Go On! "Feminist Futures"

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To mark its launch, the brand-new Interest Group on Feminism and International Law of the European Society of International Law will hold a daylong workshop entitled "International Law and Feminist Futures" on Thursday, April 28, 2011, at the University of Leicester in England.
Organizers write:

The event will bring together individuals committed to feminist approaches in order to develop and share their research, generate ideas for future events and collaborations and consider what contribution feminist analysis can make to the future of international law.

Featured will be a keynote address, "The Paradoxes of Feminist Engagement with International Law," by University of Melbourne Law Professor Dianne Otto (left). Panelists from throughout Europe will round out the event.
Details and registration here.

Go On! Intlaw teaching

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"Teaching International Law Beyond the Classroom: Engaging Students in Experiential Learning, in Webpages and Blogs, and in Historical and Empirical Research" is the topic of a conference to be held on Friday, May 6, at Pace Law School in White Plains, New York. Cosponsors are the Teaching International Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law and the American Branch of the International Law Association.
Co-chairing the event are IntLawGrrl guest/alumna Cindy Galway Buys (Southern Illinois) and Thomas McDonnell (Pace). Through the conference they aim

to raise awareness on different modalities of teaching and researching in the area of international law to expand beyond the traditional classroom and the standard law review article. Law schools around the country have initiated international law and human rights clinics; International law faculty have increasingly used blogs and the internet to carry out their scholarly work; and the legal academy has begun to recognize the contribution that history and empirical research can make. This workshop explores each of these modalities and attempts to help the participants expand their teaching and research accordingly.

As set forth in full in the program among the many speakers are a number of IntLawGrrl guests/alumnae addition to Cindy: Laura Dickinson (Arizona State), Peggy McGuinness (St. John's), and Beth A. Simmons (Harvard).
Details and registration here.

Go On! ILW 2011 proposals sought

(My thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this Go On! guest post)

As President of the American Branch of the International Law Association, it's my pleasure to call for panel proposals for International Law Weekend, the annual New York-based meeting that we cohost with the International Law Students Association. This year's meeting will be held October 20-22, 2011, in conjunction with the 90th annual meeting of the American Branch. ILW 2011 will bring together hundreds of legal practitioners, professors, U.N. diplomats, experts from government, NGOs and private industry, and students. It will feature lively and contentious panels, distinguished speakers, and delicious receptions.
The overall theme of ILW 2011 is “International Law and National Politics.”
This year’s three-day conference will focus on issues arising from the interplay and intersection of international rules and norms and domestic politics and policymaking. For example:

To what extent do international standards influence the application and interpretation of national law including complimentary or contrary policies sought by domestic policymakers, non-governmental actors and/or civil society?

Expert panels and discussion sessions will examine these and other issues with regard to such diverse areas as human rights and humanitarian intervention, national security, immigration, trade, labor, health care, and the environment.
Though this is the primary focus of the conference, other inventive ideas and proposals, especially arising from current events, are always welcome for consideration as well.
The Co-Chairs of ILW 2011 are Martin S. Flaherty, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School, mflaherty17@yahoo.com, Sahra Diament of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, diament@un.org, and Jill Schmieder Hereau, Program Coordinator at the International Law Students Association, jshereau@ilsa.org.
The Co-Chairs invite proposals for panels for ILW 2011. Please submit proposals by email to each of the Co-Chairs no later than Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Please also submit a copy of your proposal to me, Ruth Wedgwood, at rwedgwood@jhu.edu and to Executive Committee Chairman John E. Noyes at jen@cwsl.edu.
The proposals should be structured for 90-minute panels, and should:
►Include a formal title, a brief description of the subjects to be covered (no more than 75 words), and the names, titles, and affiliations of the panel chair and three or four likely speakers, with their contact information.
► Describe the format envisaged (point-counterpoint, roundtable, or other). One of the objectives of ILW 2011 is to promote a dialogue among scholars and practitioners from across the legal spectrum, so whenever possible, panels should include presentations of divergent views. In addition, interactive discussions and moderated roundtables are welcome, rather than the traditional format of reading papers.
The inclusion of a broad range of speakers, including lawyers from the United Nations, diplomats from U.N. missions, private practitioners, government regulatory experts and experts from industry are welcome, quite apart from the usual broad range of academic writers and speakers. We seek, above all else, informative and interesting debate.

