Schiller Institute International Conference, May 24-25, 2025
A Beautiful Vision for Humanity in Times of Great Turbulence!

In Person and Online — New York City Metropolitan Area

SATURDAY, May 24, 10:00 a.m. EDT

10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Panel One: Strategic Challenges and the Emerging New Order

Music: Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue 3 C sharp major, BWV 872, Dura Jun, piano

Video: Lyndon LaRouche

Moderator: Dennis Speed (U.S.), The Schiller Institute

1. Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany), Founder, The Schiller Institute
2. H.E. Naledi Pandor (South Africa), former Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, South Africa
3. Prof. Zhang Weiwei, Professor of International Relations at Fudan University, China,
4. Prof. Dmitri Trenin (Russia), Director of the Institute of World Military Economy and Strategy at the Higher School of Economics University (HSE) (Moscow)
5. H.E. Donald Ramotar (Guyana), Former President of Guyana
6. Ambassador Jack Matlock (U.S.) former United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1987-1991
7. Ambassador Chas Freeman (U.S.), former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1993-1994
8. Ray McGovern (U.S.), former Senior Analyst, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); Founding Member, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
9. Scott Ritter (U.S.), former USMC Intel. and former UN Weapons Inspector)

2:00-5:00 p.m.
Panel Two: The Beauty of the Diversity of Cultures

Moderator: Jen Pearl (U.S.), The Schiller Institute

1. Video: Lyndon LaRouche on Jesu, Meine Freude
2. Jesu, Meine Freude BWV 227 by J.S. Bach. Schiller Institute Festival Chorus, conducted by John Sigerson.
3. Megan Dobrodt (U.S.) President, Schiller Institute U.S.A.
4. Elvira Green (U.S.) Mezzosoprano, formerly with the New York Metropolitan Opera
5. Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany), Founder, The Schiller Institute
6. Feride Istogu Soprano, Schiller Institute and Founder of Lola Gjoka Project,  “Little Halit”  and “Sara” (Albanian folk songs arranged by Lola Aleksi Gjoka), Martin Kaptein, piano
7. Nader Majd Director, Center for Persian Classical Music and Alireza Analouei Founder of the SAMA music ensemble (Iran)
8. Ruijia Dong (China) mezzo-soprano; Louis Arques, clarinet; Dura Jun, piano. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,  “Parto, ma tu ben mio,” (I go, but you, my treasure” aria from {La Clemenza di Tito} ({Titus’s Clemency}).
9. Yulin Wang (China) tenor, Dura Jun, piano. Confucius: “在水一方” (“By the Waterside”) On the Other Side of the River”   – “O wie ängstlich, o wie feurig,” (Oh how fearfully oh with what fire”) Belmonte’s aria from Mozart’s {Die Entführung aus dem Serail} ({Abduction from the Seraglio})
10. Everett Suttle (U.S.), Internationally known Opera and Concert Tenor, Dura Jun, piano: Jayme Rujas de Aragón y Ovalle: “Vai, azulão” (“Fly Away, Bluebird”), Op. 21.;
    Everett Suttle, tenor; Dura Jun, piano: Sergei Rachmaninoff (Aleksander Pushkin): “Не пой, красавица” (“Don’t Sing, My Pretty One”), Op. 4, No. 4.
    Michelle Erin, soprano; Everett Suttle, tenor; Dura Jun, piano: Johannes Brahms: “Schwesterlein” (“Sister”), WoO 33, Vol. 3, No. 15.
11. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, motet Ave Verum corpus (Hail, true body) presentation by John Sigerson (Music Director, Schiller Institute)
    Ave Verum Corpus by Mozart

7:00-10:00 p.m.
Panel Three: The LaRouche Oasis Plan — Driver for the LaRouche Program for 3 Billion New Productive Jobs

Moderator Anastasia Battle

Music: John Sigerson, tenor, and Dura Jun (piano): Three settings of Ludwig Uhland’s poem “Frühlingsglaube” (“Faith in Spring”) by (a) Conradin Kreutzer (1780–1849), (b) Franz Schubert (1797–1828), and (c) Josephine Lang (1815–1880)

1. Harley Schlanger (U.S.), Vice-Chairman of the
   Board of The Schiller Institute
2. Jason Ross (US) Science Advisor to the Schiller Institute
3. Sergei Glazyev, 2001 video address to Schiller Institute conference (Russia), State Secretary of the Russia-Belarus Union State; Academician, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS): “Reconstruction After the Financial Crash”
4. Paul Gallagher (U.S.), Economics Co-Editor, Executive Intelligence Review
5. William DeOreo (US), civil engineer
6. Robert Baker (U.S.), Schiller Institute Agriculture Commission; Joe Maxwell (U.S.) Missouri farmer and former Lt. Governor, and state legislator, co-founder of Farm Action Mike Callicrate (U.S.) Kansas cattleman, and founder Ranch Foods Direct, Colorado;  Alberto Vizcarra (Mexico), spokesman for the National Front for the Rescue of the Mexican Countryside. Joint Topic: Principles for Food & Agriculture Security

SUNDAY, May 25, 9 a.m. EDT

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Panel Four: The LaRouche Legacy Foundation on the Actuality of LaRouche’s Ideas

Music: Schubert B flat Piano Sonata 1st movement, Martin Kaptein, piano

Moderator: Dennis Small (U.S.), LaRouche Legacy Foundation

1. Diane Sare (U.S.), President, The LaRouche Organization, former Independent Candidate for the U.S. Senate in New York: Lyndon LaRouche: The Power of the Individual in a Republic
2. Lyndon LaRouche, video excerpts
3. Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany), Founder, The Schiller Institute

