Organized to mark the bicentenary of the Congress of Vienna, this conference brings together scholars in history, international relations, and political science to explore this remarkable occasion—the calling of a general peace conference—to re-establish world order in the wake of revolutions, the rise of new leading powers, and wars with reverberations in every part of the globe. How did the Congress conveners conceive of the goals of such a meeting? How did they manage the complexity of such a gathering? How did they imagine containing the forces that had been unleashed by the previous decades of conflict: Napoleon, guerilla war and jihad, the forces of nationalism and public opinion? What were the mechanisms of collective security, new ways of thinking about international values and norms, and new policing methods that the Congress devised to secure an enduring peace?

This conference is organized by Victoria de Grazia, Moore Collegiate Professor of History and Director of the European Institute. It is co-sponsored by the European Institute and the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, with support from the Austrian Cultural Forum New York.

Students, scholars, and community members are welcome to attend.
Register here: http://europe.columbia.edu/events/congress-vienna-1814-1815-making-peace-first-global-way-day-1/

Conference Participants
Gérard Araud, Ambassador of France to the U.S.
Gary Bass, Professor of Politics andInternational Affairs, Princeton University
Richard Betts, Professor of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University
Charly Coleman, Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University
Margaret Crosby-Arnold, Research Scholar, European Institute, Columbia
Christian Cwik, Lecturer in History, University of the West Indies
John Davis, Professor of History, University of Connecticut
Victoria de Grazia, Professor of History, Columbia University
Beatrice A. de Graaf, Professor of History, Utrecht University
Patrick Geoghegan, Professor of History, Trinity College
Stella Ghervas, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University
Mark Jarrett, Author of The Congress of Vienna and its Legacy
Robert Jervis, Professor of International Politics, Columbia University
Paul Lovejoy, Professor of History, York University
Mark Mazower, Professor of History, Columbia University
Susan Pedersen, Professor of History, Columbia University
Wolfgang Petritsch, President, Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation
Matthew Rendall, Lecturer in Politics and IR, University of Nottingham
Gideon Rose, Editor, Foreign Affairs
Glenda Sluga, Professor of History, University of Sydney
Jack Snyder, Professor of International Relations, Columbia University
Reinhard Stauber, Professor of History, University of Klagenfurt
Brian Vick, Associate Professor of History, Emory University
Larry Wolff, Professor of History, New York University
Isser Woloch, Professor Emeritus of History, Columbia University