9:30 – 9:45 Bernhard Giesen (University of Constance)
Opening words
9:45 -10:30 Kay Junge (University of Bielefeld / University of Constance),
Kirill Postoutenko (Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences / University of Constance)
Asymmetrical concepts: an emergency introduction
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45 Philip Manow (University of Heidelberg)
'Us vs. him' - sacrificial kingship and the origins of democracy in Hobbes's Leviathan
11:45 – 12:30 Kay Junge (University of Bielefeld / University of Constance)
„Opposition to Government“: institutional prerequisites of legitimacy
12:30 – 14:15 Lunch
14:15 – 15:00 Lynn Murphy, Roberta Piazza (University of Sussex)
Historical semantics and linguistic semantics: identity and asymmetry from a linguistic perspective
15:00 – 15:45 Jan Sawilla (University of Constance)
Categorial asymmetry "Bürgertum" vs. "Masses" in German social history
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break
16:15 – 17:00 Juha Vuori (University of Turku)
Three takes on counter-revolution:
Studying asymmetrical political concepts in the People's Republic of China.
17:00 – 17:45 Kirill Postoutenko (Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences / University of Constance)
Asymmetrical concepts, democracy and totalitarianism in the first part of the 20th century
17:45 – 18:15
Final Discussion