Körber History Forum Retreat 2024

Historical Thinking, Future Strategies:
Democracy in a New Geopolitical Era

Debates:

LOOKING INWARDS: HOW CAN DEMOCRACIES DEFEND THEIR PROMISES AGAINST AUTOCRATIC CHALLENGES?

Speaker:

• Jan-Werner Müller
  Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences and Politics, Founding Director, Project in the History of Political Thought, Princeton University

• Botakoz Kassymbekova
  Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Modern History, University of Basel

LOOKING OUTWARDS: HOW DO DEMOCRACIES COUNTERACT AUTOCRACY AND REVISIONISM?

Chair:

• Beatrice de Graaf
  Professor of History of International Relations and Global Governance, Utrecht University

Speaker:

• Knut Abraham
  Diplomat and Member of the German Bundestag, Berlin

• Hal Brands
  Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins University

• Zanda Kalniņa-Lukaševica
  Deputy Speaker of the Saeima of the Republic of Latvia

• Faisal Devji
  Professor of Indian History, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford

THE NEW GERMANY: CAN IT OVERCOME ITS RUSSIA COMPLEX?

Chair:

• Mirko Kruppa
  Head of Unit for Domestic Communication and Citizens’ Dialogues, German Federal Foreign Office, Berlin

Speaker:

• Jan-Claas Behrends
  Professor for 20th Century History of Germany and Eastern Europe, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)

• Katja Hoyer
  Historian and Journalist; Visiting Research Fellow, King’s College London

CONFLICT IN CONTEXT: UKRAINIAN SOCIETAL DYNAMICS AND POST-1991 TRAJECTORIES

Chair:

• Joachim von Puttkamer
  Director, Imre Kertész Kolleg; Professor of East European History, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena

Speaker:

• Georgiy Kasianov
  Professor and Head of Laboratory of International Memory Studies, Maria-Curie-Skłodowska-University of Lublin

• Viktoriya Sereda
  Head Coordinator of the Virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Studies; Senior Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin

FROM COLD WAR NON-ALIGNMENT TO NEW DYNAMICS: THE GLOBAL SOUTH AND THE LIMITS FOR THE EURO-AMERICAN WEST

Chair:

• Galip Dalay
  Senior Fellow, Middle East Council on Global Affairs; Senior Consulting Fellow, Turkey Initiative, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House, London

• Faisal Devji
  Professor of Indian History, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford

Speaker:

• Adams Bodomo
  Professor of African Studies, University of Vienna

• Sunniva Engh
  Programme on Security in Asia, Norwegian Defence University College; Associate Professor of History, University of Oslo

DOES DEMOCRACY DEPEND ON GLOBALIZATION?

Chair:

• Cameron Abadi
  Deputy Editor, Foreign Policy, Berlin

Speaker:

• Robert Gerwarth
  Professor of Modern History and Founding Director, Centre for War Studies, University College Dublin

• Aparna Pande
  Research Fellow, India and South Asia, Hudson Institute, Washington DC

• Richard Ghiasy
  Senior Fellow, Leiden Asia Centre, Leiden University