The Institute for German Cultural Studies at Cornell University celebrates the 300-Year Anniversary of Immanuel Kant’s Birthday with a Symposium on

The Contemporary Relevance of Perpetual Peace

April 19, 2024

Guerlac Room, A.D. White House 

9:30 Opening Remarks

9:40-10:30 — “The Secrets of Perpetual Peace.”

Peter Gilgen (German Studies, Cornell University)

Moderator: Elke Siegel (German Studies, Cornell University)

10:35-11:20 — “Inevitable Peace? Kant, Postwar.”

Patchen Markell (Government, Cornell University)

Moderator: Karin Nisenbaum (Philosophy, Syracuse University)

11:35-12:15 — “On the Common Saying, Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.”

Neil Saccamano (Literatures in English, Cornell)

Moderator: Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson (Philosophy, Syracuse University)

12:15 Lunch

2:15-4:30 — Workshop on the Perpetual Peace Project https://perpetualpeaceproject2022.org/

conducted by
Gregg Lambert (Humanities, Syracuse University) &
Adam Nocek (Arts, Media & Engineering, Arizona State University)

(Participants in the workshop are encouraged to read Immanuel Kant’s seminal essay Zum ewigen Frieden/Towards Perpetual Peace. Copies of the English translation are available at the Department of German Studies, 183 Goldwin Smith Hall)

4:30 Reception

Organized by Peter Gilgen (Cornell University) & Gregg Lambert (Syracuse University).

Generously supported by the CNY Humanities Corridor.