Ethical Fundaments of Globalization

(Status08/10/2010)

11-13 October 2010

Venue: Wallenberg Research Centre

Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (STIAS)
10 Marais Street, Stellenbosch.

Hotel: The Stellenbosch Hotel
c/o Dorp and Andringa Street;

Hosted by the EFSA Institute and the Social Chamber of the EKD (Germany)

coordination

Renier Koegelenberg

Sipho Mahokoto

Marlene Mahokoto

EFSA INSTITUTE

NRASD SECRETARIAT

Tel.: 021 880-1734

Mobile: 083-6251047

Fax.: 021 880-1734

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Monday 11, 2010

14h00 – 14h30Coffee and refreshments

14h30 – 15h00Welcome introduction

Ivan Abrahams

Renier Koegelenberg and Heinrich Bedford-Strohm

(Conference hosts)

Mutual introduction of participants

16h00 – 17h00State of the debate on globalization in the churches

Klaus Heidel

Nico Koopman

Heinrich Bedford-Strohm

Discussion

18h30 – 19h30Role of the churches and Role of Economics

Thabo Makgoba

Gehard Wegner

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19h30– 20h30Dinner: Nico Koopman, Dean of Faculty of Theology SU

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TUESDAY 12OCTOBER 2010

08h30 – 09h00 Arrival

09h00 – 10h00The State of the debate on globalization in Economics

Gustav Adolf Horn

Pieter le Roux

Stan du Plessis

10h00 – 11h00Discussion

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11h00 – 11h30Refreshments

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11h30 – 12h00Points of disagreement and its reasons (Interests? Values?)

12h00 – 12h30Open Discussion

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12h30– 14h00Lunch

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14h00 – 15h00What can work? Economic Strategies for a reorientation of globalization

Gustav Adolf Horn

Malcolm Damon

15h00-16h00Discussion

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16h00 – 16h30Refreshments

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18h30 – 19h30Dinner

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WEDNESDAY 13 October 2010

08h30 – 09h00 Arrival

09h00 – 10h00What can the Churches in the North do?

Cornelia Coenen-Marx, Ruth Gütter

10h00 – 11h00What can the Churches in the South do?

Jerry Pillay

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11h00 – 11h30Refreshments

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11h30 – 13h00Outline for a new “representative consensus” on the future of globalization

Heinrich Bedford-Strohm (short impuls)

Where do we go from now?

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13h00 – 14h00Lunch & end of meeting

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Practical Arrangements

Renier Koegelenberg; e-mail: , tel: (27) 021-8801734, Mobile 083-6251047

Sipho Mahokoto, ; e-mail , tel: (27) 021-808 2789, Mobile 083-7453405

Marlene Mahokoto; , tel: (27) 021-808 2789, Mobile 072-3445972

All the participants will stay over in the Stellenbosch Hotel, in the centre of historic Stellenbosch. We will arrange shuttles from airport to hotel, as well as from hotel to STIAS

Participants

South Africa

Ivan Abrahams, Presiding Bishop, MethodistChurch

Malcolm Damon, Economic Justice Network, Cape Town

Stan du Plessis, Prof., Economics, StellenboschUniversity

Renier Koegelenberg, EFSA Institute, Stellenbosch

Nico Koopman, Prof. Dean, Theology, StellenboschUniversity(SU)

Pieter le Roux, Economics, University of the Western Cape, Bellville

Christo Lombard, Prof. Religious Studies, University of the Western Cape, Bellville

Thabo Makgoba, Dr., Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town

Welile Mazamisa, Dr., EFSA Institute, Stellenbosch

Jerry Pillay, Dr., Presbyterian Church, President of World Communion of Reformed Churches

Sampie Terreblanche, Prof., Economics (retired), StellenboschUniversity

(Some of the South African Participants can only attend specific sessions)

Germany

Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, Prof, University of Bamberg, Germany

Gerhard Wegner, Prof..(retired), Max Planck Institute, Mainz, Germany

Cornelia Coenen-Marx,Referentin Sozial- und Gesellschaftspolitische Fragen, Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland (EKD), Head Office

Ruth Gütter, Dr.,Referentin für Afrika und Entwicklungspolitik, Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland (EKD), Head Office

Klaus Heidel, Klaus Heidel, Werkstatt Ökonomie e.V., Heidelberg, Germany

Gustav Horn, Prof., Wissenschaftlicher Direktor des Instituts für Makroökonomie und Konjunkturforschung (IMK) in der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung