Welcome Addresses
Martin Hettich
Chairman of the Board of Sparda-Bank Baden-Württemberg eG

Dr. Frank Mentrup
Lord Mayor of the City of Karlsruhe

Dr. Ulrich Breuer
Vice President of KIT for Finance and Business Affairs

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

Opening Keynote Lecture

Challenging Europe: Germany's EU Ambitions
Prof. Dr. Anthony Glees (United Kingdom)
Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies, University of Buckingham

Melania Inés Kluge (piano), Cornelius Lewenberg (baritone)

No entrance fee

Welcome Addresses

Burkhard Freyberg
Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Karlsruhe

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

Opening Keynote Addresses

EURexit: Is the European Union in Danger?
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Oskar Negt (Germany)
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Hannover

Participatory Democracy in the EU: A Challenge for Multilevel Governance
Prof. Dr. em. Johannes W. Pichler (Austria)
Professor Emeritus of European Legal Development, University of Graz; Director of the Austrian Institute for European Law and Policy, Vienna

Europe’s Crises: Grexit, Brexit and Co.
Dr. Haig Simonian (United Kingdom, Switzerland)
Journalist, Zürich

What Keeps Central Europe Together? New Challenges from Poland
Prof. Dr. Ireneusz Paweł Karolewski (Poland/Germany)
Professor of Politics at the Willy Brandt Centre for German and European Studies, University of Wrocław

Hungary and Democracy: Another Farewell from Europe?
György Dalos (Hungary)
Author and historian

Lunch Break
 

Jihad Reloaded – Extremist Propaganda: A Long Underestimated Danger
Dr. Asiem El Difraoui (France/Germany)
Politician, Documentary film and book author

The PEGIDA-Complex: Legitimate Concerns, Racism and the Centre of Society
Frank Richter (Germany)
Director of the Saxon State Centre for Political Education

European Spring: Why Our Economies and Politics are in a Mess - and How to Put Them Right
Philippe Legrain (United Kingdom)
Senior Visiting Fellow at the European Institute, London School of Economics; Founder of OPEN: the Open Political Economy Network; writer and commentator

Europe of Regions: How the European Regions can be Strengthened
Dr. Ulrike Guérot (Germany)
Political scientist, Founder and Director of the European Democracy Lab, Berlin

Catalonia: Independence within the European Union
Jordi Solé i Ferrando (Catalonia/Spain)
Secretary-General of EFA (European Free Alliance), former Catalan MP

Portugal: Right and Wrong Ways out of the Crises
Dr. Elisa Ferreira (Portugal)
Member of the European Parliament

Turkey Searching for Itself
Ece Temelkuran (Turkey)
Lawyer, journalist and author

ARTE Film Night
    
Presentation of documentaries and feature films in cooperation with ARTE     and the movie theatre Schauburg Karlsruhe

Euro-, Greece-, and refugee crises: The European Union is coming under increasing pressure. New nationalism and unilateralism of individual countries are on the rise. What’s still holding the EU together? The ARTE film night reveals the strengths and weaknesses of the solidarity community.

Mit offenen Karten: Gefahr(en) für die EU?
(Cards on the Table: Danger(s) for the EU?)
Documentary by Jean-Christophe Victor
ARTE France 2014
Syria, Iraq, Ukraine—The EU is facing new wars and conflicts on its borders. “Mit offenen Karten: Gefahr(en) für die EU?“ (Cards on the Table: Danger(s) for the EU?) An Overview.

The eleventh hour?
The Great European Disaster Movie – EU: Kurz vor dem Crash?
(The Great European Disaster Movie – The EU: Shortly Before the Crash?)
Documentary by Annalisa Piras
ARTE 2014
An airplane with no permission to land. On board: an archaeologist on the way to his presentation about the downfall of the European Union. “The Great European Disaster Movie – EU: Kurz vor dem Crash?” (The EU: Shortly Before the Crash?).

Mit offenen Karten: Fragen zur EU-Skepsis
(Cards on the Table: Questions concerning Euroscepticism)
Documentary by Jean-Christophe Victor
ARTE France 2014
Political parties in the member states support leaving the EU, critics want to do away with the Euro, and yet there are several candidate countries: “Mit offenen Karten – Fragen zur EU-Skepsis” (Cards on the Table: Questions concerning Euroscepticism).

Voice of the People?
Aufmarsch der Populisten
(Procession of the Populists)
Documentary by Antoine Vitkine
ARTE France 2014
They claim to speak for the people. Their solutions to problems are simple: no more immigration, no more Europe. “Aufmarsch der Populisten” (Procession of the Populists) – an analysis.

Navel-gazing?
Die Mitte
(The Centre)
Documentary by Stanislaw Mucha
ARTE/HR 2004
Where is Europe’s central point? A film odyssey across the European continent finds no less than twelve candidates: “Die Mitte” (The Centre).

Midnight Snack
 

Final destination Europe.
Die Farbe des Ozeans
(The Colour of the Ocean)
Documentary by Maggie Peren
ARTE/SWR 2011
An African refugee, a German tourist, a Spanish border guard, and the question of humanitarianism and morality: “Die Farbe des Ozeans” (The Colour of the Ocean).

Films shown in German
No entrance fee. Registration not required.

Europe: A Solidarity Community in Danger?

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

Moderation: Markus Brock
Moderator, SWR and 3sat

Hatem Atallah (Tunisia, Egypt)
Executive Director of the Anna Lindh Foundation, former Tunisian ambassador in the UK

Lisa Bjurwald (Sweden)
Editor and author

Prof. Dr. Lajos Bokros (Hungary)
Professor of economics and public policy, Central European University Budapest, chairman of the Movement for a Modern Hungary

Prof. Dr. Anthony Glees (United Kingdom)
Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies, University of Buckingham

Prof. Aris Fioretos
Der letzte Grieche

Jannis Georgiadis, the son of a farmer from Greece, leaves his homeland in the mid-1960s to follow his childhood sweetheart to Sweden. He temporarily finds paradise there: He finds accommodation with a doctor, dreams of studying hydrology, and finally falls in love with his host’s nanny. Yet when a child arrives far too early, it is not only one of the Greek guest worker’s visions of the future that fails. Aris Fioretos’ story about family, migration, memory, and delusion is a virtuoso novel about the 20th century in Europe.

No entrance fee
Registration necessary.

We are Europe!
Short statements with following discussion

Fadumo Korn (Germany/Somalia)
Author, 1. Chairwoman of NALA e.V.

Representatives of the student group Enactus KIT e.V

No entrance fee
Registration necessary.