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Resilience in the Times of Uncertainty: Building Peace through Culture and Education<\/b><\/p>\n
20th – 24th February 2023<\/b><\/p>\n
Veszpr\u00e9m, Hungary<\/b><\/p>\n
Organized by the UNESCO Chair for Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainability, Institute of Advanced Studies K\u0151szeg (iASK), the University of Pannonia and the Institute for Social & European Studies (ISES).<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>All events, discussions, lectures will be held in English!<\/span><\/p>\n The 5<\/span>th<\/span> UNESCO MOST Winter School offers insight into the transformations of the complex, diverse, contested and changing notions of culture. Panels focus on deconstructing and reimagining the future while offering artistic visualisations of possible scenarios and analysis related to war, environmental crisis, migrations, and the rapid development of digital technologies. The main questions revolve around the anticipated consequences of the armed conflict in Ukraine, new definitions of soft power and cultural diplomacy, transculturalism and the fluidity of borders, stakeholder responsibilities in global crises, and the shift towards post-humanism exacerbated by the expansion of algorithmic systems.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Winter School, organised by iASK, University of Pannonia and ISES, will take place from the 20<\/span>th<\/span> to 24<\/span>th<\/span> of February 2023 in Veszpr\u00e9m (Hungary) \u2013 the next European Capital of Culture \u2013 with a week of cultural events and roundtable discussions. We welcome applications from master and doctoral students, junior and senior scholars, as well as professionals and activists from governmental and non-governmental organisations. Each year, the UNESCO MOST Winter School attracts top scholars from across Europe and the world because it fosters education for the future, unorthodox thinking, and the dynamic exchange of ideas through transdisciplinary and transcultural dialogue.<\/span><\/p>\n The discussions at the 5<\/span>th<\/span> UNESCO MOST Winter School will revolve around the following topics:<\/span><\/p>\n 5th<\/sup> UNESCO MOST Winter School<\/p>\n 20th<\/sup> \u2013 24th<\/sup> February 2023 Veszpr\u00e9m, Hungary<\/p>\n Resilience in the Age of Uncertainty:\u00a0<\/strong>Building Peace Through Culture and Education<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Monday, 20th<\/sup> February 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n Venue: Hangvilla<\/a>, 8200 Veszpr\u00e9m, Brusznyai u. 2.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 9:00 am \u2013 10:00 am Registration and participant Introductions<\/p>\n 10:00 am \u2013 11:00 am Opening ceremony<\/p>\n Miklos R\u00e9thelyi, President of the Hungarian National Commission for UNESCO<\/p>\n Andr\u00e1s Gelencs\u00e9r, Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Rector of the University of Pannonia<\/p>\n Ernesto Ottone-Ramirez, Assistant Director-General for Culture of UNESCO (video address)<\/p>\n Xiaomeng Shen, Vice-Rector in Europe & Director of UNU-EHS (video Ferenc Miszlivetz, Director of iASK<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 12:00 am – 1:00 pm Lunch Break<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n 1:00 pm – 2:20 pm Panel: Imagining Post-War Futures: Dimensions of Security and the Culture of Peace<\/strong><\/p>\n Contemplating on the possible scenarios for the end of the war in Ukraine, this panel investigates various alternative scenarios and explores political, economic, ecological and cultural consequences of the conflict. Why has the war started and how it will end? How to redefine European security architecture and is it possible to establish a new global peace order?<\/em><\/p>\n Chair: Jody Jensen (USA and Hungary) Director of the Polanyi Centre at iASK<\/p>\n Keynote:\u00a0Sir Richard Shirreff (UK) military expert and former NATO\u2019s Deputy Supreme Commander Europe, honorary fellow at Exeter College, Oxford, UK<\/p>\n Emil Brix (Austria) Former ambassador, Director of the Vienna School of International Studies, Austria<\/p>\n Sean Cleary (South Africa) Member of the iASK International Advisory Board and Executive and Vice-Chair of the Future of the World Foundation, South Africa<\/p>\n Ferenc Miszlivetz (Hungary) Director of iASK, Jean Monet professor at the University of Pannonia, UNESCO Chairholder for Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainability, Hungary<\/p>\n 2:20 pm – 2:30 pm Coffee break<\/p>\n 2:30 pm – 3:45 Roundtable Discussion<\/p>\n Moderator: Andr\u00e1s Sz\u00f6ll\u00f6si-Nagy (Hungary) Professor at the National University of Public Service (NUPS) and former Secretary of UNESCO\u2019s International\u00a0Hydrological\u00a0Programme (IHP)<\/p>\n 3:45 pm – 4:00 Coffee break<\/p>\n 4:00 pm \u2013 6:00 pm Panel: Ecology and Ecologies: Glocal Communities and Responsibilities<\/p>\n As the world faces both small and large-scale natural disasters caused by climate change and human intervention in the environment, no holistic solution to the interlinked challenges has emerged. Should we talk about ecology or ecologies? This roundtable strives to foster intergenerational dialogue about the environment and the questions of global and local responsibilities.