In cooperation with the Department of Sociology of Freiburg University (Germany) the "Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene e.V." stages an interdisciplinary conference called Der maximal Fremde (The maximum other/alien) which will take place on 4., 5., and 6. December 2003 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Topics range from "Fictions of First Encounter in 'Mars Literature'", "Postsociality, the fringes of the social world", "Conversation with an Artificial Intelligence" to "Obsession in Orissa, southern India" and much more. You can register online and see and/or download all information like call for papers, abstracts, and the schedule.

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Since recently the "Museum der Weltkulturen" (museum of worldcultures) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany publishes an online ethnological newspaper called Journal-Ethnologie, which is written in German. It is planned that new issues are published on a regular basis. The goal of the newspaper is to bring ethnological knowledge in an understandable format to the "non-ethnologically-educated". Covered are cultural anthropological, intercultural and museal topics. Read more ... (in German)

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MIT has now got more than 500 courses online including 8 in Anthropology - they look a bit thin to me. Link

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One of the scholars of our institute, Dirk Patrick Hengst, in cooperation with Constantin von Barloewen, are the editors of 'Kulturbegegnungen'. The following 1st vol. is edited by Dirk Patrick Hengst:

Über Europa hinaus. Interkulturelle Philosophie im Gespräche. = Bd. 1. Osnabrück. Der Andere Verlag. 2003. Pb, 239pp., 8 ill.,EUR 25,90.

The main content are conversations with Elmar Holenstein Constantin von Barloewen Ram Adhar Mall Paul Parin Heinz Kimmerle Franz Wimmer Morteza Ghasempour

More information here

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The German Asia Foundation joined forces with the "Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung" and has organized a conference called Global Social? Strategies of global security in Asia and Germany which will take place on 08./09./10. of October 2003 in Brühl near Köln, Germany.

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The Goethe-Forum, Munich has arranged a conference called Strategies of reconciliation: Portrayal of the foreign in german television which will take place on 17./18./19. October 2003 in the Goethe-Forum, Dachauer Str. 22, Munich, Germany. For more information see their website and/or contact Andrea Engl.

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Ibrahim Coulibaly is a cotton-framer from Mali and one of the African representatives at the WTO Conference in Cancún. The Süddeutsche Zeitung reports in an interesting and large article about his problematic situation within a steady growing globalized world.

For the latest update to the WTO Conference there's another part talking about the latest tragedy of another representative of farmers from South Corea who killed himself as protest in front of Cancún's Conference doors. As a result all NGOs where dismissed from the regular press conference!

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German blogger series: expatriates in America and Germany (I) Expatriate – the word can evoke a person rejecting his or her native country on the one hand, one rediscovering an affinity for that country amidst new surroundings on the other, or simply immersing oneself in new surroundings.

4 short articles about german webloggers living in the us:

Andreas Schaefer, the anonymous author of Siebenviertel, Konstantin Klein, and Scott Hanson.

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The World Trade Organization`s 5th Miniterial Conference is 2 weeks ahead. A group of about 1000 trade ministers and bureaucrats will decide about the further agenda of world trade, while ten thousands of peasants, indigenous people, unionists, ecologists, feminists and committed intellectuals - in short: international civil society - will gather at parallel events. The Heinrich Boell Foundation, close to the German Green Party, organizes a Forum and Dinner Debates in Cancun, has prepared various publications before the summit and has a comprehensive website on Cancun 2003 (with tinycontributions from my side) More on their Cancun Website in english and spanish - and greetings from Berlin!

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Within a series of the Süddeutsche Zeitung called "Schatzsuche" about the West of the USA Wolfgang Koydl wrote about the Indians fighting and struggling for their territories.

Additionally the news today: After 13 years of struggle the Canadian government has given back 39.000 square km to the Tlicho, belonging to the Dene Indians. The treaty includes self-government, further exploitation of two diamond mines, etc.

To read at Spiegel Online.

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Lucy Traunmüller from Donau-Universität Krens wrote her Master Thesis (in german) about the Subject: Weblog Communities. Betrachtung eines Praxisbeispiels. You can read the Thesis in Fulltext. It is 63 Pages an 681 KB big.

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