FEELING

What You Can't See but Feel in a Photo (BM3/invisible knowledge)
Mikolaj Grynberg, photographer, ex-psychologist [Warsaw]

Murder with Velvet Gloves: Psychological Violence in the Family. On the book "Stalking the Soul: Emotional Abuse and the Erosion of Identity" by Marie France Hirigoyen (1998) (BM3/invisible knowledge)
Aleksandra Konieczna, theatre director [Warsaw]

Sex, Fear and Rock'n'Roll - The Joy of Frightening other People and Being Scared (And Why We Can't Live Without It) (BM3/invisible knowledge)
Zygmunt Miloszewski, journalist, author [Warsaw]

FEMINISM

Feminist Economics (BM3/unknown knowledge)
Ewa Charkiewicz, activist and academic researcher with interest in theorizing on power, ecology and feminism as social movements and new social critiques [Warsaw]

Feministic Grandmothers: Forgotten History of the Feminist Movement in Poland (BM3)
Anka Czerwinska, activist and feminist, working at OSKa (National Women's Information Center) and Porozumienie Kobiet 8 Marca [Warsaw]

Does the U.S.A. Need a Feminism (BM6)
Dr. Gabriele Dietze, Guest Professor at the Institute for Cultural Studies, HU Berlin, Former Lecturer for Rotbuch Verlag [Berlin]

A Little Introduction to Cyberfeminism, which Does Not Exist (BM8)
Reni Hofmüller, media artist and activist, operator of ESC (Graz), president of Radio Helsinki (Graz), member of IMA - Institute for Media Archeology (Hainburg, AT), co-organizer of Ecletic Tech Carnival, international feminist tech network [Graz]

Feminism of Housewives: Practical and Theoretical Advices (BM3)
Teresa Oleszczuk, graphic designer at "Res Publica Nowa", practicing feminist [Warsaw]

FIGURES

Ecstatic, Hysterical and Other Saintly Ladies (BM3/ghostly knowledge)
Anna Baumgart, visual artist [Warsaw]

Fragments of an Unknown Teaching - Georg Iwanowicz Gurdijew, One of the Great Mystics of the 20th Century (BM3/ghostly knowledge)
Marcin Cecko, poet and photographer [Warsaw]

The Polish Devil "Boruta"(BM3/ghostly knowledge)
Wiktoryn Grabczewski, owner of a private museum of Polish devils (Przedpielke) [Warsaw]

Wraith, Vampire, Lamia or Succubus? The Connections Between Ghosts, Monsters and Women (BM3/ghostly knowledge)
Barbara Smolen, Polish literature historian, Editor of "Teksty Drugie", teacher [Warsaw]

What Makes a Ghost Real and Believable. With Examples from Film and Theatre (BM3/ghostly knowledge)
Jacqueline Sobiszewski, light designer, director of photography [Warsaw]

Let's Talk about our Dibbuks (BM3/ghostly knowledge)
Krzysztof Warlikowski, director [Warsaw]

The Refugee as Contemporary Figure of a Ghost (BM3/ghostly knowledge)
Vita Welakeviciute, Documentarian [Warsaw]

FIGURES & PLAYERS

SV Waldhof Mannheim – Football caught in the crossfire between chaos and integration (Licence No.1)
Dr. Hans Joachim Bremme former President of SV Waldhof Mannheim football club, former Head of Public Relations for BASF, founder-chairman of the metropolitan region of Rhine-Neckar GmbH [Heidelberg]

Chess as a sport, fun, art and science, Or: The thin line between genius and insanity (Licence No.1)
Thorsten Geib certified economist, controller (insurance), 1. Chairman of Mannheim’s largest and oldest chess club SK MA-Lindenhof 1865 [Mannheim]

From the rigging loft to vocal chords – An insight into the National Theatre through the eyes of a spectator (Licence No.1)
Christina Limbourg graduate in commercial studies, deputy director of friends and patrons of Mannheim’s National Theatre [Mannheim]

