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Programs Occurring Since the Founding of the Salzburg Seminar in 1947
On this page, you are able to view the Salzburg Global Seminar Sessions of years past. (Click here to see the entire list of sessions since 1947). Throughout the Salzburg Global Seminar's 66 year history, we have brought thousands of promising mid-career professionals together in a neutral and inspiring atmosphere. You will find faculty lists, descriptions, and materials for many of our past sessions here. You can also return to our list of upcoming programs.
1947
General Session in American Studies
1948
General Session in American Studies
1949
General Session in American Studies
General Session in American Studies 1950
General Session in American Studies
Modern Theater in America American Music American Literature Social Relations Sociology 1951
General Session in American Studies
Theory and Practice of Social Relations in the United States Economic Theory and Practice in the United States American History American Foreign Policy American Literature 1952
Economic Problems in American Life
General Session in American Studies Theory and Practice of Social Relations in the United States Political and Intellectual History in the United States Political Science and American Politics American Poetry and Prose 1953
Socio-Economic Dynamics
General Session in American Studies American Legal Thought and Institutions The Atlantic Community - Its Background in American History Modern American Poetry, Prose and Literary Criticism American Political Thought in Domestic and Foreign Policy 1954
General Session in American Studies
General Session in American Studies American Legal Thought and Institutions The Emergence of Modern America American Literature - Tradition and Experiment American Politics and Policies 1955
Labor in America
The Institutional Framework of American Law General Session in American Studies Intellectual and Social Background of American Politics Art, the Novel and Popular Culture American Politics 1956
American Education
American Society American Legal Thought and Institutions The American Economy Writings and Publishing in American Society American Foreign Policy 1957
Literature and Society in America
American Law and Legal Institutions Labor in America American Politics Economics and Industry in the United States American Foreign Policy 1958
Races and Minorities
American Literature and Criticism American Law and Legal Institutions Arts, Music and the Theater in America Business and American Society American Foreign Policy and Politics 1959
Higher Education in America
American Law and Legal Institutions American Politics, Economics and Foreign Policy Labor and Industry in America Literature and Mass Media American Foreign Policy 1960
Politics in America
The American Economy American Law and Legal Institutions Art, Architecture and Music in America Literature and Mass Media in America American Foreign Policy 1961
Contemporary American Society
Education in America American Law and Legal Institutions American Literature, Thought and Society Labor and Industry in America American Foreign Policy 1962
The Arts in America
American Law and Legal Institutions Science and American Life The American Economy American Literature and Mass Media American Foreign Policy 1963
Politics in America
American Law and Legal Institutions The American Economy Labor and Industry in America Mass Media of Communications in America American Foreign Policy 1964
Higher Education in America
The American Legal System The Arts in America Planning and Development of the Urban Community The American Economy and International Economic Affairs Trends in Communication in America 1965
Current Trends in American Literature
American Law and Legal Institutions Social Issues in the United States Planning and Development in the Urban Community Public Administration in the United States American Foreign Policy 1966
The Literary Arts in America
The American Political System American Law and Legal Institutions American Agriculture The American Economy and International Economic Affairs Urban and Regional Planning 1967
Education
American Law and Legal Institutions The Social Impact of the New Technology The Mass Media International Policies of the United States Urban Planning 1968
The Social Impact of the New Technology
American Law and Legal Institutions The American Theater Linguistics Agriculture and Natural Resources American Management Dynamics Urban Planning 1969
The United States, Europe and the Developing World
American Law and Legal Institutions The Social Impact of the New Technology American Management Dynamics The Cinema Urban Planning 1970
The Future of University
American Law and Legal Institutions The American Theater American Management The European-American Relationship Urban Problems and Planning 1971
The Arts and Social Change
American Law and Legal Institutions The United States, Europe and the Developing World. American Management The Impact of New Technology The City and the Urban Environment 1972
International Economic Policies
American Law and Legal Institutions The American Theater The Changing American Political Scene The Challenges to American Management Problems of Cities 1973
The New Shape of International Relations
American Law and Legal Institutions Contemporary American Literature Religion and the Church in Contemporary Society Labor's Relation to Management and Public Policy Technology, Growth and Environment Urban Problems and Planning 1974
The United States, Europe and the Developing World
American Law and Legal Institutions The American Theater The Control of Environmental Pollution. The Social Impact of Mass Communications Multinational Enterprise in the Context of the Common Market and the World Economy Urban Problems and Planning 1975
Contemporary American Literature
American Law and Legal Institutions Energy, Population and Affluence: The Future of the Earth's Resources Comparative Views of the American Revolution Manpower Policies and Career Development Urban Problems and Planning International Economic Policies 1976
American Law and Legal Institution
Continuing Education: New Responses to Adult Needs Multinational Enterprise Global Issues: Food and Population Contemporary American Music Toward Social Justice: Policy Options for Income Distribution Urban Problems and Planning 1977
Social and Economic Problems of Post-Industrial Society
American Law and Legal Institutions Contemporary American Literature Crime and Criminal Justice The Political Economy of World Resources Management Issues in International Corporations Growth, Land Use and Urban Planning 1978
Is Internationalization the Alternative to Nuclear Proliferation?
Continuing Education American Law and Legal Institutions The Creative Arts and Contemporary Society Industrial Democracy The Individual, the State and Society Mass Media North-South Relations: The Role of the Multinational Corporation 1979
Communications, Development and Social Change
Nutrition, Food and Population American Law and Legal Institutions Energy and the Environment Health Care: Allocating Resources in Urban Societies Musical Ideas and Musical Institutions New Perspectives for Long Term Growth Idealism and Realism in Foreign Policy 1980
Communication, Development and Social Change
Women in Changing Societies: Education and Employment American Law and Legal Institutions The City in Transition Higher Education International Monetary Instability: How Multinational Corporations Cope Music and the Arts: Instruments for Industrial and Social Change 1981
Paths to Political Power: The Governability of Modern Society
American Law and Legal Institutions Conflict Resolution Contemporary Theater Energy and Global Security Development, Communication and Social Change Inflation: Its Relationship to Social and Political Change 1982
Technology and Human Relations
The Relationship Between International Organizations and National Foreign Policy Decisions American Law and Legal Institutions The World-Wide Crisis in Retirement Income Systems International Worker Migration Contemporary American Literature Development, Communication and Social Change Industrial Policies and International Trade European-American Relations 1983
Agriculture: The Use of New Computer Technology
The Management of Conflict in International Relations American Law and Legal Institutions Health, Productivity, and Aging Governance of the Corporation The Energy Factor in Foreign Policy Decision European-American Relations Interest Rates, Capital Formation, Growth and Employment 1984
The Commonality of Cultural Traditions: Christianity, Islam and Judaism
Legal Aspects of New Technologies Opera Coordinating National Economic Policies American Law and Legal Institutions Communications, Development and Society in an Information Age Function and Future of Museums New Patterns of Trade and Finance Contemporary Urban Issues in the Highly Industrialized and Developing Worlds European-American Relations 1985
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Fair Trade Policies and Procedures: National Differences and Prospects for Harmonization American Law and Legal Institutions Telecommunications: Policy Issues and Regulatory Practices Contemporary American Literature: New Perspectives Affecting the Future Socio-economic Developments and Shortcomings Computers in Agriculture: Their Use to Enhance Information Availability and the Planning Process for Decision-Makers, with Emphasis on Developing Countries Organizing Health Structural Unemployment and Industrial Policy European-American Relations with the USSR 1986
Telecommunications Technology: Economic and Human Implications
American Politics and the Foreign Policy Process American Law and Legal Institutions The Role of Non-Profit Institutions Philosophy and Public Affairs World Financial Markets: Assessing Rapid Change The International Negotiation Process Abuse of Alcohol: Strategies Toward Control Changing Patterns in European-American Relations 1987
What Makes a Cultural Capital: Vienna 1900
The United States Constitution 200 Years Later American Law and Legal Institutions Entrepreneurship International Finance and Third World Debt The International Negotiation Process Managing Environmental Risk Accountability of the Media Divided Cities Impact of East-West Relations on the Third World 1988
Gender and the Humanities
American Politics and the Foreign Policy Process American Law and Legal Institutions World Financial Markets: Coping with Competition Negotiation Theory and Practice: Political Differences AIDS: Confronting an Epidemic 1989
The New Revolution: The USSR in Transition
Museums and their Communities: Art, Ethnography and Interpretation American Law and Legal Institutions Negotiation Theory and Practice: Business and Trade Disputes Internationalization of Financial Markets Human Rights Across Cultures and Political Systems The Role of Non-Profit Organizations: Comparisons of Functions, Operations and Trends 1990
American Law and Legal Institutions
Preservation of Art and Architecture Negotiation Theory and Practice: Environmental Disputes American Politics and the Foreign Policy Process The Changing Economic Climate in Developing Countries 1992: Effect on the World Outside the European Community International Coordination of Financial Markets Workforce Re-education: The Key to Economic Growth and Competitiveness 1991
The Global Village and the Media Revolution
American Law and Legal Institutions New Priorities for Health Care Negotiating Trade-offs: Harmonizing Environment and Development The Transformation of a Continent: Europe in Transition International Migration: A Challenge for Humanity Financing Growth: The Role of Private Investment 1992
Transnational Law and Legal Institutions
Managing Non-Governmental Organizations Europe after 1992 Energy in the 1990's Protecting the Environment in Urban Areas Economies in Transition: The Role of the Private Sector 1993
Economics of the Arts
Agriculture: Food, Environment, and Rural Development American Law and Legal Institutions Literature as a Political Force Ethnicity, Cultures and the Making of Nations Non-Profit, NGO Sector: Individuals, Organizations, Democratic Societies European Integration After the Cold War Perspectives on Federalism Japan, Europe and North America: Toward A G-3 World? Economies in Transition 1994
Beyond Child Survival: Promoting the Well-being of Young Children
Environment and Diplomacy Transnational Law and Legal Institutions Non-Governmental Organizations in Democratic Societies: Roles, Responsibilities, and Obligations Religion, Ethnicity, and Self Identity American Foreign Policy: President Clinton and Beyond Do Films Matter? The Artistic, Political, and Moral Impact of Film America in Our Time Health Programs at the Community Level Is Europe Losing Its Way? Economies in Transition The Politics of Central Banking For a range of reasons therefore it was a timely moment for discussing the politics of central banking - the relationship of central bank functions to other areas of public policy and responsibility. The relationship between central banks and governments is a particularly subtle one. How is monetary ...
1995
Preserving the National Heritage: Policies, Partnerships, and Actions
Concepts and Challenges of Leadership Building and Sustaining Democracies: The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations The Impact of the Media on Politics, Public Policy and World Events Transnational Law: Intellectual Property Rights Involuntary Migration U.S. Foreign Policy in Asia: Adapting to Change The Globalization of American Popular Culture Higher Education: Institutional Structures for the Twenty-First Century The European Union After 1996 Transitioning Economies: Comparative Models Philanthropy: Public and Private Responsibility This special session will last four days, and will be co-chaired by Dr. Russell Mawby, Chairman of the Board of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and Dr. Robert Payton, Professor of Philanthropic Studies at Indiana University. The session will bring together a select group of approximately thirty individuals ...
1996
Conservative Political Movements in Western Industrial Societies
Non-Governmental Organizations: Toward Effective International Partnerships The Power of Theater: Artistry, Entertainment, Social Commentary Human Rights: An International Legal Perspective Sustainable Agriculture U.S. Foreign Policy: Rethinking Foreign Aid The U.S. Presidential Election Process The Rise of Industrial Asia and its Implications for the Developing World Health Care Partnerships: Meeting the Needs of Underserved Communities Europe on the Eve of the Year 2000 Educational Reform in South Africa The Search for a New World Order: Great Power Foreign Policy Choices in the Post-Cold War Era 1997
Music for a New Millennium: The Classical Genre in Contemporary Society
Non-Governmental Organizations: Leadership and Civil Society Europe: Consolidation and Enlargement Recent Developments in American Law and Legal Institutions Educating Youth: Challenges for the Future Journalism in the Information Age Race and Ethnicity: Models for Diversity The Rise of Industrial East Asia and Its Implications for the Developing World Eclipse of the Nation State? World Trade: Protectionism vs. Globalization Global Women's Leadership: Lessons from Success and Best Practices Philanthropy: The Culture of Giving Perspectives on Autonomy: Academic Systems, Goals and Social Responsibilities September 97 Symposium (CEE)
Perspectives on Autonomy: Academic Systems, Goals and Social Responsibilities
July 97 Symposium (Russia)
Perspectives on Autonomy: Academic Systems, Goals and Social Responsibilities
March 97 Symposium (CEE)
Perspectives on Autonomy: Academic Systems, Goals and Social Responsibilities
January 97 Plenary Meeting
1998
The International Impact of the European Monetary Union
With the planned introduction of the European Monetary Union (EMU) on January 1, 1999, Europe will enter an era of unprecedented integration and cooperation. The establishment of a single currency for Europe—the euro—and the introduction of a common monetary and exchange rate policy for members of the ...
