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The end of the First
                  World War
with its history,               Program
remembrance and
current challenges

11 - 12 October 2018
Federal Foreign Office
Berlin
The end of the First World War with its history, remembrance and current challenges - Freie Universität Berlin
The End of the First World War
                                                  with its History,
                 Thursday, 11 October 2018

8.00          Registration

9.30 – 10.00 Welcome

              Heiko Maas, German Minister for Foreign Affairs

              Jean-Yves Le Drian, French Minister for Europe and Foreign
              Affairs (video message)

10.00 – 10.30 Keynote

              Carl Bildt, Co-Chair of the European Council on Foreign
              Relations

10.30 – 12.00 Panel 1: From the Paris peace treaties to today’s
              visions of a just world order

              Prof. Laurence Badel, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

              Dr. Alexey Fenenko, Moscow State University

              Prof. Jennifer Keene, Chapman University, California

              Prof. Jörn Leonhard, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

              Prof. Achille Mbembe, University of the Witwatersrand,
              Johannesburg

              Chair: Prof. Christopher Clark, University of Cambridge

12.00 – 12.30 Questions from the audience

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch break

              A buffet will be served at the venue.
The end of the First World War with its history, remembrance and current challenges - Freie Universität Berlin
Remembrance
         and Current Challenges with its History,

13.30 – 15.00 Panel 2: The long shadow of the First World War

              Prof. Marie-Janine Calic, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
              München

              Prof. Edhem Eldem, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul and Collège
              de France

              Prof. Yaroslav Hrytsak, Ukrainian Catholic University and Lviv
              National University

              Prof. Rana Mitter, University of Oxford

              Hanna Radziejowska, Director of the Wola Museum, Warsaw

              Chair: Michael Thumann, Foreign Policy Correspondent
              for DIE ZEIT, Berlin

15.00 – 15.30 Questions from the audience

15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break

16.00 – 17.30 Panel 3: Societies between war and peace

              Prof. Robert Gerwarth, University College Dublin

              Lotte Leicht, Director of Human Rights Watch, Brussels office

              Engjellushe Morina, Project Manager at the Berghof
              Foundation, Berlin

              Heidi Tagliavini, Former Ambassador and Special
              Representative of the UN Secretary General, of the OSCE and
              of the EU

              Chair: Dr. Christian F. Trippe, Correspondent for Deutsche
              Welle, Berlin

17.30 – 18.00 Questions from the audience
The end of the First World War with its history, remembrance and current challenges - Freie Universität Berlin
The End of the First World War
                                            with its History,

                     Evening Program

                           At the Deutsches Historisches Museum

18.30   Reception

19.00   Blue Charles ~ Some of these Days (1910)

        Greeting by Ulrike Kretzschmar, Vice President of the
        Deutsches Historisches Museum

        Greeting by Dr. Andreas Görgen, Head of the Directorate-
        General for Culture and Communication, German Federal
        Foreign Office

        Greeting by Her Excellency Anne-Marie Descôtes, French
        Ambassador in Germany

        Blue Charles ~ St. Louis Blues (1914)

        Reading by Daniel Kehlmann, from his latest novel Tyll

        Followed by a short conversation with Dr. Andreas Görgen

        Blue Charles ~ After you’ve gone (1918)

20.00   Buffet with Musical Accompaniment
The end of the First World War with its history, remembrance and current challenges - Freie Universität Berlin
Remembrance
and Current Challenges

        FINDING THE WAY
 Please bring your conference badge
         Distance: 500 meters
Schlüterhof, Deutsches Historisches Museum
              Main Entrance
            Unter den Linden 2
               10117 Berlin
The end of the First World War with its history, remembrance and current challenges - Freie Universität Berlin
The End of the First World War
                                                      with its History,
                    Friday, 12 October 2018
7.30          Registration

9.00 – 10.30 Panel 4: Peace and power after the First World War

              Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, Vice-President of the International
              Criminal Court, The Hague

              Dr. Volker Stanzel, Vice-President of the German Council on
              Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin

