Sunday, September 29th, 2013

4:00 p.m. Welcome:
Dr Wilhelm Krull, Secretary General, Volkswagen Foundation

From Hegemony to Partnership – Europe and the World
Chair: Professor Jürgen Osterhammel, University of Konstanz, Germany

4:15 p.m. Keynote:
Professor John Darwin, Nuffield College, Oxford University, United Kingdom

Statements and Discussion:

The Indian Perspective
Professor Gita Dharampal-Frick, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany

The African Perspective
Professor Kirsten Rüther, Department of African Studies, University of Vienna, Austria

6:00 p.m. Dinner

7:00 p.m. Public Lecture:
Professor Kenichi Mishima, Professor for Social and Contemporary Philosophy, Tokyo Keizai University

8:00 p.m. Get together

Monday, September 30th, 2013

The Global Economy – People and Money

9:30 a.m. Keynote:
Professor Fan Gang, Director, National Economic Research Institute, China

10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

11:00 a.m. Statements and Discussion:

Dr Paul Fokam, Director and Founder, Afriland Development Bank

The Modern Market Economy: How does Europe stand?
Professor Richard Pomfret, Professor of Economics, University of Adelaide, Australia

12:30 p.m. Lunch Break

Negotiating Culture - Migration and Integration
Chair: Professor Dietmar Rothermund, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany

2:00 p.m. Keynote:
Professor Han Entzinger, Department of Sociology of Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

3:00 p.m. Coffee Break

3:30 p.m. Statements and Discussion:
Tamar Jacoby, Writer, New York, USA

Professor Wei Shen, Associate Dean for China, ESSCA, Paris/Shanghai, France/China

5:30 p.m. Coffee Break

6:00 p.m. Keynote: A new vision of Europe
Professor Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Centro de Estudos Sociais, Colégio S. Jerónimo, Coimbra, Portugal

7:00 p.m. Dinner

Tuesday, October 1st, 2013

Concepts of Global Order and International Relations
Chair: Professor Paul Scheffer, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands

9:30 a.m. Keynote:
Professor Zaki Laїdi, Centre d'études européennes, SciencesPo, Paris, France

10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

11:00 a.m. Statements and Discussion:

Professor Eva Erman, Political Philosopher, University of Stockholm

Professor Chun Ding, Director, Centre for European Studies, Shanghai Fudang University, China

12:30 p.m. Lunch Break

Closing Keynote

1:30 p.m. Science in a Globalized World
Professor Kapil Raj, Centre Alexandre Koyré for the History of Science, Paris, France

2:15 p.m. Closing remarks
Dr Wilhelm Krull, Secretary General, Volkswagen Foundation, Germany

2:30 p.m. End of Conference