East Asian Security: The Role and Impact of United States Foreign Policy
The rapid economic growth in East Asia points to dramatic shifts in the balance of power among those involved in the region—Japan, Korea, China, Russia, and the United States—and potentially momentous consequences for political and security relationships around the world. The transition of power in ...
Higher Education: Leadership and Institutional Reform
nstitutions of higher education around the world are facing imposing challenges, as well as unprecedented opportunities for effecting change. In some regions, political and social upheavals have precipitated the wholesale restructuring of higher education systems. In other regions, fiscal constraints ...
Sustaining the Independent Sector: New Roles for Public, Non-Governmental, and Corporate Actors
Numerous organizations around the world—variously known as civic society organizations, the third or independent sector, or non-governmental organizations (NGOs)—have become central to setting the public agenda, influencing government policies and programs, providing a range of services otherwise not ...
Human Rights: An International Legal Perspective
Nineteen ninety-eight marks the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly. In the fifty years following this landmark effort to establish a global structure of human rights protection, significant progress has been made in ...
The Social and Political Implications of the Internet
The information revolution and the global expansion of the Internet have implications for humankind that are as dramatic and far-reaching as the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century. Both advancements have become essential to the growth of national and international economies, and to building ...
The Challenges of an Aging Society
The unprecedented increase in the number and proportion of older persons throughout the world is forcing societies to alter social policies and attitudes about aging and longevity. The first in a three-year series dedicated to aging populations, this session will examine many of the current challenges ...
Through the Patient's Eyes: Collaboration between Patients and Health Care Professionals
The healthcare industry is rapidly evolving in terms of the quality and reach of its services.
Unfortunately, this evolution sometimes takes place at the expense of the very patients it is meant to serve. Financial constraints on public and private healthcare systems, and scientific advancements, ...
Rise of Industrial East Asia and Its Implications for the Developing World
The policies for economic growth devised and implemented by East Asia have been admired throughout the world. As a result, several well-known studies have examined the "East Asian Miracle" in economic terms. This session will not only analyze the varied economic components of the high performance nations ...
The Contemporary Novel
The novel has been described as the most effective agent of the moral imagination, a literary genre that allows the novelist not only to represent, but also to criticize and question life in society. An art form that has by turns been hailed, lambasted, proclaimed dead, revived, deconstructed, and minimized, ...
Sustainable Rural Community Development
Rural populations around the globe face enormous challenges as they strive to sustain the well-being of their communities. The foundation of any nation, rural communities need purposeful and deliberate social and economic investments in order to develop and survive in the face of problems such as out-migration, ...
Freeman Foundation Symposium
Defining Peace in the Contemporary World Management and Leadership of Russian Universities November/December 98 Symposium (Russia)
Perspectives on Autonomy: Academic Systems, Goals and Social Responsibilities
September 98 Symposium (CEE)
The Development of Russian Universities in a Regional Context
June 98 Symposium (Russia)
Perspectives on Autonomy: Academic Systems, Goals and Social Responsibilities
April 98 Symposium (CEE)
Higher Education Reform: An Assessment
January 98 Plenary Meeting
International Inst of Labour and Social Sciences
1999
China and the Global Community
The sustained process of modernization and reform in China during the past decade has dramatically altered the domestic landscape and, consequently, China's role in the region and the world. These changes have significant implications for the international community and warrant thoughtful examination ...
Race and Ethnicity: Social Change through Public Awareness
Ethnic and racial diversity exists in virtually every society, and, within these societies, there are minority groups that suffer discrimination. In some countries, legal barriers are erected to prevent equality; in others, a democratic system can often mask social and cultural barriers that exclude ...
The Arts, Religion, and the Shaping of Culture
The relationship between religion and the arts is as old as human experience itself. Indeed for most of human history, the relationship was so close it was simply assumed – and practiced. In much of the world that relationship still remains, and even in the west it may be closer than first impressions ...
Personal Responsibility of Judges
The rule of law in a democratic society depends upon an independent and authoritative judiciary to interpret and apply the law as impartial arbiter between individuals and between the citizen of the State. It is incumbent upon legislatures and governments to secure the necessary conditions in which ...
Scientific Development and the Democratic Process
This session will consider the impact of the democratization process on science and the impact and role of science in a democratic society. Participants will begin the week by looking at ways in which democracy in a society can either enhance or impede the progress of science, and, conversely, ways ...
Costs and Benefits of the Free Market System
The combined forces of globalization, democratization, technological change, and expanding market capitalism are redefining political, social, and economic dynamics around the world. In the post-Cold War era, governments are privatizing, liberalizing, and deregulating industries and services at unprecedented ...
Urban Youth
More than forty percent of the world‘s population is under the age of twenty-one, and vast numbers of these young people live in urban areas that often put them at risk for social, economic, environmental and educational disadvantages. Among the most pressing problems facing urban youth are homelessness, ...
The Transatlantic Agenda at the Turn of the Century
Relations between Europe and the United States have evolved significantly over the past decade as a result of the end of the Cold War, the continuing consolidation and enlargement of the European Union, the expansion of NATO, and the increasing interpendence of a globalized world economy. One response ...
The Independent Sector: Building on the Past and Looking to the Future
Over the last decade, there has been a dramatic rise in the number of non-governmental and civil society organizations working around the world. As this number has increased so have the responsibilities that these organizations have taken on - from influencing public policy and advocating the growth ...
Sustainability, Education, and Management of Change in the Tropics
This project, convened by EARTH College and the Salzburg Seminar, in cooperation with Noragric, Centre for International Environment and Development Studies at the Agricultural University of Norway, was initially conceived by a group of international participants attending Salzburg Seminar Session 338, ...
Freeman: East Asia-United States
The Freeman Foundation Symposia have been created to bring together alumni of the Salzburg Seminar from the United States and from East Asia for an open exchange of ideas on issues of mutual relevance, thereby fostering close--and hopefully lasting--links between those involved. The second of this series ...
Globalization and the University: A Leadership Development Seminar
The overarching theme of the 1999 symposia has been globalization and its effects on institutions. (The term "university" should be understood as shorthand for the increasingly broad spectrum of higher education institutions.) The symposia have examined this phenomenon through the prism of the ... October 99 Symposium (CEE)
The Responsive and Innovative Russian University: Universities and their Role in National and Regional Development
The overarching theme of the 1999 symposia has been globalization and its effects on institutions. (The term "university" should be understood as shorthand for the increasingly broad spectrum of higher education institutions.) The symposia have examined this phenomenon through the prism of the five ...
Globalization and the University
April 99 Symposium (CEE)
Globalization and the University
This convocation begins the third year of the Salzburg Seminar’s Universities Project. During the years 1997 and 1998, a total of nine sessions were held, involving over two hundred participants representing universities, government, and the independent sector in thirty countries of North America, ... Technical University of Liberec Novosibirsk State Technical University Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Ural State University Kazan State University Masaryk University Petrozavodsk State University University of Wroclaw J.J. Strossmayer University of Osijek Needs Assessment and Case Study for Democratic Fiscal Decentralization Project in Estonia Warsaw School of Economics 2000
Asian Economies: Regional and Global Relationships
As the Asia-Pacific region recovers from economic crisis, the area will again come to be seen as a global economic force analogous to North America and Europe. An outgrowth of the Seminar’s recent series, The Rise of Industrial East and Southeast Asia and Its Implications for the Developing World, ...
Mass Media in the Age of Globalization
The high tech revolution has significantly altered the way the public obtains its news and information, and has deprived the mass media of its traditional monopoly. The media and the practice of journalism, however, have been slow to adjust to the Internet and the global ramifications produced by the ...
Youth and Civic Participation: Models for Engagement
In recent decades, young people have been at the forefront of many of the world’s most dramatic political, economic, and social transformations. At the same time, there has also been a notable sense of disillusionment and alienation among the young concerning many of these political, economic, and social ...
Transnational Perspectives on Intellectual Property and Communication Law
The rapid development of the Internet and other advanced communication links has engendered legal problems of unprecedented worldwide dimensions. This session will examine efforts to fashion a suitable framework to govern transnational electronic transactions, with particular focus on implications for ...
Biotechnology: Policy Issues and Regulatory Frameworks
Few scientific developments have been more vigorously debated than current advances in biotechnology. While gene modification promises dramatic opportunities for enhancing healthcare and agricultural production and offers new possibilities for the chemical and manufacturing industries, these same developments ...
Alternate Systems and Structures for Higher Education: Public Needs and Institutional Response for the 21st Century
Although cities have conventionally been viewed as places of dehumanization plagued by excessive crime, pollution, and decay, there is another dimension. The human energy that generates so many social problems is also responsible for an extraordinary array of benefits. Concentrated urban populations ...
The Entrepreneurial City
Although cities have conventionally been viewed as places of dehumanization plagued by excessive crime, pollution, and decay, there is another dimension. The human energy that generates so many social problems is also responsible for an extraordinary array of benefits. Concentrated urban populations ...
Who Will Control the Food System?
As the increasing demand for food places unprecedented pressure on the planet’s resources, debates intensify about ways in which these needs can be met in the coming decades. Some argue that agro-chemicals, biotechnology, and sophisticated “industrial scale” strategies will provide solutions; others ...
The Social and Economic Determinants of the Public's Health
When one views the state of health among the general population in a given society, large discrepancies among various segments become strikingly apparent. These disparities are due in great part to myriad social and economic factors, including unequal access to economic resources, education, social ...
European Paradox: Integration and Disintegration
As Europe enters the new millennium, both integrative and disintegrative processes will shape its future. On the one hand, the European Union (EU) will undoubtedly continue on its steady course of unprecedented social, political, and economic unification. On the other hand, unsettling disintegrative ...
Shakespeare Around the Globe
One of the most remarkable facts, and challenging mysteries, in the ever-surprising world of literature is the astonishing durability of the works of William Shakespeare. Why is it that his plays, written four hundred years ago, are more frequently performed in theaters all around the world than those ...
Leadership Advisory Group Meeting
Sustainability, Education, and Management of Change in the Tropics This special session will be the second in a series convened in partnership with EARTH University and in cooperation with Noragric, Centre for International Environment and Development Studies at the Agricultural University of Norway
Vilar Arts Management Weekend
Open Discussion of Key Issues of Topical and Ongoing Relevance in the Performing Arts:
Feasibility Study for Future Meetings of Arts Administrators
East Asia-The United States: A Search for Common Values
The third in a series of three special sessions, all focused on the issue of East Asia–The United States: A Search for Common Values, this symposium will bring together alumni from East Asia, who have attended Salzburg Seminar core sessions under the auspices of the Freeman Foundation, with Seminar ...
Globalization and the University: A Perspective on the Baltic Sea Region
The overarching theme of the 2000 symposia has been globalization and its effects on universities. (The term "university" should be understood as shorthand for the increasingly broad spectrum of higher education institutions, or HEIs. These terms are used largely interchangeably in this report.) The ...
An Outlook on Universities in a Globalizing World
The overarching theme of the 2000 symposia has been globalization and its effects on
universities. (The term “university” should be understood as shorthand for the increasingly
broad spectrum of higher education institutions, or HEIs. These terms are used largely
interchangeably in this report.) ...
The Regional Role of Russian Universities in the Context of Globalization
The overarching theme of the 2000 symposia is globalization and its effects on institutions. (The term "university" should be understood as shorthand for the increasingly broad spectrum of higher education institutions.) The symposia have examined this phenomenon through the prism of the five Universities ...
Invitational Meeting on "Ten Years After and Looking Ahead: A Review of the Transformation of Higher Education in Central and Eastern Europe"
The Impact of Globalization on Higher Education The overarching theme of the 1999 symposia was globalization and its effects on institutions. Due to the relevance of this issue facing universities today, the Universities Project is continuing the theme of globalization at its symposia in 2000. As in 1999, the symposia will examine this ... Kaunas University of Technology Klaipeda University Perm State University Novosibirsk State University Tomsk State University Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu Novgorod State University University of Zagreb Budapest University of Technology and Economics 2001
Community Leadership and Policy Change
One of the prerequisites of effective policymaking at both national and local levels of government is the need for active participation and involvement of citizen leaders. Policy decisions are usually best when they reflect the needs of the community and provide opportunity for community progress ...
Environment, Energy, and Economics in Asia
Asia is economically among the fastest growing regions in the world, and the challenge of maintaining high growth rates while developing measures to protect the environment is confronted by virtually all governmental and corporate sectors in the region. Energy policy, energy needs and alternative energy ...
