PROGRAMME

Tuesday (April 5th)

14.30-15.00: Introduction

• Mathias Delori and Eric Macé, Centre Emile Durkheim Bordeaux

15.00-16.00: Keynote presentation

• Didier Bigo, CERI de Sciences Po Paris and Kings College London

16.00-16.15: coffee break

16.15-18.30: Panel 1/ The new faces of enmity (Chairing: Daniel Bach, Centre Emile Durkheim Bordeaux)

• Philippe Bonditti, ESPOL-ICL,  « Contemporary Transformations in Enmity »  
• Christian Olsson, ULB de Bruxelles : « (Dis)Assembling Enmity: the Persistence and Fragmentation of ‘Enmity’ in Contemporary Western Wars»
• Vincent Martigny, LinX Paris :  « Popular culture, daily news and international affairs: Building representations of an Arab-Muslim enemy »
• DISCUSSANT : Reza Zia-Ebrahimi, Kings College London
  
  

Wednesday (April 6th)

9.30-11.00: Panel 2/ The weight of new technologies (Chairing: Olivier Cousin, Centre Emile Durkheim Bordeaux)

• Christophe Wasinski, ULB de Bruxelles : « ‘Attack pilots didn’t deliver soup’ : Making Sense of British Airpower in Afghanistan »
• Catherine Hoeffler, ESPOL-ICL: « From anti-tank missions to urban warfare: technological and political definitions of the enemy in the case of guided missiles »
• DISCUSSANT: Andy Smith, Centre Emile Durkheim Bordeaux

11.00-11.15: coffee break

11.15-12.45: Panel 3/ The new politics of (mis)recognition (Chairing: Agnès Villechaise, Centre Emile Durkheim Bordeaux

• Eva Herschinger, university of Aderdeen : “Of evils and absolute enemies. Representations of contemporary terrorists”
•  Thomas Lindemann, LinX Paris and Jeanne Prades, Université Paris 1: « Images of enemies and protecting heroes in the narratives on terrorist and Western violence. A comparison »
• DISCUSSANT: Vron Ware, Kingston University London

12.45-14.15: Lunch

14.15-15.45: Panel 4/ The weight of the past (chairing: Daniel Compagnon, Centre Emile Durkheim Bordeaux)

• Julien Pomarède : « The whispers and footprints of enmity: the case of counter-terrorism at NATO »
• Nina Leonhard, Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr Potzdam : « 'Poids et Choix du Passé' concerning Military Representations of Enmity: The Case of the Bundeswehr in Germany».
• DISCUSSANT: Mathias Delori, Centre Emile Durkheim Bordeaux

15.45-16.00: coffee break

16.00-17.30: Panel 5/ The test of experience (Chairing: Gilles Bertrand, Centre Emile Durkheim Bordeaux)

•  Christian Gudehus, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, « Ideology vs. Experience. How German Soldiers represented Enemies and Allies in WWII. »
• Paul Dixon, Kingston university, « Britain's ‘New Western Way of Warfare’? Genocide, 'Humanitarian Intervention' and Militarism »
• DISCUSSANT: Eric Macé, Centre Emile Durkheim Bordeaux