The event schedule for the weekend is below:
Symposium Program
Thursday 31 October 2024 (Optional tours and activities)
All of Thursday’s activities are optional – you can select which activities you would like to participate in when registering for the symposium.
- 2:30-5:30 Art & Innovation Tour of the European Patent Office art collection and BMW World & Museum
- 1:00-4:00 Castles & Royalty Tour of the Nymphenburg castle and porcelain manufactory
- 5:30-7:00 Early dinner at classic Bavarian fare Old Town venue, at own expense (estimate 50 EUR for a main course and a drink)
- 7:00-8:30 Later dinner at classic Bavarian fare Old Town venue, at own expense (estimate 50 EUR for a main course and a drink)
- 7:00-10:00 Opera: Das Rheingold by Wagner at the Staatsoper (Max-Joseph-Platz 2) – Only 10 tickets allotted, 70 EUR / 80 USD.
- 7:00-10:00 Jazz Club Voglers near Isartor in Old Town (Rumfordstrasse 17), 10 EUR admission plus food onsite at own expense
Click here for full information, details & prices of Thursday’s optional activities
Friday 1 November 2024
Friday’s activities include registration + different activities around beautiful Munich. You will have the change to choose your preferred activity during the online event registration.
- 10:00-6:30 Registration at KAB – Entrance on Werneckstrasse 24 – Munich (Katholische Akademie Bayern (KAB), Mandlstraße 23, 80802 München, Germany)
- 11:30-1:00 Typical Munich Brunch at traditional neighborhood restaurant Georgenhof, 30 EUR
- 12:30-4:30 Beer and Brotzeit Tour of Munich, 60 EUR
- 2:00-5:00 Bus Tour of the major sights of Munich, 60 EUR
- 2:00-4:30 Walking Tour in the Footsteps of Women of the Bohème, 30 EUR
- 2:00-4:30 Walking Tour of Old Town, 30 EUR
- 2:00-4:30 Walking Tour of Munich in the Third Reich, 30 EUR
- 5:30-6:30 Wine & culture spotlight & tasting at the KAB with renown sommelier Caroline Hermann (MHC ‘92), 30 EUR
- 6:30-10:30 Aperitif, flying buffet dinner and mingling
Saturday 2 November 2024
Location: Katholische Akademie Bayern (KAB), Mandlstraße 23, 80802 München, Germany
- 8-9 am Registration at KAB – Entrance on Mandlstrasse 23 – Munich
- 9-9:15 Welcome
- 9:15-10 Strategic plan & state of the College by MHC President Danielle Holley
- 10-10:20 Q&A with Representatives of the College
- 10:20-10:40 Morning break
- 10:40-11:10 Keynote on the fundamental necessity of the arts to our society
- 11:10-11:30 Keynote on censorship then and now, in Munich and in the world
- 11:30-12:30 Panel on how the arts can prosper in tomorrow’s world, how we overcome censorship, how various forms of art and culture can be promoted and integrated into our lives
- 12:30-1:30 Lunch Buffet Onsite and go to respective discussion group rooms onsite
- 1:30-3:00 Afternoon Discussion Groups: 2 rounds, moderated by respective topic experts; 3-4 x 45 min sessions; 10 min transition
- Art curation in grocery stores – How we can consume products… and art! (Nata Togliatti)
- Promoting art education in different cultures (Sofia Contino)
- Poetry, politics and social justice (Marjory Wentworth, MHC ’80)
- Science Woman providing a creative format for gathering data, provoking and analyzing ideas (Leslie van Stavern Millar, MHC ‘72)
- AI as Creative Catalyst for use in Visual Communication – AI will not replace the Professional Artist (Erin McGee Ferrell, MHC ’94)
- 3:10-3:30 Afternoon break
- 3:30-4:00 Reconvene in the plenary room, with a rep from each of the groups reporting out on the key takeaways from their sessions; wrap up & preview of BarCamp for Sunday
- Break until 7pm to mingle / shop / stroll / get to dinner — we will be organising groups to go to town
- 7:00-11:00 Festive dinner, with cocktails and silent auction to start, with
European Council Awards and recognition of recent recipients of
Alumnae Association Awards
Sunday 3 November 2024
Location: Katholische Akademie Bayern (KAB), Mandlstraße 23, 80802 München, Germany
- 9:30-10:10 Dialogue on arts and democracy
- 10:10-10:30 BarCamp pitches (1-min each), voting and guidance for sessions
- 10:30-10:50 Morning break & transition to the room for the first round of discussion groups
- 10:50-12:30 BarCamp Discussion Groups: 2 rounds on topics of choice; 45 min sessions; 10 min transition
- 12:30-12:45 Wrap-up & goodbyes in plenary room
- Optional lunch at a local neighborhood restaurant in Schwabing near the KAB or lunch to go
BarCamp in a Nutshell
Barcamps emerged in the techy- & start-up sector and offer the best of two worlds, combining interaction and focus on up-to-date topics of immediate interest to participants. It creates enriching discussion guided by everyone participating!
Here’s how it works:
- Participants are invited to host sessions of their interest, based on a (hopefully engaging) brief pitch to the full audience. Whether they are recognized experts, interested in collecting diverse insights or simply want to enhance awareness on a subject – all topics (politics, academics, general public interest, MHC profile, technology, whatever you can think of!) can all run in parallel.
- Session-hosts will each deliver a 1(!) minute pitch for “their” topic – the audience then “documents” (general) interest (by raising hand) – but this is not yet a “commitment” to attend the later session.
- The most popular 8-10 sessions will then be selected to run in parallel slots in two rounds, with the top 2 topics running consecutively.
- The audience is invited to actively participate in each session, but everyone is free to “vote by feet”, i.e. walk in / out of sessions as they please. If a session is boring / not what one expected, people can walk in and out / move on to another one, so hosts will have to deal with the fluidity of their audience.
- The moderator will “warn” session participants approximately 2 minutes before the end of the slot – giving hosts a chance to wrap up. During the 10 minutes break, people can regroup to start the 2nd round.
- At the end of the BarCamp, session hosts are invited to deliver a (very) brief feedback to the plenum – and later to provide key insights on the MHC European Symposium website.
If you want to learn more, here is a more detailed explanation of BarCamp