Lectures & Seminars during BRIMUN 2010
During BRIMUN 2010 we are going to offer you exciting, controversial and interesting workshops and seminars. In this section, you can find out which new horizons you are able to discover at BRIMUN 2010.
Kurt Bangert, Director of Research at the World Vision Institute for Research and Development: Poverty, Climate Change, and Global Governance
On March 28, 5PM, Kurt Bangert, Director of Research at the World Vision Institute for Research and Development will visit Jacobs University to talk to the delegates about “Poverty, Climate Change, and Global Governance”.
Kurt Bangert studied Protestant theology at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and in the USA and has been working in the realm of development aid service for the last 30 years. He started his career working for the Christoffel Mission for the blind, where he served as regional manager for the East Asian / Pacific Region for six years with a specialization on prevention of blindness and rehabilitation of disabled people. Since 1996, Bangert works for World Vision, where he was first responsible for public relations and later took over his current position. Besides his work for World Vision, he is author of several books and articles on fight against poverty, HIV/AIDS, and the World Vision Children’s Study. Furthermore, he is active in several social networks and co-founder of several initiatives against the deployment of children soldiers and small arms.
Karola Jamnig-Stellmach: SODIS, a Project supported by Lions Club
Karola Jamnig-Stellmach is going to talk about SODIS on Monday, March 29, 11.30AM, in the UNDP and UNHRC. Solar water disinfection - the SODIS-method - is a simple procedure to disinfect drinking water. Contaminated water is filled in a transparent PET-bottle or glass bottle and exposed to the sun for 6 hours. During this time, the UV-radiation of the sun kills diarrhoea generating pathogens. The SODIS-method helps to prevent diarrhoea and thereby is saving lives of people. This is urgently necessary as still more than 4000 children die every day from the consequences of diarrhoea.
Karola Jamnig-Stellmach, living in Bremen, is leading an Institute at Steinbeis-Hochschule Berlin as well as a lecturer in communication and leadership. She is a member of Lions Clubs International since 1999, and a member of a Ladies Club in Bremen. In the Multidistrict Germany of LCI she is a member of the board representing the 2. Vice District Governor in Lower Saxonie-Bremen and the SODIS coordinator. Mrs. Jamnig-Stellmach is the founder of the SODIS project in Ghana/ Volta Region and one of the major SODIS fund raiser within the Lions Clubs in Germany. Since 2007 she travels at least once a year to Ghana in order to support the local project team.
Prof. Dr. Karen Smith Stegen, University Lecturer in International Political Economy: Resource Wars
Dr. Karen Smith Stegen from the Bremer Energie Institut studied Psychology, Business Administration, Philosophy, and Political Science and gained deep knowledge in the field of geopolitical analysis during her employment with Amoco Corp., a major oil and gas company in the USA, which later became part of BP. Next to political, economic and commercial analysis of the regions of the former Soviet Union, Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East, South America, and Southeast Asia, she was strongly involved in evaluations of the European gas market and its connections to the Russian gas market.
In her current position at the Bremer Energie Institut, Dr. Smith Stegen focuses on issues linked to security of supply with a focus on Europe’s increasing dependence on external energy sources.
At BRIMUN 2010 ‘Resources and Energy’, she will hold two lectures. On Monday, March 29, 3PM, she is going to talk to the Security Council and the ICJ about "Resource Wars". On Tuesday, March 30, 11.15AM, she is going to talk about "The Promises and Challenges of Solar Energy: Desertec" together with Prof. Dr. Werner Bergholz to the UNEP.
Jörn Marder, Doctors without Borders: A Response on Haiti
Doctors without Borders (Médecins sans Frontières), founded in 1971 by a group of doctors and journalists, is an international organization, focusing on humanitarian relief and medical assistance in emergencies. Currently, the organization provides this assistance in almost 60 countries worldwide, wherever human survival is threatened by violence or catastrophe mainly caused by armed conflicts, epidemics, natural disasters, or general exclusion from health care due to neglect. Thereby, all aid is independent and rendered to those most in need. The organization, which today has more than 27,000 active members from various professions, reserves itself the right to cast attention to deplorable states of affairs, such as neglected crises or inadequacies of the international aid system. In 1999, the organization received the Nobel Peace Prize, for its engagement in humanitarian relief.
On Monday, March 29, 5PM, Jörn Marder, manager of a Berlin-based company specialized in event technology, will visit Jacobs University Bremen, to share his broad experience as a volunteer at Doctors without Borders. He will specifically focus on his recent experience in the earthquake region of Haiti, where he supported the organization for four weeks.
Prof. Dr. Werner Bergholz, Professor of Electrical Engineering: The Promises and Challenges of Solar Energy: Desertec
Werner Bergholz received his Diploma and Doctor degree in physics from the University of Goettingen in Germany. He joined the Siemens Semiconductor (today Infineon Technologies) in 1985 as the head of a defect and contamination analysis lab. Following positions in process technology, silicon substrate procurement Quality Management / Business Excellence he accepted a professorship of Electrical Engineering at the Jacobs University Bremen in 2002. He is also a consultant in Semiconductor Technology and Quality Management. Werner Bergholz is currently co-chair of the SEMI Silicon Wafer Standards Committee and co-chair of the European Regional Standards Committee.
On Tuesday, March 30, 11.15AM, Prof. Dr. Bergholz is going to talk about "The Promises and Challenges of Solar Energy: Desertec" together with Prof. Dr. Smith Stegen to the UNEP.
Max Schön, President of the German Club of Rome
Max Schön, current president of the German Club of Rome and member of the Advisory Board of Desertec foundation, studied business administration at the University of Cooperative Education Stuttgart, Germany. Afterwards, he joined his family’s business, the Max Schön GmbH & Co. KG in Lübeck, Germany, which mainly operates in trade with steel, tubes, and machines. Until 1999, Max Schön acted as CEO in his parents’ company, until he switched to the Advisory Board of the company. Besides his commitment to the German Club of Rome and Desertec Foundation, Schön is amongst others also a member of the Climate Council of the Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein and the Board of Trustees of “Stiftung für Zukunftsfragen”.
On Tuesday, March 30, 7PM, Max Schön is going to hold a lecture within the BRIMUN 2010 program.
Prof. Dr. Laurenz Thomsen, Professor of Geosciences: 98
On Wednesday, March 31, 10AM, Prof. Dr. Thomsen will give a speech with the title "98" to the UNHRC.
Prof. Dr. Thomson holds a diploma in Biology from the University of Kiel, Germany, where he also completed his PhD. As an expert in Oceanography, he already taught at several universities, amongst which are the University of Washington, Seattle. Furthermore, he conducted research as a member of well-known European research projects in Oceanography.