2018/19: New Challenges for Liberalism in the Old Continent

New Challenges for Liberalism in the Old Continent

Dr. Gisela Dachs

Sunday, 19.5.2019

 

06:10

Flight to Geneva

11:00

Transfer to Lausanne

 

Presentation: Erez Bukai – The Eurovision contest as a Post-War Project (that started in Switzerland)

11:30

Visit: Olympic Museum – Ancient Ideas from Athens

14:30

Check in hotel (IBIS Lausanne Centre)

15:15

Departure to Rolex Learning Centre

15:30

Lecture: Prof. Jacques Ehrenfreund – Jews in Europe Today

17:00-19:00

Guided tour and meeting with Swiss students

 

 

Monday, 20.5.2019

 

09:00

Presentation: Assaf Uni –What is Liberalism

09:30

Presentation: Alexandra Gokhsteyn – What is the West?

10:15

Transfer to Fribourg

11:30-12:00

Lunch break

12:15-13:15

Lecture: Prof. Raphael Berthele – Multilingualism in Switzerland

13:30-14:00

Transfer to Bern

14:00

Check in hotel (IBIS STYLES Bern City) and lunch break

15:00-17:00

Visit: Swiss Broadcasting Corporation

17:00-19:00

Guided tour with journalist Daniel Eichner

19:00-

Optional: Altes Trampdepot

 

 

Tuesday, 21.5.2019

 

08:30

Departure to the University of Bern

09:00-11:00

Lecture: Dr. Sean Müller, Swiss Basic Democracy

11:30

Visit: Parliament

 

Meeting with National Deputy Corina Eichenberger

15:00-18:30

Transfer to Strasbourg

18:30

Check in hotel (Hotel Gutenberg)

 

 

Wednesday, 22.5.2019

 

08:30

Departure from hotel

09:30-12:00

Visit of the Council of Europe

12:00-12:30

Presentation: Eva Knoll – Europe's fight against the Digital Giants

12:30-13:00

Presentation: Elisha Hirsberg – Antisemitism versus Islamophobia? Two Reports about the Situation in Europe

13:00-15:00

Lunch break

14:45

Meeting at Maison interuniversitaire des sciences de l´Homme

15:00-17:00

Discussion with Dr. Karim Fertikh and Dr. Marie Balas: Politics and Religion in France

17:00-18:00

Impressions und insights from the first part of the excursion

 

 

Thursday, 23.5.2019

 

09:00-09:30

Presentation: Gil Sagi – Tomi Ungerer: Drawings, Satire and the Freedom of Expression

10:00-12:00

Guided tour by Lionel Heiwy

12:30-13:30

Visit: Tomi Ungerer Museum

14:00-18:30

Transfer to Bonn

18:30

Check in hotel (Am Römerhof)

19:30

Dinner invitation with members of the German Israeli Society in Bonn:

70 Years to the German Constitution

 

 

Friday, 24.5.2019

 

10:00-12:30

Visit: Deutsche Welle

12:30-14:00

Lunch invitation of the DAAD offices and meeting with Stefan Bienefeld. Lunch

 

Presentation: Slava Straski – European elections: what is at stake for Germany and others?

15:00-17:00

Meeting with representatives from the European Union

 

 

Saturday, 25.5.2019

Free day

 

 

Sunday, 26.5.2019

 

10:00-10:30

Presentation: Talia Litvinov – Influences from the Outside? Russia and the European Elections

10:45-11:15

Presentation: Tienyen Huang – Views about Europe from the Asian Continent (China, Taiwan and others)

11:30-12:00

Presentation: Yulia Neroslavski – Reimagining the West in Eastern Europe

12:00-13:30

Lunch break

13:30-14:30

Lecture: Dr. René Moehrle German Continuities before and after 45

15:00-16:30

Guided tour: Museum of German History

 

 

Monday, 27.5.2019

 

10:00

Departure to the University of Bonn

11:00-12:30

Panel discussion “After the European Elections” with German politicians and academics at the University of Bonn: Professor Wolfram Hilz, Dr. Enrico Fels, Professor Jürgen Rüttgers (CDU), Volker Beck (Green Party) and Sigmar Gabriel, former Foreign Minister (SPD)

12:30-13:30

Kosher lunch invitation

15:00-17:00

Visit at the Federal Agency for Civic Education

17:30-19:00

Wrap up discussion

 

 

Tuesday, 28.05.2019

 

07:55

Train from Cologne to Frankfurt (LH3607)

11:00

Flight to Tel Aviv