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

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

4-5 May 2018

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
	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
	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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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”

Friday, 4 May 2018

Saturday, 5 May 2018

Lectures

Lunch Break

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