"Göttingen and its localities send direct aid to Japan"
Public event program launching the donation campaign
Friday, March 25th, 2011
16:00 – 17:30 CET
Aula am Wilhelmplatz
Brief round of talks among cooperation partners: Relations with Japan, motivation behind the assistance and the campaigns planned
- Professor Ulrike Beisiegel, Göttingen University President
- Wolfgang Meyer, Lord Mayor of Göttingen
- Rainer Hald, CEO, Sparkasse Göttingen
- Christoph-Mathias Mueller, Musical Director, Göttingen Symphony Orchestra
- Olaf Feuerstein, Managing Director, Bullerjahn Restaurant
- Eric Tonkowski, Plant Manager, Novelis, Göttingen
- Dr. Hagen Duenbostel, Board Member, KWS Saat AG
- John Patrick, Head Coach, BG Göttingen, German Pro League Basketball Team
 | Keynote lecture by Prof. Harald Fuess followed by a discussion on the situation in Japan, how Japan's disaster is being handled as well as reporting in the German and Japanese media |
German and Japanese scholars, academics and students at Göttingen University talk about their experiences in Japan:
- Helmut Takahiro Uchida, doctoral fellow at the Institute for Material Physics and Alumnus of Tohoku University, currently liaising with the university's management in Tohoku
- Takanari Ideura, Japanese student union "For Japan"
- Professor Thomas Pruschke, Institute for Theoretical Physics, in Japan at the time of the earthquake
- Stefan Glatz, student, in Japan at the time of the earthquake
The round of talks will be moderated by Professor Hiltraud Casper-Hehne, Vice President of Research and International Affairs, Göttingen University.
The musical accompaniment of the event will be provided by the Berlin musician, Dietmar Herriger, who plays the shakuhachi, a traditional Japanese bamboo flute.
Interested attendees will have the opportunity to talk with event participants and personally ask questions.