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The Second World Knowledge Dialogue Symposium will be held on September 10-13, 2008 in Crans-Montana, Switzerland.

The Executive Committee of the World Knowledge Dialogue has set the dates of the next symposium : it will take place in Crans-Montana, from Wednesday 10 September afternoon, to Saturday 13 September, 2008, noon. These dates take into consideration local climatic conditions, international and Swiss academic calendars and other important international events such as the annual Science and Technology in Society forum in Japan.

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The World Knowledge Dialogue Foundation has a new Scientific Board. It is composed of 15 outstanding personalities from humanities and natural sciences : Werner Arber, Paul Boghossian, Iris Bohnet, Jean-Pierre Changeux, Ruth Dreifuss, Gerald M Edelman, Richard R Ernst, Gerd Folkers, Georges Haddad, Julia Higgins, Hiroshi Komiyama, Helga Nowotny, Geoffrey West, Frank Wilczek and Timothy Williamson.
Read more : http://www.wkdialogue.ch/isb.pdf

The Scientific Board will meet during summer to finalize the choice of topics that will serve as vehicles for the dialogue between natural sciences and humanities during the second WKD symposium.

A new format for the Second WKD symposium

Based on the lessons learnt from the first symposium, the Executive committee of the World Knowledge Dialogue has decided to adopt a new format : There will be one more day, more parallel sessions, and more opportunities for the participants to share experiences, exchange views and interact with colleagues from a broad spectrum of other disciplines and cultures. The young scientists program will be extended and special attention will be paid to the equilibrium between participants from natural sciences and from social sciences and humanities. A Call for Abstracts, with topics related to inter- and transdisciplinarity (research, teaching, policy,…), will be issued within the next few months.

A special session of the Science and Technology in Society forum in Kyoto (October 2007) dedicated to the World Knowledge Dialogue

Francis Waldvogel, executive director of the World Knowledge Dialogue Foundation, has been invited to organize and chair a special session during the fourth STS forum, which will take place between October 7 and 9, 2007.
Read more about the STS forum and its outstanding program : http://www.stsforum.org/

Svante Pääbo, 2006 WKD speaker and Director of the Department of Evolutionary Genetics of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology is among the 19 scientists and thinkers of the Time 100 list 2007.

His talk during the Crans-Montana Symposium is archived at the WKD web site :
http://www.wkdnews.org/webcast?clip=7

Read more :
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/time100/article/0,28804,1595326_1595329_1616144,00.html