German Humanities in the Process of Internationalisation - Program

12 February 2008 (Philharmonie Essen, Weißer Saal)
4:45 p.m.	Welcoming speech and introduction Claus Leggewie (Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen)
5:00 p.m.	Evening presentation: "The international significance of the German humanities" Ulrich Herbert (University of Freiburg)

13 February 2008 (Philharmonie Essen, Grüner Saal)

9:00 a.m.

History – the development of the German humanities into an "export good"
Why the German in early German sociology turned into a successful "export good"

Georg Bollenbeck (University of Siegen)

11:00 a.m.

Break

11:15 a.m.

Transformation – the German humanities in cultural exchange

Statements:	Kenichi Mishima (Tokyo Keizai University) Surendra Munshi (Formerly Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta; Fellow of the Bertelsmann Stiftung) Sandra Pott (University of Stuttgart) Susan Neiman (Einstein Forum, Potsdam)
Comments:	Thomas E. Schmidt (Die Zeit) Hans-Georg Soeffner (German Sociology Association, Essen)
Presenter:	Karl Siegbert Rehberg (Technische Universität Dresden)

1:30 p.m.

Lunch

3:00 p.m.

Round Table – the German humanities in the process of the globalisation of science

Participants:	Thomas Steinfeld (Süddeutsche Zeitung) Sascha Spoun (University of Lüneburg) Georg Schütte (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Berlin) Michael Werz (German Marshall Fund, Washington D.C.)
Presenter:	Christoph Bartmann (Goethe Institute, Munich)

5:00 p.m.

Summary of the discussion

Peter Strohschneider (German Science and Humanities Council, Berlin)

6:00 p.m.

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