Graduiertenkolleg / PhD-workshop
Friday, June 3, 2022, 9.30-16.30u
University of Amsterdam, UB, Singel 425, Doelenzaal
Program
9.30u
Dr. Krijn Thijs (DIA) Welcome
Dr. Harm Kaal (Nijmegen) Introduction
10 – 11.15u Panel 1: Democratic media and ‘ordinary’ citizens
Malte Fischer, MA (Nijmegen/Berlin): Broadcasting the voice of the people: imagination and participation of “ordinary” citizens in West German public radio and television, 1950s-1970s
Jamie Lee Jenkins, MA (Nijmegen/Sheffield): “Carrying the banner for the ordinary people”: Articulations of popular expectations of democracy in the Sun, 1980-1986
Dr. Vincent Kuitenbrouwer (UvA) comments
Coffee break
11.30-12.45u Panel 2: Pro politics and the art of the dialogue
Dr. Anne Heyer (Leiden University): Who is debating? Conceptualisations of professional politicians and ordinary citizens
Lukas Rathjen, MA (Zürich): Conversation and Compensation. Why West German intellectuals sought dialogue in the post-war period
Dr. Peter van Dam (UvA) comments
Lunch
13.45-15u Panel 3: Modern polis – the case of Hamburg
Dr. Claudia Gatzka (Freiburg): Representing "Modern" Germany in an Urban Setting. Volksparteien and their Voters in Postwar Hamburg
Dr. Moritz Föllmer (UvA): Governing Hamburg? Mayors and Media in the City-State from the 1970s to the 1990s
Mario Daniels (DIA) comments
Coffee break
15.15-16.30u
Panel 4: Experts and democratic self-reflecting
Tabea Nasaroff, MA (Freiburg): Dolf Sternberger and “The Peoples’ Voice” – Contested Notions of Democracy in the West German Public Sphere During the 1950s and 1960s
Solange Ploeg, MA (Nijmegen): The journalist as public expert and expert for the public? The case of Ferry Hoogendijk: Dutch journalist, political scientist, television personality (1959-1972)
Krijn Thijs (DIA) comments
drinks