CAMP

____Germany
Camps for Migrants and Refugees in Germany - an Ongoing Problem? (BM7)
Tobias Pieper, psychologist, political scientist, does research on camp accommodation for migrants, racism and migration, assistant lecturer at the FU-Berlin [Berlin]

____Leipzig
Photographic Notes from the Camp for Asylum Seekers in Leipzig (BM7)
Betty Pabst, photographer [Berlin, Frankfurt/ Main, Leipzig]

CAR (REIZSCHUTZPANZER)

Automobile Tourism: Freedom on the Road as Advertising Technique (BM6)
Dr. Andrew Gross, Assistant Professor at John-F.-Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, FU Berlin [Phoenix, Berlin]

Standard of the World: It's More than a Car, It's a Cadillac (BM6)
Amir M. Jabado, Cadillac Enthusiast, Cadillac Rental Service for Cinema and TV and
Thomas Pogrzeba, Vice-President of the Classic Cadillac Club Germany [Berlin]

____Future
The Development of the Transport of Goods and Passengers in the Future (BM7)
Frank Hansen, DaimlerChrysler Society and Technology Research Group, researcher on mobility at the Institute for Mobility Research [Westerland auf Sylt, Tübingen, Berlin]

____Past
On the Self-Conception to Engage in the Temporality of Driving a Trabant in the 21st Century (BM7)
Elisa Barth, cultural scientist, works for the Merve Verlag publishing house [Weimar, Lyon, Berlin]

____Women
Women behind the Steering Wheel. On the Figure of the Female Driver in Hollywood Cinema and in Madonna's Video Clip "What It Feels Like for a Girl" (BM7)
Dr. Matthias Weiß, art historian, theater scholar, special research area "Kulturen des Performativen" (cultures of performativity) FU Berlin [Mannheim, Munich, Berlin]

CARTOGRAPHY

Life and Death in 36 (Part 2) (BM2)
Neco Celik, film-maker [Berlinl]

Going by foot - means of transport or means of appropriating public space (BM2)
Matthias Heisters, research scientist at the FAV (Applied Traffic Research Association) [Berlin]

Straightforward to Hell - itinerary for a tour of the under world (BM2)
Isabel Platthaus, radio editor, phD comparative literature [Berlin]

CHARITY

Licht ins Dunkel: Charity and Debasement and Exploitation of Those Who Take (BM8)
Mag. Boris Marte, since 2005 Managing Director of the ERSTE Foundation, since 2001 head of corporate sponsoring within the Erste Bank group; worked for Erhard Busek, Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister for Science and Research (1991 to 1995), Chief of Cabinet of Peter Marboe, Vienna City Counselor for Culture (1997 to 2001) [Vienna]

CHICKEN FARM

German-Jewish Chicken Farms in New Jersey From Their Founding in the 1930s Until Their Demise in the 1960s (BM6)
Raymond Wolff, Historian, Specialist for German and American Popular Music, Collector of 78 rpm records, gives special tours to see the mistakes in the exhibitions at the Jewish Museum, Berlin [Berlin-Neukölln]

CHOREOGRAPHERS

____Maurice Béjart
Ring um den Ring - Working with Maurice Béjart (1989) (BM4)
Dr. Christiane Theobald, ballet company manager and dramaturge Staatsballett Berlin [Berlin]

____Etienne Decroux
Etienne Decroux: Dramatic Movement Instead of Dance (BM4)
Dr. Franz Anton Cramer, independent/freelance dance theorist and writer [Berlin, Paris]

____Martha Graham/ Yvonne Rainer
Martha Graham and Yvonne Rainer: Examples of Emotionality in Dance (BM4)
Dr. Yvonne Hardt, dancer, choreographer and dance scholar, with a focus on the conjunction of theory and practice in dance [Berlin]

____Madonna
Dance on the Second Level - Citation Procedures in the Music Videos of Madonna (BM4)
Dr. Des. Matthias Weiß, art historian and theatre scholar, research associate in the special research project "Performative Cultures" [Berlin]

____Mary Wigman
How to Reconstruct a Dance Piece by Mary Wigman? (BM4)
Waltraud Luley, dance pedagogue, director of the Dance Studio Luley for 40 years, dancer, administrator of Dore Hoyer's choreographic legacy, 90 years old [Frankfurt]

CHOREOGRAPHY

Why beauty is still an option, choreography for four hands. (BM2)
Meg Stuart, choreographer of damaged goods [Berlin]

