18.06.2019
09.00-09.30: Jens Ivo Engels (Darmstadt): Welcoming and Introduction
Panel 1: The ‘Invention’ of Transparency and Criticism of Opacity
09.30-10.30:
Olivier Meuwly (Lausanne): Entre anarchisme et libéra-lisme: Les premiers débats autour de l’idée d’une société transparente
Theo Jung (Freiburg): The Political Sphinx: Political Opacity as Re-source and Risk in Napoleon III and Benjamin Disraeli
10.30-11.00: Discussion
11.00-11.30: Coffeebreak
Panel 2: Transparency, Corruption and Party Finance in Romania around 1900
11.30-12.30:
Silvia Marton (Bucharest): Transparency and corruption in Roma-nian electoral politics (1866-1914)
Alexandra Iancu (Bucharest): ‘Everything must change if every-thing is to stay as it is’: Party finance contingencies and intra-party transparency in the beginning of the 20th century Romania
12.30-13.00: Discussion
13.00-14.30: Lunchbreak
Panel 3: Transparency Instruments: Parliamentary Enquiries in the 20th Century
14.30-15.30:
Sandra Zimmermann (Darmstadt): Between "clarity" and "darkness". The role of public disclosure in the Barmat- parliamentary committees (1925)
Ronald Kroeze (Amsterdam): Transparency’s rise: the Dutch RSV-enquiry and the context of the 1980s
15.30-16.00: Discussion
16.00-16.30: Coffeebreak
Panel 4: Secret Services: In Opposition to Transparency?
16.30-17.30:
Florian Altenhöner (Berlin): Selective Transparency. Pri-vate intelligence services in Germany, 1918/ 1934
Christopher Kirchberg (Bochum): Surveillance, control and trans-parency. Reflections on the relation of intelligence service and society
17.30-18.00 Discussion
From 19.00: Conference Dinner at the restaurant ‘Die Sitte’
19.06.2019
Panel 5: Transparency Actors: Whistle-Blowers and the Media
09.00-10.00:
Joris Gijsenbergh (Nijmegen): Struggling for the right to know. Whistle-blowers, their supporters and their opponents in the United States of America, the United Kingdom and Germany (1945-2018)
Martin Mainka (Darmstadt): Media as Transparency-Actors. The case of the SPIEGEL during the Flick-Affair (1980s)
10.00-10.30: Discussion
10.30-11.00: Coffeebreak
Panel 6: The (Auto-)Production of the Transparent Politician
11.00-12.00:
Harm Kaal (Nijmegen): The private becoming public: politics, pop-ular culture and the mediatisation of politicians’ private persona in the 1960s and 1970s
Vojin Saša Vukadinović (Basel/Berlin): “Let me make one thing perfect-ly clear”. Richard Nixon’s attempted language of transparency
12.00-12.30 Discussion
12.30-14.00: Lunchbreak
Panel 7: Implementing Transparency in Public Bodies: An Ambivalent Task
14.00-15.00: Cora Schmitt-Ott (Tübingen): Saving Secrecy. The “Com-mission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy” and its ori-gins, ca. 1965-1995
Eric Dehay (Arras) / Nathalie Lévy (Tours): Une histoire de la transparence des banques centrales dans la littérature économique
15.00-15.30: Discussion
15.30-16.00: Concluding Remarks
16.00-16.30: Coffee