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we would like to announce our conference "Feminist Perspectives on the
Paradoxes of Globalization" (Nov. 5.-6, 1999 / Berlin, Germany).
The conference details are posted below. You can also look at
http://www.glow-boell.de/globgender. (Registration via internet is
possible).
Brigitte Young and Elmar Altvater (organizers)
Conference of the Research Group: Globalization,
Sustainability and Gender,
Free University-Berlin/University Münster
FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON THE PARADOXES
OF GLOBALIZATION
Globalization has set in motion the restructuring of global finance,
production, trade, and the global labor force. These forces have altered
welfare regimes, development strategies, the sovereignty of nation-states,
citizenship rights, markets, ecological sustainability, and gender
relations. Global processes not only perpetuate old patterns of segregation,
they create new forms of marginality and social hierarchies. We have invited
scholars from around the globe to address questions that go beyond a mere
description of market discrimination and gender segregation and to provide a
gendered construction of globalization and democratization in various
regions of the world. Most studies to date have missed the transformational
and contradictory character of globalization and the reconfiguration of the
territorial properties of the nation-state, private and public spheres,
environmental and human geographic spaces of different world regions, and
gender regimes.
Focusing on the practices that provide the infrastructure for the production
and reproduction of global capital, we intend to make visible a multiplicity
of work cultures ranging from immigrant to female cultures where the work of
globalization gets done. The referees will analyze the gendered and
ecological nature of the current processes of structural and institutional
transformations from different theoretical and geographic perspectives,
especially the emergence of exclusionary and discriminatory practices
ranging from gender to class, ethnic and national identity. Our goal is to
define and explore the relationship among four major organizing principles:
globalization, gender relations, ecological sustainability, and
democratization in different regions of the world (Africa, Latin America,
Asia, Europe, Russia, and North America), and discuss global and local
strategies for empowerment and resistance.
Date: November 5 - 6, 1999
Organizers: Prof. Brigitte Young/Prof. Elmar Altvater, FU-Berlin/University
Münster
Registration: Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Tel.: 49 30 285 34 212, fax: 49 30
285 34 109, e-mail: globalgender@boell.de Conference Place: UFA-Fabrik,
Viktoriastr. 13-18, Berlin (Tempelhof) Homepage:
http://www.glow-boell.de/globgender Conference Fee: DM 140,-- (with meals,
coffee, buffet and cultural evening) DM70.-- (reduced rate for low income
groups)
PROGRAM:
Research Group on Globalization, Sustainability and Gender
Otto-Suhr-Institute
Dept. of Political and Social Sciences
Free University Berlin/University Münster
Organizers: Prof. Dr. Brigitte Young / Prof. Dr. Elmar Altvater
Supporting Foundations: Heinrich Boell Foundation,
German Federal Ministry for Families, Seniors, Women, and Youth
Volkswagen-Foundation
Conference Place: UFA-Fabrik, Viktoriastr. 13-18
Berlin-Tempelhof
Feminist Perspectives on the Paradoxes of Globalization
November 5-6, 1999
Friday, 5th November 1999
9:00 Welcome: Claudia Neusüß, Heinrich Böll Stiftung
Opening Lectures:
9:10 -- 9:30 Brigitte Young:
'Feminist Perspectives on the Paradoxes of Globalization'
9:30 -- 10:00 Elmar Altvater:
Time and Space Compression and Forms of Globalization
10:00 -- 12:00 Panel I: 'Engendering Global Economic Structures'
Speakers:
Isabella Bakker, York University, Canada
Lourdes Benería, Cornell University, USA
Stephen Gill, York University, Canada
Uschi Eid, MoP; Under-Secretary of Econ. Cooperation
and Development, The Greens, (invited)
Discussant: Elmar Altvater; Moderator: Brigitte Young
12:00 - 12:30 Coffee Break
12:30 -- 13:45 Discussion Groups
Group I: Isabella Bakker /Elmar Altvater
'Engendering Macro-Economic Policy Reform in the Era of Global
Restructuring
Responsible: Silke Lock
Group II: Lourdes Benería/Diane Elson
Gender Awareness in Structural Adjustment Programs
Responsible: Dorothee Bohle
Group III: Stephen Gill/Brigitte Young
Disciplinary Neo-Liberalism and the Political Economy of
Globalization
Responsible: Brigitte Young
13:45 -- 15:00 Lunch
15:00 -- 17:00 Panel II: Gender Relations and how Globalization Materializes
in the Different Regions of the Globe?
