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Rethinking Methods of Investigation
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Table of ContentsProgram Overview 3
Map 4
Workshop Program 5
Public Conferences 8
Conference Contributors 9
Organising Committee 11
List of Participants 12
Sponsors 14
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MONDAY 18TH JUNE 2018
From 05.00pm Registration Uni Mail M2150
06:00pm-06:30pm Opening and Welcome Speech Uni Mail MS150 Rector of the University of Geneva Michael Møller, Director of the United Nations Office in Geneva
06:30 pm-08:00pm Conference Plenary 1 – Investigating IOs: Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries Uni Mail MS150
TUESDAY 19TH JUNE 2018
From 08.00am Registration Uni Mail M2150
09:00am-10:30am Panel T1A: Comparison and Bureaucracies (M2130) Panel T1B: States and the Study of IOs (M2140)
10:30am-11.00am Coffee break (M2150)
11:00am-12:30pm Panel T2A: Researching UN Staff: Methodological Insights (M2130) Panel T2B: IOs’ History and Archives (M2140)
12:30pm-02:00pm Lunch Break (M2150)
02:00pm-03:30pm Panel T3A: Studying IOs through Staff Biographies and Discourses (M2130) Panel T3B: Text Analysis and IO Publications (M2140)
03:30pm-04:00pm Coffee break (M2150)
04:00pm-05:30pm Panel T4A: IO Ethnography and Gender (M2130) Panel T4B: IOs through their Discourses and Knowledge Production (M2140)
TUESDAY 19TH JUNE 2018
06:00pm-08:00pm Conference Plenary 2 – Investigating IOs: Taming Time Uni Mail MS150
From 08:30pm Private Reception
WEDNESDAY 20TH JUNE 2018
09:00am-10:30am Panel W1A: Combining Methods (M2130) Panel W1B: Research through and with Database (M2140)
10:30am-11.00am Coffee break (M2150)
11:00am-12:30pm Panel W2A: Methods to Study Practices (M2130) Panel W2B: Studying IO and IO Data Production (M2140)
12:30pm-02:00pm Lunch Break (M2150)
02:00pm-03:30pm Panel W3A: Addressing Time and Space in the Study of IOs (M2130) Panel W3B: Network Analyses and Process Tracing (M2140)
03:30pm-04:00pm Coffee break (M2150)
04:00pm-05:30pm Wrap-up and Conclusion: Gaps and Silences (M2130)
Program Overv iew
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Map
Workshop and Conference Venue
University of GenevaBd Pont d’Arve 401205 Genève
Access: From the train station, tram 15 towards “Palettes”, stop “Uni Mail”
Private Reception Venue
Cité du TempsPont de la Machine 11204 Genève
Access: From the University, take tram 18 at “Pont d’Arve” towards “CERN”and drop off at “Bel-Air” then 2 minutes walk.
