Munich's ethnological museum, Filmstadt München and the Institute Francais again organize the "Days of the ethnological movie", this time the motto is "Crossing frontiers". The event will take place from 14. Nov through 23. Nov. 2003 at the Museum für Völkerkunde, Munich, Germany. All in all 15 movies will be shown, in german, french and english, including german subtitles. Luminaries like french ethnographer and movie-director Jean Rouch will be present. For more information write an e-mail to the staff of the movie-days.

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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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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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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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Under this title an international symposium will be held from Friday 26 - Sunday 28 September at Tate Modern, London.

"Recent shifts in art and anthropology suggest an apparent overlap between the concerns and practices of those working in each field. The increasing use of ?fieldwork? by many artists and the ?ethnographic turn? described by art theorists, invite comparisons with anthropology. In anthropology, critiques of ethnography and fieldwork have raised fundamental questions about the nature of representation ? questions which have implications for art. " There are a lot of interesting persons as keynote speakers!

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just found a phenomenal documentation of a Conference on "Culture and Public Action" from Sunday, June 30th, 2002. Organized by the Worldbank, Arjun Appadurai, Stephen Gudeman and other prestigious anthropologists and social scientist talked with Nicolas Stern, Amartya Sen and other presigious economists about culture and economy. there are lots of papers and video documentation of the whole day.

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CONFERENCE: The Department of Tourism Management at Shih Chien University, Taiwan, is pleased to announce Cultural Tourism, Tourist Culture: In-Depth Travel Conference to be held at Kaoshiung Campus, 23-25 May 2003. The conference seeks to cultivate an international and interdisciplinary forum for scholars, private/public sectors, and policy-makers interested in all facets of cultural tourism and tourist culture. With radical socio-economic changes in Taiwan, issues of culture and tourism have shifted from cultural diplomacy to cultural tourism - a rising field with the potential to rescue the current downswing of the national economy and the bleakness of cultural industry in this country. Although packaging and consuming cultural tourism have provoked controversies, statistics continue to inform authorities about a global market that appears to open up new opportunities for revitalizing economic growth and sharing the cultural heritage, in terms of jobs, income and self-pride. To advance sustainable tourism and in-depth travel, Shih Chien University recognizes an urgent need to facilitate and, if possible, to integrate cross-disciplinary exchanges among researchers, tourist sectors and community organizers, as well as administrators associated with a wide range of fields including museum exhibitions, performance and festivals, heritage conservation, folk fairs, tourist production, local historiography, hostel service, and theme-park management, etc.

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CONFERENCE UPDATE: "Tourism & Photography: Still Visions -- Changing Lives" -- Sheffield, UK, 20-23 July 2003. "Only one month left to our annual research conference on 'Tourism and Photography'! Please find a draft programme and additional information including a registration form at our website. 'Tourism & Photography' is organised by the Centre for Tourism & Cultural Change (CTCC) at Sheffield Hallam University on 20-23 July 2003. Its aim is to critically discuss photography as an element of the tourism experience and as a force capable to changing the identity of peoples and images of place. It will be the first time that a major international research conference focuses on the interrelationship of tourism and photography. We are currently expecting around 140 international academics and art & cultural practitioners to join the conference. Around 90 papers organised in no more than three parallel sessions will draw upon a number of disciplines including: anthropology, photography, art history, tourism, cultural geography, aesthetics, sociology, psychology, political sciences and marketing. The event will also be open to photographers, travel writers, research students and representatives of the regional arts und cultural sectors interested in the tourism-photography debate. Photographer Martin Parr will be one of our keynote speakers. Martin has published different works on tourism and the tourist (e.g. "Small Worlds") and is associated with Magnum Photos. He has also been the curator of the John Hinde Butlin's Postcard Exhibition recently held at the Photographer's Gallery in London. For further information, please contact David Picard or visit us."

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From 20. through 24. September 2004 the "Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft" stages the 29. Deutscher Orientalistentag in Halle/Saale, Germany. It has the motto "Barriers -- Passages".

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Myths and realities Feminist Perspectives on Globalisation September 11-14, 2003 in Graz, Austria Karl-Franzens University, Resowi Center

Organized by feministATTAC Austria jointly with the Institute of International Management, University of Graz in collaboration with Femmes et Mondialisation, France, frauennetz ATTAC Germany and other feminist and gender groups within ATTAC Sweden, Belgium and Finland as well as in cooperation with Renner-Institut, Grüne Bildungswerkstatt, Frauenarmutskonferenz, WIDE, Verein für soziale Stadtentwicklung Graz, Dreikönigsaktion and the Austrian Student Union (ÖH).

more information in english and german

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A Model United Nations is a simulation, where students are representing diplomates of different countries. By doing, one learns a lot about international relations and diplomatic conduct. We have a very active and succesfull simulation group in Munich, which is participating every year in the world's biggest student UN simulation in New York. If you are interested, you should go to an information evening, that will be next monday, 2 June 2003, at Geschwister-Scholl-Institut für Politische Wissenschaft (Oettingenstrasse 67), Raum 1.14 (im 1. OG). More Information at NMUN München or NMUN New York

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