The World Knowledge Dialogue 2008 Entire Programme Download PDF Day One: Wednesday 10 September 2008 | 2:00pm / 3:00pm | Registration, tea & coffee | | 3:00pm / 3:10pm | Opening of the symposium - Welcome address
André Hurst, President, WKD Foundation | | 3:10pm / 3:25pm | Switzerland, a most fertile environment to grow and propagate the dialogue
Mauro Dell'Ambrogio, State Secretary for Education and Research, Switzerland | | Opening session | Knowledge, dialogue and responsibility
Chair: Dame Julia Higgins, Imperial College, London, and Author in residence, WKD 2006
See the Video | | 3:25pm / 3:35pm | Introduction: From the 2006 experiment to the 2008 dialogue
Dame Julia Higgins, Imperial College, London | | 3:35pm / 3:45pm | Lecture
Hon. Koji Omi, Founder and Chairman, STS Forum, Tokyo, Member, House of Representatives, Former Minister of Finance of Japan | | 3:45pm / 3:55pm | The knowledgeable and responsible person
Francis Waldvogel, Director, WKD | | 3:55pm / 4:55pm | Communication and cooperation: Conditions for a dialogue addressing fundamental problems of our time
Introduction, Moderation and Conclusions:
Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University, Scientist in residence for the second WKD symposium
Round Table:
Richard R Ernst (Nobel Laureate), ETH Zürich
Paul Boghossian, New York University
Veronica Boix-Mansilla, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Karuvannur P Mohanan, National University of Singapore
See the Video | | 4:55pm / 5:15pm | Break | | 5:15pm / 6:00pm | Keynote Lecture I: Knowledge and responsibility
John Sulston (Nobel Laureate), Institute of Science, Ethics and Innovation, University of Manchester - Open to the public
See the Video | | 6:00pm | Welcome cocktail and networking | Day Two: Thursday 11 September 2008 | Scientific Session 1 | Main topic 1: Collaborative behaviour, altruism and conflict: From animal to social and economic conduct
Chair: Ruth Dreifuss, former Federal Councillor and former President of the Swiss Confederation, Switzerland
See the Video | | 9:00am / 9:10am | Introduction
André Langaney, University of Geneva, Switzerland and The Muséum, Paris, France | | 9:10am / 9:40am | Survival strategies: Cooperation and conflict in animal societies
Raghavendra Gadagkar, Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, India | | 9:40am / 10:10am | Empathy, altruism, and fairness in nonhuman primates
Frans de Waal, Emory University, USA | | 10:10am / 10:40am | Trust and Cooperation in Social Relations
Karen S. Cook, Stanford University, USA | | 10:40am / 11:10am | Break | | 11:10am / 11:30am | Knowledge, dialogue and responsibility at the time of war: a humanitarian perspective
Jean-Pierre Hocké, Former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
See the Video | | 11:30am / 12:45pm | Discussion / Dialogue:
| | Raghavendra Gadagkar, Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, India
Frans de Waal, Emory University, USA
Karen S. Cook, Stanford University, USA
Jean-Pierre Hocké, Former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | | 12:45pm / 2:15pm | | Lunch | Poster session I | Workshop: Knowledge Dissemination and Media Responsibility
Chair: Michel Claessens, Belgium | | | 2:15pm / 3:00pm | Keynote Lecture II: Scientific enterprise and responsibility
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (Nobel Laureate), Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
Open to the public
See the Video | | 3:00pm / 3:15pm | Break | | Scientific Session 2 | Parallel study section based on main topic 1: Collaborative behaviour, altruism and conflict: From animal to social and economic conduct | | 3:15pm / 5:30pm | Science and technology in Society
Kyoto Forum
Moderator: Reiko Kuroda, Japan | Dialogue labs | Violence and Economic Development
Chair: Mathias Thoenig, Switzerland | Interdisciplinary cooperative strategies and conflicts in the scientific and academic world
Chair: Jean-Pierre Changeux, France | Responsibility and governance of the university: Cooperation between science and society
Chair: Ulrike Felt, Austria | | | 5:30pm / 6:00pm | Break | | 6:00pm / 7:00pm | Keynote Lecture III: Civilisation du numérique et intelligence connective
Connective intelligence and the digital society
Joël de Rosnay, Conseiller du Président, Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie; Président Exécutif, Biotics International
Open to the public
En français / In french - live translation
See the Video | Day Three: Friday 12 September 2008 | Scientific Session 3 | Main topic 2: Collective network knowledge and human individual intelligence: Convergences and divergences
Chair: Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, President, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, (AIST) Japan | | 9:00am / 9:10am | Introduction
Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, President, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, (AIST) Japan | | 9:10am / 9:40am | Expansion of collective intelligence and semantic web: «new» human mind?