CLASSICS

Agents of Death and Dead Murderers in Agatha Christie and Georges Simenon (BM10)
Claus Philipp, film and cultural critic, head of the cultural department of the Austrian daily "Der Standard" [Vienna]

Because we will all be guilty: On General Absolution in Wolfram von Eschenbach's "Parzival" (BM10)
Mag. Dr. Peter Plener, scholar of German literature, historian, cultural and media scholar, founder of the Internet platform for Central European studies Kakanien revisited, consultant at the Federal Press Service of the Republic of Austria [Vienna]

Literary Reflections of Guilt with regard to Oedipus and Prometheus (BM10)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Rohrwasser, literary scholar and critic, deputy head of the Institute of German Studies at the University Vienna; fields of interest include literature and psychoanalysis, literature and totalitarian systems [Vienna]

"Küsse, Bisse, das reimt sich, und wer recht von Herzen liebt, kann schon das eine für das andre greifen! " (Heinrich von Kleist, "Penthesilea") - On Love, Hate, Violence, Guilt and Retaliation (BM10)
Emmy Werner, actress, theatre director, 1980-2005 theatre director in Vienna [Vienna]

CLIMATE

Learning from the Past for the Future: On the Homogenization of Climate Time Series (BM10)
Dr. Ingeborg Auer, climatologist, Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, fields of research: climate topographical surveys, climatic variability [Vienna]

Does it Not Matter to You if Beeches or Pines Stand in the Waldviertel? On the Shift of Habitats (BM10)
Mag. Dr. Herbert Formayer, meteorologist, climate researcher, University of Agriculture, Vienna; fields of research: regional climate change and its effects; most recent publication: "Black Book Climate Change. How Much Time Do We Have Left?" (2005, with Helga Kromp-Kolb) [Vienna]

COMMUNICATION

Help with gossip problems: the transit of information in corporate institutions (BM2)
Birgit Althans, research scientist in educational science, associate scientist at the interdisciplinary research project "Kulturen des Performativen", FU Berlin [Berlin]

The Turing-Machine. The Desire to play and the Desire to Win (BM2)
Dr. Dirk Baecker, Prof. for sociology, University of Witten / Herdecke [Berlin]

Cytokines: Means of Communication Between Cells and More (BM3/invisible knowledge)
Magdalena Chechlinska, PhD, department of immunology, Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology [Warsaw]

Advice on dating methods and techniques (BM2)
Jill Emerson, dancer with the group dorkypark, Pilates-trainer [Berlin]

1) Looking at artistic work, projects and project sketches: an improvised analysis of curatorial tendencies (bring your own material)
2) Pictorial interrogation, imagination and myth (bring your own photographs) (BM2)
Anselm Franke, curator KunstWerke [Berlin, Antwerpen]

How to sell a car driver a hiking map. Selling strategies (BM2)
Hella Knappertsbusch, saleswoman at the bookstore Schropp [Berlin]

The Role of Air in Social Communication (BM3/invisible knowledge)
Michal Libera, sociologist, organizer of improvised music concerts, journalist [Warsaw]

"Minki", "Miganka", "Pukanka" (Faces, Signs and Knocking): Non-Verbal Ways of Secret Communication in Prison (BM3/invisible knowledge)
Slawomir Piotrowski, anthropologist and culture animator [Warsaw]

Invisible Network. The Circulation of Books in the Polish Society (BM3/invisible knowledge)
Prof. Dr. Przemyslaw Czaplinski, historian of contemporary literature [Warsaw]

Corporate communication or: the loudest dogs have the shortest legs (BM2)
Thomas Sakschewski, project manager and lecturer THF Berlin [Berlin]

Choose Your Sentence of the Day, Translate, Rehearse and Express it in Sign Language (A Practical Exercise) (BM3/invisible knowledge)
Anna Spryszynska, teacher and interpreter of sign language [Warsaw]

____asymmetrical II
An Undesired Gift. Paternalism in the Doctor/Patient Relationship (BM8)
Univ.-Prof. Prim. Dr. Rainer Danzinger, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, Medical Director of the Sigmund Freud Clinic Graz, main emphasis in his work: psychoanalysis, psychotherapy of psychoses, social psychiatry, criminology and bio ethics [Graz]

____cybernetic
Cybernetic Communication: The Self and the World's Dynamics (BM8)
Prof. Dr. Johann Götschl, Professor for Philosophy of Sciences with a focus on natural sciences, working on the development of an integrative notion of reality [Graz]

