"Cultural Interactions: 50 Years of American Studies in Germany" - this is the title of a conference in Munich, Germany. From June 10th to 13th there will speak Michael Kammen (Cornell University), Seyla Benhabib (Yale University), Demetri Papademetriou (Washington) and others in Amerikahaus, Karolinenplatz 3, 80333 München. It's the conference to 50th birthday of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA). See more about the program (German version) at University's site and more about the DGfA (English version) here.

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A link list to local newspapers from all over the world (from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe) you can find here: www.thelocalpapers.com . (There also is a link list to newspapers from many US-American states.) There is not every country and every newspaper, but you can find an overview about what's going on in the country you are specially interested in. Another link list to newspapers all over the world you can find on www.onlinenewspapers.com. And there is another German website (www.zeitung.de) where you can find a link list. This list includes German writing newspapers which are not printed in Germany (like Jewish transatlantical newspaper Der Aufbau printed in New York City), too. Links to more East African newspapers you can find here, to West African newspapers here, many South African papers' links here and North African newspapers' links here. All these web pages include newspapers not listed by the other pages.

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Today I read an interesting article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung about the supposed German involvement in East Africa. The article originates in the actual debate about European military action in the conflict areas of Uganda, Ruanda and Congo. Interesting to see here once again is the critical debate on how anthropology and development aid don't mix. Make your own opinions!

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Members of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana are celebrating Palm Sunday (Asamankese/Ghana, 2000)

"Cherchez le Chercheur" No. V Let's get away from last week's traditional issues. Here’s another picture of a fieldworker trying to get involved in his field: he does everything to feel, to act and to look like ‘them’. If only he knew how he really stands out from the crowd…

All dressed in their neat Sunday costumes, the Christian congregation gathers after the 3,5 hours church service to parade the main streets of the town. They are celebrating Palm Sunday (Jesus entering Jerusalem, as you know) with cheers, bells, a monstrously noisy brass band and bound branches from coconut and palm trees. Though the rainy season has already started the tropical sun burns heavily. The bald (bold?) man in the middle of the crowd certainly suffers the most.

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