The Responsible Society: Between Challenge and Overload?
22 – 24 February 2019
Programme (PDF) | Pictures | Video on YouTube | Introduction of Prof. Dr. Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha
Friday 22 February 2019
Opening Event of the 23rd Karlsruhe Dialogues
- Audimax of KIT, Building 30.95, Straße am Forum 1, KIT Campus South
7.30 p.m. |
Welcome Addresses Dr. Frank Mentrup Introduction Prof. Dr. Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha |
© Ine Gundersveen |
Opening Keynote Lecture The Politics of Responsibility: a Response to the Crisis of Democracy |
Musical Programme The Singing Cellist: A Unique Trio Multi-talented Simon Wallfisch is unique in the classical music world in that he specialises equally as a cellist and a singer. Combining two disciplines is common-place in other musical genres but the classical model has been slow to adapt to a changing world and an audience exposed to ever expanding musical influences. In this performance he is joined by pianist and composer Edward Rushton in a celebration of imaginative arrangements for baritone, cello and piano. |
No entrance fee. Registration necessary.
Saturday 23 February 2019
Symposium of the 23rd Karlsruhe Dialogues
- Saal Baden at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Karlsruhe, Lammstraße 13–17
9.30 a.m. |
Welcome Addresses Wolfgang Grenke Prof. Dr. Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha |
Opening Keynote Addresses | |
Overcoming Cultural Distances in International Development: Top-down and Bottom-up North-South Perspectives. |
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Moral Responsibilities of Firms |
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The Digitalisation of Human Trafficking |
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Can Global Challenges Meet a Global Audience? |
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Lunch Break
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Brexit and ‚Global Britain‘: A Historical Perspective on British Migration |
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Foto: Mathias Heyde |
The City: Home of Minorities |
© Hans-Günther Kaufmann |
Innovative Social Movements: From ‘68 until the Present |
Empathy. Unity. The Importance of Freedom of Movement for the Arts. |
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Youth for Europe! – Active Commitment and Responsibility |
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Can Europe still be Saved? |
No entrance fee. Admission only as long as seats are available. We hope for your understanding.
Film
- Movie Theatre Schauburg Karlsruhe, Marienstraße 16
7.30 p.m. |
ARTE Film Night Presentation of documentaries and reports in cooperation with ARTE and the movie theatre Schauburg Karlsruhe Ongoing globalisation, growing environmental problems, increasing migration, the constant danger of terrorism and rising social inequality. Do we abandon hope or take action? The ARTE film night seeks to examine the responsibilities of politicians, citizens and media in a changing society. |
7.30 p.m. |
Opinion-forming From his oath of office, to Russian election manipulation through to his vehement attacks on the “fake news” media – Donald Trump is presenting the journalists of the New York Times with new challenges: Mission Wahrheit – Die New York Times und Donald Trump (Mission Truth – The New York Times and Donald Trump) |
8.30 p.m. |
Anti-capitalist A former harvest worker from Cameroon in a struggle against the “Caporale”, criminal labour agents who control the workers and repeatedly threaten them with death: Re: Sklaverei in Italien. Yvan Sagnets Kampf für Erntehelfer (Re: Slavery in Italy. Yvan Sagnet’s fight for harvest workers) |
9.00 p.m. |
Courageous For over a year, the gay activist Patrick visited the meetings of the “alternative right” in Trump’s America. Until they thought that they had won him over: Undercover bei den Neuen Rechten – Mein Jahr in der Alt-Right (Undercover with the new right – My year in the alt-right) |
10.00 p.m. |
Grassroots democracy
Disappointed by President Macron, the 25-year-old David from the Parisian suburb of Créteil is demanding more political participation and, together with his friends, aims to conquer the town hall: Re: Bürger machen Politik. Neue Perspektiven für die Banlieue? (Re: Citizens engage in politics. New perspectives for the banlieus?) |
10.30 p.m. |
Afrodigital Mobile payment in the most out-of-the-way villages, 3D printers that produce spare parts and robots that direct the traffic – creative start-ups from Nairobi to Accra are turning the established image of Africa upside-down: Digital Africa – Ein Kontinent erfindet sich neu (Digital Africa – A continent reinvents itself) |
11.30 p.m. |
Late Night Snack
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00.00 a.m. |
Dirty or clean? 500 minutes of video on YouTube, 450,000 tweets on Twitter, 2.5 million posts on Facebook. Per minute. Who decides on behalf of Facebook, Google, Twitter und Co. what the world is permitted to see? Im Schatten der Netzwelt. The Cleaners (In the shadow of the online world. The cleaners) |
Films shown in German. No entrance fee and no registration necessary.
Sunday 24 February 2019
Morning Panel Discussion
- Saal Baden at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Karlsruhe, Lammstraße 13–177
11.00 a.m. |
Europe‘s Responsibility – Democracies between Rule of Law and Populism Welcome Address: |
Moderation: Markus Brock |
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Dr. Enrico Molinaro (Italy) |
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Brigitte Russ-Scherer (Germany) |
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Tuba Sarica (Germany) |
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Prof. Dr. J.P. Singh (USA)
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No entrance fee and no registration necessary.
Reading
- STUDIO, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Hermann-Levi-Platz 1
3.00 p.m. © Lukas Beck/Suhrkamp Verlag |
Doron Rabinovici An extraterrestrial power has conquered Earth. After the initial general panic, it turns out that the aliens are gentle, that they shyly avoid any contact, that they bring prosperity and peace. There’s just one little snag – they are requesting human sacrifices on a voluntary basis. Everywhere games are organised to determine the chosen ones. Everyone who takes part has a chance of gaining huge riches. The questions become more urgent: who shares the guilt here, who profits, who rebels? In this highly topical parable Doron Rabinovici, master of the “finely judged game of exaggeration” (FAZ), applies his typical brand of verve and irony to tell the story of a society that needs no aliens in order to scare and alienate itself. No entrance fee Registration necessary. The reading is in German. |
Theatre
- STUDIO, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Hermann-Levi-Platz 1
8.00 p.m. |
Europa flieht nach Europa
What does a continent that bears the name of a mythical woman dream about? Europa, daughter of the king, slays the bull that aims to abduct her. In the light of this murder she describes the foundation myth of her continent as a hopeful, future-oriented moment: “I shall create a continent which has room for all to thrust their roots into the earth and stretch their arms into the sky.” With eloquence and acerbic humour, Miroslava Svolikova sings an ambiguous song of praise to individual responsibility, self-optimisation and unending competition. She uncompromisingly portrays the chronology of our continental history as a farce: a story of conquest, of wars and class struggles – and all with the best of intentions.
The performance is in German. Admission: 16 € / discounted admission: 8 € Tickets at the box office (Phone: 0721-933 333) or via www.staatstheater.karlsruhe.de |
Banner image: Sahar Aharoni / aharoni.de