ECOLOGY

Securing Tracks of Ecological Footprint in Global Transport (BM10)
Robert Galbavy, forwarding agent, works in transport logistics, Executive Director of Cargo Partner, A.G., work experience in Europe, North America and Asia; member of the platform against global warming and environmental damage in the transport sector [Vienna]

The Friendly House - About the Activities of Passive Houses (BM8)
Arch. Erwin Kaltenegger, architect, own architecture firm since 1993, focus: innovative, energy-optimized building concepts and solar construction [Passail]

Innovation study: Environmental Technologies (BM10)
Dr. Hannes Leo, director of the Institute for the Future of Labor, Bonn; research interests: innovation, telecommunication, creative business, labor market [Vienna]

ECONOMY

Who Profits from the Occupation? (BM12)
Dalit Baum, feminist activist - lesbian - butch. She is one of the founders of "Kappa", "Black Laundry", "Community School for Women", and "Coalition of Women for Peace". She is always looking for the links between the different oppressive systems in our lives, in order to tease them apart. She teaches Activism and Gender Studies at the Haifa University and Beit Berl College, and heads the Who Profits from the Occupation project at the Coalition of Women for Peace. [Tel Aviv]

The Effect of Privatization on the Poverty of Working Women in Israel (BM12)
Orly Benjamin, senior lecturer at The Department of Sociology and the Gender Studies Unit, Bar-Ilan University. She is currently involved in teaching teenagers economic literacy and working to instill in them socio-political critical thinking. [Tel Aviv]

How to Work on Your Professional and Personal Development. Career Consulting (BM3/unknown knowledge)
Dorota Jaslan, career consultant at the Center for Women Promotion Foundation and IMC Kariera, personal activity trainer at Strategia Consulting [Warsaw]

Advantages and Positive Role of Blackmarkets in the Polish Economy (BM3/unknown knowledge)
Ryszard Malarski, World Bank consultant [Warsaw]

The White Side of Black Markets - Its Advantages and Positive Role in the Polish and Global Economy (BM12)
Ryszard Malarski, civil engineer, consultant for the World Bank, engaged in the Polish energy sector as a member of the supervisory board of the biggest energy group in the country, and development manager of the newly created theater of Krzysztof Warlikowski, "Nowy Teatr" in Warsaw. He was an expert in the Blackmarket No. 3, 2005 in Warsaw, which had the same topic as the one in Jaffa. [Tel Aviv]

1. Integration vs. Globalization
2. Frequent Misconceptions While Interpreting International Trade Issues (BM3/unknown knowledge)
Jan Jakub Michalek, professor of economics [Warsaw]

How to Successfully Run a Cultural Organization When You Have Almost No Money. Powerpoint Presentation (BM3/unknown knowledge)
Bogna Swiatkowska, journalist, cultural activist [Warsaw]

On Grey Markets - Informal Trading on the "Jarmark Europa" (BM3/unknown knowledge)
Minze Tummescheit, documentarian [Warsaw]

Debt and Financial Crises - Causes, Repercussions and Solutions (BM10)
Karin Küblböck, economist, research member of the Austrian Research Foundation for International Development (ÖFSE) in world economics; lectures on development economics at the University of Vienna, co-founder of Attac Austria [Vienna]

Insolvency of States - Solutions for Heavily Indebted Developing Countries (BM10)
Prof. Dr. Dr. Kunibert Raffer, associate professor at the Institute of Economics at the University of Vienna, research interests: international commerce, international finances, developmental aid [Vienna]

____Fair Trade
Swelling Fairness - About the Post-Economic Search for a Fair Global Economy (BM8)
Mag. Christian Eigner, Büro für Perspektivenmanagement (together with Michaela Ritter), which is specialized in organizational development and science communication, graduated psychoanalyst, [Graz]

____for free
From the Series Empty Phrases: "What is for Free is of No Value" (BM8)
Mag. Dr. Wolfgang Zinggl, member of WochenKlausur, member of the National Council (speaker for cultural and minority issues of the Green Party) [Vienna]