____diplomatic
The Gift in Diplomacy (BM8)
Gudrun Harrer, foreign editor of the Austrian newspaper Der Standard, visiting lecturer for Modern Arab History at the University of Vienna and, in 2006, Special Envoy of the Austrian Presidency of the European Union to Iraq [Vienna]

____educational
1. About the Intricate Exchange Relationship between Teachers and Students
2. Nexus and Inconsistence of Learning, Time, Efficiency and Motivation (BM8)
Mag. Elisabeth Fleischmann, head of GIBS - Graz International Bilingual School, co-initiator of various alternative school projects, Gestalt teacher, supervisor, visiting lecturer for English Language Didactics at the University of Graz [Graz]

____self-reflexive
The Basque Contribution. A Possible Encounter with One's Own Prejudices (BM8)
Bernhard Hurch Professor, for Linguistics at the University of Graz specialized in science history, phonology, morphology, Basque language studies and the languages of Mexico, initiated a typologically oriented project on reduplication [Vienna/ Graz]

____theatrical I
The Magician's Power. How Magicians Distract, Manipulate and Control their Audience (BM8)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ernst Strouhal, cultural studies scholar and author, teaches at the University of Applied Arts Vienna [Vienna]

____theatrical II
Taking a Gift of Theatre through the Gaze - The Paranoiac Structure of a Spectator's Story (BM8)
Rok Vevar, theatre director, dramaturg, author, member of the editorial board of Maska magazine [Ljubljana]

COMMUNITY

____administrativ
Public Services are the Wealth of People (BM8)
Rastko Mocnik, professor, theoretician and publicist, teaches Theory of Discourse and Epistemology of the Humanities and the Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, one of the founders of a Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (1988), Doctor Honoris Causa at the Paisiy Hilendarski University (2005) [Ljubljana]

____artistic
About Swapped Indoor Plants and the Transformation of a Train Station into Some Collective Private Space (BM8)
Ushi Reiter, artist, web developer; since 2005 director of servus.at/ kunst & kultur im netz, Linz, member of the Institute for Media Archeology (Hainburg), co-organizer of Ecletic Tech Carnival [Linz]

____living/dwelling
The Beauty of the Plattenbau: Seven and One Reasons Why Prefab Concrete Slabs used to be so Popular in the East (BM8)
Univ.- Prof. Dr. Simone Hain, architecture and design historian (formerly Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and Bauakademie der DDR), head of the Institut für Stadt- und Baugeschichte, Graz University of Technology, likes to muse about anachronisms [Berlin, Graz]

____marginalized I
Blessed Are the Poor. What Handicapped People, Unpropertied People and Other Have-nots can Give Us (BM8)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Elisabeth List, Professor at the Department for Philosophy at the University of Graz, since 1995 head of the study group Theory, Culture and Criticism, since 1998 head of the study group Cultural Studies at the arts faculty of the University of Graz [Graz]

____marginalized II
Not Everybody Can Be Rehabilitated into Society - and this is Okay (BM8)
Wolfgang Pucher, father of the St Vinzenz parish in Graz and Lazarite (Vincentine), initiator of the "VinziDorf" [Graz]

____musical
Film Re-Narration- with Music Examples - of Brassed Off (directed by Mark Herman, 1996) (BM8)
Ed Hauswirth, stage director at Theater im Bahnhof Graz, before this advisor for amateur theatre at the Landesjugendreferat for 15 years [Graz]

____political
Tangible "Swarm Intelligence": The Protest against the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm (BM8)
Leo Kühberger, historian, activist and farmer [Graz]

____religious
The Wisdom of St Benedict's Rule for the Community and One's Own Personal Lifestyle (BM8)
Pater Severin Schneider, OSB prior of the Seckau Abbey, studies of Theology, Philosophy and German Language and Literature, retired headmaster of the Abbey's grammar school [Seckau]

____social I
The Hidden (and Uncanny) Economization of the Social. The Loss of the Gift in Public Life and its Cosequences (BM8)
DSA Mag. Andrea Trenkwalder-Egger, lecturer at the FH/University of Applied Sciences study programs for Social Work at the Management Center Innsbruck and at the FH|University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg; Social therapist for role play with fairytales and myths; member of the managing committee of the professional association of Austrian social workers [Innsbruck]

