State of Exception - An Overview

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State of Exception - An Overview

Veranstalter
Matthias Lemke (DHI Paris); Ece Göztepe (Bilkent University Ankara); Maureen T. Duffy (University of Calgary); Olivier Cahn (Cesdip)
Veranstaltungsort
Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris
Ort
Paris
Land
France
Vom - Bis
13.11.2017 - 14.11.2017
Deadline
01.11.2017
Website
https://emergency.hypotheses.org/conference-2017
Von
Matthias Lemke

November 13, 2017, marks the 2nd anniversary of the attacks on the Bataclan, the Stade de France and several other places in Paris. On the night of November 13-14, 2015, the French Government issued a state of emergency, which has now been extended several times, currently until November 1, 2017. Elsewhere in Europe, Turkey is currently experiencing a state of exception of similar length, with developments in the country, in contrast to France, potentially leading to the creation of an authoritarian regime. Many other established democracies have also seen states of emergency or situations similar to that in recent years – Spain (Strike of air traffic controllers in 2010), Great Britain (Serious civil unrest in 2011), the Marshall Islands (Climatechange-related disasters since 2008), the United States (Terrorism-related issues since 2001), or Germany (Danger zones in Hamburg, 2014) (cf. Lemke 2017a, b).

Given this context, this conference seeks to address questions such as that formulated by Carl Joachim Friedrich in 1961: “Can a violation of the legal order be justified, when the continued existence of this legal order is questioned, and if there is a reasonable prospect of the order being secured, and even saved, by such a violation?Can the violation of the legal order be justified if the continuance of this order is questioned and if there is a reasonable prospect of this order being secured, indeed saved, by such a violation?” (26) It is precisely for a democratic order that, as Clinton L. Rossiter (1948) noted, the state of exception appears to be a “dangerous thing” (249). To determine whether and why this is so, and in order to be able to develop an answer to Friedrich’s question, two main issues will be discussed:

Case studies – studies on situations in established democracies (cf. Lemke 2017a: 46sq.), whether they have applied a state of exception or have dispensed with the application in situ (or in principle): How was the application / non-application publicly made plausible? How can the success of a state of exception be measured and when and to what extent were exceptional measures successful? Did the state of exception result in a return to the democratic order? If not, why?

Theoretical issues – How do democracy and law relate to one another in crisis situations? Is the state of exception necessary or dispensable for democracy? Which designs (referring to the history of ideas) are available for embedding the state of exception into democratic government? What would a critique of a state of exception look like?

Friedrich, Carl Joachim (1961): Die Staatsräson im Verfassungsstaat, Freiburg.
Lemke, Matthias (2017a): Demokratie im Ausnahmezustand. Wie Regierungen ihre Macht ausweiten, Frankfurt (Main)/New York.
Lemke, Matthias (2017b) (ed.): Ausnahmezustand. Theoriegeschichte – Anwendungen – Perspektiven, Wiesbaden.
Rossiter, Clinton L. (1948): Constitutional Dictatorship. Crisis and Government in the Modern Democracies, Princeton.

Programm

Monday, November 13, 2017

13:30 – 14:00
Arrival of Participants and Registration

14:00 – 14:15
Welcome Address by the Director of the GHI Paris
Thomas Maissen

14:15 – 15:30
Keynote

Stefan Voigt (University of Hamburg)
Effects of States of Emergencies Declared due to Domestic Turmoil

Introduction: Matthias Lemke

15:30 – 15:45
Coffee Break

15:45 – 17:15
Panel 1 – Theoretical Issues (1)

Anna-Bettina Kaiser (Humboldt University Berlin)
Suspension of the Legal Order in the State of Exception

Ewa Atanassow (Bard College Berlin) / Ira Katznelson (Columbia University)
Governing emergency? State of Exception in the Anglo-American Liberal Tradition

Chair: Marcus Llanque (University of Augsburg)

17:15 – 17:30
Coffee Break

17:30 – 19:00
Panel 2 – Theoretical Issues (2)

Sabine Mischner (University of Freiburg)
The Temporalities of Exception

Tobias Schottdorf (Leuphana University)
Law, Democracy and the State of Emergency. A Theory Centered Analysis of the Legal State in Time of Exception

Chair: Isabelle Aubert (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

19:00 – 20:00
Transfer to the Goethe Institute Paris, 17 Avenue d’Iéna, F-75116 Paris

20:00 – 21:30
Film

Documentary “Endstation Bataclan”

Introduction: Alexander Smoltzcyk, Maurice Weiss

Followed by a Reception at the Goethe Institute.

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

09:00 – 10:30
Panel 3 – State of Exception in late 19th and early 20th Century

Fabian Lemmes (University of Bochum)
Exceptional Laws in Times of Exceptional Threat? Anarchist Terrorism and Anti-anarchist Repression in France and Italy in the 1890s

Thomas Blanck (University of Cologne)
A revolutionary state of exception: Munich, 1918/19

Chair: Martin H. Geyer (LMU Munich)

10:30 – 10:45
Coffee Break

10:45 – 12:15
Panel 4 – State of Emergency Case Studies (1): Germany, Canada and the U.S.

Hanno Balz (Johns Hopkins University)
The undeclared State of Emergency during the ‘German Autumn’ 1977

Anne-Marlen Engler (Humboldt University Berlin)
German Refugee Shelters

Maureen T. Duffy (University of Calgary)
State of Emergency in Canada and the U.S.

Chair: Olivier Cahn (Université de Cergy-Pontoise)

12:15 – 13:15
Lunch

13:15 – 14:45
Panel 5 – State of Emergency Case Studies (2): Italy, Israel, France and Turkey

Elisa Bertolini (Bocconi University Milan)
Democracy and the State of Exception: The Italian Experience

Myriam Feinberg (University of Haifa)
Terrorism – The Permanent Exception. A Comparison of France and Israel

Ece Göztepe (Bilkent University Ankara)
What does the Permanency of the Exception Mean? The Question of Constituent Power in Emergency Regimes

Chair: Paula Diehl

14:45 – 15:00
Coffee Break

15:00 – 16:30
Panel 6 – State of Emergency: various perspectives

Jonas Heller (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Materia reipublicae: Democracy, state of exception, and the dialectics of demos and population

Jan Christoph Suntrup (University of Bonn)
The Symbolic Politics of the State of Emergency: Images and Performances

Chair: Christian Grünnagel (University of Giessen)

16:30
Conclusion and end of Conference

Kontakt

PD Dr. Lemke

Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris
8, Rue du Parc Royal
+33144545163

mlemke@dhi-paris.fr

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