Private Reception Venue
Workshopand Conference Venue
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TUESDAY 19TH JUNE 2018
09:00-10:30
T1A: Comparison and Bureaucracies (M2130)Chair : Fanny Badache (UNIL)Discussant : Mélanie Albaret (Université de Clermont-Ferrand / Centre Michel de L’Hospital)
“Researching International Organizations – A review of data sources and related methodological challenges.” Jörn Ege (Speyer University/University of Exeter), Steffen Eckhard (LMU Munich), Vytautas Jankauskas(LMU Munich), Ronny Patz (LMU Munich)
“Squaring the Triangle: Methodological Problems of Stu-dying the International Organisations of the Middle East”James Worrall (University of Leeds)
T1B: States and the Study of IOs (M2140)Chair : Emilie Dairon (Sciences Po Lyon)Discussant : Sandra Lavenex (UNIGE)
“International Organizations and LawWithout the State”Lorenzo Gasbarri (UCL)
“Virtues and limits of a “carnal sociology”of a United Nations committee”Julie Patarin-Jossec (University of Bordeaux)
“State Centrism and the Ethnography of the United Nations”Ronald Niezen (Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy, Faculty of Law and Departmentof Anthropology, McGill University)
11:00-12:30
T2A: Researching UN Staff: Methodological Insights (M2130)Chair : Leah Kimber (UNIGE)Discussant : Thomas Weiss (CUNY)
“Who governs the international?The merits of studying IO professionals”Monique Beerli (UC Berkeley & CERI),Clara Egger (Graduate Institute)
“Capturing UN staff through the concept of ecosystem” Fanny Badache (UNIL), Emilie Dairon (Sciences Po Lyon)
“Negotiating methods and navigating positions: between expertise and research on UNESCO heritage policies” Chiara Bortolotto (EHESS), Kristin Kuutma (University of Tartu)
T2B: IOs’ History and Archives (M2140)Chair : Lucile Maertens (UNIL, Sciences Po/CERI)Discussant : Sandrine Kott (UNIGE)
“Inside UNESCO World Heritage:Ethnography and archives”Christoph Brumann (Max Planck Institute for SocialAnthropology), Aurélie Elisa Gfeller (Graduate Institute)
“Defining minorities: Actors and Practicesin the League of Nations”Roser Cusso (Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne)
“Researching international supervision of rights: Traf-ficking between field and archive, present and past”Jane K. Cowan (Sussex University),Julie Billaud (Sussex University)
02:00-03:30
T3A: Studying IOs through Staff Biographies and Discourses (M2130)Chair : Emilie Dairon (Sciences Po Lyon)Discussant : Bob Reinalda (Radboud University)
“Reintroducing international organizations in their social spaces. Propositions for using social trajecto-ries of individuals as a methodological approach”Valentin Thomas (IRISSO – Université Paris-Dauphine) Quentin Deforge (IRISSO – Université Paris-Dauphine)
“Analysing Biographies As Social Spaces:A New Approach in the Study of InternationalOrganizations and the Governance of Money” Aykiz Dogan (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne),Frédéric Lebaron (ENS Paris-Saclay)
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“Questioning the relevance of semi-directiveinterviews in researching the UN”Mélanie Albaret (Université Clermont Auvergne,Centre de recherche Michel de l'Hospital),Joan Deas (Sciences Po Grenoble)
T3B: Text Analysis and IO Publications (M2140)Chair : Leah Kimber (UNIGE)Discussant : Romain Felli (UNIL)
“Local actors and organizational capacity-building in the text”Michelle Reddy (Stanford University)
“The Best of Both Worlds? Combining Quantitative and Historical Methods in the Study of International Organisations”Ellen Ravndal (The Australian National University)
“Combining corpus linguistics and archival research methods to analyse International Labour Organisa-tion (ILO) Annual Bulletins, 1919-2014”Evan Easton-Calabria (Oxford University),William Allen (Oxford University)
04:00-05:30
T4A: IO Ethnography and Gender (M2130)Chair : Fanny Badache (UNIL)Discussant : Irène Bellier (CNRS)
“Researching gender equality policies in an international or-ganisation: the (dis)advantages of participant observation”Jane Freedman (Université Paris 8)
“Researching from below:Feminist field research and the “local turn”Carrie Reiling (Pomona College)
“Transforming national status into a heuristic standpoint: underdoing localized participative observation in the International Organization for Migration (IOM)” Sabine Dini (ERASME/CERAL Université Paris 13,Sorbonne-Paris-Cité)
T4B: IOs through their Discoursesand Knowledge Production (M2140)Chair : Lucile Maertens (UNIL, Sciences Po/CERI)Discussant : Franck Petiteville (Sciences Po Grenoble)
