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.
Link to Conference Overview
Link to Draft Program
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, and the Department of German, with additional support from the University Bookstore, the Brittingham Fund, and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
