Agenda
Monday,
October 4 2010
9:00 a.m.
Opening Adresses:
Tatiana
Lopez Ayala
connosco-consulting
Prof.
Dr. Angelika Nußberger
Pro-rector for International Matters, University of Cologne
Manfred
Wolf
Mayor of Cologne
Prof. Dr. Federico
Foders
University of
Cologne and Kiel Institute for World Economics
9:45 a.m.
Keynote Speech:
The
German Government's Latin America Policy
Dorothea
Groth
Deputy Head, Latin America Department | Head, South
America Division
German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development,
Bonn/Berlin
11:00 a.m. - 3:15
p.m.
I.
Latin America’s international
relations in the New Age of Energy:
Sub Keynote
Speech: Promoting Latin American integration
through energy
cooperation?
Dr. Rolf Linkohr
Former
Director of the Centre for European Energy
Strategy - C.E.R.E.S.
Member of the
European Parliament, Brussels
Slot
1: Latin America’s position in the
global system: Energy and
resources as strategic assets?
Prof. Dr.
Andrés González
Professor of
International Relations,
University San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador
Discussant:
María
Cristina Silva Parejas
,
Former Subdirector of the Latin American
Centre for Relations with Europe, Santiago de
Chile
Slot
2: China and Latin America
A strategic partnership?
Jörg Husar
Stiftung
Wissenschaft
und Politik, German Institute for International
and Security Affairs
Discussant:
Dr. Christian von
Haldenwang,
German
Development Institute (DIE)
(Presentation)
Slot 3: EU – Latinamerica and Caribbean
Summit 2010: Remarks after a
decade of the proposed strategic
partnership
María
Cristina Silva Parejas
Former
Subdirector of the Latin American Centre for
Relations with Europe, Santiago de Chile
Discussant:
Dr. Karl Buck,
Former Head of
Unit "Relations with Latin America and the
Caribbean" in the General Secretary of the
Council of the European Union
Workshop:
Intergenerational Dialogue – Latin
America and the U.S. under
President Obama: A new
relationship?
Moderator:
Arnd Henze, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)
Speaker:
Francisco N. González Díaz, Embassador of Mexico
in Germany
Bettina Schorr, University of Cologne
Prof. Dr.
Andrés González,
University San Francisco de Quito
Evelyn Carhuas, University of Cologne
II.
Social and cultural development in
Latin America
Sub Keynote Speech: Paving
roads towards sustainable
consumption and production in Latin
American societies
Julio
Andrés Rozo Grisales
UNEP/Wuppertal
Institute Collaborating
Centre on Sustainable Consumption and
Production (CSCP)
Slot
1: Favela
and marginality in the Brazilian literature and media from the 19th
century until today.
Prof. Dr.
Claudius Armbruster
Portuguese-Brazilian Institute, University of Cologne
Slot
2: Working in countries with high bribery and corruption risk - Are
students sufficiently prepared?
Prof. Dr. Christian
Hauser
University of
Applied Sciences Chur, Switzerland
Slot
3: Infrastructure, mobility and social
development: Railway construction in Panama in the 19th
century
Prof. Dr. Holger
Meding
IHILA (Institute
of Iberian and Latin American History), University of Cologne
Workshop:
Intergenerational Dialogue – The challenges of urban growth:
Reducing social gaps in Latin American Mega-Cities
Moderator:
Barbara Weig, Institute for Economic Geography,
University of Cologne
Speaker:
Enrique
Pérez Campuzano,
Insituto Politécnico Nacional México D.F.
Michael Eichholz, University of Cologne
Tuesday,
October 5 2010
Plenary
Session - Workshop: Latin America's role in the international climate
change debate
Moderator:
Dr. Christian von
Haldenwang ,
German Development Institue (DIE)
Speaker:
Prof. Dr. Ing.
Mario Pacas,
University of Siegen
Dr. Imme Scholz, DIE
Christine Gutekunst, Technical University of Karlsruhe
Aura Robayo C., University of Applied Sciences Cologne
III.
Implementing the "Green New Deal" in Latin America
Slot
1: Biofuels as the energy of the future?
Perspectives of the ethanol market in Brazil
Ana Caroline Aguiar
Communications
Officer, Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Organization
Discussant:
Jens Giersdorf
, German Reserach Center for
Biomass, Leipzig
Slot
2: Fighting deforestation the economic way - Ecological risks in
government bonds and CO2 emission certificates for forests
Ivo Mulder
United Nations
Environment Programme - Finance Initiative
Discussant:
Dr. Imme Scholz,
German
Development Insitute (DIE)
Slot
3: The impact of the energy challenge in the technical education in
Latin America
Prof. Dr. Ing.
Mario Pacas
University of
Siegen
Discussant:
Carsten Linnenberg,
Anaerobic
Digestions Solutions
Slot
4: A Green New Deal in Ecuador? The ongoing
struggle over indigenous territories, lands, and natural resources
Juan Fernando
Terán
Universidad
Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador
IV.
Economic Prospects and Challenges for Latin America in the 21st
century
Slot
1: The
impact of the global economic crisis in Latin America
Maria Laura Lanzeni
Head of Emerging
Markets, DB Research
Discussant: Dr. Silvia Marengo,
Executive
Director Asset Management, Falcon Private Bank
(Presentation)
Slot
2: Future
market-perspectives for oil in Latin America
Antonio
José da Silva Barbosa
Petrobas
Discussant:
Annegret
Mähler,
GIGA Institute
Hamburg
Slot
3: The World Cup in the Olympic Games - Generating economic growth
through infrastructure investments?
Dieter Garlik
, Director
Deloitte and
Touch GmbH
Discussant:
Anatol Adam,
University of
Cologne
(Presentation)
Slot
4: Panel: Upgrading Latin America's position in the global labour share
system
Prof. Martina Fuchs
Institute for
Economic Geography, University of Cologne
Panelists:
Christiane Corves, connosco consulting (Presentation)
Dorothea Netz, Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) (Presentation)
3:15
p.m.
Plenary Session
- Wrap-up Panel: Latin America in the new age of energy - Prospects of
sustainable development
Moderator:
Johannes Beck
Deutsch Welle
Panelists:
Juan Fernando
Terán,
Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador
María
Cristina Silva Parejas,
Former Subdirector of the Latin American Centre for Relations with
Europe, Santiago de Chile
Dr. Karl Buck, Former Head of Unit "Relations with Latin
America and the Caribbean" in the General Secretare of the Council of
the European Union
Enrique
Pérez Campuzano, Instituto Politécnico
Nacional, México D.F.
Prof.
Andrés González, Professor of International Relations at
University San Francisco de Quito Ecuador
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