From Global Inequity towards a Humane World



First Dialogue on Science,
October 23 to 25, 2002

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16:00

Registration of Participants

18:00

Chair: Otto Kern

Introduction to the Dialogue on Science as a Discursive Process

Klaus Ammann / Biljana Papazov Ammann

19:00

Chair: Klaus Hug

Welcome reception

Abbot Berchtold Müller / Klaus Hug

Engelberg Abbey / President of The Academia Engelberg Foundation

20:00

Chair: Klaus Hug

Public Evening (in German): The Truth Industry or the Power of the Media

Participants

22:00

Nightcap

06:30

Morning Activity «In the Spirit of the Location»

08:30

Chair: Klaus Ammann

Congress opening

Klaus Hug

President of The Academia Engelberg Foundation

08:45

Chair: Klaus Ammann

Introduction

Prof. Dr. Klaus Ammann

Botanical Garden, University of Berne, Switzerland

09:00

Chair: Klaus Ammann

From Global Inequity towards a Humane World

Klaus M. Leisinger

Novartis and Syngenta Foundation, Basel, Switzerland

10:15

Chair: Klaus Ammann

Science and Public Trust (Discourse Theme 1)

Klaus M. Leisinger

Novartis and Syngenta Foundation, Basel, Switzerland

11:00

Chair: Klaus Ammann

Communication through Participation (Discourse Theme 2)

Patrick Moore

Greenspirit, Vancouver, Canada

11:45

Chair: Klaus Ammann

In Search of Common Goals among Opponents: The Example of the Intellectual Property Rights (Discourse Theme 3)

Anatole F. Krattiger

SWIFTT, Cornell University, USA

12:30

Lunch

14:00

Parallel Workshops on the three Discourse

The participants

06:30

Morning Activity «In the Spirit of the Location»

08:30

Chair: Otto Kern / Klaus Ammann

Feedback Workshops on the three Discourse Themes

12:30

Outlook 2003 and farewell ceremony

Klaus Hug

President of the Academia Engelberg Foundation

12:45

Farewell-Lunch

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