“Dynamic elements of a common international lifewor-ld and salient social identities: Quantitative and qualita-tive discourse analysis of the UNGA General Debates”Catherine Hecht (Vienna School of International Studies), Mor Mitrani (Bar-Ilan University)
“Studying IOs ‘at a distance’:the case of the World Bank”Romain Felli (UNIL), Amal Tawfik (UNIL),Nicolas Baya Laffite (UNIL)
“Digital Participation Index for InternationalOrganizations”Jérôme Duberry (UNIGE)
WEDNESDAY 20TH JUNE 2018
09:00-10:30
W1A: Combining Methods (M2130)Chair : Emilie Dairon (Sciences Po Lyon)Discussant : Christian Bueger (Cardiff University)
“Researching the UN qualitatively:From exploration to explanation”Janne Mende (University of Kassel)
“Seeing through International Organisations.A historical sociology of the IntergovernmentalPanel on Climate Change”Kari de Pryck (UNIGE, Sciences Po Paris)
“Methodological lessons from a system-wideresearch of the United Nations: the United Nations Country Team in Mozambique and Vietnam”Luciana de Rezende Campos Oliveir(Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais/ PUC-Minas)
W1B: Research through and with Database (M2140)Chair : Lucile Maertens (UNIL, Sciences Po/CERI)Discussant : Tommaso Venturini (ENS Lyon)
“Rethinking legislative behaviour in the UNGA : sponsorship as a country-profiling tool”Pedro Seabra (Center for International Studies,University Institute of Lisbon (CEI-IUL);and German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)),Rafael Mesquita (UFPE/GIGA)
“Representation and accountability in international organisations: Studying UN leadership using a data-set of personal characteristics and length of tenure”Magnus Lundgren (Stockholm University),Kseniya Oksamytna (King’s College London)
“Corpus-driven Analysis of Debates in International Organizations: Improving the Workflow”Paul Kohlenberg (SWP Berlin), Stephen Aris (ETH Zürich)
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11:00-12:30
W2A: Methods to Study Practices (M2130)Chair : Leah Kimber (UNIGE)Discussant : Mathilde Bourrier (UNIGE)
“Praxiography, action researchand the many faces of multilateralism”Christian Bueger (Cardiff University)
“How do humanitarian IOs conceptualise theworld? An interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of concepts used in humanitarian action”Clara Egger (Graduate Institute), Doris Schopper (UNIGE)
“Studying UNHCR in Ecuador in a closure context: the interest of combining institutional and benefi-ciary interviews inside and outside the organization”Lucie Laplace (Université Lyon 2)
W2B: Studying IO and IO Data Production over time (M2140)Chair : Fanny Badache (UNIL)Discussant : Dorota Dakowska (Université Lyon 2)
“The Issue of Time: An Evolutionary Approachto International Organization”Bob Reinalda (Radboud University)
“Applying the Sociology of Quantification to Inter-national Organizations: A Study Using Statistics of the International Labour Organization (1919–1939)”Laure Piguet (UNIGE)
02:00-03:30
W3A: Addressing Time and Spacein the Study of IOs (M2130)Chair : Mathilde Bourrier (UNIGE)Discussant : Birgit Müller (CNRS)
“International Organizations in Time and Space: The United Nations as a Hyperspace”Leah Kimber (UNIGE), Lucile Maertens (UNIL, Sciences Po/CERI)
“The long-term ethnographic study of international organizations and their environment:Insights on the role of time and spacefrom a project on global health governance”Julian Eckl (Universität Hamburg)
“Researching spatial practices at the United Nations: reflections from the Forum on Minority Issues”Fiona McConnell (University of Oxford)
W3B: Network Analyses and Process Tracing (M2140)Chair : Fanny Badache (UNIL)Discussant : Simon Hug (UNIGE)
“Network governance and International Organiza-tions: Lessons from World Bank Trust Funds.”Simone Dietrich (University of Geneva),Bernhard Reinsberg (University of Cambridge),Martin Steinwand (University of Essex)
“Social network analysis of sponsorship patterns at the UN Human Rights Council”Anne-Luise Chané (KU Leuven)
“The Nexus Between the World Trade Organizations and Codex Alimentarius”Sebastian Klotz (University of Bern)
04:00-05:30
Wrap-up: Gaps and SilencesSpeakers : Fanny Badache (UNIL), Emilie Dairon (Sciences Po Lyon), Leah Kimber (UNIGE), Lucile Maertens (UNIL, Sciences Po/CERI)
Open discussion on neglected methods, gapsand overlooked data
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MONDAY 18Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries chaired by Sandra LAVENEX