____social II
"Giving instead of Taking" - as a Principle against an even Stronger Drifting Apart of Society (BM8)
Ernest Kaltenegger, member of the Landtag, leader of the KPÖ (Communist Party) in the Styrian Landtag, since 1981 in the Graz City Council, since 1998 City Counsellor for housing [Graz]

CONCEPTUAL DANCE

Spectralsurrealism or: How to Avoid Pre-interpreted Perception in Dance (BM4)
Jo Fabian, visual artist, choreographer, video artist, writer, lighting designer and programmer [Berlin]

Does Conceptual Dance Exist at All? (BM4)
Prof. Dr. Rudi Laermans, social and cultural theory (in the junction of system theory and French theory), K.U. Leuven and P.A.R.T.S. [Brussels]

How to Produce Social References in Choreography (BM4)
Thomas Lehmen, choreographer, dancer [Berlin]

CONSULTATION

Successful Migration Management (BM7)
Dr. Jochen Blaschke, director of the Berliner Institut für vergleichende Sozialforschung [Berlin]

Practice and Politics within the Migrant Women's Movement (BM7)
Esra Erdem, PhD candidate in economics, writer and social worker at TIO e.V. (meeting and information point for migrant women) [Bursa, Istanbul, Karlsruhe, Amherst, Oxford, Berlin]

Organizing Mobility: What Do I have to Consider When Planning a Change of Location (BM7)
Dipl.- Ing. Bodo Fuhrmann, managing director of the GRI - the Company for Traffic Engineering, Regionalization and Infrastructure Planning [Münster, Berlin, Kairo, Stuttgart, Berlin]

Tips & Trends in Getting Visas as Efficient as Possible by Talking your Way up to the Chief Konsul! (BM7)
Can "Khan" Oral, musician and producer of various publications of electronic music, amongst others at Matador and Mille Plateaux [Mexico D.F., New York, Berlin]

Consulting for Startups and Setting up Business in the Field of Software, Web Applications and Peer-to-peer Software (BM8)
Paul Böhm, venture capitalist, Hacker-Space/ Community organizer, safety advisor and conference organizer, contracted a passion in startups as well as in strategies and patterns in complex self-organizing systems Metalab [Vienna]

Advice: Creation Collective - How to Create some Kind of Performance with a Group of People within 2 Days (BM8)
Ed Hauswirth, stage director at Theater im Bahnhof Graz, before this advisor for amateur theatre at the Landesjugendreferat for 15 years [Graz]

Consulting Service: How to Make Profit out of (Your) Problems (BM8)
Janez Janša, media artist and president of the management board of Problemarket.com - The Problem Stock Exchange [Ljubljana]

Hearing Advice (Auditory Training): Acoustic Live Inspections of the Blackmarket (BM8)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Robert Höldrich, head of the Department for Electronic Music and Acoustics at the
University of Music and Dramatic Arts Graz, publications on topics such as art and electronic media, music and computers, sound analysis and synthesis, digital signal processing [Graz]

____applications (local)
What Are the Right Communication Strategies to Follow, and How Do I Formulate a Dance Project for Cultural Politicians to Understand It and to Find It Worthy of Funding (BM4)
Barbara Kisseler, Secretary of State, Senate Administration for Science, Research and Culture [Berlin]

____applications (international)
1. Parship Europa (European Cooperation Projects) - Moving on the International Application Stage
2. How to Survive Being Audited by the European Commission (BM4)
Madeline Ritter, project director of Tanzplan Deutschland, fully qualified lawyer, producer and presenter in the field of dance/new media technologies [Berlin]

____Ballet I
How To Qualify To Dance in the Longest Kick-Line in the World? (BM4)
Aleksandra Georgieva, dancepedagogue, dancer in the Friedrichstadtpalast, teaches the youth ballet, graduate of the Royal Academy of Dance London [Berlin]

____Ballet II
How Do I Protect My Child from Injury in Ballet Class? (BM4)
Sabine Roth, director of the Ballettschule im Ullsteinhaus, member of the Royal Academy of Dance, London, member of the Association for Dance Pedagogy, former dancer at the Deutsche Oper, teacher for classical ballet [Berlin]

____Health I
The Ideal Figure and Eating Disorders in Classical Ballet (BM4)
Maja Langsdorff, journalist, photographer, non-fiction writer, lecturer for adult education, trained dancer [Stuttgart]