1:00-4:00 p.m.
Panel Five: Shaping the Earth’s Next 50 Years

Music: Franz Schubert Impromptu in G flat, Martin Kaptein, piano

Video: Lyndon LaRouche

Moderator: Daniel Burke (U.S.), The Schiller Institute

1. Jason Ross (U.S.), Science Advisor to the Schiller Institute
2. Mike Campbell (U.S.)
3. Adrian Pearl (U.S.)
4. Robert Castle (U.S.)
5. Carolina Domínguez (Mexico), Schiller Institute
6. Kynan Thistlethwaite (U.S.)
7. Anastasia Battle (U.S.)
8. Ashley Tran* (US)
9. Jose Vega (U.S.), LaRouche Youth Movement Leader, Independent Congressional Candidate, Bronx, New York
10. Megan Dobrodt (U.S.), President, Schiller Institute

6:15-9:30 p.m.
Panel Six: The Power of Reason to Change the Universe

Music: Beethoven Trio #4, Op. 11: Dura Jun, piano; Jungwon Yoon, violin and Sam Chung, cello

Video: Lyndon LaRouche

Moderator: Dennis Speed (U.S.),The Schiller Institute

1. Jason Ross (U.S.), Schiller Institute Science Advisor
2. Jacques Cheminade (France), Former Presidential Candidate, President of Solidarité et Progrès
3. Kelvin Kemm (South Africa), Nuclear Physicist, Past Chairman, South African Nuclear Energy Corporation
4. William Happer (U.S.), Professor Emeritus of Physics, Princeton University; former member, U.S. National Security Council and the U.S. Department of Energy
5. Steve Durst (U.S.), International Lunar Observatory Association

Invitation

Following President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the trans-Atlantic relationship very quickly shattered, with a deafening burst of noise. “The U.S. is now the enemy of the West,” screamed London’s Financial Times, in a front-page article which concluded: “The West is dead.” The special relationship between the U.S. and the U.K., which was the pillar of the unipolar order, has been broken, never to be restored.

It is now coming to light that the pro-EU forces in Europe were allied with the very same “deep state,” sometimes called the “permanent bureaucracy,” under attack by the Trump administration. Vice President J.D. Vance’s remarks at the Munich Security Conference about the lack of democratic practices in Europe struck a raw nerve in the European “permanent bureaucracy.”

If President Trump succeeds in not only ending the Ukraine war, but also permanently banning the species-threatening use of nuclear weapons, through a process of cooperation and dialogue with Russia and China, he will deserve a place on Mount Rushmore. This would mean nothing less than replacing the practice of geopolitical confrontation against the BRICS states and the Global South with cooperation for the mutual benefit of all.

The second tectonic change is marked by the process in which the nations of the Global South are presently overcoming 500 years of colonialism with the help of China and moving to become middle-level income countries in the near term. Instead of regarding this development as a threat, European nations and the United States should happily welcome the elimination of grinding poverty for billions of people now being liberated to achieve their full potential. The only way the danger of global nuclear war and the subsequent annihilation of the human species can be overcome, is by cooperation with the Global Majority.

The conference will also reflect on the life work of Lyndon LaRouche. The LaRouche Legacy Foundation (LLF) will present ample evidence that Lyndon LaRouche, as early as the 1960s, had forecast the present crisis of the liberal system with astounding accuracy. If the world had listened to LaRouche’s analysis, and his warning of Nixon’s destruction of the old Bretton Woods system, by the introduction of floating exchange rates, the world would never have entered the present existential crisis—a crisis characterized by a zooming speculative financial bubble, collapsing physical economy, and an unquenchable drive for war and the Schachtian militarization of the economy associated with it.

The scientific method of LaRouche’s physical economy is most closely approximated today by China, which is why that country is so enormously successful, a success which can be replicated by any nation that chooses to do so.

The major challenge facing the world as a whole, is to finally create a just, new world economic order, and to apply the concept of peace through development. At the conference, there will be an important discussion of the campaign by the Schiller Institute to put the Oasis plan, first proposed by LaRouche in 1975, on the agenda for all of Southwest Asia. There will be a special focus on a development plan for the African continent in line with the African Union’s Agenda 2063, which shares the spirit of the Oasis Plan.

We need to catapult the entire world out of the present misery of geopolitical confrontation, out of the barbaric conception that everything is a zero-sum game, and that one always needs an enemy. We have reached a moment in history in which we absolutely need to reach a new paradigm that proceeds from the idea of the one humanity first, and then brings into cohesion the interests of all nations with that of the one humanity. We must create a new era in human history, based on completely new axioms, not those of the old order which has just imploded. For that, we need a new global security and development architecture that takes into account the existential interest of every single nation on the planet. It is the quality of a degraded, or a sublime character of culture, which determines how we think. The needed new paradigm requires that we replace the present ignorance, indifference and outright chauvinism with respect to other cultures, with curiosity, interest, knowledge and even love for the different cultures of the planet. The Schiller Institute conference will feature a dialogue of cultures and civilizations, whereby the uniqueness, as well as the universal principles uniting art, will be brought forth.

Mankind is at its most important branching point ever. If we continue as barbarians, we will suffer the fate of the dinosaurs and troglodytes. But we also have hope because man is capable of the limitless perfection of his reason and beauty of character. This must inform our vision of the future.