SYMPOSIUM
DÜRNSTEIN
2022
CLIMATE:
SEISMOGRAPH FOR NATURE & SOCIETY
PROGRAM
The Dürnstein Symposium 2022 will again take place in Dürnstein Abbey. Here you will find the programme for the Dürnstein 2022 Symposium and further information on all speakers. Due to Corona changes may occur. Please inform yourself about the current status on our website.
Two lectures plus subsequent discussion rounds will be held in English. All other presentations will be in German and will not be translated.
Overview of all lectures
Thursday, March 24 2022
- 05:30 -
- 06:00 PM
- 06:00 -
- 06:15 PM
- 06:45 -
- 07:00 PM
Ursula Baatz, curator of the Symposion Dürnstein.
- 07:00 -
- 08:30 PM
Katharina Rogenhofer, Co-founder of "Fridays for Future", spokesperson for the climate referendum in Austria and author of the book "Changes nothing, changes everything".
Matthias Strolz, Austrian entrepreneur, author and former politician.
Sabine Herlitschka, vice president of the Federation of Austrian Industries and chairman of the Management Board of Infineon Technologies Austria AG.
Panel discussion: Mari Lang, Journalist, ORF
Moderation and panel discussion: Mari Lang, Journalist, ORF
Patron of honor: Governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner
Friday, March 25 2022
- 09:30 -
- 10:30 AM
Bernhard Pörksen, Professor of Media Studies, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.
- 10:30 -
- 11:00 AM
- 11:00 -
- 12:00 PM
The price of the future
Helga Kromp-Kolb, Professor (emer.) of Meteorology and Climate, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna in conversation with Benedikt Narodoslawsky, FALTER editor for climate and environment
- 12:00 -
- 12:30 PM
The climate generations contract
Sebastian Helgenberger, environmental scientist, Institute for Transformative Sustainability Research (IASS) Potsdam.
- 12:30 -
- 01:00 PM
Problem display: Climate change
Helga Kromp-Kolb and Sebastian Helgenberger.
Moderation: Benedikt Narodoslawsky
- 01:00 -
- 02:30 PM
- 01:40 -
- 02:30 PM
- 02:30 -
- 03:00 PM
The pressure of the atmosphere
Madalina Diaconu, University Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Vienna.
- 03:00 -
- 03:15 PM
Blaž Gasparini, climate scientist, Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna.
- 03:15 -
- 04:00 PM
Garbage collection for the global climate? Negative emissions future promise and business model
Nils Matzner, Sociologist of Science at the Department of Science, Technology and Society (STS), Technical University of Munich.
- 04:00 -
- 04:30 PM
Atmosphere habitat
Madalina Diaconu, Blaž Gasparini and Nils Matzner.
- 04:30 -
- 05:00 PM
- 05:00 -
- 05:30 PM
Why does nature have no rights, but a GmbH does? On the relationship between law, ethics and nature
Michaela Krömer, attorney at law of the law firm Krömer, St. Pölten.
- 05:30 -
- 06:30 PM
How many rights may (must) nature have?
Michaela Krömer, Susann Ahn, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning, Vienna University of Technology. Thomas E. Hauck, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning, Vienna University of Technology. Birgit Teufer, research associate at the Department of Business, IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems.
Moderation: Oliver Tanzer, URCHE editor for the business and international departments.
Moderation and discussion chair Joachim Schwendenwein, organizational consultant
Exhibition on all three days: "Act sustainably, but how?". Students of the KPH Vienna/Krems present their research and artistic contributions to the symposium topic with a view to the manifold ecological and social challenges of the textile industry. Direction: Sigrid Pohl, KPH Vienna/Krems, Academy of Applied Arts, Vienna.
Saturday, March 26 2022
- 09:30 -
- 10:30 AM
Sérgio Costa, University Professor of Sociology, Latinamerica Institute of the Free University of Berlin.
- 10:30 -
- 11:00 AM
- 11:00 -
- 11:45 AM
Tonny Nowshin, economist, climate justice and degrowth activist, Bangladesh/ Germany.
(Lecture in English)
- 11:45 -
- 12:30 PM
Mordecai Ogada, ecologist and executive director of Conservation Solutions Africa, Kenya.
(Lecture in English)
- 12:30 -
- 01:00 PM
Coexistence in times of climate crisis
Sérgio Costa, Tonny Nowshin and Mordecai Ogada.
- 01:00 -
- 02:00 PM
- 02:00 -
- 02:45 PM
Ernst Fürlinger, University for Continuing Education Krems, Research Lab Democracy and Society in Transition.
- 02:45 -
- 03:00 PM
- 03:00 -
- 03:45 PM
City Country Climate
Gernot Wagner, Austro-American climate economist, New York University, Visiting Professor Columbia Business School.
- 03:45 -
- 05:00 PM
Gernot Wagner, Johannes Pressl, Mayor of Ardagger and President of the Lower Austrian Association of Municipalities. Maria Vassilakou, internationally active consultant for urbantransformation strategies and transition management; 2010-2019 Vienna Deputy Mayor and Ernst Fürlinger.
Moderation:Doris Helmberger-Fleckl, editor-in-chief Die FURCHE.
