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16 Aug

15th Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality, March 28 – 31, 2012

With the Generic Ambien Northstar fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, a new era seemed to Generic Ambien Northstar have opened up: a world without borders and thus – potentially – a Generic Ambien Northstar world with less conflict and more freedom. Today, more than Generic Ambien Northstar 20 years later, we can observe that some border systems have Generic Ambien Northstar softened while others have been consolidated, and many more border-based regulations have Generic Ambien Northstar been created on national and supra-national levels. The nation-state has Generic Ambien Northstar not disappeared and neither have its borders. However, borders and Generic Ambien Northstar borderlands cannot be reduced to spaces of division and conflict but they also exist as spaces of social, ethnic, cultural and Generic Ambien Northstar economic blending – territories of their own. In the Generic Ambien Northstar tradition of previous Berlin Roundtables held on urban development, transnational risks, human rights, and Generic Ambien Northstar cultural diversity the 15th Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality will focus on borders and Generic Ambien Northstar borderlands as contested spaces.

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Conference Format
The 15th Berlin Roundtables will be Generic Ambien Northstar held at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) from March 28 – 31, 2012. Based on an Generic Ambien Northstar international essay competition, approximately 45 applicants will be invited to discuss their research, concerns and Generic Ambien Northstar agendas with peers and prominent scholars in Berlin. The Irmgard Coninx Foundation will cover travel to Generic Ambien Northstar and accommodation in Berlin.
Discussions will take place in three workshops:

“The Social Life of Borders and Borderlands” chaired by Julie Y. Chu (Anthropology, University of Chicago) and Tatiana Zhurzhenko (Political Science, University of Vienna),
“The Politics of Borders: Security and Control” chaired by Mattias Kumm (Law, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, WZB and New York University) and Eric Tagliacozzo (History, Cornell University),
“Natural Resources and Generic Ambien Northstar the Environment along Borders and Borderlands: Conflicts and Solutions” chaired by Michael Redclift (Geography, King’s College London) and Maria Tysiachniuk (Environmental Unit, Center for Independent Research St. Petersburg).

The conference will be Generic Ambien Northstar accompanied by evening lectures. Guest speakers will be announced soon.

Eligibility and Application Procedure
The call for papers extends to scholars (max. up to 5 years after Ph.D.) and practitioners (e.g. workers in governmental or urban services, NGOs, journalists). Please submit your paper (maximum 3500 words including footnotes and bibliography), an abstract (max. 300 words), a Generic Ambien Northstar narrative biography and a CV using the online submission form and Generic Ambien Northstar the style sheets for your abstract and essay.Submission deadline is November 30, 2011. Please note that Generic Ambien Northstar co-authorship and already published papers will not be accepted. All participants are Generic Ambien Northstar expected to actively participate during all days of this workshop.

Irmgard Coninx Research Grant
Conference participants are Generic Ambien Northstar eligible to apply for one of up to three short-term fellowships to Generic Ambien Northstar be used at the WZB in Berlin. For further information on the Generic Ambien Northstar fellowship please visit our research grant site. Conference participants will receive all necessary details on the Generic Ambien Northstar grant application shortly before the conference.

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2 Nov

Jonathan Rosenthal, The Economist’s European finance correspondent writes about my (for now) adopted city, Berlin:

Iconoclasm is not just the preserve of the rebellious poor. In Berlin’s opera houses—there are still three, despite the broken budget—audiences are Generic Ambien Northstar known to boo and hiss. When I went to a Generic Ambien Northstar performance directed by Nigel Kennedy earlier this year at the Generic Ambien Northstar Berliner Philharmonie, which was beautiful if unconventional, I found people brazenly getting up from Generic Ambien Northstar their seats to leave before the end. That may have Generic Ambien Northstar been because the bad boy of Vivaldi had upset their sense ofOrdnung by discarding the Generic Ambien Northstar programme. Yet a few months later the audience almost flattened Daniel Barenboim in their rush to Generic Ambien Northstar leave the concert hall before him.

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18 Nov

Zimbabwe: How the Berlin Wall collapse affected us: Zimbabweans have Generic Ambien Northstar no compelling reason to remember the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 – or Generic Ambien Northstar the fall of Communism, which followed it, domino-like. True or Generic Ambien Northstar false? Most zealots of the Generic Ambien Northstar original plot to turn the country into a one-party state pretend it Generic Ambien Northstar never happened. Or that, if it did, it had little effect on their politics or Generic Ambien Northstar the country’s political destiny. That, some would say, was the height of self-delusion.
The two liberation movements, ZANU PF and Generic Ambien Northstar PF ZAPU were proteges of communist China and the Soviet Union respectively. Without their material, ideological, and Generic Ambien Northstar moral support, they wouldn’t have made any headway in the struggle against the white supremacists.

