PROGRAMME

Friday, 24 September 2021 – Salle Claire

9.00 Covid-Check
9.30 Welcome (Dr. Thomas Kolnberger, University of Luxembourg)
9.45 Publication plans

1. Institutional politics? Trans- and international security networks: Participation, representation and cooperation of small states.

Contributors:

• 10.00: Small States Post-2020: knowledge, security & governance - Prof. Dr. Timothy Shaw (Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance/ University of Massachusetts Boston)
• 10.20: Joining the 'Western Blob': Of Small States and Big Conferences - Dr. Alexander Graef (Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy/ University Hamburg)
• 10.40: Open Discussion

12.00 LUNCH (at venue)

14.00 GUIDED CITY TOUR

2. Whose ‘capacities’? Small states’ institutional security capacities and limitations: The domestic side of processes, communication, politics and governance.

Contributors:

• 16.00: Between Formal and Informal Politics. Governance and Democracy in Small States - Ass. Prof. Dr. Wouter Veenendaal (Institute of Political Science/ Leiden University)
• 16.20: What is a small state security policy? Luxembourg, Singapour & al. - Thibault Fouillet & Dr. Antony Dabila (Fondation pour la recherche stratégique, Paris & University of Luxembourg/ Université de Lyon)
• 16.40: Domestic incentives behind small states‘ shelter-seeking behavior - Prof. Dr. Baldur Thorhalsson (Director of the Centre for Small State Studies/ Faculty of Political Science/ School of Social Science/ University of Iceland)
• 17.00: Open Discussion

19.00 DINNER (at venue)

Saturday, 25 September 2021 – Salle Claire

3. Why ‘knowledge’ matters: Understanding securitization and actors within small states.

Contributors:

• 10.00: Against all odds: Why smallness will introduce a new subject of international law. Securitization, Small Island States and History - Karl Hampel (Institute of History/ University of Luxembourg)
• 10.20: The Securitization of “Moro” Raids in the Spanish Colonial Philippines - Dr. Eberhard Crailshaim (Instituto de Historia/ Departamento de Estudios Americanos/ Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid)
• 10.40: Open Discussion

12.00 LUNCH (at venue)

14.00 MIX & MINGLE

4. Doomed to ‘smallness’ or champions of the international? How history shapes and breaks small states’ security traditions.

Contributors:

• 15.00: What is a Small State? Answers from Structural and Prototype Theory - Prof. Dr. Iver Neumannn (Director/ The Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway)
• 15.40: Smallness in Belize: a researcher's travel through Lilliput - Dr. Edith Kauffer (CIESAS - Unidad Regional Sureste/ Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social/ Chiapas, México)
• 16.00: Open Discussion
• 16.30: Conclusions (Prof. Dr. Harlan Koff, University of Luxembourg)
• 17.30: Conference Closure

Attendance only by registration. Please contact Karl Hampel (karl.hampel@uni.lu).

Venue:
Soeurs Franciscaines
50 avenue Gaston Diderich
L-1420 Luxemburg
(Hotel and Conference Room; Parking garage available, Bus stop: “Franciscaines” lines 5 and 6)

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