Theology, Humanitarianism, and Minority Rights – Symposium on the Centenary of the Death of Johannes Lepsius, October 30 - 31, 2026

Organizers: Lepsiushaus Potsdam and
Internationales Institut für Nationalitätenrecht und Regionalismus, Munich

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Friday, October 30

► 19:00          

Book presentation: "Armenia and Europe,"

Volume 1, Writings on the Armenian Question by Johannes Lepsius

Roy Knocke in conversation with Thomas Dominique Schmutz

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Saturday, October 31

► 10:00-11:30

Eduard Ferderer: Lepsius, the Eisenach Alliance, and the Community Movement

Hayk Martirosyan: Johannes Lepsius and Ernst Lohmann – a shared goal, different approaches

► 11:30-12:00

    Coffee break

► 12:00-13:30

Hacik R. Gazer: The public lectures of Johannes Lepsius on the "Armenian Atrocities" in the autumn of 1896

Roy Knocke: Johannes Lepsius as historiographer of a genocide

► 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

    Lunch break

► 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Elisabeth Piok: History and Present of the Walser – Language, Identity, Religion, and Migration Through the Ages, Models of Life.

Réka Marchut: Disappeared but Alive? The Moldavian Csángós on the Periphery of Hungarian and Romanian Nation-Building in the 19th and 20th Centuries.

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