Conference

Human Rights Between Universalism and Particularism

June 6-7, 2024

Venue: Institut für Zeitgeschichte München Leonrodstr. 46b, 80636 Munich

Programme
Thursday, 6 June 2024

13.00-13.15
Welcome and Introduction: Andreas Wirsching (Munich), Angelika Nußberger (Cologne)

Panel 1
Are Human Rights Universal?
Chair: Andreas Wirsching (Munich)

13.15-15.15
Angelika Nußberger (Cologne)
Tendencies of De-Universalizing Human Rights
Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen (Paris)
Universalism in Question

Panel 2
Human Rights and Gender Equality
Chair: Kiran Klaus Patel (Munich)

15.45-17.45
Claudia Kraft (Vienna)
The Question of Universalism on the First UN World Conference on Women in Mexico City (1975)
Celia Donert (Cambridge)
Taking the State Out of Socialism: Women's Rights in Central and Eastern Europe Before and After 1989

Keynote Lecture

18.30
Frank Bösch (Potsdam)
Die Deutschen und die Diktaturen. Außenpolitik und Menschenrechte seit der Ära Adenauer
(Keynote in German, open to the public)

Programme
Friday, 7 June 2024

Panel 3
The Human Rights Discourse in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1970s and 1980s
Chair: Martin Schulze Wessel (Munich)

8.30-10.45
Michal Kopeček (Prague)
Political Languages of Human Rights in East Central European Dissent.
Caroline von Gall (Frankfurt)
Soviet Theory of Human Rights in the 1970s
Ivan Kislenko (Belgorod)
'Not decolonization but self-isolation' - How the Kremlin's Purported Fight Against 'Neocolonialism' is Destroying Russian Science

Panel 4
Human Rights in International Politics and Commemoration
Chair: Hélène Miard-Delacroix (Paris)

11.15-13.30
Agnes Bresselau von Bressensdorf (Munich)
Between Universalism and Regionalization: Human Rights, Middle Eastern Refugees and Western Europe in the 1980s
Ida Richter (Berlin)
Universalistic Rhetoric in the Commemoration of Rescue during the
Holocaust: Establishing Raoul Wallenberg as a Human Rights Symbol in the 1980s

Concluding Remarks
Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann (Berkeley)