Reflections - Overview

Thursday 13. of April 2006 Death in American Culture – on the eve of Samuell Beckett’s 100 years anniversary since his birth in Dublin on April 13, 1906

Any observer of American culture can come very quickly to the conclusion that something is wrong when the discussion turns to more a profound topic such as death.

As a matter of fact many Americans seem to avoid death at all...

Sunday 09. of April 2006 Breaking the matrix

For the first time in Bulgarian cultural history, the Balkani library series (launched May 2002 ) presents without prejudices of the recent past some ten famous writers from all the Balkan states. This positive break-through in...

Wednesday 05. of April 2006 Democracy at gunpoint – take a closer look at the arguments of Condoleezza Rice

Designed to convince people that the invasion of Iraq is justified by having not merely brought ‘democracy’ but by having, so her own wording, ‘unleashed the forces of democracy not merely in Iraq but in the Middle East’, the...

Sunday 02. of April 2006 Roma future is in education

Education is the key for development. However most Roma children go to special elementary school in Czech Republic. When they grow up, there are only few chances for them to find a quality occupation. Hence most of them end up in...

Saturday 18. of March 2006 Cultural governance – the task of a European Cultural Capital City

Let me briefly make at the outset some remarks about the work done for this meeting in Patras 2006, work ongoing since the ECCM network held its symposium in Athens last October.

Alone the fact that Spyros Mercouris traveled 10...