Biotechnology: Legal, Ethical and Social Issues
Advances in biotechnology are proceeding at a breathtaking pace. The human genome has been sequenced; animals have been cloned; genes have been patented; crops are being modified genetically; therapeutic drugs are being developed using new genetic information. These biotechnological developments ...
The Social and Economic Determinants of the Public's Health
In every society, there exist discrepancies in the state of health of various segments of its population. These disparities are due in great part to myriad social and economic factors, such as unequal access to economic resources, education, social support systems, and adequate living conditions. ...
International Legal Perspectives on Human Rights
In the half Century since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly, significant progress has been made in the codification of human rights within the framework of international law. Still, violations throughout the world remain a grim testament ...
Linking Theory and Practice in Nonprofit Leadership and Management
Higher education has only recently discovered the independent sector as a critical social force requiring study, new knowledge, and education. Many non-profits have struggled to provide the basic programs and services central to their missions, while believing that they do not have the capacity to ...
Sustaining Democracy in the Modern World
One of the most profound developments of the final years of the 20th century was global democratization. Popular participation in political processes is now deeper and wider--that is, more thoroughgoing in the established democracies, and more far-reaching across the globe--than at any time in human ...
Museums in the 21st Century
Museums around the world are in a state of flux and ferment. Architecturally dramatic and daring new museums are being built. Museums are increasingly viewed in the context of tourism, with visitor numbers generally on the rise and greater attention being given to the needs and interests of more diverse ...
Patient Safety and Medical Error
Concern for patient safety has grown worldwide as studies indicate a high rate of injury to patients from the healthcare services that are intended to help them. In the United States, it is estimated that tens of thousands of people die each year in hospitals alone due to medical errors. These injuries ...
Europe in the Global Community: Economics, Diplomacy, and Security
Is Europe now on its way to becoming a unified global player in economics, politics, and security? The origins of modern European cooperation occurred in the realm of economics, where it has now achieved its highest expression with the introduction of a common currency. Yet the emergence of the euro ...
Sustainability, Education, and Management of Change Revisited: The Case of Africa 2
Salzburg Seminar/Fetzer Institute Local and Community Leadership: Looking Within This session will be the first in a series on leadership convened in partnership with the Fetzer Institute. The series is devoted to the exploration of leadership in a cross-cultural context and will enable participants from across the globe to better understand the leadership challenges in the 21st ...
Opera: Management and the Classical Performing Arts
The first in a series of arts management sessions generously funded by Alberto Vilar, this session focused specifically on opera companies. Approximately 40 senior executives of leading opera companies in Europe, Russia and the United States gathered to exchange ideas and best practices in audience ...
Higher Education in Emerging Economies: Patterns, Policies & Futures into the 21st Century
Without the reform and revitalization of their higher education systems, the developing countries will find it increasingly difficult to benefit from the global knowledge economy. ...
Globalization and Higher Education - Dartmouth College Special Session
Dartmouth College, in consultation with the Salzburg Seminar's Universities Project, is coordinating a series of conferences that will examine the impact of globalization on the university by bringing together high-level administrators and faculty from select institutions. The goal of the conference ...
East Asia-The United States: A Search for Common Values
Sustainability, Education, and Management of Change Revisited: The Case of Africa 1 Shaping and Influencing the Regional Policy Agenda Placing Universities in a Social Context Throughout the last century higher education in North America and in Europe has served as one of the most powerful catalysts of social transformation and of upward social mobility. More recently, however, universities have increasingly come to reflect the marketplace and an “enterprise culture” responding ...
Universities and Social Transformation
Throughout the last century higher education in North America and in Europe has served as one of the most powerful catalysts of social transformation and of upward social mobility. More recently, however, universities have increasingly become liable to the paradigm of the market and an “enterprise culture” ...
The Development of the Regional Role and Contribution of Russian Universities in the Context of the Globalization of Higher Education
Symposium Objectives:
Social and Civic Responsibilities of the University
The 16th Universities Project (UP) symposium, which took place in February, 2001, was the first in the series of UP symposia under the new umbrella theme for this year, “Social and Civic Responsibilities of the University.” Following on the very successful and timely theme of “Globalization of the ...
Warmia and Mazury University
Ural State Technical University National Technical University of Ukraine Far Eastern State University Yakutsk State University Bashkir State University Jagiellonian University Buryat State University Masaryk University (2) University of Latvia University of Rijeka 2002
Law as a Catalyst of Change in Asia
The rule of law will become the hallmark of the new Asia in this century. Since time immemorial, the catalysts for major social and historical change in Asia have been war, technology, religion and, more recently, mercantile adventurism. The early 21st Century will bear witness to yet another paradigmatic ...
The Politics of Water - Addressing Fresh Water Scarcity
Fresh water is unquestionably the most vital environmental resource we have – quite simply, life cannot be sustained without it – and it is becoming ever more scarce. It is estimated that in the next 15 – 25 years nearly half of the world’s population will live in areas lacking access to sufficient ...
From Page to Screen: Adapting Literature to Film
Many of the most exciting and acclaimed films today are based on classic and modern literature, ranging from works by William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and Henry James, to novels by some of the world’s most acclaimed contemporary authors. In adapting a work from page to screen, the plot and characters ...
Globalization and the Development of Transnational Legal Services
will convene an international group of practitioners in Salzburg, Austria. Among the topics to be addressed in this session are the following:
Euro: Implications for Europe, Implications for the World
Europe’s new single currency represents the consolidation and culmination of European economic integration, a process launched more than a decade ago. The most important economic event since the adoption of flexible exchange rates in the early 1970s, the introduction of the Euro as legal tender in day-to-day ...
Trends and Innovations in Health Professions Education:
Building Comprehensive and Sustainable Reforms
In recent decades, healthcare systems have been scrutinized and criticized for failing to meet the real needs of communities. Key among factors cited as responsible for that dissatisfaction are the inadequacies of the education of health professionals, including a lack of concern for a holistic approach, ...
The Global Entrepreneurial City
In the last decade, cities have emerged as key players in an increasingly globalized world. They have become centers for socio-economic development as well as engines for promoting global commerce. Whereas transnational activity was once channeled primarily through central governments, many cities ...
Achieving Food Security Through Community-based Food Systems
Despite international efforts to eradicate hunger and a commitment by national governments to achieve universal food security, it is estimated that more than eight hundred million people, most of them children, do not have access to adequate nutrition. Various approaches to achieving food security ...
Global Economic Institutions: Change, Dialogue and Public Policy
During the last decade of the twentieth century, the forces of globalization came under increased scrutiny from governments, financial institutions, and concerned citizens and citizen-groups alike. As the reach of global economic institutions expands, the ability of national governments to regulate—or ...
Influence, Values, and Professional Responsibility in the News Media
It is an axiom of democratic thought that open and unfettered access to information and freedom of expression is one of the pillars upon which freedom rests. In many parts of the world – under democratic regimes or not -- such journalistic conditions are hardly axiomatic, and the professional context ...
Improving Access to Healthcare and Human Services: Elements of Success
There is a universal need for the improvement of quality healthcare and greater access to human services. Although improvements can be seen in areas such as broader availability of childhood vaccinations and the recent success in some developing countries to purchase HIV/AIDS treatment drugs at cost, ...
Michigan Council for Arts and Cutural Affairs: Communities & Culture
Relationships in Healthcare: Leadership From Within The purpose of the Leadership Project is to focus specifically on often under-explored, introspective aspects of leadership by bringing together participants from around the world and providing a framework that will allow them to reflect deeply and thoughtfully on the ethical, moral, and spiritual aspects ...
Sustainability, Education, and Management of Change in the Tropics - Maejo University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Maejo University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Salzburg Seminar - Alberto Vilar Project on Management and the Classical Performing Arts: Symphonies
The fourth of five seminars in a series entitled "Sustainability, Education and the Management of Change in the Tropics" will be convened at Maejo University in Thailand, September 29 - October 5, 2002. This series is co-convened by the Salzburg Seminar ... PROJECT DESCRIPTION
East Asia-The United States: A Search for Common Values
With a generous gift from Alberto Vilar, the Seminar is conducting a series of sessions convening managers and directors of some of the most highly regarded performing arts organizations in Europe, Russia and the United States. A feasibility study in 2000 led to a 2001 ... The fifth in a series of special sessions this symposium will bring together Seminar alumni from the eighteen Freeman partner universities in East and Southeast Asia with Seminar alumni from selected American universities. The purpose of the series is to allow East Asian academics and their American ...
Sustainability, Education, and Management of Change in the Tropics - Jinja, Uganda
Uganda
Sustainability, Education, and Management of Change Revisited: The Case of Asia 2
This series is co-convened by the Salzburg Seminar and EARTH University, in collaboration with Noragric (Center for International Environment and Development Studies at the Agricultural University of Norway) to explore the potential of innovative educational models to foster sustainable ... Bogor, Indonesia
Leadership Project II
The series “Sustainability, Education and the Management of Change in the Tropics” is co-convened by the Salzburg Seminar and EARTH University, in collaboration with Noragric (Center for International Environment and Development Studies at the Agricultural University of Norway) ... The purpose of the Leadership Project is to focus specifically on often under-explored, introspective aspects of leadership by bringing together participants from around the world and providing a framework that will allow them to reflect deeply and thoughtfully on the ethical, moral, and spiritual aspects ...
The Funding of Higher Education
One of the most serious policy questions higher education faces today is whether and how we can accommodate and effectively educate the growing numbers of young people in a system whose share of the tax base is steadily eroding. Without new ways of financing higher education, universities will continue ...
Academic Career Patterns
This was the fourth symposium of the Universities Project (UP) to feature a more junior-level group of some 40 participants, mostly from universities and some from organizations in Europe and North America that are closely associated with the UP. The main rationale of convening these meetings was to ...
Implementation of the Reform Strategy in Russian Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities
dimension of regional economic development, equal opportunities and access, the advent of ICT-based learning, student as consumer, and the provision of education to geographically distant and sparsely populated areas.
(2) The second is related to the publication of the “Education Policy at the ...
The Meanings of Autonomy: University Governance Reconsidered
It was the goal of this symposium to unravel some layers and underlying assumptions about the concept of academic autonomy as a guiding principle for the way in which higher education institutions pursue their purposes and objectives. While the notion of autonomy seems to receive almost universal approval ...
Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation: The International History Initiative
The Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs and Elazar Barkan, of Claremont Graduate University, initiated the International History Initiative in 2001. The first meeting with the support of an advisors group of distinguished historians took place on February 15-16, 2002, at the Pocantico ...
New Bulgarian University (2)
Baku State University University of Nyiregyháza University of the West Timisoara Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (2) Chuvash State University Tbilisi State University Mordovian State University St. Petersburg State Pedagogical University Belarusian State University Belgorod State University Yerevan State University Novosibirsk State Technical University (2) Budapest University of Technology and Economics(2) Babes Bolyai University Adam Mickiewicz University 2003
Changing Concepts of Security in East Asia
Nearly a decade has passed since the end of the Cold War, and yet significant security concerns remain unresolved in East Asia. Security issues and alliances in Asia, always complex and in flux, have become even more so in light of increased uncertainty on the Korean peninsula and new, as well as continuing, ...
Environmental Policy and Public Dialogue
A decade after the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, there is a growing awareness of the need for new models of cooperation in environmental policy-making. As the world struggles to find ways to safeguard environmental quality, the role of non-state actors, whether from the private sector or civil society, ...
Engaging Youth in Community Development
While undoubtedly true that today’s youth will be tomorrow’s leaders, it is increasingly clear that many youth already have the skills, drive, and commitment to be among today’s change-makers. Contrary to the negative image of “problem youth” that is often all too prominent, many young people are actively ...
Social and Economic Dimensions of Human Rights
Just over 50 years ago, the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights sought to guarantee economic and social well-being, as well as civil and political freedom. While the commitment to freedom has largely been enshrined in domestic and international law, the commitment to economic and social issues ...
The Cultural, Civic, and Economic Purposes of Higher Education
was the result of a dual process of industrialization and democratization; which required the cultivation of a more highly skilled workforce and of socially mobile citizens. Higher education has been and continues to be a prime agent of shaping the contemporary societies in which we live.
This ...
Capitalizing on our Differences: Leadership Across Cultural Boundaries and Geographic Borders in a Global Society
Even as international trade and technological innovation are helping to create a global society, the world seems at the same time to be more fragmented and divided. As we struggle with diversity, we are often tempted to forego inclusiveness to create more exclusive special interest groups invested ...
Migration, Race, and Ethnicity in Europe
In the wake of monetary union, questions about further cultural and political integration now loom large as the European Union looks to the future. A number of troubling demographic indicators have recently placed particular concern on issues regarding the labor force, worker mobility and economic expansion. ...
Contemporary American Literature
Since the late 1960s, social, political, and technological changes throughout the world have accelerated the cultural diversity of many nations. In the United States, the migration and immigration of millions from around the world, have transformed the demographics and culture of the nation. This session ...
Professional Responsibility in the News Media
The Committee to Protect Journalists recently reported that 37 journalists were killed and 118 imprisoned in 2001. The numbers represent an alarming continuation of a pattern of attacks on the press, providing a grim reminder that freedom to report, publish, and broadcast comes at a high price in many ...
The Role of NGOs in the Health of Communities: Creative Partnerships
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have become an essential part of the social and economic fabric of societies around the world, serving as a voice for the people and a catalyst for change. NGOs are often able to mobilize resources and form partnerships among themselves, governments and businesses ...
Cultural Institutions in Transition: Making the Case for Culture
FOCUS
Cultural institutions around the world face important new challenges to their financial sustainability, their organizational structures and their social relevance. This is especially true in Russia and the countries of Eastern Europe. While the political and social changes in each of these ...
Sustainability, Education, and Management of Change in the Tropics - Oslo, Norway
Sustainability, Education and the Management of Change (SEMCIT) is a multi-year project co-convened by the Salzburg Seminar and EARTH University, in collaboration with Noragric (Center for International Environment and Development Studies at the Agricultural University of Norway), to explore the potential ...
East Asia - The United States: A Search for Common Values
Salzburg Seminar - Fetzer Institute Leadership Project: Political Leadership Whether serving the public as an elected official or working for the public good in other capacities, public servants are sometimes subject to tensions between their private values and their public responsibilities. Public accountability is meant to restrain the exercise of personal prerogative; yet, ...
Sustainability, Education, and Management of Change Revisited: The Case of Asia 3
Similarities, Differences and Points of Convergence: Transatlantic Perspectives on Higher Education The 24th symposium of the Universities Project was the final event of the six-year funding cycle granted by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in 1997. The goal of the symposium was to convene a group of those individuals who had worked closely with the Universities Project since its inception ...
RHEP 02 - University Strategic Planning in a Context of Regionalization of Russian Higher Education (A Session on Strategic Planning Best Practices)
The Russian Higher Education Program is a joint program with the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation.
The topic for this session is prompted by the need for Russian university leadership to consider practical aspects of strategic planning in the context of universities' growing ...
RHEP 01 - Russian Universities in a Global World: Issues and Challenges of Becoming a Part of the European Higher Education Area
The Russian Higher Education Program is a joint program with the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation.
In 2003, the Salzburg Seminar ...
Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation: The Burden of History: World War II Memory and Polish-Jewish Reconciliation
The Burden of History:
World War II Memory and Polish-Jewish Reconciliation
Trade and Finance Law in a Global World
Participants Logon Here Report on a Meeting for a Historical Commission Project, April 3-5, 2003, Hosted and Sponsored ... Dr. Peter Eigen, Chairman of Transparency International, will be the keynote speaker. Other speakers include: Dr. Elizabeth Joyce, United Nations Global Program Against Money Laundering in Vienna, Michael Patchett-Joyce, Barrister, Monckton Chambers, London Nico Plasier, Projects Director, Ministry ...
Kazan State Technical University
Belarusian State Medical University University of Wroclaw (2) Kaliningrad State University (1) Taganrog State Technical University AINova: Academia Istropolitana Nova Matej Bel University St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University (LETI) International Independent Ecological-Politological University (IIEPU) University of Rijeka (2) University of Nis 2004 Greater China is quickly evolving into a major economic force in the global economy. This session will examine how China's economic coming of age has affected the Asian region, and the world as a whole. What has been the impact of China's WTO accession? How has the Chinese policy of creating "clusters ...
Libraries in the 21st Century
The last decade has posed momentous challenges and opportunities to libraries worldwide, dramatically recasting the future for traditional institutions and presenting complex choices for new organizations. The rapidity of technological innovation and the quickly expanded importance of electronic information ...
Multicultural Health
As communities become increasingly diverse, it is critical that healthcare and human services effectively respond to the needs of multicultural populations, paying particular attention to minority and marginalized populations. This response will require adapting both medical systems and personnel behaviors ...
Trade, Aid, and Development: Policy Tools for Poverty Reduction
This session has been made possible in part through generous grants from the European Commission's Directorate General for Trade and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Changing Concepts of International Educational Exchange and Mobility
Following the collapse of trade negotiations in Cancun, and as many parts of the international community work to translate ... The international mobility of students and professors, once rare, has become an increasingly common aspect of higher education throughout the world. What are the implications of the globalized flow of people in academia? What are the threats facing exchange and mobility programs in the current security ...
Reinventing the West: Redefining the Transatlantic Relationship
Does "the West" still exist? Between 1989 and 2003, have we moved from a world with two Europes and one West, to a world with one Europe but two "Wests", an American West and a European West?
Recent events have called traditional transatlantic alliances into question, placing them under intense scrutiny ...
Strengthening Democracy and Governance: Women and Political Power
Women have made significant strides in the exercise of political power in recent time. Nevertheless, women remain underrepresented at most levels of government in nearly all countries around the world. This has ramifications for the smooth and optimal functioning of democracy and impacts the ability ...
Ethics in News Reporting and Editing
In recent years, the news media have come to face an increasing
number of social, political, technological, and economic pressures: the
response of the media to the challenges and opportunities of the
internet; the conduct of the media during war; the relationship between
the media and government, ...
Education, Civil Society and Sustainability in Transition Countries: Looking Back; Going Forward
On November 28 - December 1, 2004, the Salzburg Seminar will conduct a conference in Salzburg entitled Education, Civil Society and Sustainability in Transition Countries. This conference will bring together senior administrators who are engaged in youth, civil society and higher education projects ...
Global Issues: Roles and Responsibilities of Adult Education
This session will bring together leaders in adult and continuing education with content experts on particular global issues to engage in dialogue about the future role of adult and continuing education in addressing global concerns. Through this exchange, the participating educators will develop a deeper ...
East Asia - The United States: A Search for Common Values
The seventh in a series of special sessions, this symposium will bring together Seminar alumni from the twenty Freeman partner universities in East and Southeast Asia with Seminar alumni from selected American universities. The purpose of the series is to allow East Asian academics and their American ...
Cultural Institutions in Transition
Cultural institutions around the world face important new challenges to their financial sustainability, their organizational structures and their social relevance. This is especially true in Russia and the countries of Eastern Europe. While the political and social changes in each of these countries ...
International Study Program - Community Colleges as sites of Global Citizenship
In an age of new international tensions and shifting global alliances, the need for
Americans to understand international affairs, to recognize cultural values other than their
own, and to view world events from a variety of perspectives, has become increasingly
critical.
In response to this need, ...
International Study Program - Global Citizenship: America and the World
In an age of new international tensions and shifting global alliances, the need for
Americans to understand international affairs, to recognize cultural values other than their
own, and to view world events from a variety of perspectives, has become increasingly
critical.
In response to this need, ...
International Study Program - Global Citizenship: America and the World (Miami Dade)
In an age of new international tensions and shifting global alliances, the need for
Americans to understand international affairs, to recognize cultural values other than their
own, and to view world events from a variety of perspectives, has become increasingly
critical.
In response to this need, ...
Salzburg : A Cultural and Historical Exploration
Distinctive cultural and educational experiences for the discerning traveler.
RHEP 03 - Higher Education Governance in Russia and CIS Countries: Assessing the Alternatives
The Russian Higher Education Program is a joint program with the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation.
In 2003, in response to the need for continued engagement, the Salzburg Seminar and the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation initiated a five-year partnership (2003-2008) ...
Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation: Northern Ireland Conference
Institute for Historical
Justice and Reconciliation
The Practical Application of History for the Contemporary World
NORTHERN IRELAND PROJECT
SUMMARY: The Northern Ireland Project of the IHJR engages prominent historians and public figures from Northern Ireland, and other countries ...
Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation: Middle East Conference
Salzburg Seminar
Institute for Historical
Justice and Reconciliation
The Practical Application of History for the Contemporary World
Middle East Planning Meeting
7-11 October 2004
Summary
Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation: Historical Memories of Cooperation, Conflict and Reconciliation in Uganda
Participants ...
Salzburg Seminar
Institute for Historical
Justice and Reconciliation
The Practical Application of History for the Contemporary World
UGANDA PROJECT
Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation: Israeli- Palestinian Historical Commission
Participants Logon Here SUMMARY: The ... The first Israeli-Palestinian Historical Commission meeting took place in San Diego, California from January 16-18, 2004. The participants were Israeli and Palestian historians teaching at different universities in the USA. For a report please contact:
Dr. Elazar Barkan
Professor of History
Claremont ...
Salzburg Seminar American Studies Alumni Association: America in Our Time
The Salzburg Seminar is pleased to announce a new Alumni Association dedicated to American Studies: SSASAA (Salzburg Seminar American Studies Alumni Association.) SSASAA is open to all Seminar alumni interested in the field of American Studies. The first meeting will be held at the Schloss on September ...
LAWSS-Legal Alumni Web of the Salzburg Seminar: European Law and Legal Institutions
The 2004 LAWSS symposium will focus on the practical implications of the European Union's new Constitution and the expansion of the legal and financial sectors. A number of prominent speakers will review the impact of the Constitution and the expansion of the EU on current and future member countries, ...
SCUPAD Congress 2004: The Open City: Its Allies and Enemies
The 2004 Congress on The Open City will examine the physical, social, cultural, demographic, economic and political aspects of the larger cities that face risks and potentials by being more and more open for influxes from the outside. Included are case studies about cities, plenary discussions, and ...
Sochi Branch RUDN
National Technical University of Ukraine (2) Alexandru Ioan Coza University (2) Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service Krasnoyarsk State University Kaunas University of Technology (2) University of Zagreb (2) Novosibirsk State University (2) University of Novi Sad 2005
The Asian Energy Challenge and Implications for OECD-Asia, the United States, and Europe
As part of its East Asian Program, the Salzburg Seminar is proposing a special project on The East Asian Energy Challenge and Implications for Europe and the United States. The impetus for launching a series of sessions on this topic has emerged from the expressed concern about the increased energy ...
Early Childhood Development: Improving Linkages between Research, Practice and Policy
Children are enormously resilient - responding and adapting quickly to changing circumstances, learning and growing in even the most difficult situations, drawing upon reserves and strengths we still don't fully understand. However, children are also highly vulnerable, particularly in the earliest ...
Architecture and Public Life
Architecture is about the built environment, but it is also much more: architecture provides the physical framework for all human activity and thus shapes the way we live and interact with each other. Architecture is the interface between the human and the physical environment. It gives structure ...
Beyond E-Government: Government for the Third Millennium
After sixty years of investment in the computerization of public services, and more than a decade of investment in applying Internet technologies to government, e-government in the new millennium is finally coming of age. The countries that have been at the leading edge of the e-government journey have ...
The European Union: Challenges of Integration and Expansion
The last fifteen years have been a period of extraordinary consequence for Europe-and yet the coming decade has the potential to rival it in terms of historical importance. The central question of the years ahead is whether the extraordinary growth and maturation of the European Union will continue, ...
The World Trade Negotiations: The Politics of Economics and Trade
Since its inception, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has weathered considerable challenges, ranging from massive public demonstrations to deep criticism in the press to the near collapse of negotiations among its member countries. Nevertheless, the WTO has reached its 10-year anniversary intact, ...
East Asia - The United States: A Search for Common Values
This symposium will bring together Seminar alumni from the twenty Freeman partner universities in East and Southeast Asia with Seminar alumni from selected American universities. The purpose of the series is to allow East Asian academics and their American counterparts to build on the relationships ...
The Sustainable Food Laboratory: Design Studio
The Salzburg Seminar is collaborating with the Sustainable Food Laboratory, a project of the Global Leadership Initiative, and hosting the Design Studio phase of the project. The purpose of the Sustainable Food Laboratory is to accelerate the movement of sustainably-produced food from niche to mainstream. ...
Broadcast Media in the 21st Century
The Salzburg Seminar in partnership with The Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Imagining the Future Foundation will convene a group of senior reporters and news executives from the US and Arab media to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing news professionals in the contemporary ...
International Study Program - Community Colleges as sites of Global Citizenship
In an age of new international tensions and shifting global alliances, the need for
Americans to understand international affairs, to recognize cultural values other than their
own, and to view world events from a variety of perspectives, has become increasingly
critical.
In response to this need, ...
International Study Program - Global Citizenship: America and the World
In an age of new international tensions and shifting global alliances, the need for
Americans to understand international affairs, to recognize cultural values other than their
own, and to view world events from a variety of perspectives, has become increasingly
critical.