Speakers:
Achola Pala Okeyo, Africa/UNDP
Barbara Helfferich, Women’s Lobby, Brussels,
Claudia v. Werlhof, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Jayati Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Elena Kochkina, Moscow State University, Lomonosov
Discussant: Annekathrin Linck, Heinrich Boell Foundation
Moderators: Traute Meyer/Simone Schwanitz
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee Break
17:30 -19:00 Discussion Groups
Group I: Achola Pala Okeyo/Silke Lock
Women Grass-root Politics in Africa
Responsible: Silke Lock
Group II: Barbara Helfferich / Traute Meyer
Political Opportunities for Women in the New Transnational European
Institutions
Responsible: Traute Meyer
Group III: Claudia v. Werlhof/Petra Schaper-Rinkel
>From NAFTA to MAI and War Economy: Effects on Women and Grassroots
Responsible: Petra Schaper-Rinkel
Group IV: Seiko Hanochi/Kinhide Mushakoji, Japan
Asian Crisis, Transnational Organized Crime and Sex Trade Responsible:
Brigitte Young
Group V: Elena Kochkina/Simone Schwanitz
Transformation Societies and the Reconfiguration of Gender Relations
Responsible: Simone Schwanitz
Saturday, 6th November 1999
9:30 - 11:00 Introduction: Frigga Haug, HWP, Hamburg, Germany
Keynote Speech: Dorothy Smith, University of Toronto, Canada
'Globalization as the Glocalization of Political Action'
Responsible: Ariane Brensell
11:00 - 11: 30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:30 Panel III: 'Gender Relations and Sustainability'
Speakers:
Irmgard Schulz, Institute of Social-Ecological Research, Germany
Grace Akumu, Climate Network Africa, Kenya
Mary Mellor, University of North Umbria, England
Thais Corral, REDEH-Brazil, Latin America
Moderator/Discussant: Dagmar Vinz / Johannes Dingler
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 - 16:30 Discussion Groups
Group I: Mary Mellor / Johannes Dingler
The Transformation of the Gender-Nature-Relations in the Era of
Globalization
Responsible: Johannes Dingler
Group II: Thais Corral / Elmar Altvater
Feminist Perspectives on the Concept of Sustainable Development
Responsible: Nina Sartori
Group III: Grace Akumu / Heike Walk
Aspects of Gender and Sustainability within the Climate Debate
Responsible: Achim Brunnengräber
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Group IV: Irmgard Schultz/Dagmar Vinz
Engendering Sustainable Development?
Responsible: Dagmar Vinz
Group V: Dorothy Smith/Frigga Haug
New Feminist Politics in the Era of Globalization
Responsible: Ariane Brensell
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 19:30 Closing Panel:
Global and Local Strategies of Empowerment and Resistance
Christa Wichterich, Journalist/Development Expert, Germany
Bettina Musiolek, Clean Clothes Campaign, Germany
Achola Pala Okeyo, UNDP/UNIFEM
Mascha Madörin, Independent Consultant, Switzerland
Marie Rhie Chol Soon, South-Korea, Women’s Labor
Union (KWWAU)
Moderator/Discussant: Petra Schaper-Rinkel/Dorothee Bohle
20:00 Buffet and Cultural Programme
* Bilingual Interpretations are provided: English/German
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futureScreen 99
AvAtArs | phantom agents
identities + role play in web worlds
symposium | online performances
featuring inter/national artists
presented in association with Powerhouse Museum
and the cooperation of Artspace Australia
who do you want to be today?
Your avatar can look anyway you want it to, up to the limitations of your
equipment. If you're ugly, you can make your avatar beautiful. If you've
just gotten out of bed, your avatar can still be wearing beautiful clothes
and professionally applied makeup. You can look like a gorilla or a dragon
or a giant talking penis in the Metaverse. - Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
An avatar is your cyber alter-ego who represents 'you' to the other
players in a virtual environment. Cyberspace is rapidly becoming populated
by these roaming, often elaborately designed fantasy creatures.
