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Conference "Setting the Course. Paths to sustainable ways of life"

Second Conference of the Denkwerk Zukunft - Foundation for cultural renewal

Programm

Date

Saturday, 15 January 2011

Place

Umweltforum Auferstehungskirche Berlin
Pufendorfstraße 11, 10249 Berlin

10 a.m.

Registration

Coffee

11 a.m.

Welcome Adress

Stefanie Wahl
Managing Director of the Denkwerk Zukunft - Foundation for cultural renewal, Bonn

11.15 a.m.

What we are like

The Western culture of consumerism

Form, causes and consequences           

Juliet B. Schor
Professor of Sociology at Boston College

11.35 a.m.

Could we be different?

Is it possible to change mentally?

Gerald Hüther
Professor of Neurobiology at the University of Göttingen

12.00 a.m.

Discussion

Juliet B. Schor

Gerald Hüther

Elena Esposito
Professor of Sociology at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Moderator:

Tanja Busse
Journalist, author and radio-host for the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Cologne

1.15 p.m.

Lunch Break

2.15 p.m.

What would we have to be like to survive?

Ways of life which resources (nature, environment, humans, societies) can tolerate

Dasho Karma Ura
President of the Centre for Bhutan Studies, Thimphu

2.35 p.m.

Discussion

Dasho Karma Ura

Diego Hangartner
Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Director of Programs, Research and International, Mind and Life Institute, Boulder

Sulak Sivaraksa
Former Professor of Social Change and founder of the Sathirakoses-Nagapradipa Foundation and of the International Network of Engaged Buddhists, Bangkok 

Moderator:

Michael von Brück
Professor of the Study of Religions at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

3.45 p.m.

Coffee break

4.15 p.m.

Paths to sustainable ways of life

Prerequisites for sustainable ways of life

Peter Sloterdijk
Rector and Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the State University of Art and Design Karlsruhe

4.35 p.m.

Discussion

Peter Sloterdijk

Herfried Münkler
Professor of Political Theory at Humboldt University in Berlin

Harald Welzer
Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Memory Research at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen and Professor of Social Psychology at the University Witten-Herdecke

Moderator:

Michael von Brück
Professor of the Study of Religions at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

 

 

5.45 p.m.

Closing remarks

Meinhard Miegel
CEO of the Denkwerk Zukunft - Foundation for cultural renewal, Bonn

Charity Concert of the Berlin State Orchestra in favour of the foundation "NaturTon"

Date

Sunday, 16 January 2011

Place

Schillertheater Berlin

Time

10.30 a.m.  - 12.45 p.m.

Programme

Conductor
Zubin Mehta

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN  
Overture »Leonore III« op. 72b

NARESH SOHAL
»The Devine Song«
(for narrator and orchestra)
narrator: Stefan Kurt

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN  
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major Op. 55 »Eroica«