Program
University Anniversaries between History, Present, and Future
Thursday, 18.06.2020 |
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| 18:00 | Welcome and Keynote |
| Pieter Dhondt (Kuopio): How three Belgian (state) universities celebrated their anniversary in 2017. The challenging combination of jubilees and history writing in a broad historiographical perspective. | |
| Chair: Marcus Popplow (Karlsruhe) | |
| 19:30 | Informal Break-Out Sessions |
Friday, 19.06.2020 |
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| 9:00 - 10:00 | University anniversaries in the 19th century |
| Matthias Berg (Berlin/Munich): Munich university anniversaries of the "long" 19th century in the mirror of their speeches | |
| Anton F. Guhl (Karlsruhe): Future through history? On the Jubilee Practice of Polytechnics in the Middle of the 19th Century | |
| Christof Aichner (Innsbruck): "With us, the 200th anniversary celebration has raised a lot of dust...". The University Jubilee at the University of Innsbruck in 1877. | |
| Chair: Marcus Popplow (Karlsruhe) | |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Break |
| 10:20 - 11:20 | Anniversaries and National Socialism |
| Martin Göllnitz (Marburg) "Under the booming defensive fire of our flak the 'Festschrift' was created". The jubilee celebrations of Kiel University and the Vienna University of Technology during World War II. | |
| Marianne Horstkemper (Potsdam) / Vivian Yurdakul (Berlin): The Thematization of the Nazi Past in the University Anniversaries of the TU Berlin | |
| Catherine Maurer (Strasbourg): 1919, 1939, 1943, 1945: How did the University of Strasbourg honor these decisive years in its history? | |
| Chair: Kurt Möser (Karlsruhe) | |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Break |
| 11:40 - 12:40 | Anniversaries in the long 1970s |
| Sarah Kramer (Marburg): "[K]one reason to celebrate"? The university anniversaries in Marburg and Tübingen in 1977 between jubilation and crisis | |
| Beate Ceranski (Stuttgart): "For two weeks Stuttgart is a real university city." The Stuttgart University Jubilee 1979 | |
| Gunnar B. Zimmermann (Hamburg): "Counter-Festschriften" to University Anniversaries as Alternative Offers of Remembrance between Protest and Scientific Claim | |
| Chair: Ole Sparenberg (Karlsruhe) | |
| 12:40 - 14:00 | Break |
| 14:00 - 14:40 | Anniversaries of "post-classical" universities |
| Verena Kümmel (Darmstadt): Six commemorative publications in eleven years. The self-assurance of an ecclesiastical university of applied sciences | |
| Edith Glaser (Kassel) / Alexander Kather (Kassel): How and why do reform universities celebrate themselves? The Universities of Bremen and Kassel in Comparison | |
| Chair: Silke Zimmer-Merkle (Karlsruhe) | |
| 14:40 - 14:50 | Break |
| 14:50 - 15:30 | Current anniversary practice |
| Juliane Mikoletzky (Vienna): 200 Years TU Vienna: On the Attempt to Celebrate an Anniversary (Almost) Without History | |
| Sabine Lauderbach (Mainz): 75 Years Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. Status and Perspectives of the "Festschrift | |
| Chair: Klaus Nippert (Karlsruhe) | |
| 15:30 - 15:40 | Break |
| 15:40 - 16:20 | Comparing National Approaches |
| Piotr Majewski (Warszawa): Celebrations of the establishment of the University of Warsaw in 20th century and its impact on historiography | |
| Ning de Coninck-Smith (Aarhus): Histories of Danish Universities - in the past - and in the (possible) future | |
| Chair: Gisela Hürlimann (Karlsruhe) | |
| 16:20 - 17:00 | Break |
| 17:00 | Commentary and final discussion |
| Mitchell Ash (Vienna): Conference Commentary I | |
| Daniela Zetti (Lübeck): Conference Commentary II | |
| 18:00 | Informal Break-Out Sessions |
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