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Living without Interest Rates and Growth - Outlook on a New Era

Third Conference of the Denkwerk Zukunft - Foundation for cultural renewal

Programme

Date

Saturday, 1 December 2012

Place

Umweltforum Auferstehungskirche Berlin
Pufendorfstraße 11, 10249 Berlin

10 a.m.

Registration desk opens

Coffee/tea

11 a.m.

Welcome

Stefanie Wahl
Managing Director of Denkwerk Zukunft - Foundation for Cultural Renewal, Bonn

11.15 a.m.

From Expansion to Contraction

Interest rates and growth in highly developed national economies

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

11.35 a.m.

Nature or culture: What drives us?

Wulf Schiefenhövel
Head of the Human Ethology Group at the Max-Planck Institute for Ornithology, Andechs

12.00 a.m.

Discussion

Meinhard Miegel

Wulf Schiefenhövel

Werner Abelshauser
Professor of economic and social history at the University of Bielefeld

Birger Priddat
Professor of economics at the University of Witten/Herdecke

Moderator:

Katja Gentinetta

Host of the Swiss TV show "Sternstunde Philosophie" and visiting lecturer of public affairs at the University of St. Gallen 

1.15 p.m.

Lunch buffet

2.15 p.m.

Money and Interest rate economy without economic growth

Opportunities and risks

Richard Werner
Professor of international banking at the Southampton Management School, University of Southampton

Thomas Mayer
Senior fellow at the Centre for Financial Studies at Frankfurt University and advisor to the Deutsche Bank

2.35 p.m.

Discussion

Richard Werner

Thomas Mayer

Petra Gerlach-Kristen
Associate Research Professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute and Trinity College, Dublin

Helge Peukert
Professor of finance and financial sociology at Erfurt University 

Moderator:

Melinda Crane
Chief political correspondent of the English programme of Deutsche Welle TV, Berlin 

3.45 p.m.

Coffee/tea break

4.15 p.m.

Without interest rates and growth - perspectives for society

Opportunities and risks

Stephan Lessenich
Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Studies at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena

Wolfgang Streeck
Director at the Max-Planck Institute for social research and professor of sociology at Cologne University

4.35 p.m.

Discussion

Stephan Lessenich

Wolfgang Streeck

Sighard Neckel
Professor of sociology at Frankfurt University and member of the College of the Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt

Cordula Kropp
Professor of participatory innovation and future research at the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences of Munich University

Moderator:

Nils Minkmar
Head of the Features Section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt

5.45 p.m.

Closing remarks

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

 

Concert of the Berlin State Orchestra

for the benefit of the NaturTon Foundation

Date

Saturday, 1 December 2012

Place

Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche
Breitscheidplatz, 10789 Berlin

Time

08.30 p.m. until 11.30 p.m. (one break)

Programme

Conductor
Enoch zu Guttenberg

JOSEPH HAYDN
"The Seasons"