Friday, 18th of November, 2016

09.00 – 10.30 Republican and Communitarian PerspectivesChair: Sybille De La Rosa

• Martin Corell (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg)“Towards a Republican Justification of Voting Rights for Non-Citizens”

• Viktoria Hügel (Brighton University)“Communitarianism beyond borders”

• Michael Haus (Heidelberg University)“Why Liberalism and Human Rights are Part of the Problem“

10.45 – 11.45 Language and RefugeChair: Viktoria Hügel

• Melanie Frank (University of Augsburg)“Citizenship as Multilingual Practice”

• Susanne Becker(MPI for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity Göttingen)“Between right and constraint:German-language learning as enabling violation”

11.45 – 12.45 Lunch

12.45 – 13.45 Democratic ExclusionChair: Paul Sörensen

• Franziska Martinsen (University of Hannover)“Democratic Exclusion of Refugees.The Demand for a Revision of Human Rights”

• Felix Bender (Central European University)“Who should we grant asylum?”

13.45 – 14.00 Coffee Break

14.00 – 15.30 Keynote:Julia Schulze Wessel (Dresden University of Technology)“Questioning Democracy: What refugee studies can contributeto understanding the transformation of democracy”

Titelfoto: Jonathan Stutz/fotolia

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Political Theory on Refugees

Thursday, 17th of November, 2016

09.00-09.20 Registration

09.20-09.30 Welcome Note

09.30 – 11.00 Political Theory and Judgment Chair: Julia Schulze Wessel

• Sybille De La Rosa (Heidelberg University)“Refugees and Democratic Emancipation”

• Simon Oschwald/Paul Sörensen (University of Augsburg)“Democratizing Political Theory –Outlines of a non-victimizing Theory with Refugees”.

• Colin Grey (Université du Québec a Montréal)“Negotiating our Obligations to Refugees”

11.00 – 11.15 Coffee Break

11.15-12.45 Alterity, Participation and World CitizenshipChair: Martin Oppelt

• Mareike Gebhardt/Florian Tatschner (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg)“We Are Never Entirely at Home With Ourselves:The Refugee Other Between Alienness and Alterity”

• Thorsten Nieberg (Berlin)“Democracy and Refugee Participation:What can we gain from Abizadeh´s and Balibar´s theoretical thoughts?”

• Dario Mazzola (Milan State University)“World Citizens or Exiled?The Paradox of Refugees as the Touchstone of Contemporary Globalization”

12.45 – 14.15 Lunch

14.15 – 15.15 Key Note:Speakers from Grandhotel Cosmopolis (Augsburg)

15.15 – 16.45 Resistance, Protest and EmancipationChair: Melanie Frank

• Moritz Riemann (University of Kiel)“Refugees between Need and Emancipation”

• Melanie Hartmann (University of Marburg)“Räume des Politischen: Aneignung und Widerstandin Flüchtlings-Sammelunterkünften in Deutschland”

• Ana Lena Werner (Humboldt- University Berlin)“Refugees, violence and political protest:Questioning self-Harming practices with Hannah Arendt”

16.45 – 17.30 Coffee Break

17.30 – 19.00 Key Note (public):Matthew Gibney (University of Oxford)“Refugees and the Limits of Responsibility”

19.30 Dinner

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