Debates & Networking - Overview

Tuesday 23. of May 2006 Ethics and Politics – Conference in Heraklion, Crete, 24 – 28 May, 2006

under the chair of the Mayor of Heraklion, Giannis Kourakis, with main speaker Noam Chomsky, but also other speakers such as Agnes Heller, Martin Jay, Clauss Offe, and many others. As indicated by a rich program lasting from...

Thursday 18. of May 2006 Notes on museums and youth – Day of Museums May 18th

Can museums really achieve what they are not designed to do, namely to provide visitors with a critical insight into history in order to learn how to prevent in future war? That question is most pertinent after the failure to...

Wednesday 10. of May 2006 Some sober thoughts on the day of Europe, 9th of May – financing of European projects

...is grinding to a halt and no one seems to take note what is happening especially within the Interreg Program. At a recent conference about ‘culture and media’ held in Patras, March 25 – 29, 2006 a representative of the...

Monday 27. of March 2006 Use of the new media to promote and to protect cultural heritage

In our modern world the media plays an important role in what is defined as news. Three observations can be made as an introduction into a further going reflection about the relationship between the media and culture.

1. In an...

Wednesday 08. of March 2006 "I Have Lived through Socialism" - a storytelling Internet experiment in

Do we need to recollect and review the socialist past - this is still a question looked upon from political point of view in Bulgaria. The question is whether the Bulgarian society is mature enough to reconsider a time which...