Schedule
Opening Event at Institut Pierre Werner, Neumunster Abbey
Keynote Lecture
Prof. Dr. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Stanford University):
Contemplation
as an End of the Humanities
Discussion with
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Professor of Comparative Literature and of French and Italian and, by courtesy, of German Studies; Chair of Graduate Studies, Comparative Literature at Stanford University)
Christophe Langenbrink (Editor and Journalist for the daily newspaper Luxemburger Wort)
Michel Margue (Professor of Medieval History at the University of Luxembourg)
Ludwig Neyses (Vice-President for Research, Acting Rector at University of Luxembourg)
moderated by
Georg Mein (Dean of the Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education at the University of Luxembourg)
Vin d’Honneur
9:00 – 9:30
Section I: The Humanities and their Environment – Social Systems
Humanities, Cognition, and Education
Section II: The Humanities and their Internal Structures – Disciplines
Literary Scholarship and Society
Section IV: Religion, Societies, and the Humanities – Suicidal Beliefs or “Memoria Innovans”
MSA 3.330
MSA 3.350
MSA 3.370
9:30 – 10:30
Prof. Dr. Christine Schiltz (Luxembourg)
Dr. Elena Trufanova (Moscow, Russia)
Prof. Dr. William Donahue (South Bend, USA)
Prof. Dr. Michael Niehaus (Hagen, Germany)
Prof. Dr. Jean Ehret (Luxembourg)
Prof. Dr. Philippe Capelle (Strasbourg, France)
10:45 – 11:45
Dr. Thomas Lenz (Luxembourg)
Dr. Vololona Randriamarotsimba (Antananarivo, Madagascar) / Prof. Dr. Sabine Ehrhart (Luxembourg)
Prof. Dr. Franklin Rausky (Paris, France)
Dr. Géraldine Roux (Troyes, France)
12:00 – 13:00
Prof. Dr. Claudine Moulin (Trier, Germany)
MSA 3.500
Section I: The Humanities and their Environment – Social Systems
Humanities, Psychology, and Health
Section II: The Humanities and their Internal Structures – Disciplines
Literary Scholarship and Society
Section V: Digital Humanities
MSA 3.330
MSA 3.350
MSA 3.370
14:00 – 15:30
Dr. Fella Benabed (Annaba, Algeria)
Dr. Jean-Marie Weber (Luxembourg)
Prof. Dr. Kirsten Brukamp (Ludwigsburg, Germany)
Prof. Dr. Hans Jürgen Lüsebrink (Saarbrücken, Germany)
Dr. Antonia Eder (Karlsruhe, Germany)
PD Dr. Peter Brandes (Bochum, Germany)
Prof. Dr. Andreas Fickers (Luxembourg)
Max Kemman (Luxembourg)
Dr. Agnes Blaha / Dr. Andreas Leo Findeisen (Vienna, Austria)
15:45 – 17:15
Prof. Dr. Dieter Ferring (Luxembourg)
PD Dr. Stefan Börnchen (Cologne, Germany)
Dr. Achim Küpper (Luxembourg)
Prof. Dr. Frank Hofmann (Luxembourg)
Gerben Zaagsma (Luxembourg)
Manuela Kölke (Berlin, Germany)
Dr. Frédéric Clavert (Luxembourg)
17:30 – 18:30
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Fohrmann (Bonn, Germany)
MSA 3.500
19:30
Conference Dinner
Section I: The Humanities and their Environment – Social Systems
Humanities and the Sciences
Section II: The Humanities and their Internal Structures – Disciplines
Humanities and Society
Section IV: Religion, Societies, and the Humanities – Suicidal Beliefs or “Memoria Innovans”
