Programme 2026
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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
International Crisis Conference, Leiden, 23-25 September 2026
Wednesday 9-11:30 Plenary [MAREKERK]
9:00-9:15 Introductory remarks Arjen Boin & Beatrice de Graaf
9:15 – 9:45 Paul ‘t Hart keynote & commentary by Uri Rosenthal
10:00 – 10: 30 The life and work of Todd LaPorte: A celebration (Chris Ansell and Louise Comfort)
11:00 – 11:15 introducing PhDs (chair: Sanneke Kuipers)
11:15 – 11:45 Keynote: Alasdair Roberts
Wednesday afternoon (13-17 hrs)
13-14:45 hrs:
Panel 1 AI and crisis management (Babak Rezaeedaryakenari (Chair), Eric Stern, Louise Comfort, James Kendra)
Location: Hortus
Panel 2 Meet the authors [Chair: Sanneke Kuipers] Faculty Club restaurant
[Thijs van Dooremalen, Mark Rhinard, Tanja Hendriks, Laura Frigotto, Reidar Staupe)
Location: Faculty Club
Panel 3 The changing nature of crisis dynamics [CHAIR: Helena Landwehr] (Andre Karlsen, Jan Dumkow, Priit Suve, Monica Bennettz)
Location: Grachtenkamer
15:15-17:00 hrs:
Panel 4 New approaches for studying crisis decision-making (Ellen Giebels [Chair] Miriam Oostinga, Marij Swinkels, Rico Kerstan, Frank Gootjens, Freek Bucx, Janneke Overduin)
Location: Faculty Club
Panel 5 The Political Consequences of Crisis Management (Lydie Cabane & Vasiliki (Billy) Tsagkroni [CHAIRS], Olivier Borraz, Antoaneta Dimitrova, Nena Oana, Rasa Bortkeviciute)
Location: Hortus
Panel 6 Responsibility as Principle: What did we learn from managing COVID-19? (Rasmus Dahlberg [CHAIR], Andreas Hagedorn, Svante Aasbjerg, Kerstin Eriksson, Rogvi Olavsson)
Location: Lipsius 2.17
Panel 7 System resilience [Reidar Staupe] (Chris Demchak, Joăo Vitor Rodrigues Gonçalves, Xiaoli Lu, Akwasi Bosompem Boateng)
Location: Grachtenkamer
17:00-18:30
Drinks plus finger food
Location: Hortus
Thursday
9-10:45 hrs:
Panel 8 Crisis meaning making (framing) (part I) (Thijs van Dooremalen [CHAIR] Stijn Willem van ‘t Land, Ioana Sendroiu, Wouter Jong, Yijing Wang, Gergana Noutcheva, Nada Afa, Daniel Laufer, Assem Dandashly)
Location: Lipsius 1.48
Panel 9 The Ethics of Crisis Management (Rik Peels [CHAIR] Tanja Hendriks, Bernardo dos Santos, Shoshanah van de Vosse)
Location: Lipsius 1.47
Panel 10 Societal resilience: Resisting Malign Foreign Interference (Beatrice de Graaf [CHAIR] (Bart Schuurman, Sarah de Lange, Larissa Böckmann)
Location: Hortus
Panel 11 From Signal to Action: Governing Early Warning in Transboundary Crisis Environments (Magnus Ekengren [CHAIR], Nikki Ikani, Aline Bartenstein, Andrea Wiegman, Sara Talebian, Eva Michaels, Dan Hansén)
Location: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
11:15-13:00 hrs:
Panel 12 Preparing together? EU-NATO cooperation in civil defence and societal resilience (Mark Rhinard [CHAIR] Niels van Willigen, Nada Kovalcikova, Roy de Ruiter)
Location: Hortus
Panel 13 – The Robust Governance of Turbulence (Chris Ansell, Jacob Torfing & Eva Sorensen)
Location: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
Panel 14 Incorporating AI and Other Technologies in Crisis Management (Tanya Corbin [CHAIR] Iuliia Hoban, Jialing Huang)
Location: Lipsius 2.06)
Panel 15 Sense and Meaning-making in Times of Crisis: An Applied History Perspective (Beatrice de Graaf [CHAIR] Lotte Jensen, Ruben Ros, Mathijs van der Loo, Claudia Morsut)
Location: Lipsius 2.27
14:15-17-00 hrs:
Panel 16 Resilience and Neighbouring Concepts: A Multidisciplinary Perspective (Romulo Pinheiro & Maria Laura Frigotto [CHAIRS] – Chris Ansell, Tanja Klenk, Arjen Boin, Elke Loeffler)
Location: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
Panel 17 Crisis and policymaking (Lydie Cabane & Federico Toth [CHAIRS] Christoph Knill, Olivier Borraz, Daniel Nohrstedt & Charles Parker, Philippe Zitoun, Laura Mastroianni, Hazal Pehlivan)
Location: Hortus
Friday
9-10:45 hrs:
Panel 18 The Politics of detection (Arjen Boin [CHAIR] Nick Pidgeon, Nikki Ikani, Tjorven Harmsen & Kristing Scharffscher, Charles Parker, Tricia Wachendorf, Fredrik Bynander)
Location: Faculty Club
Panel 19 Crisis meaning making (framing) (part II) (Thijs van Dooremalen)
Location: Grachtenkamer
Panel 20 – Secrets of Societal Resilience (part I) (Jori Kalkman [CHAIR] Oscar Larsson, Kees Boersma, Claudia Morsut, Jesse Millek, Oscar Nowlan & Martin Lodge, Kati Orru, Sten Hansson, Lihi Lahat, Nastya Poberezhna, Nathan Clark)
Location: Hortus
11:15-13:00 hrs:
Panel 21 – The Politics of detection (continued) – Faculty Club
Panel 22 Secrets of Societal Resilience (part II) (Jori Kalkman) – Hortus