In response to this need, ...
International Study Program - Global Citizenship: America and the World
In an age of new international tensions and shifting global alliances, the need for
Americans to understand international affairs, to recognize cultural values other than their
own, and to view world events from a variety of perspectives, has become increasingly
critical.
In response to this need, ...
International Study Program - Global Citizenship: America and the World (Miami-Dade College)
In an age of new international tensions and shifting global alliances, the need for
Americans to understand international affairs, to recognize cultural values other than their
own, and to view world events from a variety of perspectives, has become increasingly
critical.
In response to this need, ...
International Study Program - Global Citizenship: America and the World
In an age of new international tensions and shifting global alliances, the need for
Americans to understand international affairs, to recognize cultural values other than their
own, and to view world events from a variety of perspectives, has become increasingly
critical.
Winter Festival at Salzburg Seminar
In response to this need, ... SALZBURG WINTER FESTIVAL
DECEMBER 23-30, 2005
A special invitation to Seminar Alumni and families to join us for an unforgettable week during Salzburg's most magical time of year.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Friday, December 23
Arrival at Schloss Leopoldskron
In the evening:
Guided tour of the Schloss
Welcome ...
RHEP 05 - Universities and Regional Development: Effectively Managing Research and Innovations
Universities have emerged as central actors in the knowledge-based economy. No longer confined to their traditional roles of teaching and conducting primary research, they are increasingly viewed as key drivers of innovation and crucial agents of regional development. While the presence of strong universities ...
RHEP 04 - University Research Management and Support: Creating the Framework
The Russian Higher Education Program is a joint program with the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.
In the knowledge-based society and economy, research has become a vital function of a modern university. To respond to new challenges and opportunities that university ...
Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation: IBA Conference Prague
Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation: Uganda Historical Commission Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation: Interethnic Relations in the Soviet-Occupied Territories of Poland, 1939-1941 Salzburg Seminar American Studies Alumni Association: American Culture in the U.S. and Abroad The 2005 Salzburg Seminar American Studies Alumni Association (SSASAA) Symposium will focus on contemporary trends in American culture, including the current multi-dimensional impact of its cultural products abroad. Discussion will focus on how the literature, the history, the politics, and the economics ...
LAWSS-Legal Alumni Web of the Salzburg Seminar: Commerce and Banking Law
The 2005 LAWSS symposium will focus on the current development of commerce and banking law. A number of prominent speakers will review the pact of stability, banking supervision, international mergers of companies or banks.
The Symposium is open to all the Salzburg Seminar alumni and young professionals ...
SCUPAD - Congress 2005
coming soon...
National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"
Altai State University Novgorod State University State University of Management Samara State University 2006
China: The New Global Economic Engine?
China's explosive growth during the past decade is exercising a profound
impact on the world's economic order. Trade flows from China to the
United States and Europe, bilateral trade disputes, anxiety in the West
about outsourcing of jobs, pressures on currency valuations, fear of Chinese
overtures ...
Public-Private Partnerships: Harnessing Markets to Drive Development
There is growing confidence in the power of Public-Private Partnerships
(PPPs) to narrow the development gap and unleash the economic potential
of poor communities. New concepts of development highlight the need to
catalyze private investment in developing countries and illustrate that
corporate ...
Beyond the University: Shifting Demographics in Higher Education
In many countries, "traditional" students will soon be a numerical minority
on campus. The demands of the knowledge society as well as social and
demographic shifts continue to have far-reaching effects on the composition
of the student body with more and more entrants (or re-entrants) well past
the ...
The Rule of Law: Reconciling Religion and Culture in a Constitutional Framework
Even in societies with well-established constitutions and a strong history of
the rule of law, there are continual challenges in integrating the rights of
minority groups, balancing the appropriate role for religion and religious law,
and respecting cultural norms. Can religious laws be integrated ...
The "Telling of Lives": Biography as a Mirror on Society
The genre biography enjoys unprecedented popular appeal and influence; people take meaning from individual lives in their struggle to understand the human endeavor, in their attempt to fathom individual motivation, achievement, or greatness. But, perhaps even more significantly, biography -whether ...
Women, Political Power, and Next Generation Leadership
Despite advancements made by women in the political arena in recent time, they remain grossly underrepresented at most levels of government in nearly every country. This has ramifications for the smooth and optimal functioning of democracy, impacts the ability of government to create effective policies ...
The Transatlantic Divide: Myths, Realities, and Business as Usual
The first years of the twenty-first century have seen a growing strain
between the United States and Europe. While the fundamental integrity
of the transatlantic relationship appears intact, serious political, legal,
economic and security issues threaten to present critical challenges for
the future. ...
Completing the Doha Round: Bridging the Agricultural Divide
As the multilateral trade negotiations continue under the WTO's Doha Round, it is clear that among the number of highly sensitive issues inhibiting progress, agriculture is chief among them. This is a politically charged issue for most countries, developed and developing alike. However, for developing ...
European Responses to Terrorism: Costs of Public Security
In an intensified effort to curb terrorist activity in Europe, governments have
instituted new policies and programs at local, national and transnational
levels. These measures involve tightened border controls, greater internal
security, increased intergovernmental co-operation and monitoring financial
transactions ...
International Study Program - Colleges as sites of Global Citizenship
Colleges and universities are vital institutions for addressing political, social, and economic concerns, be they at a local, national, or global level. While embedded in their communities, they contribute substantially to a nation's competitiveness and operate within an increasingly international environment ...
International Study Program - Community Colleges as sites of Global Citizenship
Colleges and universities are vital institutions for addressing political, social, and economic concerns, be they at a local, national, or global level. While embedded in their communities, they contribute substantially to a nation's competitiveness and operate within an increasingly international environment ...
International Study Program - Global Citizenship: America and the World
In an age of new international tensions and shifting global alliances, the need for
Americans to understand international affairs, to recognize cultural values other than their
own, and to view world events from a variety of perspectives, has become increasingly
critical.
In response to this need, ...
International Study Program - Global Citizenship: America and the World (CUNY)
In an age of new international tensions and shifting global alliances, the need for
Americans to understand international affairs, to recognize cultural values other than their
own, and to view world events from a variety of perspectives, has become increasingly
critical.
In response to this need, ...
International Study Program - Global Citizenship: America and the World (Miami Dade)
In an age of new international tensions and shifting global alliances, the need for
Americans to understand international affairs, to recognize cultural values other than their
own, and to view world events from a variety of perspectives, has become increasingly
critical.
In response to this need, ...
International Study Program - Global Citizenship: America and the World
In an age of new international tensions and shifting global alliances, the need for
Americans to understand international affairs, to recognize cultural values other than their
own, and to view world events from a variety of perspectives, has become increasingly
critical.
In response to this need, ...
Winter Festival at Salzburg Seminar
Salzburg : A Mozart Exploration (Opera America) Salzburg Seminar Summer Festival 2006 Salzburg : A Cultural and Historical Exploration (Association of Yale Alumni) Salzburg : A Mozart Exploration Salzburg : A Cultural and Historical Exploration (Vermont Public Radio) RHEP 06 - Fostering University Research and Innovation Management: Strategic Areas for Action At a time of ample attention to innovation as a powerful tool for fostering national economies, universities are put under significant pressure to rapidly develop and efficiently commercialize promising research. While university research has spun out many high-impact companies, a number of promising ...
Salzburg Seminar American Studies Alumni Association: Redefining America: Race, Ethnicity and Immigration
In the last thirty years, millions of people from Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa have migrated and immigrated to the United States, contributing to remarkable social, political and cultural transformations for both the new arrivals and the communities and regions in which they have ...
Gorno-Altaisk State University
Khazar University 2007
Salzburg Young Leaders Summit: Global Scenarios and Strategies for 2030
As part of its Sixtieth Anniversary celebration, the Salzburg Seminar will convene young leaders from around the world at Schloss Leopoldskron in December 2007 to inaugurate Salzburg's first annual Young Leaders Summit. The purpose of the first summit, and of future summits, is to bring together ...
The Dynamic Economies of India and China: What Lessons for Others?
India and China are phenomenal stories of dynamic growth. With their abundant supplies of low-cost labor, wealth of natural resources, and highly educated elite, India and China have not only experienced rapid economic success over the last decade, but are emerging as two of the world's most powerful ...
Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Women in Politics and Business
Unquestionably, women have made significant advances in their presence and power in both the political and business arenas. Although the numbers of women in political office and in the board room, globally, remain relatively low, there is growing evidence of marked positive impact where women have ...
Cultural Institutions without Walls: New Models of Arts - Community Interaction
As catalysts for innovation, education, and economic development, cultural institutions play a powerful role in creating vibrant communities. Through exhibitions, theater and opera productions, dance and music performances, creativity prospers, diversity is celebrated, and local businesses and economies ...
Challenges to the International Monetary System: Rebalancing Currencies, Institutions, and Rules
With global currency markets increasingly transformed by US deficits, Chinese surpluses, and the emergence of powerful new economic actors, there is a growing sense of imbalance and potential instability in the international monetary system. While the US economy is running exorbitant fiscal and trade ...
New Century, New Challenges, New Dilemmas: The Global Nexus of Animal and Public Health
Twentieth century innovation created remarkable gains in public health, animal health and the global food supply chain. At the same time, continued advancement and globalization have led to increasingly higher risk environments in which diseases can spread with incredible speed around the globe - between ...
An International Rule of Law: Balancing Security, Democracy, and Human Rights in an Age of Terrorism
Since the end of the Second World War an interlocking, comprehensive set of international conventions and treaties has sought to promote, protect, and enforce minimum standards of human decency against the threat of wartime abuses. The war on terror, however, has initiated a paradigmatic challenge to ...
East Asia - The United States: A Search for Common Values
Making Green Pay: Designing Incentives to Support Environmental Sustainability Over the last several years an important shift has taken place in the advance of environmental stewardship: long a moral imperative with limited traction inside the board room, environmental sustainability has become a powerful strategy for businesses looking to accelerate economic growth, fatten the ...
From Lab to Market: Accelerating Innovation through University, Business, and Government Partnership
The changes brought about by globalization, the impact of information technologies, and the need to find the best ways to bring innovations to the marketplace require new dynamics of interaction between universities, business and government. Accordingly, institutions worldwide are looking for the most ...
Immigration and Inclusion: Rethinking National Identity
Never before in human history have such large numbers of people left their homes to go and live in a different country or continent as do so today. A small proportion of these human flows is driven by persecution or violence. Far larger numbers migrate in response to economic and demographic disparities ...
The New Information Networks: Challenges and Opportunities for Business, Governments, and Media
The first years of the new millennium have seen a dramatic change in the production of information and the organization of the digital environment. The rapid emergence of peer production, social networking, and powerful non-market actors via the Internet and other technologies is reshaping not only ...
Realizing the Doha Development Agenda as if the Future Mattered
This unique and important initiative, with strong encouragement and support from the Director General of the World Trade Organization, sought to identify fresh ideas, perspectives, and potential solutions to the obstacles standing in the way of securing outcomes of the Doha Round of multilateral trade ...
Public-Private Innovations in Higher Education: Student Loans, Economic Growth, and International Student Exchange in Russia and CIS Countries
Issues emerging from conference "Public-Private Innovations in Higher Education: Student Loans, Economic Growth and International Student Exchange in Russia and CIS Countries" (February 10-14, 2007)
International Study Program - Colleges and Universities as Sites of Global Citizenship
Many countries around the world in seeking to expand access to their higher education systems ... International Study Program - Colleges and Universities as Sites of Global Citizenship International Study Program - Global Citizenship: America and the World International Study Program - Global Citizenship: America and the World International Study Program - Global Citizenship: America and the World International Study Program - Global Citizenship: America and the World New Year's Festival at Salzburg Global Seminar Winter Festival at Salzburg Global Seminar Thanksgiving Festival at Salzburg Global Seminar Salzburg Global Seminar Summer Festival 2007 IHJR: India Meeting SSASAA - American Approaches to Europe and Beyond: Policies and Patterns The war in Iraq has sparked major interest in the past as well as the present global role of the United States. People around the world debating the origins and consequences of the American military presence in the Middle East have focused on locating the present crisis within a larger narrative of ...
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2008
New Models of Intellectual Property: Predictability and Openness as Spurs to Innovation
It is generally assumed that intellectual property rights (IPR) are essential for competitiveness and innovation, and thus to the functioning and progress of what have come to be known as "knowledge-based economies". At the same time, it is clear that very different attitudes and practices prevail in ...
