Professor Melanie Oppenheimer and Professor Neville Wylie were invited to participate in the recent Herrenhausen Conference, ‘Governing Humanitarianism: The Past, Present and Future of Global Equity and Social Justice’, held at the Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover, Germany, 11-13 September 2022.
The conference was organised by Stacey Hynd, Associate Professor of African and Global History at the University of Exeter; Fabian Klose, Professor of International History and Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Cologne; Johannes Paulmann, Director of the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) Mainz and Professor of Modern History; and Andrew Thompson, Professor of Global and Imperial History at the University of Oxford, with funding from the Volkswagen Foundation (VolkswagenStiftung).
The two-day face-to-face interdisciplinary conference brought together early career and established researchers, practitioners and leaders in the field to discuss international action in the debate on the past, present and future of global humanitarian governance. Neville and Melanie co-chaired workshops on Creating a New United Nations: Responsibility in Humanitarianism and Humanitarianism in Conflict Situations respectively