Sessions
Unlocking the Debt Conundrum: Paths to Growth and Fiscal Sustainability
Planning Workshop
08 Mar - 10 Mar, 2012
The global economic and financial crisis put public finances under strain across the globe. Governments provided large-scale support to the financial sector, and, as the crisis spread to the real economy, also designed extensive fiscal stimulus packages, which together with revenue decline led to increases ...
Improving Health Care in Low and Middle Income Economies: What are the next steps and how do we get there?
22 Apr - 27 Apr, 2012
This seminar will provide an opportunity to review progress and accomplishments in improving healthcare quality and safety in lower and middle income economies, and to synthesize lessons learned to date in order to determine what is needed to take this effort to the next level. We will convene participants ...
Public and Private Cultural Exchange-Based Diplomacy: New Models for the 21st Century
28 Apr - 02 May, 2012
At the onset of the 21st century, cultural diplomacy is encountering new challenges as policymakers, artists, and cultural leaders adapt to a rapidly changing global environment. This change is being driven by multiple factors, including the emergence of a multi-polar world, the growing influence of ...
The Future of the Multilateral Trading System and the World Trade Organization
21 May - 23 May, 2012
With the protracted negotiations on the Doha Trade Round stalled, the implications for the multilateral trading system and indeed the World Trade Organization (WTO) itself are daunting. Do the stalled talks threaten the operation of other parts of the WTO, such as as dispute settlement, which operate ...
15th Annual Freeman Foundation Symposium: Strengthening Cooperation Between the US and East Asia
14 Jun - 19 Jun, 2012
The 2012 Freeman Foundation Symposium will focus on several major areas of US-East Asian relations, starting with a broad assessment of the state of the Asia-Pacific region, key political, economic and security trends in East Asia, and policy implications for the US. The Symposium will bring together ...
Financial Regulation: Bridging Global Differences
16 Aug - 19 Aug, 2012
In response to the global financial crisis, regulatory authorities in the US, Europe and Asia undertook at the request of the G-20 an overhaul of their financial regulation systems with the aim of monitoring better systemic risk posed by market activities, and ensuring more effective supervision of ...
Political Reform and Social Transformation in the Middle East and North Africa: Strengthening the Core of Civil Society and Women's Leadership
09 Sep - 13 Sep, 2012
Whatever the beginnings of reform processes, sustaining healthy transitions and securing more democratic and equitable societies requires a strong civil society and full participation of women. Indicators of a strong civil society include robust public discourse, engaged citizens, access to information, ...
Optimizing Talent - Closing Education and Social Mobility Gaps Worldwide: Higher Education and Lifelong Learning
02 Oct - 07 Oct, 2012
Education provides an essential key to realizing true individual potential. Ideally, an equitable and effective educational system facilitates social mobility and leads to the development and increased prosperity of its citizens, and thus of societies as a whole. While great strides have been made in ...
Rethinking Value Production in Business and Social Contexts:
Leveraging Investment for Social Good through New Models
13 Oct - 17 Oct, 2012
The world is in crisis, and acute societal needs around education, healthcare, access to water, energy and other critical services are continuing to grow. In a time of scarce resources and financial instability, traditional approaches to philanthropy have fallen short of addressing the world's most ...
Salzburg Global Forum for Young Cultural Leaders
27 Oct - 01 Nov, 2012
The Salzburg Global Seminar and National Arts Strategies (based in Alexandria, Virginia) will launch an annual leadership development forum for young cultural leaders from around the globe in October 2012. The Salzburg Forum will provide a unique learning opportunity for "next generation" cultural ...
China in the 21st Century: What Kind of World Power?
04 Dec - 09 Dec, 2012
The program of annual sessions on Asia will continue in 2012 with a session on "China in the 21st Century: What Kind of World Power?" The event-modeled partly on "The US in the World", held immediately after President Obama's election in November 2008-will closely follow the formal inauguration of the ...
International Study Program
Global Citizenship: America and the World (with Miami Dade College)
01 Mar - 08 Mar, 2012
Global Citizenship: America and the World (with CUNY as primary partner)
07 Apr - 14 Apr, 2012
Global Citizenship: America and the World (with Bennett College and King College as primary partners)
12 May - 19 May, 2012
Global Citizenship: America and the World
30 May - 06 Jun, 2012
Colleges and Universities as Sites of Global Citizenship
08 Jul - 15 Jul, 2012
Fellow Events
Islam in the West: Alternative Visions
22 Mar - 22 Mar, 2012
Islam is more often stereotyped than understood in much of the media. What impact can cultural initiatives make to counteract easy caricatures? Can such well-intentioned initiatives avoid simplistic or homogenized views of the highly diverse Islamic tradition in which religious divisions can also ...
21 Apr - 22 Apr, 2012
Austria
Recognizing that Egypt plays a critical leadership role as an example in the MENA region, this meeting will build on themes developed in the December 2011 session on "Change and Transition" but with a particular focus on the role or roles that can most usefully and appropriately be played by external ...
Good Behaviors: The Crucial Connection between Health and Education
08 Jun - 11 Jun, 2012
Throughout the world the burden of chronic disease has been growing, and much of this relates to lifestyle choices. For all the successes of well-resourced and effective campaigns around key issues - such as tobacco, nutrition and exercise, drugs and alcohol, and sexually transmitted infections - the ...
Resistance and Readiness: Immigration, Nativism and the Challenge of Ethnic and Religious Diversity in the US and Europe Today
27 Sep - 01 Oct, 2012
A special four day symposium organized by the Salzburg Seminar American Studies Association will be held at the Salzburg Global Seminar, Salzburg, Austria from September 27-October 1, 2012. The symposium is open to individuals working in the field of the topic; most participants will be university ...
Educating for the Modern Global Economy: The Role of Academia in Positioning a Nation in the World Market
04 Oct - 05 Oct, 2012
Events of recent years must surely have erased any remaining doubts about the interconnectedness of the world's economies. From the credit crises in the US and EU to the natural disasters in Japan and Thailand, and social unrest in the Middle East, the economic waves of local problems have made themselves ...
The 5 Things You Should Know About Doing Business China
19 Oct - 20 Oct, 2012
Ten years after China's accession to the WTO, there are few who would question the importance of its role in the global economy. But this quick rise has given only limited time for foreigners to understand where they stand in relation to this new power. Whether you're a seasoned China expert or interested ...
Screening America: Film and Television in the 21st Century
15 Nov - 19 Nov, 2012
The Salzburg Seminar American Studies Association (SSASA) is organizing a four day symposium on American film and television, to be held at the Salzburg Global Seminar, Salzburg, Austria, from November 15-19, 2012. All activities will take place at the historic Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg, Austria, ...
Salzburg Academy
The Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change
22 Jul - 11 Aug, 2012
The Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change
21 Jul - 10 Aug, 2013