- Laëtitia ATLANI-DUAULT- Nico KRISCH- Birgit MÜLLER- Davide RODOGNO
TUESDAY 19Taming Time chaired by Mathilde BOURRIER
- Irène BELLIER- Sandrine KOTT- Ronald NIEZEN- Bob REINALDA- Thomas WEISS
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RETHINKING METHODS OF INVESTIGATIONOpening speech by Michael MØLLER (Director General, UNOG)
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Conference Contr ibutors
Laëtitia Atlani-Duault is Visiting Professor at Columbia University, and Research Professor (Directeur de recherche), Institut de recherche pour le développement, in Social An-thropology in Paris. She is the Director of the Humanitarian Studies Platform at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme. Her research focus is the critical anthropology of humanitarian aid and she is the recipient of a prestigious Research Award awarded by France’s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Irène Bellier obtained a degree from l’Institut d’Etudes Po-litiques de Paris (1976) and her doctorate in ethnology and social anthropology at the EHESS in 1986. She became vice-president of GITPA (Groupe International de travail pour les Peuples Autochtones – International group work for In-digenous Peoples). Since 2010, she is Director of IIAC/LAIOS and leads the research project funded by the European Coun-sel for Research «Scale of Governance: the UN, the States and Indigenous Peoples: issues and meanings of self-determi-nation at the time of globalization» (2010-2015).
Mathilde Bourrier is Professor of Sociology at the Univer-sity of Geneva, Switzerland. She is the author of three books and has published numerous articles in international jour-nals. Her research, publications and advisory activities deal with the social construction of safety, safety management and organizational reliability in medical, nuclear and other technological risk sectors. In recent years she has tackled the issues of International Organizations in times of crises (i.e. H1N1, Ebola) Nico Krisch is Professor of international law and co-direc-
tor of the Global Governance Centre at the Graduate Ins-titute for International and Development Studies. His main research interests concern the legal structure of internatio-nal organizations and global governance, the politics of in-ternational law, and the postnational legal order emerging at the intersection of domestic, transnational and interna-tional law. His 2010 book, Beyond Constitutionalism: The Pluralist Structure of Postnational Law received the Certifi-cate of Merit of the American Society of International Law.
Sandrine Kott is Professor of European contemporary history at the University of Geneva since 2004. She has studied History in Paris (PhD in 1990, habilitation in 2001), the University of Bielefeld, (FRG), and Columbia (New-York). Her principal fields of expertise are the history of social welfare and labor law in France and Germany. She has developed the transnational and global dimensions of each of her fields of expertise in utilizing the archives and resources of international organizations and particularly the International Labor Organization.
Sandra Lavenex is Professor of European and Internatio-nal Politics at the University of Geneva and vice-Dean of the School of Social Sciences. She is also regular Visiting Professor at the College of Europe. Her research focuses on EU asylum and migration policies and the diffusion of EU norms and practices to third countries and international organizations. Her more recent projects compare regional migration/asylum governance initiatives worldwide and analyse the nexus between trade and migration policies, with a focus on economic agreements. In addition, she works on the diffusion of democratic standards in interna-tional governance.
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Thomas G. Weiss is a distinguished scholar of internatio-nal relations and global governance with special exper-tise in the politics of the United Nations. He was named a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellow for a project exploring the concept of a world without the United Nations. Since 1998, he has been Presidential Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and is Director Emeritus of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies. He is "one of the leading experts on the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention", and is reco-gnized as an authority on international organizations and the UN system.