<\/em><\/p>\n Chair: J\u00e1nos Bog\u00e1rdi (Germany) Research Fellow at iASK, Professor at University of Bonn (Chair)<\/p>\n Keynote:\u00a0Zita Sebesv\u00e1ri (Germany) Deputy Director of UNU-EHS, Head of Section \u2013 Environmental Vulnerability and Ecosystem Services<\/p>\n Andr\u00e1s Gelencs\u00e9r (Hungary) Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Rector of the University of Pannonia<\/p>\n Zs\u00f3fia Szonja Ill\u00e9s (Hungary) Research Fellow at iASK and MOME, Budapest<\/p>\n Sanja Tepavcevic (Hungary) Associate Research Fellow at iASK<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tuesday, 21. February 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n Venue:\u00a0University of Pannonia<\/a>, 8200 Veszpr\u00e9m, Egyetem u. 10, Buildin B, 2nd floor, Conference Room<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 10:00 am \u2013 12:00 am Panel: Transnationalism, Cultural Heritage and Soft Power: Cultural Diplomacy in Times of War and Climate Emergency<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>In light of the environmental crises and war in Ukraine, the importance of global and regional cooperation is being emphasised among scholars, policymakers and diplomats. But while the networked and globalised world is increasingly connected online and through various transnational ties, the pandemic, armed conflict and energy crisis are imposing new challenges to establishing and maintaining intercultural dialogue. This panel investigates how cultural diplomacy as a type of soft power can contribute to building bridges between nations and producing reconciliatory narratives.<\/em><\/p>\n Anik\u00f3 Magash\u00e1zi (Hungary) Research Fellow at iASK, Hungary (Chair)<\/p>\n Daniela Angelina Jelin\u010di\u0107 (Croatia) Senior Research Adviser at the Culture and Communications Department of the Institute for Development and International Relations in Zagreb, Croatia<\/p>\n Jean-Luc Soul\u00e9 (France) President at MEC\u2019ENE\/M\u00e9c\u00e9nat & Entreprise, senior lecturer at Sciences Po Paris (1999-2019), Director of the French Institute in Hungary 1994-1998, France<\/p>\n Klaus W\u00f6lfer (Austria) Former Ambassador, head of the Austrian Cultural Institute in Rome between 1996 and 2002, Austria<\/p>\n Tam\u00e1s Fej\u00e9rdy (Hungary) Senior Academic Advisor at iASK, Member of the\u00a0Icomos Hungarian National Committee, Hungary<\/p>\n Moshe Caine (Israel) Senior Lecturer at the Photographic Communications Department at Hadassah Academic College, Israel<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n 12:00 \u2013 12:30 pm Roundtable discussion with participants<\/p>\n 12:30 pm \u2013 1:30 pm: Lunch Break<\/p>\n 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Visit to the Benedictine Abbey of Tihany<\/p>\n 5:00 pm \u2013 7:00 pm: Scientific Wine Tasting with Tam\u00e1s Hermann, Research Fellow at iASK<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n Wednesday, 22. February 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n Venue:\u00a0University of Pannonia<\/a>, 8200 Veszpr\u00e9m, Egyetem u. 10, Buildin B, 2nd floor, Conference Room<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 10:00 am \u2013 12:00 am Sensory Methods for Place-Engagement – <\/strong>talk and workshop with Zsofia Szonja Illes, Researcher at iASK and MOME, Budapest<\/p>\n 12:00 am \u2013 1:30 pm Lunch Break<\/p>\n 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm\u00a0Panel: Social Media and Algorithmic World Order: Living in the Age of Digital Production, Simulation and Cyber Wars<\/strong><\/p>\n As human activities are increasingly monitored, measured, and fed into AI systems, the algorithms that organize political, economic, cultural and private spheres have become more refined and capable of making increasingly precise calculations. What is the future of artificial intelligence at the intersection of surveillance capitalism and digital wellbeing?<\/em><\/p>\n Anna Menyh\u00e9rt (Hungary) Professor at the University of Jewish Studies and iASK (Chair)<\/p>\n Ivana Stepanovi\u0107 (Serbia) Research Fellow at iASK<\/p>\n Juan Carmach (France) Project Officer of the Partnership for the Advancement of Digital Anthropology at UNESCO<\/p>\n Katalin Feh\u00e9r (Hungary) Associate Professor and science strategy expert at the University of Public Service<\/p>\n Mykola Makhortykh (Ukraine) Alfred Landecker lecturer\u00a0at the Institute of Communication and Media Science at University of Bern, Switzerland<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 7:00 pm 8:00 pm Cultural Program: Piano Concert by K<\/strong>\u00e1<\/strong>roly Binder<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thursday, 23th<\/sup> February 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n Venue:\u00a0University of Pannonia<\/a>, 8200 Veszpr\u00e9m, Egyetem u. 10, Buildin B, 2nd floor, Conference Room<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 10:00 am \u2013 12:00 am Panel: <\/strong>Post-War Memories: Central European Transcultural Perspectives<\/strong><\/p>\n An increasing interest in multivocal spaces, dialogue, and interconnectivity of war memories in transnational and transcultural contact zones, and the growing attention to the circulation of memory in medial forms, especially through digital media, have brought the transdisciplinary challenge of “memory in motion”\u00a0into focus. This panel will integrate the key concepts of travelling memory (Astrid Erll), multidirectional memory (Michael Rothberg), as well as postmemory or connected memory (Marianne Hirsch). The assumption is that memories of war experiences travel across geographical and cultural borders. They are transmitted in different cultural forms and different media enable the trans-generational travel through private or public sites commemorating the past. How can people understand the past through emotions with others\u2019 traumatic memories, artifacts, or landscapes. What are the possibilities of interpreting the affective politics of war memories, and how do individual, familial or collective memories intersect across cultures and national borders?