Erika, Inge, Peterle, né Schildkröt in Mannheim-Neckarau. On the history of the “Schildkröt” company (Licence No.1)
Gerhard Ruf collector of “Schildkröt” dolls, occupies himself with the history of the "Schildkröt" (turtle) company, active volunteer for the organisation ”Geschichte Alt-Neckarau e.V.“ [Mannheim]

The candour behind a clown’s nose: The courage and freedom in being a clown (Licence No.1)
Luisa Stachowiak actress at the National Theatre in Mannheim and clown school student [Mannheim]

____automatic
Human-Like Robots. How Far Can We Go? (BM7)
Dr. Joseph Weizenbaum, Prof. of computer science, taught at MIT for 25 years [Berlin, Silicon Valley, Massachusetts, Berlin]

____criminal
On the Figure of the People Trafficker (BM7)
Farida Heuck, artist, co-founder of the German Federal Association Schleppen&Schleusen [Munich, Berlin]

____curatorial
Recordings from the KIOSK-Archives. "A Life in Four Hours" (BM7)
Hans Ulricht Obrist, curator working internationally and critic and Michael Diers,
art historian, professor at the HfBK in Hamburg

____female
Margalith - the Ghost of a Girl-flower (BM12)
Aya Ben-Ron, artist, lives and works in Tel Aviv, teaching in The School of Art, Beit Berl College, and the University of Haifa. In her practice she combines video, print, sculpture and painting. Her works have been shown in Israel and abroad. She creates rules and lives by them. [Tel Aviv]

National Victory and Personal Defeat - the Disappearance of Ewa H. Showing Scenes from a Documentary about a Polish Life Story (BM12)
Magda Mosiewicz, founder and first co-president of the Polish Green Party. She is a filmmaker of documentaries on political art movements, strikes and deportations, as well as Co-organizer of the festival "Warsaw Under Construction" in the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw. She was an expert in the Blackmarket No. 3, 2005 in Warsaw, which had the same topic as the one in Jaffa. [Tel Aviv]

Erasure, Suppression and Concealment of Art - the Case of Justine Frank (1900-1943), the Jewish-Belgian Painter and Pornographer (BM12)
Roee Rosen, artist, writer and filmmaker. He teaches art and theory at the Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem, among other places. Rosen's book, "Justine Frank, Sweet Sweat", was published by Sternberg Press in 2009. In 2010 an extensive exhibition of his art will be presented at the Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw. He is the only man who has ever been invited to show in the Créteil Women Film Festival. [Tel Aviv]

____flexible
The Promise of Freedom within the Ideal of the Flexible and Mobile Person (BM7)
Peggy Mädler, dramaturge, cultural scientist, prepares a doctoral thesis on the topic: "Die Inszenierung von Arbeit und Geschlecht in der Dramatik der DDR und bei ostdeutschen Autoren nach der Wiedervereinigung" [Dresden, Berlin]

____fugitive
The Figure of the Trustee - the Escape Agent of Money (BM7)
Ulf Mailänder, coach, author of the autobiographies of Jürgen Schneider ("Bekenntnisse eines Baulöwen") and Jürgen Harksen ("Wie ich den Reichen ihr Geld abnahm") [Bünde, Berlin, La Palma]

____Ghosts
Ghostly Apparitions in the Theater of the Baroque - "Cardenio and Celinde" by Gryphius and "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare (BM12)
Ilit Ferber, teaches philosophy and education at Tel Aviv University and is a post-doctoral fellow at Yad Hanadiv Foundation. Her doctoral thesis focused on the connection between melancholy and philosophy in Walter Benjamin's writings, and in it she discussed, among other topics, Benjamin's interest in theatrical figures of ghosts. Her current research deals with the connection between language and pain. She has a daughter and two sons. [Tel Aviv]

____Messiah
Sabbatai Tzevi: the Search for the Lost Tomb (BM12)
Michael Kessus Gedalyovich, artist, curator, editor-in-chief of "Ma'arav," an art, culture and media internet journal (www.maarav.org.il), and publisher and editor-in-chief of "Omanut Laam's" Artists' Books Series. Nowadays he is an associate curator of the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Art Biennale, Jaffa ARTLV. Formerly the director of the Visual Art activities of "Omanut Laam", he's initiated many projects, among them the "Mobile Museum," the "Artist Index" website, and "Adama Bo'eret" ("Burning Land"). He also has a skipper license. [Tel Aviv]

