Special Lecture: EU und Lateinamerika zwischen Gipfel und Gegengipfel: Zwischenstaatliche Politik und zivilgesellschaftliche Alternativstrategien
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Erwin-Schrödinger-Saal
Plenary
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German and English language
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DDr. Wolfgang DIETRICH
Director, UNESCO Chair for Peace Studies, MA Program for Peace Studies, University of Innsbruck
| 1986 | Fulbright Scholarship for Latin American-Studies in New Orleans, USA |
| 1988 | Awarded for information on Third World Issues by the Austrian Conference of Catholic Bishops |
| Post-Doc-Scholarship for Advanced Research in South- and Central America | |
| 1989-1991 | President of the Austrian Section of Amnesty International |
| 1990-1992 | Research Project of the Austrian Foundation for the Advancement of Scientific Research in Guatemala and Mexico |
| Since 1991 Member of the Consultative Council of the Austrian Service for Information on Development Politics ÖIE | |
| Since 1992 Member of the International Political Sciences Association IPSA | |
| Since 1992 Member of the Austrian Political Sciences Association ÖGPW | |
| 1993 | Consultant of the Austrian North-South-Institute in Guatemala |
| Consultant of the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Guatemala | |
| 1993-2010 | Member of the Board of the Austrian Association for Latin American Studies |
| 1994-1997 | Austrian Program for Advanced Research and Technology APART, Austrian Academy of Sciences (Central America, Caribbean, Eastern Africa, Southern Asia) |
| 1995-1998 | President of the Austrian Association for Latin American Studies |
| 1995-2007 | Academic Director of the Austrian Institute for Latin America |
| 1996 | Consultant of the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Eastern Africa |
| 1998-2002 | Vice-President of the Austrian Association for Latin American Studies |
| Since 1999 Founding Member of the International Advisory Board of the South Asian Institute for Peace Studies SAIPS, Nepal | |
| 1999-2001 | Director of the International and Interdisciplinary Project "Networking Central-Eastern Europe and Latin America" |
| Academic Coordinator of the Festival "Feuerberge Tirol" | |
| Since 2000 Member of the Thematic Network on Humanitarian Development Studies, University of Deusto, Spain | |
| 2001-2009 | Member of the Board of Directors of the Austrian Institute for Latin America |
| Since 2001 Academic Director of the MA Program for Peace, Development, Security and International Conflict Transformation, University of Innsbruck, Austria | |
| 2002-2005 | Member of the Academic Board "Latin American Studies" Danube's University Krems, Austria |
| Austrian Representative to the Comisión Directiva del Consejo Europeo de Investigaciones Sociales de América Latina (Member of UNESCO) | |
| 2002-2010 | Board of Directors of the Austrian Association for Latin American Studies |
| Since 2002 Member of TRANSCEND: A Peace and Development Network for Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means | |
| 2004-2006 | Austrian coordinator of the ERASMUS project Comunicación Intercultural en las Relaciones Económicas Internacionales Estudios Ibéricos y Latinoamericanos |
| Academic coordinator of REAL 2006 in the frame of the Austrian presidency of the EU | |
| 2005-2006 | Austrian coordinator of the ALFA Project AMELAT XXI |
| Since 2006 Member of the Advisory Council of the Galizan Institute for International Security and Peace Studies (IGESIP) | |
| Since 2007 Member of the International Advisory Council of the Project Paz y Conflictos en las Universidades Andaluzas e Iberoamericanas, University of Granada, Spain | |
| Since 2008 UNESCO Chairholder for Peace Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria | |
| Since 2008 Member of the Austrian UNESCO Commission | |
| Since 2011 Member of the Acadamic Advisory Board for Peace Research and Peace Education at the University of Klagenfurt | |
| Since 2013 Mentor and Advisory Board of Olympism4Humanity |
Dr. Benita FERRERO-WALDNER
European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy, Brussels
| 1966-1970 | University of Salzburg, study of law (Dr. Iuris) |
| 1971-1978 | Paul Kiefel, Freilassing/Germany (1971-72), Export Department; Gerns and Gahler, Freilassing/Germany, Director for Export Promotion |
| 1978-1981 | P. Kaufmann Inc., New York, Sales Director for Europe |
| 1981-1983 | Gerns and Gahler, Freilassing/Germany, Chief Management Assistant |
| 1984 | Austrian Embassy, Madrid, Spain |
| 1984-1986 | Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs Department of Economic Affairs, Department of Political Affairs, Department of Consular Affairs |
| 1986 | Austrian Embassy, Dakar, Senegal, First Secretary |
| 1986-1987 | Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Department for Development Co-operation |
| 1987-1990 | Austrian Embassy, Paris, Counsellor for Economic Affairs |
| 1990-1993 | Austrian Embassy, Paris, First Counsellor and Deputy Chief of Mission, Chargé d'Affairs a.i. |
| 1993 | Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Chief of Protocol |
| 1994-1995 | UN Chief of Protocol |
| 1995-2000 | State Secretary for Foreign Affairs |
| 2000-2004 | Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Austria |
| since 2004 | European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy, Brussels |
Dr. Leo GABRIEL
Speaker, Counter-summit "Enlazando Alternativas 2", Vienna
| Studied law and political science at the University of Vienna and political anthropology in Paris where he represented the foreign students during the 1968 movement. | |
| Since 1970 he lived for many years in Latin America. From 1972-76 extensive travelling through South America as a documentary filmmaker of social movements in Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. In 1978 he founded an independent press agency (Agencia Periodistica de Información Alternativa - APIA) in Nicaragua for the German speaking media. Since 1986 Dr. Gabriel became the scientific director of the Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institut für zeitgenössische Lateinamerikaforschung (Institute for contemporary studies on Latin America) in Vienna and guest professor at the universities of Zurich, Managua and Mexico. Between 1992 and 1996 he was editor in chief of "Nueva Tierra Nuestra". The scientific and journalistic work of Dr. Gabriel is focused on the organizing processes in Central and Southamerican indigenous and peasant cultures and their contribution towards the structuring of a Latinamerican Civil Society. More recently his harsh criticisme of the consequences and dangers of the globalisation of transnational capitalisme lead him to the outline of a globalized struggle for participatory democracy. 1998 he founded the so called Clean Clothes Campaign in Austria. He participated in the constitution of the first World Social Forum in january 2001 in Puerto Alegre and from 2002 on in the European Social Forum of Florence, Paris and London. Today he is one of the principle organisers of the "Summit of Alternatives" which is going to take place from may, 10th to 13th 2006 simultaneously with the presidential summit between heads of State of Latin America, the Caribbean and the European Union. From 2001 to 2005 he was the coordinator of LATAUTONOMY (www.latautonomy.org). |
Mag. Dr. Berthold MOLDEN
Alfonso Reyes Chair, IHEAL - Institute for Higher Latin American Studies, Sorbonne III, Paris
| 2000-2001 | Researcher for the Austrian Historical Commission |
| 2001-2005 | Research fellow, Association for the Advancement of Social Sciences, Guatemala |
| 2005-2010 | Project director for Cold War Memory Studies, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres, Vienna |
| 2010 | Visiting professor for Global History, University of Vienna |
| 2011 | Visiting assistant professor / Mellon Scholar, University of Chicago |
| 2011-2012 | Executive secretary general, 54th International Congress of Americanists |
| 2012-2014 | Marshall Plan Chair, University of New Orleans |
| 2014-2015 | Alfonso Reyes Chair, Institute for Higher Latin American Studies (IHEAL), Sorbonne III, Paris |