____Health II
Operation Methods in the Knee Joint (BM4)
Thomas Lehmen, choreographer [Berlin]

____Health III
An Individual Movement Analysis: Which of Your Movement Patterns Lead to Physical Deficiencies and Strengths (BM4)
Dr. med. Liane Simmel, general practitioner, sports and dance medicine, osteopathy, former dancer, board member of TanzMedizin Deutschland TaMeD e.V and director of the Institute for Dance Medicine "Fit for dance" [Munich]

____Health IV
How to Overcome Stage Fright and Resolve Fear: With Methods for Self Help (BM4)
Dr. Astrid Vlamynck, certified Level II trainer for energy psychology, specialist for psychotherapeutic medicine, psychoanalysis [Berlin]

____Health V
1. Genre Dependant Injury Patterns
2. What Do I Have To Drink and Eat To Be Able To Dance Better? (BM4)
Dr. Med. Eileen M. Wanke, specialist for plastic surgery, acupuncture, sports medicine, dance medicine, founding member of TanzMedizin Deutschland e.V., HU Berlin, Department for Sports Medicine [Berlin]

____Insurance
Insurance Models for Dancers in the Association: "Voluntary State" Accident Insurance for Freelancers (BM4)
Bernd Schröder, supervisor (prevention) for the Association of Administrators, orienteer [Berlin]

CONSUMERISM

Democratize glamour! (BM 11)
Kay Uchegbu, Founder and owner of Liverpool Fashion Week [Liverpool]

About the In-Human Toll of the Consumer Society (BM8)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Katschnig-Fasch, Professor at the Department for European Ethnology of the University of Graz, research focus: late-modern cultural change in everyday culture (dwelling, lifestyle), urban anthropology, cultural theories and gender research [Graz]

Objects of Desire. Promising Commodities Across the Border: Slovenian Shopping Tourists Travelling to Graz in the 80ties (BM8)
Bojana Kunst, philosopher and performance theoretician, researcher at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts - Department for Sociology [Ljubljana]

CONTEMPORARY WITNESSES

With Montgomery Clift at Moritzplatz. The First American Cultural Imports: Twinset, Books, Filmstars (BM6)
Thessi Aselmeier, born in 1932, Theatre Scientist, raised in Kreuzberg/Moritzplatz [Berlin]

Berlin Stories: Young Girl. Cold War. Dancing to Keep Warm. Legends from West-Berlin (BM6)
Jacalyn Carley, Choreographer, Dancer, Co-Founder of Tanzfabrik Berlin, Author and Board Member of the Joseph L. Carley Foundation, USA [New Jersey/ Berlin]

"My Child: There's No Future for Germany, You Must go Abroad!" (BM6)
Marie Louise Gericke, born in 1925, from 1950 Collaborator of the First German Representation (later on General Consulate) in New York [Berlin]

Quakers and 'Raisin Bombers': A Contemporary Witness Recalls First Encounters Between Berliners and Americans After the War (BM6)
Dr. Ilse Kleberger, born in 1921, Author of numerous Children's Books and Biographies, Doctor of General Medicine [Berlin]

Recollections of a Waitress in the "Officers Mess" in Harnackstrasse and at the Truman Hall (pulled down today), Kronprinzenallee (nowadays Clayallee) in Zehlendorf, 1945 - 1946 (BM6)
Christa Ronke, born in 1929, Contemporary Witness [Berlin]

"Long Live International Solidarity!" - And Suddenly I Had to Queue for Cucumbers. My Journey from Turkey to the GDR and, Finally, to Reunited Germany (BM7)
Kadriye Karci, Dipl. philosopher and lawyer, consultant for the Senate Department of Urban Development/ program: the social city [Salihli, Izmir, Istanbul, Wismar, Berlin]

Biography of a Successful Integration. My Way from Anatolia to the Berlin House of Representatives and How I Apply My Experiences within My Political Work (BM7)
Dilek Kolat, vice chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) at the Berlin House of Representatives [Kelkit, Berlin]

Burst Dreams - Betrayed Brotherliness: Memories of Yugoslavia (BM7)
Ismail Kurtiševic, Lawyer, translator, used to work for Südost Europa Kultur e.V. [Bijeljina, Berlin]

How the Harem Lady at the Datteln Children's Carnival Appointed the Mayor a Sultan on Her Return (25 Years Later) (BM7)
Serpil Pak, Bodenkosmetikerin, rapper, comedian, psychologist and psychotherapist [Zonguldak, Datteln, Dortmund, Münster, Berlin]

