2025 London International Boundary Conference

12-13 June 2025

Format: Two days, in-person and virtual participation by speakers but only in-person for audience; the morning workshop presenters will be in-person.

Conference Schedule
Day 1: 12 June 2025
07h45 onwardRegistration
08h00Workshop 1: A review of submissions to the CLCS by coastal States from 2001 to the present, with some additional analysis and insights, run by Peter Crocker The M Horizon (UK) Limited
09h00Welcome from the conference organisers Richard Schofield and Robert Volterra
09h30-10h30Keynote speech: Phil Hubbard 'Borderlands: identity and belonging at the edge of England'
10h30-11h00Coffee Break
11h00-12h30Panel 1: Borderlands and borderscapes

Chair: Kevin Lougheed

Speakers:
    · Carl Grundy-Warr
    · Mohammed Khan
    · Jonathan Rock Rokem
    · Dina Krichker
12h30-13h30Lunch
13h30-14h00Tribute to borderland geographer Julian Minghi (1933 – 2024)
Stanley Brunn, Richard Schofield, David Newman
14h00-15h30Panel 2: Borders, territories, and an increasingly "lawless" world

Chair: Maurice Mendelson KC

Speakers:
    · Lea Brilmayer
    · Chris Whomersley
    · Mustafa Baskara
    · Elisa Ruozzi
15h30-16h00Coffee Break
16h00-17h30Panel 3: Territorial issues of the Middle East and Gulf States

Chair: Richard Schofield

Speakers:
    · Zeina Awan
    · Deger Boden
    · Stephen Allen
    · Farah El Barnachawy
 
Day 2: 13 June 2025
08h00Workshop 2: The technical science of maritime delimitation, run by Robin Cleverly of Marbdy Consulting Ltd
09h30-11h00Panel 4: African boundaries and territorial conflicts: into the mid-21st Century

Chair: Ahmed Abdel Hakam

Speakers:
    · Mohammed Mostafa
    · Velimir Zivkovic
    · Mavinga Declerc
    · One Pusumane
    · Stephanie Schandorf
11h00-12h30Panel 5: Non-lawyer contributions to boundary and territorial dispute settlement

Chair: Robin Cleverly

Speakers:
    · Neal Archer
    · Charles Gurdon
    · Clive Schofield
    · Innocent Makoza
12h30-13h30Lunch
13h30-15h00Panel 6: Maritime boundaries and hydrocarbons

Chair: Gunjan Sharma

Speakers:
    · Xuexia Liao
    · Dan Kuwali
    · Nikos Asimakopoulos
    · Shazzad Mohashin
15h00-15h30Coffee Break
15h30-17h30Panel 7: Whatever happened to our borderless world?

Chair: Merrill Hopper

Speakers:
    · Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly
    · David Newman
    · Elisabeth Vallet
    · William Thomas Worster
17h30-18h00Closing remarks [TBC]
18h00-19h00Post-conference reception

We look forward to welcoming you at the Bush House Centre, King's College London for what promises to be an exciting and thought-provoking event.