The Global Energy Fulcrum: Asian Development and International Response
Asia's galloping thirst for energy has fundamentally changed the global landscape, creating eastward shifts in the gravity of geopolitics, wealth, and consumption. And as Asian demand has skyrocketed, it has become clear that the awesome energy challenges facing Asia represent a central issue for the ...
The United States in the World: New Strategies of Engagement
Whatever the outcome of the US presidential elections in November 2008, the change in administration will bring about a reorientation of US foreign policy. George W. Bush's successor will inherit a number of acute international crises and a country whose military power and economic dominance have been ...
Islamic and International Law: Searching for Common Ground
The majority of contemporary debates about Islamic law tend to focus on the Sharia law tradition as a subjective doctrine rooted in strict religious code. Recent controversies surrounding "personal status laws," including, but not limited to the rights of women, have served to further this view, characterizing ...
Sovereign Wealth Funds: Risks and Opportunities for Global Financial Markets
The emergence of SWFs as powerful and highly visible players on global financial is raising key questions for markets, investors, policy-makers and analysts. Do these non-transparent, government-backed funds present a risk to the global financial architecture? Will a new influx of liquidity from SWFs ...
Peace-Making and Peace-Building: Securing the Contributions of Women and Civil Society
This session will focus on increasing the coherence and effectiveness of conflict resolution, peace-building, reconciliation and peace-keeping efforts by focusing specifically on mechanisms to increase the effective participation of civil society organizations (CSOs), political minorities, and, in particular, ...
Combating Climate Change at Local and Regional Levels: Sustainable Strategies, Renewable Energy
There is no more important challenge facing the global community today than the protection of the planet and its natural resources. Simply put, all human beings need to learn how to inhabit this planet in a safe and sustainable way. Hurricane Katrina, Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, and the stark erosion ...
Achieving the Freer Circulation of Cultural Artifacts
Museums around the world are guardians of the cultural and artistic achievements of humankind. By providing people with the opportunity to experience cultural objects and art, museums foster not only an appreciation of aesthetic beauty and human inventiveness, but also promote mutual understanding of ...
A "Green Revolution" in Africa: What Framework for Success?
A number of recent events demonstrate renewed attention to, and willingness to invest in, African agricultural development. Wisely managed, this could lead to a new era of responsible streamlined investment, capacity-building, policy change, and innovation, which in turn could release many millions ...
Innovation in Knowledge-based Economies: Accelerating the Benefits
Today, information and knowledge form the leading edge of economic development, driving growth, creating jobs, and replacing traditional labor-intensive systems as the primary engine of wealth creation. In addition, the technological developments of the 20th century have shifted advanced economies away ...
Russia: The 2020 Perspective
The Session will bring together a high-level international contingent of foreign policy experts, business representatives, scholars, journalists, and government officials to focus on the following questions concerning Russia's future:
Science and the Citizen
Joint Conference of the 21st Century Trust and the Salzburg Global Seminar
There is a fundamental, often unrecognized but ultimately irresolvable, issue for science in a democracy. In theory, scientific authority is based on ability and on knowledge obtained with methods validated by peers. It ...
Colleges and Universities as Sites of Global Citizenship
2008 Winter Festival: A Holiday Event The 2008 Winter Festival is scheduled during the festive holiday week. The program gives you the chance of a wonderful Christmas holiday but also provides stimulus for those who want it - in the tradition of the Salzburg Global Seminar. So, if you fancy a bit of skiing (or swimming in an outdoor heated ...
Summer Festival 2008
2008 LAWSS Symposium - Which Way for Europe? The Reform Treaty and the European Union In 2005, European Union officials were sent back to the drawing board in their attempts to streamline the often inefficient and slow-reacting bodies of the European Union. Referenda in France and the Netherlands had rejected the proposed constitution showing just how difficult achieving unanimity ... Since the late 1960s, social, political, and technological changes throughout the world have accelerated the cultural diversity and synergism of many nations. People, forms of cultural expression, as well as capital have crossed or altered former national borders. Millions of people from Latin America, ...
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2009
Asia's Emerging Powers: Rivalry and Global Responsibility
A resurgent Asia is increasingly seen as one of the most important pillars of the global economy and world stability. Yet to many in the region, the UN and other existing global institutions seem increasingly inadequate to meet the challenges of global governance in the twenty-first century, while regional ...
Connecting to the World's Collections: Making the Case for the Conservation and Preservation of our Cultural Heritage
Museums and libraries - large and small - around the world house our artistic and cultural heritage. As guardians of unique and irreplaceable treasures, including art works, documents, artifacts, and digital materials, museums and libraries bear the tremendous responsibility of preserving our cultural ...
Smart Change: Investing in Women and Girls-
Leveraging Philanthropy for Global Impact
Thirty years ago there were few philanthropists investing in women and women-led solutions. As more women's funds, foundations and donors focus on strategies in this arena, there is now consensus that investing in women and girls is the "smart thing to do." Increasingly, savvy social investors seek ...
Confronting Protectionism: How Business and Governments Can Build Support for Open Markets
With rising inequalities within and between countries in income and wealth, unfolding financial crisis, surging fuel and food prices and widespread fears of global recession, citizens of both developed and developing economies grow more skeptical about the benefits of free trade and globalization. After ...
Greening the Minds: Universities, Climate Leadership, and Sustainable Futures
Over the course of the past decade, the tripartite threats of environmental degradation, natural resource depletion, and climate change have given rise to a newly motivated sustainability movement - a movement that has both emerged from and firmly taken root in institutions of higher education. But, ...
12th Annual Freeman Foundation Symposium: Strengthening Cooperation Between the US and East Asia
The 2009 Freeman Foundation Symposium will focus on the change of leadership in the United States and examine potential new approaches in the US-East Asian relationship during the course of the next administration. The Symposium will focus on several major areas of US-East Asian relations, starting ...
The Search for Stability: Financial Crisis, Major Currencies and a New Monetary Order
Current developments in the international monetary system have been marked by the need for central banks and finance ministries worldwide to intervene in order to prevent system collapse, with an initial US reaction followed by a different approach adopted by EU member states. This has come in the wake ...
Traduttore Traditore? Recognizing and Promoting the Critical Role of Translation in a Global Culture
Literary translation is a key to cross-cultural communication: it enables literature to cross linguistic borders and facilitates inter-cultural exchange and understanding. How else would we be able to enjoy and learn from literature written in languages other than our own? How else would we gain insights ...
Mellon Fellow Community Initiative - Colleges and Universities as Sites of Global Citizenship
As part of its International Study Program on Global Citizenship and with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Salzburg Global Seminar will conduct the second meeting of the second cohort of institutions participating in The Mellon Fellow Community Initiative (MFCI) from December ...
2009 Winter Festival: A New Year's Celebration
The 2009 Winter Festival will ring in the year 2010 in style! The program gives Salzburg Global Fellows and friends of the Seminar a wonderful winter holiday while also providing intellectual stimulus for those who want it - in the tradition of the Salzburg Global Seminar. So, if you're interested in ...
The Next 200 Years of Darwin: Exploring the Evolving Legacy
In 1859, at the age of 50, Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species. An explanation of the complex process of adaptation and the "principle by which each slight variation [of a trait], if useful, is preserved," Darwin's insights are now considered among the handful of most important scientific ...
20 Years After: What next for Europe 'whole and free'?
The changes that occurred following the end of the Cold War - beginning with the cutting of the fence on the Austria-Hungary boarder in June 1989, followed shortly thereafter by the fall of the Berlin Wall - ushered in a new era in relations among the nations of Europe and between those nations and ...
Stress-testing the European Union: The EU and the Global Financial Crisis
The EU has been transformed in the last decade by an enlargement beyond anyone's wildest dreams as of 25 years ago, and by the emergence of the Euro which has gathered strength as a prospective rival to the dollar. However, it is facing one of its greatest tests to date as it grapples with the most ...
American Studies Symposium-Globalization and American Popular Culture
The globalization of American popular culture has been the subject of much critical attention in recent years - particularly in debates questioning whether American culture bears primary responsibility for increasing global cultural homogenization or whether, on the contrary, it has facilitated the ...
Salzburg Global Fellowship Advisory Meeting
In preparation for the 2010 year of Fellowship programming, the Salzburg Global Seminar would like to consult you our Fellows, our key stakeholders, to explore how you would like to see the Fellowship develop its activities in terms of the themes we focus on; different approaches to what we do in seminars, ...
Preventing Genocide and Mass Violence: What can be learned from history?
Once Raphael Lemkin had coined the term 'genocide' in 1944 the paradigmatic case rapidly became the Holocaust, and it remains the first point of reference, with, if anything, growing academic and public interest around it in recent decades. How far does, or should, this paradigm influence the way policy-makers ...
Beijing Lecture and Reception
The Salzburg Global Seminar, in collaboration with Austrian Ambassador Martin Sajdik, will hold a reception for our Fellows on May 25, 2009 at the residence of the Austrian Ambassador in Beijing. The evening's presentation will address contemporary issues in EU-China relations. The Seminar's Vice President ...
Tokyo Lecture and Reception
The Salzburg Global Seminar, in collaboration with Ambassador Dr. Jutta Stefan-Bastl and the Austrian Ministry of European and International Affairs and Japanese Alumni Association, will hold a reception for our Fellows on May 8, 2009 at the residence of the Austrian Ambassador in Tokyo. The evening's ...
Democracy and Sustainability in Emerging Economies: India as a Case Study
India has been leading the world in the rapidity and extent of development in a democratic polity. What are the essential conditions which need to be in place to ensure that such development is sustainable, from the level of local communities through to the international community, and how can those ...
2010 There are two different but complementary problems facing policy makers in various countries that are calling out for change. In developed countries, there is concern that healthcare delivery systems are becoming overdeveloped and overspecialized, and that downsizing would yield more effective and ...
The Future of Asian Integration and Security in the 21st Century: Sharing Experience on Multilateralism and Institution-Building from Europe
As the Asians seek to manage their rapidly developing economic integration and evolving security landscape and try to develop sustainable strategies of cooperation for the future, Europe's experience of regional integration might provide useful lessons. This session will focus on the future of Asian ...
Islamic and International Law: Searching for Common Ground
Today, the majority of contemporary debates about Islamic law tend to focus on the Shari'a law tradition as a subjective doctrine rooted in strict religious code. However, the international law community, as well as the Islamic legal and scholarly community, both tend to speak in categorical terms when ...
Health and Healthcare Seminar Series I. Reforming Health Care: Maintaining Social Solidarity and Quality in the Face of Economic, Health and Social Challenges
All countries are facing an economic downturn which is acute but may have lasting effects. At the same time there are other significant challenges to healthcare arising from the increasing prevalence of chronic disease, longer life expectancy, the cost and possibilities of new technologies and changing ...
Women and Economic Growth: Making Investments Count for the Future
"Forget China, India and the internet: economic growth is driven by women" - The Economist.
In recent years there has been both scholarship and experience across the globe that the empowerment and advancement of women is critical not only to women and their families but to vibrant democracies and ...
Optimizing Talent: Closing Educational and Social Mobility Gaps Worldwide
Education provides an essential key for opening the door that permits every individual to realize his or her true potential. Ideally, an equitable and effective educational system facilitates social mobility and leads to the growth, development, and increased prosperity of societies. While great strides ...
Strengthening Cooperation Between the US and East Asia
What Turkey? What Europe? Turkey's strategic position in Europe and the Middle East, and close ties with Russia and other former Soviet states, make it impossible to ignore. The country's negotiations for EU membership are proceeding very slowly and with no certainty of a successful outcome, while the Cyprus problem remains ...
The Performing Arts in Lean Times: Opportunities for Reinvention
The current global economic downturn and the resultant tough strategic choices that arts organizations face about the scope and scale of their work both present a rare opportunity for cultural leaders. Now more than ever arts leaders will need to be able to define and articulate the value the arts provide ...
The Global Prevention of Genocide: Learning From the Holocaust
Today, many states have recognized the importance of teaching about the Holocaust and using it as a mechanism for preventing racism, ethnic conflict, and genocide. There are a growing number of state mandates, as well as impressive private initiatives, that seek to achieve this. Nevertheless, at the ...
Mellon Fellow Community Initiative - Colleges and Universities as Sites of Global Citizenship
From October 30 - November 6, 2010, the Salzburg Global Seminar conducted a meeting of the Mellon Fellow Community Initiative (MFCI) entitled, Colleges and Universities as Sites of Global Citizenship.
Colleges and Universities as Sites of Global Citizenship
With the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this ongoing, multi-year program ... From July 9 - 16, 2010, the Salzburg Global Seminar conducted the 41st International Study Program on Global Citizenship. This program, for college and university faculty, administrators, and staff was held in conjunction with Bronx Community College, Houston Community College, the Louisiana Community ...
