RACISM

____activist
Sexism, Homophobia, Antisemitism - the Comfort in the Problems of "Others" (BM7)
Koray Yilmaz-Günay, member of the board of directors of GLADT e.V. (gays and lesbians from Turkey) [Berlin]

____concerning health
The Effects of Racial Resentment on Health Policy Issues (BM7)
Tülin Duman, pharmacist who loves soccer, health expert, runs the alternative soccer store GOAL [Istanbul, Berlin]

____spiritual
Spiritualized Racism. Mobilization and Flexibilization of Anthropological Traditions (BM7)
Jana Husmann-Kastein, cultural scientist and researcher in gender studies, associate of the research training group "Geschlecht als Wissenskategorie", Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin [Berlin]

____theoretical
A Brief Introduction to the Theory of Racism (BM7)
Manuela Bojadžijev, member of Ultra-red and Kanak Attac, does research on migration, racism and political theory [Frankfurt/ Main, Berlin, London]

REAPPROPRIATION

We are the culture: Creating cultural space in Liverpool by reappropriating urban space (BM 11)
Tomke Lask, Social Anthropologist who works in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Liverpool [Liverpool]

RECIVILIZATION

About the Mechanical Aspects of Creativity (BM8)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Peter Weibel, artist, exhibition curator and art and media theorist, head of ZKM Karlsruhe, since 1993 head curator of the Neue Galerie at the Landesmuseum Joanneum Graz, honorary doctor of the University of Art and Design Helsinki (2006), [Karlsruhe/ Graz]

RECLAIMATION

The horticultural reclaimation of urban wasteland: The Pansy Project and other methods of Guerrilla Gardening (BM 11)
Paul Harfleet, artist and curator. He formulated The Pansy Project, an ongoing artwork that involves the planting of pansies at sites where he has experienced homophobia. He has since taken the project across the UK and beyond [Liverpool]

RECYCLING

How to Create a Whole Wardrobe Out of Two Shirts - A Workshop Based on the "Double Trouble" Design (BM12)
Frau Blau, Helena Blaunstein and Philip Blau's fashion brand. Since 2002 they have been creating high quality fashion with a special ambiance, through a profound and optimistic view of life and their aim to bring joy to everyday life. "Frau Blau" is German slang for "drunk lady", a fact that is reflected in the "serious-nonsense" air of the couple's designs. They won the 2007 Ministry of Education and Culture's award for textile and fashion design. [Tel Aviv]

The (almost legally) Forbidden Word - How, Despite Everything, the Nakbah has Entered Israeli Discourse (BM12)
Norma Musih, born in Buenos Aires. She is a visual culture researcher and the deputy director of Zochrot Association, the curator for the zochrot Gallery and a group facilitator. [Tel Aviv]

__metal
Metal recycling in Seaforth and shipping to China (BM 11)
Rob MacDonald, reader in architecture at the Liverpool School of Art & Design, Liverpool John Moores University. Practising Architect and Vice President of the Liverpool Architectural Society [Liverpool]

__space
Reuse and recycling in practice - the story of The Art Organisation (BM 11)
Gregory Scott-Gurner, curator and co-director of The Art Organisation, which has co-opted eleven privately owned buildings across Liverpool [Liverpool]

RE-EVALUATING

Demolition as concept, lack of future vision: The value of buildings and architecture in Liverpool (BM 11)
David Dunster, architect, Roscoe Professor of Architecture, University of Liverpool [Liverpool]

What is the value of art, who values it and why? (BM 11)
Paula Ridley, chair, Liverpool Biennial, former chair Victoria & Albert Museum, London [Liverpool]

REINVENTING

How to actualize a childhood ambition after 55 years. An autobiographical story (BM 11)
Helen Brady, novelist, poet and actress, mother of seven children. In her early seventies she graduated from The Ruskin College, Oxford and from Liverpool John Moores University with a BA(hons) in Imaginative Writing [Liverpool]

We built with mud. Searching for counterstrokes in a climate of overproduction and consumption in design (BM 11)
Caspar Jones, spatial artist andlLecturer in Interior Design at Liverpool John Moores University [Liverpool]

RELIGION

____charismatic
Charismatic and Enthusiastic Communal Life in Charlottesville, Virginia: Word of Face, First Baptist Transformation Ministries, St. Marc's Lutheran Evangelic Church (BM6)
Dr. Harald Wenzel, Professor for the Sociology of North America at the John-F.-Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, FU Berlin [Berlin]

____Church
Bipolar Believing: A Portrait of Two American Churches (Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Life and Reverend Billy Tallin's Church of Stop Shopping) (BM6)
Dr. Karen Kramer, Director of Stanford University in Berlin, Ph.D. in German Studies, Magister in Philosophy [Stanford/ Berlin]

