Purpose: This event will bring together leading
academics, authors and intellectuals to examine the Weimar period
in European history, culture, and law and to trace the continuity
of Weimar thinkers and their impact on the continued viability of
liberal democracy in today’s world.
Location/Time: Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street, Madison.
Sessions will run all day Friday and Saturday, plus Sunday morning.
There also will be a public lecture by Professor Hent de Vries on
Friday evening (sponsored by the Center for the Humanities). See
program link for details.
Registration: The conference is free and open to
UW faculty, students and staff and others with an academic interest
in this topic. To register, provide your name and institutional
affiliation in an email message to Pam Hollenhorst, Associate Director,
Institute for Legal Studies, preferably by Oct. 20th.
Link to Conference Overview
Link to Draft Program
Link to Selected
Abstracts
Link to Participant Bio
Statements
Hosted by: Leonard V.
Kaplan, Mortimer Jackson Professor of Law and Director of the
Project for Law and the Humanities, University of Wisconsin Law
School; Rudy J.
Koshar, George L. Mosse WARF Professor of History and Religious
Studies; and Ulrich
Rosenhagen, Assistant Director, Lubar Institute for the Study
of the Abrahamic Religions, and Lecturer in Religious Studies,
University of Wisconsin.
Sponsored by: The Project for Law and the
Humanities, the UW Law School, the
Institute for Legal Studies,
the Lubar Institute for the
Study of the Abrahamic Religions (LISAR), the Department of History, the George L. Mosse Program
in History, the Global
Legal Studies Center, the Center for the Humanities,
the Mosse/Weinstein Center For
Jewish Studies, the Center for German and European
Studies, the Department
of German, and the Religious Studies
Program, with additional support from the Alice D.
Mortenson-Michael B. Petrovich Chair in Russian History, the
University
Bookstore, the Brittingham Fund, and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