Global Citizenship: America and the World
From May 26 - June 4, 2010, the Salzburg Global Seminar conducted the 40th International Study Program on Global Citizenship. This particular program was held in conjunction with Houston Community College, Iowa State University, San Diego City College, San Jose State University, and the University of ...
Global Citizenship: America and the World
From May 19 - 26, 2010, the Salzburg Global Seminar conducted the 39th International Study Program on Global Citizenship. This particular program was held in conjunction with the City Colleges of Chicago, Louisiana Community and Technical College System, Seminole State College, and Tarrant County College.
In ...
International Study Program on Global Citizenship (ISP 38)
From March 27 - April 3, 2010, the Salzburg Global Seminar conducted the 38th International Study Program on Global Citizenship. This particular program was held in conjunction with Bronx Community College, Kingsborough Community College and Queensborough Community College - all of CUNY.
In an age ...
Global Citizenship: America and the World (ISP 37)
From March 4-11, 2010, the Salzburg Global Seminar conducted the 37th International Study Program on Global Citizenship. This particular program was held in conjunction with Miami Dade College.
In an age of globalization which increasingly brings people in contact with other cultures as a result ...
2010-2011 Winter Festival
The 2010-2011 Winter Festival will ring in the New Year in style! The program gives Salzburg Global Fellows and friends of the Seminar a wonderful winter holiday while also providing intellectual stimulus for those who want it - in the tradition of the Salzburg Global Seminar.
The Salzburg Global Fellowship: Seeking an Interdisciplinary Community for Egypt
So, if you're interested ... It is a pleasure to invite you to a meeting to renew the Salzburg Global Fellowship in Egypt. This is an organizational meeting to establish a formal structure for the Fellowship in the region. There are nearly 400 members of the Salzburg Global Fellowship currently residing in Egypt and the Planning ...
Enforcing the Laws of War: Modern day challenges to the Geneva Conventions
Now 60 years old, the four Geneva Conventions and their two Additional Protocols have been ratified by more countries than are members of the United Nations. But they are also being ever more severely tested. Modern warfare and efforts to combat terrorism have sparked debates on such issues as the definition ...
Memories of Salzburg: Evening Social for Salzburg Global Fellows
This magical evening of memories and stories about the Seminar and the Schloss will offer cocktails and hors d'oeuvres as well as recollections from two men intimately involved in the Seminar's early days. Join other Fellows in the Philadelphia area and share your own stories of time spent at Schloss ... According to the McKinsey Global Institute's report, "Preparing for China's urban billion," 350 million people will have joined the ranks of China's urban population by the year 2025 and the total urban population will reach one billion by 2030. Such dramatic change portends serious consequences not ...
American Studies Symposium -To Honor Emory Elliott: "American Literary History in a New Key"
Emory Elliott's career both spanned and helped define the changes in the literary canon and in the ways we approach cultural texts that have characterized American studies during these years before and after the turn of the 21st century. When Emory went to college, a book like 12 American Authors ...
Salzburger Festspiele Cooperation 2010 - Midsummer's Night's Dream
On each evening in the park setting, an audience of about 150 people was fortunate enough to lounge on comfortable podia distributed on the green in a true midsummer night. One could not help thinking that the visitors were staged as well, that they were a part of a picnic scene from a Jane Austen novel ...
The Do's and Don'ts of Intervention
The last two decades have seen the rise and fall of doctrines around liberal intervention, including suppositions about consequences for security, managing economic recovery and the building up of political institutions, and exit. Whatever the rights and wrongs of an initial intervention, once undertaken, ...
Mobilizing Democracy to Tackle Climate Change
Rapid, effective and fair action on climate change calls for radical innovation in democratic decision-making and in the mobilisation of citizens and organisations to act differently. Unsustainable models of economic growth and consumption dominate political discourse yet there are few examples of ...
Global Labor Migration and its Impact on Asia
According to the New York Times, some 3% of the world's population lived outside their country of birth in 2005. While this single-figure percentage may seem rather minute, that 3% represents almost 190 million ...
Sustainable Futures Academy: Executive Leadership for Sustainability
The first pilot program to be developed will focus on Executive Leadership Development for Sustainability. There is a profound lack of targeted sustainability programs for executive leaders both in the higher education sector and for other types of large employers. There is also general consensus that ...
The Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change
There is no global issue, no political arena, no academic discipline in which the statement of problems and the framing of possible solutions are not influenced by media coverage. The Salzburg Academy, a joint program of the Salzburg Global Seminar in Salzburg, Austria, and the University of Maryland's ...
2011
The Challenges of Transition: Sharing Experience
2011 has witnessed a dramatic wave of largely non-violent popular protest right across the Arab world. In January and February the Tunisian and Egyptian regimes were both swept away, and almost every other government in the region has since come under intense pressure. The main mobilizing slogans of ...
Optimizing Talent: Closing Educational and Social Mobility Gaps Worldwide
While education is essential for an individual to realize his or her true potential, ideally an equitable and effective education system also facilitates social mobility and leads to the development and increased prosperity of societies as a whole. Great strides have been made in providing enhanced ...
Transforming Agricultural Development and Production in Africa: Closing Gender Gaps and Empowering Rural Women in Policy and Practice
As private investors and the world's major donors, from multilateral institutions, national governments, and foundations, focus anew on the role of agricultural development in creating stable and sustainable food supplies and improving national economies, it is critical that the full range of human ...
Economic Growth and Social Protection in Asia: What lessons learned can be exchanged between Asia and the rest of the world?
Most Asian economies have managed to rebound quickly after the recent economic crisis and are expected to continue leading the global recovery. At the same time, the crisis and the social distress it created have highlighted the need to rethink previous models of economic growth and to strengthen social ...
Libraries and Museums in an Era of Participatory Culture
As key stewards of our culture and heritage, libraries and museums have traditionally enjoyed, and to a great extent still do enjoy, a unique role and special responsibility within societies around the world. But as economic disruptions and rapid technological innovation have brought about dramatic ...
Health and Healthcare Series III, Innovating for Value in Health Care Delivery:
Better Cross-Border Learning, Smarter Adaptation and Adoption
Countries around the world and across the range of wealth of nations are struggling to achieve the goal of providing their citizens with effective and efficient health care. With the intensifying challenges of the coming generation - fiscal pressures, demographic shift, the impacts of climate change ...
The Rule of Law in a Globalized World: Why it Matters
The rule of law as an essential ingredient in the economic development of nations is a universally accepted principle that must guide not only developed economies but more importantly, the nascent entrepreneurial economies in Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and elsewhere, which thirst for ...
Freeman Symposium: Strengthening Cooperation Between the US and East Asia
The 2011 Freeman Foundation Symposium will focus on several major areas of US-East Asian relations, starting with a broad assessment of the state of the Asia-Pacific region, key political, economic and security trends in East Asia and policy implications for the US. Participants will explore region's ...
Instrumental Value: The Transformative Power of Music
Music moves something deep inside of us. We have all sensed that phenomenal, almost indescribable power of music: it soothes, delights, agitates, unsettles, transforms, energizes, and inspires. Music expresses the inexpressible and connects things that cannot be connected in any other way. It transcends ...
New Rules for Global Finance: Which kinds of regulation are useful and which are counterproductive?
The recent financial crisis not only exposed many deficiencies in the financial sectors around the world, but threatened the very foundations of the global economy. Authorities in the US, Europe and Asia pledged to undertake a serious overhaul of their financial regulation systems and to cooperate better ...
The Second Annual Lloyd N. Cutler Lecture on the Rule of Law: "An American International Law?"
The Lloyd N. Cutler Lecture on the Rule of Law honors the memory of the Lloyd N. Cutler, who served the Salzburg Global Seminar for more than two decades as Board Chair, Faculty leader and mentor to countless Salzburg fellows around the world. The Cutler Lectureship is presented annually in Washington, ...
Mellon Fellow Community Initiative - Colleges and Universities as Sites of Global Citizenship
Colleges and Universities as Sites of Global Citizenship Colleges and universities are vital institutions for addressing political, social, and economic concerns, be they at a local, national, or global level. While embedded in their communities, they contribute substantially to a nation's competitiveness and operate within an increasingly international environment ...
Global Citizenship: At Home and in the World
In an age of globalization which increasingly brings people in contact with other cultures as a result of changing social, political, and economic activities and technological advances, the need to understand international affairs, to recognize cultural values other than our own, and to understand world ...
Global Citizenship: At Home and in the World
In an age of globalization which increasingly brings people in contact with other cultures as a result of changing social, political, and economic activities and technological advances, the need to understand international affairs, to recognize cultural values other than our own, and to understand world ...
Global Citizenship: At Home and in the World
In an age of globalization which increasingly brings people in contact with other cultures as a result of changing social, political, and economic activities and technological advances, the need to understand international affairs, to recognize cultural values other than our own, and to understand world ...
Global Citizenship: At Home (and?) in the World
In an age of globalization which increasingly brings people in contact with other cultures as a result of changing social, political, and economic activities and technological advances, the need to understand international affairs, to recognize cultural values other than our own, and to understand world ...
Mellon Fellow Community Initiative Student Seminar on Global Citizenship: America and the World
In an age of globalization which increasingly brings people in contact with other cultures as a result of changing social, political, and economic activities and technological advances, the need to understand global issues and international affairs, to recognize cultural values other than our own, and ...
Max Reinhardt Invites... A Masked Ball at Schloss Leopoldskron
For one night only, the Salzburg Global Seminar and Max Reinhardt, the famous theater impresario of the early twentieth century, invite you to join in a spectacular Commedia dell' Arte promenade performance and masked ball at our magnificent home, Schloss Leopoldskron. This New Year, the party will ...
Health, Healthcare, and Climate Change
The increasing risks posed by climate change have to be considered in most areas of public policy, and a particularly significant one for human well-being is health and health care. This will in turn be likely to impact upon societies and economies across the globe, though disproportionately in the ...
Gaps in the "Common Spaces"? The Future of Russia-EU Relations
As recent Russia-EU summits have shown, while relations on the continent have come a long way in the past 20 years, there are still a wide range of issues on which both sides must still strain to reach a semblance of common ground. The European Union and Russia are tightly economically bound - the EU ...
Continuity and Change in US Presidential Foreign Policy: Plans, Policies and Doctrines
This symposium will focus on comparative developments, continuity and changes in the international role and policies of the United States of post- war presidential administrations, with a special emphasis on the Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations. The purpose of the symposium is to gain historical ...
Salzburger Festspiele Cooperation 2011 - Midsummer's Night's Dream
In 2010, an audience of about 150 people was fortunate enough to lounge on comfortable podia distributed on the green in a true midsummer night. One could not help thinking that the visitors were staged as well, that they were a part of a picnic scene from a Jane Austen novel at the turn of the nineteenth ...
Learning to Live Together in the 21st Century: How can schools best enhance community relations and inclusion?
Schools try to set, or negotiate, norms of attitude and behavior which have considerable potential impact on the educational achievement of diverse ethnic, religious and cultural groups, and on the relations between those groups within a school's boundaries and beyond in larger communities. 'Inclusion' ...
Global Citizenship and the International Rule of Law
In an age of new international tensions and shifting global alliances, the need for citizens of every nation to understand international affairs, to recognize cultural values other than their own, and to view world events from a variety of perspectives, has become increasingly critical. Climate change, ...
New England Fellowship Gathering
Made possible through the generous support of the Bostonian Society and the de Sola Pool Family, this evening lecture and reception will prove an opportunity to both relive the Salzburg experience and re-connect to the Seminar's network of Fellows and upcoming program. The program will begin at 6:00 ...
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2012
Towards a Manifesto for Democracy and Sustainable Development
Democracy and the rule of law get taken for granted in many parts of the world - even when voter turn-out dwindles and decision-making is paralyzed. Yet globalization, climate change and global economic slow-down are already highlighting the shortcomings of democracy in action. Looking forwards - especially ...
China in the 21st Century: What Kind of World Power?
The program of annual sessions on Asia will continue in 2012 with a session on "China in the 21st Century: What Kind of World Power?" The event-modeled partly on "The US in the World", held immediately after President Obama's election in November 2008-will closely follow the formal inauguration of the ...
Philanthropy in Times of Crisis and Transition: Catalyzing Forces of Change
What are the best options and strategies for philanthropy - especially private charitable institutions - to help build and sustain open and more equitable societies, especially during and emerging from times of crisis?
Cultural Dialogue in International Security Institutional philanthropy continues to grow rapidly around the globe and ... The Case of Russia and the Euro-Atlantic Community The two decades since the end of the Cold War have seen twists and turns in the relationship between Russia and the Euro-Atlantic Community. While at times there has been a creative focus on common interests, at other times there have been stand-offs reminiscent of the Soviet era. In 2009, noting the ...
