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Achieving Human Security: Europe, Canada, and the Cultural Challenge

Berlin, November 13-16, 2005
Events will take place in Berlin,Germany at the New Canadian Embassy, Humboldt University
and the Canadian Universities' Centre

Agenda - English, French, German
 
Topics of discussion will include:
 
“Music in Conflict and Conflict Resolution: Lessons from Haiti”, Gage Averill

"Human Security", Lloyd Axworthy

“Walls and the Limits of Culture”, David Blostein
“Culture as Strategic Good: Global Media, Public Policy and the New Imperatives for Human Security ”,
Jonathan Burston
“Human Cultural Security: The Next Level”, Stephen Clarkson
"Using Culture as a Tool to Incite Violence: The Rwandese Case", Marie-Eve Desrosiers
"Expectations and Responsibilities of European Human Cultural Security", Benita Ferrero-Waldner
"Myths and Realities Concerning Human Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation: The Case of Eastern Europe",
Alexandra Geisler
“Human Cultural Security in the City”, Meric Gertler
“Challenges of Joining Culture and Politics”, John Greyson and Leslie Katz
"Zackie Achmat and Fig Trees", John Greyson
"Living in the city – but for sure!", Hartmut Häussermann
“The Handmaid’s Tale: The Police State and Religious Repression of Women”, Linda Hutcheon/Michael Hutcheon
“AIDS, Culture, and Human Security: The Case of South Africa”, Dan O’Meara
"Culture and Human Security", John Ralston Saul
"Surveillance in the City", David Rokeby
"Beyond the Emergency: AIDS and the Health of the Poor", Paul A. Wilson
"Human Security and Global Governance", Michael Zürn
 
Panelists Include:
Gage Averill, Marie Brassard, Laura Caretti, Marie-Eve Desrosiers, Eve Egoyan, Joachim Fiebach, Volker Gransow, Gitti Hentschel, Barbara Ischinger, Jean-Jacques Lemêtre, Leslie Katz, Alanis Obomsawin, Roland Posner, Nirmala Rajasingam, Nadia Ross, Ute Scharfenberg, Djanet Sears, Lisa Steele, Nancy Thede, Elka Tschernokoshewa,
 
Exhibits and Films:
David Rokeby’s Sorting Daemon, Atom Egoyan's Ararat, John Greyson’s PILS SLIP and Proteus, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak’s We're Getting Younger All the Time, Birthday Suit and Blood Records, Ariane Mnouchkine's Soleil à Kaboul, Helene Klodawsky and Nirmala Rajasingam's No More Tears, Sister (narrated by Michael Ondaatje)
 

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