Location: Salon am Moritzplatz

Thu, Oct. 30

Panel 1: The 51st State

TimeSpeaker & Topic
14:30Welcome & Introduction
15:00Jacob Eder (Berlin): Staatsräson avant la lettre? Reflections on the Politics of Holocaust Memory in Germany and the United States
15:40Florian Meinel (Göttingen): Constitutionalising Westbindung: The Political Function of the Basic Law
16:20Coffee Break
16:50Birgit Jooss (München): Die CIA, das MoMA und die documenta. Zur Kanonbildung der Nachkriegsmoderne in der BRD
17:30Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (Middletown, CT): Fear of Abandonment: Henry Kissinger’s European Policy of the 1970s and its Neoconservative Critics

Keynote

19:00Diedrich Diederichsen (Berlin): Outlaw, Dandy oder Situ – Rebellische Identitäten für BRD-Jugendliche aus dem Angebot der Alliierten

Fri, Oct. 31

Panel 2: Passages of Theory

10:30Fara Dabhoiwala (Princeton): European and American Visions of Free Speech, 1700 to now
11:10Matthew Specter (Berkeley): Realism’s Origins and Actuality: Contributions of an Intellectual Tradition to the ‚Transatlantic A Priori‘ and Its Crisis
11:50Coffee Break
12:10Mona Leinung (Essen): ‘Democracy Is Inhospitable to Philosophy.’ European Intellectual Encounters with America
12:50Kristina Lepold (Berlin): White Guilt? Observations on the Transatlantic Backlash against Critical Race Theory
13:30Lunch

Panel 3: The State of the West

15:00Michael Kimmage (Washington, DC): The Three Stages of the Postwar West: A Nonlinear History
15:40Grey Anderson (Caen): Atlantic Eddies: NATO at 75
16:20Coffee Break
16:50Jana Puglierin: The Populist Atlantic: How MAGA Shapes—and Is Shaped by—European Right-Wing Politics
17:30Gilles Gressani (Paris): Europe and the Transatlantic Ancien Régime: An Exploratory Examination

Keynote

19:00Helen Thompson (Cambridge): The Atlantic Disorder: An Energy History

Sat, Nov. 1

Panel 4: America: Love It or hate It

10:00Karolina Wigura (Warschau): tba
10:40Moritz Rudolph (Berlin): Occidental Despotism
11:20Coffee Break
11:50Franziska Davies (Postdam): Opponent, rival, partner, protective power? America in Eastern and Central Europe
12:30Anna Prizkau (Berlin): Der Westen – eine ukrainische Spurensuche
13:10Enis Maci (Berlin): Mobilität & Überwachung: Die Passion des Luigi Mangione as captured by cctv
14:00Lunch