Thursday, 7 May 2015
9:30 Welcome and Introductions
Jussi Hanhimäki/Bernhard Blumenau
10:00 – 11:30 Panel I - The Cold War & Terrorism: Myths and Misinterpretations
Chair: Jussi Hanhimäki, Graduate Institute
Thomas Riegler, Vienna - “Gladio – Myth and Reality”
Tobias Hof, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US - “State Involvement in Right-Wing Terrorism in Italy and West Germany: Myth or Reality?”
Adrian Hänni, University of Zurich, CH - “Reactions to state-sponsored terrorism in the United States, 1980-1992”
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 – 13:00 Panel II - The US and State (Sponsored) Terror
Chair: Tobias Hof, Chapel Hill
Barbara Zanchetta, Graduate Institute, CH, - “The United States and 'Operation Condor': Cold War imperatives or state sponsored terrorism?”
Silke Zoller, Temple University, US, - “States and Non-State Actors in Counterterrorism”
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 – 16:30 Panel III - Europe and Terrorism
Chair: Barbara Zanchetta, Graduate Institute
Felix Jimenez, Boston College, US - “The Politics of South American state terrorism in 1970s West Germany”
Bernhard Blumenau, Graduate Institute, CH - “The East German State Security and Western right-wing terrorists.”
Andrea Chiampan, Graduate Institute, CH - “Encountering Violence: State and Terror in Italy's anni di piombo”
Przemysław Gasztold-Seń, Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw, PL, - “The Arms Trade, Espionage and Embargoed Goods: Polish Military Intelligence and International Terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s”
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 Keynote address
Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou, Graduate Institute/ GCSP
“From Al Qaeda to the Islamic State: The Evolution of Contemporary Transnational Terrorism”
Conference dinner - Location tbd
Friday, 8 May 2015
9:00 – 10:30 Panel IV – Transnational Terrorism and ‘National Liberation?
Chair: Bernhard Blumenau, Graduate Institute
Felicitas Fischer von Weikersthal, University of Heidelberg, D, - “Terrorists and Statesmen. Terrorism and the Polish Fight for Independence”
Isabella Ginor/ Gideon Remez, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, - “The KGB’s Abduction Program and the PFLP: New Evidence”
Daniel Rickenbacher, ETH Zurich, CH, - “The Islamic State’s Ambivalence: From Hybrid Warfare to Transnationalism”
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 Roundtable discussion: State (Sponsored) Terrorism: Former Trends and New Tendencies
Moderation: Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou. Graduate Institute, GCSP
Yonah Alexander, Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies, Washington, DC USA
Jussi Hanhimäki, Graduate Institute
François-Bernard Huyghue, Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques Paris, France
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch