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, Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense / Sophiapol), Philosophical foundations of disarmament
Mgr Bruno-Marie DUFFE (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), Charting an Oceanic nuclear politics
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)