Waldzell Meeting
The Waldzell Meetings were held annually from 2004 to 2008 in the Austrian Benedictine monastery Melk Abbey , each two or three-day international meetings . At the invitation of the Waldzell Institute , artists, intellectuals, scientists, managers, politicians and religious dignitaries came together to discuss “philosophical or societal issues” and the “challenges of the future”. The number of participants was strictly limited to 150 people per conference, with half of the places reserved for international participants.
The meetings were organized by the biotechnologist Gundula Maria Schatz and the education expert Andreas Salcher (until 2007), who jointly founded the Waldzell Institute in 2004 . The hosts of Melk Abbey were former Abbot Burkhard Ellegast and the incumbent Abbot Georg Wilfinger . The name Waldzell comes from Hermann Hesse's novel Das Glasperlenspiel .
Speakers
A total of 56 people spoke at the five meetings, including eight Nobel Prize winners and two Pritzker Prize winners .
- 2004: Allan M. Webber , Anton Zeilinger , Burkhard Ellegast , Carl Djerassi , David Goldberg , Günter Blobel , Helen Palmer , Kary Mullis , Mihály Csíkszentmihályi , Schirin Ebadi , Thomas Hampson
- 2005: Christian de Duve , Craig Venter , Franz Welser-Möst , Jonathan Wittenberg , Paulo Coelho , Tenzin Palmo , Thom Mayne
- 2006: Christo and Jeanne-Claude , Isabel Allende , Jan Lapidoth , Oscar Motomura , Robert Charles Gallo , Tony Lai , Walter Link , Werner Arber
- 2007: Ahmed el-Tayeb , David Rosen , David Steindl-Rast , Elizabeth Lesser , Frank Gehry , Tendzin Gyatsho , Archbishop Filip, Paul Nurse , Warren Bennis , William Strickland
- 2008: Bibi Russel , Bruce Lipton , Donald D. Hoffmann , Hein Dijksterhuis , Jean Shinoda Bolen , Jill Purce , John F. Demartini , John D. Marks , Muhammad Yunus (via video conference), Paramahamsa Prajnanananda, Pat Mitchell , Robert M. Williams , Rupert Sheldrake , Susan Collin Marks , Vanja Palmers , Willigis Jäger , Wolf Singer , Yousriya Loza Sawiris
Web links
- Official website of the Waldzell Institute
Individual evidence
- ^ Doing God's business , The Times , September 23, 2006. Retrieved September 24, 2011.