Colloquium Schedule for the Academic Year 2020/21

Wednesdays, 18:30-20:00, Faculty of Humanities, Room 6205

Date		Topic
28/10/2020	xxx	Introduction to the colloquium and Book Presentation with Dr. Oded Steinberg, author of "Race, Nation, History: Anglo-German Thought in the Victorian Era (2019)
11/11/2020		*The Kelsen Legacy: Reflections upon the Centennial to the Austrian Constitution* Greetings: Karoline Edtstadler, Austrian Federal Minister for the EU and Constitution at the Federal Chancellery Prof. Barak Medina, Rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Speakers: The Honorable Prof. Yitzhak Englard, Former Supreme Court Justice and Bora Laskin Chair in Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem *Have Hans Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law, His Fascination for Religion and His Concept of Religion a Jewish Background?* Prof. Clemens Jabloner, Professor for Legal Theory at the University of Vienna and Director of the Hans Kelsen Institute Kelsen as a Constitutional Technician: Interactions between the Pure Theory of Law and the Design of the Austrian Constitution Prof. Otto Pfersmann, Director of Studies and Chair of Law at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris The Austrian Constitutional Exception: Normative Explicitness and Democratic Confidence Moderator: Prof. Gisela Dachs, European Forum at the Hebrew University
25/11/2020		Judy Dempsey, Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe and Editor in Chief of the Strategic Europe Blog Is Europe a Strategic Player?
09/12/2020		Dr. Ulrich Brückner, Jean Monnet Professor for European Studies, Stanford University in Berlin After the US-Elections: What to Expect for Transatlantic Relations?
23/12/2020		Dr. Tibor Shalev-Schlosser, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Germany and Israel: Very Special Relations - 1990-2013
06/01/2021		Prof. Frank Biess, University of California German Angst - Fear and Democracy in Postwar Germany
20/01/2021		Prof. Luis Simons, The Institute for European Studies, Brussels Subject or Object? Europe in Sino-American Competition
17/03/2021		Prof. Jonathan Rynhold, Bar-Ilan University Great Britain and Europe after Brexit
21/04/2021		Prof. Esra Özürek, University of Cambridge *Subcontracting Guilt, Cultivating Empathy, Domesticating Masculinity: Holocaust Memory and Immigrant Integration in Germany*
12/05/2021		Europe Day
19/05/2021		Dr. Orna Keren-Carmel, European Forum at the Hebrew University Scandinavia and Israel - The Beginning of Relations (Book presentation)
02/06/2021		Isaac Eilat, Adv., PhD Candidate at the History Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Nazi Visions of Europe
16/06/2021		Annual Zilk LectureProf. Renate Meyer, Vienna University of Economics and Business & Copenhagen Business SchoolGovernance Gaps as Challenges to Urban Coordination and Cohesion – Examples from the City of Vienna
30/06/2021		Student Presentations