What Next – Directions for the Future
A Series of Lectures jointly organized by the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Siemens Stiftung.
July 19 - August 13, 2010
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Under what conditions can a good life be led in future? To approach this question the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Siemens Stiftung will be organizing a public series of lectures entitled “What Next – Directions for the Future” to be held from April 28 to June 30, 2010. This lecture series will be held as part of Humboldt-Universität’s 200th anniversary celebratory program.
The current crises and dangers form the point of departure for the reflections of the invited speakers who will adopt both natural science and humanistic as well as artistic stances here. In their lectures they will ask questions as to the future perspectives of a world growing together and becoming ever more complex in all areas of life. The speakers come from Germany, England, India, Israel, Canada, Austria and the USA. The lectures will present future models and scenarios that offer food for thought on the further development of open, responsible societies able to solve their own problems.
The invited experts include the brain researcher Baroness Susan Greenfield, the writer Josef Winkler, the journalist Sunita Narain, the sociologist and socio-psychologist Harald Welzer, the economist Stephan A. Jansen, the philosopher and political scientist Charles Taylor, the anthropologist and ethnologist Arjun Appadurai, the sociologist Eva Illouz, the economist Paul Collier, the lawyer Martin Hoffmann and the anthropologist Marcel Hénaff.
Detailed information on the lecture series schedule, on speakers’ biographies and the content of their lectures can be found in the program brochure.
Speakers
Arjun Appadurai, Paul Collier, Baroness Susan Greenfield, Marcel Hénaff, Martin Hoffmann, Eva Illouz, Stephan A. Jansen, Sunita Narain, Charles Taylor, Harald Welzer, Josef Winkler
Cooperating Partners
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Siemens Stiftung
Host
Prof. Dr. Thomas Macho (Institute for Cultural History and Theory at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Project Management
Dr. Beate Hentschel (Siemens Stiftung)
Prof. Dr. Thomas Macho (Institute for Cultural History and Theory at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Venue
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Main Building, Kinosaal
Unter den Linden 6
10117 Berlin
Starts
Wednesdays, 7.00 pm
Admission free
The lectures will be held in English (E) or German (D).
Individual lectures will be available as a webcast on the Internet.