- Free Money
The Wörgl (Free-Money) Experiment 1932/33 (BM8)
Lia Rigler, visual artist, student of Giacomo Manzu and Oskar Kokoschka; daughter of Michael Unterguggenberger, the initiator of the Wörgl (Free-Money) Experiment, which received worldwide attention [Graz]

____Lending
Keeping while Giving: A Gift Exchange in Renaissance (BM8)
Dr. Maja Breznik, researcher at The University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts and at The Peace Institute, received PhD degree in sociology, publishes on cultural history, sociology of culture and cultural policy in various journals and books [Ljubljana]

____Neoliberalism 1
1. Management, Career and Self-Abandonment in Top Dogs by Urs Widmer
2. The Efficiency Principle: A Little Reading of Rolf Hochhuth's "McKinsey kommt" (BM8)
Dr. Claudia Schmied, since 2007 Federal Minister for Education, Art and Culture; formerly lecturer at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration with the research focus "The Role of Economy in Literature" [Vienna]

____Neoliberalism 2
Who Gives Something, is Given Something? About Reciprocity and the Repression of Intrinsic Motivation (BM8)
Dr. Doris Weichselbaumer, economist, gender theorist, assistant lecturer at the Department of Economics and the Department for Gender Studies at Linz University. Her main subject areas are discrimination on the employment market and feminist and experimental economy [Linz]

____Poverty
About the Allocation of Wealth and Why Poverty Is Female (BM8)
Tatjana Kaltenbeck-Michl, city counsellor, deputy chairperson of the SPÖ Graz, responsible within the city government for youth and family, women and the social sector [Graz]

____Sex
Prostitution and Sex Worker. About the Interrelationship of Consumer, Whore and the Austrian Social Insurance Authority for Business (SVA) (BM8)
Sarah Fötschl, student of Philosophy and Art History, script writer, text worker, permaculture gardening, program board Forum Stadtpark [Graz]

ECOTROPHOLOGY

The Artichoke: Its history and its consumption (bring your own fork!) (BM2)
Lindy Annis, director, performance-artist [Berlin]

Art and Cooking. Variations in taste and aesthetics of your favourite recipe. (BM2)
Bernhard Thome, performance-artist, cook [Berlin]

The universe of the Japanese rice and the secrets of sushi rice (BM2)
Yoshio Yabara, costume- and set-designer, and much more [Berlin]

EDUCATION

1) Community College today: approaches to a successful learning
2) Simplify your life: instructions for an easier life (BM2)
Bernd O. Hölters, director of the Community College Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg [Berlin]

If Education Is the Answer - What Is the Question? Instructions for a self-made school (BM2)
Marijke Hoogenboom, associated Prof. for Artistic Practice and Interdisciplinary Development, co-founder of DasArts [Amsterdam]

How to Fill Form with Expression? Creative Dance for Adults (BM4)
Waltraud Luley, dance pedagogue, director of the Dance Studio Luley for 40 years, dancer, administrator of Dore Hoyer's choreographic legacy, 90 years old [Frankfurt/M.]

A Brief Demoscopic Introduction to Discrimination in Schools (BM7)
Özcan Mutlu, MSC in Communication Engineering, Member of the Berlin House of Representatives and spokesperson for education and migration policies for the Green Party - Bündnis/90 Die Grünen [Kelkit, New York, Omaha, Berlin]

Blancocentrism in Neukölln Schools . White Perspectives and Colorful Speech (BM7)
Isidora Randjelovic, social worker, head of the Roma Parents Association [Bor, Berlin]

What Makes a Good Dance Pedagogue - Experience From My Work with Kurt Jooss (BM4)
Ulrich Roehm, chairman of the German Association for Dance Pedagogues, editor of the journal Ballett Intern, former representative of the Royal Academy of Dance for Germany and Austria [Essen]