<\/em><\/p>\n Izabella Ag\u00e1rdi (Hungary) Research Fellow at iASK (Chair)<\/p>\n Erzs\u00e9bet Hosszu (Hungary) Research Fellow at iASK and MOME, Budapest<\/p>\n T\u00edmea Jablonczay (Hungary) Research Fellow at iASK and Associate Professor at Milton Friedman University, Budapest<\/p>\n Zala Pav\u0161i\u010d (Slovenia) Research Fellow at CEU Democracy Institute, Budapest<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 12:00 am \u2013 1:30 pm: Lunch Break<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1:30 pm \u2013 3:30 pm Panel and Workshop: Video Games as a New Form of Social Interaction: Inclusive Spaces, Trauma and <\/strong>Representations of War <\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em>Video games are increasingly becoming new virtual places of social interaction and digital production, but they also have a significant role in education and conveying historical knowledge. This panel aims to explore the various roles of video games and map the ways in which they can shape young people\u2019s perception of culture and the impact of the past in the times of crises. It will explore the issues of inclusivity, trauma and representations of war. <\/em><\/p>\n Ivana Stepanovi\u0107 (Serbia) Research Fellow at iASK (Chair)<\/p>\n Anna Menyh\u00e9rt (Hungary) Research Fellow at iASK and Professor at the University of Jewish Studies<\/p>\n Lobna Hassan (Finland) Associate Professor of Sociotechnical Transitions in Services at Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lahti campus<\/p>\n Kat Schrier (USA) Associate Professor and Director of Games and Emerging Media at Marist College, USA<\/p>\n Vit Sisler (Czech Republic) Assistant Professor at the Charles University\u2019s Faculty of Arts in Prague<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Friday, 24th<\/sup> February 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n Venue:\u00a0University of Pannonia<\/a>, 8200 Veszpr\u00e9m, Egyetem u. 10, Buildin B, 2nd floor, Conference Room<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 09:30 am \u2013 11:30 am Panel: At the Digital Frontlines: Artificial and\/or Augmented Intelligence and the Future of Cyber Ecosystem<\/strong><\/p>\n Amid the proliferation of the dystopian narratives about the AI, this panel explores the alternative future scenarios and different roles of algorithms, sensors, robots, and advanced artificial intelligence solutions. Is it time to talk and think about Humanistic AI or AI for social good and what are the prospects and directions of future AI-governance?<\/em><\/p>\n Keynote: George Tilesch (USA) President at the PHI Institute for Augmented Intelligence in California<\/p>\n L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Karvalics (Hungary) Research Fellow at iASK and professor at the University of Szeged (Chair)<\/p>\n \u00c1rp\u00e1d Rab (Hungary) Senior Researcher at \u00d3budai Egyetem<\/p>\n Mih\u00e1ly H\u00e9der (Hungary) Research Fellow at SZTAKI (Institute for Computer Science and Control), Budapest<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 11:30 am \u2013 12:30 pm Roundtable discussion with participants<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n 12:30 pm \u2013 1:00 pm Concluding remarks<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Izabella Ag\u00e1rdi, Hungary\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Research Fellow at iASK<\/em><\/p>\n Izabella Ag\u00e1rdi (Hungary) is a historian and holds a Ph.D. from Utrecht University, The Netherlands, an MA in Gender Studies from Central European University, Hungary and an MA in English Studies from the University of Szeged, Hungary. Her research interests are oral history, gender studies, rural women\u2019s history, contemporary historiography and literary theory. She focuses on the intersections of personal and public narratives, practices of periodization and tropes of narrating 20th-century history in Central Europe. She is interested in how individuals understand historical transformations \u2013 including localized forms of understanding and narrating Central-European-type state socialism in a larger context of changes and continuities. She has also published on the material culture and political rhetoric of former socialist countries. She is a former member of European research networks of excellence (Cliohres, Athena, ATGENDER). She is the author of the book\u00a0<\/strong>On the Verge of History: Women\u2019s History Telling in Central Europe after the 20th Century.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n J\u00e1nos Bog\u00e1rdi, Hungary\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Research Fellow at iASK, Professor at University of Bonn<\/em><\/p>\n J\u00e1nos Bog\u00e1rdi is a senior academic advisor at iASK. His professional activities took him as scientific staff to the Federal Institute for Hydraulic Engineering in Karlsruhe, and the University of Karlsruhe. He alternated these posts with expert assignments for German consulting engineers in Darmstadt and Essen. Subsequently, he became professor for Hydraulics and General Hydrology at the Agricultural University of Wageningen, The Netherlands. His trajectory at the UN started at the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris, France, as Senior Program Specialist and then Chief of the Section on Sustainable Water Resources and Management. He was appointed Director of the United Nations Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) in Bonn and assigned Vice-Rector of the United Nations University in Europe. He was executive director of the international Global Water System Project. He holds a professorship in water resources management at the Faculty of Agriculture of the University Bonn.