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Agenda
 

 

10 am - 10.15 am

Welcome and Introduction

 

Dr. Marion Esch, Head of the Foundation for STEM- Entertainment-Education-Excellence

Science and Gender in Space-Movies and Serials

 

10.15 am - 12:00

Bigger Than Life: The Science of Space and Space Movies »Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere« (Carl Sagan)

Keynotes

 

Dr. James Green, NASA’s Director of Planetary Science and Science-Advisor
»The Martian« – Science Fiction and Science Facts


Harald Kloser, Scriptwriter and Producer
The role of science in contemporary filmmaking


Panel Discussion

Collaboration between science and entertainment: Impact and success factors

 

Dr. James Green, NASA’s Director of Planetary Science and Science-Advisor

Prof. Dr. Felix Huber DLR’s Director Space Operations and Astronaut Training
Harald Kloser, Scriptwriter and Producer

Connie Walther, Writer and Director

Nils Warnecke, Curator at the German Kinemathek

 

12.00 - 1 pm

Lunch Break

 

 

1 pm - 2.30 pm

Science & Comedy: The »Sitcom«-Impact

 

Dr. Judith Kohlenberger, Cultural theorist (Vienna University of Economics and Business/University of Vienna)

What‘s Funny About Science? The Big Bang Theory and the Sitcom Impact

 

Panel Discussion

How Science, Scientists and Gender come in and have impact

 

Dr. Bernold Feuerstein, Physicist at University Heidelberg & at the MPI for Nuclear Physics   
Dr. Judith Kohlenberger, Cultural theorist (Vienna University of Economics and Business/University of Vienna)
Prof. Dr. Tsachy Weissman, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford, Advisor Silicon Valley

 

 

2.30 pm - 2.45 pm

Coffee Break

 

 

2.45 pm - 3.45 pm

The golden Age of Science in Entertainment? 

 

Keynote

 

Dr. David Kirby, Senior Lecturer in Science Communication Studies, Universität Manchester
The golden Age of Science in Entertainment?

 

Panel Discussion

Perspectives for the German market

 

Carl-Christian Demke, Writer
Christian Granderath, Head of Movies, Films and Theater, NDR

Ivo Alexander Beck, Producer and Head of Bavaria's office Berlin

 

 

3.45 pm - 5 pm

 

Panel Discussion
Perspectives on a national and international Science & Entertainment-Exchange

 
Prof. Dr. Sina Farzin, University Hamburg, Project „Fiction meets Science“
Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Heiss, Vice President for Studies/ Teaching, Technical University Berlin
Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Kahn, Director, Berman Institute for Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University

John Tintori, Editor, Director, Academic Director NYU Production Lab, Associate Arts Professor
Prof. Dr. Susanne Stürmer, President of Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf

 

 

5pm - 5.15pm

Coffee Break

 

 

5.15pm - 6.15pm

Workshops 

 

  • »Responsible research in STEM fields and innovation: How to integrate STEM-EE-strategies in STEM research, STEM innovation and STEM communication«

  • »Responsible science, innovation and communication in higher education for STEM fields and media: Impulses for film and STEM education and for the cooperation between film universities and STEM universities«

  • »Innovation incentives, exchange, and development of excellence: Useful measures«

  • »Leeway for (co-)productions with STEM and equal opportunities in the center: Perspectives of experts.«

 

6.15pm - 6.30pm

Closing Remarks


Dr. Marion Esch

 

 

6.30pm - 9.30pm

 Greetings from Hollywood

Dinner


Ensuing Speed-Dating for scientists and film/television professionals