SYMPOSIUM ‘THE GIFT ECONOMY’

He drew radical conclusions, including with regard to the handling of capital.

Could fundamental problems of economic life be solved if gift-giving were given a place in the economic organism? Following on from last August's summer symposium on the gift economy, the Institute for Social Issues in Freiburg and Berlin is hosting an event that will explore and flesh out the idea of the gift economy from various perspectives in lectures, discussions and two workshops.


10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Presentations

• Helmut Woll Why is the national economic course methodologically more difficult to grasp? Is gift money an economic category?
  
• Ralf Neff Anthroposophically oriented economics from the perspective of the forces shaping life
  
• Tilo König Community and society in the field of tension between individual ethics and order ethics – perspectives on economic ethics
  
• Ulrike von Wiesenau Gift economy and gift-giving economy
  

3:00–5:30 p.m. Presentations and workshops

• 3:00–4:00 p.m. Presentation and workshop with Nino Valeria Rabius, singer and music therapist: Monastic music-making as an act of giving
  
• 16:00-17:30 Lecture and workshop with Johannes Huober, Managing Director of ErdmannHAUSER Getreideprodukte GmbH: Nutrition as a social issue, or how will we feed ourselves in the future?
  

Moderator: Franziska Zwerg


19:00 Piano recital Parvis Hejazi - Works by Bach/ Busoni, Bartok and Liszt

The symposium will conclude with a piano recital by the young concert pianist Parvis Hejazi (Bremen/London). He has put together a programme marked by deep spirituality, featuring Bach/Busoni's Choral Preludes, Liszt's Sonata in B minor and Bartok's Suite Opus 14.


Organiser: Institute for Social Issues Freiburg-Berlin
Rudolf Steiner House Bernadottestraße 90-92, 14195 Berlin
Registration and enquiries: <agenturweidenfeld@gmail.com>
We warmly welcome all interested parties and would be grateful for a donation.