Co-sponsored Research Fellowships
Canon Foundation Invited Lecture
History of programmes
The Canon Foundation Award Programme came to an end in 2005.
Canon Foundation Visiting Professorships and Awards were granted to nominated, outstanding European and Japanese scholars or leading members of commercial, industrial, governmental and professional organisations. They usually spent between 4 weeks and 3 months in Europe when from Japan or in Japan if they were Europeans. They delivered a series of lectures or participated in a research project in their host institution. From 1993 - 2005, 21 Visiting Professorships and Awards have been granted.
Replacing this programme and commemorating our 20th anniversary, the Canon Foundation Invited Lecture was established in 2007. The lecturer is an outstanding person in academia, government or professional organisation and will be invited to deliver a lecture on a theme which is topical and of relevance to the international community. The lecturer will be nominated by the Executive Committee members of the Canon Foundation in Europe. To continue the celebration of our 20 years existence, our next lecture in the Invited Lecture series will be on Tuesday 18 November, 2008, Berlin.
The lecture will be given by Professor Dr. Horst Albach on Intercultural Dialogue between Germany and Japan - in German with simultaneous translation to English.
INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE BETWEEN GERMANY AND JAPAN
Prof. Dr. Albach approaches the topic of Intercultural Dialogue from the economic, social, cultural and political side. He explains about the reasons for a dialogue which are, amongst others, a better understanding of oneself and the culture in which each partner to the dialogue lives, and competition on each partner’s home market and on the global markets. For an economist, competition is an important reason for intercultural communication.
He will explain about myths and strategic advantages and the change in Japanese corporate governance. He gives examples of failures and successes because of bad and good understandings of each others’ cultures.
Prof. Albach argues that (storage of) knowledge, innovative and imaginative translations and learning each others language are the main conditions for a fruitful dialogue, giving examples of books which have contributed to this process. New methods of information storage are an important factor. In the ‘digitry’ instead of the library. However, storage in a commonly understood language like Latin in the past or English at present, can result in a tremendous gain in efficiency of the intercultural dialogue, but it can also lead to a gigantic loss of information. Will “Unicode” become the global standard for the intercultural dialogue?
The will to understand each other and the time invested are crucial success factors for an intercultural dialogue. The fact that German top managers have never taken the time to cultivate an intercultural dialogue at the German-Japanese meetings sponsored by Kankeiren and the German Chamber of Commerce has been a very sad experience.
Prof. Albach will relate to his own experience by giving a comparison of the cultural differences between advertising in Japan and Germany, and from his years as chairman of the Advisory Council of the Siebold Institute.
Start time lecture: 18:00 - 19:05
Followed by a reception: 19:05 - 19:45 (all attendants are invited) Admission free
As registration is required for the lecture, please e-mail: foundation@canon-europe.com
Location
Harnack-Haus - Goethe Saal
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.
Ihnestraße 16-20
14195 Berlin
Germany
Tel: +49 (30) 84 13 38 04
www.harnackhaus-berlin.mpg.de
For any questions regarding the event, please contact the Secretariat at the Canon Foundation in Europe.
With support from
Professor Dr. Horst Albach
Professor Emeritus of Management at the Humboldt University, Berlin, Professor Horst Albach, a business scholar, has taught at universities around the world such as Uppsala University, University of Bonn, Free University Berlin, in Kabul, Johannesburg and at the Institute for Higher Studies, Kyoto. Holds honorary doctorates at universities in Germany, Japan, Austria, Finland, Spain, Sweden and the USA. Co-founded the global association of Professors of Business Economics and Management and the German-Russian School of Management in Moscow.
Formerly a member of many supervisory boards such as Dresdner Bank AG and Mercedes Automobil Holding AG, Professor Albach has also served on the Scientific Advisory Board to the German Federal Minister of Economics, the Board of Economic Advisors to the German Parliament and the World Management Council in New York. Foreign Member of the Institute of Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Ministry of Finance, Tokyo.
His ideas and policies on the market economy and the role of the public sector contributed significantly to subsequent systems of privatisation as well as to the market economy and new economic foundations of the eastern regions after the reunification of East and West Germany. Received many national and international awards. Published over 600 articles and books. Professor Albach is at present Chancellor of the German Order of Merit for the Sciences and for the Arts.
