Events
Cosponsors
- European Institute at Columbia University
- Austrian Cultural Forum New York
Organized to mark the bicentenary of the Congress of Vienna, this conference brings together scholars in history, international relations, and political science to explore this remarkable occasion—the calling of a general peace conference—to re-establish world order in the wake of revolutions, the rise of new leading powers, and wars with reverberations in every part of the globe. How did the Congress conveners conceive of the goals of such a meeting? How did they manage the complexity of such a gathering? How did they imagine containing the forces that had been unleashed by the previous decades of conflict: Napoleon, guerrilla war and jihad, the forces of nationalism and public opinion? What were the mechanisms of collective security, new ways of thinking about international values and norms, and new policing methods that the Congress devised to secure an enduring peace?
Locations:
Thursday, February 5: Faculty House, 4th Floor (Accessed via 116th Street gate between Amsterdam Ave. and Morningside Drive)
Friday, February 6: Room 1501, International Affairs Building, 420 W. 118th Street
Saturday, February 7: Room 1201, International Affairs Building, 420 W. 118th Street
For more information about the Day 3 student workshop, please contact Lily Glenn.
Program
February 5, 2015 Thursday
4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
Welcome by Victoria de Grazia, Director of the European Institute
4:10pm - 5:40pm EDT
From Congress to Concert: Concepts and Institutions
Chair
Gideon Rose
Editor and Peter G. Peterson Chair
Foreign Affairs
"Democracy, Demonization and the Crimean War"
Matthew Rendall
Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Nottingham
“The Congress of Vienna as a Site of International Memory”
Glenda Sluga
Professor of International History
University of Sydney
“Crises and Constitutions from the Congress of Vienna to the Concert of Europe”
Brian Vick
Associate Professor
Emory University
Discussant
Isser Woloch
Moore Collegiate Professor Emeritus of History
Columbia University
Discussant
Robert Jervis
Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics
Columbia University
5:45pm - 7:00pm EDT
Roundtable on the Legacies of the Congress: Perspectives from Scholars and Practitioners
Chair
Victoria de Grazia
Moore Collegiate Professor of History
Columbia University
Gérard Araud
Ambassador of France to the United States
Gary Bass
Professor of Politics and International Affairs
Princeton University
Mark Mazower
Ira D. Wallach Professor of World Order Studies
Department of History, Columbia University
Wolfgang Petritsch
President
Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation
7:00pm - 8:30pm EDT
Closing Discussion
February 6, 2015 Friday
9:00am - 9:30am EDT
Welcome and Introductions
9:30am - 11:00am EDT
The New Security Regime
Chair
Jack Lewis Snyder
Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Relations in Political Science
Columbia University
Beatrice de Graaf
History of International Relations & Global Governance
Universiteit Utrecht
“The Vienna Peace Settlements: From the Balance of Power to the Balance of Negotiation”
Stella Ghervas
Senior Fellow
Maison des Sciences de l’Homme d’Aquitaine
“The ‘Congress System’: The World’s First ‘International Security Regime’”
Mark Jarrett
Author
Discussant
Richard Betts
Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies
Columbia University
11:00am - 11:15am EDT
Break I
11:15am - 12:45pm EDT
Communicating the Congress’s Values
Chair
Larry Wolff
Professor of History, Director of Center for European and Mediterranean Studies
New York University
“’Race,’ Legal Fiction and the Congress of Vienna: Unwitting Errors, Global Haunting and the Continuing Legacy of a Dangerous Superstition in Today’s World”
Margaret Crosby-Arnold
Adjunct Associate Research Scholar
Blinken European Institute of Columbia University
“The Caribbean and Iberoamerica and its Impact for the Congress of Vienna and Vice Versa”
Christian Cwik
Lecturer for European and Atlantic History
University of the West Indies
“Women, Men, and the Making of Modern International Politics”
Glenda Sluga
Professor of International History
University of Sydney
Discussant
Susan Pedersen
Gouverneur Morris Professor of British History
Columbia University
12:45pm - 2:15pm EDT
Break II
2:15pm - 3:45pm EDT
Irrepressible Issues: Rogue Nations, Insubordinate Peoples, the Democratic Spirit
Chair
Charly Coleman
Assistant Professor of History
Columbia University
“The Trienio Liberal in Southern Europe 1820-23: A ‘Liberal International’”?
John Davis
Emiliana Pasca Noether Chair in Modern Italian History
University of Connecticut
“From Mass Mobilisation to Terror Tactics: Irish Responses to the New Security System”
Patrick Geoghegan
Professor of History
Trinity College Dublin
“Jihad in West Africa and the Congress of Vienna”
Paul Lovejoy
Distinguished Research Professor and Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History
York University
Discussant
Reinhard Stauber
Professor of Modern History and Dean of Arts and Humanities
Austrian and the Alps-Adriatic University Klagenfurt (Austrian Alps-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt)
3:45pm - 4:00pm EDT
Break III
4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Concluding Roundtable
Chair
Robert Jervis
Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics
Columbia University
David Armitage
Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History
Harvard University
Patrick Cohrs
Associate Professor of History & International Affairs
Yale University
Beatrice de Graaf
History of International Relations & Global Governance
Universiteit Utrecht
February 7, 2015 Saturday
11:50am - 12:00pm EDT
Welcome and Introduction
12:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Student workshop
Beatrice de Graaf
History of International Relations & Global Governance
Universiteit Utrecht
Mark Jarrett
Author
Reinhard Stauber
Professor of Modern History and Dean of Arts and Humanities
Austrian and the Alps-Adriatic University Klagenfurt (Austrian Alps-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt)
Participants
- David Armitage Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History Harvard University
- Gary Bass Professor of Politics and International Affairs Princeton University
- Richard Betts Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies Columbia University
- Patrick Cohrs Associate Professor of History & International Affairs Yale University
- Charly Coleman Assistant Professor of History Columbia University
- Margaret Crosby-Arnold Adjunct Associate Research Scholar Blinken European Institute of Columbia University
- Christian Cwik Lecturer for European and Atlantic History University of the West Indies
- John Davis Emiliana Pasca Noether Chair in Modern Italian History University of Connecticut
- Patrick Geoghegan Professor of History Trinity College Dublin
- Stella Ghervas Senior Fellow Maison des Sciences de l'Homme d'Aquitaine
- Beatrice de Graaf History of International Relations & Global Governance Universiteit Utrecht
- Victoria de Grazia Moore Collegiate Professor of History Columbia University
- Mark Jarrett Author
- Robert Jervis Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics Columbia University
- Paul Lovejoy Distinguished Research Professor and Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History York University
- Mark Mazower Ira D. Wallach Professor of World Order Studies Department of History, Columbia University
- Susan Pedersen Gouverneur Morris Professor of British History Columbia University
- Wolfgang Petritsch President Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation
- Matthew Rendall Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Faculty of Social Sciences University of Nottingham
- Gideon Rose Editor and Peter G. Peterson Chair Foreign Affairs
- Glenda Sluga Professor of International History University of Sydney
- Jack Lewis Snyder Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Relations in Political Science Columbia University
- Reinhard Stauber Professor of Modern History and Dean of Arts and Humanities Austrian and the Alps-Adriatic University Klagenfurt (Austrian Alps-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt)
- Brian Vick Associate Professor Emory University
- Larry Wolff Professor of History, Director of Center for European and Mediterranean Studies New York University
- Isser Woloch Moore Collegiate Professor Emeritus of History Columbia University