SAVING PEOPLE

The Impossibility of Saving People (BM8)
Dr. Do Bauer, head of the Social Circle in the St Leonhard parish Graz, voluntary staff member at the Marienambulanz in the fields of street work with drug addicts and mobile outpatient clinics [Graz]

Gifted Through Disaster: US Superheroes and Saviors of the World (BM8)
Claus Philipp, head of the cultural department of the Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard [Vienna]

The Role Model of the Superhero in Myths and Films: Gilgamesch, Spiderman, Batman, Matrix (BM8)
Stefan Schmitzer, author, publications in various magazines (manuskripte, perspektive, schreibkraft), event programming for the Forum Stadtpark [Graz]

SCAPEGOAT

____'68
The Redefinition of '68 from the Desire for Guilt (BM10)
Dr. Siegfried Mattl, historian, exhibition curator, head of the Viennese Ludwig-Boltzmann Institute for History and Society (History Cluster), teaches at the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna [Vienna]

____Arbitrator
Courses of the Game, Wrong Decisions. Commenting Big Games! (BM10)
Mag. Harald Lechner, sports economist, marketing and sponsoring for "2008 - Österreich am Ball" ("2008 - Austria on the Ball"), since 1998 arbitrator, most recently T-Mobile federal league arbitrator [Vienna]

____Astrology
"If a Time Wants to Change, the Scapegoats Return Home" (BM10)
Hannelore Traugott, astrologist, head of the astrology school in Salzburg; consulting practice in Traunkirchen am Traunsee [Vienna]

____Bailiff
Demanding Money Compensation and Counseling Debtors (BM10)
Kurt Richter, head of the Information and Execution Service of the City of Vienna, suboffice of the MA6 - accounting office; worked for six years as bailiff in field staff [Vienna]

____Civil Servant
Civil Servants and Individuals Turning to Bureaucracies in Search of Justice in Brief. A Bureaucratic Competition (BM10)
Dr. Sabine Zelger, literary scholar, author ("Das Pferd frisst keinen Gurkensalat. Kulturgeschichte des Telefons"); since 1998 research activities on bureaucratic everyday life in the Austrian literature of the 20th century; at present research project on state and literature [Vienna]

____Numbers
Figures are to Blame for Everything (BM10)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Rudolf Taschner, mathematician at the TU Vienna; runs the "math.space" at MuseumsQuartier Vienna, a place for disseminating mathematics, "scientist of the year" (2004) [Vienna]

____Policeman
Geiger catches Jack catches whores catche Horngacher catches Geiger (BM10)
Dr. Paul Yvon, psychologist, communications scholar, journalist, media consultant, author ("Es gibt durchaus noch schöne Morde", "Chogori") [Vienna]

____Press Speaker
Took a Bad Turn! Communication is to Blame! (BM10)
Mag.phil. Answer Lang MAS, press speaker and communication expert, worked as journalist in Berlin, and as press speaker of the student union and of the Austrian Socialist Party, at present speaker of the Austrian defense minister [Vienna]

____Traffic Planner
We are the Jam - Traffic Congestion: Crisis or Therapy (BM10)
Dipl.-Ing. Helmut Hiess, spatial planner, traffic planner, mobility expert, managing director in the Rosinak & Partner planning office [Vienna]

SCHOOL OF THOUGHT

Intuition as a Working Method (BM3)
Pawel Althamer, Artist [Warsaw]

"The Factory" Project: Death at the Heart of Transition (BM3)
Ewa Charkiewicz, Activist and Academic Researcher with Interest in Theorizing on Power, Ecology and Feminism as Social Movements and New Social Critiques [Warsaw]

What is Identity? The Integral Vision of Human Development According to Ken Wilber (BM3)
Maciej Gutkowski, Entrepreneur [Warsaw]

How to Read Cards (BM3)
Cecylia Wielgoradesz, Fortune-Teller [Warsaw]

SCIENCE FICTION

Overwhelmed by the Future? Information on Individual Themes of the Forty-Nine Stories of my Book "Die Zukunftsmaschine" ("The Future Machine") (BM10)
Prof. Dr. Herbert W. Franke, science fiction author, physicist, computer graphic designer and speleologist [Munich, Vienna]

On the Notion of Guilt in the "Culture" Cycle of the Science Fiction Writer Ian Banks (BM10)
Johannes Grenzfurthner, artist, author, curator, director, founder of the art and theory group monochrom, teaches art theory and aesthetic practice at the FH Joanneum in Graz; focus of interests: actionism, performance, humor, postmodernism, media theory, cultural studies, copyright and intellectual property, science fiction and blogging [Vienna]

As-If. On the Temporal Structure of Science Fiction (BM10)
Dr. Karin Harrasser, literary and cultural studies scholar, head of the organization Science Communications Research Vienna, since 2006 research project on history of prosthetics, lover of the artificialization [Berlin, Vienna]

