From the Victory Day to Corona Disarray

A two-tier conference

Vienna and Geneva (early September)

From the Victory Day to Corona Disarray: 75 years of Europe’s Collective Security and Human Rights System

Legacy of antifascism for the common pan-European future

The 1st, one-day Vienna, conference: 01 July 2020 (DAW)

(Live-streaming: https://www.facebook.com/DiplomaticAcademyVienna)

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Registration:

10.00 – 10.30                    CET        (GMT+2)

Opening:                                           10.30 – 11.00

Welcome:

Amb. Emil Brix, Director, Vienna School of International Studies

Honourable Ernest Petrič, President, Constitutional Court of Slovenia (aD.),

(on behalf of the Conference organisers)

Keynote:

Heinz Fischer, President of the Republic of Austria (a.D), Ban Ki-moon Center 

Margaritis Schinas, EU Commission Vice-President

Panel one:                         11.00 – 12.30                                   CET        (GMT+2)

The WWII legacy – Nurnberg and Tokyo trials as a direct inspiration for the Universal and European Human Rights Charter, Antifascism as the European confidence building block, mutual trust and good neighbourly relations

Lunch:                                12.30 – 14.00    

(traditional Austrian food; multicourse, respecting the halal, kosher, vegan & vegetarian needs, provided by the famous Viennese Gasthaus Birner)

Panel Two:                        14.00 – 15.30                                   CET        (GMT+2)

Europe: From Culture for Peace to Culture of Peace – culture, science, arts, sports

Coffee break:                    15.30 – 16.00

Panel Three:                      16.00 – 17.30                                   CET        (GMT+2)

Future to Europe: Is there any alternative to universal and pan-European Multilateralism?; revisiting and recalibrating the Euro-MED and cross-continental affairs

Closing:                                             17.30 – 17.45

(common statement/Communiqué, opt)

Art performance:             17.45 – 18.00                                   CET        (GMT+2)

Natasa Mirkovic,             Vocal

(professor, Department of Popular Music, Music University Vienna)   

Matthias Loibner,            Hurdy-Gurdy

(Composer and the world’s best Hurdy-Gurdy performer)  

Dinner:                               18.00 – 19.30                     

(traditional Austrian food; multicourse, respecting the halal, kosher, vegan & vegetarian needs, provided by the famous Viennese Gasthaus Birner)

Implementing partners:

IFIMES (well-established Intl entity of the consultative status with the UN, www.ifimes.org). It will be done along with Modern Diplomacy (the EU-based news platform, www.moderndiplomacy.eu), the international scientific journal European Perspectives (www.europeanperspectives.org/), the world’s eldest Diplomatic school (www.da-vienna.ac.at/), and finally with the Vienna-based platform for arts, culture and applied science Culture for Peace (www.upf-cultureforpeace.org).