Avatars were popularised through sc-ifi/cyberpunk novels such as William
Gibson's Neuromancer and Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, and first appeared
on the internet in text based meeting places known as MUDs (multi user
domains). They can now represent you as three dimensional, fully animated,
photo realistic, personalised characters in graphic based web worlds.
Are we moving towards the kind of experience sci-fi writers have
envisionsed for years? Are these graphic personifications the future in
computer interaction, or just a passing fad? What are the implications for
the workplace, for performance, for fiction, for filmmaking? How will the
new Australian Net Censorship laws affect the usage of avatars? Who do you
want to be today?
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SYMPOSIUM | AVATAR PERFORMANCES
sat 6 + sun 7 november
Target Theatre, Powerhouse Museum
500 Harris St Ultimo, Sydney
half-day saturday $20 full / $15 conc / $10 dLux
sunday $25 / $20 / $15
both days $30/ $25 / $20
bookings essential tel (02) 9380 4255
sinsite@ozemail.com.au
sat 6 november
1pm introduction
1.15 Invisible Interludes 1: Santaman's Harvest
Adriene Jenik (usa) special guest
Assistant Professor of Computer and Media Arts
University of California, San Diego, USA
international online performance
2.00 Avatar and Golem, Inc.
Jeffrey Cook (nsw)
Director, 3V digital production and distribution
researcher/writer, media technology futures
2.30 break
2.45 Does Your Software Agent Cry?
Suresh Sood (nsw)
Director, Business Consultancy, TIBCO Finance Technology
3.15 Juxtapositions in Avatar Environments
Fletcher Andersen / Facter Pollen (wa)
Virtual Learning and WWW Supervisor, Curtin University, WA
consultant in virtual environment design and implementation
3.45 break
4.00 Have Avatar, Will Travel: Colonising the New Cyberspace
Bruce Damer (usa)
President and CEO, DigitalSpace Corporation
Director, Contact Consortium + author Avatars (Peachpit Press 1998)
introduced by Merryn Neilson + Dave Rasmussen (vic)
directors, Titan's Guild Studio's, 3D virtual reality and web design
international online performance
4.45 close
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sun 7 november
10.15am introduction
10.30 keynote presentation
Live From Any-Space-Whatever
Adriene Jenik (usa)
Assistant Professor of Computer and Media Arts
University of California, San Diego, USA
11.15 Fiction in 3D Worlds
Miriam English (vic)
artist/writer/programmer/virtual world builder
founding member, Virtual Reality Association
12pm break
12.15 The Role I was Born to Play
Mistress Eve Black
bondage & discipline professional, adult industry advocate
12.45 Fractal Personalities
Graham Crawford (nsw)
web artist + director, EXILE online gallery
Corporate Website Producer, Solution 6
1.15 lunch
2.30 Suzanne Treister's Rosalind Brodsky:
Invading Ancestral Spaces Through the Privileged Violence of Technology
Dr Jyanni Steffensen (sa)
ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Social Inquiry, University of Adelaide
3.00 The Avatar and Virtual Humanoids
Simon Hill (vic)
performer/writer/VRML designer
co-founder, The Men Who Knew Too Much (TMWKTM)
Adam Nash (vic)
performer/VRML programmer/composer
case study of live and online project by TMWKTM
3.30 break
3.45 Movatar: inverse avatar and motion capture system
Stelarc (vic)
cyber performance artist (video paper in absentia)
4.15 Being and Cyberness
panel discussion chaired by Kathy Cleland (nsw)
curator, Cyber Cultures
5.00 close
TELEMATIC DANCE PERFORMANCE
Company in Space : Escape Velocity
followed by televideo discussion by John McCormick
tues 9 november 7.30pm
Artspace 43-51 Cowper Wharf Rd Woolloomooloo, Sydney
$10 / $8 / $6 dLux and Artspace members + symposium delegates
bookings essential tel (02) 9380 4255
sinsite@ozemail.com.au
Two solo dancers - Hellen Sky in Sydney, Louise Taube in Melbourne - are
joined through ISDN link. Their bodies merge in a virtual fourth dimension
which is projected onto large screens in both locations.
Escape Velocity is a unique amalgam of choreography, visual imagery, sound
and real time video interaction. The dancers are 'actual avatars'; their
performance questions the body's relationship to physical and virtual
corporeality, technology and gravity.