Go On! Human trafficking conference

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"Which Way Home" -- a reference to the issue of human trafficking -- is the title of the 20th Annual Northern Illinois Law Review symposium to be held will be held April 14 and 15 in DeKalb.
The program will begin with a showing at 7:30 p.m. on April 14 of the Oscar-nominated film of the same name, about which IntLawGrrls posted a while back. The showing will be followed by a question-and-answer session with Sara McDowell, Senior Immigration Attorney for the National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children, who represented the children in the film.
During the daylong symposium that will follow on April 15, speakers -- including IntLawGrrl Karen E. Bravo and keynote lecturer M. Cherif Bassiouni -- will identify key areas of human trafficking, use of the U.S. court system to combat trafficking, and future policy regarding trafficking. Symposium Editor Emily M. Martin writes:

Although human trafficking is often thought as a distant, international issue, in reality, it is right outside our backdoor. Chicago and Rockford are both human trafficking hubs and Illinois recently passed the strongest anti-trafficking laws in the country.

Details here.

Go On! Web Seminar on Libya

The Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research at the Harvard School of Public Health will host on April 5 at 9:30 a.m. EST a Live Web Seminar on the “Crisis in Libya: Planning the International Response.” The presenters include:

• Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor, ICC;


• R. Nicholas Burns, The Sultan of Oman Professor of the Practice of International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School of Government;


• Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director, Middle East and North Africa Division, Human Rights Watch (below left);


• Dirk Vandewalle, Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth College; and


• Philippa Thomas, Nieman Fellow, Harvard University & Foreign Correspondent, BBC (below right).

The seminar will examine the modalities through which the international community may respond to the ongoing crisis in Libya amid reports of violence, refugee and IDP flows, and other forms of instability. It will also touch on the legal, political and strategic dilemmas arising for the international community, especially in terms of prevention and mitigation of civilian harm.
Registration to the Live Web Seminar is free. Registration and background materials are available on the IHL Research Initiative Portal.
This Seminar is part of a series of monthly live web seminars on contemporary challenges and dilemmas in humanitarian law and policy. The seminars are tailored to practitioners and policy makers. Since 2008, these events have provided a source of interactive professional dialogue at a global level for thousands of professionals engaged in humanitarian action around the world.

Go On! ASIL interest group session: Fact-Finding in International Criminal Law

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International criminal law enthusiasts should be sure to attend this week's ICL Interest Group meeting at the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., about which we've already blogged here, here, here, and here. The Interest Group, of which I am honored to serve as Co-Chair, is hosting a panel discussion with IntLawGrrl guest/alumna Nancy Combs, Cabell Research Professor of Law at William and Mary Law School (left), about her book, previously featured here. The session is Friday, March from 10:45 am - 12:15 p.m. (Full annual meeting schedule here).
The session will be moderated by the group's other Co-Chair, Linda Malone, the Marshall-Wythe Foundation Professor of Law and Director of the Human Security Law Program at William & Mary Law School (right).
The panel will also feature prepared remarks and questions by discussants drawn from our interest group, including:
►David Crane, Professor of practice at Syracuse University College of Law and founding Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (left).
► Hannah Garry, Director of USC Law's International Human Rights Clinic (right).
► IntLawGrrl guest/alumna Saira Mohamed, Assistant Professor of Law at Berkeley Law (below left).
► Dan Saxon, formerly a legal officer of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and now a lecturer at Cambridge University.
► IntLawGrrl guest/alumna Meg DeGuzman, Assistant Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law (right).
► Marko Oberg, Legal Officer at International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

Go On! ABA women's rights session

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As the next in its 2010-2011 series of Rule of Law Informational Sessions, the Section of International Law of the American Bar Association will sponsor a free session about IMPOWR, its International Models Project on Women's Rights, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Eastern time on March 31, 2011.
Attendees may take part in the session in person at the Law Library of Congress, Room LM 240 of the Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue, S.E., Washington, D.C., or by preregistering here in to take part by teleconference.
Details here.

