CITY FOR THE CULTURES OF PEACE
CITÉ DES CULTURES DE LA PAIX
CITÉ DER FRIEDENSKULTUREN

www.paix-culture.org
www.peace-culture.org

WORKSHOPS, LECTURES, CONFERENCES,  
 COURSES, SEMINARS

  ATELIERS, CONFERENCES, COLLOQUES, 
COURS, SEMINAIRES

WORKSHOPS, VORTRÄGE, KONFERENZEN,  
KURSE, SEMINARE

(Selection, Examples, Auswahl, 2002-2008) 

THEMES -- THÈMES -- THEMEN

&

NAVIGATION BOARD

COEXISTENCE STUDIES            
MARGINALIZATION AND EXCLUSION
GENOCIDE AND SHOAH STUDIES       
INTER- AND INTRA-DISCIPLINARY STUDIES   
CHILDREN AND YOUTH AT RISK  
EUROPE IN ITS GLOBAL DYNAMICS
CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES                 
AFRICA IN ITS GLOBAL DYNAMICS 
                                                   
                                                     

Paris, France, 10 December 2001
City for the Cultures of Peace: PROJECT DEVELOPMENT MEETING

CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 8, 2002
CARIBBEAN INTEGRATION: PROJECT DEVELOPMENT MEETING
Project Director, Roberto Martinez, Director of the Fundacion L. M. Marin.

EUROPE IN ITS GLOBAL DYNAMICS
CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
MARGINALIZATION AND EXCLUSION

Pittsburgh, USA, 18 April 2002
INTERNATIONAL LECTURE SERIES:

KEY NOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Friedrich Hamburger, Director for West Africa, Central Africa, the Caribbean and Overseas Countries and Commonwealth Territories, Directorate-General VIII D, European Commission

"THE CONTRIBUTION OF EU DEVELOPMENT POLICY TO CONFLICT RESOLUTION"

Lecture organized by the City for the Cultures of Peace in cooperation
with the Western European Studies Program and the EU Center at the University of Pittsburgh.

Dr. Friedrich Hamburger, Head of Directorate D - West and Central Africa, the Caribbean and the Overseas Commonwealth Territories of the Development Directorate-General at the European Commission began his career in the Austrian Foreign Service, representing his country in many other states and international organizations. In 1995, he joined the Development Directorate-General at the European Commission. From 1998 to 2000 he was the Director for Relations with all ACP Countries. His publications and lectures focus on European integration, international security, international trade issues, development policy, and science and research cooperation.

Time 2: 30 PM
Cathedral of Leaning, 121

AFRICA IN ITS GLOBAL DYNAMICS
CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

Boston, USA, 19 April 2002
INTERNATIONAL LECTURE SERIES:

KEY NOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Friedrich Hamburger, Director for West Africa, Central Africa, the Caribbean and Overseas Countries and Commonwealth Territories, Directorate-General VIII D, European Commission

"FIGHTING POVERTY THROUGH PREVENTION AND RESOLUTION OF CONFLICTS" co-organized by the City for the Cultures of Peace in cooperation
with the Program for International Relations at Boston University as well as the European Council.

COEXISTENCE STUDIES
EUROPE IN ITS GLOBAL DYNAMICS

Vienna, Austria, 22 May 2002; Czernowitz, Ukraine, 4 June 2002; Jaşi, Romania, 9 June 2002; Tel Aviv, Israel, 18 November; Haifa, Israel, 20 November, 2002.

BOOK PRESENTATION: An der Zeiten Ränder: Czernowitz und Bukowina,
collection of essays by different authors, ed. Cécile Cordon and Helmut Kusdat, Vienna: Verlag der Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft, 2002.

ROUND TABLE with several contributing authors from Israel, Austria, Ukraine, Romania, and Germany.  Events initiated and organized by Helmut Kusdat, University of Vienna, Austria, in cooperations with the Bukowina Institute at the University of Czernowitz and the Diaspora Museum, the Goethe Institute (Jaşi, Romania), and other institutions.