Led by Hellen Sky and John McCormick, Company in Space is one of
Australia's most innovative performance companies, utilising computer and
communication technologies to create new pathways between performer and
audience.
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* for further information please contact
alessio cavallaro, director, dLux media arts
po box 306 paddington nsw 2021 australia
tel 61 2 9380 4255 fax 61 2 9380 4311
sinsite@ozemail.com.au
www.ozemail.com.au/~sinsite
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Dear Colleagues,
We are an art community in the Former Government Supplies Department in
Oil Street, North Point, Hong Kong. Recently we have been notified by
the Government Property Agency that our tenancy will be terminated by 15
December 1999. We would like to seek your support for developing the
complex into a community arts centre.
Being attracted by the environment and low rental in the Oil Street
premises, a number of arts organizations, namely, 1aspace, Artist
Commune, Kwok and Cho Studio, On & On Theater Workshop, Videotage, Z+
and many individual artists, designers, photographers and architects,
etc, moved in the premises. They constitutes a conglomeration of
exhibition venues, studios and offices for arts groups of diverse
disciplines. This is the first time ever that a community "contemporary
art centre" of this scale has taken shape with initiative and endeavour
from the Hong Kong artworkers.
In view of the importance of community-initiation to the pluralistic
development of Hong Kong arts and the inadequate space for art
activities, we would like to seek your support in our plead to the
Hong Kong SAR Government for using the Oil Street premises for art
activities on a long-term basis, and to develop the site into a
community art centre. If you support our clause, we would like to
invite you to complete the attached slip and fax return 852-25035978.
Or fax a support letter with a letter head.
Thank you for your attention.
Reply Slip (Fax: 852- 2503 5978)
I support developing the Former Government Supplies Department at Oil
Street for art activities on a long-term basis.
Name
Position
Organization
Tel
Fax
Signature
company chop if available
Enquiries: 852-2573 1869 / videotage@hknet.com Videotage)
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Dear Friends,
The Transnational Institute is hosting a Festival of Ideas at de Balie in
Amsterdam between 11 and 13 November 1999. Topics include:
* The World Trade Organisation
* Humanitarian Interventions
* US Hegemony and EU Alignment: Strategic Options for Regions in the
South
* Readings by John Berger and Ariel Dorfman
* NATO after Kosovo
* The Third Way and New Politics in Europe
* Popular Movements and New Politics in the South
* Implications of the Pinochet case
and much more!
see also: http://www.tni.org
AT THE EDGE
Towards a 21st Century Internationalism
TNI FESTIVAL OF IDEAS
Thursday 11 November 1999
De Balie, Leidseplein
10.00 - 12.00
Grote Zaal: Opening Welcome: Fiona Dove
Globalisation and its Contradictions
Keynote Speaker: Fred Halliday, Prof. International Relations, London
School of Economics Chairperson: Susan George (TNI Associate Director and
President of l'Observatoire de la Mondialisation)
2.00 - 4.00 Parallel Sessions:
Grote Zaal: NATO After Kosovo: Out-of-Area Operations: Enlargement and
European Security
Opening: Cora Weiss, President Hague Peace Appeal Introduction: Karel
Koster, Project on European Nuclear Non-Proliferation Debate: Dr Alexander
Nikitin, Institute of International Relations, Moscow & Pugwash VS ???
Moderator: Anne Koch, BBC
Salon: US Hegemony and EU Alignment: Strategic Options for Regions in the
South
Speaker: Samir Amin, Director Third World Forum Discussant Panel: Dot
Keet, Centre for Southern African Studies, Western Cape Univ., South
Africa; John Saxe-Fernandez, Insitute for Economic Research, Univ. of
Mexico; Candido Grzybowski, Director IBASE, Brazil; Gareth Api Richards,
Manchester University Department of Government Chairperson: Brid Brennan,
TNI fellow
Kleine Zaal: An afternoon with Ariel Dorfman Readings by Chilean writer,
Ariel Dorfman, live and on video: My House is on Fire: A filmed suspense
story of migrant children caught in a globalisng world.. Dead Line: Bono,
Emma Thompson and others animate this Channel 4 film based on Dorfman
poetry. Plus: Book Signing
PLEASE NOTE:
A special session entitled Ten Years On: The Crisis in the CIS - A
Worker's Point of View is being hosted at the TNI offices, Paulus
Potterstraat 20 (opp Van Gogh Museum). Speaker (with translation into
English): Alexander Bukhvostov, President of the Belarussian Automobile
Union and the Belarussian Workers' Party.
