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22.11.2018
Conference

Revolution, reaction, restoration: upheavals of normative orders

11th Annual International Conference

Program

Thursday, November 22, 2018

14:00 – 14:15

Opening of the annual conference

Prof. Dr. Klaus Günther (Co-Speaker of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”)


14:15 – 16:15

Panel I – Upheavals in international orders

Prof. Benno Teschke (University of Sussex):
Revolution, Restoration & 19th Century International Ordering: Challenges for IR Theory

Prof. Armin von Bogdandy (MPI for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg; Cluster of Excellence, “The Formation of Normative Orders”):
The particularist reaction against multilateral institutions

Ximena Soley and Silvia Steininger (MPI for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg; Cluster of Excellence, “The Formation of Normative Orders”):
Human Rights Courts Under Pressure: Backlash and Resilience in the European and Inter-American Human Rights System

Chair: Prof. Gunther Hellmann (Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”, Goethe University)

 

16:15 – 17:00
Coffee and cake

 

17:00 – 19:00

Keynote: Democracy and Disrespect

Prof. Jan-Werner Müller (Princeton)

Introduction and moderation: Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst (Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”, Goethe University)

 

Friday, November 23, 2018

10:00 – 12:00 a.m.

Panel II: The revolution and the people

Prof. Dirk Jörke (TU Darmstadt):
Populism – or the end of the liberal age

Prof. Christoph Menke (Cluster of Excellence, “The Formation of Normative Orders”, Goethe University):
The possibility of revolution

Dr. Sophie Møller (Cluster of Excellence, “The Formation of Normative Orders”, Goethe University):
Hindsight and foresight in Kant’s Opposition to Revolution

Chair: Prof. Martin Saar (Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”, Goethe University)


13:00 – 15:00

Panel III: Violence, culture and politics in times of social upheaval

Prof. Gudrun Gersmann (University of Cologne):
Terror, death, mourning, trauma: the conflict surrounding the French Revolution during the Restoration

Prof. Susanne Schröter (Cluster of Excellence, “The Formation of Normative Orders”, Goethe University):
Islamic revolutions – the examples of Syria and Iraq in 2014 and Iran in 1979

Jason Mast, PhD (Cluster of Excellence, “The Formation of Normative Orders”, Goethe University):
Cultural Codes in Brexit and the 2016 US Presidential Election

Chair: Hakim Khatib (Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”, Goethe University)

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