Study day organized by Dr Eva Segura, associate researcher at the Philépol laboratory, Paris Descartes, with the support of the Paris IAS.

Free admission (please register at inscriptionsjourneeguerre@gmail.com).
Roundtables will be in French.

Presentation

While the rhetoric of war proliferates in the peaceful public sphere in areas that are foreign to it (pandemics, social struggles), on the battlefields of today, the protagonists are silent about the nature of what is taking place there: there is silence about the number of victims, and periphrases refer to "interventions" and "special operations." Everywhere, war remains nameless. Its conflictual dimension is dismissed. Its diffuse nature, in terms of geographical space, people involved, equipment mobilized and practices (economic and information warfare, educational actions), leads to its depoliticization. The war will not take place, or rather has no place. It is everywhere and nowhere. How can war be waged without being declared? Does the spread of war mean the foreclosure of peace? War is no longer just a war of representations, as Foucault asserted after Hobbes, but a war of representations of war. The aim of this study day is to contribute to a philosophy of war, in order to reflect on these representations.

Programme

9:30-10:00 Welcome: coffee and croissants

10:00-10:15
Introduction

10:15-12:45
Roundtable n°1: Does war exist?
Speakers: Thomas Berns, Guerres réelles et guerres possibles, Jérôme Heurtaux, Conflits contemporains, effets narratifs de la guerre et refus de savoir et Coralie Camili, Guerres et combats
Moderator: Christian Bouchindhomme
Question time: 1 hour

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-16:00
Roundtable n°2: Making and unmaking war
Speakers: Juliette Lafosse, Mutations du concept de guerre dans le droit and Audrey Hérisson, La pensée de la guerre à travers la philosophie française contemporaine : l’apport des années 1960 et 1970
Moderator: Élie Baranets
Question time: 1 hour

16:00-16:15
Conclusion

16:15-16:45 Coffee break

Practical information

IN SITU session only.
Free admission (please register at inscriptionsjourneeguerre@gmail.com).