Social Monstrosities: Guilt in the Memory Culture of Contemporary Science Fiction Worlds (BM10)
Dr.phil Usha Reber, literary and cultural studies scholar, editor of the Internet platform for Central European studies Kakanien Revisited [Vienna]

1. The Meaning of the Future in Science Fiction Novels on the basis of selectedLLiterature Examples
2. Models of the Future in Science Fiction with Book Examples (Motto: 6 from 20,000) (BM10)
Dr. Franz Rottensteiner, journalist, critic and editor (e. g. "Quarber Merkur"); Kurd-Laßwitz Award for Science Fiction (2004) [Vienna]

Mere Life in Giorgio Agamben, Walter Benjamin and René Girard with a Special Focus on Model Worlds of Science Fiction (BM10)
Dr. Katherina Zakravsky, philosopher, cultural theorist, performance artist, studies on Giorgio Agamben, Pathosbüro (together with Daniel Aschwanden), dramaturge for konTEXTlab (Thomas J. Jelinek), member of liquid loft (Chris Haring), publications (e. g. "Homo Sacer and the Consequences", documenta magazines, Frakcija, Zagreb 2007) [Vienna]

SELF-IMAGE & HOW OTHERS SEE US

Domesticating the Hedge: Possibilities and Limits of an Attorney's Mediation between the Juridical Systems during German-American Transactions (BM6)
Jutta von Falkenhausen, Attorney at Kanzlei WilmerHale [Berlin]

The Petrified Image of Germany in L.A. and Hollywood in the Media, Science and Everyday-Life (BM6)
Ute Kirchhelle, Foreign Cultural Activity for more than 30 Years (Buenos Aires, Paris, Rotterdam), until 2005 Director of the Goethe-Institute in Los Angeles [Berlin]

Blue Jeans and America in DEFA Films (BM6)
Dr. Karen Kramer, Director of Stanford University in Berlin, Ph.D. in German Studies, Magister in Philosophy [Stanford/ Berlin]

Why Are Americans Like That? What Informs Internal and External Perceptions of the USA? How Come You Just Can't Get Good Chile in Indiana? (BM6)
Diana McCarty, born and raised in New Mexico, Co-Founder of bootlab, faces-l, and reboot.fm [New Mexico/ Berlin]

Trying to Explain Eastern Germany to the Americans Just After the Reunification (BM6)
Stefan Richter, former Director of Reclam Verlag Leipzig, 1992-1993 Correspondent in America, Communications Consultant [Berlin]

Paul Auster and Sophie Calle - Inventing Each Other (BM6)
Änne Troester, Dubbing Scriptwriter [Berlin]

____cinematic
New Filmmakers, New Images: Change in German-Turkish Film since the Late 1960's (BM7)
Martina Priessner, journalist, curator, director (short movie "Die Razur"), presently works on a documentary on Turkish retournees [Berlin]

____indian
Bollywood in Canola, Sharakh Khan in Deportation Jail, or: How Did Osho Change German Reality? (BM7)
Merle Kröger, crime writer, filmmaker [Berlin]

____italian
"Angelo Has a Car Now". Self-Images and Perceptions by Others of Italian Immigrants in Germany (BM7)
Dr. Edith Pichler, political scientist [Bolzano, Trentino, Rome, Berlin]

____muslim
The Muslim Male as the Enemy: the Image of the Muslim Male in the German Media - the Beating, Uneducated Muslim Male Who Lives in a Forced Marriage, Speaks Poor German and is Inclined Towards Terrorism (BM7)
Sanem Kleff, pedagogue and project manager of: "Schule ohne Rassismus - Schule mit Courage" [Ankara, Berlin]

____polish
Plumbers and Artists. Images of the Polish in Berlin (BM7)
Uwe Rada, writer, TAZ editor, most recent publication: "Polen hin und weg" [Göppingen, Berlin]

____turkish
The Discursive Construction of "Turk" as a Category, with Berlin as a Point in Case. From the 1960's until today (BM7)
Stephan Lanz, writer, editor of the book series metroZones, does research and lectures at the Europa Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/ O. [Kaufbeuren, Regensburg, Tübingen, Rio de Janeiro, Oldenburg, Frankfurt/ O., Berlin]

SELF-ORGANIZING NETWORKS

Migrants' Self-Organization in Berlin. A Historical Survey since the 1970's (BM7)
Garip Bali, social worker, engaged with Allmende - House of Alternative Politics of Migration and Culture and with PLATAFORMA of migrants and refugees [Malatya, Berlin]

Get Organized! International Strategies for Organizing Precariously Employed Workers (BM7)
Hae-Lin Choi, PhD stipendiat of the Heinz-Böckler-Stiftung, does research on organizing in the USA, Italy and Korea, ver.di [Bochum, Seoul, Berlin]

Squatting in Berlin, 1989 Until Today: Arts, Politics and Communal Living at K77 and Elsewhere (BM7)
Matthias Heyden, carpenter, architect, writer, co-editor of HIER ENTSTEHT. Strategien partizipativer Architektur und räumlicher Aneignung [Stuttgart, Berlin]