16.30 - 18.30 Parallel Sessions:
Grote Zaal: NATO After Kosovo: Nuclear Policy
Participants include: Karel Koster, PENN; Peter Weiss, President
International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms/Middle Powers
Initiative; Praful Bidwai, TNI/Movement in India for Nuclear Disarmament;
Dan Plesch, Director British-American Security Information Council (BASIC)
Chairperson:Clarissa Niehuys
Salon: Europe Incorporated: Exposing the Political Power of Big Business
Speakers: Erik Wesselius, Corporate Europe Observatory, Netherlands;
Jessica Woodroffe, World Development Movement, UK; Sarah Anderson*,
Institute for Policy Studies, USA Chairperson: Olivier Hoedeman, Corporate
Europe Observatory, Netherlands
Kleine Zaal: Talking Art and Contemporary Politics
Animated by: Ariel Dorfman* (novelist, Chile/USA); Ari Sitas (poet, South
Africa), Saul Landau (poet/filmmaker, USA); Hein Marais, South African
writer and James Early, Smithsonian Institution Centre for Folklife and
Cultural Heritage, USA
20.30 - 22.30 Evening Session:
Grote Zaal: The United Nations at the Edge of the 21st Century: Iraq,
Kosovo, East Timor and beyond
Speakers:Jose Ramos-Horta, Nobel laureate, East Timor; Theo Van Boven*,
Professor of International Law, Maastricht University, formerly with the
UNHCR, Dutch Cabinet Minister; Phyllis Bennis, Fellow TNI/Institute for
Policy Studies/UN and Middle East specialist, USA; Chairperson: Cora
Weiss, President of the Hague Appeal for Peace
Friday 12 November 1999
10.00 - 12.00
Grote Zaal: Pinochet Case: Implications for International Human Rights Law
Speaker: Geoffrey Bindman, solicitor representing Amnesty International,
other organisations and victims of torture who intervened in the case to
extradite Gen. Pinochet from Britain to Spain Discussant Panel: Joan
Garces, Spanish Lawyer in Case against Pinochet;John Dugard, Chair Public
Internat. Law, Leiden Univ/South Africa; Ricardo Sobersn Garrido, human
rights lawyer, Peru; Hugh O'Shaughnessy, award-winning journalist and
author of new book on Pinochet and the implications of the case against
him; George J. Aditjondro*, analyst of the implications of the case for
Indonesia & Southeast Asia Chairperson: Peter Weiss, a lawyer for over
twenty years - on behalf of the Centre for Constitutional Rights in the US
- to Joyce Horman, whose husband, Charles was murdered just after the
Pinochet coup and immortalised in the film 'Missing'. Weiss was also a
close friend of another US-connection to the case against Pinochet - TNI
Director, Orlando Letelier, assassinated in Washington in 1976 along with
Institute of Policy Studies' worker, Ronni Karpen-Moffitt.
14.00 - 16.00 Parallel Sessions: Grote Zaal
Humanitarian Intervention and Contemporary Wars
Panel: Francisco Rey, Red Cross, Spain; Alex Ramsbotham*, UN Association
of the UK; David Sogge, TNI/NGO consultant, Netherlands, Dan Smith,
TNI/Director Peace Research Institute, Norway Chairperson: Mariano
Aguirre, TNI/Director Centre for Peace Research, Spain
Salon: Global Transformations
Panel: Andre Gunder-Frank, Prof Internat. Rels, Canada; Samir Amin,
Director Third World Forum/World Forum for Alternatives, Senegal; Jan
Nederveen Pieterse, Assoc Prof, Institute for Social Studies, Hague; Peter
Waterman, international social movement analyst, Hague Chairperson: Barry
Gills, Newcastle University, UK
Kleine Zaal: Global Environmentalism: Seeking Common Ground
Panel: Annie Brisibe, Niger Delta Wetlands Centre, Nigeria; Agus Sari,
Pelangi Environmental NGO, Indonesia; Samuel Nguiffo, '98 Right Livelihood
Award winner, Cameroons, Daphne Wysham, Sustainable Economy and Energy
Network, TNI/Institute for Policy Studies fellow, USA Chairperson: Hermann
von Hatzfeldt, environmentalist, Germany
Plus: short presentation of "Forests for the Future" (Both Ends/Zed Press,
1999) with Paul Wolvekamp (ed) and Nguiffo (contributor)
16.30 - 18.30 Parallel Sessions:
Grote Zaal: What Future the Nation State?
