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As populations grow older, the question of remaining healthy and retaining quality of life into old age takes on new relevance. What does quality of life in old age mean? And what influence does a person's occupation have on their health – both during their career and after retirement? What occupations arise when we are increasingly called on to care for elderly people? What experiences do caregivers and relatives make when confronted with people having dementia? Geriatritics professor Heike Bischoff-Ferrari and artist Till Velten discuss quality of life and how society – but also individual people – deal with health and sickness.
Heike Bischoff-Ferrari is professor of geriatrics and research into aging and head of the Department of Geriatrics at the UniversityHospital Zurich.
Till Velten works in the medium of conversation and explores the fabric of society. Part of his most recent work deals with dementia.
Moderator: Linda Schädler, head of the Collection of Prints and Drawings of ETH Zurich
Venue: Künstlergasse 12, Lecture hall KOL-F-118
| Thursday | 30.6. | 6:30 – 8:00 pm |
Human rights should have universal validity; at the same time, the globalization of the economy has increasingly engendered unjust circumstances and inequality. How can economic interests be reconciled with human rights? And what does fairness actually mean? How can it be implemented at both the individual and the societal level? What influence do political and economic systems have on the justness of our actions? International law expert Helen Keller and artist Marianne Flotron discuss what fairness means to them and what the law and art can contribute to bringing about fair conditions.
Helen Keller is professor of international law and judge at the European Court of Human Rights.
Marianne Flotron's work explores how political and economic systems are interconnected with human behavior, and how the latter can be manipulated.
Moderator: Roger Nickl, editor UZH magazin
Venue: Künstlergasse 12, Lecture hall KOL-E-21 (please note the room change)
| Friday | 24.6. | 6:30 – 8:00 pm |
Today, the pursuit of a successful and fulfilled life – a happy life – has taken on greater meaning than ever before. Is happiness for sale, as artistic duo Niklas Nitschke and Vadim Zakharov promise in their “Transactions” project? Shouldn't happiness be something that is earned, generally by living a good life? And what does it even mean: living a happy life? What role do work and success play? Is it possible to produce happiness – and if yes: how? Theologian Konrad Schmid and artistic duo Niklas Nitschke and Vadim Zakharov discuss what happiness means and how we find it.
The talk will be held in English.
Konrad Schmid is professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and Ancient Judaism and member of the Center for Religion, Economics, and Politics.
Niklas Nitschke and Vadim Zakharov have been working under the name OBAMAINBERLIN since 2009. Their work explores the German-Polish border, an area they call a “dead zone.”
Moderator: Aoife Rosenmeyer, art critic, Art + Argument, Zurich
Venue: Künstlergasse 12, Aula, KOL-G-201
| Wednesday | 15.6. | 6:30 – 8:00 pm |
