15th Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality, March 28 – 31, 2012 With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, a new era seemed to have opened up: a world without borders and thus – potentially – a world with less conflict and more freedom. Today, more than 20 years later, we can observe that some… Read More »
1. Our good old East German car, Trabant, to get a makeover. Prototype out in September 2. Check out a list of interesting anthropology blogs 3. What is the future of jazz? 4. Africa’s mobile banking revolution 5. Kola Tubosun is currently a Fulbright scholar in the US, and he is writing a travelogue 6.… Read More »
Image via Wikipedia The topic used to be taboo in Germany… mere mention of the name even gets people cringing. But it seems the Germans are learning to deal with their history. I just heard the news that some German movie makers are making a film of Hitler’s early years. They are even naming the… Read More »