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)
