14. November 2026
Schedule of the EUROPIA Conference 2026
The first EUROPIA conference will take place in Bamberg on Saturday, November 14, 2026. The day's program begins in the Great Hall of the Bamberg Adult Education Center (Volkshochschule) and continues in the evening at the nearby Lichtspiel cinema.
Volkshochschule Bamberg · Großer Saal
09:30
Opening
Ben Brummer, initiator of the EUROPIA Conference
Wolfgang Bücherl, Head of the European Commission Regional Representation
for Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria
Eva Jutzler, Third Mayor of Bamberg
Musical performance by students from the E.T.A. Hoffmann-Gymnasium
10:30
Telling the Story of Europe
Constanze Itzel, Director of the House of European History
11:00
The many meanings of Europe
Félix Krawatzek, Centre for East European and International Studies, & Rieke Trimçev, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
11:30–12:30
Panel discussion
Moderator: Daniel Drewski, University of Bamberg
12:30–13:30
Lunch break with catering
13:30–14:00
Christian Europe?
Wolfgang Sander, Justus Liebig University Giessen
14:00–14:30
Europe and Islam: On the Perspectives of European
Muslims
Armina Omerika, Goethe University Frankfurt
14:30–15:00
Secular Europe?
Hubert Knoblauch, Technical University of Berlin
15:00–16:00
Panel discussion
16:00–16:30
Coffee Break
16:30–17:00
Remembrance and Justice. On a European
Principle
Juliane Prade-Weiss, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
17:30–18:00
But I Never Asked
Short film by Nicole Huminski
18:00-
18:30
A War I’ve Never Seen
Short film by Fariba Buchheim
18:30-
19:00
Film discussion
With the directors and Juliane Prade-Weiss
19:00-
20:30
Parliament
Series by Noé Debré (Episodes 1-3)
20:30
Closing party with Pitch Awards ceremony
Author, film producer, and social theorist. He teaches in the Advertising Department at the University of Television and Film Munich and is the initiator and organizer of the EUROPIA Conference.
Heads the European Commission's regional representation in Munich.
She worked as an actress and theater educator. Since 2026, she has served as the Third Mayor of the City of Bamberg and as a city councilor (SPD).
Art historian and Director of the House of European History in Brussels.
Political scientist and head of the research focus area "Youth and Generational Change" at ZOiS. He is a co-author of Shades of Blue – Claiming Europe in the Age of Disintegration.
Professor of Political Theory and the History of Ideas at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. She is a co-author of Shades of Blue – Claiming Europe in the Age of Disintegration.
Junior Professor of the Sociology of Europe and Globalization at the University of Bamberg. His research focuses on European integration, migration, and social and symbolic boundary-making.
Professor Emeritus of Social Studies Education at the Institute of Political Science in Giessen and author of the book European Identity: The Renewal of Europe from the Spirit of Christianity.
Professor of the History of Ideas in Islam at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her research focuses, among other things, on Islamic traditions in Southeast Europe.
Professor of General Sociology at the Technical University of Berlin. He is a renowned scholar in the fields of the sociology of knowledge and the sociology of religion and the author of Popular Religion: On the Way to a Spiritual Society.
Professor of General and Comparative Literature at LMU Munich. Her research focuses on topics including language and violence, the culture of remembrance, and literary representations and discourses regarding mass violence.
German-Polish director and editor currently studying at the University of Television and Film Munich. She is active in the culture of remembrance and advocates for addressing the history of German-Polish relations.
Internationally active director and writer of commercials and documentaries. She has Iranian, Polish, German, and French roots and studied at the University of Television and Film Munich.