SENSATION

Emotions in Motion: Mood Management (BM4)
Prof. Dr. Stephan Porombka, Jun. Prof. of literature studies, lecturer for Creative Writing and Cultural Journalism, University Hildesheim, writer [Berlin/Hildesheim]

Malice and Grace - The Skin as Battlefield and Playground (BM4)
Felix Ruckert, choreographer and dancer, curator of the festival "xplore - sinnliche extreme / extreme sinnlichkeit" [Berlin]

Rhetorics of Love: "Do You Want to Know the Truth of My Love? I'll Tell You!" (BM4)
Peter Stamer, dramaturge, writer and curator in the field of contemporary dance [Vienna]

SEX

Have You Ever Wondered Where Your Knowledge about Intimacy and Sexuality Comes From? Let's Examine Your Knowledge Together (BM12)
Raneen Jeries, born in the village of Yassif. She is a feminist and a group facilitator dealing with sexuality and sexual education within the framework of the "Arab Forum for the Sexuality of the Individual and the Family". She is also a director of the testimonies project in the "Zochrot" association. [Tel Aviv]

Dildos and Dildon'ts: How To Have Fun With Boys and Girls (BM2)
Sachsse/Siegel, Performancegruppe CHEAP [Berlin]

Women with HIV in Poland. Let's Talk About Safe Sex (BM3/unknown knowledge)
Joanna Galaj, president of Be With Us, association of volunteers against AIDS [Warsaw]

SEXUALITY

On the Problematic Connection Between Guilt and Homosexuality (BM10)
Mag. Dr. Andrea B. Braidt MLitt, film scholar, member of the research team at the Institute of Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna; focus of interests: feminist film theory and genre film; most recent publication: "Film-Genus. Gender and Genre in der Filmwahrnehmung" (2008) [Vienna]

Unmarried Sex: "Look to the Lady!" (BM10)
Veronica Buckley, writer ("Christina, Königin von Schweden: Das rastlose Leben einer europäischen Exzentrikerin" and "Madam de Maintenon: Die geheime Frau von Louis XIV"), presently working on her next book "The Other Woman: An Intimate History of Sex without Marriage" [Vienna]

Sexuality and Masturbation (BM10)
Dipl.-Psych. Samy Teicher, psychoanalyst (WPV/IPA), children's analyst with his own practice and at Anton Proksch Institut Klinikum, Mödling, section V, long-term therapist for drug addicts and serious personality disturbances, publications on Anti-Semitism, consequences of detainment in concentration camp, addiction, history of psychoanalysis [Vienna]

SHAMANISM

Vibrancy as a Cure. From Physics to Medicine to Shamanism (BM8)
Dr. Wolfgang Kölbl, general practitioner, specialist for holistic medicine, medical director of the Institute for Naturopathy & Transpersonal Sound Therapy and the Research Institute for Bio-Physical Health Research PHOTON in Fehring [Styria]

SHAME

Whoever is a Part of it is Guilty. But How Can One Not be a Part of it? (BM10)
Robert Misik, journalist and political writer; contributes to "taz" (Berlin), "Falter", "profil", "Der Standard", author of the weekly video blog "fs misik" and various non-fiction and essay volumes, including "Genial dagegen" (2005), "Das Kultbuch. Glanz und Elend der Kommerzkultur" (2007) and "Gott behüte! Warum wir die Religion aus der Politik raushalten müssen" (2008) [Vienna]

Age and Shame and No Ecape? (BM10)
Mag. Doris Pfabigan, philosopher, degree in health care and nursing, at present on leave for training, doctoral candidate at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Vienna [Vienna]

SOCIETY

Murdering, gore and gaining points: Let’s talk about computer games and violence (Licence No.1)
Thomas Feibel media expert and author, Head of the "Büro für Kindermedien Berlin" (Agency for Media for Children), co-initiator of the prize for software for children TOMMI [Mannheim, Berlin]

You can’t play! – On the obstacles concerning equal opportunity in social and cultural life (Licence No.1)
Gudrun Kuch councillor for the "Linke Liste“ party, focusing on social politics, education, poverty and child poverty, musician, active for the project "Mannheim against racism" [Mannheim]

Youths caught between megalomania and the frustration of everyday life, between conforming and assault. Working with juvenile delinquents – a waste of time and money or a cultural necessity? (Licence No.1)
Helmut Mann certified social worker at Mannheim’s youth welfare office, board member and teamer of "kehrtwende e.V.“ (“U-turn”), a non-profitmaking organisation for the social integration of juvenile delinquents [Mannheim]

Conflict resolution with the use of creativity: Wishful thinking, resistances and unexpected support (Licence No.1)
Christine Rogozanu registrar for Mannheim’s Department of public prosecution, initiator and producer of the hip-hop musical "Changes - Veränderungen brauchen Mut" [Mannheim]

