Friday,
November 16, 2001
WELCOME
Opening Remarks
Prof. Gisbert Freiherr zu Putlitz, Chairman of the Board of the
Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz Foundation, Ladenburg
KEYNOTE
Diverse Networks as Drivers of our Learning on Organizational
Learning and Knowledge
Prof. Meinolf Dierkes, Director, Research Unit Organization and
Technology, Social Science Research Center Berlin
KEYNOTE
Social Sciences as Learning Systems
Prof. Neil Smelser, Director, Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, USA
 WORKSHOPS: SESSION I
Drawing on the Past and the Future for Learning
Prof. Jeffrey Fear, Harvard Business School
Graham Galer, Associate with the Global Business Network, UK
Chair: Prof. Jürgen Kocka, President, Social Science Research
Center Berlin
Fads and the Rediscovery of Good Old Ideas
Prof. Alfred Kieser, University of Mannheim
Prof. Keith MacMillan, Henley Management College, UK
Chair: Prof. Santiago García Echevarría, Universidad de Alcalá,
Spain
The Rationality and Emotionality of Learning
Prof. Risto Tainio, Helsinki School of Economics
Prof. Klaus Scherer, University of Geneva
Chair: Dr. Peter Frey, former Member of the Board, Swiss Re,
Germany
Creating Environments for Learning: Architecture and Design
Prof. Sheldon Rothblatt, Center for the Study of Higher
Education, University of California at Berkeley
Michael Wilford, Architect, UK
Chair: Arina Kowner, Vice President, Swiss Red Cross
KEYNOTE
Organizational Learning and Transformation:
The Role of Visions
Jürgen Dormann, Chairman of the Board, Aventis SA, France
GALA DINNER
A Tribute to Meinolf Dierkes
Prof. Ariane Berthoin Antal, Social Science Research Center
Berlin and Henley Management College
Saturday, November 17, 2001
 WORKSHOPS: SESSION II
Learning in the Private Sector
Prof. Zhang Xinhua, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, PR
China
Prof. John Stopford, London Business School
Chair: Thomas Sattelberger, Executive Vice President Products
and Services, Lufthansa AG, Germany
Learning in the Public Sector
Kickoff inputs for discussion:
Bernard Lord Donoughue of Ashton, House of Lords, UK
Wolfgang Nowak, Director General, Department of Political
Analysis and Planning, Federal Chancellery, Germany
Chair: Prof. Peter Pawlowsky, Chemnitz University of
Technology, Germany
Learning in Academic Organizations
Prof. Gert Asmuss, Tuck School of Management, USA, and Leipzig
Graduate School of Management
Prof. Björn Wittrock, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in
the Social Sciences
Chair: Konrad Schily, Deputy Chairman of the Board, University
of Witten-Herdecke, Germany
KEYNOTE
The Politics of Learning and Learning
in Politics
Prof. Joseph LaPalombara, Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political
Science and Management, Yale University, USA
WORKSHOPS: SESSION III
Technological Controversies as Opportunities for and Limits to
Learning
Prof. Todd LaPorte, University of California at Berkeley
Dr. Jürgen Kädtler, Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut
Göttingen, Germany
Chair: Prof. Josef Bugl, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of
the Academy for Technology Assessment Baden-Württemberg, Germany
 Power and Learning
Prof. Victor Friedman, Ruppin Institute, Israel
Dr. Camilla Krebsbach-Gnath, Partner K-G&D Management
Consultancy, Germany
Chair: Prof. Silvia Gherardi, University of Trento, Italy
How to Learn from the Environment about the Environment
Prof. Peter Knoepfel, Director, IDHEAP, Lausanne, Switzerland
Prof. Edwin M. Epstein, Professor Emeritus, University of
California at Berkeley
Chair: Prof. Wolfgang Michalski, Director, Advisory Unit to the
Secretary-General, OECD, Paris, France
KEYNOTE
"The Return of the Flood"– Learn to Walk by Walking
Robert Wilson, Theatre director, poet and artist, Watermill
Center, Long Island, USA
CONFERENCE ENDS
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