Roads to Peace? Infrastructures, Peace, and Conflict
2022 Annual Conference of the German Association for Historical Peace and Conflict Research
June 14–15, 2022
All times UTC.
Program
June 14, 2022
1:00 PM – 1:15 PM
Introduction
Jan Hansen (University of Southern California, Los Angeles) and Christoph Laucht (Swansea
University): Roads to Peace? Infrastructures, Peace, and Conflict
1:15 PM – 2:30 PM
Panel 1: Transnational Flows and the Politics of Development
Anja Westermann (University of Paderborn): A thin line – The United Nations and the Struggle
for Water Resource Development
S. Waqar H. Zaidi (Lahore University of Management Sciences): Development Through Civil
Aviation: US Technical Assistance for Asian Airlines, 1955–1970
Chair: Daniel Marc Segesser (University of Bern)
2:45 PM – 4:30 PM
Panel 2: Infrastructure and Mobilization for War/Conflict
Mitterand M. Okorie (Rhodes University, Grahamstown): Blockade without end? Conflict and
Infrastructure deficit in South Eastern Nigeria
Daniel Marc Segesser (University of Bern): Preparing for War by Fostering Alpine Winter
Tourism: Herman Czant and His Ideas on Infrastructure for Fighting in High Altitude
Christoph Laucht (Swansea University): Infrastructure, Space, Symbolic Power: The Kiel Canal as
Trade Route, Threat Zone and Defence Area, 1895–1955
Chair: Tomás Irish (Swansea University)
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Keynote
Kenny R. Cupers (Basel University): Designing Mobility in the Postcolony
Chair: Jan Hansen (University of Southern California, Los Angeles)
June 15, 2022
1:00 PM – 2:45 PM
Panel 3: Roads and State Formation
Oscar Aponte (City University of New York): Colombianizing the Amazon Rainforest: Road
Building and State Formation during and after the Colombia–Perú Conflict, 1932–1940
Efrat Hildesheim (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology): On Borderoadscape: The
Landscape of Israel’s Highway 90 and the Eastern Border
Viliebeinuo Medom (Indian Institute of Technology): Connections that Disconnect: Imperialism,
Nationalism and Naga Conflict in South Asia
Chair: Hilary Orange (Swansea University)
2:45 PM – 4:00 PM
Panel 4: Infrastructures and the Search for Order in the Global North
Robert Kindler (Free University, Berlin): Dealing with the Reds: German Plans for “Change
through Trade” after World War I
Isis Luxenburger (Saarland University): The Railroad Keeps the Town Alive: Infrastructure,
Conflict and Order in the Canadian North
Chair: Daniel Stahl (University of Jena)
4:30 PM – 5:45 PM
Panel 5: Infrastructure and Nation Building in Africa
Dominic Davies (City University of London): Infrastructural Monumentalism: From the Cape–to–
Cairo Railway to Rhodes Must Fall
Biruk Terrefe (Oxford University) and Harry Verhoeven (Columbia University): The Road Not
Taken: Infrastructure, Climate and the (Dis)Integration of Political Communities in The Horn of
Africa
Chair: Frederik Schulze (Bielefeld University)
5:45 PM – 6:00 PM
Conclusion
Chair: Christoph Laucht (Swansea University)
Registration
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