Reflections

The Reflections part of the programme has existed since the year 2002. It was developed to mark the first anniversary of the events of 9/11. It provides a unique international forum for the exchange of ideas. The dramatic course of events which occurred at the start of the millennium makes it clear that the need for resolution and explanation in the world is still growing, even in today's age of information and technology. The panel will discuss current provocative topics in areas of politics, economics and culture. In doing so, the shortfalls of public perception are disputed in a variety of different ways - rather than merely taking place within academic boundaries, it allows for interdisciplinary variety and diversity.

Participants of the Reflections programme

2008
Omar Akbar,  Dieter Bachmann, Güner Yasemin Balci, Azouz Begag, Klaus Brückner, Mario Calabresi, Bora Ćosić, Gwynne Dyer, Andreas Eckert, Uschi Eid, Carolin Emcke, Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla, Elisabeth Hack, Rolf Hosfeld, Leonie Joubert, Uazuvara Ewald Katjivena, Necla Kelek, Daniel Kempken, Grada Kilomba, Geert Mak, Ndidi Nnoli-Edozien, Sanusha Naidu, Rüdiger Safranski, Rickard F. Sandell, James Shikwati, Helmut Strizek, Ibrahima Thioub, Tzvetan Todorov, Elena Tregubova, Joachim Zeller

2007
Omar Akbar, Tariq Ali, Seyran Ateş, Gerhart Rudolf Baum, Ian Buruma, Oral Çalişlar, Karin Karakasli, Gerd Koenen, Hatzida Mehmedinovic, Fatema Mernissi, Andrej Nekrasow, Hasan Nuhanovic, Cem Özdemir, Tariq Ramadan, Thant Myint-U

2006
Wolfgang Ernst, Andreas Fulda, Roland S. Kamzelak, Necla Kelek, Leung Ping-Kwan, Stanley Lubman, Sohrab Mahdavi, Klaus Mühlhahn, Julien Pain, Jens Redmer, Beate Reifenscheid, Barbara Schneider-Kempf, Tilman Spengler, Hans Uszkoreit

2005
Robert A. Amsterdam, Apti Bisultanov, Mihran Dabag, Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Jacob Heilbrunn, Rolf Hosfeld,  Viktor Jerofejew, Adam Krzeminski, Ekkehard Maaß, Grigori M. Pasko, Andrei A. Piontkowski, Irina Prochorowa, Eberhard Rathgeb, Alexander Ryklin, Irina Scherbakowa, Lilia Schewzowa, Hans-Henning Schröder, Raf S. Shakirov, Elfie Siegl

2004
Mihran Dabag, Roméo Dallaire, Carla del Ponte, Alexander Demandt, Peter Eigen, Michel Friedman, Jörg Friedrich, Hannes Heer, Hans-Peter Kaul, Thomas Macho, Salah Negm, Rupert Neudeck, John Prendergast, Hazem Sagieh, Karl Schlögel, Hani Shukrallah, Natan Sznaider, Christian Tomuschat, Michael Warschawski, Ian Williams

2003
Tariq Ali, Amal al-Jubouri, Giovanni Bachelet, Hans Christoph Buch, Edoardo Ferrario, Paolo Flores d'Arcais, Ralf Fücks, Paul Ginsborg, Walter Haubrich, Richard Herzinger, Reinhard Hesse, Laennec Hurbon, Huber Matos, Herfried Münkler, Adolf Muschg, Iván de la Nuez, Rüdiger Safranski, Karl Schlögel, Richard Wagner, Uwe Wesel, Arno Widmann, Jean Ziegler

2002
Tariq Ali, Rainer Büren, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Manfred Flügge, Adel Karasholi, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Faraj Sarkohi, Winfried F. Schoeller, Johano Strasser, Thu Hien Vu