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Emil Brix, Austria\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Ambassador, Director of the Diplomatic Academy Vienna<\/em><\/p>\n Emil Brix\u00a0<\/strong>is an Austrian diplomat and historian. Starting in 1982, he worked for the Foreign Service of the Republic of Austria. He was a Secretary in the Austrian Parliament for the parliamentary group of the \u201cPeople\u2019s Party\u201d (\u00d6VP) and later Head of the Cabinet of the Austrian Minister of Science. After 1989 Brix was the first Austrian Counsel General in Cracow\/Poland. From 2010 onwards he was the Austrian ambassador in London and later in Moscow. He became the director of the Diplomatische Akademie Wien \u2013 Vienna School of International Studies in 2017.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Moshe Caine, Israel<\/strong><\/p>\n Chair of R&D, Senior Lecturer at HAC<\/em><\/p>\n Professor Moshe Caine is a Senior Lecturer at the Photographic Communications Department at Hadassah Academic College, Israel. His work encompasses digital imaging and the preservation of tangible cultural heritage. He has specialized in a wide variety of fields, and he is one of the pioneers of the multimedia industry in Israel. In 1989 he founded the multimedia company Icons in Jerusalem, which he managed for 20 years. Since 1981 he has been teaching in Israel’s academia, in undergraduate and graduate degree programs, including the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (1981-2009), Haifa University (2011-2015), Emunah College (1982-2019), and the Hadassah Academic College (since 1984). He is a member of various committees in the college and outside and strives to promote international academic collaborations with different countries.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Juan Carmach, Chile <\/strong><\/p>\n Project Officer of the Partnership for the Advancement of Digital Anthropology at UNESCO<\/em><\/p>\n Juan Carmach is the Project Officer of the Partnership for the Advancement of Digital Anthropology at UNESCO. He is a Tech-policy specialist and has contributed to developing digital skills programs and led the implementation of the digital transformation strategy for the Chilean Government. In addition, he has worked as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank, UNESCO and private-sector companies. Juan is an industrial engineer and holds a Master of Public Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Sean Cleary, South Africa\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Executive Vice-Chair of the Future of the World Foundation and member of the Advisory Board of iASK<\/em><\/p>\n Sean Cleary is Chairman of Strategic Concepts (Pty) Ltd., Managing Director of the Centre for Advanced Governance, Founder and Executive Vice Chair of the FutureWorld Foundation, Chairman of Atlantic Holdings (Pty) Ltd and member of the Advisory Board of iASK. He lectures on global corporate strategy at the Graduate School of Business at the University of the Witwatersrand, the Henley Management College, the Gordon Institute of Business Science at the University of Pretoria, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and Stellenbosch University. He also lectures on conflict resolution, the challenges of globalization and development economics at several U.S. and European universities and institutes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Katalin Feh\u00e9r, Hungary<\/strong><\/p>\n Associate Professor and science strategy expert at the University of Public Service<\/em><\/p>\n Katalin Feher Ph.D. habil. is a recent Fulbright Research Scholar at Drexel University in Philadelphia, a Bolyai Postdoc at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, a Bolyai+ Scholar of the New National Excellence Program of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology, Founder and PI of AI Media research, a visiting professor at the Masaryk University, a member of the University of Southern California MASTS, Coalition for Independent Technology Research\u00a0and the editorial board of KOME. She received a habilitation in philosophy and a doctorate in communication and media studies. Her broad interest is in socio-cultural AI and she is an expert in AI media.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tam\u00e1s Fej\u00e9rdy, Hungary\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Research Fellow at iASK, Professor at CEU, President of the\u00a0ICOMOS Hungarian National Committee<\/em><\/p>\n Tam\u00e1s Fej\u00e9rdy is a Hungarian architect. He is a lecturer at several universities in Hungary, where he teaches, among other things, about World Heritage and the legal and institutional protection of cultural heritage. A member of ICOMOS since 1983, he was vice-president between 2005 and 2008. He was also head of the International Committee of Historic Towns and Villages (CIVVIH) from 1992 to 2002. He led several evaluation missions for sites nominated for inscription on the World Heritage List (Kutna Hora, Weimar, Graz, Kazan, Gjirocastra). He acts as Professor in the Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development Postgraduate Programme (ISES Foundation, K\u0151szeg, Hungary) and in other courses. He has also been a member of working groups of the Council of Europe; participant of Nara International Conferences (1994, 2004); Chairperson of the UNESCO\u2019s World Heritage Committee (2002\/2003); member of the Council of Europa Nostra; developed considerable professional expertise in connection with World Heritage nominations and reactive monitoring missions.