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(Castle Neuwaldegg, Vienna, Austria)
Neuwaldegg Summer Seminar, August 8th-15th, 2010, Vienna.

Summer Seminar 2010
August 8th – 15th, 2010
Schloss Neuwaldegg
Waldegghofgasse 5
A-1170 Vienna, Austria
Tel.: ++ 43 1 485 9775
Fax: ++ 43 1 485 9775 20
Dear Participant,
This letter is to confirm that you have been selected to attend the Neuwaldegg Summer Seminar 2010.
It is expected that participants will arrive on Sunday, August 8th at Castle Neuwaldegg in Vienna to
be ready for the beginning of the seminar on the morning of August 9th. The seminar courses will end
on August 14th in the afternoon. Sunday, August 16th will close the event in the morning. Effort
should be made to depart on Sunday, August 15th. Some flexibility for departure will be allowed.
Please see the other document attached to this email for travel instructions and costs from the airport,
the train stations and the city center (of course, if you are driving, please consult the internet for maps
using the above Schloss Neuwaldegg address).
As indicated in the original call for applicants: food and accommodation are free. Due to this year's
particular economic circumstances, costs not mentioned above will not be covered by EICEE (e.g. visa,
flights, train or taxi). You will be provided with reading materials, paper, maps of Vienna and similar
things; you need to bring, above all, yourself, and, secondly, all the personal items associated with
travel: clothes, hygiene care products, etc.
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The 5 seminar courses will be held each morning beginning at 9:00 and will generally in the afternoon.
The seminar's five courses (in economics, metaphysics, ethics, political philosophy and bio-ethics) are
a consideration of the principles that are the foundation of free, prosperous and just societies and a
reflection on some contemporary philosophical and practical problems facing Western civilization and
Eastern European nations in particular. The courses will by taught by: Dr. Jose Pinera (Economics), Dr.
Michael Pakaluk (Political Philosophy), Dr. Roger Scruton (Ethics), Dr. Patrick Derr (Bio-Ethics) and
Fr. Marcel Guarnizo (Metaphysics), – see below for biographical information on the professors. A
course syllabus will be sent to you prior to your arrival and you will be provided with reading
materials.
A fternoons will generally be free time. Castle Neuwaldegg is located about 3 minutes walk from the
Neuwaldegg tram line that takes you into the city. Dinner will be in the evening at 20:00. On selected
days there may be a discussion on a special topic in the evening before dinner at 19:00 led by a guest
speaker or one of the professors.
If you have any further questions, please contact Mark Hanssen at the email below and we will try to
respond as quickly as possible.
Sincere regards,
Fr. Marcel Guarnizo

Chairman, EICEE
c/o Mark Hanssen
001.703.294.4134
hanssenm@eicee.org
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José Piñera
As Minister of Labor and Social Security of Chile (1978-1980), Dr. José Piñera was the
architect of Chile's successful private pension system. Dr. Piñera has been invited to speak at
Clinton's White House Summit on Social Security and to explain his Chilean reform to George W. Bush
athis home in Austin. He has met President Putin in his dacha outside Moscow and Prime Minister
Romano Prodi at Palazzo Chigi in Rome. He has shared the podium with Alan Greenspan and Milton
Friedman. He has adressed the U.S. Business Roundtable and shared a panel with the Labor Ministers of
France and Germany at the Davos World Economic Forum. Dr. Piñera holds a Master and a Ph.D.
degree in Economics from Harvard University, has published numerous articles and written eight books.
Michael Pakaluk
Dr. Pakaluk, associate professor of philosophy at Clark University in Worcester, MA,

received his A.B. and later Ph. D. from Harvard, studying under W.V. Quine and John
Rawls. He is the author of several books and many scholarly articles in various areas of philosophy,
including Other Selves: Philosophers on Friendship, the Clarendon Aristotle volume on Nicomachean Ethics, and,
most recently, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: An Introduction, published by Cambridge University Press. He is
the Director of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy and a Founding Member of the
American Public Philosophy Institute. Dr. Pakaluk has been a visiting professor or scholar at Brown, St.
Andrews, Cambridge and Harvard. He is currently working on a new translation of the Nicomachean Ethics.
Patrick Derr
Professor Derr earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, and did post-
doctoral fellowships at UCLA (History of Science) and Johns Hopkins University (Philosophy of
Science). He is currently Professor of Philosophy, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Science and Policy,
and President of the Faculty at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is also a Senior Research
Fellow at the Center for Environment, Technology & Development. Much of Derr's work is directed
toward the explanation and analysis of ethical issues, particularly issues of justice or equity. He has directed
his more recent research towards medical ethics and health policy.
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Roger Scruton
Dr. Roger Scruton is currently Research Professor for the Institute for the Psychological
Sciences where he teaches philosophy at their graduate school in both Washington and
Oxford. He received his Ph.D in philosophy from Cambridge and has specialised in aesthetics. He engages
in contemporary political and cultural debates from the standpoint of a conservative thinker and has
written widely in the press on political and cultural issues. Roger Scruton’s most recent books include A
Political Philosophy (Continuum Books, 2006), a thoughtful response to the development and decline of
western civilization, The West and the Rest (ISI Books, 2001), an analysis of the values held by the ‘West’ and
how they are distinct from those held by other cultures.
Marcel Guarnizo
Rev. Marcel Guarnizo is the founder and chairman of the “ Educational Initiative for
Central and Eastern Europe (EICEE)” a network of foundations seeking to strengthen
and promote free, just, democratic societies in Central and Eastern Europe. The network at present
comprises offices in Washington, Vienna, Macedonia, Bratislava, Prague, Tallin (Estonia), Sofia (Bulgaria).
He has taught ethics, bio-ethics, theology, philosophy and economics extensively throughout the region
and at the foundation’s institution. Rev. Guarnizo attained degrees in philosophy and theology in Rome
where he undertook his specialization in Metaphysics at the Santa Croce University, Rome.
Declan Ganley
Declan Ganley is a European entrepreneur and Chairman and CEO of Rivada Networks
designing and deploying broadband public safety communications networks for
government customers. Declan has founded wireless broadband and cable TV businesses in Western,
Central and Eastern Europe. From 1991 he built what became the largest private forestry company in the
Former Soviet Union, which he sold in 1997. He is the founder and president of the Libertas Institute, a
pan-European think tank committed to provoking debate on the future of the European Union and
campaigning for democratic and economic reform.

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Neuwaldegg Summer Seminar, August 8th-15th, 2010, Vienna.

Fr. Marcel Guarnizo

Dr. Pakaluk, associate professor of philosophy at Clark University in Worcester, MA,

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