Moderation and discussion chair Joachim Schwendenwein, organizational consultant
Exhibition on all three days: "Act sustainably, but how?". Students of the KPH Vienna/Krems present their research and artistic contributions to the symposium topic with a view to the manifold ecological and social challenges of the textile industry. Direction: Sigrid Pohl, KPH Vienna/Krems, Academy of Applied Arts, Vienna.
Thursday, March 24 2022
- 05:30 - 06:00 PM
Admission
- 06:00 - 06:15 PM
Opening
- 06:45 - 07:00 PM
The climate does not care about borders
- Lecture
Ursula Baatz, curator of the Symposion Dürnstein.
- 07:00 - 08:30 PM
"Austria in the climate crisis"
- Panel
Katharina Rogenhofer, Co-founder of "Fridays for Future", spokesperson for the climate referendum in Austria and author of the book "Changes nothing, changes everything".
Matthias Strolz, Austrian entrepreneur, author and former politician.
Sabine Herlitschka, vice president of the Federation of Austrian Industries and chairman of the Management Board of Infineon Technologies Austria AG.
Panel discussion: Mari Lang, Journalist, ORF
Friday, March 25 2022
- 09:00 - 09:20 AM
Morning impulse in the collegiate church with Provost Petrus Stockinger
- 09:30 - 10:30 AM
Fact & Fake. Scientific skepticism, conspiracy myths and the new power of disinformation in the digital age
- Lecture
Bernhard Pörksen, Professor of Media Studies, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.
- 11:00 - 12:00 PM
The price of the future
- Conversation
Helga Kromp-Kolb, Professor (emer.) of Meteorology and Climate, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna in conversation with Benedikt Narodoslawsky, FALTER editor for climate and environment
- 12:00 - 12:30 PM
The climate generations contract
- Lecture
Sebastian Helgenberger, environmental scientist, Institute for Transformative Sustainability Research (IASS) Potsdam.
- 12:30 - 01:00 PM
Problem display: Climate change
- Discussion
Helga Kromp-Kolb and Sebastian Helgenberger.
Moderation: Benedikt Narodoslawsky
- 01:40 - 02:30 PM
Guided tour of the permanent exhibition of the monastery "Discovering the Valuable" with Provost Petrus Stockinger.
Provost Petrus Stockinger
- 02:30 - 03:00 PM
The pressure of the atmosphere
- Lecture
Madalina Diaconu, University Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Vienna.
- 03:00 - 03:15 PM
Modifications of weather and climate: from weather ringing to geoengineering.
- Impulse Lecture
Blaž Gasparini, climate scientist, Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna.
- 03:15 - 04:00 PM
Garbage collection for the global climate? Negative emissions future promise and business model
- Lecture
Nils Matzner, Sociologist of Science at the Department of Science, Technology and Society (STS), Technical University of Munich.
- 04:00 - 04:30 PM
Atmosphere habitat
- Discussion
Madalina Diaconu, Blaž Gasparini and Nils Matzner.
- 05:00 - 05:30 PM
Why does nature have no rights, but a GmbH does? On the relationship between law, ethics and nature
- Lecture
Michaela Krömer, attorney at law of the law firm Krömer, St. Pölten.
- 05:30 - 06:30 PM
How many rights may (must) nature have?
- Discussion
Michaela Krömer, Susann Ahn, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning, Vienna University of Technology. Thomas E. Hauck, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning, Vienna University of Technology. Birgit Teufer, research associate at the Department of Business, IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems.
Moderation: Oliver Tanzer, URCHE editor for the business and international departments.
Saturday, March 26 2022
- 09:00 - 09:20 AM
Morning impulse in the collegiate church with Provost Petrus Stockinger
- 09:30 - 10:30 AM
The Convivialism: origins, dynamics and perspectives
- Lecture
Sérgio Costa, University Professor of Sociology, Latinamerica Institute of the Free University of Berlin.
- 11:00 - 11:45 AM
And the Global South? An urgent perspective (EN)
- Lecture
Tonny Nowshin, economist, climate justice and degrowth activist, Bangladesh/ Germany.
(Lecture in English)
- 11:45 - 12:30 PM
Climate and Environment: The new instruments of injustice (EN)
- Lecture
Mordecai Ogada, ecologist and executive director of Conservation Solutions Africa, Kenya.
(Lecture in English)
- 12:30 - 01:00 PM
Coexistence in times of climate crisis
- Discussion
Sérgio Costa, Tonny Nowshin and Mordecai Ogada.
- 02:00 - 02:45 PM
Combative hope. Religious positions on the climate crisis
- Lecture
Ernst Fürlinger, University for Continuing Education Krems, Research Lab Democracy and Society in Transition.
- 03:00 - 03:45 PM
City Country Climate
- Lecture
Gernot Wagner, Austro-American climate economist, New York University, Visiting Professor Columbia Business School.
- 03:45 - 05:00 PM
Out of the climate crisis: Issues for a global future
- Panel
Gernot Wagner, Johannes Pressl, Mayor of Ardagger and President of the Lower Austrian Association of Municipalities. Maria Vassilakou, internationally active consultant for urbantransformation strategies and transition management; 2010-2019 Vienna Deputy Mayor and Ernst Fürlinger.
Moderation:Doris Helmberger-Fleckl, editor-in-chief Die FURCHE.