Urban African Sounds presents Samuel Kwabena Nyama & Band on Saturday the 14th of December 2002 at the "Museum für Völkerkunde" in Munich, Germany. 20:00h: meet & greet mit den Musikern; 21:00h: Concert. 78 year old Samuel Kwabena Nyama (<-You can download .mpegs of his music at this website) is one of the last so called "palm wine musicians". He started to play the guitar in the 1940s and currently lives near Kumase in Ghana. "In my songs I am teaching moral and they are so touching, that if somebody has a knife in his hand and is about to kill somebody, he will put down his knife." Admission: 10 Eur, students: 7 Eur.

If you want to be up-to-date concerning Africa-related events in Southern Germany you should regularly check Afrika in Bayern

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N108 LIBAN (Beyrouth) Institut français du Proche-Orient (IFPO)

Les candidats à ce poste doivent être titulaires d'un doctorat et être engagés dans une recherche sur le Proche-Orient, de préférence sur le Liban, dans une discipline de sciences sociales du contemporain (économie, droit, science politique, sociologie...). Le poste est ouvert aux membres de l'enseignement supérieur ou d'un organisme de recherche français, ainsi qu'à des candidats européens francophones d'un niveau équivalent.

N109 LIBAN (Beyrouth) Institut français du Proche-Orient (IFPO)

Les candidats à ce poste doivent être titulaires d'un doctorat et être engagés dans une recherche de sciences sociales qui concerne le Proche-Orient contemporain et qui puisse s'intégrer aux programmations de l'observatoire urbain de l'IFPO. Le poste est ouvert aux membres de l'enseignement supérieur ou d'un organisme de recherche français, ainsi qu'à des candidats européens francophones d'un niveau équivalent.

Date limite de dépôt des candidatures : 31 janvier 2003. Site web du ministère des affaires étrangères

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Humboldt University Berlin will accept (depending on funding from the Volkswagen Stiftung) up to 30 students for enrolment in its Multidisciplinary Postgraduate Masters Program "Central Asia/Caucasia". Read more ...

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The Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin's Working Group Modernity and Islam invites scholars to apply for three postdoctoral fellowships for the project Cultural mobility in Near Eastern literatures Read more ...

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Because of the big success of the first meeting (which was held in November 2001 in Bonn, Germany), there will be a second Südamerikanistentreffen in Berlin, Germany from 25. to 27. April 2003. The location will be the Ethnological Museum in Berlin-Dahlem.

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Well, this is a weblog, so we have to write about, but this is also a weblog about cyberethnologica and a scientific look at internet culture, and so we have to report it anyway: Two days ago there was a conference in California called Supernova. Quite important people were speaking about distributed computing and dezentralized intelligence. Google-Founder Sergey Brin was talking, and also "visionary" Howard Rheingold and one of the first bloggers, Dave Winer. Cory Doctorov from Wired and founder of the collaborative weblog BoingBoing.net was also there. And, as you can read here, in nearly every panel they were talking about weblogs. This is an interesting development.

Another conference, only dedicated to weblogs, will be held in Vienna next year. A Call for Papers just has been published. But at the moment it looks like they are focussed a little bit on the question how weblogs could be used in business.

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This website was down for the last 6 hours. We apologize. The server of antville.org was in trouble. So, it was neither you internet-connection (in case you use only one website and didn't recognize that) nor bad witchcraft - as far as I know, at least.

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