Program

Workshop: The Perception of Apartheid in Western Europe, 1960-1990

7-9 May 2015, University of Copenhagen

PROGRAMME

Thursday, 07 May 2015 Room, 15A.0.13

15.00 Welcome and Introduction
 
15.30-18.00
Open Keynote Lectures:
Christoph Marx, Duisburg-Essen: South Africa and the West
Håkan Thörn, Göteborg: Anti-Apartheid and the Emergence of a Global Civil Society

Friday, 08 May 2015 Room, 27.1.49

9.00-12.00 Panel 1:
Andreas Kahrs, Berlin: Subsurface Cooperation – the Network of West German Lobbyist for South Africa 1976-1986
Discussant: Dorothee Wierling, Hamburg

Knud Andresen, Hamburg: Moral and Economy. West German and Swedish Managers in South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s
Discussant: Helle Porsdam, Copenhagen

Sebastian Justke, Hamburg: West German Ministers in South Africa from the 1970s to the 1990s
Discussant: Anne Folke Henningsen, Copenhagen

14.00-17.00 Panel 2:
Detlef Siegfried, Copenhagen: Anti-Apartheid, Pop Music and the Emergence of a Global Media Community
Discussant: Andreas Eckert, Berlin

Hanno Plass, Berlin: Jews against Apartheid. The Exile in Britain 1960 to 1990.
Discussant: Louise Bethlehem, Jerusalem

Jakob Skovgaard, Copenhagen: "Lifestyle Politics” and the Campaign against Barclays’ Business in South Africa
Discussant: Alexander Sedlmaier, Bangor

Saturday, 09 May 2015 Room, 27.1.49

9.00-12.00 Panel 3:
Moderator: Jan Eckel, Freiburg

Steven Jensen, Copenhagen: Racial Discrimination and International Human Rights Diplomacy, 1959-1968

Jan Hangebrauck, Cologne: ‘No Normal Sports in an Abnormal Society.' Characteristics, Successes and Limitations of Protests in Sport against the Apartheid Regime in South Africa

Roeland Muskens, Amsterdam: The Dutch Anti-Apartheid-Movement.

12.00-13.00 Final Discussion
Concluding commentary: Tor Sellstrøm, Uppsala