Monday, November 13, 2017
13:30 – 14:00
Arrival of Participants and Registration
14:00 – 14:15
Welcome Address by the Director of the GHI Paris
Thomas Maissen
14:15 – 15:30
Keynote
Stefan Voigt (University of Hamburg)
Terror and States of Emergency
Introduction: Matthias Lemke
15:30 – 15:45
Coffee Break
15:45 – 17:15
Panel 1 – Theoretical Issues (1)
Anna-Bettina Kaiser (Humboldt University Berlin)
Suspension of the Legal Order in the State of Exception
Ewa Atanassow (Bard College Berlin) / Ira Katznelson (Columbia University)
Governing emergency? State of Exception in the Anglo-American Liberal Tradition
Chair: Marcus Llanque (University of Augsburg)
17:15 – 17:30
Coffee Break
17:30 – 19:00
Panel 2 – Theoretical Issues (2)
Sabine Mischner (University of Freiburg)
The Temporalities of Exception
Tobias Schottdorf (Leuphana University)
Law, Democracy and the State of Emergency. A Theory Centered Analysis of the Legal State in Time of Exception
Chair: Isabelle Aubert (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
19:00 – 20:00
Transfer to the Goethe Institute Paris, 17 Avenue d’Iéna, F-75116 Paris
20:00 – 21:30
Film
Documentary “Endstation Bataclan – Vom Busfahrer zum Attentäter” (German/French, English subtitles)
Introduction: Alexander Smoltzcyk, Maurice Weiss
Followed by a Reception at the Goethe Institute.
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
09:00 – 10:30
Panel 3 – State of Exception in late 19th and early 20th Century
Fabian Lemmes (University of Bochum)
Exceptional Laws in Times of Exceptional Threat? Anarchist Terrorism and Anti-anarchist Repression in France and Italy in the 1890s
Thomas Blanck (University of Cologne)
A revolutionary state of exception: Munich, 1918/19
Chair: Martin H. Geyer (LMU Munich)
10:30 – 10:45
Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15
Panel 4 – State of Exception Case Studies (1): Germany, Canada and the U.S.
Hanno Balz (Johns Hopkins University)
The undeclared State of Emergency during the ‘German Autumn’ 1977
Anne-Marlen Engler (Humboldt University Berlin)
The emergency shelter at Berlin Tempelhof as an exemplary case of the permanent state of exception? A legal sociological analysis
Maureen T. Duffy (University of Calgary)
State of Emergency in Canada and the U.S.
Chair: Olivier Cahn (Université de Cergy-Pontoise)
12:15 – 13:15
Lunch
13:15 – 14:45
Panel 5 – State of Exception Case Studies (2): Italy, Israel, France and Turkey
Elisa Bertolini (Bocconi University Milan)
Democracy and the State of Exception: The Italian Experience
Myriam Feinberg (University of Haifa)
Terrorism – The Permanent Exception. A Comparison of France and Israel
Ece Göztepe (Bilkent University Ankara)
What does the Permanency of the Exception Mean? The Question of Constituent Power in Emergency Regimes
Chair: Paula Diehl (University of Bielefeld)
14:45 – 15:00
Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30
Panel 6 – State of Exception: various perspectives
Jonas Heller (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Materia reipublicae: Democracy, state of exception, and the dialectics of demos and population
Jan Christoph Suntrup (University of Bonn)
The Symbolic Politics of the State of Emergency: Images and Performances
Chair: Christian Grünnagel (University of Bochum)
16:30
Conclusion and end of Conference
Last update: November 6, 2017.