              Prof. Adam Tooze, Columbia University, New York City

              Chair: Mikhail Zygar, Journalist and author, Moscow

10.30 – 11.00 Questions from the audience

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break

11.30 – 13.00 Panel 5: Commemorating war and peace - the
              centenary of the First World War

              Prof. Joan Beaumont, Australian National University, Canberra

              Dr. Elise Julien, University of Lille

              Markus Meckel, Former Member of the German Bundestag

              Dr. Arndt Weinrich, Sorbonne University, Paris

              Chair: Natalie Nougayrède, Foreign Affairs Commentator
              for The Guardian, London

13.00 – 13.30 Questions from the audience
The end of the First World War with its history, remembrance and current challenges - Freie Universität Berlin
Remembrance
         and Current Challenges

13.30 – 14.30 Lunch break

              A buffet will be served at the venue.

14.30 – 16.00 Concluding discussion: Learning from the First
              World War? Designs, instruments and actors of
              peace

              Ayham Kamel, Head of the MENA research team at the
              EURASIA Group, London

              Dr. Volker Perthes, Director of the German Institute for
              International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin

              Dr. Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, Former President of the Republic of
              Latvia

              Dr. Justin Vaïsse, Director of the Centre for Analysis, Planning
              and Strategy in the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign
              Affairs

              Chair: Stefan Kornelius, Foreign Editor for Süddeutsche
              Zeitung, Munich

16.00 – 16.30 Questions from the audience

16.30 – 16.45 Closing statement

              Michael Roth, Minister of State for Europe, Federal
              Foreign Office, Berlin

                               Simultaneous translation into English,
                               French and German will be provided.
The end of the First World War with its history, remembrance and current challenges - Freie Universität Berlin
The End of the First World War
                                                    with its History,

                       Panel descriptions

Panel 1: From the Paris peace treaties to today’s visions of a just world
         order
         The first panel will analyze the outcome of the peace negotiations,
         including a re-examination of the problems that were solved, left
         unsolved, or newly created. The discussion will look at the
         attempts to establish a new international order and the rise of new
         norms and concepts after 1918. To what extent have these efforts
         been successful? What are today’s visions of a just world order?
         What should it look like, and how can it last?

Panel 2: The long shadow of the First World War
         The second panel is dedicated to the longue durée – the long
         shadow of the First World War – from 1918 until today, looking at
         different regions of the world, such as Europe, the Middle East,
         and Africa, and including former colonies. To what extent do
         current conflicts originate from the decisions made at the end of or
         after the First World War, and how should we address them?

Panel 3: Societies between war and peace
         The conference’s third panel will consider various consequences of
         war and armed conflicts within and between societies, such as
         migration, forced displacement, brutalization, violence, and
         demobilization. How do societies address these challenges, and
         how can they successfully transition from war to peace? To what
         extent are better concepts available today?
The end of the First World War with its history, remembrance and current challenges - Freie Universität Berlin
Remembrance
          and Current Challenges

Panel 4: Peace and power after the First World War
         The fourth panel will focus on various dimensions and principles of
         attaining and maintaining peace, such as rule-based
         multilateralism, international law and the international economic
         order, contrasted with geopolitics and the use of military power.
         Finally, among other questions, are democracies more likely to
         avoid war than authoritarian regimes?

Panel 5: Commemorating war and peace – the centenary of the First
         World War
         This panel will look at different approaches to and cultures of
         remembrance. How has the centenary been commemorated in
         different countries? How can similarities between, and shared
         aspects of, cultures of remembrance be created and strengthened
         in a way that does not cast aside national experience, in order to
         enable shared learning?

Concluding discussion: Learning from the First World War? Designs,
        instruments and actors of peace
         The final discussion will draw on the previous themes of the
         conference and consider what can be learned from decisions and
         developments at the end of the First World War as well as from
         other pivotal moments from the 20th century until today. We will
         look at persisting responsibilities with a view to present-day
         conflicts. Which instruments, designs and actors of peace remain
         or have become relevant today? To what extent are we able to
         learn from history, and which lessons need to be drawn regarding
         current challenges?
The end of the First World War with its history, remembrance and current challenges - Freie Universität Berlin
The End of the First World War
                                             with its History,

                    Welcome

Heiko Maas is the German Minister for
            Foreign Affairs. He was Minister
            for Justice and Consumer
            Protection from 2013 to 2018 and
            is member of the Social
            Democratic Party of Germany.