Waldorf teaching methods as the art of education in a global world (Licence No.1)
Dr. Albert Schmelzer lecturer at the "Freie Hochschule für Waldorfpädagogik“, founding member of the Free Intercultural Waldorf School in Mannheim-Neckarstadt [Mannheim]

SOLO

The Solo: A Dialogue Between Identities, Between Ego and Alter Ego, Loneliness and Exposure (BM4)
Angela Guerreiro, choreographer, dancer, curator and artistic director of DanceKiosk-Hamburg [Hamburg]

What Skills Must a Ballet Dancer Have Today? (BM4)
Nadja Saidakova, first soloist at the Staatsballett Berlin [Berlin]

SOMATOLOGY

Scoliosis Consultation (BM2)
Marijke Hoogenboom, Amsterdam School for the Arts associate Prof. for artistic practice and interdisciplinary development, co-founder of DasArts [Amsterdam]

Face- and Neck Massage. Theory and Practice (BM2)
Percy McLean, judge at the Administrative Court, expert for human rights, honorary president of the organization for holistic medicine Der Weg der Mitte [Berlin]

SONGS

The Song of Death. Guilt and Punishment in Kafka (BM10)
Univ.-Doz. Dr. Roland Innerhofer, literary scholar, teaches Modern German literature at the Institute of German Studies at the University Vienna [Vienna]

REPROACHES, SELF-REPROACHES, CURSES. The Psalms of the Good Friday Liturgy from the Monastic Book of Hours of the Benedictines (BM10)
Mag. Veronica Kaup-Hasler, director of the festival steirischer herbst; until 2001 dramaturge at Theater Basel and at the Vienna Festival; 2001-2004 artistic head of the festival Theaterformen (Braunschweig, Hannover) [Graz]

"And then I see the darkness …" - Exorcism, Purgatory and the Nuclear Family as the Smallest Terrorist Unit. Voices From the Underworld (BM10)
Barbara Kraus, listens, writes, narrates, invents, stages, improvises, fictionalizes, irritates and sings - in between with the band "auf Vereinbarung"; she also likes going into the woods as often as she cans, and it's been a long time since she went to church [Graz]

"With his guilt so well concealed" - Bob Dylan and the Lost Innocence of Pop (BM10)
Dr. Rainer Vesely, scholar of German studies, music expert and librarian [Vienna]

SPACE

Individual reading of your life energies. An Aura- and Chakra reading. (BM2)
Monika Bruns, aura-reader [Berlin]

On the impossibility of spacial planning in principle (BM2)
Jesko Fezer, lecturer department of architecture UdK, associate pro qm, co-publisher of AnArchitektur [Berlin]

How to use a 20-foot container with one glass wall as mis en scene. (BM2)
Katharina von Wilke, producer [Berlin]

SPAM

"The Grin of the Dark" (2008): The online wasteland (BM 11)
Ramsey Campbell, has been writing short stories and novels set on Merseyside for forty years. The Oxford Companion to English Literature calls him "the most respected living British horror writer" [Liverpool]

SPECTACLE

On horses, jockeys and good punters – The horse racing society (Licence No.1)
Michael P. Himmelsbach president of the Association of Southwest German horse Racing Societies, Honorary President of Baden’s Racing Association Mannheim-Seckenheim, former international show jumper and military-rider [Mannheim]

Flash Mob: On the origins and development of an aesthetic practice made available by open source (Licence No.1)
Julia Nierstheimer Flash Mob-master in theatre, film and media studies, works at Mannheim’s National Theatre, marketing dept. / school and theatre [Mannheim]

SPORTS

How to become a Sillymidoff - An introduction to cricket (BM2)
Amit Dasgupta, deputy ambassador of India [Berlin]

DER: Discover, Explore, Relate - martial arts in every day life (BM2)
Ines Meyer, martial artist, QUANDAO kung-fu trainer, jurist [Berlin]

Returning the Ball: Contribute to an Archive on Tennis and Modern Art! (BM4)
Jeroen Peeters, art critic and dramaturge, editor of sarma.be, online platform for dance and performance criticism [Brussels/Berlin]

The Anthropology of the Game. With a Special Focus on Football (BM4)
Dr. Bernd M. Scherer, director of the House of World Cultures [Berlin]

Competition as a Stimulant. Sports as a School of Life (BM8)
Detlev Eisel-Eiselsberg, city counselor, assigned departments of the Graz municipal administration: Office for Business and Tourism Development, Office for Sports [Graz]

The Pass in Football. If You Give Something, You also Get Something (BM8)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Leopold Neuhold, Professor at the Department for Ethics and Christian Social Ethics of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Graz, research fields: football and ethics et al. [Graz]

____Baseball
Field of Dreams: Homer, Catcher, Pitcher. Exemplary Moves on the Board (BM6)
Martin Schiefelbein, Coach of the Regional Selection of the Berlin-Brandenburg Baseball- and Softball-Association [Berlin]

____Football I
Grass Chess: Tackling, Blocking, Quarterbacks. Insights Into the Women's World of American Football (BM6)
Yvonne Mechsner, Football Player and Referee [Berlin]

