International Schiller Institute/ICLC online conference March 20-21
This eye-opening conference is now concluded. You can review any of the panel presentations here.
Panel 1: “Reversing the Cultural Wasteland — The Urgency of a New Renaissance, Creating a Planetary Culture Worthy of the Dignity of Humanity”
Saturday, March 20, 10:00 a.m. U.S. EDT; 15:00 CET.
Moderator: Jason Ross, Science Advisor, Schiller Institute (US)
- Moderator’s Welcoming Remarks
- Carlo Levi-Minzi, piano; Norbert Brainin, violin – Beethoven’s Violin Sonata, Op. 96, 4th movement
- Helga Zepp-LaRouche, President, The Schiller Institute, “Will Human History End in Tragedy, Or Continue With a New Paradigm?”
- Dennis Speed, Schiller Institute (USA): “The Poetic Principle: Why and How America Must Return to a Classical Culture”
- Liliana Gorini (Italy), Chairwoman, MoviSol (LaRouche Movement – Italy): “Dante’s Commedia: The Way from Hell to Science and Space Exploration”
- Diane Sare, Schiller Institute (USA): “Beethoven in the Garden of Gethsemane”
- Carolina Domínguez, Schiller Institute (Mexico): “How to Address the Crisis in Education: LaRouche in the Universities”
- Video: John Sigerson, tenor; Margaret Greenspan, piano, “Abendlied” by Ludwig van Beethoven
- Megan Dobrodt, President (USA), Schiller Institute, “Three Mars Missions and the Galactic Species”
10. Anastasia Battle (USA), The LaRouche Organization (TLO): “The Launching of Leonora!”
Panel 2: “The Strategic Crisis Facing the Human Race.”
Saturday, March 20, 2:00 p.m. U.S. EDT; 19:00 CET.
Moderator: Harley Schlanger, The Schiller Institute Moderator’s Introduction
Helga Zepp-LaRouche, President, The Schiller Institute, Introductory Remarks
- Ambassador Ping Huang, Consul General of the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in New York
- Mr. Alexey Boguslavskiy, First Secretary, Russian Federation Mission to the United Nations,
- Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban, Political and Media Advisor to the Syrian Presidency
- Dr. William Happer, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University (atomic physics), former Member US National Security Council (NSC), US Dept. of Energy, Office of Science
- Dennis Small (US), Executive Intelligence Review, Ibero-American Editor, “Make Space for the Belt and Road in the Americas.”
- Simon Levy (Mexico), Founder of China-Mexico Lecture and Fellowship, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM); Undersecretary for Planning and Tourism Policy of Mexico (2018-2019); “The Americas: A China-USA New Path of Cooperation”
- Alejandro Yaya (Argentina): Masters Degree in civil engineering and in national defense; Vice President of the Civil Institute of Space Technology; advisor in technical and innovation management and transfer of technology processes. “Youth and Space”
- Daniel Marmolejo (Mexico): Investigative journalist; winner of the National Journalism Award; covers the Mexican Presidency; producer of the “Hybrid Warfare” documentary series, and the “Incorruptible” program; “Mexico, Argentina and China: A Vanguard Strategy from a Viewpoint Against Hybrid Warfare”
- Denys Pluvinage (France): Vice President of the Franco-Russian Alliance
- Sultan M. Hali (Pakistan): retired Colonel, Pakistani Air Force; journalist, “The New Silk Road and Pakistan”
- Richard Freeman (USA), Executive Intelligence Review, “The Global Reset: The Great Leap Backward”
- Question and Answer Session
Panel 3: “The Indo-Pacific, the Caucasus, Eastern Europe and Southwest Asia: Pivots for War, or Peaceful Development with the New Silk Road”
Sunday, March 21, 10:00 a.m. U.S. EDT, 15:00 CET
Moderator: Diane Sare
- Moderator’s Introduction
- Hussein Askary (Sweden/Iraq), Southwest Asia Director, Schiller Institute: “Justice for The Nations of Southwest Asia”
- Hisham Sharaf (Yemen), Minister of Foreign Affairs, “Our Goal: Peace in Yemen and Joining the New Silk Road”
- Haidar Al-Fuadi Al-Atabe (Iraq), Member, Council of Representatives, “The Importance of China-Iraq Cooperation for The Reconstruction of Iraq”.
- Shakeel Ahmad Ramay (Pakistan): Director of the China Center at the Pakistani Sustainable Development Policy Institute, “The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and Regional Cooperation for Peace and Stability”.
- State Senator (former) Richard H. Black (U.S.), “The Truth about the Syrian Crisis.”
- Zaid Ayoub Arbache, Assistant Professor, Dr. Faculty of Economics, Damascus University
- M. Michel Raimbaud, former French Ambassador to Arab, African, and Latin American Countries; former director of the French Office of the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA)
- Jacques Cheminade (France), Président, Solidarite et Progres, “A Call to Action”
Question and Answer Session
Panel 4: “The Challenge of Famine and Pandemics — The Coincidence of Opposites or Mass Extinction?”
Sunday, March 21, 2:00 p.m. U.S. EDT; 19:00 CET
Moderator: Dennis Speed, Schiller Institute
- Moderator’s Introduction
- Dr. Joycelyn Elders, former Surgeon General of the United States, “A Global Health Mission for the Youth”
- Marcia Merry Baker, Co-Editor, Executive Intelligence Review, “The World Famine and the Need to Double Agricultural Production”
- Dr. Khadijah Lang, Chairman, National Medical Association (NMA) Council on International Affairs; President, Golden State Medical Association
- Mike Callicrate (Colorado), Cattleman, Founder of Ranch Foods Direct, policy advocate,operator of Mike’s “No Bull” Blog
- Dr. Shirley Evers-Manley, Interim Dean, Alcorn University School of Nursing, Mississippi, USA; Chairman, Global Health Committee, National Black Nurses Association
- Bob Baker (USA), Schiller Institute Agricultural Liaison, “Stand Together for Food, Health and the Future.”
- Bill Bullard, (Montana), CEO of R-CALF USA, (Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America
- Dr. Walter Faggett – Former Chief Medical Officer, Washington D.C. Dept of Health, co-chair DC Ward 8 Health Council, “D.C. Project: Community Healthcare workers Indispensable Role in Defeating the Pandemic”
- Nicole Phrang, Kansas Cattle Rancher, Secretary-Treasurer, Kansas Cattlemen’s Association
- James Benham, Indiana Farmer, President of the Indiana Farmers Union; National Board Member of the National Farmers Union
Question and Answer Session