NEWSLETTER 3 February 14, 2007
Crans-Montana will host the World Knowledge Dialogue Symposium in September 2008
The Foundation board met on 24 November, 2006 to officially ratify its decision to hold a second symposium in September 2008. While Crans-Montana has again been chosen as the venue, the exact dates remain to be determined and are being arranged in coordination with other important international events such as the annual Science and Technology in Society forum in Japan.
For information on the World Knowledge Dialogue initiative, visit our regularly updated website :
www.wkdialogue.org
Contact:
The World Knowledge Dialogue is coordinated by an Executive Board:
Prof Francis Waldvogel, Director
francis.waldvogel@wkdialogue.org
Gilles Crettenand, Project Manager
gilles.crettenand@wkdialogue.org
Jérôme Billotte, Scientific Secretary
jerome.billotte@wkdialogue.org
DAME JULIA HIGGINS hands over the role of scientist in residence
to EO WILSON
Executive Director of the foundation, Francis Waldvogel announced that EO Wilson has agreed with enthusiasm to act as a moderator for the second WKD symposium. The distinguished biologist and social scientist is a life-long proponent of the view that "the boundary between the natural sciences on one side and humanities and humanistic social sciences on the other is not an epistemological fault line, but a broad domain of poorly understood material phenomena that invites cooperative exploration from both sides." If you missed his live web cast at the 2006 WKD symposium, you can still view it at http://www.wkdnews.org/webcast?clip=2
The theme of climate change, provided much cause for discussion and exchange of views throughout the 2006 WKD symposium
It continues to solicit growing interest from experts and laymen the world over. If you wish to follow aspects of the ongoing debate on the issue of climate change see http://www.ipcc.ch/ for a source of concerted information on the subject from different spheres of expertise, bearing in mind that its conclusions are not universally shared. Remember you can also still point your colleagues to our video archive of John Schellnhuber's presentation at Crans-Montana 2006. http://www.wkdnews.org/webcast?clip=4
2006 WKD speaker and SFI President Geoffrey B. West, "Innovation and Growth: Size Matters," is featured in the Harvard Business Review's List of Breakthrough Ideas for 2007
His talk during the Crans-Montana Symposium is archived at the WKD web site http://www.wkdnews.org/webcast?clip=4
Read more : ttp://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbrsa/en/issue/0702/article/R0702A.jhtml
ESSHRA International Conference, 12th-13th June, 2007 Bern, Switzerland Towards a Knowledge Society - Is Knowledge a public good ? - Dynamics of Knowledge production and distribution.
SSHRA is a Specific Support Action Project funded by the European Commission under the 6th Framework Programme's 7th thematic priority; Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge-Based Society.
Call for papers : http://cemi.epfl.ch/webdav/site/cemi/shared/misc_files/esshra_call.pdf
Second International Conference of the UNESCO Chair for Higher Education for Sustainable Development , 5 to 7 July, 2007, San Luis Potos, Mexico :
"World in Transition – Sustainability Perspectives for Higher Education"
More : http://hesd07.uaslp.mx/HomeEn.htm
Conference Announcement : http://www.uni-lueneburg.de/infu/chair/pdf/UNESCO%20Chair_HESD_Conf.%20Announc..pdf
International symposium on Dialogue between Social and Natural Sciences 26 - 28 February, 2007 Princess Kaiulani Hotel, Honolulu Hawaii, U.S.A.
This symposium aims to encourage a discussion between social and natural scientists of various
environmental and social problems in the new century as well as approaches to solutions. This
symposium invites social and natural scientists who are interested in global and environmental
sustainability in the 21st century.
More : http://www2.ir3s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/hawaii/index.htm