Panel: Boris Kagarlitsky, Institute of Comparative Political Science,
Russian Academy of Sciences; Marcos Arruda, TNI/Director, Policy
Alternatives for the Southern Cone, Brazil; Jochen Hippler, TNI &
independent analyst, Germany;; Tom Nairn*, Edinburgh University
Chairperson: Dan Smith, TNI/Director Peace Research Institute, Norway
Salon: The Next Intervention? Colombian Conflict and International
Responses
Speakers: Piedad Cordoba, Senator-in-exile, Columbia: Ricardo Sobersn
Garrido, Accion Andina, Peru; Coletta Youngers, Washington Office on Latin
America; Gregorio Wolff, leader of the Public Sector Workers' Union;
Martin Jelsma, TNI, Netherlands; Chairperson: Jenny Pearce, Bradford
University Peace Studies, UK
Kleine Zaal: ATTAC-Netherlands Workshops (Dutch)
An inaugural workshop to discuss a proposed five point action plan: a)
implementation of a Tobin Tax on international currency transactions; b) a
democratic say over national capital flows; c) the removal of tax breaks
for companies; d) effective taxation on capital returns; e) corporate
accountability. For more information, contact attac@xminy.nl or search
http://www.attac.org
18.30 - 20.00 Parallel Sessions:
Grote Zaal Launch of ATTAC Netherlands (Dutch & English)
Public Launch of the Dutch (and 20th national chapter) of the Association
pour une Taxation des Transactions financiers pur l'Aide aux Citoyens
(ATTAC) Speakers: Susan George, ATTAC-France and Eric Goemans,
ATTAC-Flanders
Kleine Zaal: Dutch Complicity in US Intervention in Columbia
Round table discussion led by Gregorio Wolff, leader of the Public Sector
Workers' Union; Martin Jelsma, TNI, Netherlands and Theo Roncken, Accion
Andina, Bolivia
20.00 - 22.00 Evening Session:
Grote Zaal Mobilisation Against Corporate Globalisation: Focus on World
Trade Organisation
Speakers Walden Bello, TNI/Director Focus on the Global South, Thailand;
Susan George, TNI/President l'Observatoire de Mondialisation, France;
Wolfgang Kreissl-Dvrfler*, MEP Greens, Germany; Ilke Schroeder*, WTO
Reform Inter-group of the European Parliament; Sarah Anderson*, Institute
for Policy Studies, Washington Chairperson: Marcos Arruda, TNI/Policy
Alternatives for the Southern Cone, Brazil
Salon: Cultural Globalization: Homogenization or Hybridization?
Debat: James Early, Smithsonian Institute, USA vs Hein Marais,
analyst/journalist, South Africa Chairperson: Jan Nederveen Pieterse,
Assoc Prof, Institute for Social Studies, Hague
Kleine Zaal: Amirica Latina: los retos de la democracia y la izquierda
(Democracy and the Left in Latin America):
Live Broadcast via the Spanish World Service of Radio Nederland Led by:
Carlos Vilas, Latin American political analyst, Mexico/Argentina; Jenny
Pearce, Bradford University Peace Studies and others Chairperson:Kees
Biekart, TNI Netherlands
Saturday 13 November 1999
De Balie, Leidseplein
9.30 - 11.30
Grote Zaal. USA Politics Today: A View from Inside
An interview with Marcus Raskin, Distinguished Fellow of the Institute for
Policy Studies (IPS), who will address such questions as US omnipotence
and the psychology of impotence; the politics of entertainment or
poli-tainment; is the US being isolationist or nationalist; and is there
any change of a liberal or left alternative in the US.
10.00 - 12.00
Salon: Social Movements in Search of a New Politics?