Events initiated and organized by Helmut Kusdat, University of Vienna, Austria, in cooperation with several institutions, including the Bukowina Institute at the University of Czernowitz and the Goethe Institute (Jaşi, Romania).

CHILDREN AND YOUTH AT RISK
MARGINALIZATION AND EXCLUSION

Bucharest, Romania, 20-30 June 2002
CHILDREN AND YOUTH AT RISK: HANDICAPPED CHILDREN
Workshops and meetings organized by Prof. Nina Scribanu, Georgetown Medical School. One of the main objectives is to help establish a center for handicapped children in Romania.

AFRICA IN ITS GLOBAL DYNAMICS

Washington DC, USA, 22-25 November 2002 
Panel:  IRAN AND AFRICA, organized by Professor Houchang Chehabi, Boston University, at the Middle Eastern Studies Association.

MARGINALIZATION AND EXCLUSION

Ottawa, Canada, 14-15 January 2003
L'INTERCULTUREL ET L'ÉCONOMIE À L'ŒUVRE : DISCOURS, EXCLUSIONS ET INCLUSIONS,  International Symposium organized by Professor Patrick Imbert, University of Ottawa. The Symposium is part of the interdisciplinary research project: LES DISCOURS ÉCONOMIQUES TRANSNATIONAUX...

Among the speakers are: LISE BOILY (Université d'Ottawa), Annie Lise Clément (Université d'Ottawa), Amy Colin (Univ. of Pittsburgh/W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard/City for the Cutlures of Peace), Heather Cullen (Université d'Ottawa), DaNiel Castillo-Durante (Université d'ottawa),  NATALIE DUMAS (Université d'Ottawa), Irene Fonte (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de Iztapalapa, Mexique), Moo-Kyung Kim (Université Sogang, Séoul), gaston lillo (Université d'Ottawa), Walter Moser (Université d'Ottawa), CLAIRE ROBERGE (UQUAM, Montréal), Adriana Rizzo (Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Argentine),  Christian Vandendorpe (Université d'Ottawa), Rodney Williamson (Université d'Ottawa).

COEXISTENCE STUDIES
MARGINALIZATION AND EXCLUSION

Lucerne, Switzerland, 13 September 2003
FORUM ON THE CULTURE OF PEACE: THE CONFLICT BETWEEN POLITICS AND RELIGION

held within the framework of the EUROPEAN CULTURAL AWARDS CEREMONY, Lucerne, Switzerland, 12-13 September 2003.

The Forum was organized by Pro Europa: European Foundation for Culture (www.pro-europa.com) in cooperation with the City for the Cultures of Peace. 

MODERATOR: Dr. ERWIN KELLER, former director of "Sternstunden" at the Swiss TV station DRS

PANELISTS: Dr. WALTER SCHWIMMER, Secretary General of the European Council; S. E. Mgr. AMÉDÉE GRAB, President of the European Bishop's Conference; SALDA KELLER-MEGSAHLI, Founder of the Foundation Palästina; Prof. Dr. JULIUS SCHOEPS, Director of the Moses Mendelssohn Center at the University of Potsdam;Bishop MAKARIOS DE LAMPSAKOS, Representative of the Patriarchate of Constatinople.

RESPONDENTS: MARTTI AHTISAARI, former President of Finland and Director of the Institute for Crisis Management; Prof. Dr. AMY COLIN, President of the International Organization of the City for the Cultures of Peace;  CONCLUDING ADDRESS by URSULA STÄMMER-HORST, Stadträtin, Lucerne Town Council.

University of Pittsburgh, USA, 21 March 2004
CITY FOR THE CULTURES OF PEACE LECTURE: Professor Steve Zohn (Temple University): "Georg Philipp Telemann's Wit"

Pittsburgh, 22 March 2004
CITY FOR THE CULTURES OF PEACE CONCERT: Steve Zohn: Music of the Baroque, A Recital: Works by Bach, Telemann, Leclair, and Quantz; Harpsicordist Richard Stern, Carnegie Mellon University;  Lecture and musical recital organized in cooperation with the Music Department and the German Department at the University of Pittsburgh as well as the PAA.