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Andr\u00e1s Gelencs\u00e9r, Hungary\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Rector of the University of Pannonia, Member of the Hungaian Academy of Sciences<\/em><\/p>\n Andr\u00e1s Gelencs\u00e9r became Doctor of Sciences at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2002 and has been the head of the Air Chemistry Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2005. He became full time professor at the University of Pannonia and Vice Dean for Economic Affairs of the Faculty of Engineering in 2006. In 2015 he became the rector of the University of Pannonia. His main research area is atmospheric chemistry, in particular atmospheric aerosol chemistry related to air pollution and climate change. He was the first to recognize the process of humus formation in the atmosphere. He first established the importance of biomass burning related coloured particles (brown carbon) in the absorption of sunlight in the global atmosphere. For his scientific achievements he was awarded an Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic in 2014, Prima Primissima Award in 2016 and the Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2017. He was elected corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2019.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lobna Hassan, Finland\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Associate Professor at Lappeenranta University of Technology<\/em><\/p>\n Lobna Hassan is\u00a0Associate Professor of Sociotechnical Transitions in Services (Tenure.track) at Lappeenranta University of Technology, \u00a0Lahti campus.She is also\u00a0a member of Council of Europe\u2019s digital game culture workgroup and one of 2020\u2019s international women influencing Finland.\u00a0Dr. Hassan leads the research group, SIA Lab, where they research the \u00a0Sustainability, Inclusivity and Accessibility of games. She also works in cooperation with various business and societal actors internationally. Her interest are diverse and include: game accessibility, inclusion in the game industry, gamification, storification, and civic engagement. Her research has received funding from various organisations, notably: the Finnish Foundation for Economic Education (Liikesivistysrahasto) and the Finnish cultural foundation (Suomen Kulttuurirahasto).\u00a0Her work and publications can be found at\u00a0https:\/\/lobnahassan.com<\/a>\u00a0and the work of SIA Lab at\u00a0https:\/\/sia-lab.com<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mih\u00e1ly H\u00e9der, Hungary<\/strong><\/p>\n Research Fellow at SZTAKI<\/em><\/p>\n Mih\u00e1ly H\u00e9der is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Network Security and Internet Technologies at the Institute for Computer Science and Control (SZTAKI) in Budapest, Hungary. His activities include research on the theoretical limits of artificial intelligence, the impact mechanisms of Engineering Science and development of AAI systems. With his background in philosophy and history of science, his expertise covers evolution of AI and ethical considerations. He is the author of many influential academic papers published by the renowned journals in the field such as AI and Society: The Journal of Human-Centred Systems and Machine Intelligence.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Tam<\/strong>\u00e1s Herman\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Research Fellow at iASK<\/em><\/p>\n Tam\u00e1s Hermann is graduated as an agronomist at the University of Pannonia Georgikon Faculty in 2002 and later defended his Ph.D. doctoral theses in the field of soil quality assessment. Parallel with his Ph.D. studies he participated first in soil science and later in a geoinformatics postgraduate course. Between 2006 \u2013 2012 he involved in various land evaluation research projects as a research assistant at the University of Pannonia Georgikon Faculty, then between 2012 \u2013 2015 he worked at the European Commission\u2019s Joint Research Center (EC DG-JRC) in Italy on the topic of the assessment of Member States\u2019 methodology for the identification of areas with significant natural constraints and he worked on the development and analysis of environmental databases. Between 2015 \u2013 2020, he played a leading role in several domestic and international H2020 projects on topics of land qualification and precision management first as an assistant professor and then as an associate professor. In addition to software developments, he also had a key role in providing social feedback on projects. Since 2016, he has been dealing with the evaluation of wine growing areas, terroir research, as well as wine education, specializing in the Balaton Wine Region and organizing wine-tasting events<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Erzs\u00e9bet Hosszu, Hungary <\/strong><\/p>\n Research Fellow at iASK and MOME<\/em><\/p>\n Erzs\u00e9bet graduated from Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design as an architect, in 2020 she started her doctoral research at MOME. Since the beginning of her studies, architecture intertwined with civil activism: from 2013, Erzs\u00e9bet started working with refugees at the association of \u00datilapu H\u00e1l\u00f3zat, where with graphic designer \u00c1gnes Jekli, they founded the Open Doors working group. Later they opened their intercultural community space in Budapest. Open Doors is a diverse community open to anyone who is committed to an open society and intercultural dialogue. Their goal is to create space for intercultural dialogue using the tools of participatory design. Over the past 10 years, she has facilitated countless creative projects and design camps with refugees and their disadvantaged Hungarian peers. In her research, Erzs\u00e9bet compares her field experiences with her literature and interview research to understand how design can support processing the trauma caused by forced migration.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Zs\u00f3fia Szonja Ill\u00e9s, Hungary\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Research Fellow at iASK, Design Researcher at\u00a0MOME<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Zs\u00f3fia Szonja Ill\u00e9s\u00a0is a researcher at the Institute of Advanced Studies Koszeg (iASK) and Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) with a Collaborative Doctoral Scholarship (KDP).