Jean-Yves Le Drian is the French Minister for
           Europe and Foreign Affairs. He
           served as Minister for Defense and
           Veteran Affairs from 2012 to 2017.
           A member of the Socialist Party
           from 1974 to 2018, he is now
           without party affiliation.
Remembrance
  and Current Challenges

                     Keynote

Carl Bildt was Sweden’s Foreign Minister from
          2006 to 2014 and Prime Minister from
          1991 to 1994. He is the chair of the
          Global Commission on Internet
          Governance, co-chair on the European
          Council on Foreign Relations and a
          member of the World Economic
          Forum’s Global Agenda Council on
          Europe.
PANEL 1 1
                                                                       Panel
                             From the Paris peace treaties

Laurence Badel is a professor of international history at
            the University Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris-I)
            and the director of the Center of the History of
            Contemporary International Relations. Her work
            focuses on economic diplomacy, European
            diplomatic practices, globalization,
            regionalization, and interregionalism between the
            European Union and Asia.

Alexey Fenenko is a senior lecturer at the department of
            international security, faculty of world politics at
            Moscow State University. Furthermore, he works
            as an expert for the Russian International Affairs
            Council. Previously, he was a leading researcher
            at the Institute of International Security Studies of
            the Russian Academy of Sciences (2004-2013).
            He frequently comments on questions of interna-
            tional order and the role of Russia therein.

Jennifer Keene holds the chair of the department of
            history at Chapman University, California. She
            specializes on the American military experience
            during World War I and is currently president of
            the Society of Military History. Her last book,
            World War I: The American Soldier Experience
            (2011) received international praise.
to today’s visions of a just world order

Jörn Leonhard is a professor for the modern history of
            Western Europe at the Albert-Ludwigs-
            Universität Freiburg. His main areas of expertise
            are the history of liberalism and nationalism,
            research on multi-ethnic empires, and the history
            of war and peace. His monograph Pandora's
            Box. History of the First World War (2014/2018)
            was critically acclaimed by both academic and
            general audiences.

Achille Mbembe is a philosopher, political scientist, and
            public intellectual. He is a research professor of
            history and politics at the Wits Institute for Social
            and Economic Research at the University of the
            Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
            He is the author of On the Postcolony
            (2000/2001) and Politiques de l’inimitié (2016).

                           CHAIR:

Christopher Clark is the Regius Professor of history at
            the University of Cambridge. His research
            interests are centered on the history of
            nineteenth and twentieth-century Germany and
            continental Europe. His latest book, The
            Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
            (2012) analyzes the causes for the outbreak of
            the First World War.
PANEL 2 2
                                                                      Panel
                                                        The long shadow
Marie-Janine Calic holds the chair of the department for
             the history of Eastern and Southeastern Europe
             at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
             She focuses on the history of Yugoslavia and its
             successor states. Her newest monograph,
             Südosteuropa. Weltgeschichte einer Region,
             was published in 2016.

Edhem Eldem is a professor at the department of history
             at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, and holds the
             chair of Turkish and Ottoman history at the
             Collège de France, Paris. He is an internationally
             recognized expert on late Ottoman history.

Yaroslav Hrytsak is the director of the Institute for
             Historical Research at the Lviv National
             University. His research interests include the
             modern history of Eastern Europe, modern
             intellectual history, nationalism studies, cultural
             history and historical memory.
of the First World War
Rana Mitter is a professor of the history and politics of
             modern China at the University of Oxford and
             the director of the University of Oxford China
             Centre. He studies the emergence of
             nationalism in modern China, both in the early
             20th century and in the contemporary era. His
             most recent publication, China’s War with
             Japan, 1937-45: The Struggle for Survival
             (2013) gained international attention.