The Function of the Royal Academy in the Training of Professional Dance Teachers in Classical Ballet (BM4)
Sabine Roth, director of the Ballettschule im Ullsteinhaus, member of the Royal Academy of Dance, London, member of the Association for Dance Pedagogy, former dancer at the Deutsche Oper, classical ballet teacher [Berlin]

Promises of salvation for people with discipline (BM2)
Lars Rudolph, actor & Assistant [Berlin]

Casna Titova Pionirska. Socialist Work Ethics (BM7)
Teodora Tabacki, journalist, translator, political activist, works at b_books [Belgrade, Brussels, Berlin]

____Academics
The Slow and Painful Decay of the Higher Education System in Israel (BM12)
Iris Agmon, senior lecturer in the Department of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. She specializes in socio-legal history of the Ottoman Empire. Her book (on Jaffa and Haifa), "Family and Court: Legal Culture and Modernity in Late Ottoman Palestine", has received the Tel-Aviv prize for Reaseach in Middle Eastern Studies for 2006. She is one of the founders of the Forum for the Protection of Public Education.[Tel Aviv]

____alternative
Let the Children Think for Themselves - Discovering and Performing Autonomy (BM12)
Mary Copti, a well known educator from Jaffa with 35 years of experience in the educational field. She has worked as a teacher and social worker in the Jaffa community, as well as an instructor in Parenting School at the Adler Institute. In 2004 Copti was fired after 6 years of working as the principal at the Orthodox school in Jaffa. Her dismissal caused discontented parents and students to take to the streets in protest. The overwhleming support from the community encouraged her to establish an alternative educational framework - the Yaffa Arab Democratic School - the first democratic school created especially for the Arab community. [Tel Aviv]

The Peace Industry and Facilitating Groups in Conflict (BM12)
Natalie Levy, educator and activist. She is a project coordinator at Windows Foundation for dialogue between Jewish and Palestinian youth. She coordinates and facilitates groups at Sadaka-Reut Foundation in Jaffa, and at Nir School, a society for the academic, cultural, social and personal development of outstanding youth in the Middle East. [Tel Aviv]

____High Schools
"I Pledge Allegiance". From the Salute to the Flag to Cross Country: One Day at an American High School (BM6)
Mark Hagen, Youth Representative at ver.di, raised in the U.S.A. [Berlin]

____Rags-to-Riches
From Rags to Riches? How to Convey the Spirit of American Enterprises to German Pupils (BM6)
Benjamin Werthmann, PhD-Student at HU Berlin, studies and works benevolently for the American German Business Club Berlin e.V. [Berlin]

____Top Law Schools
Ivy League - Myth and Global Economic Success of America's Top Law Schools (BM6)
Dr. Anja Mengel, LL.M, Attorney, specialized in Employment Law at Kanzlei WilmerHale [Berlin]

____Universities I
Why Don't You Go Overseas. Conditions of Studying in the U.S.A. (BM6)
Dr. Eva Geulen, Professor for Modern German Literature at Universität Bonn [Bonn]

-____Universities II
Ivy League Universities in the U.S.A. The Example of Artificial Intelligence at the MIT
Dr. Joseph Weizenbaum, Professor for Computer Science, worked at the MIT/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 25 years [Cambridge/Massachusetts, Berlin]

EMISSIONS

Unnecessary journeys: Personal carbon allowance. Necessary journeys: Tradable emissions (BM 11)
John Coyne, first Green Party councillor on Liverpool City Council in 2006. He was re-elected in 2007 and now leads the small but growing Green Party group on the council [Liverpool]

Shit, piss, blood, sweat, and tears: Bodily functions in performance (BM 11)
Lois Keidan, Co-founder and Director of the Live Art Development Agency, London [London]

The impact of the oil and gas industry (especially BP and Shell) on the global climate and our lives (BM 11)
James Marriott, artist, activist, naturalist, Co-director of PLATFORM London [London]

