Colloque: Invisible Actors in the Making of International Law
Chères et chers collègues,
Nous avons le plaisir de vous communiquer le programme du colloque junior du Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po, <www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/fr/evenements/conference-junior-invisible-actors-in-the-making-of-international-law/> Invisible Actors in the Making of International Law (1750–2000)<www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/fr/evenements/conference-junior-invisible-actors-in-the-making-of-international-law/>. Le colloque se tiendra les 27 et 28 novembre 2025, en format hybride, au Campus Saint-Thomas d’Aquin, Paris 75007.
L’inscription est obligatoire via ce lien<docs.google.com/forms/u/3/d/e/1FAIpQLSf51-PzWAuZhIyfabZmiu4ZTuYcvd5i7g7CNwetsA_LK1WJsw/viewform>.
Cordialement, Clarisse Anceau, Lorenzo Bonomelli, Amina Hassani, Conor Muller, Giovannia Roggia
Invisible Actors in the Making of International Law Co-funded by the Sciences Po School of Research and the Centre for History and Economics in Paris
DAY 1 – 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: Tamar HERZOG (Harvard University): “What is International Law and Who are International Actors? A View from the Sideline” Chair: Conor MULLER (University of Oxford / Sciences Po, CHSP) Discussants: Laurine MANAC’H (Université Paris I), Benjamin PETERS (Geneva Graduate Institute)
15:45-16:00 – Coffee break
16:00-18:00 – Panel 1: “Making international law in the shadows of (non-)sovereigns” Chair: Amina HASSANI (Sciences Po, École de Droit / Geneva)
* Ayse POLAT (University of Oxford), “Sans Patrie, Sans Protection: Statelessness and Non-Sovereignty in International Legal History, 1850-1900”
* Soumya RANJAN GAHIR (Ravenshaw University), “Stateless Strategies: Palestinian Refugees and the Bottom-Up Making of International Law, 1948–1965”
* Meghashree DEV (National Law School of India University, Bengaluru), “Shadow Sovereigns: Women, Migrants, and the Making of International Law in Sikkim”
Discussants: Horatia MUIR-WATT (École de droit Sciences Po), Nicolas DELALANDE (Sciences Po, CHSP)
DAY 2 – 28 NOVEMBER 2025
9:30 – Welcome coffee
10:00–12:00 – Panel 2: “Shaping the textualities of international law” Chair: Clarisse ANCEAU (Sciences Po, École de Droit)
* Maarten MANSE (Linnaeus University), “Recasting the Terms of Empire: How Indigenous Translators and Scribe Mediated the Legal Vocabulary of Empire throughTreaty-making in Southeast Asia (c. 1750-1900)”
* Matthew CLEARY (Independent), “Cultural Brokers of International Law: Librarians, Rare Books, and the Global Competition for De Iure Belli ac Pacis”
* Nicole STYBNAROVA (Copenhagen Business School), “Deceiving with a Sweet Banana: Petitioners in Trust Territories as Theorists of International Law”
Discussants: Jean d’ASPREMONT (Sciences Po, École de droit), David TODD (Sciences Po, CHSP)
14:00–16:00 – Panel 3: “Building collective visibilities within international law” Chair: Giovanni ROGGIA (Sciences Po, CHSP / Roma Tre University)
* Apeike UMOLU (University of Cambridge), “Pan-Africanism, Nationalism, and 19th Century Discourses on International Law-Making”
* Michelle M. ONG (Harvard University), “Reassembling the Global Black Armada, 1945-1949”
* Nhi Yen LE (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), “Migrant workers from French former colonies: Vietnamiese Migrant Unions within the emergence of EEC’s freedom of movement“
Discussants: Ville KARI (Tilburg University), Mohamed-Ali ADRAOUI (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord)
16:00–16:30 – Coffee break
16:30–17:15 – Concluding Remarks Daniela Luigia CAGLIOTI (University of Naples Federico II) Chair: Lorenzo BONOMELLI (Sciences Po, CHSP / SSM Naples)
17:15 – Closure
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), Giovanni ROGGIA (Sciences Po, CHSP / Roma Tre University)
Scientific committee Daniela Luigia CAGLIOTI (Univ. Federico II Napoli), Jean D’ASPREMONT (Sciences Po, Ecole de Droit/Manchester), Renaud MORIEUX (Cambridge), Horatia MUIR WATT (Sciences Po, École de Droit), Paul-André ROSENTAL (Sciences Po, CHSP), David TODD (Sciences Po, CHSP / CHEP), Dina WAKED (Sciences Po, École de Droit, École de la recherche)
Nous avons le plaisir de vous communiquer le programme du colloque junior du Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po, <www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/fr/evenements/conference-junior-invisible-actors-in-the-making-of-international-law/> Invisible Actors in the Making of International Law (1750–2000)<www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/fr/evenements/conference-junior-invisible-actors-in-the-making-of-international-law/>. Le colloque se tiendra les 27 et 28 novembre 2025, en format hybride, au Campus Saint-Thomas d’Aquin, Paris 75007.
