Friday, July 5
19:00 Susan Neiman: Introduction
19:30 Fintan O’Toole, Dublin
Kant and the Contemporary Public Discourse
20:30 Daniel Kahn, Christian Dawid
“Freedom is a Verb” and other songs
Saturday, July 6
11.00 David A. Bell, Princeton
The Uses and Abuses of Enlightenment
12:30 Aleida Assmann, Konstanz
Can the Enlightenment Enlighten Itself?
13:30 Lunch break
15:00 Lorraine Daston, Berlin
Diversity and Universalism
16:30 Claire Messud, Cambridge, Mass.
Where Did the Time Go?
18:00 Daniel Kahn, Stella Morgenstern, Christian Dawid
Lord of the Air
A musical play by based on Daniel Kehlmann’s "Tyll"
Followed by Susan Neiman in conversation with Daniel Kahn and Daniel Kehlmann
Sunday, July 7
11:00 Cheryce von Xylander, Lüneburg
Universalist Dietetics at Odds
12:30 Diana Pinto, Paris
Enlightenment at Last! Unveiling the Kant Statue,
Lagos, Nigeria September 30, 2084
(An iconoclastic exercise in intellectual speculation)
13:30 Lunch break
15:00 Kaveh Yazdani, Storrs
Universalizing the “Rest”: Periodizing Global History and
Deprovincializing the West
16:30 Lutz Raphael, Trier
Defending Professional Historical Reasoning with Kant
18:00 Benjamin Zachariah, Potsdam
Enlightenments Lost in the Post
Monday, July 8
11:00 Stephen Holmes, New York
Is Attention to Injustice Inevitably Selective?
12:30 Konstanty Gebert, Warsaw
Totalitarianism and Genocide: Bastard Children of the
Enlightenment?
13:30 Lunch break
15:00 Philip Kitcher, New York
Reclaiming Adam Smith
16:30 Lea Ypi, London
Kant on Revolution
18:00 Omri Boehm, New York, Berlin / Daniel Kehlmann, Berlin
„The Starry Heavens above me”
A Dialogue on Kant