Go On! IHL emerging issues

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"International Humanitarian Law: Emerging Issues in the Law of Armed Conflict" is the theme of a conference to be held from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 23, at American University Washington College of the Law in Washington, D.C. It's cosponsored by the law school's Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law and the American Society of International Law. The date coincides with the 1st day of ASIL's annual meeting, about which we've posted here and here.
The event's organized as part of an inaugural student writing competition in the area of international humanitarian law. Winning law students are:
► Elizabeth Holland, Suffolk University Law School in Boston, for "Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project and Its Crippling Impact on Humanitarian Assistance in Armed Conflict"; and
► Robert Clarke, University of Western Australia in Perth, for "The Klub-K Anti-Ship Missile System -- A Hypothetical Case Study in Perfidy and Its Repression".
They'll present papers to panels comprising IntLawGrrl Susana SáCouto (American) and IntLawGrrls' guest/alumna Laurie Blank (Emory), as well as Lucy Brown (American Red Cross), Morris Davis (Crimes of War Project), Hadar Harris (American), Dick Jackson (Lieber Society), Kate Jastram (California-Berkeley), Gary Solis (Georgetown; aside: kudos to Gary, who'll receive an ASIL Certificate of Merit for Contribution to a Specialized Field of International Law for his book The Law of Armed Conflict), Jon Tracy (National Institute of Military Justice), Jamie Williamson (International Committee of the Red Cross), and Rick Wilson (American). Our colleague David M. Crane (Syracuse), formerly the Chief Prosecutor for the Special Court for Sierra Leone, will deliver a keynote address. (image=detail from conference flyer)

Details here.

Go On! ASIL International Disability Rights Interest Group

This post is adapted from a call for membership circulated by Stephanie Ortoleva and Hope Lewis.

We are thrilled to announce that the American Society of International Law (ASIL) has established the International Disability Rights Interest Group (IDRIG.)

This exciting new group joins numerous other long-standing ASIL interest groups and will be co-chaired in this inaugural phase by Stephanie Ortoleva, Senior Human Rights Legal Advisor, BlueLaw International, LLP, and Visiting Scholar, University of Hawaii, Spring 2011-12 (photo) and IntLawGrrl Hope Lewis, Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law. Founding Executive Committee members are Janet E. Lord, Senior Partner, BlueLaw, LLP and Michael Waterstone, Associate Dean for Research and Academic Centers, Loyola Law School of Los Angeles.
The IDRIG will have its first strategy and planning meeting at the 105th ASIL Annual Meeting on Friday, March 25, from 9 to 10:30 a.m. in the Roosevelt Room, Ritz Carlton Hotel, Georgetown, Washington, DC, 1150 22nd Street, N.W.

We encourage you to join us as we plan our strategy and activities for the forthcoming year. Even if you cannot attend this first meeting, please join the interest group so you can be part of our exciting work.
More information on the International Disability Rights Interest Group is available here.

