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"Setting the course. Paths to sustainable ways of life"

Second Conference of Denkwerk Zukunft on 15th January 2011 in Berlin

Speakers and Discussants

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

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

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

Diego Hangartner
General Secretary of Mind and Life International, based in Zurich, Switzerland, Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Director of Program, Research and International, Mind and Life Insitute, Boulder, USA

Gerald Huether
Professor of Neurology and Director of the Zentralstelle für Neurobiologische Präventionsforschung of the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Göttingen and the Institute of Public Health at the University of Mannheim/Heidelberg, Germany

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

Meinhard Miegel
Chariman of Denkwerk Zukunft - Foundation for Cultural Renewal, Bonn, Germany

Herfried Münkler
Professor of Political Theory at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany

Juliet B. Schor
Professor of Sociology at Boston College, USA

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

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

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, Germany