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Rafik Schami, writer
Lecture 2012
The courage, the dignity and the word
An invitation to call the things by its name
Rafik Schami, born in Syria, will be the presenter of the Karlsruhe lecture 2012.
His special concern is the understanding between orient and occident.
The lecture will take place at Karlsruhe Congress Centre on March 24, 2012.
Speakers and their topics
2011 | Dr. Philipp Rösler |
2010 | Matthias Horx |
2009 | Prof. Dr. Wangari Maathai |
2008 | Dr. Wolfgang Schüssel |
Dr. Siegfried Jaschinski | |
2006 | Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, M.A. |
2005 | Stephen K. Geen, M.A. |
2004 | Prof. Dr. Lilia Shevtsova |
Prof. Dr. W. Michael Blumenthal | |
2002 | Wolfgang Thierse |
| The Right Honourable |
2000 | The Dentist of the Future – 40 Years of the Karlsruhe Academy of Advanced Dental Studies |
1999 | The Most Reverend and Right Honourable |
1998 | Dr. Haris Silajdžić |
1997 | Carla Del Ponte |
1996 | Otto von der Gablentz |
1995 | Dr. Irfan Ljubijankiü * |
1994 | Dr. Dr. h.c. Jehan Sadat |
1993 | Yitzak Navon |
1992 | Seine Eminenz Dr. Dr. h. c. Agostino Kardinal Casaroli |
1991 | Dr. Colette Flesch |
1990 | Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Erwin Chargaff |
1989 | Prof. Dr. Dr. Reinhard Löw |
1988 | Dr. Anthony Edward Rupert |
1987 | Lothar Späth |
1986 | Dr. Joseph Luns |
1985 | Dr. Dr. h. c. Theo Sommer |
1984 | Rudolf v. Bennigsen-Foerder |
1983 | Dr. Peter von Siemens |
"Open Your Mouth"
Karlsruhe Lecture Series
The Karlsruhe Lectures presented under the heading of "Open Your Mouth" owe their existence to the realization that innovation and creative design are unable to unfold their convincing and desirable vital forces in the absence of painful processes. The Karlsruhe Academy of Advanced Dental Studies has invited the public and members of the dental profession to these lectures since 1983.
It has always been the case that those persons are held in particularly high regard who creatively add to the ongoing process of value generation by the example they set in life and through the power of their language and their ideas.
"Open your mouth" is the sentence at the beginning of any activity by a dentist. Persons seek the dentist`s help, and are ready to open their mouth, in order to escape a state of suffering from pain and fear. By treating his patients` teeth, the dentist preserves their mouth, face, self-confidence, and speech.
Opening one`s mouth in the dentist's chair and doing so in public are ventures enjoying no great popularity, being inevitably associated with some amount of pain, and yet are indispensable. The speakers presenting Karlsruhe "Open-Your-Mouth" lectures, their lifes` achievements, and their topics of choice assign model character to the "Open Your Mouth" topos. It amalgamates into an impressive symbiosis dental and societal interventions.
"In a dialog"
Cover: This is the symbol of the Karlsruhe lecture Series, the statue called "To be in a dialog", created by the Karlsruhe artist Joachim Czichon.
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