MSA 3.330
MSA 3.350
MSA 3.370
9:00 – 10:30
Prof. Dr. Andrea Binsfeld / Prof. Dr. Michel Pauly (Luxembourg)
Dr. Simon Kasper (Marburg, Germany) / Dr. Christoph Purschke (Luxembourg)
Dr. Inga Anderson (Berlin, Germany)
Prof. Dr. Christel Baltes-Löhr (Luxembourg)
Nishant K. Narayanan (Hyderabad, India)
Dr. habil. Haoues Seniguer (Lyon, France)
Prof. Dr. Alberto Ambrosio (Luxembourg)
Prof. Dr. Chris Doude van Troostwijk (Strasbourg, France)
10:45 – 11:45
Dipl. Physiker Oliver Kraut (Switzerland) / Heidi R. Krauss (Madrid, Spain)
Prof. Dr. Marion Colas-Blaise (Luxembourg)
Prof. Dr. Marie-Anne Vannier (Metz, France)
Prof. Dr. Daniel Laliberté (Luxembourg)
12:00 – 13:00
Section I: The Humanities and their Environment – Social Systems
Humanities and Economics
Section II: The Humanities and their Internal Structures – Disciplines
Humanities and Society
Section VI: Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion – Temptation as a Topic in the Humanities
MSA 3.330
MSA 3.350
MSA 3.370
14:00 – 15:30
Dr. Amelie Bendheim (Luxembourg)
Prof. Dr. Rolf Parr / Dr. Iuditha Balint (Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Prof. Dr. Maren Lehmann (Friedrichshafen, Germany)
Dr. Joachim Landkammer (Friedrichshafen, Germany)
Anton Pluschke (Princeton, USA) / Prof. Dr. Remigius Bunia (Siegen, Germany)
Prof. Dr. Claus Vögele (Luxembourg)
Prof. Dr. Nathalie Roelens (Luxembourg)
Prof. Dr. Sonja Kmec / Agnes Prüm (Luxembourg)
Prof. Dr. Conchita D’Ambrosio (Luxembourg)
15:45 – 17:15
PD Dr. Christian Wevelsiep (Germany)
Dr. Jennifer Pavlik (Luxembourg)
Prof. Dr. Mads Rosendahl Thomsen (Aarhus, Denmark)
Dr. Elke Murdock (Luxembourg)
Prof. Dr. Joel Billieux (Luxembourg)
Dr. Annika Lutz (Luxembourg)
Prof. Dr. Claus Vögele (Luxembourg)
17:30 – 20:00
Film Screening: A German Life
Discussion with film director Florian Weigensamer
MSA 3.540
Section I: The Humanities and their Environment – Social Systems
Humanities, Law, and Politics
Section II: The Humanities and their Institutions – Universities
MSA 3.330
MSA 3.350
9:00 – 10:30
Prof. Dr. André Michels (Luxembourg/Paris)
Prof. Dr. Johan van der Walt (Luxembourg) & Prof. Dr. Emilios Christodoulidis (Glasgow, UK)
Dr. Katrin Becker (Luxembourg)
Prof. Dr. Heiko Christians (Potsdam, Germany)
Prof. Dr. Joseph S. Freedman (Montgomery, USA)
10:45 – 11:45
Prof. Dr. Rainer Maria Kiesow (Paris, France)
Dr. Jeanette C. Atkinson / Simon Paul Atkinson (Oxford, UK)
Prof. Dr. Robert Harmsen (Luxembourg)
12:00 – 13:00
Section I: The Humanities and their Environment – Social Systems
Humanities, Architecture, and the Arts
Section II: The Humanities and their Internal Structures – Disciplines
History and Society
MSA 3.330
MSA 3.350
14:00 – 15:30
Prof. Dr. Florian Hertweck (Luxembourg)
Dr. Nikos Katsikis (Luxembourg)
Dr. Natalie Bloch (Luxembourg)
Naveen Kanalu Ramamurthy (Los Angeles, USA)
Joelle Weis (Luxembourg)
Dr. Dan Tamir (Israel)
16:00
Final Discussion with Prof. Dr. Georg Mein
MSA 3.540
