WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY
08.45 Official Opening (Lecture Theatre N112)

09.30 Opening Lecture (Lecture Theatre N112)
T.B.A.

10.30 Coffee Break

11.00 1st Plenary Session (Lecture Theatre N112)
CONCEPTS OF EUROPE: HISTORICAL APPROACH

European Identity – A Generative Approach
Andrei Marga (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)
Europe – Cartographical Concepts in the Middle Ages
Ingrid Baumgärtner (University of Kassel, Germany)
European Consciousness in the Early Modern Central and Eastern Europe
Janusz Tazbir (Polish Academy of Science, Poland)
Towards a New History of Modern Europe
Jean-Frédéric Schaub (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France)

13.00 Lunch

14.30 2nd Plenary Session (Lecture Theatre N112)
EUROPEAN CULTURE: HISTORY AND MEMORY

International Conferences and the Formation of a European Political Culture
Günther Lottes (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Enlightenment’s Wake and the Birth of Europe – The Condemnation to Modernity as the Only Exit for Identity
Onésimo T. Almeida (Brown University, USA)
Freemasonry, Pacifism and League of Nations
José A. Ferrer Benimeli (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Europe and the Mediterranean Today – Geography and Geopolitics
Bodo Freund (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)

16.30 Coffee Break

16.45 Parallel Sessions

Session A (Conference Room N.N.)
IDEAS OF EUROPE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD

Europe and the Other: Roots of a European Identity in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Andreas Hartmann (Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany)
The Classic European Foundations: From the Greek Polis to the Roman Empire
António Moniz (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
The West and the East in Herodotus’ Perception of His World
Ana Filipa Silva / Cristiana Lucas (CLEPUL, Portugal)
Strabo’s Geographika in the Rome of Augustus
Paula Carreira / Susana Alves (CLEPUL, Portugal)
The Era of Sparta?
João Carreteiro (CLEPUL, Portugal)

Session B (Conference Room N.N.)
IDEAS OF EUROPE WITHIN NATIONAL CULTURES

Europeanism as a Strategy of Preserving National Cultures
Tadeusz Miczka (University of Silesia, Poland)
Spain in the Building of European History and Identity: Past and Future
Ignacio Pulido Serrano (University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain)
European Union and Turkey
Eduard A. Bulut (Nurol Holding & Cengiz Holding Joint Venture, Turkey)
The Idea of Europe in Galician National Literature
Carme Fernández Pérez-Sanjulián (University of A Coruña, Spain)
The Myth of the Harmoniously Co-Existing Europe and the Austro-Hungarian Theme in the Prose Works by Arnold Zweig
Zbigniew Kadłubek (University of Silesia)

Session C (Conference Room N.N.)
LEGAL AND POLITICAL ASPECTS OF EUROPE

Euroscepticism in Europe
Florian Hartleb (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany)
The Prospect of a Political Europe: A Matter of Political Regime or a Matter of System of Government?
Carlos Leone (Centro de História da Cultura, Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
The Principle of a Social Welfare State for the European Health Market – Legal-Economic Considerations on Healthcare-Related Orders Placed by the EU
Wilfried Janoska (Private Universität für Gesundheitswissenschaften, Medizinische Informatik und Technik, Austria)
EU’s Restructuring – Assignment of a New Course and a New Meaning to European Integration
Grigore Silasi / Teodora Dogaru (West University of Timisoara, Romania)

Session D (Conference Room N.N.)
A COLLECTIVE MEMORY FOR EUROPE – I

Europe and a Memory out of Stone
Claudia Isep / Claudia Küttel (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria)
European Identity in Current Spanish Life: An Analysis of Various Examples of Holocaust Memory and Representation in Contemporary Spain
Luisa Juárez Hervás (University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain)
Today’s Europe and Its Origins in the Versailles Order
Christian Blasberg (LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy)
One World, Two Philosophical Traditions: A Comparison of Maritain’s and Kojeve’s Arguments for World Unification and European Integration
James Fetter (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Memories of Mittelbau-Dora: A Contribution to the ‘Have-dones’ and ‘To-dos’ in European Cultural Memory
Bruno Arich-Gerz (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)

Session E (Conference Room N.N.)
QUESTIONING THE EUROPEAN IDENTITY – I

Postmodern Requirements of Identity for Europe
Matúš Halás (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
‘Old Europe’ – Career, Misunderstandings and Potentials of a Concept
Hiram Kümper (University of Vechta, Germany)
From Exclusion to Hospitality, from Transgression to Cultural Difference, the European Pendulum
Nadja Stamselberg (Goldsmiths University of London, UK)
Abduction of Europe: A Matter in Transition
Olga Rusinova (European University at St. Petersburg, Russia)
From Europe towards the Universalisms of the Fifth Empire in the Work by Fernando Pessoa
Paulo Borges (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