Birgit Müller obtained a PhD from Cambridge for her thesis on the Collective Alternative, an anthropology of alternative move-ments in West Germany. She taught at the Institute of Ethnology of the Free University of Berlin. In 1994 she joined the CNRS and has been a member of the LAIOS since its creation in 1995. In 1999 she returned to Paris where she cooperates with several na-tional and international research networks: ACI Measures of Glo-balisation, 5th PCRDT Cultural Patterns of European Enlargement, PRATO. Birgit Müller initiated and currently coordinates the EASA Network for the Anthropology of International Governance
Ronald Niezen holds the Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Ci-vil Society and Public Policy in the faculties of Law and of Arts, a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in the Anthropology of Law, and is a Professor and former Chair of the Department of Anthropology at McGill University. He researches and teaches in the areas of political and legal anthropology, indi-genous peoples and human rights. He is an anthropologist with wide ranging research experience: with the Songhay of Mali, the Cree communities of Quebec, Ontario and Mani-toba, and the Sami of northern Europe.
Bob Reinalda is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of Political Science, Nijmegen School of Mana-gement at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He has written extensively about the history of social movements, non-governmental organizations, autonomous policy making by, decision making within and implementation by intergo-vernmental organizations, and the Bologna Process.
Davide Rodogno is full professor since 2014 at the Gra-duate Institute, and serves as head of the International His-tory Department. He researches the history of philanthro-pic foundations, and international public health since the nineteenth century. In 2011 Rodogno published Against Massacre: Humanitarian Interventions in the Ottoman Em-pire (1815-1914), the Birth of a Concept and International Practice (Princeton University Press). During the summer of 2012 the Kofi Annan Foundation mandated Rodogno to write a report documenting the experience of the United Nations and League of Arab States Joint Special Envoy for Syria.
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Lucile Maertens holds a position of lecturer in interna-tional relations at the University of Lausanne. She is also a research fellow at Sciences Po-CERI, CNRS, where she co-supervises a research seminar on environment and in-ternational relations.In 2015, she obtained her PhD from Sciences Po and the University of Geneva for her work on the securitization of the environment at the United Nations. She was a visiting fellow at King’s College London in 2016 and at Columbia University in 2017. Her research focuses on international organizations’ action at the intersection between security and environmental issues. She recently started a new pro-ject on the work of the United Nations in Haiti.
O rganiz ing Committee
Fanny Badache is a teaching assistant and PhD candidate at the University of Lausanne. Her research deals with the issue of diversity and representativeness in the internatio-nal civil service. She holds a Master in Public Management (2015) and a Bachelor in International Relations (2012) from the University of Geneva. She has been gaining knowledge on international organizations for several years thanks to several professional experiences in the United Nations and NGOs in Geneva and Sierra Leone.
Emilie Dairon is a teaching assistant and PhD candidate at Sciences Po Lyon. She graduated with a Master’s Degree in History from the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Dé-fense in 2003, and a Master’s degree from Sciences Po Paris, in 2005. She then continued her studies at the University of Paris II – Panthéon-Assas, to complete a Master’s degree in International Administration in 2006. After working for 8 years for different international organizations in Geneva she began a PhD research in 2014 focusing on the use of knowledge and skills of the UN staff.
Leah R. Kimber is a PhD candidate and teaching assistant at the University of Geneva since 2013. Her research tackles the role of civil society in United Nations contexts. After having completed a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology at the University of Geneva she obtained a Master’s degree in Pu-blic Health, specialized in Disaster Management at Tel Aviv University, Israel. In 2017 the Swiss National Science Foun-dation awarded her a grant allowing her to complete her dissertation as visiting scholar at the University of Columbia and CUNY, in New York in 2018-2019.