____nationalistic
The Myth of Identity: The Nationalist as the Prototype of the European Citizen, with Former Yugoslavia as a Point in Case (BM7)
Dr. phil. Zoran Terzic, cultural scientist, author ("Kunst des Nationalismus: Kultur und Konflikt im jugoslawischen Zerfall") [Banja Luka, Berlin]

____Talk-backers
The Anonymous Voice - On the Reciprocal Relations Between Journalists and Talk-backers (BM12)
Nahed Dirbas, journalist, script writer and film producer. She worked as a freelance journalist in several newspapers, TV Channels and websites, such as Fasl-Almaqal, Kul Alarab, Alsunara, Aletihad, radio Alshamas, and in the Israeli channels 1 and 2. [Tel Aviv]

____Traitors
Palestinian Zionists: On the Hybrid Figure of Traitors and Collaborators (BM12)
Hillel Cohen, a Jerusalem native, teaches Palestinian history in the Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Unit in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. As a journalist, he covered the last years of the First Intifada and the Oslo years for the weekly newspaper "Kol Ha-Ir." He is an activist when he can find the strength, but lately it's been getting harder and harder. His books have been published in Hebrew, Arabic and English, among them "Army of Shadows, Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917-1948". He has two daughters and a son. [Tel Aviv]

____Uzi
The Untold Family Melodrama of Uzi (BM12)
Yochai Avrahami, artist. He teaches at the Avni Art Institute, Bezalel Academy of Art and at the Art Institute, Oranim College. His work has been exhibited in local and international shows, and he has won several prizes and scholarships, among them the Joshua Rabinowitz Foundation for special projects, and the Creation Encouragement prize from The Israeli Ministry of Culture. [Tel Aviv]

____Vampires
Why Everyone Can See the Vampires Except for Themselves (BM12)
Nathan Brand, director, writer and VJ. He starred and served as head writer for the Israeli cable TV children's channel during the 90s. As a specialist in emotional, political and theoretical contemporary vampirism, he shares his knowledge in a weekly show, "Vampires as Human Beings", on the internet radio station Halas.am. In 2002 he fell from the sky in a helicopter. [Tel Aviv]

The Soul in Buffy Mythology (BM12)
Ronnie Brosh, a TV connoisseur, studied linguistics in Tel Aviv University, and has worked as an editor, translator and trivia writer. She co-ran an Angel-related fan campaign which raised over $20,000 for The International Red Cross. Having recently been described by Aaron Sorkin (A few Good Men, The West Wing) as "brilliant, charming, and very witty," she can now die happy. [Tel Aviv]

FILM

FlipBook Cinematography: Teaching Images to Walk, By Carrying Them Around (BM4)
Volker Gerling, flip-book cinematographer, philosopher of temporality, takes to the road on a regular basis with his flip-books [Berlin]

What Are the Raised Hands of Students Who Were Not Called On Doing in the Airspace of the Classroom? From an Outline of the Gaze to the Movement of Thought: Camera Ethnography as Movement Research with the Senses (BM4)
Dr. Elisabeth Mohn, camera ethnographer, cultural anthropologist, sociologist of knowledge, documentary filmmaker, writer [Berlin]

On the Use of Movement Analysis in Forensic Investigations on the Basis of Selected Examples from American Television Series (BM4)
Jochen Roller, dancer and choreographer, researches on the functionality of choreography [Berlin]

Dance, Film, Dance! - How To Choreograph for the Camera (BM4)
Marc Siegel, research associate at the Seminar for Film Studies at the FU Berlin, member of the group CHEAP [Berlin]

____Disaster
The Sight and Sound of Things Falling Apart - The Element of Accident and Disaster in American Filmmaking (BM6)
Andrew Horn, Filmmaker, Journalist [New York, Berlin]

