Foundation of Dagmar and Vaclav Havel

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"The Dagmar and Václav Havel Foundation VIZE 97 has a relatively broad range of interests reflecting the concerns of its founders and the traditions on which it draws. The Foundation chiefly operates in the sphere of social care, healthcare, education and culture, though on occasion it organises or lends support to various activities in the area of human rights, while also seeking to respond to society's current needs. " [1]

Laureates of the Dagmar and Václav Havel Foundation VIZE 97 Prize [2]

  • Karl H. Pribram - 1999 - American neurosurgeon and thinker
  • Umberto Eco - 2000 - World-renowned semioticist and writer
  • Zdeněk Neubauer - 2001 - Czech scientist and philosopher
  • Joseph Weizenbaum - 2002 - German-born American computer scientist and thinker
  • Robert B. Reich - 2003 - Renowned American economist and former member of President Bill Clinton’s administration
  • Petr Vopěnka - 2004 - World-renowned mathematician and former Minister of Education
  • Philip G. Zimbardo - 2005 - World-renowned psychologist
  • Zygmunt Bauman - 2006 - World-renowned sociologist
  • Stanislav Grof - 2007 - a significant American psychologist and psychiatrist of Czech origin
  • Julia Kristeva - 2008 - a significant writer, linguist and psychoanalyst
  • Václav Cílek - 2009 - distinguished Czech geologist, climatologist, writer, philospher and populariser of scinece
  • Konrad Paul Liessmann - 2010 - Outstanding Austrian essayist, literary critic and philosopher
  • Iva Mojžišová - 2011 - Significant Slovak philosopher and art theoretic

Contact

URL: http://www.vize.cz/en

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References

  1. Mission, Foundation of Dagmar and Vaclav Havel, accessed October 30, 2011.
  2. Laureates, Foundation of Dagmar and Vaclav Havel, accessed October 30, 2011.