The Crisis of Europe and European Self-reflection, 1914-1991

International Conference at the Centre for Modern European Studies,
University of Copenhagen, 14-16 May 2009

Read the presentation abstracts here

Provisional Programme

Thursday 14 May 2009

Place: Pavillion 1 

10:00-10:15 Opening and introduction (Gert Sørensen, University of Copenhagen)

Session 1: Religion and Politics (chair: Kirsten Busch Nielsen, University of Copenhagen)
10:15-11:00 Dietrich Korsch (Philipps-Universität Marburg): ”Theology as Language of Crisis. The Case of Karl Barth’s Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans”
11:00-11:15 Discussion
11:15-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:00 Lars K. Bruun (University of Copenhagen): ”Religion as Cultural Criticism: Heidegger’s Religious Roots”
12:00-12:30 Tine Ravnsted-Larsen Reeh (University of Copenhagen): ”Remembering the Heritage from Athens and Galilee: Hal Koch on Christianity, History and Democracy”
12:30-12:45 Discussion
12:45-14:00 Lunch for speakers and by special invitation
14:00-14:30 Anna Vind (University of Copenhagen): ”Lutheran Ethics? The Discussion about Antinomianism in Denmark”
14:30-15:00 Julio Hans C. Jensen (University of Copenhagen): ”Religion and Secular Modernity: A Historical Perspective on the Ratzinger-Habermas Dialogue”
15:00-15:15 Discussion
19:00- Dinner for speakers and by special invitation at restaurant 'El Tapeo'

Friday 15 May 2009

Place: Room 16.1.20

Session 2: Dictatorship and Democracy (chair: Poul Villaume, University of Copenhagen)
10:15-11:00 Jan-Werner Müller (Princeton University): ”A Post-post-liberal Order: Rethinking Democracy in Western Europe after 1945”
11:00-11:15 Discussion
11:15-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:00 Karl Christian Lammers (University of Copenhagen): ”Discussions on Democracy and State among German Intellectuals in the 1920s and 1930s”
12:00-12:30 Morten Heiberg (independent scholar):"Spain’s Road to Democracy”
12:30-12:45 Discussion
12:45-14:00 Lunch for speakers and by special invitation
14:00-14:30 Birthe Hoffmann (University of Copenhagen): ”Bombing Beyond Democracy: Remembering the Ruins of Europe”
14:30-15:00 Martin Mau (University of Copenhagen): ”The Austrian Victim Myth and Its Consequences for the Jewish Victims of the Holocaust”
15:00-15:15 Discussion
15:15-16:00 Coffee break 
16:00-18:00: 'Visions of Europe' (with an introduction to the film by Peter Schepelern).
19:00- Dinner for speakers and by special invitation at Restaurant Sult

Saturday 16 May 2009

Place: Room 23.4.39 

Session 3: Visions of Europe (chair: Peter Madsen, University of Copenhagen)
10:00-10:45 Gerard Delanty (University of Sussex): ”European Identity from a Cosmopolitan Perspective”
10:45-11:00 Discussion
11:00-11:15 Coffee break
11:00-11:45 Morten Dyssel Mortensen (University of Copenhagen): ”Between Europe and Asia. The Reception of Goethe and Dostoyevsky among European Intellectuals in the Interwar Period”
11:45-12:15 Gert Sørensen (University of Copenhagen): ”Antonio Gramsci, Benedetto Croce, Francesco Nitti and the European Perspective”
12:15-12:30 Discussion
12:30-12:45 Concluding remarks (Karl Christian Lammers, University of Copenhagen)
13:15-15:15 Lunch for speakers and by special invitation at Café Alma