____Dubbing
Dubbing Films - Hollywood Speaks German (BM6)
Änne Troester, Dubbing Scriptwriter [Berlin]

____Hollywood Star
Center Parting, Ecstasy and Secret Communication Systems: Hedy Lamarr (BM6)
Nanna Heidenreich, Media Scientist, works at Film Festivals, arsenal experimental and kanak attak [Berlin]

____L.A.
Stories About the Film Business in Los Angeles, 1996-2003 (BM6)
Jale Arikan, Actress, plays in German, Turkish and American Films [Berlin]

____Retold I
Mythologies of the New World. "Red River" (Howard Hawks, 1948) and "Key Largo" retold (John Huston, 1948) (BM6)
Dr. Hannes Böhringer, Professor for Philosophy at the Hochschule für bildende Künste, Braunschweig [Berlin]

____Retold II
Film retold: "The Night of the Hunter" by Charles Laughton (BM6)
Antje Ehmann, Film Scientist, Author, Curator [Berlin]

____Outs
AJAMI on PSP - Deleted Scenes of the Movie Ajami on PSP (Portable Sony Playstation) (BM12)
Scandar Copti, a Technion graduate in Mechanical Engineering, and has been working as an independent director, editor, writer, and actor in various short films and other projects. It took him 6 years to finish the film "Ajami" (with Yaron Shani) which has been accepted to The Cannes Film Festival where it was awarded special distinction in the "Camera D'Or" category. At The Jerusalem Film Festival in 2009, Ajami was awarded the Wolgin Award for Best Full Length Feature Film. He and Yaron Shani have founded the Jaffa Acting Workshops, and he also works as a facilitator for youth groups in Sadaka-Reut. A piece of advice; try to resist asking him about his big impressive scar. [Tel Aviv]

____Script
"Ghosts Passing by in the Arab Democratic School in Jaffa" - The Making of our First Film (BM12)
Layan Hadad, Yara Jarar, Anna Kahwagy, Janette Shakar, students at the Yaffa Arab Democratic School. They will be presenting a screenplay that they have written for a film project they are working on at school, under the tutelage of Shira Lavy. [Tel Aviv]

____Theory
In What Way do the Films "Waltz with Bashir" (2008) and "Khirbat Hiz'a" (1978) Create Visibility to Supressed Issues? (BM12)
Yael Munk, senior faculty member at the Open University. Her research focuses on the connection between cinema and culture, national identity and gender. She also studies the different aspects of Post-Colonialism within the Israeli context and in relation to the Third World. She has published many articles in Israel and abroad. Her book about Israeli cinema between the two Intifadas is scheduled to be published by the Open University. [Tel Aviv]

____Western
"Shall We Gather at the River": The Western (BM6)
Bert Rebhandl, Journalist, Film Critic [Berlin]

FLUXUS

Flexible History of Fluxus Facts and Fictions (BM6)
Emmett Williams, visual artist and Fluxus artist [Berlin]

FOLKLORE - FAKELORE

____Anti
Explaining Anti- and Freak-Folk With Examples from Film and Music. Complementary CD (BM6)
Sebastian Hoffmann, Student at the John-F.-Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, FU Berlin, Concert Organizer "Four Track on Stage" [Berlin]

____Burlesque I
Burlesque At the Intersection of Fashion, Gender and Class (BM6)
Michelle Carr, Creator, Producer and Director of the Velvet Hammer Burlesque [Los Angeles, Berlin]

____Burlesque II
A Short History of Burlesque: Visit Dixie Evans, Tempest Storm and Other Notables At the Exotic World Burlesque Museum (BM6)
Anna Curtis, Burlesque superstar, photographer and performer [New York, Berlin]

____Dance I
Pirouette and Splits Instead of Cheers and Chants. The Berlin Thunder Dance Team of the NFL Europe (BM6)
Stefanie Ader, Dance Team Director Berlin Thunders [Berlin]