ETHICS

1) Ars Moriendi: How to Die in the Middle Ages and Today
2) The Ethics of Anatomy - How to Present and Stage the Human Body and Body-parts (BM12)
Yechiel Bar Ilan, senior lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, and internal medicine specialist. He teaches medical ethics and philosophy, and is head of Meir Hospital Ethics Forum. He publishes on human rights, bioethics, art & medicine, and collects paintings and images with medical themes, especially the figure of the doctor. [Tel Aviv]

The Absent Prepuce - On the Ethics of Circumcision (BM12)
Margherita Brusa, has been teaching bioethics in Italy and Spain for over twelve years. Her research focuses on communication with sick minors, and inter-religious dialogue and deliberation. She is a fellow of the bioethics department, St. Joseph University, Philadelphia, and is doing research in Padua and Tel Aviv. [Tel Aviv]

Surprisingly easy methods how to lead a long and happy relationship (BM2)
Sabine Chwalisz, artistic director of the fabrik Potsdam, choreographer, psychologist [Potsdam]

Simple heuristics for good decision making (BM2)
Dr. Anja Dieckmann, research scientist Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development, Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition [Berlin]

Ideas on friendship and promises in a cultural comparison between, China, Island, Russia, USA, Japan, Spain, and FRG/GDR (BM2)
Dr. Monika Keller, research scientist Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development, Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition, research area social and moral development in different cultures, lecturer FU Berlin [Berlin]

1) Strategies how to avoid responsibility
2) How to build a small explosive device (BM2)
Angela Richter, director [Hamburg]

Pick yourself up with Anita O'Day: Applicable survival strategies of a jazz singer (BM2)
Marc Siegel, lecturer in film studies FU Berlin, research in experimental film and queer studies, member of the performance group CHEAP [Berlin]

EXCHANGE AND GUILT RELATIONS

Reciprocal Presents: Forced Reciprocity, or In Life Nothing is as expensive as a Present (BM10)
Dr. Johanna Krafft-Krivanec, author, translator and conference interpreter, studied cultural anthropology, teaches at the Center for Translation Studies [Vienna]

EXORCISM

101 Examples of Bad Taste in our Homes and Environment. Choose a Card and See! (BM3/ghostly knowledge)
Jan Mioduszewski, painter [Warsaw]

Satisfying Non-Existent Needs - How to Read Magazines and Newspapers (BM3/ghostly knowledge)
Bogna Swiatkowska, journalist, cultural activist [Warsaw]

Domination, Triumph, Violence - The Masculine Ghost in the Structure of Polish Language (BM3/ghostly knowledge)
Dr. Jacek Wasilewski, scriptwriter, language researcher [Warsaw]

Exorcising Ghosts and Vampires According to Heiner Müller (BM3/ghostly knowledge)
Katarzyna Wielga, theatre scholar, curator for theatre and dance at the Adam Mickiewicz Institute [Warsaw]

EXPERIMENT (-AL SET-UP)

On the seriousness of building a table rocket (Licence No.1)
Bildungsclown Jörn sport- and chemistry academic, coach for communication, pantomime [Mannheim]

Simulation in medical training: Playing doctor, or practice for an emergency? (Licence No.1)
Prof. Dr. Jens Kaden director of the training hospital "TheSiMa" and the simulation patient programme at the medical faculty in Mannheim, established cardiologist [Mannheim]

Let’s pretend! Elementary theatre for kids from two years old (Licence No.1)
Petra Paula Marquardt freelance scientist, media and culture tutor, applied research among others for "Schnawwl", the kids- and youth theatre at the National Theatre Mannheim [Mannheim]

The riddle of the 144 squares (Licence No.1)
Dr. Ulrich Nieß Head of Mannheim’s town archives - Institute for town history [Mannheim]

The game of intimacy: Encounters, coincidence, surprise in 30 moments (Licence No.1)
Ragna Pitoll actress at the National Theatre in Mannheim [Mannheim]

"Winning" a career. The job-application situation as a decree for gambling (Licence No.1)
Stephan Reichel studies in history, politics and sociology, founder and managing shareholder of “Suchweise GbR”, personal consultant, coach and development consultant [Kelsterbach]