____Football II
American Football as a Social Model (BM6)
Rainer Stullich, American Football Referee, Customs Officer [Berlin]

____Golf
The Nineteenth Hole (BM6)
Robert Calvin Young, from the Southern States, lives in Berlin since 1987, Club Owner (90 Grad und GMF), Party Host and Golfer [Bonne Terre/ Berlin]

____Rodeo
Wild Horse Riding and Bull Taming: What You Have Always Wanted to Know About Rodeo (with Homevideo on Palm) (BM6)
Lars Bethke, Multiple European Champion in Rodeo riding [Berlin]

STRATEGY & TACTIC

Failure-strategies - or: How can I create new scopes of action for family, partnerships and career? (Licence No.1)
Andrea Ebbecke-Nohlen certified psychologist, studies in linguistics and political science, psychological psychotherapist for systemic individual-, couple- and family therapy, Head of the Helm Stierlin Institute Heidelberg, therapy trainer, lecturing supervisor and lecturing coach (hsi/SG) [Heidelberg]

Why do political figures act? Which strategies are pursued and with which goals? Examples: financial crisis, climate protection, EU-constitution (Licence No.1)
Prof. Dr. Thomas König professor for international and contrasting international politics, focusing on strategic political analysis at Mannheim University [Mannheim]

Election campaign as a sport: On strategies, which determine the outcome, and mindless tactics (Licence No.1)
Dr. Peter Kurz Mannheim’s Lord Mayor [Mannheim]

Between luck and strategy: Rules and insider tips for Texas Hold'em Poker (for beginners and willing 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]

STORIES RETOLD

License to Kill - Fjodor Dostojevski: "Crime and Punishment" (BM10)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Susanne Granzer, actress, filmmaker, Ph.D in philosophy. Professor at Max Reinhardt Seminar Vienna, played "Dunja" in "Crime and Punishment" (directed by Juri Ljubimov) at the Akademietheater [Vienna]

"The Class Union. The History of the Debt of Youth" by Franz Werfel or "The Work" by Elfriede Jelinek (BM10)
Mag. Astrid Peterle, historian, art theorist, doctoral candidate, researches on subversion and political potential in/of art and mise-en-scènes of the body in photography, performance and contemporary dance [Vienna]

SRÓDMIESCIE (Central-Warsaw)

____TR Warszawa, main stage, ul. Marszalkowska 8
"Trance of a Little Brain, Or Goodnight Let the Bedbugs Bite" - Contemplative Workshop On Dreams and Lullabies (BM5/city version)
Anna Baumgart, visual artist, working in various media, sculpture, video and film, interested in contemporary women, their traumas and identity [Warsaw]

____ul. Sliska 54
Invisible shows. Exhibitions in a Time of Censorship (BM5/city version)
Sarmen Beglarian, curator, interested in alternative curatorial stategies versus censorship, works at the Piotr Nowicki Gallery, cooperates with the Polish Modern Art Foundation on art projects and publications [Warsaw]

____Czuly Barbarzynca, ul. Dobra 31
The Uncanny. Ghosts, Spectres and Demons in Sigmund Freud (BM5/city version)
Prof. Agata Bielik-Robson, philosopher, professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences and at the American Studies Center, Warsaw University, favourite subjects: modernity, psychoanalysis, modern nihilsm, romantic subjectivity and contemporary philosophy of religion [Warsaw]

____Cafe 6/12, ul. Zurawia 6/12
A Talk On the Project "Is Nothing Not Enough?" (BM5/city version)
Agnieszka Brzezanska, visual artist, photographer and painter, interested in the contemporary conceptualisations and representations of the apocalypse, eschatology, nihilism and nothingness [Warsaw]

____Warszawski Aktyw Artystów, ul. Kozia 3/5
What Can't Be Seen. Bloody Art - Bloody Stories (BM5/city version)
Bogna Burska, visual artist, working with photography, video, installations and painting with a strong interest in examining the problem of fear, pain and tricks of the eye, activist and co-founder of Warszawski Aktyw Artystów (Warsaw Collective of Artists) [Warsaw]

____Coffee Karma, Plac Zbawiciela 3/5
Conservatives and Neoliberals: Cosy Bedfellows. Strong State, Über-Market and the Nation as a Community of Blood, Race and Religion (BM5/city version)
Ewa Charkiewicz, activist and academic researcher with an interest in theories of power, ecology, feminism and new social movements [Warsaw]

____Kawiarnia Rozdroze, Al. Ujazdowskie 6 & Wedel Pijalnia Czekolady, ul. Szpitalna 8
Cancer Cell - Horrifying and Intriguing (BM5/city version)
Dr. Magdalena Chechlinska, department of immunology, Cancer Centre and Institute of Oncology Warsaw, working on different aspects of cancer biology [Warsaw]