____Dance II
Michael Jackson Meets Line Dance: First Steps (BM6)
Enrico Adler, World and European Champion in Line Dance, Dance Teacher and Choreographer, Expert in E-Technology [Kleinmachnow]

____Dance III
Dancing in a Square: Spin Chain Through, Box the Gnat and Other Square Dance Calls (BM6)
Rainer Peter, Square Dance Caller, Dancer, Manager of Software-Quality [Berlin]

____Hero
Death by Hammer: The Importance of Kicking Ass or Dying Trying (A Brief History of Industrial Revolution Era, American Folk Hero and "Steel-Driving Man", John Henry) (BM6)
Hannah Dougherty, visual artist [Philadelphia, Berlin]

____Ritual
Welcome Wagons, Baby Showers and Quilting Bees: Culture of Encounter in American Everyday-Life (BM6)
Jacqueline Heer, Swiss-American Artist and Cultural Worker [Berlin]

FOOD

Ambassador of Taste. How I Make the Germans Familiar With American Cuisine (BM6)
Cynthia Barcomi, Founder and Manager of Barcomi's Coffee Roasters and Deli, former Dancer [Seattle/ Berlin]

American Cooking in Berlin: Keeping the Bastard Beautiful (BM6)
Suzy Fracassa, Co-Owner of Hazelwood Restaurant and Owner of the Catering Company Fortuna's Table [New York/ Berlin]

Regional Diversity of American Cuisine. Plus Recipes to Cook on Your Own (BM6)
Curt Pagel, cooks in Florida, Austria, Ireland and Germany for more than 25 years now, currently Chef de Cuisine at Café Obermeier in Kreuzberg [Milwaukee, Berlin]

Rumania - a Palestinian Forgotten Recipe - a Cooking Workshop using Aubergine and Pomegranate (BM12)
Ester Saba, born in Ramleh. She has been working as a caterer for a long time and has her own small beauty salon. 2½ years ago, her house had been under the threat of demolition by the authorities. With hard and intensive work and with the help of the local Committee Against House Demolitions in Jaffa, she managed to prevent it. She was, in fact, the first evacuee in a list of 500 people. She is the mother of two girls and a boy. [Tel Aviv]

Migrating Food - The Cases of Coffee and Sugar (BM7)
Dr. Zafer Yenal, sociologist of consumption and culture, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bogaziçi Üniversitesi, Istanbul [Konya, Ankara, Istanbul]

FORGIVENESS

If People do not Reconcile, God Does not Forgive (BM10)
Carla Amina Baghajati, media speaker of the Islamic Congregation, teacher educating future Islamic religion teachers, teaches creative design at the professional Islamic school for social professions [Vienna]

Guilty shall be he who has not "excused" himself (BM10)
Paul Chaim Eisenberg, chief rabbi of the Austrian Federal Association
of the Jewish Communities [Vienna]

Forgiveness! From Tribunalization, Scapegoats and the Culture of Forgiveness (BM10)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrich Körtner, Protestant theologian and expert in medical ethics, vice-dean of the Protestant Theological Faculty and head of the Institute of Systematic Theology and the Institute of Ethics and Law in Medicine at the University of Vienna; research areas: apocalypse, hermeneutics, bioethics, "scholar of the year" (2001) [Vienna]

FORTUNE

The roulette ball’s memory: The mathematics of luck, bad luck and bluffing (Licence No.1)
Prof. Dr. Jens Holger Lorenz professor for mathematical didactics at the PH in Heidelberg, certified psychologist and child analysist [Heidelberg]

Mine is bigger than yours! Toys for adults (Licence No.1)
Sabine Ritter von Zabern retail saleswoman, consultant at "pepperparties", offering home parties with erotic articles for women [Mannheim]

Fortune comes to Mannheim – Lottery tales from the 18th century (with good odds of winning)(Licence No.1)
Dr. Susanne Schlösser historian and archivist, head of the historical archives at Mannheim’s town archives – Institute for town history [Mannheim]