19:00: Social Programme
CULTURAL EVENING AT THE UNIVERSITY’S CULTURE CLUB

THURSDAY, 7 MAY

08.45 3rd Plenary Session (Lecture Theatre N112)
THINKING EUROPE / FEELING EUROPE

An Education for Europe?
António Nóvoa (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Crisis, Economic Growth and Democracy. Europe at a Crossroads?
Bernhard Taureck (Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina Braunschweig, Germany)
A Return to the Future: How will Europe be able to overcome its Present Crisis?
Frieder O. Wolf (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
A Culture for Europe?
Guilherme d’Oliveira Martins (Centro Nacional de Cultura, Portugal)

10.45 Coffee Break

11.00 Parallel Sessions

Session F (Conference Room N.N.)
LITERARY CONCEPTS OF EUROPE – I

Discovering and Self-Discovering. European Literature and European Consciousness in the Early Modern Times
Peter Hanenberg (Catholic University, Portugal)
The Idea of Europe in the Period of Romanticism
Jacek Lyszczyna (University of Silesia, Poland)
The European Idea in Russian National Literature: Contexts and Discussions
Maria Kistereva / Mikhail Kabitskiy (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia)
‘SOS Europa’ – Cultural Pessimism in the Early 20th Century Discourse on Europe
Verena Gutsche (Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany)

Session G (Conference Room N.N.)
IDEAS OF EUROPE IN MEDIEVAL AND MODERN EUROPE

Medieval Europe – Object and Ideology
Klaus Oschema (Heidelberg University, Germany)
Mutual Wisdom – The Perception of the European Self in the Oriental Mirror as Found in the Provençal Version of the Novel Barlaam et Josaphat
Imre G. Majorossy (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary)
Confessionalisation Process and Proto-Nationalism in Spanish Monarchy – Study Through Military Orders (Venerable Orden Tercera de San Francisco) and University of Alcalá (1520-1680)
José Ignacio Ruiz Rodríguez / Pierluigi Nocella (University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain)
Being the Face of Europe or Bringing up the Rear: Ideas of Europe in Portugal, 16th to 18th Century
José Eduardo Franco / Teresa Pinheiro (University of Lisbon, Portugal / Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany)

Session H (Conference Room N.N.)
DREAMING OF ENLIGHTENED EUROPE

Shadows, Relics, Mechanical Toys: Karamzin’s View of Enlightened Europe as the Grand Bizarre
Sonja Koroliov (Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
‘Barbarians in the Archive?’ Constructions of the Other and the Self in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert
Karen Struve (University of Bremen, Germany)
Montesquieu and the Problem of Forming a European Spirit
Joshua Bandoch (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Christoph Martin Wieland – Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Europe before, during and after the French Revolution
Dominic Eggel (The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland)

Session I (Conference Room N.N.)
EUROPE OF REGIONS

Province on a Hill: South Tyrol as a Microcosm of European Federalism
Phillip Alday (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)
Ideas of Europe in Madeiran Culture
Thierry Proença (Madeira University, Portugal)
The Route of Santiago – The First European Cultural Route and the Pilgrimage of Mythical Women in Medieval Europe (St. Elisabeth of Portugal, St. Bridgid of Sweden)
Isabel Morán Cabanas (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Santiago de Compostela: A Gateway for European Culture and Poetry
Yara F. Vieira (Campinas State University, Brazil)

Session J (Conference Room N.N.)
EUROPEAN ELITE(S)

Les États-Unis d’Europe and Le Lien des Peuples. Ideas of/for Europe in the Fraternity of Freemasons, c. 1850-1930
Joachim Berger (Institute of European History, Germany)
Hubs of European Modernism 1890-1960
Cecilia Hansson (Malmö University, Sweden)
An Idea of Europe as an Elite Ideal for Portugal
Alexandre Honrado (IEC-PMA, Portugal)
Intellectual Elite and the European Idea in Post-Communist Romania
Ioan Horga / Cristina Dogot (University of Oradea, Romania)

13.00 Lunch

14.30 4th Plenary Session (Lecture Theatre N112)
LITERARY EUROPE

The Vision of Europe in Polish Literature Against a Background of Other Slavic Literatures and Its Consequences for the Future of the European Union
Halina Janaszek-Ivaničková (Commission for Comparative Studies of Slavic Literatures at the International Committee of Slavists, Poland)
Concepts of Europe in the Portuguese Literature from Romanticism to the Early 20th Century
Annabela Rita (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Religion and Freedom, Civilisation and Justice – Some Elements of the Image of Europe from Novalis and Chauteaubriand to Garrett and Hugo
Helmut Siepmann (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
The future of Europe: How to overcome existing temptations? Reflections of an intellectual from the Balkans
Milan Gjurcinov (International Committee of Slavists, Macedonia)