____private flat, Al. Szucha
Active Absence (BM5/city version)
Oskar Dawicki, performer, artist, author of subversive projects examining alternative realities, simulacra and absence, truancy and other ways of exploring reality and concealing the self [Warsaw]

____private flat, ul. Rozbrat
The First Person Perspective in Photography - From Jacques Henri Lartigue to Photo Blogs (BM5/city version)
Kuba Dabrowski, photographer and sociologist, "Przekroj" magazine, author of movies, records, sounds and texts [Warsaw]

____Wedel Pijalnia Czekolady, ul. Szpitalna 8
Hidden Codes: The Dialogical Aspects of City Spaces (BM5/city version)
Jacek Dominiczak, architect, lecturer and contributor to Architecture + Dialog Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk [Warsaw]

____Raster Gallery, ul. Hoza 42/8
Esencja - A Comic Book Workshop (BM5/city version)
Krzysztof Gawronkiewicz, author graphic novels and comic books &
Grzegorz Janusz, author and scriptwriter &
Szymon Holcman, translator and comic book critic [Warsaw]

____Nusantara Gallery, ul. Nowogrodzka 18a
Spirits of the Waters, Rulers of the Waves and Subconscious in India, Tibet and Poland (BM5/city version)
Maciej "Magura" Góralski, music journalist, ethnopunk musician, poet, DJ and Buddhist scholar [Warsaw]

____Numery Litery, ul. Wilcza 26
Invisible Jews Around (BM5/city version)
Anka Grupinska, writer, journalist, director of the oral history project "Witness of the Jewish Century" in Poland, co-founder of underground magazine "Czas Kultury", her main subject is the Holocaust of the Warsaw Jews and the culture of contemporary Israel [Warsaw]

____TR Warszawa small stage, ul. Marszalkowska 8, Medioteka Szwajcarska, Al. Ujazdowskie & private flat, ul. Mokotowska
Switzerland and the Ghosts of Cleanliness, Punctuality and Discipline Between the Hours of 12 Midday and 1pm (BM5/city version)
Daniel Heer, artist, examining national and cultural stereotypes, author of documentaries, videos and "40m² Switzerland - A Project Space in Warsaw" (2007) [Warsaw]

____lokal_30, ul. Foksal 17b/30
Beeing Absent/Present, Meaning Where? A Talk On the Project "I've Seen My Death" (BM5/city version)
Zuzanna Janin, visual artist, working with sculpture, installation, performance and video, founder of the independent art space and gallery lokal_30 [Warsaw]

____Palac Kultury i Nauki, Muzeum Techniki
A Future Vision of Video Art (BM5/city version)
Kinga Kielczynska (Kinga), visual artist and VJ, author of video-music performances, installations, films and unauthorized videoclips [Warsaw, Berlin]

____Antrakt Cafe, Teatr Wielki
The Rites of Forefathers' Eve. The Dead Feast's Theatre (BM5/city version)
Prof. Leszek Kolankiewicz, anthropologist, professor and director of the Institute of Polish Culture at Warsaw University, and department of Theatre and Performance, lecturer at the Theatre Academy in Warsaw, focuses on anthropology of performance, has written extensively on Grotowski and Artaud [Warsaw]

____Palac Kultury i Nauki, main hall of Teatr Dramatyczny & Cafe Kulturalna
Indian Poland Under the Flag of the Swastika? - The Cultural Vision and Philosophy of Tadeusz Micinski (BM5/city version)
Tomek Kozak, artist, working in different media, author of films, sculptures, texts, interested in philosophy and literature [Warsaw]

____privat studio, ul. Wybieg
Fashion and Anti-Fashion. Alternative Prospects of Clothes Design and Its Presentation (BM5/city version)
Ania Kuczynska, fashion designer, interested in practical and unusual use of materials and fabrics, their meanings and iconography in contemporary culture [Warsaw]

____Pl. Krasinskich
Ghosts of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising (BM5/city version)
Dr. Iwona Kurz, culture historian, critic, lecturer at the Institute of Polish Culture, Warsaw University, interested in film as a medium of the imaginary and a mirror for the dreams and fears of the 20th century [Warsaw]

____Agnieszka Lasota Design, ul. Widok
The Memory of furniture. A Talk On Design (BM5/city version)
Agnieszka Lasota, designer, author of interiors, furniture, household and conceptual objects - examining them as notions of history and memory, as well as in terms of their utility [Warsaw]

____Tarabuk Cafe, ul. Browarna 6
Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and the Invisible Jewish Tradition (BM5/city version)
Dr. Adam Lipszyc, philosopher, critic, translator, writer, lecturer at the Polish Academy of Sciences, interested in the problem of history and tradition in 20th century Jewish philosophy [Warsaw]

____Coffee Karma, Plac Zbawiciela 3/5
Freedom in the Age of Digital Networks (BM5/city version)
Jaroslaw Lipszyc, journalist, poet, Copyleft Movement and Creative Commons Poland activist, coordinator of "Wolne Podreczniki" project, associate member of the Free Software Foundation [Warsaw]

