Date & Time: 09/12/2009

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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

09.30
Opening Session

Greetings: Menahem Yaari, President, IASH
Günter Stock, President, BBAW
 

10.30 - 13.00
1st Session: Past and Present

Chairperson: Benjamin Zeev Kedar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Benjamin Henri Isaac, Tel Aviv University
Innovation and the Practice of Warfare in the Ancient World

Mitchell G. Ash, University of Vienna
Science, War and Peace: Outlines of a Changing Relationship in the 20th-21st Centuries
 

14.30 - 17.30
2nd Session: Technology and Military Affairs

Chairperson: Jacob Ziv, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Martin van Creveld, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Rise and Decline of Military Technology 1890-2010

Coffee break

Helmut Maier, Ruhr-Universität Bochum The ‘Alma mater militaris technica’ of 1904: Laying the Foundations for the Scientification of Prussian Military Technology

Isaac Ben-Israel, Tel Aviv University
The Impact of Technology on the Revolution in Military Affairs in the 21st Century

 
Thursday, December 10, 2009

09.00 − 11.00
3rd Session: Medical Science in War and Peace

Chairperson: Uri Seligsohn, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv University

Eran Dolev, Tel Aviv University
The Two Faces of Military Medicine in the 20th Century: Life-Saver and War-Tool
 
Wolfgang U. Eckart, University of Heidelberg
Bitter Experiences, Seductive Challenges: War and Medical Research during the 20th Century

Coffee break

11.30 − 13.30
4th Session: Norms, Laws, and the Impact of War

Chairperson: Nili Cohen, Tel Aviv University

Miloš Vec, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt am Main
The Mutual Impact of War and Normative Orders in the 20th Century

Eyal Benvenisti, Tel Aviv University
Science and Suffering: How Technological Innovations Undermine the Laws of War

 
15.00 − 18.00
5th Session: Views of and from the Sciences

Chairperson: Raphael Mechoulam, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Joshua Jortner, Tel Aviv University
Reflections on Scientists during International Conflicts: The Case of Nuclear Fission

Ruth Lewin Sime, Sacramento City College
‘Purely Scientific’: Otto Hahn, Fission, and the Second World War

Coffee break

Ferdinand Hucho, Free University of Berlin
Biochemistry of the Nervous System: Dual Use of a Research Topic

 
Final Comments and Discussion

Jürgen Kocka, Free University of Berlin

Shulamit Volkov, Tel Aviv University
 
 
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