\u00a0She is a multidisciplinary\u00a0artist and\u00a0designer with an environmentally\u00a0and socially\u00a0engaged practice.\u00a0She has been\u00a0a visiting lecturer at\u00a0The\u00a0Glasgow School of Art on Design Innovation\u00a0and Environmental Design since 2020 and\u00a0at KISD\u00a0University of Design in Cologne on\u00a0Integrated Design\u00a0since 2022.<\/p>\n As a land researcher at MOME, Zs\u00f3fia Ill\u00e9s leads the \u2018Landscape Futuring\u2019 research lab with Ferenc Jord\u00e1n network ecologist to model and speculate the Balaton Lake region\u2019s future landscape and help local farmers adapt to the changing climate.<\/p>\n She is currently completing her PhD in \u2018More-than-human Placemaking\u2019 with a case study focusing ont he Middle-Tisza floodmeadows and traditional ecological knowledge. Her work and research challenges human-centered notions of design to explore ways in which notions such as \u2018having a voice\u2019 can go beyond the metaphorical to mobilise alternative voices and experiences of the landscape.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n T\u00edmea Jablonczay, Hungary\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Research Fellow at iASK and Associate Professor at the University of Milton Friedman, iASK<\/em><\/p>\n T\u00edmea Jablonczay is a research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in K\u0151szeg (iASK) in\u00a0Central-Europe and the V4, \u201eHistorical and Cultural Heritage in Central Europe\u201d Project<\/em>, and an associate professor at the University of Milton Friedman at the Department of Media and Cultural Studies. She teaches Gender Issues in Media, Identity-discourses, Visual, Intercultural Communication, and Critical Cultural Studies in different levels (BA and MA). Her works focus on questions of representational practices of different identities, diasporic experiences, and multidirectional memorial practices in literary and non-literary texts from transcultural and transnational perspectives. Her specific areas of research are Hungarian female Holocaust testimonies, the \u201cHungarian minority\u201d literary field related to the issue of remembering and forgetting of the traumatic past, and the work of transcultural memory.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Z. Karvalics, Hungary<\/strong><\/p>\n Senior research Fellow at iASK<\/em><\/p>\n L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Z. Karvalics (<\/strong>DSc,\u00a0<\/strong>PhD, Hab). MA in History, Literature and Linguistics from ELTE, Budapest. He is a founding director, BME-UNESCO Information Society and Trend Research Institute, associate professor, former Head, Department of Cultural Heritage and Human Information Science, Faculty of Arts, University of Szeged. He was a Fulbright Research Scholar, George Washington University, Center of International Science and Technology Policy (2006), Georgetown University, Department of History (2007). Teaching and research on information society, social impacts of information technology, comparative analysis of national information strategies, information history, press history, education in the information age and knowledge management theory and practice, smart cities, cultural microheritage. Latest books in English: Informatorium. Word Guide to Contemporary Information Culture Tinta, 2020, Research 2.0. and the Future of Information Literacy (with: Koltay Tibor, Sonja Spiranec) Chandos Publishing, 2016, Information History of the first World War (Ed.) L\u2019Harmattan, 2015.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mykola Makhortykh, Ukraine<\/strong><\/p>\n Alfred Landecker Lecturer, Institute\u00a0of Communication and Media Studies, University of Bern<\/em><\/p>\n Mykola Makhortykh is an Alfred Landecker lecturer\u00a0at the Institute of Communication and Media Science, where he studies the impact of algorithmic systems and AI on Holocaust memory transmission. Mykola worked as postdoctoral researcher on the project \u201cPopulist radical-right attitudes and political information behaviour. A longitudinal study of attitude development in high-choice information environments\u201d at the University of Bern & University Koblenz-Landau. He also worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Data Science at the Amsterdam School of Communication Science for the FairNews project, where he studied algorithmic (un)fairness in news personalization systems. In his research, Mykola focuses on politics- and history-centred information behaviour in online environments and how it is affected by the information retrieval systems, such as search engines and recommender systems. His other research interests include trauma and memory studies, armed conflict reporting, disinformation and computational propaganda research, cybersecurity and critical security studies, and bias in information retrieval systems.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Anna Menyh<\/strong>\u00e9rt, Hungary\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Research Fellow at iASK, Professor at Budapest University of Jewish Studies<\/em><\/p>\n Anna Menyh\u00e9rt\u00a0is a researcher at iASK and a Professor of Trauma Studies at the Budapest University of Jewish Studies. She was a Research Fellow at The Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies in Vienna (2020\u20132021), a visiting professor at the University of Florence (2020), a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam (TRAPRODIG project,\u00a02016\u20132018), and an EHRI Fellow at London\u2019s King College (2016). She led the Trauma and Gender in Literature and Culture Research Group at E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University in Budapest, and was the PI of the project\u00a0\u2018Twentieth-Century Women Writers on the Net\u2019\u00a0(2012\u20132015).