____Dworzec Centralny, Oaza InterCity
Traces, Holes and the New Context in Urban Space (BM5/city version)
Przemyslaw Lukasik & Lukasz Zagala, architects, Medusa group, Gliwice, founders of Medusa - a collaborative studio involved in cross-disciplinary projects that incorporate architecture, visual and performing arts [Warsaw]

____Wedel Pijalnia Czekolady, ul. Szpitalna 8
Philosophical Conceptualisations of the Idea of the Family (BM5/city version)
Ewa Majewska, PhD candidate at Warsaw University, philosopher, critic, social activist, translator, focused on post-Marxist, feminist and alterglobalist issues, co-founder of the group Syreny [Warsaw]

____CSW Zamek Ujazdowski
New Documentalists. Polish Realities As Seen From the Perspective of Castle's Cellars (BM5/city version)
Adam Mazur, art historian and art critic, editor of "Obieg" magazine, works at CCA Ujazdowski Castle, currently working on his PhD in the sociology of contemporary photography [Warsaw]

____Casablanca Cafe, ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 4/6
How To Touch Ghosts (BM5/city version)
Simon Mol, Cameroonian poet, writer, journalist, human rights activist, artistic director of Migrator Theatre, author of a book about the Day of the Dead Ceremony in Poland seen from an African perspective [Warsaw]

____Miedzy Nami Cafe, ul. Bracka 20
Conceptual Art and Memory. Remarks On the Process of Historicization and the "Ethics of Failure" (BM5/city version)
Luiza Nader, PhD candidate at the department of art history and lecturer at Warsaw University, art historian, focused on conceptual art, its philosophy and different local strategies [Warsaw]

____Palac Kultury i Nauki, Cafe Kulturalna
To Build Or To Rebuild the City? Architects' Dilemmas in the Social Realist Warsaw (BM5/city version)
Agata Passent, journalist, columnist, writer, German philologist, interested in the history and social life of Warsaw, expert in the architecture of the Palace of Culture [Warsaw]

____Tarabuk Cafe, ul. Browarna 6
Literary Journey - James Joyce's "Ulysses" as a City Novel (BM5/city version)
Dr. Piotr Pazinski, literary critic, editor of "Midrasz" Jewish monthly magazine, philosopher by training, translator, journalist, expert in Jewish tradition, published his PhD on Joyce's "Ulysses" under the title "Labyrinth and Tree" [Warsaw]

____ul. Prózna
Prózna Street - The Street That Doesn't Exist. A Talk On the Former Jewish District in Warsaw (BM5/city version)
Krystyna Piotrowska, artist, curator of the "Prózna Street" project for Singer's Warsaw, a festival of Jewish culture, her works combine different techniques such as photography, printmaking and painting [Warsaw]

____CSW Zamek Ujazdowski
Luminous Encounter. Roland Barthes' Theory of Photography and Contemporary American Art (BM5/city version)
Pawel Polit, art critic and curator at CCA Ujazdowski Castle, focused on conceptual art, lecturer at the American Studies Centre at Warsaw University [Warsaw]

____Drink Bar, ul. Wspólna 52/54 and private flat, ul. Hoza
From Oldspeak To Rap - A Linguistic Odyssey Into the Heart of Darkness (BM5/city version)
Bartlomiej Reszuta, PhD candidate at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, culture historian, involved in semantic field analysis and governmentality issues, popular culture studies and theory, Americanization and globalization [Warsaw]

____CSW Zamek Ujazdowski
Imagination in Artistic Strategies of Contemporary Art (BM5/city version)
Dr Lukasz Ronduda, art critic, curator of new media at CCA Ujazdowski Castle, interested in subversive strategies in art and structuralist cinema, lecturer at Warsaw School of Social Psychology [Warsaw]

____Warsaw University, department of Philosophy, ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 3
Melancholy and Memory (BM5/city version)
Prof. Zofia Rosinska, philosopher, professor at the department of Philosophy of Warsaw University, specialises in aesthetics, psychoanalisys, psychology of culture, has extensively written on Carl G. Jung and Sigmund Freud [Warsaw]

____Klub Apsters, ul. Marszalkowska 4/1
Searching For the Spirit in An Electro Sound System (BM5/city version)
Maria Sadowska, singer, musician and film director [Warsaw]

____Foksal Gallery Foundation, ul. Górskiego 1a
Psychodelia (BM5/city version)
Wilhelm Sasnal, artist, painter, author of films, focused on different aspects of realism [Warsaw]

____Miedzy Nami Cafe, ul. Bracka 20
Please, Misuse and Misunderstand (BM5/city version)
Jadwiga Sawicka, visual artist, working with photography, painting and 3D objects, interested in the outer layers of things and material aspects of mass culture artefacts [Warsaw]

____Klub On Off, ul. Zurawia 22
Invisible Borders of Freedom and Censorship (BM5/city version)
Slawomir Sierakowski, editor-in-chief of "Krytyka Polityczna" magazine, commentator, political activist, focused on post-Marxist and contemporary theory, sociology and philosophy [Warsaw]

____corner ul. Zelazna/Grzybowska
The Mysteries of Warsaw Graffiti (BM5/city version)
Tomasz Sikorski, artist, associate professor at the Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lódz and the Swietokrzyska Academy in Kielce [Warsaw]

____Hotel Polna, room 13, ul. Polna 7a
How To Open Locks With Improvised Tools (BM5/city version)
Jan Simon, artist, interested in catastrophical motifs in mass culture, Internet and computer games, instructions and training diagrams, author of "agressive" art works and objects [Warsaw]

____BUW & klub Aurora, ul. Dobra
What Did Konstantin Raudive Hear On the Radio? On Electronic Voice Phenomena and Radio-Ghostbusters (BM5/city version)
Jacek Skolimowski, music journalist, radio moderator, DJ, majoring in Japanese Studies at Warsaw University, has cooperated with Jazzradio, Radiostacja, Radio Copernicus, writes for periodicals and magazines [Warsaw]

____Klub Apsters, ul. Marszalkowska 4/1
Remastering the dead: Communication With Other Side in Contemporary Sound Art Practice (BM5/city version)
Jacek Staniszewski, musician and journalist, founder-member of NEUROBOT multimedia collective, plays improvised laptop and turntables sets, freelance writer on marginal culture topics for various magazines [Warsaw]

____privat flat, Al. 3 Maja
On the Perfect Illusion. Acoustic Simulacra (BM5/city version)
Robert Szczerbowski, conceptual artist, works with text, objects, video and sound, author of fractal paintings, uses mystifications as scientific paradigms, treating the fiction as a dimension like space and time, and art as a simulacrum [Warsaw]

____Palac Kultury i Nauki, Cafe Kulturalna
What Haunts in Art: Past, History, Repetition (BM5/city version)
Aneta Szylak, curator and art critic, co-founder and director of the Wyspa Institute of Art and vice-president of the Wyspa Progress Foundation in Gdansk, interested in contemporary visual culture and politics [Warsaw]

____Wedel Pijalnia Czekolady, ul. Szpitalna 8
The Unspoken and Unseen. Trauma and Memory in the Art of Some Contemporary Polish Women Artists (BM5/city version)
Ewa Toniak, PhD candidate on Polish romantic death at the Polish Academy of Sciences, feminist art critic and art historian, lecturer in Gender Studies at Warsaw University [Warsaw]

____Klub On Off, ul. Zurawia 22
Sound Spectres in Contemporary Music. How To See, Catch and Use Them (BM5/city version)
Jan Topolski, musicologist and music critic, editor-in-chief of music quarterly magazine "Glissando", interested in philosophy and contemporary music, co-author of programmes, lecturer, radio and television speaker [Warsaw]

____private studio, ul. Dzika
Before and After the "Decisive Moment". Photography At the Turn of the Century (BM5/city version)
Wojtek Wieteska, photographer, focused on documentary and artistic photography, creates photographical projects and travel series with a direct link to the places visited, lecturer and PhD candidate at the Film School in Lódz [Warsaw]

____Instytut Botaniki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Al. Ujazdowskie 4
Hallucinogenic Mushrooms. Their Usage, Shamanic Traditions and Spriritual Experience (BM5/city version)
Dr Marta Wrzosek, biologist and mycologist, lecturer and scholar at Warsaw University, department of Plants Systematics and Geography, expert in hallucinogenic mushrooms and psychotropic fungi [Warsaw]

SUITCASE

The Niche as a Model of the Future. Rambling Securing of Existence in the Age of Long-Tail-Economy (BM7)
Holm Friebe, economist, journalist, director of the Zentrale Intelligenz Agentur (ZIA) [Lüdenscheidt, Münster, Berlin, Hamburg]

A Short Guide to Packing Your Suitcase Quickly and Efficiently, for Traveling Abroad and Inland (BM7)
Nursel Köse, actress for film and TV, cabaret artist, writer, director [Malatya, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Münster, Berlin]

SWINDLE

On films about con men (Licence No.1)
Alexander Adolph film director and author [Munich]

Lies and deception. From fake princes to bogus brides (Licence No.1)
Johann Danisch Chief Superintendant of Mannheim’s Criminal Investigation Department, Head of departments for bankruptcy-/property offences, fraud/breach of trust and corruption [Mannheim]

On academic charlatans (Licence No.1)
Prof. Dr. Alexander Kosenina literary scholar, author of books on acting, academic actors and fools, and the actor August Wilhelm Iffland [Mannheim, Hannover]

Playing with identity (Licence No.1)
Sophie Sanitvongs artist, assistant to Maria Müller, until she went away on vacation [Mannheim]

Cheats - Lies, gambling and deception in the arts (Licence No.1)
Wolfgang Sautermeister founding member and artistic director of "zeitraumexit", performance and visual artist, guest professor at the Justus-Liebig-University in Gießen [Mannheim]