Challenging Democracy



9th Dialogue on Science,
October 13 to 15, 2010

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October 13
October 14
October 15

08:45

Opinions of the participants

Participants of the conference

09:00

Registration of Participants

10:30

Opening of the Conference

Klaus Hug

President of the Foundation

11:00

The Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century

Hanspeter Kriesi

University Zurich

12:45

Lunch

14:00

Chair: Klaus Hug

Life, Death and Democracy

Herbert Gottweis

University Vienna

15:00

Chair: Klaus Hug

Anticipatory Governance of Science and Technology Challenges to Democracy

Daniel Barben

RWTH Aachen

15:30

Break

16:30

Chair: Klaus Hug

Why Democracy? A philosophical Defense against the most subtile ones among its Defiers

Günter Abel

TU Berlin

17:30

Chair: Gerd Folkers

Talk with young scientists

Young scientists

18:30

Dinner

20:00

Chair: Matha Bächler

Public Evening (in German): Demokratie – wer gibt den Ton an?

Participants

22:00

Nightcap

06:30

Morning Activity «In the Spirit of the Location»

08:30

Chair: Hans Rudolf Heinimann

Troubles with Voters … and those who try to fix them

Arthur Lupia

University of Michigan 

09:30

Chair: Hans Rudolf Heinimann

Clashes of the Absolutes? Coping with moral Conflicts in Genopolitics

Wolfgang van den Daele

Social Science Research Center, Berlin

10:20

Break

11:00

Chair: Hans Rudolf Heinimann

Mass Media and Public Opinion: Manipulating or Enligthening?

Jörg Matthes

University of Zurich

12:00

Chair: Hans Rudolf Heinimann

Talk with young scientists

Young scientists

12:45

Lunch

13:00

Opinions of the participants

Participants of the conference

14:00

Chair: Fabio Segura

Scope and limitations of Democracy YES Presentation and discussion

The panelists

17:15

Evening Event on the Titlis

06:30

Morning Activity «In the Spirit of the Location»

08:30

Chair: Hanspeter Kriesi

Democracy in Decline?

Wolfgang Merkel

Social Science Research Center Berlin

09:25

Chair: Hanspeter Kriesi

Democratic Representation in an Internationalized and Globalized World

Stefanie Bailer

ETH Zurich

10:35

Chair: Hanspeter Kriesi

Demokratie: Present and Future

Francis Cheneval

Université libre de Bruxelles

11:30

Chair: Hanspeter Kriesi

Talk with young scientists

Young scientists

12:05

Chair: Hanspeter Kriesi

Democracy and Federalism

Arnold Koller

former Federal Councillor

12:35

Closing Remarks and Outlook

Klaus Hug

President of the Foundation

12:45

Farewell-Lunch

13:00

Opinions of the participants

Participants of the conference

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