Getting rid of Nuclear Weapons

Conférence internationale

Philosophical Foundation and Historical Circulation of Ideas in Nuclear Disarmament (conférence en anglais / english speaking convention).
getting rid of nuclear weapons

Since the dawn of the nuclear era, nuclear deterrence has been contested and criticized, both as a legitimate policy on the basis of its immorality, and as a practical policy on the basis of its inefficiency and dangerosity. These questionings opened the path to a great diversity of movements that have been involved in nuclear disarmament and have all contributed to the edification and circulation of a broad corpus of criticism against nuclear weapons.

This conference will then investigate the philosophical, religious and ethical foundations of disarmament movements, as well as the circulations, transfers and re-appropriations of ideas, practices and peoples among disarmament movements and more broadly among transnational activist movements (involved in other issues such as environment, technology, fight against corruption, etc).

 

SCHEDULE

8h15-8h30 Registration and welcome coffee

8h30-8h45 : Welcome address by Nicolas Roche (Director of the CIENS)

8h45-10h15 : PANEL 1 : Religious and Philosophical Foundations of the Role of Nuclear Weapons

Chair and discussant
Nicolas Roche (Director of the CIENS)
Hubert Tardy-Joubert (CIENS, Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères), Philosophical foundations of disarmament
Mgr Bruno-Marie Duffé (Vatican State, Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, General Secretary), Catholic Church positions about nuclear weapons and conditions of an ethical approach of a political peace
Dmitry Adamsky (IDC Herzliya), Russian nuclear orthodoxy : sources and consequences of the pro-nuclear ecclesiastical position in Russia

10h15-10h30 : Coffee break

10h30–12h : PANEL 2 : Circulations of Ideas, Peoples and Practices among Contestation Movements : Views from the ’South’ and Global Perspectives

Chair and discussant
Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer (Director of the IRSEM / CIENS) – to be confirmed
Jo-Ansie Van Wyk (University of South Africa), Liberation movements and nuclear disarmament : The case of the African National Congress and the South African nuclear weapons programme
N.A.J. Taylor (The University of Melbourne and the University of New South Wales), The visual politics of Oceanic nuclear colonialism
Céline Jurgensen (CIENS) The Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons : transnational circulation of ideas, concepts and practices among activist movements

12h-14h : Lunch break

14h-16h : PANEL 3 : Circulations in Europe and the Western World

Chair and discussant
Guillaume de Rougé
(CIENS – ENS-Ulm)
Ilaria Parisi (CIENS – ENS-Ulm), The pacifist contagion in 1980s Europe : explaining the force of a divisive movement
Susan Colbourn (Yale University), Battlefield Europe : Limited Nuclear War, the Euromissiles, and the Quest for a Nuclear-Free Europe
Henning Fauser (Université de Tours), French concentration camp survivors and their associations in the struggle against nuclear armament (1949-1991)
Sylvia Kesper-Biermann (Universität Hamburg, Faculty of Education), “To imagine [...] what nuclear weapons actually do”. Transnational Circulation of Anti-Atomic War Comic Books during the 1970s and 1980s

16h-16h30 : Concluding remarks by Nicolas Roche (Director of the CIENS)

Mis à jour le 27/10/2023