16.30 Coffee Break

16.45 Parallel Sessions

Session K (Conference Room N.N.)
LITERARY CONCEPTS OF EUROPE – II

Europe Between Myth and Continental Allegory. Georg Kaiser’s Play Europe
Almut Renger (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
Europe as Other in Contemporary Balkan Literatures
Anastasija Gjurcinova (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, Macedonia)
The New Face of Europe – Images of a Post-Colonial Continent
Micaela Ramon (University of Minho, Portugal)
Is the Time Night? Visions of a ‘New Europe’ through the Writings of Liudmila Petrushevskaia and Carmen Martin Gaite
Margaret Tejerizo (University of Glasgow, Great Britain)

Session L (Conference Room N.N.)
A COLLECTIVE MEMORY FOR EUROPE – II

Oskar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg – National, European and American Heroes in the Post-War Age of the Holocaust
Ulf Zander (Lund University, Sweden)
The Holocaust in European History Culture
Klas-Göran Karlsson (Lund University, Sweden)
Coming to Terms with Histories: Communism and Nazism in Trans-Boundary Historical Culture
Kristian Gerner (Lund University, Sweden)
Europe in the World: Playing Chess Games or Something Else?
Noémia Simões (High Institute of Engineering, Portugal)

Session M (Conference Room N.N.)
QUESTIONING THE EUROPEAN IDENTITY – II

The Ambiguity of the ‘Other Europe’: From a ‘Europe behind the Iron Curtain’ to ‘a Europe without the Iron Curtain’
Friederike Kind-Kovács (University of Regensburg, Germany)
The Idea of Europe in the Works by George Steiner and Bento XVI
Miguel Real (CLEPUL, Portugal)
Cultural Identity / Identities for Europe: Does It Serve for Anything?
Maria Manuel Baptista (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
An Unfinished Adventure Called ‘Europe’: Bauman, Kertész and Žižek on Europe’s Identity and Future
Mare Van Den Eeden (Central European University, Hungary)

Session N (Conference Room N.N.)
ENCOUNTERS WITH EUROPE AS SEEN BY THE OTHER – I

Lusophone Africa and Europe: An Historical and Cultural Heritage
Muanamosi Matumona (Agostinho Neto University, Angola)
Wartime Europe as Seen by Others – Indian and African Soldiers in Europe in World War I
Christian Koller (Bangor University, UK)
European Myth in African Literature: Les Soleils des Indépendances by Ahmadou Kourouma and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Paul Angoli (Université de Cocody-Abidjan, Ivory Coast)
Ideas of Europe in Post-Colonial African Lusophone Literature
Fernanda Santos (CLEPUL, Portugal)

Session O (Conference Room N.N.)
IDEAS OF/FOR COMMON EUROPE

Back to the Roots – Emotionalising Europe
Martin Gerner (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
Recent Developments Concerning the Free Movement of Workers in Europe: The Principle of Non-Discrimination on the Grounds of Nationality
Daniela Rocha Brandão (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
On Intergenerational Mobility in Europe
Ana Prokopyshyn / Paulo Delgado (CompaRes, Portugal)
Towards a More Inclusive European Immigration Policy
Alexej Ulbricht (Goldsmiths University of London, Great Britain)
How to Deal with European Integration: Writing nsd 68, New Evidence Reveals Internal Discords in the Nixon White House
Dimitri Grygowski (University of Cergy-Pontoise, France)

FRIDAY, 8 MAY

08.45 5th Plenary Session (Lecture Theatre N112)
EUROPE AND ITS FUTURE PROSPECTS

Towards a Mythology of Europe
Eduardo Lourenço (University of Nice, France)
Education, Interculturalism and the New Europe
Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek (National Sun Yat-sen University / Martin-Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
The Missing Word in the Idea of Europe
Luís Machado de Abreu (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Sentimental Europe
Pedro Barbas Homem (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

10.45 Coffee Break

11.00 Parallel Sessions

Session P (Conference Room N.N.)
BETWEEN NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN IDENTITY – 20TH CENTURY ATTEMPTS