Hanna Radziejowska is the curator, producer and
             author of numerous cultural and museum
             projects. She is currently head of the Wola
             Museum in Warsaw. In this role, she created
             two programs, “City Laboratory” and “Museum
             Laboratory”.

                            CHAIR:

Michael Thumann is a Berlin-based foreign policy
            correspondent for the German newspaper DIE
            ZEIT. From 2014 to 2015, he was the director of
            the Moscow office of DIE ZEIT. Before that, he
            was the newspaper’s chief editor for the Middle
            East.
Panel 3
                                                  Societies between

Robert Gerwarth is professor of modern history at
            University College Dublin and the director of the
            Centre for War Studies. He is an elected
            Member of the Royal Irish Academy, the
            Academia Europaea, and a Fellow of the Royal
            Historical Society. His third monograph, The
            Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to
            End (2016), was nominated book of the year by
            the Times Literary Supplement, The Financial
            Times and the BBC History Magazine.

Lotte Leicht has been the Human Rights Watch's EU
            Advocacy Director and Director of the
            organization's Brussels office since 1994. She is
            responsible for strategic advocacy vis-à-vis
            European governments, the European Union
            and other international and regional inter-
            governmental organizations.

Engjellushe Morina works as a project manager in
            the Berghof Foundation’s Conflict
            Transformation Research Program. She
            focuses on the project “Opportunities for
            Prevention of Violent Extremism (PVE) in
            the Western Balkans”. Furthermore, she is
            part of the Dialogue Mediation and Peace
            Support Structures Program.
war and peace

Heidi Tagliavini is a Swiss diplomat and former
            Ambassador noted for her service in international
            peacekeeping missions and peace negotiations.
            After the release of the EU-commissioned report
            on the conflict in Georgia in 2009, she served as
            the head of the Organization for Security and Co-
            operation in Europe’s (OSCE) election
            observation mission in several parliamentary and
            presidential elections in Ukraine, Russia and
            Armenia. She also represented the OSCE in the
            2014-2015 negotiation of the Minsk I & II
            agreements concerning the war in Ukraine.

                         CHAIR:

Christian F. Trippe is the head of the department for
            security and social policy at the Deutsche Welle
            (DW), Germany’s public international
            broadcaster. Previously, he was head of the DW
            studios in Kiev, Brussels and Moscow. Trippe’s
            work focuses on foreign and security policy.
Panel 4
                                                    Peace and power

Marc Perrin de Brichambaut has been Vice-President of
            the International Criminal Court in The Hague
            since 2015. He has served in numerous senior
            positions in the French Ministry of Foreign
            Affairs and the Ministry of Defense as well as
            the United Nations Secretariat. He served as
            Secretary General for the Organization for
            Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
            from 2005 to 2011.

Volker Stanzel served in the German foreign service from
            1979 to 2013. He is currently vice-president of the
            German Council on Foreign Relations and a senior
            distinguished fellow at the German Institute for
            International and Security Affairs (SWP). He works
            on themes in political science, specifically modern
            diplomacy and Japanese-Chinese relations. His
            newest publication, on collective trauma, was
            published in 2016 with the title Aussöhnung und
            Gesellschaft. Zur Überwindung kollektiv erlebten
            Leids.
after the First World War

Adam Tooze holds the Shelby Cullom Davis chair of
             history at Columbia University and serves as the
             director of the European Institute. His research
             interests cover themes in political, intellectual
             and military history, and stretch across a canvas
             from Europe over the Atlantic. His last book,
             Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises
             Changed the World (2018), attempts to
             historically analyze the financial crisis of 2008.

                           CHAIR:

Mikhail Zygar is a Russian journalist and former editor-in-
            chief of the independent TV channel “Dozhd”. He
            became known for his critical coverage of the
            mass protests in Russia in 2011 and Ukraine in
            2013 and received the International Press
            Freedom Award in 2014. His 2017 book The
            Empire Must Die. Russian’s Revolutionary
            Collapse, 1900-1917 puts forward a perspective
            in which the realities of today can be recognized
            in the past.
Panel 5
                        Commemorating war and peace

Joan Beaumont is a professor emerita at the Strategic
            and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian
            National University. She is internationally
            recognized for her work on Australia in the two
            world wars, Australian defense and foreign
            policy, the history of prisoners of war and the
            memory and heritage of war. Her last
            monograph, Broken Nation: Australians and the
            Great War (2013) was critically acclaimed and
            awarded various prizes.