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L i s t of Par t ic ipants (by a lphabet ica l order ) Albaret, Mélanie – Université Clermont Auvergne, Centre de recherche Michel de l'[email protected]
Allen, William – University of [email protected]
Aris, Stephen – ETH Zurich –[email protected]
Atlani-Duault, Laetitia – Institut de Recherchepour la Développement & Fondation Maisondes Sciences de l’Homme – [email protected]
Badache, Fanny – University of [email protected]
Baya-Lafitte, Nicolas – University of [email protected]
Beerli, Monique – UC Berkeley & [email protected]
Bellier, Irène - CNRS – [email protected]
Billaud, Julie – Sussex [email protected]
Bourrier, Mathilde – University of [email protected]
Bortolotto, Chiara – EHESS – [email protected]
Brumann, Christoph – Max Planck Institutefor Social Anthropology – [email protected]
Bueger, Christian – Cardiff [email protected]
Chané, Anna-Luise – KU [email protected]
Cowan, Jane K. – Sussex University – [email protected]
Cusso, Roser – Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne [email protected]
Dairon, Emilie – Sciences Po [email protected]
Dakowska, Dorota – Université Lyon [email protected]
Deas, Joan – Sciences Po [email protected]
Deforge, Quentin – Irisso, Paris-Dauphine Universityand IRMC – [email protected]
De Pryck, Kari – Sciences Po Paris, [email protected]
De Rezende Campos Oliveira, LucianaPontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais / [email protected]
Dietrich, Simone – University of [email protected]
Dini, Sabine – Université Paris 13 – [email protected]
Dogan, Aykiz – Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne [email protected]
Duberry, Jérôme – Graduate [email protected]
Ege, Jörn – German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer & University of Exeter – [email protected]
Egger, Clara – Graduate [email protected]
Eckl, Julian – Universität [email protected]
Felli, Romain – University of Lausanne – [email protected]
Freedman, Jane – Université Paris [email protected]
Gfeller, Aurélie – Graduate [email protected]
Gasbarri, Lorenzo – University College London [email protected]
Hecht, Catherine – Vienna School of InternationalStudies – [email protected]
Hug, Simon – University of Geneva – [email protected]
Jankauskas, Vytautas – [email protected]
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Kimber, Leah R. – University of [email protected]
Krisch, Nico – Graduate [email protected]
Klotz, Sebastian – World Trade Institute, Universität Bern [email protected]
Kohlenberg, Paul – German Institute for International and Security Affairs – [email protected]
Kott, Sandrine – UNIGE – [email protected]
Kuutma, Kristin – University of Tartu – [email protected]
Laplace, Lucie – Unviersité Lyon 2 – [email protected]
Lavenex, Sandra – UNIGE – [email protected]
Lebaron, Frédéric – ENS Paris-Saclay – [email protected]
Maertens, Lucile – University of Lausanneet Sciences Po Paris – [email protected]
McConnell, Fiona – University of [email protected]
Mende, Janne – University of [email protected]
Mesquita, Rafael - UFPE / [email protected]
Mitrani, Mor – Bar-Ilan University – [email protected]
Müller, Birgit – EHESS / CNRS – [email protected]
Niezen, Ronald – McGill [email protected]
Oksamytna, Kseniya – King’s [email protected]
Patarin-Jossec, Julie – University of Bordeaux [email protected]
Patz, Ronny – LMU Munich [email protected]
Petiteville, Franck – Sciences Po Grenoble [email protected]
Piguet, Laure – University of [email protected]
Ravndal, Ellen – The Australian National University [email protected]
Reddy, Michelle – Stanford [email protected]
Reinalda, Bob – Radboud University [email protected]
Reinsberg, Bernhard – University of Cambridge [email protected]
Reiling, Carrie – Carnegie 8 – [email protected]
Rodogno, Davide – The Graduate [email protected]
Schopper, Doris – University of [email protected]
Steinwand, Martin – University of [email protected]
Tawfik, Amal – University of [email protected]
Thomas, Valentin – Université [email protected]
Venturini, Tommasso – École Normale Supérieure of Lyon [email protected]
Weiss, Thomas – City University New [email protected]
Worrall, James – School of Politics & InternationalStudies, University of Leeds – [email protected]
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The organizing committee would like to warmly thank all the sponsorsthat made this event possible.
Sponsors
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