Schiller Institute Conference:
The Eurasian Land-Bridge
Becomes A Reality!
September 15-16, 2007
Kiedrich, Germany
Conference Program and Links
Saturday, Sept. 15, 2007
Keynote Panel
Music
Introduction
Opening Remarks (Transcript)
Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Founder and Chairwoman, International Schiller Institute
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Keynote
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Economist and Statesman
"This Present World Financial Crisis" (Transcript)
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Discussion
(Transcript)
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Lunch break
Music
LaRouche Youth Movement
Johann Sebastian Bach, "Jesu, meine Freude"
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Panel I
Russia - Eurasia's Keystone Nation
Prof. Stanislav Menshikov
Economist, Russian Academy of Sciences
"Industrial Policy and Political Climate in Russia for the Land Bridge Project"
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Dr. Victor Razbegin
Deputy Chairman of the Council for the Study of Productive Forces (SOPS) of the Russian Federation Ministry of Economic Development and Trade and the Russian Academy of Sciences
"The Eurasia - North America Multimodal Intercontinental Connection:
Key Link in the World Transport System"
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Dr. Sergei Cherkasov and Academician Dmitri Rundqvist
Vernadsky State Geological Museum, Russian Academy of Sciences
"Infrastructure Corridors in Russia - Pros and Cons: A Raw Materials Approach"
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Yuri Krupnov
Director of the Institute for Demography, Migration and Regional Development,
Presented by: Ilnur Batyrshin, World Development Network Youth Chapter, Kazan, Russia
"Svobodny Cosmodrome: Potential Space Industry Cluster and Development Corridor
in Russia's Amur Region"
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Discussion
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Dinner break
Panel II
Projects for the Eurasian Land-Bridge
Hal Cooper
Consulting engineer, Cooper Engineering
"The Worldwide Strategic Importance of the Intercontinental Rail Corridor Connections
between the Eurasian and North American Land-Bridges"
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Dr. Markku Heiskanen
Senior Fellow at the Nordic Institute for Asian Studies, former Deputy Director of Planning of the Foreign Ministry of Finland
"Scandinavia and the Eurasian Land-Bridge"
Dr. Nino Galloni
Economist, Italy
"The Sicily-Tunisia Tunnel and the Extension of the Eurasian Land-Bridge into Africa"
Discussion
Dialogue on Eurasian Land-Bridge Projects
Sunday, Sept. 16, 2007
Keynote Panel II
Music
LaRouche Youth Movement
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, "Ave verum corpus"
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Keynote II
Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Founder and Chairwoman, International Schiller Institute
"The New Cultural Renaissance in the Coming Age of Reason" (Transcript)
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Panel III
Technologies to Reconstruct the World
Prof. Pirouz Moitahed-Zadeh
Dept. of Political Geography, Tehran University, and chairman, Urozevic Foundation, London
The U.S. Neo-Cons and Iran's Nuclear Energy
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Dr. Steven Dean
Fusion Power Associates
"Fusion Power"
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Prof. Ahmed Kedidi
Doha University, Qatar
Lyndon LaRouche and The Muslim World
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Dr. Holger Beckmann
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
"Automated Underground Goods Transportation: A Transportation Technology Scenario for the Future"
Pierre Chiquet
founder of the space centers of Betrigny, Toulouse and the rocket launching platform of Kourou
"Great Projects and High Technology:
Rediscovering the Voluntarism of the Postwar reconstruction Period"
Discussion
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Lunch break
Panel IV
Rebuilding Civilization
Amelia Boynton Robinson
Vice Chairwoman, Schiller Institute, US Civil Rights Heroine
"Civil Rights for all People of the Planet"
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Jacques Cheminade
Statesman and political leader of Solidarité et Progrès, France
"Beyond the Eurasian Land-Bridge: The Cultural Paradigm of the Millenium to Come"
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LaRouche Youth Movement
International Strategy To Build a Bridge to the Future
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Closing Remarks
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Photo Album
The LaRouche Youth Movement Report
Towards a New Eurasian LYM
Oyang Teng
LaRouche Youth Movement
Discussion Papers
Maglev: Transport Mode for the 21st Century (from EIR, PDF format)
The Bering Strait Megaproject: Political and Economic Aspects
(in Russian, EIR) by Prof. Stanislav Menshikov
PBMR: Clean, Safe, And Affordable Energy by Tom Ferreira
Nuclear Energy for Transportation: Electricity, Hydrogen, and Liquid Fuels (from EIR, PDF format)
by Masao Hori
Medical Isotopes In the 21st Century by Robert E. Schenter, Ph.D.