L’inscription est obligatoire via ce lien<docs.google.com/forms/u/3/d/e/1FAIpQLSf51-PzWAuZhIyfabZmiu4ZTuYcvd5i7g7CNwetsA_LK1WJsw/viewform>.
Cordialement, Clarisse Anceau, Lorenzo Bonomelli, Amina Hassani, Conor Muller, Giovannia Roggia
Invisible Actors in the Making of International Law Co-funded by the Sciences Po School of Research and the Centre for History and Economics in Paris
DAY 1 – 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: Tamar HERZOG (Harvard University): “What is International Law and Who are International Actors? A View from the Sideline” Chair: Conor MULLER (University of Oxford / Sciences Po, CHSP) Discussants: Laurine MANAC’H (Université Paris I), Benjamin PETERS (Geneva Graduate Institute)
15:45-16:00 – Coffee break
16:00-18:00 – Panel 1: “Making international law in the shadows of (non-)sovereigns” Chair: Amina HASSANI (Sciences Po, École de Droit / Geneva)
* Ayse POLAT (University of Oxford), “Sans Patrie, Sans Protection: Statelessness and Non-Sovereignty in International Legal History, 1850-1900”
* Soumya RANJAN GAHIR (Ravenshaw University), “Stateless Strategies: Palestinian Refugees and the Bottom-Up Making of International Law, 1948–1965”
* Meghashree DEV (National Law School of India University, Bengaluru), “Shadow Sovereigns: Women, Migrants, and the Making of International Law in Sikkim”
Discussants: Horatia MUIR-WATT (École de droit Sciences Po), Nicolas DELALANDE (Sciences Po, CHSP)
DAY 2 – 28 NOVEMBER 2025
9:30 – Welcome coffee
10:00–12:00 – Panel 2: “Shaping the textualities of international law” Chair: Clarisse ANCEAU (Sciences Po, École de Droit)
* Maarten MANSE (Linnaeus University), “Recasting the Terms of Empire: How Indigenous Translators and Scribe Mediated the Legal Vocabulary of Empire throughTreaty-making in Southeast Asia (c. 1750-1900)”
* Matthew CLEARY (Independent), “Cultural Brokers of International Law: Librarians, Rare Books, and the Global Competition for De Iure Belli ac Pacis”
* Nicole STYBNAROVA (Copenhagen Business School), “Deceiving with a Sweet Banana: Petitioners in Trust Territories as Theorists of International Law”
Discussants: Jean d’ASPREMONT (Sciences Po, École de droit), David TODD (Sciences Po, CHSP)
14:00–16:00 – Panel 3: “Building collective visibilities within international law” Chair: Giovanni ROGGIA (Sciences Po, CHSP / Roma Tre University)
* Apeike UMOLU (University of Cambridge), “Pan-Africanism, Nationalism, and 19th Century Discourses on International Law-Making”
* Michelle M. ONG (Harvard University), “Reassembling the Global Black Armada, 1945-1949”
* Nhi Yen LE (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), “Migrant workers from French former colonies: Vietnamiese Migrant Unions within the emergence of EEC’s freedom of movement“
Discussants: Ville KARI (Tilburg University), Mohamed-Ali ADRAOUI (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord)
16:00–16:30 – Coffee break
16:30–17:15 – Concluding Remarks Daniela Luigia CAGLIOTI (University of Naples Federico II) Chair: Lorenzo BONOMELLI (Sciences Po, CHSP / SSM Naples)
17:15 – Closure
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), Giovanni ROGGIA (Sciences Po, CHSP / Roma Tre University)
Scientific committee Daniela Luigia CAGLIOTI (Univ. Federico II Napoli), Jean D’ASPREMONT (Sciences Po, Ecole de Droit/Manchester), Renaud MORIEUX (Cambridge), Horatia MUIR WATT (Sciences Po, École de Droit), Paul-André ROSENTAL (Sciences Po, CHSP), David TODD (Sciences Po, CHSP / CHEP), Dina WAKED (Sciences Po, École de Droit, École de la recherche)
Conor Muller (he/him)
DPhil candidate in Global & Imperial History
Faculty of History & Balliol College, University of Oxford
E: conor.muller@history.ox.ac.uk<mailto:conor.muller@history.ox.ac.uk> / conor.muller@sciencespo.fr<mailto:conor.muller@sciencespo.fr>
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