"Give Peace A Chance – Secularization and global conflicts" – timeline
"Give Peace A Chance – Secularization and global conflicts" – timeline
Friday May 22, 2015
15:00 Arrival of attendees, start of registration, welcome drink
16:00 Opening session
René Hartmann, IBKA chair and Richard Honess, AAI board member
16:30 Nada Peratovic
Secularism in Croatia: significance and challenges, introduction of the Center for Civil Courage
17:10 Dan Barker
18:30 Dinner
for meal ticket holders
19:45 Words of welcome Franz Eiber
Partei der Humanisten / German party of humanists
20:00 PZ Myers
Science, America, and Atheism: How can the Enlightenment go wrong?
20:40 Corinna Gekeler
Discrimination by christian employers: Germany violates EU and UN conventions
21:20 Get-together
Saturday, May 23
09:15 Claude Singer
Give Peace A Chance: Does this include the right to refuse to obey military orders?
09:55 Morgan Elizabeth Romano
Moving Backwards; Losing Secularism to Islam in Turkey
10:30 Coffee break
for meal ticket holders
10:55 Rolf Bergmeier
11:35 Joachim Kahl
Two Masterpieces of World Art. Titian’s "Venus with a Mirror" (1555) and Frida Kahlo’s "The Broken Column" (1944) illustrate aspects of a secular-humanistic conception of the Human Being – interpreted philosophically.
12:30 Lunch
for meal ticket holders
14:05 Words of welcome Michele Marsching
Pirate Party group in the parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
14:20 Colin Goldner
Brother Chimp, Sister Bonobo: Legal Rights for Great Apes
15:00 Carsten Frerk
15:35 Coffee break
for meal ticket holders
15:55 Arzu Toker
16:35 Michael Schmidt-Salomon
Secularism is the solution – about religion and violence
17:10 Coffee break
for meal ticket holders
17:35 Words of welcome Berivan Aymaz
Secular Greens in North Rhine Westphalia
17:50 Maryam Namazie
Promoting Secularism in the Age of ISIS
18:30 Dinner
for meal ticket holders
20:00 IBKA award "Sapio" to Greg Graffin
followed by a buffet – for award ceremony ticket holders
22:00 Get-together
Sunday, May 24
09:30 Assunta Tammelleo
Public holiday laws in Germany
10:10 Leo Igwe
Jihadist Islam and peace in Africa
10:50 Valentin Abgottspon
Will the world be better without religion? The world without religion will be improved!
11:25 Coffee break
for meal ticket holders
11:50 Michael Nugent
Be tough with ideas, and compassionate to people
12:25 Annie Laurie Gaylor
13:15 Closing session
13:40 Lunch
for meal ticket holders (Subject to change)