30th ISODARCO Winter Course on:
"ADVANCED AND CYBER WEAPONS SYSTEMS: TECHNOLOGY AND ARMS CONTROL"

ANDALO (TRENTO) - ITALY
8 - 15 January 2017

Director of the School: Carlo Schaerf (Isodarco, Rome, Italy)
 Directors of the Course: Giampiero Giacomello (Department of Political and Social Sciences, SPS, University of Bologna, Italy)
 Riccardo Antonini (Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Roma, Italy)

Andalo 2017 Principal Lecturers Program Lecturers and Participants
Reading Material General Information Poster

DETAILED PROGRAM

The presentations kindly provided by the lecturers can be downloaded clicking on the names evidenced in blue.


Sunday 8 January 2017
Arrival and registration

Monday 9 January 2017
09:00 - 09:30     Session 1: Introduction to the Course
Carlo Schaerf - ISODARCO School Director
Riccardo Antonini and Giampiero Giacomello - Course Directors
09:30 - 11:00     Session 2 - Chair: Carlo Schaerf
Autonomous weapons systems as WMD vectors - a new threat and a potential for terrorism?
Wolfgang Rudischhauser - Director, Weapons of Mass Destruction Non-Proliferation Centre, NATO Headquarter International Staff
16:30 - 18:00     Session 3 - Chair: Riccardo Antonini
Artificial Intelligence and its impact on cybersecurity
Marco Schaerf - Sapienza, Università di Roma, Italy
18:15 - 19:45     Session 4 - Chair: Giampiero Giacomello
From drones to killer robots?
Frank Sauer - Bundeswehr University, Munich, Germany

Tuesday 10 January 2017
09:00 - 10:30     Session 5 - Chair: Mieke Massink
The present and future of cyber security
Michele Colajanni - Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
16:30 - 18:00     Session 6 - Chair: Diego Latella
Removing Humanity: Emerging Autonomous Approaches Towards Switching Off Selected Cities, People and Borders
Steve Wright - Leeds Beckett University, UK
18:15 - 19:45     Session 7 - Chair: Alessandro Pascolini
New Military Technology, International Security and Preventive Arms Control
Jürgen Altmann - Experimentelle Physik III, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany
21:30     Party

Wednesday 11 January 2017
09:00 - 10:30     Session 8 - Chair: Bruce Larkin
If Arms Control is the Answer, What is the Question?
Judith Reppy - Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
16:30 - 18:00     Session 9 - Chair: Steven Miller
The Perils and Prospects of Drone Proliferation
Sarah Kreps - Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
18:15 - 19:45     Session 10 - Chair: Francesco Calogero
A cyber, a WMD and a security bubble to burst jointly?
Tibor Toth - Ambassador, Former Executive Secretary CTBTO, Vienna, Austria
21:30 - 23:30     Session 11 - Chair: Carlo Schaerf
The world after January 20: Brainstorming Session introduced by Francesco Calogero

Thursday 12 January 2017
09:00 - 10:30     Session 12 - Chair: Sarah Kreps
Autonomous Weapons, Public Conscience, and the Martens Clause
Peter Asaro - The New School, School of Media, New York, NY, USA
16:30 - 18:00     Session 13 - Chair: Peter Asaro
The convergence of ethical and legal reasons for banning autonomous weapons systems
Guglielmo Tamburrini - Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy
18:15 - 19:45     Session 14 - Chair: Mirco Elena
Russian hackers: a threat or a bugaboo for international relations?
Pavel Timofeyev - Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International relations (IMEMO), Moscow, Russia
21:30 - 23:00     Session 15 - Special Seminar - Chair: Steve Wright
"War Against the People": a portal into war and policing in the capitalist world system
Jeff Halper - Director of the "War Against the people" Project, The People Yes! Network (TPYN), Jerusalem, Israel

Friday 13 January 2017
09:00 - 10:30     Session 16 - Round Table - Chair: Steve Wright
International Cooperation on Cyber Policies
Yi-bin Lu - TWCERT, Taipei, Taiwan
Luigi Martino - Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
Carlo Trezza - Ambassador, MFA (ret), Rome, Italy
10:30 - 11:15     Session 17 - Special Seminar
Underwater Drones and Arms Control Brainstorm
Sebastian Brixey-Williams - British American Security Information Concil (BASIC), London, UK
12:00 - 13:00     Session 18 - Special Seminar
Iran's Cultural and Nuclear History
Ali A. Soltanieh - Former Ambassador of Iran to the UN and IAEA, Vienna
15:00 - 16:00     Session 19 - Open Discussion
Limiting Offensive Cyber Operations
Jürgen Altmann - Experimentelle Physik III, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany
16:30 - 18:00     Session 20 - Chair: Jürgen Altmann
Protection of nuclear facilities against attacks including Cyber attacks
Ali A. Soltanieh - Former Ambassador of Iran to the UN and IAEA, Vienna
18:15 - 19:45     Session 21 - Chair: Tibor Toth
Critical Infrastructures and Cyber attacks
Andrea Locatelli - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy
Tariq Rauf - SIPRI, Stockholm, Sweden
21:30 - 23:30     Session 22
Open discussion on the Movie Eye in the Sky by Gavin Hood

Saturday 14 January 2017
09:00 - 10:30     Session 23 - Chair: Peter Asaro
Strategic Concepts for Addressing Cyber Threats: Lessons from Nuclear Weapons?
Steven Miller - Belfer Center, Harward University, Cambridge, MA, USA
10:30 - 12:00     Session 24 - Closing Session
Evaluation of the Course and Suggestions for the Future
Riccardo Antonini, Giampiero Giacomello and Carlo Schaerf

Sunday 15 January 2017
06:00     Bus departs for Milan Airports

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