Panel: Carlos M. Vilas, political analyst, Univ. Nacional Autonoma de
Mexico; Melay Abao, Sec Gen Akbayan party, Philippines; Raymond Suttner,
South African ambassador to Sweden; Francis D. Lee, People's Solidarity
for Participatory Democracy (PSPD), S.Korea Chairperson: Achin Vanaik,
TNI/journalist, India
10.00 - 17.00
Kleine Zaal: Temporary Autonomous Zone:
An ongoing catwalk of activist projects from Amsterdam to Zimbabwe. This
multi-media environment will highlight inspiring initiatives and
facilitate unexpected encounters with only one limit: a maximum of 15
minutes exclusive exposure! Organised, mediated and entertained by Jo van
der Spek jo@xs4all.nl.
11.00 - 12.00
Grote Zaal: On Preserving Capitalism in the 21st Century: The Lugano
Report
An Interview with Susan George, TNI Associate Director and President of
l'Observatoire de la Mondialisation, conducted by Howard Wachtel, TNI/Prof
Economics, American Univ.
12.30 - 14.30
Grote Zaal: The Third Way & the Need for a New Politics
Panel: Anthony Barnett, Senior Research fellow at Birkbeck College,
London; Joost Lagendijk, Vice-Chair of the Green Faction in the European
Parliament; Jochen Hippler, former advisor to Green Party, Germany, Bob
Borosage, Institute for Policy Studies, USA Chairperson: Hilary
Wainwright, TNI/Editor Red Pepper, UK
15.00 - 17.00
Grote Zaal: King: A Street Story
John Berger and his daughter, Katya Andreadakis, read from the story of
King, a voice for the poor and marginalized millions who daily live the
effects of neo-liberal globalisation. Delivered in English and French,
King's lyrically furious homage to the homeless will demand to know what
YOU are going to do about it? (Option of continuing in the Kleine Zaal)
17.30 - 18.30
Grote Zaal: Towards a New Internationalism: Closing Plenary
7.30 - 9.30
Fundraiser for the Case Against Pinochet
Double Screening of "Death & The Maiden", based on the broadway hit by
Ariel Dorfman, at: - Grote Zaal - De Balie: Introduction by Chilean Human
Rights activist, Isabel Letelier - Film Museum - Vondelpark: Introduction
by Ariel Dorfman, screenwriter
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A cooperation by V2_Organisation / Zaal De Unie / Knowbotic Research
Urban Agency - Urban Strategies
Zaal De Unie, Rotterdam, 1 - 5 November 1999
A series of lectures about the transformation of the city and about new
urban and cultural strategies through which the process can be influenced.
The city today is continuously changing. The outer limits of the city
become vague, they are being traversed by new technological infrastructures
and new cultural and social domains are created, sometimes visible,
sometimes invisible. The city in its traditional sense, is being replaced
by a large number of urban zones, places, force fields and sub-cultures
which precede the local and connect it to translocal and even to global
processes.
The program Urban Agency - Urban Strategies will investigate this topic
from five different point of views. In succession the following topics will
be elucidated: artistic, planning, philosophical, economical and design
aspects. Every evening stands on its own, but together they form one
unpredictable whole. The central question is whether new possibilities will
arise through new technologies for functioning and intervening in the
public domain. And what the space is for the individual and groups to
participate and influence urban processes.
Programmes start at 20.30 hrs. Entrance fee: fl 12,50 / 10,00.
Location: Zaal De Unie, Mauritsweg 35, Rotterdam
(exception: Wed. 3 Nov. at Goethe Institut Rotterdam, Westersingel 9)
Reservations recommended at tel. +31-10-4333534.
All lectures are held in English.
PROGRAMME
Monday, 1 November, 20.30 h, Zaal De Unie.
Urban Tendencies - artistic interfaces to urban processes
With Christian Hübler, Yvonne Wilhelm (Knowbotic Research, Cologne), Alex
Adriaansens, Andreas Broeckmann (V2_Organisation, Rotterdam)
Urban Tendencies discusses the relationship between new media and urban
development. The programme focuses primarily on the possibilities that are
created by digital technologies for participation of individuals and groups
in public processes. It elucidates artistic and cultural projects that
involve media, like Internet, large-scale image projections and interactive
installations
Tuesday, 2 November, 20.30 h, Zaal De Unie.
Public Agency - designing the new public domain
With Jeanne van Heeswijk (Rotterdam), Frédéric Migayrou (Nantes).