IDRIG's Mission

The interest group's mission is described as follows:

The American Society of International Law International Disability Rights Interest Group (IDRIG) focuses on disability rights as this issue moves from the margins of international human rights law and policy to occupy a prominent place in the global human rights system with the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The CRPD is moving in the direction of universal signature and already has nearly 100 ratifications, signaling the importance of the treaty to more than 650 million persons with disabilities worldwide. The CRPD has prompted an unprecedented pace of law reform worldwide and the establishment of an Inter-Agency mechanism to ensure disability inclusion across the United Nations system. It is also markedly shaping the human rights agendas of mainstream human rights organizations as well as international development agencies. The IDRIG works to promote awareness of disability rights as a cross-cutting issue in international law, sponsoring panels and other events at ASIL. Through an online discussion forum, DRIG provides information on recent developments in the field, an opportunity for networking among the rapidly growing numbers of international disability rights academics, practitioners, and advocates, discussing issues and recent developments in the field, sharing and collaborating on research, and furthering the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the work of ASIL. IDRIG also supports, encourages, and provides leadership opportunities to law students and emerging young lawyers in the growing field. Finally, and crucially, IDRIG advances the diversity of ASIL membership and facilitates the accessibility of ASIL to international lawyers with disabilities.

As you can tell, we have much work to do! If you are not already an ASIL member, information on joining ASIL can be found here.
Contact Stephanie Ortoleva or Hope Lewis with any questions. We look forward to meeting you on the 25th!

Go On! Human rights & cultural heritage

(Delighted to welcome back alumna Jennifer Kreder, who contributes this Go On! guest post)

With the political turmoil in the Middle East and recent devastating earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, and Turkey, the timing is – unfortunately – excellent for Human Rights and Cultural Heritage: From the Holocaust to the Haitian Earthquake, a conference to be held March 31, 2011, at Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, 55 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
Cohosting in addition to Cardozo's Art Law Society are the Cultural Heritage and the Arts Interest Group of the American Society of International Law (an interest group for which I serve as co-chair), the Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation, and the Hofstra Law School Art and Cultural Heritage Club. Generously supporting the conference are the Commission for Art Recovery and the New York law firm Herrick Feinstein, LLP.
The daylong conference will include an impressive group of diverse perspectives – including a keynote address by Howard N. Spiegler, partner and co-chair of Herrick Feinstein's Art Law Group – and will cover a broad range of topics relating to the intersection of human rights and cultural heritage across the globe.
The schedule of speakers and topics is available here. Space is limited, so be sure to register soon!

Paris in America in Paris, today

A distinguished group will examine Paris in America in Paris this afternoon, at a session this 'Grrl regrets having to miss.
Featured will be 2 IntLawGrrls guests/alumnae -- Professor Mireille Delmas-Marty (below left), holder of the Chair of Comparative Legal Studies and Internationalization of Law at the Collège de France de Paris, where the colloquium will occur, and Pittsburgh Law Professor Vivian Grosswald Curran (below, near right) -- as well as U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer (bottom left).
The program will begin at 3:30 p.m. at Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre at the Collège, located at 11, place Marcelin-Berthelot.
Inspiring the session is the English-edition title of an 1863 book by Édouard Laboulaye, Mireille (left) explained in an interview published at page 504 of n the February 17, 2011, edition of Recueil Dalloz. Published under the pseudonym René Lefebvre, Laboulaye's Paris in America went through 35 French and 8 English editions. It is a celebratory study of American constitutionalism -- no coincidence then that, as Mireille noted, Laboulaye, in his day an adminstrator of the Collège de France, "contributed actively, along with the sculptor Bartholdi, to the realization of the Statue of Liberty."
Mireille challenged her interviewer's implication that comparative law might not provide a useful platform for study of contemporary democracies (my translation):

I would not say that comparative law is a 'subaltern' discipline; to the contrary, I believe that it is indispensable in an era in which the interdependence of states has become so strong that the interactions among diverse national and regional systems lie at the heart of the phenomena of the internationalization of law. ... Even constitutional judges, presented with difficult or undecided questions, have a need for comparative law.

Acknowledging that consultation by Breyer and colleagues on the Court had provoked controversy within the United States, Mireille stated:

Paradoxically, this controversy demonstrated that, in this time of globalization, comparative law is on the front lines in democracies.