Foundations of the Post-World War II European Order: The Europe Plans of the German, Italian, Dutch, French and Polish Resistance Against Hitler, 1940-1945
Ulrich Frisse (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
The ‘New Europe’ in the Discourse of Quisling and Governments In-Exile: The Greek Case, 1941–1944
Alexandra Patrikiou (Panteion University of Athens, Greece)
Visions of Europe and Revolution in the Intersecting Activist and Resistance Trajectories of Harro Schulze-Boysen and Alexandre Marc
Christian Roy (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada)

Session Q (Conference Room N.N.)
EUROPE AS SEEN BY THE OTHER - II

Ideas of Western Europe in Political Discussions of the Late Russian Empire (1905-1914)
Benjamin Beuerle (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
Seeing Oneself through Other Eyes? Anthropology and Non-European Civilizations from the Age of Discoveries to the 18th Century
Franz Obermeier (Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, Germany)
A Far Distant Glance at Europe: Critical Perspectives from Africa, India and China
Vittorio Cotesta (Roma Tre University, Italy)
A Global Power’s View on a Regional Player: Henry Kissinger’s Year of Europe
Judith Michel (University of Bonn, Germany)

Session R (Conference Room N.N.)
EUROPE: INTEGRITY AND DIVERSITY

Europe: Unity and Multitude: Kronika wszystkiego świata by M. Bielski
as a Great Vision of an Old Continent
Ewa Cybulska-Bohuszewicz / Paweł Bohuszewicz (Polish Academy of Science / Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland)
Ideas of Europe Between Sarmatism and Sebastianism: A Comparative Perspective
Beata Elżbieta Cieszyńska (CLEPUL, CompaRes, Portugal / Kazimierz Wielki University, Poland)
Archaeology and Political Agendas: The Making of Nationalism in Portugal (19th-20th Centuries)
Ana Cristina Martins (Tropical Research Institute, Portugal)

Session S (Conference Room N.N.)
EUROPE AND THE HUMAN UNIVERSE

Globalization as Europeanisation
Peeter Müürsepp (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia)
The Concept of Europe – and Beyond
Dieter Köhler (Universität Karlsruhe, Germany)
Is Transculturality a European Concept?
Ulrike Brummert (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany)
The Principle of Transparency and the European Identity
Renato Gonçalves (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Session T (Conference Room N.N.)
EUROPE IN EDUCATION

Why and How Should European Literature Be Taught in Europe? Some Ideas and a Modest Proposal
Jesús García Gabaldón (Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain)
The Future of European Languages in the Face of the Dominance of English. The role of Portuguese and Bulgarian in the European and International Co-Operation Policies
Boyka G. Nédeva (St Cyril and St Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria)

13.00 Lunch

14.00 6th Plenary Session (Lecture Theatre N112)
POLITICS, IDENTITIES AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

The Nexus of European Integration and the Metamorphosis of International Relations: Contemporary Dilemmas
Luís Lobo-Fernandes (University of Minho, Portugal)
Who Are We, Europeans? How Can Europeans Learn with Americans about Their Own Political Identity?
Viriato Soromenho-Marques (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
What Does Europe Mean Now?
Erhard Busek (Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe, Austria)

15.30 Special Session (Aula Magna, N115)
CONFERMENT OF AN HONORARY DEGREE

Award of the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa to the President of the European Commission, Mr José Manuel Barroso

Mr Barroso will address the assembly

18.00 Social Programme
ALTERNATIVE I: EUROPEAN CUP AT THE UNIVERSITY’S FOOTBALL PITCH
ALTERNATIVE II: GUIDED TOUR OF CHEMNITZ “20 YEARS AFTER THE PEACEFUL REVOLUTION”

20.00 Congress Dinner

SATURDAY, 9 MAY

08.45 7th Plenary Session (Lecture Theatre N112)
EUROPE AS SEEN BY THE OTHER

Europe as Seen From Africa
János Riesz (Universität Bayreuth, Germany)
'Faked Europes' in Brazil during the 19th and 20th Century
Mary Del Priore (University Salgado de Oliveira, Brazil)
The Image of Europe in 19th and 20th Century’s Brazil
Valmir Muraro (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)

10.15 8th Plenary Session (Lecture Theatre N112)
EUROPE IN TRAVEL LITERATURE

Travel Literature as a Source of Transformations in Europe
Fernando Cristóvão (Lisbon Science Academy, Portugal)
Europe Seen from afar: On Some Topics and Issues in the Accounts of Travellers from Other Parts of the World
Michael Harbsmeier (Roskilde University, Denmark)

11.15 Coffee Break

11.30 Closing Lecture (Lecture Theatre N112)
Making the Planet Hospitable to Europe
Zygmunt Bauman (University of Leeds, UK)

12.30 Closing Session (Lecture Theatre N112)