Europe on the Move. Societies, Values and Women’s Rights in Transition

International Scientific Symposium in the course of the 24th Festival of European Culture in Karlsruhe “Radical Awakenings; Upheavals: Equal Rights for All”

4-5 May 2018

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In the last 100 years, civil society has significantly changed, especially in the wake of revolutions, evolutions and globalisation – worldwide it finds itself confronted with new challenges. What impact did revolutionary and evolutionary ideas have on politics and on social emancipation and what impact will it probably have in the future? Which interdependencies arise for the European legal culture through immigration and integration, diaspora and parallel worlds? What social, cultural, and political barriers prevent the equal participation of women?

The public scientific symposium of the ZAK addresses these and further questions as a closing event of the 24th Festival of European Culture in Karlsruhe “Radical Awakenings; Upheavals: Equal Rights for All” from 4 to 5 May 2018.
 
Throughout the symposium, international experts of various disciplines will focus on implications of revolutions and new political movements on societies. As a constant theme, they will discuss women’s rights and their unsatisfactory realisation. In short lectures the speakers will discuss active and passive roles of women within social upheavals and their shaping role in them. The two-day public science event looks into the subject from different perspectives. The ZAK invites guests to engage in discussions of these current questions.
 

Friday, 4 May 2018

Opening reception of the symposium “Europe on the Move. Societies, Values and Women’s Rights in Transition”

  • Bürgersaal at Karlsruhe Town Hall
     
7:00 p.m.

Welcome address

Dr. Frank Mentrup 
Lord Mayor of the City of Karlsruhe

 

Introduction

Prof. Dr. Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha
Director of the ZAK | Centre for Cultural and General Studies, KIT

Opening keynote lecture

Frauen im Islam – Theorie und Wirklichkeit

Seyran Ateş
Lawyer, author, human rights activist, founder of the Ibn Rushd-Goethe mosque, Berlin

 

 

Conference language is German.
No entrance fee. Registration not necessary. Entrance as long as seats are available.

 

 

Saturday, 5 May 2018

 Symposium

  • Saal Baden at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Karlsruhe, Lammstraße 13–17

 

9.30 a.m.

Welcome Addresses

Dr. Susanne Asche
Director of the cultural office of Karlsruhe

Prof. Dr. Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha
Director of the ZAK | Centre for Cultural and General Studies, KIT

Lectures

 

100 Jahre Frauenwahlrecht: Viel erreicht – und noch mehr zu tun

Prof. Dr. Gabriele Abels
Professor of Comparative Politics and European Integration,
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

 

Migration und Geschlecht in Bewegung. Aufbrüche in Bildung und Berufen

Prof. Dr. Ilse Lenz
Professor of gender and social structure research,
Ruhr-University Bochum

Geschlechtsspezifische Gewalt - Der lange Weg zur Gleichberechtigung

Christa Stolle
Federal manager of TERRE DES FEMMES e. V.,
Berlin

©Uwe Steinert  

Islamisches Recht und Frauen – Legitimation systematischer Diskriminierung

Prof. Dr. Elham Manea
Political scientist,
University of Zurich / University of Lucerne

©Andreas Lohmann

Islamischer Feminismus. Ein Widerspruch in sich?

Prof. Dr. Katajun Amirpur
Scholar of Islamic studies,
University of Cologne

(Unfortunately, Prof. Amirpur had to cancel her speech at short-notice due to illness.)

©Matthias Kleinen

Junge muslimische Männer zwischen Jugendkultur und traditionellen Normen

Prof. Dr. Ahmet Toprak
Professor of educational sciences,
Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts

(Unfortunately, Prof. Toprak had to cancel his speech at short-notice due to illness.)

Lunch Break

 

Prof Kotzur

Europas Einheit in kultureller Vielfalt

Prof. Dr. Markus Kotzur
Professor of European and international law,
University of Hamburg

Die Identitären Bewegungen und ihr Frauenbild

Kathrin Glösel
Journalist,
Vienna

Mascha Roth Bild

Dafür ist das neue Dagegen – Die Initiative Offene Gesellschaft

Mascha Roth
Coordinator of the initiative ‚Die offene Gesellschaft e.V.‘,
Berlin

(Unfortunately, Mascha Roth had to cancel her speech at short-notice due to illness.)


©Christian Faustus

„Frauen dürfen hier nicht träumen“

Rana Ahmad 
Saudi Arabian author and activist,
Cologne

 

Conference language is German.
No entrance fee. Registration not necessary. Entrance as long as seats are available.

 

 

Presented by:

ZAK | Centre for Cultural and General Studies

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Scientific Convenorship: Prof. Dr. Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha

 

Organisation: Dr. Christine Mielke

 

 

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