Janine Schmoldt

janine.schmoldt@uni-erfurt.de

Doktorandin an der Professur für Internationale Beziehungen (Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences)

Office hours

nach Vereinbarung

Visiting address

Campus
Nordhäuser Str. 63
99089 Erfurt

Mailing address

Universität Erfurt
Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Internationale Beziehungen
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt

Janine Schmoldt

Research focus

  • Cyber and asymmetric wars
  • Hackers
  • Politics of international law
  • Theories of War
  • Theories of International Relations

Short biography

2021: Scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service

2018 - 2021: Christoph Martin Wieland Scholarship holder

2019 - 2020: Member of the Rowena Morse Mentoring Programme of the Thuringian Universities

2016 - 2017: Master studies Law and Politics of International Security at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Master of Laws)

2015 - 2016: Student Assistant at the Chair of International Relations at the University of Erfurt (Prof. Dr. Oliver Kessler)

2013 - 2016: Bachelor studies: Economics, Law and Social Sciences - Law concentration at the University of Erfurt (Bachelor of Arts)

offered courses

The Politics of International Law (seminar), winter semester 2021/2022 The Politics of International Law (seminar), summer semester 2021 (online) From Clausewitz to Cyberwarfare (seminar), summer semester 2020 (online) Cyber: War, Law, Security (seminar), winter semester 2019/20 Cyberwarfare (seminar), summer semester 2019

Scientific lectures (selection)

  • Protected or Hunted? Hackers in the Ukraine War - An Analysis in International Law, DiVOC Bridging Bubbles (Chaos Computer Club), Online, Apr. 15, 2022-Apr. 18, 2022, presentation available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcy5Gh-sW7g.
  • Online Participant on In-Person Roundtable: "Bringing Linguistics Back In: Translation as Imperial Hitchhiking," Conference: 63rd Annual Convention: A Wider Discipline For A Smaller World, International Studies Association, 03/28/2022-02/04/2022.
  • Between Utopia and Reality. On the performative content of digital crises, conference: Annual Conference DVPW Working Group Politics Science and Technology "Politics, Science and Technology in the Mirror of Crises", Online, 03.03.2022-04.03.2022.
  • From the Defensive to the Cyberoffensive? On the Role of the Federal Intelligence Service in Cybersecurity Policy. An Interdisciplinary Sketch, 28th Scientific Congress of the German Political Science Association, "Wir haben die Wahl! Politics in Times of Insecurity and Autocratization," Online, Sept. 14-Sep. 16, 2021.
  • The patriotic hacker concept and the production of international security, Conference: 14th Pan-European Conference on International Relations "The Power Politics of Nature", Online, 13.09.2021-17.09.2021.
  • Digital World - New Politics of International Law? On the Production of (In-) Security in Cyberspace, Workshop "Politics in Crisis Mode" of the German Political Science Association, Online, 01.07.2021.
  • Violence through Cyberproxies? On the Relationship between the Prohibition of Violence under International Law and State Action in Cyberspace, Conference: Violence and Power, 2nd SAFI Annual Conference (Societas Aperta Feminarum in Iuris Theoria), Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Online, 26.05.2021-28.05.2021.
  • Translating the Digital into Law: the case of Hacker Groups, Roundtable: "Meeting in the Middle: New Horizons in Global Translation Studies," Conference: 62nd Annual Convention: Globalization, Regionalism and Nationalism: Contending Forces in World Politics, International Studies Association, Online, 04/07/2021-10/04/2021.
  • How Hackers Change International Relations, Conference: Security in Cyberspace: dynamics, limits and opportunities, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, 14.05.2020, Online. Presentation available at: www.youtube.com/watch.
  • Hack-Back aus völkerrechtlicher Sicht, Conference: Defensive Conference, 07.02.2020-08.02.2020, Berlin, Presentation available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYMTO-Mjhzk.
  • Cyber, (Un)certainty and International Law: The Emergence of Norms for Cyberwarfare, Section: Global Law and Politics, Conference: 15th Pan-European Conference on International Relations "Pandaemonium: Interrogating the apocalyptic imaginaries of our time", European International Studies Association, Athens, Greece, 01.09.2022-04.09.2022.
  • Cyber Performativity: The Iterability of Cyberwar from a Post-structuralist Perspective, Section: Situating Disaster, (In)Security, and (Counter)Extremism in a World in Crisis, Conference: 15th Pan-European Conference on International Relations "Pandaemonium: Interrogating the apocalyptic imaginaries of our time", European International Studies Association, Athens, Greece, 01.09.2022-04.09.2022.

Publications

  • Schmoldt, Janine, The Rising Power of Cyber Proxies, Proceeding of the 20th European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, Eze, Thaddeus; Speakman, Lee; Onwubiko, Cyril (editors), Chester, UK, June 2021.
  • Schmoldt, Janine, How the United States Constructs Cyber-Threat Scenarios, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, Noëlle van der Waag-Cowling, Louise Leenen (editors), Stellenbosch, South Africa, February 2019.
  • Schmoldt, Janine, Patriotic Hackers are Civilians Sporadically Participating in Hostilities, Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, Audun Josang (editor), Oslo, Norway, June 2018.

Janine Schmoldt, LL.M. is a doctoral candidate at the Department of International Relations at the University of Erfurt. Her dissertation project focuses on the juridification process of patriotic hackers and researches the applicability of international law to cyber phenomena. She is also an adjunct lecturer at the Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences.