Susanne Schregel, Institut for Engelsk, Germansk og Romansk (Engerom), Universität Kopenhagen
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
14.00–14.30 Susanne Schregel, Detlef Siegfried (Copenhagen), Welcome and Introduction: The Counter-University. Histories, Movements, and Ambitions
Forms and Practices, I: Imagining and Building the Counter-University
Chair: Friedrich Cain, Vienna
14.30–15.15 Tobias Dias (Aarhus), The Inside is the Outside: The Political Aesthetics of Artist-led Universities
15.15–16.00 Nadiia Chervinska (Vienna), Counter-Universities in Times of Crisis: A Case Study of the Invisible University for Ukraine
Histories of the Counter-University, I: The 1960s and early 1970s
Chair Nikolaj Bjerggaard Olesen, Copenhagen
16.30–17.15 Benjamin Serby (Garden City, NY), Gay Liberation and the Free University Movement in the United States, 1965–1974
17.15–18.00 Lukas Biehler (Duisburg-Essen), Kritische Universität Berlin 1967/68: Democratising Society through Democratising University?
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Forms and Practices, II: The 1960s and early 1970s
Chair: Kasper Opstrup Frederiksen, Copenhagen
9.30–10.15 Lara Track (Heidelberg), Teach-Ins in the Context of the Counter-University. The Ann Arbor Teach-In of 1965
10.15–11.00 Sina Brückner-Amin (Karlsruhe), Radicalism’s Frontier: UC Irvine, The Farm, and the Quest for Institutionalised Dissidence
11.00–11.45 Barbara Hof, Loic Jeanson (Lausanne), Parallel Universes at the University: Science and the Controversy over the Vietnam War
Histories of the Counter-University, II: Art / Histories
Chair: Tobias de Fønss Wung-Sung, Copenhagen
13.00–13.45 Eszter Lázár (Budapest), Student Affairs During Art School Occupations (London 1968/Hungary 1990)
13.45–14.30 Susanne Schregel (Copenhagen), The “Free International University for Creativity and Interdisciplinary Research” (FIU). Or: Beuys in Context
14.30–15.15 Deborah Laks (Paris), Learning with Christian Boltanski
Histories of the Counter-University, III: The 1970s and 1980s
Chair: Jes Fabricius Møller, Copenhagen
15.30–16.15 Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield (Prague), Secret Universities under Communism as Counter-Institutions
16.15–17.00 Detlef Siegfried (Copenhagen), Against Theory. Experiencing the World in Danish and West German Travelling Universities to Africa and Asia, 1969–1985
Friday, February 14, 2025
Forms and Practices, III: Ecology and Space-Building Between the 1960s and Today
Chair: Amy Hart, Davis
9.00–9.45 Gregor Kanitz, David Sittler (Düsseldorf), Bio-Diversity of the Institution
9.45–10.30 Sarah Pogoda (Bangor, Wales), Treesense Experimental School – Treefysgol or Trivial?
10.30–11.15 Gerko Egert (Bochum), Building Learning Spaces – Learning Building Spaces
Counter-Universities Today: Social Conflicts of the Present
Chairs: Susanne Schregel and Detlef Siegfried, Copenhagen
11.30–12.15 Olga Schubert (Vienna), Monstrous Complicities – Self Organized Anti-Academies in the Arts around 2000
12.15–13.00 Ton Matton (Rotterdam), the potemkin academy lecturetour
14.00–14.45 Ella Rossman (London), Jan Surman (Prague), Antiuniversity Moscow – Possibilities of Innovation under Putinism
14.45–15.30 Final Discussion and Conclusion