This afternoon's program thus will begin with a tribute marking the bicentennial of the birth of Laboulaye. It's on that subject that Vivian will speak. Joining her on the panel will be Professor Jean-Louis Halpérin of Ecole normale supérieure; and Professor Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson (far right), of Université de Paris II and secretary-general of the Société de législation comparée. Olivier Dutheillet de Lamothe, conseiller d’État and former member of the Conseil constitutionnel, will moderate.
Commenting on the transition from the 19th to the 21st century will be Columbia Law Professor George Bermann, President of the International Academy of Comparative Law.
Finally, a session titled "Le juge constitutionnel et la démocratie" will mark the French publication of Justice Breyer's latest book, titled La Cour suprême, l'Amérique et son histoire in French, and Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View in English. A central theme of the book, as Mireille described it to her Recueil Dalloz interviewer:

Even if he remains optimistic, Breyer recognizes that the support of the public is never guaranteed. The relation between the constitutional judge and democracy is always susceptible to reinvention.

Taking part in a discussion of the book's themes will be Justice Breyer; Mireille; Guy Canivet of the Conseil constitutionnel; and Antoine Garapon, secretary-general of the Institut des hautes études sur la justice. Senator Robert Badinter, formerly President of the Conseil constitutionnel, will moderate.
Admission is free and open to the public.

Go On! Land & jurisdiction

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The Struggle for Land: Property, Territory, and Jurisdiction in Early Modern Europe and the Americas is the title of a free, public symposium to be held Friday, April 8, 2011, at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
It's organized by Tamar Herzog (below right), Professor of Latin American and Spanish History at Stanford University (who will speak on :How the Indios Lost Their Land: Spanish Debates and Practices of Recession"), and Richard J. Ross, Professor of Law and History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They write:

The struggle to possess and control land, both as property and as jurisdictional territory, was central to the formation of early modern European societies as well as their colonial domains. This conference will look at how Europeans and indigenous peoples defined the right to land. We will examine how so-called European expansion influenced the conceptualization of property and territorial jurisdiction and the relationship between them. Conference participants may explore how notions of property and territoriality changed over time; and how colonial needs and the encounter with new cultures reshaped these notions. In what ways did “international competition” and the emergence of an “international law” (to use an anachronism) modify property and jurisdiction? How did economic, social, and political developments influence new ideas and experiences regarding the land? In what ways did these ideas and experiences shape practical strategies for claiming land and asserting rights to govern it and profit from it? We are particularly eager to know whether these encounters encouraged, consciously or not, borrowing between different European legal systems as well as between settlers and indigenous peoples. How was the movement and refashioning of legal knowledge bound up with the movement of peoples and refashioning of modes of control over land?

Other scheduled panelists include Dominique Deslandres, Professor of History at the University of Montreal, Bianca Premo, Associate Professor of History at Florida International University; Professor Julia P. Adams, Chair of the Department of History at Yale; Yale Law Professor Claire Priest; and Alison LaCroix, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Chicago.
Detailed program and registration information here.

Go On! International Women's Day

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Today's the beginning of Women's History Month. No better way to launch it than with an announcement of a "Celebration of International Women’s Day: Ensuring Women’s Equal Access to Education, Training, Technology, and Work," to be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on March 8 at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, 899 Tenth Avenue, Room 630T, New York City. Cosponsors include the college's Center for International Human Rights, Women's Center, and M.A. Program in International Crime and Justice.

Scheduled panelists:

► Professor John Mathiason, Professor of International Relations at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, and Former Deputy-Director of the U.N. Division on the Advancement of Women

► Heather McKay, Director, Innovative Training and Workforce Development Research and Programs, Center for Women & Work, Rutgers University

► Ejim Dike, Director, Human Rights Project, Urban Justice Center

Serving as discussant will be Dr. Dorota Gierycz, Visiting Scholar at the Center for International Human Rights, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and the first Head of the UN Gender Analysis Section. Moderating will be Rebecca Landy, Assistant Director of the Center for International Human Rights, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (to whom thanks are due for this notice). For information and to RSVP, e-mail Rebecca at rlandy@jjay.cuny.edu.