PLAYTIME xs – Try your luck rolling the dice! Determine your own personal queries concerning luck! A mini edition of the current theatre project PLAYTIME (Licence No.1)
Elke Schmid director, member of the artistic direction of "zeitraumexit", artistic director of the theatre label "EX!T Ausgangspunkt Theater" [Mannheim]


FUTURE II (PAST FUTURE)

On the Innocence of Becoming. How you Become What you will Have Become (Pindar, Nietzsche) (BM10)
Dr. Arno Böhler, philosopher, teaches at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, filmmaker (GRENZ-film) [Vienna]

The Future of the Past, Lacan and the Paradoxes of Identity (BM10)
Isolde Charim, philosopher ("The Althusser Effect. Model of a Critique of Ideology", 2002), university lecturer and political journalist (i. e. "taz", "Der Standard", "Falter") [Vienna]

On the Use of the Futurum Exactum on the Basis of Selected Examples (BM10)
Prof. Mag. Dr. Dr. h. c. Wolfgang Dressler, linguist, head of the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Vienna, head of the Commission for Linguistics and Communication Research at the Austrian Academy of Science [Vienna]

Why Nothing Will Have Become of Central Europe (BM10)
Georg Schöllhammer, editor-in-chief of the journal "Springerin. Hefte für Gegenwartskunst", concept and organization of "documenta 12 magazines" [Vienna]

"Perhaps the Impossible Will Have Thus Been Necessary" or The Future Will Have Had to Begin Now (BM10)
Dr. Peter Zeilinger, catholic theologian and philosopher, co-founder of the "Interdisciplinary Forum .UND." (with Matthias Flatscher and Sophie Loidolt), research activities on political theology, political philosophy and so-called ‚post-modernism' [Vienna]

FUTURE SCENARIOS

Launching a business like in San Francisco - impossible in Austria? (BM10)
Paul Böhm, venture capitalist, Hacker Space Community organizer, security adviser and organizer of conferences. His big passion includes: startups as well as strategies and patters in complex self-organizing systems, Metalab [Vienna]

The Connection Between Education and Innovation (BM10)
Dr. Hannes Leo, director of the Institute on the Future of Labour in Bonn; fields of research: innovation, telecommunication, creative business, labor market [Vienna, Bonn]

Can Utopian Literature Recognize Threatening Developments and Warn us About Them in Time? (BM10)
Leo Lukas, cabaret artist, composer, director, author of plays, journey satires and science fiction novels, including "Perry Rodan" , the world's largest science fiction series, Austrian Cabaret Award in 2005 [Vienna]

Early Warning? Prevention! Future Research as Methodological Approach! (BM10)
Mag. Dr. Daniel O. Maerki, social scientist, future researcher, enterpreneurial consultant, managing director of das fernlicht - future research and innovation consulting; fields of interest: future and lifeworlds (e. g. "Future Living") [Vienna]

Imagine a Totally Different Daily Life under a Democrativ State (BM12)
Sami Abu Shkhada, PhD candidate in the Department of History, Tel Aviv university. His subject of research is Jaffa as a Cultural Center during the British Mandate. He is an activist in the Balad Party. [Tel Aviv]

What will they expect us to put up with? - New biotechnologies: risk and acceptance (BM10)
Dr. Helge Torgersen, biologist (special field: molecular biology), since 1990 at the Institute for Assessing Consequences of Technology (ITA) of the Austrian Academy of Science; fields of interest: public perception of biotechnology, participation, regulation, politics [Vienna]

Future Sensitive - Our Feelings for the Future we will not Live to Experience (BM12)
Oron Zachar, physicist and inventor with patents ranging from energy technology to medicine. He previously founded an optical disc memory technology company, and is now working on the development of body temperature control for cancer treatment and thermo-regulation under anesthesia. [Tel Aviv]

DJ Ötzi, Paris Hilton, Bill Clinton and The Future Mountain: Conceptions of Alpine Mass Tourism in Tyrol (BM10)
Dr.phil. DI Michael Zinganel, cultural studies scholar, architectural theorist, visual artist and curator, has taught at the University of Technology in Graz; fields of interest: "City and Crime" and "Tourism & Migration" [Vienna, Graz]