Location: Salon am Moritzplatz
Thu, Oct. 30
Panel 1: The 51st State
| Time | Speaker & Topic |
|---|---|
| 14:30 | Welcome & Introduction |
| 15:00 | Jacob Eder (Berlin): Staatsräson avant la lettre? Reflections on the Politics of Holocaust Memory in Germany and the United States |
| 15:40 | Florian Meinel (Göttingen): Constitutionalising Westbindung: The Political Function of the Basic Law |
| 16:20 | Coffee Break |
| 16:50 | Birgit Jooss (München): Die CIA, das MoMA und die documenta. Zur Kanonbildung der Nachkriegsmoderne in der BRD |
| 17:30 | Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (Middletown, CT): Fear of Abandonment: Henry Kissinger’s European Policy of the 1970s and its Neoconservative Critics |
Keynote
| 19:00 | Diedrich Diederichsen (Berlin): Outlaw, Dandy oder Situ – Rebellische Identitäten für BRD-Jugendliche aus dem Angebot der Alliierten |
Fri, Oct. 31
Panel 2: Passages of Theory
| 10:30 | Mona Leinung (Essen): ‘Democracy Is Inhospitable to Philosophy.’ European Intellectual Encounters with America |
| 11:10 | Matthew Specter (Berkeley): Realism’s Origins and Actuality: Contributions of an Intellectual Tradition to the ‚Transatlantic A Priori‘ and Its Crisis |
| 11:50 | Coffee Break |
| 12:20 | Kristina Lepold (Berlin): White Guilt? Observations on the Transatlantic Backlash against Critical Race Theory |
| 13:00 | Jarosław Kuisz (Oxford/Warsaw): The Two Wests |
| 13:45 | Lunch |
Panel 3: The State of the West
| 15:00 | Michael Kimmage (Washington, DC): The Three Stages of the Postwar West: A Nonlinear History |
| 15:40 | Grey Anderson (Caen): Atlantic Eddies: NATO at 75 |
| 16:20 | Coffee Break |
| 16:50 | Jana Puglierin (Berlin): The Populist Atlantic: How MAGA Shapes—and Is Shaped by—European Right-Wing Politics |
Keynote
| 19:00 | Fara Dabhoiwala (Princeton): European and American Visions of Free Speech |
Sat, Nov. 1
Panel 4: America: Love It or hate It
| 10:30 | Moritz Rudolph (Berlin): Okzidentale Despotie |
| 11:10 | Karolina Wigura (Oxford/Warsaw): The Emergence of Gaming Democracy |
| 11:50 | Coffee Break |
| 12:20 | Franziska Davies (Potsdam): Opponent, rival, partner, protective power? America in Eastern and Central Europe |
| 13:00 | Enis Maci (Berlin): Mobilität & Überwachung: Die Passion des Luigi Mangione as captured by cctv |
| 13:40 | Lunch |