Trnovi Put. Narratives and Memories of a Roma-Refugee from Serbia (BM7)
Miloslav Pavlovic, learned locksmith, came to Germany in 1992 [Cacak, Berlin]

CONTRACTUAL LAW

The Legal Dimension of BDSM on the Basis of Feminism (BM10)
Kussembargo, legal science, feminism and bondage, discipline, dominance, submission, sadism, masochism (BDSM) [Vienna]

COPYRIGHT

On the Primal Guilt of Copyright (BM10)
Johannes Grenzfurthner, artist, author, curator, director, founder of the art and theory group monochrom, teaches art theory and aesthetic practice at the FH Joanneum in Graz, focus of interests: actionism, performance, humor, postmodernism, media theory, cultural studies, copyright and intellectual property, science fiction and blogging [Vienna]

1. Tracking Down Pirate Gangs - Scenes From Everyday Professional Life
2. Why Copyright in the First Place? (BM10)
Dr. Andreas Manak, lawyer, co-founder of the law firm Manak & Partner; areas of expertise: commercial and company law, intellectual property, competition law, media law, author and editor ("Herwig Steiner: Law and Crime", 2007) [Vienna]

COPYRIGHT - COPYLEFT

New Relations of Social Dependencies: the Author's Rights as Gift Exchange (BM8)
Dr. Maja Breznik, PhD in sociology, researcher at the University of Ljubljana, faculty of arts, and at the Peace Institute, publishes on cultural history, sociology of culture and cultural policy in various journals and books [Ljubljana]

Property of Intellectuals (a selection of pirated DVD's classic) (BM8)
Janez Janša, visual artist, numerous exhibitions, e. g. TERROR=DECOR: ART NOW (Slovenian pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale) [Ljubljana]

Copyleft (BM8)
Univ.-Prof. DI Winfried Ritsch, Entwickler elektronischer Musikgeräte, kybernetischer Modelle zur Steuerung dieser, interaktive Computermusik, Präsident des Grazer NetzKunst-Netzwerkes mur.at, Internet-Musiklabel tonto.at, Professor am Institut für Elektronische Musik und Akustik der Kunstuniversität Graz [Graz]

CORRUPTION

The Fact of Corruption in the Nigerian Society- a Hindrance for Human Development (BM8)
Matthew Igboamalu, chaplain and speaker of the African community in the multi-cultural parish of St Andrä, studies Christian social ethics at the University of Graz; subject of his doctoral thesis: "The Fact of Corruption in the Nigerian Society- a Hindrance for Human Development" [Enugu/ Graz]

Corruption through Subvention. Canvassing from Door to Door - but By the Book (BM8)
Mag. Veronica Kaup-Hasler, director of the festival "steirischer herbst", previously dramaturge at the Theater Basel and at the Wiener Festwochen, 2001-2004 artistic director of the festival "Theaterformen" (Braunschweig and Hanover) [Graz]

On the False Perception of Corruption (BM10)
Mag. Martin Kreutner MSc, head of the Office of Internal Affairs (BIA) of the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior [Vienna]

CUSTOMS

1) The topography of the table: questions on placing at family-meetings
2) Secular customs: how to ornate the Christmas tree for Chanukka (BM2)
Irena Akopjan, translator, cultural organizer [Berlin]

Rules of protocol for incoming state visits by foreign dignitaries (BM2)
Andreas Bredenfeld, translator, city-guide [Berlin]

Lamb chops and Easter celebrations: Recipe and Ceremony (BM2)
Amelie Deuflhard, artistic director of the sophiensaele [Berlin]

CYBERNETICS

The Song of Death. Guilt and Punishment in Kafka (BM10)
Univ.-Doz. Dr. Roland Innerhofer, scholar in German literature, teaches Modern German literature at the Institute of German Studies at the University Vienna [Vienna]

1. The Demise of the Biological Computer Laboratory
2. When Artificial Intelligence once Slaughtered the Wrong Pig, Namely Cybernetics (BM10)
Dr. Albert Müller, historian, since 1984 at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institut of Historical Social Science (Salzburg, Vienna), since 1998 at the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna; secretary general of the Heinz von Foerster Society [Vienna]

Be Self-Reliant: Cybernetics and Self-Responsibility in A. H. Herbst's Science Fiction Novels (BM10)
Dr.phil. Usha Reber, literary and cultural studies scholar, editor of the Internet platform for Central European studies Kakanien revisited [Vienna]