digital diplomacy; the conceptions of a treaty among Indigenous peoples in North America, South and Southeast Asia, Africa, or Oceania were not the same as the understanding of treaties within the Eurocentric system of international law; the significance of a treaty also differs in a settler colonial society where it forms the basis of an intercultural social contract—for example, in Aetearoa/New Zealand where the Treaty of Waitangi (1840) fulfills that function—from those polities where treaties are primarily objects of public international law; a treaty’s import will not be the same for a student of material culture as for a practising diplomat, nor is it obvious how legal theory might integrate diplomatic documents into the broader social contract tradition. Such distinctions and discussions should be a productive source of intercultural comparison as well as a spur to conceptual innovation. Only a dialogue among disciplines--history, international relations, political science, law, and art history among them--can tackle such proliferating questions. It is especially appropriate to convene such a meeting in 2019, the fiftieth anniversary of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties of 1969.
Convener
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Kontakt
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Teilnehmer
Stefan
Eklöf Amirell
Linnaeus University
Saliha
Belmessous
University of New South Wales
Jessica
Berenbeim
University of Cambridge
Matthew
Birchall
University of Cambridge
Christina
Brauner
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Li
Chen
University of Toronto
Megan
Donaldson
University of Cambridge
Stella
Ghervas
Newcastle University
Christoph
Grabenwarter
Fellow
2018/2019
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Mamadou
Hébié
International Court of Justice and Leiden University
Edward
Keene
University of Oxford
Bertram
Lomfeld
Freie Universität Berlin
Adam
Mestyan
Duke University
Georg
Nolte
Fellow
2006/2007
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
James
Stafford
Universität Bielefeld
Dieter
Grimm
Permanent Fellow
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Eva Marlene
Hausteiner
Universität Bonn
Daniel
Schönpflug
Wissenschaftskolleg and Freie Universität Berlin
Barbara
Stollberg-Rilinger
Permanent Fellow
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Heidi
Tagliavini
Fellow
2018/2019
Bundesverwaltung, Bern
Sven
Trakulhun
Universität Konstanz
Basak
Tug
Fellow
2018/2019
Istanbul Bilgi University