____fundamentalist I
Preserving America: Religious Fundamentalism and American Politics (BM6)
Dr. Katja Mertin, Sociologist and Political Scientist, Research Manager at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst [Berlin/ Delmenhorst]

____fundamentalist II
The Religious Right and Bush-Administration (BM6)
Priv. Doz. Frank Unger, Guest Professor for Political Science at the John-F.-Kennedy-Institute fr North American Studies, FU Berlin, Fields of Research: International Political Economy and American Foreign Policy [Berlin]

____Gods
Why the Aztec Gods are so Highly Esteemed among the Chicanos (BM6)
Dr. Anja Bandau, Junior Professor at the Institute for Latin American Studies, FU Berlin, Research Focus: Hispanic Cultures and Literature in the U.S.A. [Berlin]

Juan Soldado. Tijuana's Sacred Border Figure. Religion and Migration along the US-American-Mexican Border (BM6)
Barbara Buxbaum, Institute for Latin American Studies, FU Berlin [Berlin]

____Latter-day Saints
About Rejecting the Mormon Faith and Remaining in or Escaping From the Salt Lake City, Utah Culture (BM6)
Amelia Seymour, Mixed-Media and Installation Artist using Sound, Film/Video, Photo, Sculptures [Stockton/ Marseille]


RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Intertwined Worlds: The Development of Mediaeval Judaic Exegesis under Islamic Culture (BM12)
Nabih Bashir, PhD candidate at the department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His research subject is the Development of Mediaeval Judaic Exegesis in the shadow of Islamic Culture. He worked as a researcher at Mada Al Carmel and Galilee society. He is a husband and a father of one lovely boy. [Tel Aviv]

Sefer HaShem/the Book of the Name - a Guide for Kabalistic Beginners (BM12)
Michal Oron, professor emeritus in the Literature Department, Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on mystical - kabalistic creation and the relations between Jewish mysticism and Hebrew literature. Her published books include "The Ba'al Shem of London" (Mosad Byali?, 2003) and a scientific edition of "Sha'ar ha-razim" (Jerusalem, 1989). A scientific edition of "Sefer HaShem" and "Tzohar LeZohar" are also scheduled for publication. [Tel Aviv]

Genisis Chapter 2, Verse 7 - From Spiritual Schizophrenia to Tikkun Olam/Repairing the World (BM12)
Mira Raz, rabbi of the Reformist community of Nattania. She has been teaching the Torah for many years, especially as spiritual knowledge both personal and universal. She is the spiritual leader of an ever growing Reformist community in Nettanya. Her book "The Road of the Torah to Love" was published in 2003 (Shufra publishing house). [Tel Aviv]


REPETITION

Family constellations at the table – The constant return of the same again (Licence No.1)
Ursula Tröscher-Hüfner certified social worker, therapy trainer since 1978 and trainer supervisor for systemic therapy, psychotherapist [Heidelberg]

REPOLITIZATION

Poor things. Bruno Latours collections. How things become agents in political assemblies (BM 11)
Karin Harrasser, philologist and Cultural Studies scholar, director of the Science Communications Research Association in Vienna, research work at Vienna University and the Humboldt University in Berlin on the history of prosthetics, Vienna/Berlin [Berlin]

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]

Towards a sustainable arts practice (BM 11)
Lena Simic and Gary Anderson, The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home is a home-run artist activist initiative, run out of the spare room of a council house in Everton, Liverpool [Liverpool]

Queer in German: The Cultural Translation of an Idea (BM10)
Ulrike Müller, artist, translator, lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna; co-editor of the queer-feminist art journal "LTTR" (New York) [Vienna]

Combating and not Evading Anti-Semitism (BM10)
Nora Sternfeld, art educator and curator (trafo K), since 2006 in the director's team of the master's programme for exhibition theory and practice "ecm - educating/curating/managing" at the University of Applied Arts, lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts; publishes on contemporary art, art education, politics of history and anti-racism [Vienna]

RESPONSIBILITY

What’s left of talent - Sport as a chemical game? (Licence No.1)
Prof. Ines Geipel author, doping expert and professor for dramatic verse in Berlin [Berlin]

The Notion of Failure and Responsibility in Performance Today (BM10)
PD Dr. Krassimira Kruschkova, theatre studies scholar, head of the theory center of Tanzquartier Wien, teaches at the Academy of Visual Art and the University of Applied Art in Vienna [Vienna]

Tracing Responsibility in Emmanuel Levinas (BM10)
Dr. Sophie Loidolt, philosopher with subdisciplines legal phenomenology and phenomenology, co-founder of "Interdisciplinary Forum .UND" (with Matthias Flatscher and Peter Zeillinger), teaches at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Vienna [Vienna]

On the accountability, which arises from the freedom of art itself (Licence No.1)
Julia Neigel freelance artist, singer, songwriter, producer [Ludwigshafen, Mannheim]