Elise Julien teaches modern history at Sciences Po Lille
            and works for the research centre IRHiS (CNRS/
            Université de Lille). She specializes in the history
            of World War I, its consequences, memory and
            historiography. Her doctoral thesis, Paris, Berlin.
            La mémoire de la guerre, 1914-1933 (2010)
            explores the way inhabitants of the German and
            French capital cities recalled the First World War.

Markus Meckel is a former Member of Parliament (SPD)
            and former Foreign Minister of the German
            Democratic Republic (April-August 1990). He is
            a Senior Associate Fellow for the German
            Council on Foreign Relations and a member of
            numerous foundations and societies.
The centenary of the First World War

Arndt Weinrich currently works as a DAAD lecturer at the
            University Paris Sorbonne (Paris-IV). From
            2011 to 2017 he led the research group First
            World War at the German Historical Institute in
            Paris. His latest book, La longue mémoire de la
            Grande Guerre. France, Allemagne 1918-2014,
            published in 2017, is an inquiry into different
            cultures and politics of the remembrance of
            World War I in France and Germany
            respectively.

                            CHAIR:

Natalie Nougayrède is a columnist, lead writer and
            foreign affairs commentator for The Guardian,
            and the former editor-in-chief of Le Monde. She
            is a specialist in international questions relating
            to Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet space.
Concluding discussion
                      Learning from the First World War?

Ayham Kamel is the head of the Eurasia Group's Middle
            East and North Africa research team. He leads the
            coverage of regional geopolitics, Saudi Arabia, the
            Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Iraq, and the
            Levant area (Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon). His
            work focuses on the roles of the US and Russia in
            the Middle East, Iran-Saudi relations, energy
            policy, terrorism threats, and financial trends in the
            region.

Volker Perthes has been the chief executive officer and
            director of the German Institute for International
            and Security Affairs (SWP) since October 2005.
            Since September 2015, he has also served as
            Senior Advisor to the UN Special Envoy for
            Syria and he is currently chairing the Ceasefire
            Task Force for Syria within the International
            Syria Support Group on behalf of the UN.

Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga is a former President of the Republic
            of Latvia. She was first elected in 1999 and re-
            elected for a second term in 2003. She currently
            serves as the president of the Club of Madrid, the
            world’s largest forum for former heads of state and
            government, which she co-founded.
Designs, instruments and actors of peace

Justin Vaïsse has been the director of the Centre for
            Analysis, Planning and Strategy in the French
            Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs since
            2013. After obtaining a PhD from the Institut
            d’études politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris in
            2005, he worked as the director of research for
            the Center on the United States and Europe of
            the Brookings Institution in Washington from
            2007 to 2013. He specializes in French and
            American foreign policy, transatlantic relations
            and American neoconservatism.

                          CHAIR:

Stefan Kornelius is the foreign editor of the German
            newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). For the
            SZ, he was a correspondent in Bonn (1993-
            1996) and Washington, D.C. (1996-1999). His
            work has closely followed the German
            chancellery, as well as German defense and
            security policy. He is a member of various
            organizations and think tanks focusing on
            international and security policy.
The End of the First World War
                                    with its History,

        Closing statement

Michael Roth has been the German Minister of State for
           Europe since 2013, and Commissioner for
           Franco-German cooperation since 2014. He
           represents the Federal Government on the EU’s
           General Affairs Council and has been a member
           of the Bundestag for the Social Democratic
           Party of Germany since 1998.
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and Current Challenges
The End of the First World War
               with its History,
Remembrance
and Current Challenges
The End of the First World War
               with its History,
Remembrance
and Current Challenges
The End of the First World War
               with its History,
Remembrance
   and Current Challenges

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