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Conference: Sustainability as a reform concept and as a concrete utopia
Conference in memory of Horst Peter (1937-2012)
The conference is a joint event of the Wissenschaftsforum Kassel with the Hesse office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the magazine spw.
September 23, 2022 is the 10th anniversary of the death of Horst Peter, who was active as an educator, as a member of the Bundestag of the SPD for Kassel (1980-1994) and through cross-organizational political work and journalism for sustainability as a reform principle. The aim of the conference is to show that the commitment to social and ecological sustainability in politics and business, education and science is not a short-term fashion, but is part of a long line of socially understanding theory and socially changing practice. Sustainability, radically thought through, points beyond the existing society as a concrete utopia and can be a guideline for the renewal of socialist theory.
In five panels, people from social democracy, trade unions, movements and academia will discuss ways to achieve a just and solidary transformation to a sustainable society. Klaus Dörre, author of the book "Die Utopie des Sozialismus - Kompass zu einer Nachhaltigkeitsrevolution", will give the keynote speech. The event will take place in Kassel, the site of Horst Peter's work, an industrial location in transformation and home to a university on the move towards sustainability research.
With, among others, Dr. Sabine Säck da Silva (Director of the Kassel Institute for Sustainability), Prof. Dr. Felix Welti (Professor of Social and Health Law at the University of Kassel), Nilda Inkermann, (Research Associate Didactics of Political Education, University of Kassel)
Time: Thursday, 22. September 2022, 18:00 to 21:30 and Friday, September 23, 2022, 10:15 to 17:00
Location: Conference Center Kulturbahnhof, Franz-Ulrich-Str. 6, 34117 Kassel
Costs: The conference is free of charge.
To the conference program
Registration and further information: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung - Regional Office Hesse