The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and The Young Academy invite you to submit proposals for a conference to be held from 5 – 7 November 2014 in Amsterdam about the Congress of Vienna 1815. The conference aims to rethink the significance of the Congress of Vienna by exploring the nexus between international relations, politics and security culture. The conference is organized on the initiative of Professor Beatrice de Graaf, Leiden University/Campus The Hague.

See webpage: http://www.dejongeakademie.nl/Pages/DJA/35/514.bGFuZz1FTkc.html for detailed information

Paper proposals (300 words) should reach the conference committee by 1 October 2013 by e-mail: Vienna1815@cdh.leidenuniv.nl

The committee invites proposals on any relevant topic related to the central theme of this conference: the significance and legacy of the Congress of Vienna.

Suggestions for papers or panels are:
1. 1815 and its professional agents (see attached file)
2. 1815 and its new institutions (Ambassador’s congress, anti-piracy commission, committee on the navigation of the Danube etc.)
3. 1815 in the public sphere (Commemorations, celebration of war heroes, Waterloo, masses)
4. 1815 and its legacy (in research, autobiographies, canonical literature etc.; culture, memory, legal framework for international law, ‘long peace’).