WAR

Afghan and Iraqi Refugees in Germany and the Political and Social Situation in Afghanistan Today (BM7)
Veronika Ahrendt-Rojahn, lawyer, specializes in the representation of stateless Palestinians and refugees from Iraq and Afghanistan, various trips to Afghanistan [Berlin]

FREE EUROPE! The Second World War and the Soldiers from Colonial Africa in Film Clips by Sembene Ousmane (BM7)
Jochen Becker, critic and curator, editor of the book series metroZones [Frankfurt/ Main, Düsseldorf, Giessen, Berlin]

Refugees of Civil War in Berlin (Tschetschenia, Turkey, Black Africa). Structural Conditions, Difficulties Concerning the Right of Residence, Possibilities for Therapeutic Help (BM7)
Ruth Bierich, psychologist, psychoanalyst, work (amongst others) for Xenion, psychosozial help for victims of political persecution e.V. [Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Paris, Berlin]

Repair Work on Dreams/Traumas: Prostheses, War and Masculinity (BM10)
Dr. Karin Harrasser, literary and cultural studies scholar, head of Science Communications Research Vienna, since 2006 research project on the history of science of prosthetics, lover of the artificialization [Vienna, Berlin]

Others and Dreams - New Identities in Post-Traumatic Societies (BM7)
Sejla Kameric, visual artist [Sarajevo, Dubai, Berlin]

The Life of Guantánamo Inmate Murat Kurnaz from 2001 to 2007. Inspecting Files Censored by the American Secret Service (BM10)
Florian Klenk, political journalist ("Falter"); fields of interest: human trafficking, spying, migration, torture, corruption, drug crime; number of awards (incl. Concordia Award 2002, Claus Gatterer Award 2004, Kurt Vorhofer Award 2005), "Journalist of the Year" 2005 [Vienna]

Thrillers, Cold War and Treason in 20th Century Film (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]

____Media
Telling People That They Want to Start a War. US Media Using Opinion Polls (BM6)
Niall Stephens, PhD candidate in political communication at the University of Massachusetts, international man in action [Boston, Berlin]

____Music
The Language of Popular Music Culture "in lieu" of War (BM6)
Eric D. Clark, born in Carmel/CA, musician, Singer-Songwriter, Pianist, DJ, Producer and Stylist [Berlin]

____PTSD
Soldiers Coming Home: PTSD in Film and in Reality (BM6)
Hans-Werner Kroesinger, Director and Reader of Newspapers [Berlin]

____Resistance
G.I. Resistance in the U.S. Military Is Growing (BM6)
Darnell Stephen Summers, Video Artist, Vietnam Veteran [Detroit, Berlin]

WILANÓW (East-Warsaw)

____corner ul. Sobieskiego/ul. Klimczaka
The Temple of Providence 1794-2006. On the Realisation, Construction and 200 Year History of an Unfinished Catholic Patriotic Temple in Its Building Site (BM5/city version)
Lech Szymborski, architect, author of several contemporary neo-modernist and modernist buildings in Warsaw, co-architect of Swiatynia Opatrznosci (Temple of Providence) project, currently under construction [Warsaw]

WOMEN

Nigerian Trafficking of Women in Vienna (BM10)
Joana Adesuwa Reiterer, founder of the Association Against Human Trafficking EXIT, actress, filmmaker [Vienna]

Suffering innocently. Women in Lars von Trier's films (BM10)
Thomas Frank, theatre, communication and media scholar, dramaturge (Mousonturm Frankfurt/M., Sophiensaele Berlin), since 2007/08 artistic director and manager of brut Koproduktionshaus Wien GmbH [Vienna]

"For a better world in which women wage wars alone" (Max Müller) - Feminism and Emancipation in Neo-Liberalism (BM10)
Ina Freudenschuß, editor of dieStandard.at, musician, pop activist [Vienna]

1. Anxiety, Defense, Speechlessness - Perpetrators in Crime Novels
2. Built-in Bad Conscience (BM10)
Edith Kneifl, crime novel writer, psychoanalyst [Vienna]

