Dr. Lukas Schemper

Zur Person / Vita

  • seit 2021 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am ZfL im Projekt Archipelagische Imperative. Schiffbruch und Lebensrettung in europäischen Gesellschaften seit 1800
  • 2018–2019 Lehrbeauftragter in Geschichte an Sciences Po Paris (Europe-Asia Undergraduate Programme)
  • 2018 Consultant für das Internationale Büro für Bildung der UNESCO in Genf 
  • 2018–2020 Lehrbeauftragter für das Europaeum Scholars Programme (PhD Level)
  • Herbstsemester 2017 Assistenzprofessur (Vertretung) am Humanitarian Conflict and Response Institute (HCRI) der Universität Manchester 
  • 2016 Promotion in Internationaler Geschichte am Hochschulinstitut für internationale Studien und Entwicklung in Genf
  • 2013–2015 Lehrassistent am Institut für Internationale Geschichte, Hochschulinstitut für internationale Studien und Entwicklung in Genf
  • 2011–2012 Forschungsassistent Institut für Politikwissenschaft und Internationale Beziehungen an der Universität Genf für das SNF Projekt Unjust and Just Peace
  • 2006–2011 Bachelorstudium in Sozialwissenschaften und Magisterstudium in Geschichte der Internationalen Beziehungen an Sciences Po Paris

Gastaufenthalte

  • 2019–2021 SNF Postdoc Mobility Fellow am Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society  der University of Munich LMU
  • 2017 Graduate Institute Junior Fellow am Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM) in Wien
  • Sommer 2016 SNF Gastwissenschafter, Centre d’Histoire, Sciences Po Paris
  • Frühjahrssemester 2016 SNF Plumer Visiting Fellow am St. Anne’s College der Universität Oxford
  • Herbstsemester 2015 SNF Gastwissenschafter am Institut für Geschichte der Columbia Universität in New York

Arbeitsschwerpunkte

  • Europäische Geschichte und Globalgeschichte
  • Katastrophen, Unfälle und Umwelt
  • Humanitarismus und Internationale Entwicklung
  • Internationalismus und Internationale Organisationen

Publikationen

Aufsätze (peer reviewed)

  • Maritime Safety, Sovereignty, and the International Order in the Nineteenth Century, in: International Journal of Maritime History, in preparation, scheduled for mid-2025
  • with Henning Trüper, The Rescuing Sovereign at Sea: Historical Perspectives on Maritime Law, Morals, and Politics (introduction), in: International Journal of Maritime History, in preparation, scheduled for mid-2025
  • Books among Bullets: the humanitarian activities of the International Bureau of Education during the Second World War, in: PROSPECTS. Comparative Journal of Curriculum, Learning, and Assessment as part of a special issue on "global governance in education”, in preparation, scheduled for mid-2025
  • Lifesaving, Sovereignty, and the Place of the late Ottoman Empire in the European International Order, in: Journal of World History 30.4 (2025), accepted for publication
  • The International Moral Economy of Saving Lives at Sea in the Late Ottoman Empire, in: The International History Review, advance access (2024), 1-20.
  • Science Diplomacy and the Making of the United Nations International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, in: Diplomatica: A Journal of Diplomacy and Society 1.2 (2019), 243–267
  • La prévention des catastrophes naturelles et les organisations internationales du temps de la sdn au lendemain de la guerre froide. Quelle place pour l’environnement?, in: Revue études internationales XLVII.1 (2016), 29–80
  • Diasporas and American Debates on German Unification, in: Journal of Transatlantic Studies 15.1 (2016), 41–60.

Aufsätze in Sammelbänden

  • International Organizations and the issue of natural disaster during the Cold War, in: Sandrine Kott, Eva-Maria Muschik, Elisabeth Röhrlich (eds.): International Organizations and the Cold War: Competition, Cooperation, Convergence. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025 (accepted, forthcoming in February 2025)
  • The League of Nations and the New Uses of Sovereignty, in: Thomas Bottelier, Jan Stöckmann (Hg.): Instruments of International Order: Internationalism and Diplomacy from 1900 to 1950. Manchester: University Press, 2024 (forthcoming, November 2024)
  • Transnational Expertise on Natural Disaster and International Organization: historical perspectives from the inter-war period, in: Christian Heinrich-Franke, Robert Kaiser, Christian Lahusen, Andrea Schneiker (Hg.): Transnational Expertise. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2018, 29–54
  • Der Hohe Flüchtlingskommissar der Vereinten Nationen, Österreich und die Repatriierung sowjetischer Flüchtlinge, in: Maximilian Graf, Agnes Meisinger (Hg.): Österreich im Kalten Krieg. Neue Forschungen im internationalen Kontext. Wien: Vienna University Press 2016, 49–72

Buchrezensionen

  • Crossland, J. (2014). Britain and the International Committee of the Red Cross, 1939–1945, in: Diplomacy & Statecraft 27.1 (2016), 191–92

