Thursday, 6 June 2024

13.00-13.15
Welcome and Introduction: Andreas Wirsching (Munich), Angelika Nußberger (Cologne)

Panel 1
Are Human Rights Universal?
Chair: Andreas Wirsching (Munich)

13.15-15.15
Angelika Nußberger (Cologne):
Tendencies of De-Universalizing Human Rights

Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen (Paris):
Universalism in Question

Panel 2
Human Rights and Gender Equality
Chair: Kiran Klaus Patel (Munich)

15.45-17.45
Claudia Kraft (Vienna):
The Question of Universalism on the First UN World Conference on Women in Mexico City (1975)

Celia Donert (Cambridge):
Taking the State Out of Socialism: Women's Rights in Central and Eastern Europe Before and After 1989

Keynote Lecture

18.30
Frank Bösch (Potsdam):
Die Deutschen und die Diktaturen. Außenpolitik und Menschenrechte seit der Ära Adenauer
(Keynote in German, open to the public)

Friday, 7 June 2024

Panel 3
The Human Rights Discourse in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1970s and 1980s
Chair: Martin Schulze Wessel (Munich)

8.30-10.45
Michal Kopeček (Prague):
Political Languages of Human Rights in East Central European Dissent.

Caroline von Gall (Frankfurt):
Soviet Theory of Human Rights in the 1970s

Ivan Kislenko (Belgorod):
'Not decolonization but self-isolation' - How the Kremlin's Purported Fight Against 'Neocolonialism' is Destroying Russian Science

Panel 4
Human Rights in International Politics and Commemoration
Chair: Hélène Miard-Delacroix (Paris)

11.15-13.30
Agnes Bresselau von Bressensdorf (Munich):
Between Universalism and Regionalization: Human Rights, Middle Eastern Refugees and Western Europe in the 1980s

Ida Richter (Berlin):
Universalistic Rhetoric in the Commemoration of Rescue during the Holocaust: Establishing Raoul Wallenberg as a Human Rights Symbol in the 1980s

Concluding Remarks
Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann (Berkeley)