Dangerous liaisons – The relationship between politics and media (Licence No.1)
Ursula Nusser journalist, head of the editorial department for "SWR2 Forum" (A discussion series on Südwestrundfunk radio) [Baden-Baden]

Who is the Financial Crisis Killing? (BM10)
Dr. Rudolf Scholten, legal expert and economist, member of the Austrian Control Bank stock corporation, 1988-1990 secretary general of the Austrian Federal Theatre Administration, 1990-1994 Federal Minister of Education and Art, 1994-1998 FM of Science, Research and Art, and 1996/97 FM of Science, Transport and Art [Vienna]

CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility): Gains through Responsibility (BM10)
Barbara Stöckl, TV producer, journalist and moderator [Vienna]

RESTITUTION

Disappropriation, Restitution and Compensation 1938 - 2008 - Guilt and Debts of the Republic of Austria (BM10)
Mag. Eva Blimlinger, historian and civil servant, project coordinator of art and research funding at the University of Applied Arts, 1998-2004 research coordinator of the Austrian Historians' Commission [Vienna]

The Looting of Art and Art Restitution as Exemplified by Gustav Klimt's works (BM10)
Sophie Lillie, art historian, research focus: private art collections in Vienna before 1938 [Vienna]

Law or Mercy? Restitution in Austria (BM10)
Mag. Dr. Ingo Zechner, philosopher and historian, since 2003 head of the central contact office of the Israelite Cult Community Vienna for Jews Persecuted by the Nazis in and outside of Austria, member of the Commission for Provenance Study and of the Viennese Restitution Commission [Vienna]

RETELLING (see Ghost Library)

REVIVING

Local and non-local production. Is technology stripping us of our resourcefulness? (BM 11)
Gerry Fitzpatrick, owner of second hand bookshop Reid of Liverpool [Liverpool]

RHETORICS OF DIALOGUE

1. The gestures in a dialogue: talking with hands (BM 11)
2. The role of silence in a dialogue (BM 11)
Geoffrey Beattie, Head of School and Dean of Psychological Sciences at the University of Manchester. He has published 15 books and has been the resident psychologist on all seven "Big Brother" series

Dialogues with people who are not there: The nature of auditory hallucination (BM 11)
Richard Bentall, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Bangor. His most recent book "Madness Explained" (2003) received the British Psychological Society Book Award

How to talk to someone who can't: Communicating with people after a stroke (BM 11)
Anne Hesketh, Speech and Language Therapist, researching and teaching at the University of Manchester [Liverpool]

Theory and practice of interviewing witnesses and suspects involved in major crime(BM 11)
Steve Naylor, Detective Superintendent and part of Liverpool Police Force's Major Incident Team, accredited Senior Investigative Officer [Liverpool]

Dialogues with children in impossible situations: What is it like to be a refugee? (BM 11)
Julia Nelki, Child Psychiatrist in community multidisciplinary service and lead of school based mental health service for refugee children, Liverpool [Liverpool]

How to talk to people you can't see: Dynamics of the radio phone-in (BM 11)
Roger Phillips, Broadcaster on BBC Radio Merseyside since the early 1970s [Liverpool]

Languages and their borders, shibboleths and other vehicles and obstacles in the process of communication. With reference to her work and in particular the aphasic dialogue (BM 11)
Imogen Stidworthy, Artist whose work addresses aspects of language in her installations, sound and video works.[Liverpool]

RULES & STANDARDS

Don’t be afraid, they only wanna play – On the necessity and the need for deviance in rules and standards (Licence No.1)
Andreas B. active for two decades in the BDSM-scene (privately and also as BDSM location- and event organiser), studies in jurisprudence [Mannheim]

On self-administered justice. Fair Play in croquet (Licence No.1)
Michael Böer engineer and owner of a company for power plant technology, member of 1. Croquet Club Südwest, European Championship participant in golf-croquet in 2009 [Mannheim]

Regulated breaching of rules: Customer consultants and brokers walking the tightrope between bank- and customer interests and the law (Licence No.1)
Andrea Fuchs broker, institutionalised saleswoman, author of "The Judas Bank" [Frankfurt Main]

Breaches of rules in sport, language, business and politics (Licence No.1)
Prof. Dr. Gunter Gebauer philosopher and sport sociologist, researches the role of games in contemporary society [Berlin]

On interacting with people, or how to charm yourself and other people with a smile (Licence No.1)
Bettina Pfeil owner of the event management agency "gastfreundschaft.", coach on etiquette, jurist, football fan, connoisseur [Alsbach a.d. Bergstraße]

Between illegality and wealth: From cash-games to tournaments- and online-poker and back to the casino (for advanced and gambling-crazy players) (Licence No.1)
Jonas Zech qualified plumber and croupier, expert for Texas Hold'em Poker, author and educational aid, graduate in German studies and ongoing philosopher [Mannheim]