Thursday, December, 2nd, 2010

10 h arrival, coffee

10.30 – 11.30 h
Conference Opening
Prof. Dr. Walter Grünzweig
Prorector Academic Affairs, TU Dortmund, Germany
Dr. Wolfgang Rohe
Director Centre for Science and Humanities, Stiftung Mercator, Germany
Dr. h.c. Fritz Pleitgen (written greeting)
Managing Director of Ruhr 2010
Dr. Carola Bauschke-Urban, Dr. Heike Hawicks, Dr. Barbara Laubenthal, Jun. Prof. Dr. Jenny Oesterle, Drs. Kim de Wildt
Fellows Global Young Faculty

11.30 – 12.30 h
Keynote Lecture
Prof. Dr. Ronald Grimes (Wilfrid Laurier University Ontario, Canada/ Radboud University Nijmegen,The Netherlands)
The Ritualization of Moving and Learning

12.30 – 13.30 h lunch

13.30 – 15.00 h
Panel I. People and Culture on the Move: Pilgrims

Dr. Sanne Derks (Nijmegen University, The Netherlands)
Marian Pilgrimage and Movement: Dance Processions, Ethnicity and Excluding Communitas in Bolivia

Prof. Dr. Paul Post (University of Tilburg, The Netherlands)
Profiles of Pilgrimage: the Perspective of Sacred-Ritual Fields

Prof. Dr. John Eade (Roehampton University London, Great Britain)
The Changing Face of Multicultural Europe: Comparing Labour Migration and Pilgrimage

15.00 -15.30 h coffeebreak

15.30 – 17.00 h

Panel II. Culture and Knowledge in Motion – Historical Perspectives

PD Dr. Jochen Johrendt (LMU Munich/ University of Münster, Germany)
The Latin Church of the High Middle Ages –Homogenization as a Result of Knowledge in Motion?

Prof. Dr. Sharon D. Michalove, PhD (University of Illinois, USA)
Diplomat, Pilgrim, Scholar: The Multifaceted Traveller in the Late Middle Ages

Dr. Sita Steckel (University of Münster, Germany/ Harvard University, USA)
Moving ideas and immovable truths. Transfer of learned knowledge
in the European Middle Ages and the role of religion

17.00 – 17. 15 h coffeebreak

17.15 –18.15 h
Plenary Talk 1
Prof. Dr. Ralph-Johannes Lilie (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany)
Byzantium and the Occident. The Formation of Europe in the Middle Ages

Friday, 3. December 2010

8.30 h arrival, coffee

9.00 h – 11.15 h

Panel III. People on the move – culture and knowledge in motion
Dr. Abdhallah Chanfi Ahmed (Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin)
The West African Migration (Hijra) to Mecca and Medina after the Colonization

Prof. Takeyuki Tsuda, Ph.D. (Arizona State University, USA)
Encouraging the Diaspora to Return Home
The Cultural Logic and Consequences of Ethnic Return Migration Policy

Dr. Joachim Baur (free curator, Die Exponauten, Berlin)
Staging Migration - Staging the Nation
On the Representation of Migration History in Museums

11.15-11.30 h coffeebreak

11.30-12.30 h
Prof. Dr. Leo Lucassen (University of Leiden, The Netherlands)
To be announced

12.30 – 13.30 h lunch

13.30- 14.30 h
Plenary Talk 2

Prof. Adrian Favell, Ph.D. (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Mobility, Creativity and Security Limits of Movement in the Fast-Lane, Flat World

14.30 – 14.45 h coffeebreak

14.45 – 15.45 h

Plenary Talk 3
Prof. Dr. Rudolf Stichweh (University of Lucerne. Switzerland)
Migration of Scientists and the Globalization of Science

15.45 h
Conference Closure and Farewell Ceremony