The MatchPoints Seminar 2020 will offer a wide range of keynote lectures and panel debates by speakers of the highest prominence. These include, among others, columnist, historian and Professor Anne Applebaum, Professor Astrid Erll, Professor Ole Wæver and leading German and Danish politicians and government officials. The seminar wishes to encourage interdisciplinary research and dialogue and invites researchers from across the humanities, political and social science, economics and law. The paper sessions of the seminar will be organised around the following four tracks:

History Track: Denmark and Germany in Europe 1820-2020

• Border Issues prior to and after 1871 (1)
• Border Issues prior to and after 1871 (2)
• German-Nordic Relations and the Re-making of the European Order after 1919
• Germany, Denmark and the New Geopolitical Turn in European Politics
• The German model and its Role in the European Economic Space after 1945

Culture Track: Media, Migration and the Legacy of 1968

• Critical Theory and the Memory of '68 (1)
• Critical Theory and the Memory of '68 (2)
• Media and Identity
• Movement and Migration

Economy Track: Sustainability and Economic Cohesion – The Danish, German and European Challenges

• Green Growth and Sustainability (1)?
• Green Growth and Sustainability (2)?
• Is there (still) a German Economic model for Europe?
• Old and New Economic Borders in Europe

The European Perspective Track: Denmark, Germany and the Future of Europe

• Populism and Euroscepticism
• Migration: Social and Political Challenges
• European Security
• European Cohesion