MCE Project

The backdrop idea of the Conference is to discuss the encyclical Caritas in veritate in an interdisciplinary, interreligious and intercontinental forum, especially as freedom and common good are concerned.
Conference languages will be English and Italian.

The first day will be dedicated to an expert meeting for approx. 70 to 100 people, including the persons mentioned in the list below, professionals in the field of communications and politics, sponsors and members of the academic community of the Pontifical Universities in Rome. The number of participants will be limited to the persons invited.

The program includes four plenary panel discussions which deal with the four topics mentioned in the third chapter of Caritas in veritate (see the panels at the end of this page). On each panel four to five speakers will open the discussion by presenting a 15 to 20 minute paper. Each session closes with a 25 minute debate including the experts present. The work of this first day will be summed up in a press release.

Those experts invited who wish to present papers at the Conference can do so (cfr. the Call for Papers on this webpage) even though they do not speak on one of the panels. Experts who submit their papers beforehand will be given priority during the debate. If accepted by the Scientific Committee their papers will be published in the proceedings or on our webpage.

The second day will be a Congress open to the general public, mainly to people working in the academic field, in economy, in politics and journalism. There will be three key-note speakers who will deal with different aspects of the encyclical, and a round table debate with the speakers for the public.

Speakers:
Rafael Alvira, Univ. de Navarra, Spain
Antonio Argandoña, IESE, Spain
Arthur Brooks, President of American Enterprise Institute, USA (invited)
Rocco Buttiglione, Univ. degli Studi S. Pio V, Italy
Michel Camdessus, President of International Monetary Fund (1987-2000), president of SRAEC, France
Pierpaolo Donati, Univ. di Bologna, Italy
Youssef El-Khalil, Bank of Lebanon, Lebanon
Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, Presidente dello IOR, Vatican City
Lord Brian Griffiths of Fforestfach, Vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs, UK
Russell Hittinger, Univ. of Tulsa, USA
Alexander Janda, Österreichischer Integrationsfonds, Austria
João Luís César das Neves , Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
Martin Rhonheimer, Univ. della Santa Croce, Italy
Andrea Schneider, Bundeskanzleramt, Germany
Robert J. Shiller, Univ. of Yale, USA (invited)
Kim Tan, Founder Chairman of SpringHill Management Ltd, GB
Alan M. Webber, Co-founder of Fast Company. Former Editorial director and Managing editor of “Harvard Business Review”, USA
Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize 2006, Founder of Grameen Bank, Bangladesh (invited)
Stefano Zamagni, Univ. of Bologna, Italy


Possible distribution of experts on Friday, 15th of October, according to panels:

Markets and Finance
Ettore Gotti Tedeschi
Brian Griffiths of Fforestfach
Michel Camdessus
Robert J. Shiller (invited)
João Luís César das Neves


Business enterprise and CSR
Stefano Zamagni
Alan M. Webber
Andrea Schneider
Antonio Argandoña
Youssef El-Khalil


Entrepreneurship and virtues
Rafael Alvira
Arthur Brooks
Kim Tan
Muhammad Yunus


Public authorities
Martin Rhonheimer
Russell Hittinger
Rocco Buttiglione
Pierpaolo Donati
Alexander Janda


Saturday, 16th of October, 2010
3 keynote speakers

Timetable

Friday, Expert Meeting

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