Thursday, 23.06.2016

12:00 p.m. Registration

12.25 p.m. Welcoming Remarks

Dietmar Süß (University of Augsburg)

12:30-12:45 p.m. Introduction

Florian Greiner (University of Augsburg): Approaches to the Contemporary History of European Solidarity

12:45-2:15 p.m. Session 1: Political Ideas of European Solidarity Before 1945

Giuseppe Foscari (University of Salerno): The Europe of the Peoples in the 'Prophecy' of Mazzini

Silvana Sciarrotta (University of Salerno): Political Ideas of European Solidarity and the Shaping of Public Discourse: The Case of 'Les Etats-Unis d'Europe'

Richard Deswarte (University of East Anglia): Édouard Herriot and Notions of European Solidarity: An Interrogation

Chair and Discussant: Günther Kronenbitter (University of Augsburg)

Coffee Break

2:45-4:15 p.m. Session 2: Intellectuals and Concepts of European Solidarity in the 19th and Early 20th Century

Amotz Giladi (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris): Pan-Latinism in the European Space: Between Solidarity and Rivalries

Matthew D’Auria (University of East Anglia): Classical Sociology between National, Cosmopolitan and European 'Solidarity'

Tara Windsor (Trinity College Dublin): 'Übernationale Solidarität': Thomas Mann’s Idea(s) of Europe and the International PEN Club after the First World War

Chair and Discussant: Marcello Gisondi (University of Lugano)

4:15-5:30 p.m. Session 3: Conceptions of European Solidarity During the World Wars

Jan Vermeiren (University of East Anglia): Notions of Solidarity and Integration in Times of War: The Idea of Europe, 1914-1918

Johannes Dafinger (University of Klagenfurt): Show Solidarity, Live Solitarily – The Nazi Europe as a 'Family of Peoples'

Chair and Discussant: Martina Steber (University of Konstanz)

6:30-7:45 p.m. Keynote (HS 1010, Law Faculty)

Gerard Delanty (University of Sussex): Solidarity and European Identity: Contradictions and Future Possibilities

8:00 p.m. Dinner

Friday, 24.06.2016

9:00-10:15 a.m. Session 4: European Solidarity in the Thinking of Leading Politicians after 1945

Mathias Haeussler (University of Cambridge): 'The Greater the Relative Success of Germany, the Longer the Memory of Auschwitz Will Last': Concepts of 'Solidarity' in Helmut Schmidt’s European Thought 1945-82

Frederike Schotters (University of Duisburg-Essen): Mitterrand’s Europe — Functions and Limits of 'European Solidarity' in French Policy during the 1980s

Chair and Discussant: Peter Pichler (University of Graz)

Coffee Break

10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Session 5: European Solidarity and its Limits in 1970s Politics

Eva Oberloskamp (Institute of Contemporary History, Munich): Expressions and Limits of European Solidarity with West Germany during its Fight Against Left-Wing Terrorism in the 1970s

Henning Türk (University of Mainz): The Limits of Solidarity – The EC Countries, the Washington Energy Conference and the Foundation of the International Energy Agency 1974

Chair and Discussant: Cathie Carmichael (University of East Anglia)

12:00-2:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00-4:15 p.m. Session 6: Solidarity as a Guiding Concept for Trade Unions and in European Social Policy

Christian Roy (Centre International de Formation Européenne, Nice): European Vital Minimum and Guaranteed Income: Ordre Nouveau's Pre-War Personalist Scheme for Continent-Wide Solidarity and its Federalist Legacy

Severin Cramm (University of Hildesheim): Organised Solidarity? On the Cooperation of European Trade Unions after 1945

Karim Fertikh (EHESS Paris) / Heike Wieters (Humboldt University of Berlin): The Dead Live Longer? The Emergence of European Social Policy in Transnational Constellation, 1950-1970

Marialuisa Lucia Sergio (Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, Rome): The Christian Democratic Solidarity Concept and European Social Policy: New Socio-Economic Challenges at the Turn of the 1970s

Chair and Discussant: Dietmar Süß (University of Augsburg)

Coffee Break

4:45-6:00 p.m. Session 7: European Solidarity in Eastern Europe

Olena Palko (University of East Anglia): 'Solidarity of the Shaken' or 'a Revolution in Compassion': The Concept of Solidarity in Eastern Europe in the 1960s-1980s

Federico Leonardi (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan): Energy or Form? Europe according to Jan Patočka

Chair and Discussant: Maren Röger (University of Augsburg)

6:00-7:15 p.m. Keynote

Wolfgang Schmale (University of Vienna): European Solidarity: A History

Saturday, 25.06.2016

9:00-10:30 a.m. Session 8: Transnational Solidarity and the European Position in the (Post-) Colonial World

Jeff Roquen (Independent Scholar, Chicago): Crashing the States-System: The Triumph of International Law and 'Humanity' in the Making and Unmaking of Continental Solidarity, 1870-1920

Christian Methfessel (University of Erfurt): European Solidarity for the Sake of Imperial Expansion, Colonialism for the Sake of European Solidarity: English and German Public Debates on Colonial Wars and Imperialist Interventions around 1900

Anna Konieczna (University of Oxford): Europe, South Africa and Transnational Solidarities: The Western European Anti-Apartheid Movement(s), 1959-1990

Chair and Discussant: Daniel Maul (University of Oslo)

Coffee Break

11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Session 9: Migration, Development Aid and European Solidarity

Brian Shaev (University of Gothenburg): Socialist Solidarity for Migrants? Socialists and the Free Movement of Workers in the Early European Communities, 1953-64

Jenny Pleinen (University of Augsburg): The Dilemma of European Aid to Developing Countries: Act of Solidarity or Means of Forestalling Migration?

Chair and Discussant: Peter A. Kraus (University of Augsburg)

12:15-12:45 p.m. Final Discussion and Concluding Remarks