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Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions?? 
Jared Diamond, Professor of Geography at the University of California, and Pulitzer Prize Winner wrote an excellent, must-read short essay about how it is possbile, that societies can't solve their environmental problems, even if the society will collapse otherwise. The essay is published in one of the most famous intellectual magazines of the internet, edge.org. It's of high anthropological interest, as he accomplishes to proove his theory by a lot of indingeous and ancient cultures like maya and easter islanders as well as western ones like the current USA and last century germany.
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Via Slashdot.org
... Link (2 comments) ... Comment Dept. of events, vernant, April 28, 2003 at 10:12:08 AM CEST Call for Applications - German-Polish Summer School In August-September 2003 the Malakoffturm Migration (in Bottrop) is organizing in cooperation with the Network Migration in Europa e.V. (www.network-migration.org), Humboldt University Berlin and the Center for International Relations, Warsaw (www.csm.org.pl) a German-Polish summer school on the issue of “Migration and Integration in Modern Societies.“ Among others the Robert Bosch Foundation in Stuttgart and the Historical Society Bottrop will financially support the summer school. The event is targeted at students in the humanities and social sciences (sociology, political sciences, geography, history, law, languages, cultural and social anthropol-ogy etc.), who have already successfully completed at least three semesters at a German or a Polish university, and who have a specific interest in the topic of the summer school. Apart from engaging with the academic knowledge about migration and integration, students will be exposed to readings, lectures of experts and site visits of relevant institutions. At the end of the summer school session they will be expected to carry out independent field research in bi-national teams. Further information in english and german, and polish ... Link (1 comment) ... Comment |
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