Forum Berlin
Politics and Academia in Dialogue promotes dialogue between international political players and key research figures. The biennial conferences provide a platform for discussing urgent issues and challenges affecting the entire international community. With the "Forum Berlin" conference, we are seeking to showcase Berlin as a city that is leading the way in reflecting on the opportunities and risks presented to the world by the post-1989 era.
Berlin: A Place to Discuss Global Questions
In our networked global society, local events often have dramatic repercussions on the international community. Global problems call for internationally coordinated political strategies. International policy-making operates in a complex supranational environment – to a greater extent than national policy-making. Moreover, it is frequently influenced by national historical factors and is subject to interaction with business and society. There is a need for cross-disciplinary discussion of potential solutions to the problems facing society. And if strategies are to be successful in the long term, they must be based on a dialogue between political practitioners and academia.
Berlin is the ideal place for such a future-shaping dialogue. Over the past two decades, it has become home not only to federal ministries, embassies and a variety of associations and federations. In the immediate vicinity of the institutions concerned with day-to-day policy-making, we now have prestigious, globally operating research institutes, political science foundations and private universities, alongside the city’s three major universities, forming a source of cross-disciplinary knowledge about the interplay of political and social conditions – expertise that we must harness.
Kick-off event “1989-2009: Remembering for the Future”
The first Forum Berlin conference “1989-2009: Remembering for the Future” was held on 19 and 20 February 2009 and was organized by the Stiftung Zukunft Berlin in cooperation with the Governance Cluster of the Freie Universität Berlin and the Hertie School of Governance.
Forum Berlin 2011: Ten Years of 9/11: Politics, Language, Images in the 21st Century
After the kick-off event in 2009, Forum Berlin takes place for the second time on 28 and 29 May 2011. In panels with international and interdisciplinary participants, representatives of political and social sciences, politicians und media representatives are invited to discuss in how far 9/11 has changed our perception of the world.
Further information:
www.forum-berlin.eu
