Isabella Schüler-Pfeuffer, Historisches Seminar, Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Thursday, 6 June 2024
13.00-13.15
Welcome and Introduction: Andreas Wirsching (Munich), Angelika Nußberger (Cologne)
Panel 1
Are Human Rights Universal?
Chair: Andreas Wirsching (Munich)
13.15-15.15
Angelika Nußberger (Cologne):
Tendencies of De-Universalizing Human Rights
Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen (Paris):
Universalism in Question
Panel 2
Human Rights and Gender Equality
Chair: Kiran Klaus Patel (Munich)
15.45-17.45
Claudia Kraft (Vienna):
The Question of Universalism on the First UN World Conference on Women in Mexico City (1975)
Celia Donert (Cambridge):
Taking the State Out of Socialism: Women's Rights in Central and Eastern Europe Before and After 1989
Keynote Lecture
18.30
Frank Bösch (Potsdam):
Die Deutschen und die Diktaturen. Außenpolitik und Menschenrechte seit der Ära Adenauer
(Keynote in German, open to the public)
Friday, 7 June 2024
Panel 3
The Human Rights Discourse in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1970s and 1980s
Chair: Martin Schulze Wessel (Munich)
8.30-10.45
Michal Kopeček (Prague):
Political Languages of Human Rights in East Central European Dissent.
Caroline von Gall (Frankfurt):
Soviet Theory of Human Rights in the 1970s
Ivan Kislenko (Belgorod):
'Not decolonization but self-isolation' - How the Kremlin's Purported Fight Against 'Neocolonialism' is Destroying Russian Science
Panel 4
Human Rights in International Politics and Commemoration
Chair: Hélène Miard-Delacroix (Paris)
11.15-13.30
Agnes Bresselau von Bressensdorf (Munich):
Between Universalism and Regionalization: Human Rights, Middle Eastern Refugees and Western Europe in the 1980s
Ida Richter (Berlin):
Universalistic Rhetoric in the Commemoration of Rescue during the Holocaust: Establishing Raoul Wallenberg as a Human Rights Symbol in the 1980s
Concluding Remarks
Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann (Berkeley)