Go On! ICJ's Greenwood @ California-Davis

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The California International Law Center at King Hall, for which I serve as founding Director, is honored to host a public address by Sir Christopher Greenwood (below right) on the topic of "The Role of the International Court of Justice in the Global Community." Posing post-lecture questions to Judge Greenwood will be California-Davis Law Professors Andrea K. Bjorklund (IntLawGrrls' very 1st guest/alumna), Anupam Chander, and yours truly.
The event will take place at 4 p.m. this Tuesday, March 1, at the Kalmanovitz Appellate Courtroom 1001, University of California, Davis, School of Law, 400 Mrak Hall Drive.
Appointed to the ICJ in 2009, Greenwood already has sat on a number of important cases, among them the 2010 Kosovo Advisory Opinion (prior posts available here). Greenwood also has been a Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics, an arbitrator on matters involving the law of the sea and the international sale of goods, and a barrister on matters not only before British national courts, but also before international fora such as the European Court of Human Rights, the Court of Justice of the European Communities, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and the U.N. Compensation Commission.
Cohosting will be 2 California-Davis student groups, the International Law Society and the Journal of International Law & Policy. Also supporting this talk, as well as a session at Stanford Law and a private judges' luncheon, is the American Society of International Law.
Details on Tuesday's event are here.

Go On! Global criminal justice

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The 24th International Conference of the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law will be held August 7-11, 2011, at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Canada. The theme is "Globalization of Crime - Criminal Justice Responses."

The interdisciplinary gathering will bring together judges, legal practitioners, senior law enforcement personnel, corrections officers, academics, and non-governmental representatives from around the world. The leadership of its sponsor, the Society, includes colleagues of ours like (below right) Sara Sun Beale (Duke), Linda Malone (William & Mary), and Ellen S. Podgor (Stetson). Cosponsoring the conference with the Society is the Vancouver-based, U.N. affiliated nonprofit International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, which this year celebrates its 20th anniversary.
The aim is "a forward-looking conference focusing on emerging crimes and new approaches to combat crime." Organizers write:

Domestic criminal justice systems are facing the globalization of crime. Transnational organized criminal groups are trafficking increasing quantities of drugs, firearms, counterfeit products, stolen natural resources and people, as well as smuggling more migrants across borders and engaging in maritime piracy and cybercrime. The response in many nations has been to expand the extraterritorial application and enforcement of domestic criminal laws and to increase mechanisms of international cooperation in the areas of extradition, mutual legal assistance and information-sharing. At the multi-lateral level, a permanent international criminal court has been established and there are renewed calls for various internationalized tribunals to address piracy. Countries continue to seek guidance on when and how domestic courts should exercise universal jurisdiction.

How do judges, prosecutors, policy-makers, representatives of law enforcement agencies and concerned citizens make sense of this shifting reality? How can we best formulate the criminal law and policy response to these challenges moving forward?

Program, fees, and other information are here.

Go On! Languages @ War

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An interdisciplinary and international conference entitled Languages at War: policies and practices of language contacts in conflict will be held April 7 to 9, 2011, at the Imperial War Museum in London, England.
Kicking off the conference will be a discussion of art and war inspired by "Baghdad Car," an installation featured a bombed automobile, by prizewinning artist Jeremy Deller. Delivering keynotes during the conference will be: Joanna Bourke (far right), Professor of History in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London; Professor Mona Baker (near right), Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Manchester; and representatives from the British Council and the British Ministry of Defence. Panelists on the Provisional Programme hail from institutions in England, of course, but also in Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Macedonia, Slovenia, Spain, the United States, and Wales.
Questions to be addressed:
► What are the foreign language policies of government, military and multilateral agencies in conflict situations?
► What are the language-related experiences of those involved 'on the ground' in these conflicts?
► What are the implications for language intermediaries who work in conflict zones?
Details and registration here.