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“FORMSLOS ANGELES | Redcat Theatre
27. Oktober 2009 | Dialogue between Peter Sellars, John Rouse and Brigitte Maria Mayer
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LE REEMDOOGO – OUAGADOUGOU | Burkina Faso
12. Juni 2009 | 19 Uhr | Lecture by Brigitte Maria Mayer
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BERLIN | Akademie der Künste | Germany
OF MODERNITY: WHERE IS THE NEW ROME TODAY?”: TWO INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIA
Two international symposia will be held to discuss the questions raised by ANATOMIE TITUS, supported by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (German Agency for Technical Cooperation) and the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education).
It has become abundantly clear that the western concept of modernity is no longer the only possible variant for it, nor the most successful economically. And yet the west’s image of itself as the sole representative and pioneer of modernity remains unchanged. ANATOMIE TITUS presents the dilemmas faced by the Eurocentric world view when confronted with new centres of political power that have a different way of operating. How, though, does the western world order appear to these different cultures and centres of power themselves, influenced as they are by their own history and traditions? Does their economic power pose a danger to the cultural hegemony that Europe and North America claim for themselves, either implicitly or explicitly? How do China and Egypt see western art and culture? How do these countries see themselves? What kind of identities are they constructing for themselves, and by what means?
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THE WESTERN WORLD ORDER, AS SEEN FROM PEKING AND CAIRO
26th April, 2009 at 6pm: film screening with the director Brigitte Mayer, followed by a discussion with Professor Ahmed Zayed, Deacon of the faculty of philosophy at Cairo University; Professor Zhao Ting Yang of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing; Franziska Donner, formerly of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit, Berlin; and Dr Manfred Osten, General Secretary of he Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Bonn, and an author and cultural theorist. Participants will be welcomed by Randa Kourieh-Ranarivelo of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit in Berlin.
> Ahmed A. Zayed_Reflections on Modernity.pdf
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WHAT HOLDS SOCEITIES TOGETHER? WHAT DO THEY CONSIDER SACRED?
10th May, 2009 at 6pm: film screening with the director Brigitte Mayer, followed by a discussion with Ohneba Adusei Poku, Viceregent[1] of the Ashanti, Ghana; Professor Thomas Macho, professor of cultural history at the Humboldt University, Berlin; Gerald Wildgruber, NCCR, Iconic Criticism, University of Basel; and Brigitte Mayer.
Photographs by Jan Sobottka unter: www.catonbed.de
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