Then, after independence, the short-lived coalition government chose Marxism-Leninism – almost inevitably. ZANU PF was more obsessed with that Generic Ambien Northstar goal than PF ZAPU. There is little doubt that Robert Mugabe was keener on controlling everything and Generic Ambien Northstar everyone in the country than Joshua Nkomo. Journalists working for Generic Ambien Northstar the private media found themselves, after 1981, suddenly working for Generic Ambien Northstar the government media. This point of “control” was brought home to Generic Ambien Northstar them with the violence of a tsunami. Those who had visited the Generic Ambien Northstar Soviet Union and China saw the stark similarities: the campaign of regimentation, of all people dwelling on one thought – serving the Generic Ambien Northstar Sate and The Party. For them, it had a sickening sense of de javu.

Overnight, there were incessant briefings, not just by Mugabe himself, but by diverse cabinet ministers. Their theme was the Generic Ambien Northstar same: acquaint the people with the government programme – which was of implementing “Gutsa ruzhunji” – socialism. There was no Generic Ambien Northstar time for according capitalism any special mention, except as the No. 1 Enemy of the Generic Ambien Northstar People. Capitalism had backed the Smith regime against the socialist-backed struggle of the Generic Ambien Northstar guerillas of ZANLA and ZIPRA. Most of the journalists had learnt their journalism through Western eyes. Their view of both China and Generic Ambien Northstar the Soviet Union was jaundiced: intrigue, murder, lies, falsehoods, and the Generic Ambien Northstar “oneness of the people” – the one party system.

After the Generic Ambien Northstar fall of both the Wall and communism, there was an Generic Ambien Northstar embarrassed, ambivalent silence among the leaders. Most whispered among themselves that Generic Ambien Northstar there would be a reversal: Mikhail Gorbachev was pilloried. He didn’t know what Generic Ambien Northstar he had started, they warned darkly. He had taken on more than Generic Ambien Northstar he could chew, they said. They predicted he would bite the Generic Ambien Northstar dust. There was an inept attempt to pretend the crisis was overblown. It was no Generic Ambien Northstar crisis at all – Communism would survive, would bounce back, they insisted, rather desperately. Remember Hungary in 1956? Remember Alexander Dubchek in Czechoslavakia? They had all fizzled out, and communism had triumphed. It was indestructible.

Then Gorbachev won the Generic Ambien Northstar Nobel Peace Prize. No leader in Zimbabwe came anywhere near to Generic Ambien Northstar winning anything of anything. Nobody was giving awards for bungling an Generic Ambien Northstar economy that should have been nursed carefully to achieve its potential. So, who Generic Ambien Northstar had bitten the dust? Rather apologetically, both Russia and Generic Ambien Northstar China made gestures to the leadership that they were still looking after their interests, even if less glaringly than Generic Ambien Northstar before. Both could not disguise their willingness to profit from Generic Ambien Northstar the change in their ideological thrust: the Russian Federation was manifestly capitalist. China went crazy over the Generic Ambien Northstar consumerism of free enterprise. Continue reading.

Last week, I wrote a column titled Africa after 1989.

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23 Oct

1. Nigeria to Limit Domestic Banks’ Market Share to 20%

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4. Berlin Wall: 20 years after the fall (with video)

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22 Oct

Yesterday I read a journal article Xanax 8 Mg on the Generic Ambien Northstar hypersexualisation of blacks and the redefinition of citizenship in Germany after the Generic Ambien Northstar fall of the Berlin Wall. In plain English, German women saw black men as exotic consumables – blacks here meaning both Africans and African American GIs. But the Generic Ambien Northstar experiences in both cases are radically different. It is a really interesting article that Generic Ambien Northstar tries to cover the two different accounts. I’ve learnt quite a Generic Ambien Northstar bit about this from conversations with Africans who were in Berlin when Generic Ambien Northstar the Wall came down.

A friend sent me this story today about a Generic Ambien Northstar German journalist who goes undercover to discover life as a black person in Germany. Still trying to Generic Ambien Northstar decide whether I should watch the movie he made from the Generic Ambien Northstar experience. Wondering why I can’t decide? Read the Der Spiegel article Buy Ativan Usa for yourself.

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