Realizing the Right to Health: How can a rights-based approach best contribute to the strengthening, sustainability and equity of access to medicines and health systems?
Health is a fundamental right recognized in numerous international instruments, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Despite significant improvements, access to health care services - and, in particular, equitable access - remains a major challenge facing developing countries: the desire ...
Salzburg Global Forum for Young Cultural Leaders
The Salzburg Global Seminar and National Arts Strategies (based in Alexandria, Virginia) will launch an annual leadership development forum for young cultural leaders from around the globe in October 2012. The Salzburg Forum will provide a unique learning opportunity for "next generation" cultural ...
Value vs. Profit: Recalculating ROI in Financial and Social Terms
The world is in crisis and acute societal needs are continuing to grow. Traditional approaches to philanthropy, while supporting progress in many arenas, have fallen short of addressing the world's most challenging issues. The business community, in particular, has historically been an underutilized ...
Optimizing Talent - Closing Education and Social Mobility Gaps Worldwide: Higher Education and Lifelong Learning
Education provides an essential key to realizing true individual potential. Ideally, an equitable and effective educational system facilitates social mobility and leads to the development and increased prosperity of its citizens, and thus of societies as a whole. While great strides have been made in ...
Financial Regulation: Bridging Global Differences
In response to the global financial crisis, regulatory authorities in the US, Europe and Asia undertook at the request of the G-20 an overhaul of their financial regulation systems with the aim of monitoring better systemic risk posed by market activities, and ensuring more effective supervision of ...
15th Annual Freeman Salzburg Symposium on Dynamic Asia: Strategies for a Common Future
Vibrant economic growth and social development across East and Southeast Asia continues to shift the center of gravity in the world economy toward the Pacific. Asia is actively shaping its own future through increased regional trade and cooperation, and this in turn is triggering reassessment of its ...
The Future of the Multilateral Trading System and the World Trade Organization
With the protracted negotiations on the Doha Trade Round stalled, the implications for the multilateral trading system and indeed the World Trade Organization (WTO) itself are daunting. Do the stalled talks threaten the operation of other parts of the WTO, such as dispute settlement, which operate ...
Public and Private Cultural Exchange-Based Diplomacy:
New Models for the 21st Century
At the onset of the 21st century, cultural diplomacy is encountering new challenges as policymakers, artists, and cultural leaders adapt to a rapidly changing global environment. This change is being driven by multiple factors, including the emergence of a multi-polar world, the growing influence of ...
Making Health Care Better in Low and Middle Income Economies: What are the next steps and how do we get there?
This seminar will provide an opportunity to review progress and accomplishments in improving healthcare quality and safety in lower and middle income economies, and to synthesize lessons learned to date in order to determine what is needed to take this effort to the next level. We will convene participants ...
Unlocking the Debt Conundrum: Paths to Growth and Fiscal Sustainability
Planning Workshop
The global economic and financial crisis put public finances under strain across the globe. Governments provided large-scale support to the financial sector, and, as the crisis spread to the real economy, also designed extensive fiscal stimulus packages, which together with revenue decline led to increases ...
Salzburg Cutler Fellows Program
The Salzburg Global Seminar, in partnership with nine of the top U.S. law schools, is launching a one-of-a-kind program for second-year students interested in international law and legal practice in the fall of 2012. Named for Lloyd N. Cutler, the Salzburg Cutler Fellows Program will convene 45 students ...
The Third Annual Lloyd N. Cutler Lecture on the Rule of Law
The Lloyd N. Cutler Lecture on the Rule of Law honors the memory of Lloyd N. Cutler, who served the Salzburg Global Seminar for more than two decades as Board Chair, Faculty leader and mentor to countless Salzburg fellows around the world. The Cutler Lectureship is presented annually in Washington, ...
USHMM Genocide Prevention Expert Planning Meeting
This multi-year project is being developed in partnership with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum under the direction of Michael Abramowitz, (Director, Committee on Conscience, USHMM) and seeks to improve the chances that genocide can in future be halted, deterred or otherwise prevented, based ...
Learning from the Past: Global Perspectives on Holocaust Education
From June 27-July 1 2012, the Salzburg Global Seminar hosted an intensive, in-depth, international symposium examined the role of the Holocaust as a reference point for educators around the world who teach about human rights and other genocides. In particular, this symposium focused on the work that ...
Colleges and Universities as Sites of Global Citizenship
The Salzburg Global Seminar's 54th International Study Program on Global Citizenship (ISP) entitled Colleges and Universities as Sites of Global Citizenship session was held at Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg, Austria from July 8-15, 2012. Forty-five participants from colleges and universities ...
Global Citizenship: At Home and in the World
In an age of globalization which increasingly brings people in contact with other cultures as a result of changing social, political, and economic activities and technological advances, the need to understand international affairs, to recognize cultural values other than our own, and to understand world ...
Global Citizenship: At Home and in the World
In an age of globalization which increasingly brings people in contact with other cultures as a result of changing social, political, and economic activities and technological advances, the need to understand international affairs, to recognize cultural values other than our own, and to understand world ...
Global Citizenship: At Home and in the World
In an age of globalization which increasingly brings people in contact with other cultures as a result of changing social, political, and economic activities and technological advances, the need to understand international affairs, to recognize cultural values other than our own, and to understand world ...
Global Citizenship: At Home and in the World
In an age of globalization which increasingly brings people in contact with other cultures as a result of changing social, political, and economic activities and technological advances, the need to understand international affairs, to recognize cultural values other than our own, and to understand world ...
2012-2013 Winter Festival: A New Year's Celebration
Friday, December 28
Screening America: Film and Television in the 21st Century
Ornate iron gates swing open. Arrive at the beautiful Schloss Leopoldskron, your Rococo palace home for the next 6 nights! Roam the Chinese and Venetian rooms, the Chapel, and the Marble Hall. Discover the hidden staircase in the old-world library, learning about the history ... The Salzburg Seminar American Studies Association (SSASA) is organizing a four day symposium on American film and television, to be held at the Salzburg Global Seminar, Salzburg, Austria, from November 15-19, 2012. All activities will take place at the historic Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg, Austria, ...
Resistance and Readiness: Immigration, Nativism and the Challenge of Ethnic and Religious Diversity in the US and Europe Today
A special four day symposium organized by the Salzburg Seminar American Studies Association will be held at the Salzburg Global Seminar, Salzburg, Austria from September 27-October 1, 2012. The symposium is open to individuals working in the field of the topic; most participants will be university ...
Next Generation Leadership for Egypt
The mass movement which led to the overthrow of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak signaled desire of many Egyptians not only for a change of government, but also for a generational change in the country's power structures. The protestors were, to a great extent, much younger than the political ...
Good Behaviors: The Crucial Connection between Health and Education
Throughout the world the burden of chronic disease has been growing, and much of this relates to lifestyle choices. For all the successes of well-resourced and effective campaigns around key issues - such as tobacco, nutrition and exercise, drugs and alcohol, and sexually transmitted infections - the ...
Transcending Borders: The Intersections of Art, Science, Technology, and Society on a Global Stage
Save the date and join the international dialogue around the nexus of art, science, technology, and society in the 21st century on Monday, June 4th, convened by the Salzburg Global Seminar, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Embassy of Austria in Washington, DC.
Islam in the West: Alternative Visions
Today's artists and ... Islam is more often stereotyped than understood in much of the media. What impact can cultural initiatives make to counteract easy caricatures? Can such well-intentioned initiatives avoid simplistic or homogenized views of the highly diverse Islamic tradition in which religious divisions can also ... The Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change is a multi-dimensional initiative that provides curricular materials, training and support for journalism schools, programs and classrooms across the world. It is organized through a network of participating universities in China, East Africa, the Middle ...
2013
The Drive for Universal Health Coverage: Ensuring Greater Access to High-Value Care
The drive for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is gathering momentum. In a move described as 'momentous', the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution endorsing UHC and urging governments to provide access to affordable health care. There is also strong support for UHC to feature in the ...
Transforming Investment Cultures: Creating Incentives for Sustainable Enterprise
Too much money chasing too few goods is a common definition of inflation. But how do we describe a situation where too little capital is producing too little good? Faced with widening inequality and diminishing natural assets, how can we redirect more capital to generate not just more money, but also ...
People, Peace and Planet: Future-Proofing Asia for 2030
Turning today's challenges into tomorrow's opportunities is the main task that aspiring, young leaders are facing around the globe. The session will offer a platform for young professionals to discuss and exchange innovative pathways to 2030 for Asia and beyond.
Getting Transition Right: A Rights-Based Approach Towards Diversity Management
While Asia remains one of the ... Recent political transitions, notably those in the Arab/MENA region, show how exclusion - from decision-making processes, economic opportunity, social equality - leads people to create new channels to proclaim their rights. In mass numbers women and men across the MENA region protested, demanding to ...
Salzburg Global Forum for Young Cultural Leaders II
The Salzburg Global Seminar and National Arts Strategies will convene their second annual leadership development forum for young cultural leaders from around the globe in October 2013. The Salzburg Global Forum will provide a unique learning opportunity for the most promising "next generation" cultural ...
Africa's Growth Engine: Breaking Down Barriers to Rural Enterprise Development
According to the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), poverty remains largely a rural phenomenon and, despite a broad range of natural and human resources, is in abundant evidence in Africa. The World Bank's 2012 Ease of Doing Business Index ranks only four African ...
Out of the Shadows: Regulation for the Non-Banking Financial Sector
This is the third seminar in the Salzburg Global Seminar series that takes a forward look at changing regulatory environment and business models, explores interactions between technological innovation and regulation an d re-appraises ethical issues raised by finance, bringing together different disciplines ...
A Climate for Change: New Thinking on Governance for Sustainability
As the 21st century advances, the world faces worsening challenges to economic prosperity, human wellbeing, and environmental integrity - directly impacting life chances for upcoming generations. We recognize the problems but still struggle to secure fast, fair and inclusive progress towards a more ...
LGBTand Human Rights: New Challenges, Next Steps
LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) issues and human rights have been rising steadily up the international agenda. South Africa spearheaded the first UN Resolution on Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (supported by Brazil and 39 other countries), Argentina adopted landmark ...
Power in Whose Palm? The Digital Democratization of Photography
Photography has transformative power and an extraordinary capacity to affect social change. Images from Syria, Tahrir Square or the Vietnam War photograph of the naked, nine-year old Kim Phúc fleeing a napalm attack... These images stay with us, they shape our opinions, change our minds. As Susan Sontag ...
Salzburg Cutler Fellows Program: Future of Public and Private International Law
Salzburg Global Seminar, in partnership with nine of the top US law schools, launched in 2012 a one-of-a-kind program for law students interested in international law and public service. Named for presidential adviser and Salzburg Seminar Board Chair Lloyd N. Cutler, the Salzburg Cutler Fellows Program ...
Education for Global Citizenship: What, Why and How?
In an age of globalization which increasingly brings people in contact with other cultures as a result of changing social, political, and economic activities and technological advances, the need to understand international affairs, to recognize cultural values other than our own, and to understand ...
Global Citizenship: At Home and in the World
In an age of globalization which increasingly brings people in contact with other cultures as a result of changing social, political, and economic activities and technological advances, the need to understand international affairs, to recognize cultural values other than our own, and to understand ...
Pathways to Global Citizenship: Roots and Routes
In an age of globalization which increasingly brings people in contact with other cultures as a result of changing social, political, and economic activities and technological advances, the need to understand international affairs, to recognize cultural values other than our own, and to understand ...
Global Citizenship: Ethics and Engagement
In an age of globalization which increasingly brings people in contact with other cultures as a result of changing social, political, and economic activities and technological advances, the need to understand international affairs, to recognize cultural values other than our own, and to understand ...
Global Citizenship and Universal Human Rights (Miami Dade College)
The Global Citizenship Program is a program offered by the Salzburg Global Seminar that provides and promotes global citizenship education in cooperation with a variety of individual and institutional partners. Global citizens are people who have developed the knowledge, skills, tools, values, and commitment ...
Sustainability and the City: America and the Urban WorldSalzburg Seminar American Studies Association (SSASA)
By the year 2060, 70% of the world's population will live in cities, cities where goods and ideas are exchanged, where the arts thrive and people from different races, backgrounds, religions and values mix. They are financial, business, political and cultural centers, places of expanding possibilities ...
Getting to Grips with Obesity
Obesity has been recognized in the last decade as a global epidemic. No longer confined to the developed world, it is a problem which affects almost every region, with only South and East Asia relatively unaffected. One billion adults are estimated to be overweight, with a further 475 million clinically ...
Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change
The Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change is a multi-dimensional initiative that provides curricular materials, training and support for journalism schools, programs and classrooms across the world. It is organized through a network of participating universities in China, East Africa, the Middle ...
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