\u00a0 Previously she was the Vice President of the European Writers\u2019 Council, the President of J\u00f3zsef Attila K\u00f6r, the Literary Union of Young Hungarian Writers, and the Head of the Hungarian Studies Department at the Balassi Insititute in Budapest. She has been working on interdisciplinary field development in trauma studies since 2016, aiming at reconnecting cultural and psychological trauma research.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ferenc Miszlivetz, Hungary\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Director of iASK<\/em><\/p>\n Ferenc Miszlivetz is the Director, iASK and full professor at the University of Pannonia K\u0151szeg Campus. He is the founder and director of the Institute of Advanced Studies K\u0151szeg (iASK), a Jean Monnet professor and full professor at the University of Pannonia. He has taught and conducted research at various universities in Europe and the United States, including the University of Bologna, and Columbia University in New York. He is the founder and director of the board of the Institute for Social and European Studies Foundation (a Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence). Since 2012 he has served as the president of the Social Sciences unit of the Hungarian UNESCO Committee and holds a UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and Sustainability in K\u0151szeg. He has received numerous awards, including the Knight\u2019s Cross of the Hungarian Republic (2005).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ernesto Ottone R, Chile<\/strong><\/p>\n Assistant Director-General for Culture UNESCO<\/em><\/p>\n Mr Ernesto Ottone R. is the Assistant Director-General for Culture of UNESCO. Prior to this position, Mr Ottone R. served as Chile\u2019s first Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage from 2015 to 2018. As Minister of Culture, he created a Department of First Peoples, a Migrants Unit and strengthened copyright laws and heritage protections. During this time, he also chaired the Regional Centre for the Promotion of Books in Latin America and the Caribbean (2016 \u2013 2017). From 2011 to 2015, Mr Ottone R. served as Director-General of the Artistic and Cultural Extension Center of the University of Chile, which manages the National Symphony Orchestra of Chile, the Chilean National Ballet (BANCH), the Chile Symphony Choir and the Vocal Camerata. From 2001 to 2010, he held the position of Executive Director at the Matucana 100 Cultural Center in Santiago. Mr Ottone R. holds a Master’s degree in Management of Cultural Institutions and Policies from the University of Paris IX Dauphine (1998) and a Bachelor of Arts in theatre from the University of Chile (1995).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00c1rp\u00e1d Rab, Hungary<\/strong><\/p>\n Senior Research Fellow, Research Institute for the Information Society, National University of Public Service, NMHH Presidential Advisor<\/em><\/p>\n Dr. \u00c1rp\u00e1d Rab, digital culture expert, futurologist, Senior Research Fellow at the Information Society Research Institute of the National Academy of Sciences, Budapest. He has been researching the relationship between digital technologies and society for two decades, trying to understand important trends of the present, future scenarios and intelligent preparation in society and work, aiming to improve the situation of society through technology. Currently, it is most concerned with artificial intelligence and e-health. He is a committed science communicator: he presents at nearly 100 conferences a year and is a regular contributor to various media outlets. In addition to his theoretical research, he works as a digital transformation and strategy consultant for companies, taking on 4-6 major projects per year.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mikl\u00f3s R\u00e9thelyi, Hungary\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Chair of the Hungarian National Commission for UNESCO<\/em><\/p>\n Mikl\u00f3s R\u00e9thelyi is emeritus Professor at the Semmelweis University, former minister of the Human Resources Ministry and chair of the Hungarian National Committee of UNESCO since 2012. He held an adjunct professorship (1974-1988) in Edward Perl\u2019s laboratory at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He served as the chair of the Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology (1994-2004) at Semmelweis University, founded the Health Sciences Management Institute, was elected and appointed Rector of the Semmelweis University for two terms (1991-1995), served as director of the J\u00e1nos Szent\u00e1gothai Neuroscience Postgraduate School (2002-2009), was elected as member of the Szent Istv\u00e1n Academy of Sciences (2010) and served as the minister of the Humans Resources Ministry including health care, education, social care, culture and sport departments (2010-2012).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kat Schrier, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n Associate Professor, Director of the Play Innovation Lab, and Director of the Games and Emerging Media program at Marist College<\/em><\/p>\n Kat Schrier is an Associate Professor, Director of the Play Innovation Lab, and Director of the Games and Emerging Media program at Marist College. She is the author\/editor of over 100 published works, such as\u00a0We the Gamers: How Games Teach Ethics & Civics<\/em>\u00a0(Oxford University Press, 2021) and\u00a0Knowledge Games<\/em>\u00a0(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016). She has previously edited two book series,\u00a0Ethics and Game Design<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Learning, Education, & Games<\/em>. She was a\u00a0Belfer Fellow with the ADL\u2019s Center for Technology & Society, and she is co-PI for a\u00a0Templeton Grant on designing VR games for empathy. Prior to joining the Marist College faculty, she worked as a media producer at Scholastic, Nickelodeon, and BrainPOP. She is currently consulting with the\u00a0World Health Organization (WHO)\u00a0as a game designer. She has a doctorate from Columbia University, a master\u2019s from MIT, and a bachelor\u2019s from Amherst College.