CONFERENCE: Liberalism – Historical and Contemporary Variations (Helsinki, 24-25 October 2019)

(Source: University of Helsinki)

The University of Helsinki has published the preliminary program for its conference on liberalism.

University of Helsinki, 24-25 October 2019. Yliopistonkatu 3, 00100 Helsinki, Porthania IV (Suomen Laki Hall)

Keynotes: Quinn Slobodian (Wellesley), Werner Bonefeld (York), Sonja Amadae (Helsinki)

Organized by the Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives (EuroStorie)

Preliminary programme (please note that the programme is still subject to change)

24 October 2019

09:30-10:45 Keynote: Quinn Slobodian (Wellesley College): TBC

10:45-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-13:00 Ordoliberalism
Olimpia Malatesta (University of Bologna): Ordoliberalism as a philosophy of crisis: On the “end of capitalism” and the legacy of 19th-century social sciences
Timo Miettinen (University of Helsinki): TBC
Pavlos Roufos (Kassel University): The political economy of Ordoliberalism: Weimar, 1929 and Nazism as determinants of the ordoliberal framework
Richard Sturn & Nenad Pantelic (University of Graz): Varieties of Liberalism between Resilience and Crisis

14:30-16:00 Christian political movements and liberalism
Merijn Oudenampsen (University of Amsterdam): The responsible society: neoliberalism and Dutch Christian Democracy
Benjamin Thomas (University Of Nottingham): Refraction as a model for neo-liberalisation
Johan Strang (University of Helsinki): Democracy with or without liberalism? The Scandinavian post-war settlement

16:15-17:45 Liberalism Beyond Europe
Geetanjali Srikantan (Tilburg University): Liberalism as Moral Instruction: Examining the Rejection of Colonial Law in Post-Colonial Judicial Interventions on Religion, Gender and Sexuality in India
Hélène Mayrand (University of Sherbrooke): International Environmental Law as a Neo-Liberal Project
Jeremy Gould (University of Helsinki): Tracking the return migration of Imperial liberalism from the postcolony to the metropole

25 October 2019

09:00-10:15 Keynote: Werner Bonefeld (University of York): TBC

10:15-10:30 Coffee break

10:30-12:30 Liberalism’s antagonists
Ville Suuronen (University of Helsinki): TBC
Peter Povilonis (Humboldt University of Berlin): An Old Story: (Neo-)liberalism’s Connection to Totalitarianism
Tuukka Brunila (University of Helsinki): Limiting the political: Carl Schmitt’s transformative critique of liberalism
Ben Schupmann (Duke Kunshan University): Liberalism and Constrained Democracy

14:00-16:00 Post-war history of liberalism
Kangle Zhang (University of Helsinki): Merton Miller and the Rise of Financial Liberalization
Konsta Kotilainen (University of Helsinki): A General Crisis of Liberalism?
Pauli Heikkilä (University of Helsinki): Between national liberation and international liberalism. Committee of Liberal Exiles
Marko Ampuja (Tampere University): Neoliberalism as Ideology Critique: Hayek, von Mises and Schumpeter on the Intellectual and Cultural Hostility to Capitalism

16:15-17:30 Keynote: Sonja Amadae (University of Helsinki): TBC

All info can be found here