ISHA Berlin

For next Tuesday (2012-01-31) ISHA Berlin wants to invite you for a “Serbian Night” with typical food and drinks, pictures, information and Balkan beats.

We’ll meet at 7 pm in Room 5053, Friedrichstraße 191-193 [Entrance via Kronenstraße 12], Berlin Mitte.

Hope to see you there!

Facebook-event: http://www.facebook.com/events/266778383388613/

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This year’s annual ISHA conference will take place from April 1st to April 8th in Jena, Germany!

It’s topic will be “Identities in Transition” and it’ll cost you ca. 70€ including the full programe, accomodation and meals.

Application period starts on January, 30th and ends one week later, on February 5th.

Additional information can be found on ISHA Jena’s facebook page soon: http://www.facebook.com/pages/ISHA-Jena/273646119313570?sk=wall

… ISHA Berlin hopes to meet you there!

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This year’s annual ISHA conference will take place from April 25th to May 1st in Pula, Croatia!
It’s topic will be “East and West – Bridging the Differences” and it’ll cost you 70€ including the full programme, accomodation and meals.

Application period starts on Friday, February 4th and ends one week later, on February 11th.

All additional information can be found on ISHA Pula’s blog: https://pulaconference.wordpress.com/

..ISHA Berlin hopes to meet you there!

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Monday
• Arrivals
• Ice Breaking Party

Tuesday
• Opening Lecture
• Tour through the city
• Tour through the Reichstag
• Pub Crawl

Wednesday
• Workshops  (2 sessions – morning and afternoon)
• Visiting “House of Broadcasting”
• Movie Night

Thursday
• Workshops
• Final Conclusion
• “Museum Crawl”

Friday
• Day Trip to Potsdam
• New Year’s Celebration and National Drinks and Food Party

Saturday
• (Optional) sightseeing & free time
• Farewell Party

Sunday
• Departures

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Note: Especially for our trip to Potsdam, it will be neccessary to bring warm clothes and waterproof boots!
…We don’t want you to catch a cold because of wet feet.

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Finally, our list of participants can be published! Due to the overwhelming number of applications we decided to raise the permitted participants to 40.

Still we had to put some people on a waiting list.

Utopia in Propaganda:
Zvonimir Glavas
Marko Bagić
Sanna Hellstedt
Sergej Filipović
Luisa Marazzi

Concepts of human beings – utopia and dystopia:
Aleksander Savić
Maria Temmes
Augustinas Šemelis
Lia Hamminga
Raoul de Vries
Eva Šmid
Valerio Torregiani

Colonialism and Utopia:
Merle Boppert
Ines Dirolf
Jernej Kotar
Tihana Sedlar
Karlijn Bink
Marjolein Vos
Alexandru Blana

Eunomia – Utopian states and societies:
Sven Altenburger
Saša Vejzagić
Marco Alongi
Nino Kovacić
Yana Georgieva

Dystopia in Speculative Fiction:
Angela Alexandra Cotet
Alexandru Dorobat
Miha Šoba
Cees Roffelsen
Björn Reynir Halldórsson
Anastasia Guzanova
Juraj Jarmek

Utopia and Religion:
Tadeja Zupanc
Milan Vukašinović
Stephanie Bakker
Emanuele Rocco di Bello
Katerina Kladisiou
Ognjen Kresić

Sarah Stroobants

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The ISHA section Berlin will host the ISHA New Year’s Seminar 2010/11, which will take place from December 27th to January 2nd.

We will be happy to welcome 40 participants from over 20 ISHA sections!

Our topic will be “Utopia” – Utopian and dystopian concepts of mankind, society and state.

You can find a full list of the workshops and participants, look here!

For more information about the schedule, you can take a look at this link.

The participation fee will be 75€. You can check the details at  this page.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Berlin!

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Application period will start on October 11th and last until October 19th.

Please fill in the application form below and send it to isha.berlin[at]googlemail.com - Please include “Application” in the subject field of the mail.

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Name:

City (Section):

Cellphone number (including country code):

Email address:

Passport number:

Workshops:

• 1^st preference:
• 2^nd preference:
• 3^rd preference:

Special diet / Allergies:

Express yourself:

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Due to high hostel prices during New Year’s the Participation Fee for the Berlin Seminar will be 75€.
We still hope to be able to decrease the amount since there are some pending requests left. We will keep you up to date!

Included in your 75€ fee are so far:

• Hostel accomodation
• Three meals a day
• Group tickets (5 persons) for public transportation
• Evening programme (Except for beverages – beer prices will be around 2€ / 0,5l)
• Day trip

Not included:

• Museum entrance fee
• One meal in a traditional German-Turkish restaurant (yum!)

Extra Options:

• Individual bus tickets if you might want to travel on your own
• We are going to eat in the university cafeteria three times. The cafeteria is great- and so is the pasta they’re offering! If you want to get something more elaborate, you’ll have the option to increase your budget from your own money.

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1. Colonialism and Utopia
   Colonisation did not only mean economic expansion, but also “civilising” other parts of the world. In many cases, at the end of this process, an idealised or utopic society was to be created. In this workshop, we will have a look at various concepts of Utopia that can be found in the history of European expansion, the founding of colonies, and the spreading of European culture, religion, and “civilisation”.
   While most elements described above belong to European overseas expansion, an open approach towards colonialism is encouraged, allowing for papers which could deal with internal colonisation of large empire states, or with Socialist concepts of building up perfect society.
2. Concepts of human beings – utopia and dystopia
   Brave and heroic warriors in antiquity, the pious nobleman in middle-ages or the hard-working proletarian in modern state socialism – ideals of perfect human beings can be found throughout all periods of history. In this workshop, we are going to discuss whether and to what extent these ideals were utopian. Just as interesting are supposedly dystopian pictures of mankind in prophecies or retrospect. In both cases we will discuss which developments in society and economy advantaged these wishes on the one hand and fears on the other hand.
3. Dystopia in Speculative Fiction
   Throughout its history, speculative fiction has mused on the implications of man-made social dystopias. Usually, these musings cannot be discarded as mere phantastic speculations of a future unknown, but must be considered as extrapolations of the fears and sorrows at the time of the work’s creation. As such, they offer a vast richness for Historians with an interest in cultural history. Classics like George Orwell’s “1984″ are not only a plea for Human Rights, but also work as a time capsule in which the “doom quality” of current shiftings (e.g. the rise of new technologies or media) is discussed in the most emblematic way.
   In this workshop, we want to discuss works of speculative dystopian fiction in its various forms (literature, film, comics) and genres (science fiction, horror, drama, post-apocalypse etc.) and their relation to their own time and public discourse.
4. Eunomia – Utopian states and societies
   Utopias of state and society in literary classics are famous and frequently discussed. In this workshop, the main focus will lie on political convictions about the right form of government and society, whether they once counted as utopias or, by what history teaches us, still can be considered as unreachable ideals. The opposite of the ideal state, dystopias, are just as welcome to be discussed here!
5. Utopia in Propaganda
   Utopias or dystopias can be used as a mean in propaganda in order to convince the masses of one’s political views.
   In other cases, when after in decisive moments (turning points such as wars and revolutions) a group is put into power that is in favor of a certain utopia, they are often confronted with a problematic situation: they have to adjust their utopian idea to reality and thus adjust their propaganda. This workshop will emphasize on how propagdanda and utopia or dystopia inflict eachother.

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The New Year Seminar will take place from December 27th 2010 to January, 2nd 2011 in Berlin, the capital city of Germany.
The topic of the seminar is “Utopia throughout History”.
More information will follow here.

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