Theo Jung, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i. Br.
Friday April 1
09:30–09:55 Theo Jung and Adriejan van Veen: Introduction
09:55–10:40 Ido de Haan: Keynote
10:45–12:30 Panel 1: Timeless Realms: Art and Religion beyond Politics
Tamar Kojman: Constructing an Apolitical Realm after the 1848/9 German Revolutions
Jan-Markus Vömel: Unpolitical Islam? Stategies of De-Politicization Surrounding Islam in Turkey
Klara Kemp-Welch: Antipolitics and Art in Late-Socialist East-Central Europe
12:30–14:00 Lunch
14:00–15:45 Panel 2: Perspectives on Political Abstention
Oriol Luján: Articulating Political Unease in 19th Century Europe: Abstention and Blank Vote as Forms of (De)Politicization
Adriejan van Veen: Passive Citizenship? Civil Society and Political Abstention in the Netherlands, 1780–1840
Zoé Kergomard: Depoliticizing “Apathy”? Institutional Reactions to Non-Voting in France under De Gaulle (1958–1969)
15:45–16:15 Coffee
16:15–18:00 Panel 3: Discourses of Competence and Functionalism
Ruben Ros: Technocratic Anti-Politics in Dutch Interwar Political Culture (1917–1939)
Koen van Zon: Depoliticisation through Participation? Consultation and Consensus Formation in European Community Policy-Making, 1960s–1980s
Wim de Jong: Politicizing the Police? The Problem of Depoliticization in the Public History of Democratic Municipal Policing in the Netherlands, 1945–2019
Saturday April 2
09:00–10:45 Panel 4: Protecting the System from Politics
Mart Rutjes: Depoliticizing the Will of the People: Limiting the Franchise for Political Opponents in the Netherlands 1780–1800
Stefan Scholl: Doubly Politicized? Semantical Struggles around the Relation between Economics and Politics in the Weimar Republic and National Socialism
Anna Catharina Hofmann: An Administered Society? Planning and (De-) Politicization in the Late Franco Dictatorship, 1964–1973
10:45–11:05 Coffee
11:05–12:50 Panel 5: Ruling by Ideas and Dreaming of Rational Government
Matthijs Lok: Moderation and Depoliticization after the Revolution: the Case of the Idéologues
Eva Visser: Planning the Technate. The Apolitical Politics of the 1930s’ Technocratic Movement
Jussi Kurunmaki and Jani Marjanen: Ideology, Politicization and Depoliticization in Parliamentary Rhetoric
12:50–14:00 Lunch
14:00–15:00 Final discussion