Development of Women's Rights in Austria since 1920 (BM10)
Dr. Anna Sporrer, legal expert, chairperson of the association Frauenrechtsschutz (Protection of Women's Rights) [Vienna]

WOMEN TRAFFICKING

On the Different Myths on Trafficking in Women (BM7)
Babette Rohner, social worker, Ban Ying counselling and coordination center against trafficking in human beings, counselling women affected by trafficking from 33 countries [Bonn, Berlin]

WORK

Sensed Knowledge. An alternative for non-academics (BM2)
Matthias Heisters, research scientist at the FAV (Applied Traffic Research Association) [Berlin]

Forms of self-exploitation: working life in times of difference capitalism (BM2)
Katja Reichard, co-initiator of the bookstore pro qm, artist, collective projects on urbanism, gender, work [Berlin]

DepArtment: the enterprise of leading a free production office (BM2)
Katharina von Wilcke, producer [Berlin]

WORKING CONDITIONS

Projected debt relations, introduction and counselling on new working relations (BM10)
Dr. Klaus Neundlinger, philosopher, translator, teaches German as a foreign language, head of the research project for new self-employed work at the Ludwig-Boltzmann Institute of History and Society [Vienna]

The Movement Not Spoken About. Work Migration and Art (BM10)
Kathrin Rhomberg, curator for contemporary art, incl. Manifesta 3, Ljubljana; "Ausgeträumt...", Secession, Vienna; project "Migration" (with Marion von Osten), Kölnischer Kunstverein [Vienna]

WORKSHOP

LEGO Bricks & Religion and LEGO Bricks & Weapons (with samples) (BM8)
Manfred Erjautz, sculptor [Vienna]

1. Take a Look into the Future - Rapid Aging: Your Face Ages at least 10 Years within 30 Minutes
2. To Take One's Make-up off: What is Lying Under the Make-up of the Profession? (BM8)
Georg Klüver-Pfandtner, make-up artist and stylist working for theatre and film, but also experienced in acting, costumes and stage design, member of the free artists' collective "Gruppe Dagmar" [Graz]

Slowness. The Decelerating Creation of a Pet Sloth with Text Examples as a Response to Indiscriminatingly Accepted Acceleration (BM8)
Jaschka Lämmert, actress at the Schauspielhaus Graz, upcoming performance as Christine in Ödön von Horvath's "Zur schönen Aussicht"(premiere October 9) [Graz]

WRITING

____African
Chatting With Ghosts and Spirits From the Contemporary African Literature (BM3/unknown knowledge)
Catherine Blondeau, cultural attaché in the French Embassy [Warsaw]

____Anonymous
First Publication of Anonymous Letters to a Radio Journalist. From the Years 1999-2005 (BM3/unknown knowledge)
Jakub Janiszewski, Journalist at Radio TOK FM [Warsaw]

____Decodable
Unknown Ways of Reading James Joyce "Ulysses" (1922) (BM3)
Piotr Pazinski, Editor-in-Chief of "Midrasz" magazine [Warsaw]

____Emblematic
Emblematical Reading of the Pastoral Drama "Faithful Shepherd" by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1590) (BM3)
Wawrzyniec Sztark, lecturer at Warsaw Humanist University [Warsaw]

____Mathematical
The Word Machine: On Hidden Mathematical Structures in Poetry and Language (BM3)
Piotr Rypson, art critic and literature historian [Warsaw]

____Polish I
The Secret History of the Newest Polish Literature (BM3)
Jacek M. Dobrowolski, writer and philosopher [Warsaw]

____Polish II
Does Polish Literature Exist? (BM3)
Kinga Dunin, publicist and author [Warsaw]

____Sacred
On Sacred Letters: Khabbala, Hieroglyphs, Runes and the Ogham Alphabet (BM3)
Rafal "Lenin" Nowakowski, poet, performer and musician [Warsaw]

____Translated
A Crashcourse for Poles on the German Expression "Geist" with All its Connotations (BM3)
Stefanie Peter, ethnologist, journalist and artistic director of Büro Kopernikus [Warsaw]