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Zita Sebesv\u00e1ri, Hungary and Germany\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Deputy Director of UNU-EHS<\/em><\/p>\n Zita Sebesvari is the Deputy Director of UNU Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) and the head of the UNU-EHS Department Risk and Adaptation. She is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of social-ecological risk assessments, ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR), and ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA), with a focus on low-lying coastal areas, such as river deltas. An ecologist by training, Dr. Sebesvari holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science from the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, Germany. She also holds a Diploma in History, and has a great interest in inter- and transdisciplinary research design and project implementation. She is member of the European Commission expert group Mission Board for Adaptation to Climate Change including Societal Transformation since September 2022 and the Science Committee of the World Adaptation Science Program (WASP). She lectures in the UNU-EHS \u2013 University of Bonn Joint M.Sc. Programme \u201cGeography of Environmental Risks and Human Security and serves as UNU focal point to the science-policy networks Partnership for Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction (PEDRR) and the Friends of Ecosystem-based Adaptation (FEBA).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sir Richard Shirreff, UK<\/strong><\/p>\n Military expert and former NATO Commander, <\/strong>honorary fellow of Exeter College, Oxford<\/em><\/p>\n Sir Richard Shirreff was born in Kenya in 1955 where he spent his early years. Educated in England, he graduated from Exeter College, Oxford (Modern History) before being commissioned into the British Army from Sandhurst. In his 37-year career, he commanded soldiers on operations at every level from platoon to division. This has included combat in the Gulf War of 1991 as a tank squadron leader and again in Iraq as a divisional commander, together with other operations in Northern Ireland, Kosovo and Bosnia. In addition, he had extensive staff experience at brigade, Army HQ and in the Ministry of Defence. He commanded NATO\u2019s Allied Rapid Reaction Corps and his final military assignment was NATO\u2019s 4 Star Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR). In February 2016 he co-founded Strategia Worldwide Ltd, a global risk advisory company, which has since built up a sizeable portfolio of clients across different sectors. In 2016 his novel \u20182017: War with Russia\u2019 was published in the UK, USA and Poland. It became a best seller and has been translated into eight languages. He is an honorary fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Jean-Luc Soul\u00e9, France\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n President\u00a0at\u00a0MEC\u2019ENE\/M\u00e9c\u00e9nat & Entreprise,\u00a0senior lecturer at Sciences Po Paris (1999-2019), Director of the French Institute in Hungary (1994-1998),\u00a0founder of the musical Festival of P\u00e9rigord Noir<\/em><\/p>\n Jean-Luc Soul\u00e9 created\u00a0MEC’ENE\/M\u00e9c\u00e9nat & Entreprise\u00a0<\/em>in January 2004.\u00a0He\u00a0is also the founder and president of\u00a0the Festival du P\u00e9rigord Noir\u00a0(41st edition in Summer 2023, \u201cWien, Welthauptstadt der Musik\u201d)\u00a0as well as an audio-visual production company. Parallelly,\u00a0he\u00a0carried the adventure of the\u00a0Vid\u00e9oth\u00e8que de Paris\/Forum des Images<\/strong>\u00a0at its beginnings\u00a0(created by Jacques Chirac, Mayor of Paris), then directed the\u00a0French Institute of Hungary\u00a0<\/strong>in Budapest in the 90s.\u00a0He started his professional life, working for the French Ministry of Defence then Ministry of Interior.\u00a0He has mastered many important issues in international cultural relations, having been Cultural Attach\u00e9 in Muscat\/Sultanate of Oman, cultural diplomat posted in Hungary\u00a0then\u00a0artistic director of the Academy of France in Rome-Villa Medici.\u00a0He has taught at the ENA of Tunis and\u00a0was, for\u00a020\u00a0years\u00a0(1999-2019),\u00a0a lecturer at the IEP-Sciences Po Paris<\/strong>, where he\u00a0was leading\u00a0various seminars,\u00a0mainly related to\u00a0the cultural development of\u00a0European\u00a0territories.\u00a0He is invited in France and all over Europe, Turkey, Gulf countries as a prominent expert for geopolitics and cultural matters. He has written different articles (in newspapers, magazines, guides, reviews) and a reference book, \u201cArt of living in Hungary\u201d (Flammarion). He has been the founder and co-owner of a vineyard property in Tokaj (Hungary) for 25 years. He has been appointed in 2011 as a French Air Force reserve Colonel. Jean-Luc Soul\u00e9 is Knight of\u00a0different French Orders (National Order of the L\u00e9gion d\u2019Honneur,\u00a0National Order of Merit,\u00a0Order of the Arts & Lettres,\u00a0Order of Agricultural Merit)\u00a0and Officer of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary,<\/strong>\u00a0Decorated with the Commemorative Order of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Xiaomeng Shen, China\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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