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List of Speakers
 - PAUL BÖHM is a german architect. He studied Architecture at Technical Universities of Berlin and Vienna. During his career he worked as an assistant in the office of Bernhard Strecker and Jürgen Eckhardt, for Richard Meier in New York and finally at the Böhm office in Cologne. Since 2001 he has his own office. He worked on several international projects, among others in India and China. In 2006 he won a competition for a project of the new central mosque in Cologne announced by the Turkish Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB).
- DR. ARNO BÖLTS-THUNECKE is judge of the Juvenile Court emeritus and is currently working as a protestant Präses Presbyterii (priest) at the Kreuzkirche in Bonn.
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DR PAUL FLATHER is Secretary–General of the Europaeum, an association of leading European Universities, and Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford. He was the founding Secretary-General of the Central European University (1990-1994) originally set up in Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw by George Soros, and director of international and external affairs for Oxford University (1994-1999). Formerly, he worked at the BBC, Times Newspapers, and served as Deputy Editor of the New Statesman. His research work is on Indian political development since Independence. He has worked with dissident movements in Central Europe in the 1980s, and with race equality groups in the UK. He was an elected member of the London Council in the 1980s (chairing its committee on post-school education 1986-1990). He currently chairs the Noon Scholarship Committee, and is on the board of the Roundtable.
- PROF. DR. ALBERT GERHARDS studied philosophy and theology in Innsbruck and Rome, when he got his ordination to the Catholic priesthood in 1976. In 1989 he joined the University of Bonn as professor and director of the Department of Liturgical Studies at the Catholic-Theological Faculty. Prof. Gerhards main research interests are directed towards history, theology and practical liturgy, ecumenism, Judaism and church art. Since 2005 he is the spokesperson of the Center of Religion and Society (ZERG) in Bonn.
- DR BERTOLD HÖCKER is pastor at the Antoniter City-Church in Cologne and an expert in Gregorian chant. He studied Theology in Kiel, Munich and Tübingen. He wrote his doctoral thesis in 1994 at the University of Kiel on „Latin Gregorian Chant in Lutheran Service“. Since then he was engaged in many projects concerning church music pedagogy, as well as status of homosexuals within the Church and society and AIDS-aid. Since 2000 he lectures on Gregorian chants and liturgical studies at the Music Academy of Lübeck.
- JULIA KERSTIENS, MA, completed her Magistra Artium degree in art history, liturgical science and literature at the University of Bonn in 2007. After being a student researcher from 2005 until 2007 in the Department of Liturgical Studies, she is currently working on her doctoral thesis in the Department of Art History at the University of Bonn. She is especially interested in interdisciplinary approaches to sacred spaces of medieval and present times.
- PROF. ANDREINA MILAN is Professor of Architecture at the University of Bologna. She studied architecture at the University of Venice, where she also lectured between 1987 – 1994. Her primary research interests concern history of architecture, especially relationships between old buildings and modern urban development, also considering effects of climate and environmental influences. Since 2003 is she engaged in several projects dealing with national and international urban development planning, as well as organisation of work-shops and intercultural e-learnings projects. Currently she researches on rebuilding of German cities after World War II.
- DR. SABINE SCHRENK studied classical Archeology at the Universities of Fribourg and Bonn, where she obtained her doctoral degree on Christian Art and Architecture. She worked at the Department of Archaeological Preservation in Köln and at the Franz Joseph Dölger-Institut in Bonn. Since 1999 she works as research assistant at the Christian-Archeological Department at the University of Bonn and since 2001 she is “Konservatorin für Kunst vor 1500” by the Abbeg-Stiftung in Reggisberg.
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