8:45 AM – 9:15 AM Registration – Drift 21, central hall

9:15 AM – 9:30 AM Opening remarks – Drift 21, room 0.05

9:30 AM – 10:30 AMKeynote lecture: Professor Ute Frevert (Max Planck Institute, Berlin), Contestation and Acceptance: German Constitutions since 1849 – Drift 21, room 0.05

10:30 AM – 11:00 AMCoffee and tea break – Drift 21, central hall

11:00 AM – 1:00 PMPanel Session A

Panel I: Transnational and Enduring Institutions in the 19th and 20th Century (chair: Beatrice de Graaf, Utrecht University) – Drift 21, room 1.04
- Stefano Lissi (Utrecht University) Young Europe and the Transnational Collaboration between German, Italian and Polish Nationalists (1834-36)
- Federico Ottavio Reho (University of Oxford) Lingering Legitimacies and Contested Institutions; the Holy Roman Empire as a German Ideal of Order in the First Half of the 19th Century
- Ronny Grundig (University of Greifswald) Finding Compromise. Arbitration as a Legal Institution to Resolve Conflicts and Discipline the Population
- Ewout van der Knaap (Utrecht University) Institutionelle Wege der Minderheit der Sorben

Panel II: Corruption and Memory as Institutional Challenges during and after the Nazi-Dictatorship (chair: Laura Almagor, Utrecht University) – Drift 21, room 1.05
- Laura Brinkhorst (Radboud University Nijmegen) ‘Corrupt Officials or Loyal Servants of the State?’ Police Corruption in Berlin and Amsterdam during the NS-Zeit (1933-1945)
- Aline Sierp (Maastricht University) Victims, Power and Discrimination – Contesting Memorial Sites in Italy and Germany
- Anne-Lise Bobeldijk (Wageningen University) Holocaust Memory Diplomacy in Maly Trostenets: German-Belarusian Bilateral Relations over Contested Pasts

Panel III: State and Democratic Institutions in Germany after 1945 (chair: Lorena De Vita, Utrecht University) – Drift 21, room 0.05
- Rick Tazelaar (Utrecht University) Bavaria First: The Bavarian State Chancellery and the Reconstruction of the Bavarian State after the Second World War
- Martijn Lak (Utrecht University) (Re-)learning Democracy? (Re-)introducing Democratic Institutions in Germany, 1945-1949
- Frederik Frank Sterkenburgh (Utrecht University) The Kanzlerdemokratie Contested: Redefining a Disputed Concept
- Thomas Zaugg (University of Oxford) No Way Back to Liberal Democracy, Then as Now? The Restrained Restoration of Economic and Democratic Liberalism in Post-war Western Europe

Panel IV: Education and Academia as Contested Institutions in the 19th and 20th century [chair Krijn Thijs, Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam) – Drift 21, room 1.09
- Yuetong Li (University of Cambridge) Nationalisation of History Education: Features of History Textbook Writing in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
- Yuhei Obayashi (University of Tokyo / Universität Erfurt) Die wissenschaftspolitische Konkurrenz der drei Arte von der Nützlichkeit: Zur Institutionalisierung der Biologie im frühen 19. Jahrhundert
- Todd Weir (University of Groningen) Challenges to the Authority of Academic Science in Germany 1875 to 1955: Socialist Critiques and Liberal Responses

1:00 PM – 2:00 PMLunch – Drift 21, central hall

Book pitch: Jochen Hung, Moderate Modernity. The Newspaper Tempo and the Transformation of Weimar Democracy (Michigan 2023)

2:00 PM – 4:00 PMPanel Session B

Panel V: New Institutions facing Institutional Challenges in the 19th and 20th Century (chair: Frederik Frank Sterkenburgh, Utrecht University) – Drift 21, room 1.05
- Tobias Hirschmüller (Haus der Frauengeschichte Bonn) Das vergessene Amt? Der Reichsverweser der Provisorischen Zentralgewalt für Deutschland in der Revolution von 1848/1849
- Jan Markert (University of Trier) In the Beginning there was a Revolution: Wilhelm I and the Development of Germany
- Frans Willem Lantink (Utrecht University) Dominanz der Exekutive. “Staatsmänner” als liberal-demokratisches Verfassungsproblem, Preußen-Deutschland im Vergleich (Österreich(-Ungarn), Italien, Spanien) 1860-1914
- Hanco Jürgens (Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam) Why is Institutional Trust so much lower in East Germany than in West-Germany?

Panel VI: Education and Academia as Contested Institutions in the 20th century (chair: Lars Behrisch, Utrecht University) – Drift 21, room 1.04
- Britta Schilling (Utrecht University) Contesting the Colonial University: ‘Decolonization’ in the 1960s?
- Phillip Wagner (University of Halle-Wittenberg) Disputed Institutions: Schools and Democracy in West Germany after ‘1968’
- Anne van Mourik (NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Amsterdam) (Mis-)trusting Hunger: The Political Use of Hunger Education in Germany 1914-89
- Krijn Thijs (Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam) Bringing Excellence and Democracy into East-German Humanities. The case of the History Department at the Humboldt University after 1990

Panel VII: Contested Institutions during the Weimar Republic (chair: Ido de Haan, Utrecht University) – Drift 21, room 0.05
- Christoph Nonn (Düsseldorf University) “Party Quarreling” and “Common Good”: Criticism of Parties in the Weimar Republic
- Thomas Weber (University of Aberdeen and Hoover Institution, University of Stanford) Laboratories of Illiberal Democracy & wehrhafte Demokratie: 1920s to 1940s Parliaments as Contested Institutions in a World of Existential Crisis
- Doron Avraham (Bar Ilan University) Functional Inversion: Conservative Contestation of Liberal Democratic Institutions in Germany and Israel
- Jochen Hung (Utrecht University) Museums in Weimar Germany: Producing Democratic Citizens?
- Robert-Jan Wille (Utrecht University) Trust, Science and Geopolitics: Meteorologists and Realpolitik in Weimar Germany

Panel VIII: Economic Institutions Contested (chair: Wim van Meurs, Radboud University Nijmegen) – Drift 21, 1.09
- Jorrit Steehouder (Utrecht University) European Security in the ‘Shatter Zone’: Elémer Hantos and the Mitteleuropäische Wirtschaftstagung, 1924-1939
- Kees van Paridon (Erasmus University) In the Bundesbank We Trust
- Philipp Urban (University of Bochum) Das Vertrauen des Verbrauchers. Konsumgenossenschaften zwischen „KONSUM“ und „CO OP“
- Timon de Groot (International Institute for Social History Amsterdam) From Welfare State Dependency to Welfare State Abuse. The Evolution of Critique of the Welfare State in Germany and the Netherlands, 1975-2000

4:00 PM – 4:30 PMCoffee and tea break – Drift 21, central hall

4:30 PM – 5:15 PMPodium discussion: The Past, Present and Future of Institutions in Modern Germany – Drift 21, room 0.05
- Annelien de Dijn (Utrecht University)
- Ute Frevert (Max Planck Institute, Berlin)
- Beatrice de Graaf (Utrecht University)
- Frederik Frank Sterkenburgh (Utrecht University)
- Thomas Weber (University of Aberdeen and Hoover Institution, Stanford University)

5:15 PM – 5:20 PMClosing remarks – Drift 21, room 0.05

6:00 PMConference dinner for speakers and panel chairs at Restaurant PK Utrecht, Oudegracht 101-103, 3511 AE Utrecht

The Platform Duitse Geschiedenis and conference organizers thank Utrecht University’s Department of History and Art History and Utrecht University’s research platform Institutions for Open Societies for their generous financial support.