Wendy Hall, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
See the Video | | 9:40am / 10:10am | Co-construction and sharing of knowledge through the web
Florence Devouard, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
See the Video | | 10:10am / 10:40am | Which new communities are emerging around the collective web knowledge technologies?
Pierre Lévy, University of Ottawa, Canada
See the Video | | 10:40am / 11:10am | Break | | 11:10am / 12:30pm | Discussion / Dialogue:
Wendy Hall, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Florence Devouard, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
Pierre Lévy, University of Ottawa, Canada
Chairperson: Geoffrey West, President, Santa Fe Institute, USA
See the Video | | | | | 12:30pm / 2:00pm | | | 2:00pm / 2:45pm | Keynote Lecture IV: Consilience and the Future of Biology
Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University, Scientisit in residence for the second WKD symposium
Open to the public
See the Video | | 2:45pm / 3:00pm | Break | | | Scientific Session 4
Parallel study section based on Main Topic 2: Collective Network Knowledge and Human Individual Intelligence: Convergences and Divergences | | 3:00pm / 5:00pm | Dialogue labs Abstracts session
Chair: Julia Higgins, UK | Transdisciplinary networks and knowledge sharing in universities
Chair: Georges Haddad, France | Regulation and control of knowledge
Chair: John Harris, UK | Networks and intelligence: from in vivo to in silico and back
Chair: Henry Markram, Switzerland | | | 5:00pm / 5:30pm | Break | | 5:30pm / 6:30pm | Keynote Lecture V: Astronomie et Écologie
Hubert Reeves, astrophysicist and popularizer of science, CNRS, France
Open to the public
En français / In french - Live translation
See the Video | | 7:15pm / 8:00pm | Concert: Drumming (part I) by Steve Reich - Living Room by John Cage
Third Construction by John Cage. Performed by the students of the Conservatoire de musique de Genève | | 8:15pm | Gala Dinner | Day Four: Saturday 13 September 2008 | Concluding session | The Dialogue: Means and outcomes
Chair: Francis Waldvogel, World Knowledge Dialogue Foundation | | 9:00am / 9:10am | Introduction
Francis Waldvogel, World Knowledge Dialogue Foundation | | 9:15am / 9:45am | A new dialogue for scientists and academicians: learning from our neighbours
Feedback from the workshops
See the Video | | 9:45am / 11:00am | Experimenting the dialogue: rules, tools, risks and new opportunities
Round Table and General Discussion
Moderation:
Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University, Scientist in residence for the second WKD symposium
Round Table:
Richard R Ernst (Nobel Laureate), ETH Zürich
Paul Boghossian, New York University
Noreen Golfman, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Canada
Dame Julia Higgins, Imperial College, London
See the Video | | 11:00am / 11:15am | Break | | 11:15am / 11:40am | Feedback from the young scientists
Feedback from the students
See the Video | | 11:40am / 12:00pm | Concluding remarks
Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University, Author in residence for the second WKD symposium
See the Video | | 12:00pm / 1:30pm | Farewell buffet | |