Kleinere Arbeiten

In der Presse

Vorträge

  • Noblesse et patronage: le cas du sauvetage en mer, Konferenz »Mer et noblesses en Europe, XVIe-XXe siècle«, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne, 17.10.2024
  • What might history tell us about the future of existential and catastrophic risk studies? (roundtable), »Cambridge Conference on Catastrophic Risk«, Center for the Study of Existential Risk, Cambridge, 18.10.2024
  • Maritime safety, sovereignty, and the international order in the nineteenth century, Konferenz »The Rescuing Sovereign at Sea: Historical Perspectives on Maritime Law, Morals, and Politics« organisiert von Henning Trüper und Lukas Schemper am ZfL in Berlin, 14.06.2024
  • Sovereignty, International Organization, and the Moral Economy of Saving Lives at Sea in the Ottoman Empire, Panel »Tensions of Humanitarianism«, Seventh European Congress on World and Global History, Universität Leiden, 01.07.2023
  • Organizing Lifesaving at the 19th Century Bosporus, Panel »Diplomacy and the International Governance of Waterways in the 19th Century«, Fifth Congress of the New Diplomatic History Network, Universität Turku, 27.05.2023
  • Moral Shipwreck: Emergency Situations at Sea during Naval Confrontations of the Second World War, Konferenz »Social Imaginaries of Emergency Situations at Sea« organisiert von ZfL Berlin und Mines Paris – PSL, Nizza, 31.03.2023
  • Saving Lives at Sea in the Late Ottoman Empire, Seminar des Geschichtsinstituts, Universität Warwick, 19.11.2022
  • Disaster and the United Nations during the Cold War, Tagung »Divided Together? International Organizations and the Cold War«, Universität Wien, 2.6.2022
  • Communicating risk: the International Atomic Energy Agency’s communication strategies in the aftermath of nuclear incidents, Konferenz »STREAMS«, Environmental Humanities Laboratory KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, 7.8.2021
  • The IAEA in the age of the »risk society paradigm«: strategies, policies and discourse, Tagung »Energy Transitions and International Cooperation in the 20th Century«, Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam (ZZF), 11.6.2021
  • International Organisations and the Communication of Risk: the example of the International Atomic Energy Agency in the 1970s-1980s, Tagung »Communication history of International Organizations and NGOs«, Zentrum für Medien-, Kommunikations- und Informationsforschung Universität Bremen, Zentrum für Medien-, Kommunikations- und Informationsforschung, 22.4.2022
  • The International Committee of the Red Cross and intellectual aid during the Second World War, Tagung »Histories of the Red Cross Movement since 1919«, International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Genf, 13.6.2019
  • Protecting humanity from disaster: an entangled history of thought, laws, and institutions, Tagung »Conference Culture & International History VI: Visions of Humanity«, FU Berlin, 6.5.2019
  • The United Nations International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction and Science Diplomacy in the 1980s/1990s, Dritter Kongress des »New Diplomatic History Network«, Roosevelt Institute for American Studies Middelburg, 25.10.2018
  • Revisiting the International Relief Union. Perspectives on disaster management from the inter-war period, Seminar des Humanitarian Conflict and Response Institute, Universität Manchester, 12.12.2017
  • International Organisations and disaster: a global and transnational history, Kolloquium des Kollaborativen Forschungszentrums Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition (Markov Preis Verleihung), Universität Leipzig, 12.11.2017
  • Utopia and international organization history: preliminary observations with a particular focus on disaster relief, Workshop »Bureaucratization of Utopia: International Governance, Audit Culture and Administrative Subjectivities in the 21st century«, Graduate Institute Genf, 29.6.2017 
  • The United Nations International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, Tagung »Calendar Propaganda« of Human Rights? Historical Perspectives on the United Nations’ Global Observances", Leiden Universität, 15.6.2017
  • Writing the History of »Failed« International Organizations, Workshop »Comment les organisations internationales parlent aux historiens? Un point de vue suisse«, History of International Organizations Network (HION), Graduate Institute Genf, 7.6.2017
  • Natural disaster: historical perspectives on the development of international law and norms, Fellows’ Seminar, IWM Wien, 29.3.2017
  • Britain and Natural Disaster: Between bilateral and multilateral diplomacy, Tagung »Citizens of the World: The Place of the International in Britain since 1918«, Queen Mary Universität London, 16.3.2017
  • The international Red Cross movement and natural disaster in the inter-war period. Tagung »Histories of the Red Cross Movement: Continuity and Change«, Flinders Universität Adelaide, 11.9.2016

Lehre

Sciences Po

  • SoSe 2019: History of the Modern World 20th-21st century (Bachelor Seminar)
  • WiSe 2018: Research in History: Disaster in Historical Documents (Bachelor Seminar)
  • WiSe 2018: The 19th Century in Europe and Asia: Revolution, Empires and Nations (Bachelor Vorlesung und Seminar)
  • WiSe 2014: Europe in the 19th Century (Bachelor Seminar)

University of Vienna

  • WiSe 2020: International History and Politics of Epidemics (Master Seminar)
  • SoSe 2018: International History and Politics of Disaster (Master Seminar)
  • SoSe 2017: Historical perspectives on disaster management and risk prevention (Master Seminar)

University of Manchester

  • WiSe 2017: Humanitarianism in an Unequal World (Bachelor Vorlesung)
  • WiSe 2017: Humanitarianism and Conflict Response: Inquiries (Bachelor Vorlesung)