Moderator: n.n.
The public space is traditionally defined as a domain of free exchange,
functioning and participation of all citizens: meeting places in the city,
the market, newspapers and other public media. The rise of digital
technologies has a great influence on the structure of this space. Is
today's 'public domain' more scattered or broader and richer than before
the 'digital revolution'? This question is crucial for the debate about
architecture, urban planning and art and about the roll they play in
society. Is the public domain still a place for acting and intervening?
Where does the 'public' take place nowadays and who shapes it by
developing spatial and cultural strategies? How can one claim these new
public spaces?
Wednesday, 3 November, 20.30 h, Goethe Institut Rotterdam.
New Economy - flexible subjectivities?
With Henk Oosterling (Rotterdam), Michael Hardt (USA). Moderator: Bert van
Meggelen (Rotterdam)
Thinking about modern economy, politics and culture is still closely
connected to the notion of the autonomous individual. However, current
technological and social shifts suggest the development of a new economic
framework and thus undermine the position of this social ideal.
Globalisation of production and distribution, mass labour migration, the
decrease of employment because of automation etc., create a new social
situation where cultural and political functions of the public domain
change, and where the place of the individual and groups have to be
reconsidered. What will this new economy and these new forms of
subjectivity look like, and how will they be shaped?
For organisational reasons, this programme takes place in the Goethe
Institut Rotterdam, located at Westersingel 9, across the street from Zaal
de Unie.
Thursday, 4 November, 20.30 h, Zaal De Unie.
Immaterial Labour - virtual agency and artistic practice
With Maurizio Lazzarato (Paris), Hans Ulrich Reck (Cologne). Moderator: Ido
Verhagen (Amsterdam)
'Money' and 'work' fulfil a prominent role as autonomous categories in the
classical economic theory of the 19th century. The economic changes of our
time, especially the globalisation and automation of production and the
strengthening of the service-sector, bring about a new dominant form of
work, which is described as 'immaterial work' by Lazzarato and others.
'Immaterial work' describes forms of work that are not based on the notion
of (industrial) production, but that rely upon the development of social
relationships, life-styles and subjectivations. This evening discusses the
hypothesis that immaterial forms of labour are increasing and investigates
the consequences of this shift.
Friday, 5 November, 20.30 h, Zaal De Unie.
Connective Tools - dis/functionality in networks
With John Tackara (Amsterdam), Siegfried Zielinski (Cologne). Moderator:
Michiel Schwarz (Amsterdam)
Electronic networks connect more and more workplaces, meeting rooms,
concert halls and all sorts of machinery. In this way they form a new
social and cultural territory in which acting and co-operating are no
longer tied to a specific place. 'Connective Tools' are instruments for
communication and creative exchange, which are based on net network
technologies. They bring about new possibilities for co-operation and thus
also new forms of artistic work. During this evening a number of such
'Connective Tools' will be presented. Their cultural and aesthetic
possibilities will be elucidated and we discuss how these possibilities
can be used by artists who want to go beyond pure functionality.
Urban Agency - Urban Strategies is organised by V2_Organisation in
co-operation with the Rotterdamse Kunststichting, Knowbotic Research+cF,
Goethe Institut Rotterdam, Rotterdam Cultural Capital 2001, De Balie and
Stichting NRW.NL. The program forms part of the Kunst NRW.NL Festival - a
cultural exchange project between Nordrhein-Westfalen and the Netherlands.
URL: http://kunstnrw.nl
Project coordination: Andreas Broeckmann, V2_Organisatie <abroeck@v2.nl>
For further information, check: http://www.v2.nl/urbantendencies
*IO_Dencies Rotterdam* - The lecture series is closely connected to a
workshop organized during the same week in cooperation with the V2_Lab.
During this workshop, the artist group Knowbotic Research (Köln/D) does
research for their project I0_Dencies - Questioning Urbanity. This is a
long-term art project in which new technological models are sought for
discourse of and the interaction with 'the urban'. Earlier versions of the
project have been realized in Sao Paolo, Tokyo, Venice and Duisburg. (URL:
http://io.khm.de). The workshop and the lecture series are a starting point
for the Tendencies project that Knowbotic Research will develop for 2001,
Rotterdam Cultural Capital of Europe.
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