On Monday, January 15th at 6pm the first of 13 General Studies lectures will
be held. The lectures, will take place at the Faculty of Technology/Addis Ababa University library auditorium, Northern Campus, are entitled Engineering Towards Development and change, and will bring together engineering studies, as taught at the Faculty, with different studies in order to create a more full picture of Ethiopia’s future path to industrialization.
The lectures will be held twice per month until July 9th.
Internationally recognized experts will attend the lectures to give their perspectives on Ethiopian development. The first lecture will discuss the Philosophy of Technology Studies. Prof. Dr. Bernhard Irrgang, professor for Technology Philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy, Dresden, Germany, will talk about Technological Progress and Development in Developing Countries. Dr. Workineh, Head of Philosophy Department/AAU, will moderate the lecture and lead a question and answers discussion afterwards.
Future topics are:
15.01.2007 Technological Progress in Developing Countries
Dr. phil. habil. Dr. theol. Bernhard Irrgang, Professor for Technology Philosophy
29.01.2007 Emerging & Professional Development of Engineering Professions
Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Helmuth Albrecht, Chair for History of Technology & Industrial Archaeology
12.02.2007 Challenges for Sustainable Rural Development in Ethiopia
Prof. Dr. phil. nat. Hans Hurni, Director of NCCR North-South, Director of CDE
26.02.2007 Industrialization in the Urban Age
Prof. Dr. Dieter Läpple, Head of Institute, Urban & Regional Economics & Sociology
12.03.2007 Artificial Design Intelligence & Computer-based Communication
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schmitt, Vice President of ETH Zurich, Chair of Information Architecture
26.03.2007 Network City
Prof. em. Franz Oswald, Architect BSA/SIA, Professor ETH Zurich
16.04.2007 Cultural Philosophy and History of Productive Life
Dr. Nicole Karafyllis, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Polytechnik/Arbeitslehre und politische Bildung
30.04.2007 The importance of formal and informal learning
Prof. Dr. Phil. Overwien, Technical University of Berlin
14.05.2007 Vernacular architecture
Dr. Paul Oliver, Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development, Oxford Brookes University
28.0.2007 Heterogeneous Processes in Practice
Prof. Dr. Marc M. Angélil, Chair for Architecture & Design
11.06.2007 Appropriate Technology
Dr. Rober Wimmer, Gruppe Angepasste Technologie, Technische Universität Wien>
25.06.2007 Open Source / Open Community
Dr. Anton Mangstl, Director Library & Documentation, FOA, Rome
09.07.2007 Humanities in the Technological Culture
Dr. Nils Gottschalk-Mazouz , Institute of Philosophy, University Stuttgart
Addis Ababa University and ecbp launch second lecture series on industrial development - 21-01-08 09:06