MARGINALIZATION AND EXCLUSION
CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

Université d’Ottawa, CANADA, 10-12 May 2004
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM/COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL: Discours d’exclusion et d’inclusion : dynamiques de la mondialisation dans les Amériques,  organisé par LE GROUPE DE RECHERCHE SUR LES DISCOURS DES AMÉRIQUES (UNIVERSITÉ D'OTTAWA) ET LA CITÉ DES CULTURES DE LA PAIX

Printed Programme (Version for Acrobat Reader)

Conference Programme

University of Ottawa, May 11,  9  PM
Musical recital: Thomas Lesch-Schmidt
Music of Exclusion  -- Exclusion in Music 

Université d’Ottawa, CANADA, 10  May 2004
FORUM ON THE CULTURE OF PEACE: Fighting Against Xenophobia, Racism, and Anti-Semtism Through Education.

EUROPE IN ITS GLOBAL DYNAMICS

University of Potsdam, Germany, June 10-12, 2004
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM: Karl Emil Franzos, co-organized by the Moses Mendelssohn Center at the University of Potsdam, the City for the Cultures of Peace, and the Kulturforum Osteuropa.

European Academy in Berlin, June 13-15
Work-Shop on the Bukovina organized by Amy Colin. Participants included Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University), Marianne Hausleitner (Institute for Eastern-European History, Munich), Leo Spitzer (Dartmouth College), and others.   

European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, 1 July 2004
SYMPOSIUM: Weisse Nächte an der Oder: Czernowitz, Cultural event organized by Professor Karl Schlögel and Ann-Kathrin Mätzold,  European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder); Co-sponsors: Ciy for the Cultures of Peace, Deutsches Kulturforum Osteuropa, ASTA, and Förderkreis Europa-Universität Viadrina. 

COEXISTENCE STUDIES   

Frankfurt Am Main, Germany, September 2004
Forum on the Culture of Peace
under the patronage of Dr. Horst Köhler, President of Germany, Mrs. Petra Roth, Mayor of the City of Frankfurt, the European Council, the European Commission, and the European Parliament. 

Erträumte oder erzwungene Koexistenz im Widerstreit der Kulturen

Envisioned or Enforced Coexistence 
in the Conflict of Cultures

Kaisersaal des Frankfurter Römers,
Frankfurt am Main, 4 September 2004

Introduction
Prof. Dr. Amy Colin, Moderator
 
Key Note Speakers: 

Prof. Dr. Marcel Reich-Ranicki
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Leonhard
Forschung und Archiv Leonhard, Germany/Yale University

Prof. Dr. Peter Demetz,
Sterling Professor of German Languages and Literatures, Yale University

Respondent:

Dr. Hans Dietrich Genscher,
former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Germany  

The Forum was organized by the City for the Cultures of Peace with the support of Pro Europa: European Cultural Foundation which holds its Cultural Awards Ceremony after this Forum.  

Thomas Lesch Schmidt is a double talent: he is a physician whose work focuses on the history of medicine; he is also a noted composer and recipient of the "Franz Liszt Award for Musical Composition 2004" from the prestigious Pro Europa: European Cultural Foundation (Germany). His opera "The Golem in Bayreuth" (1999) was performed by the Burgtheater/Akademietheater in Vienna, Austria. For more information see:
http://www.schott-musik.de/autoren/KomponistenAZ/show,13940.html

 Thomas Lesch Schmidt presented his work on allegedly Jewish genetic diseases at the international symposium on "Forms and Dynamics of Exclusion in Contemporary Societies," held at UNESCO, Paris 1997. The conference initiated and organized by Prof. Amy Colin in collaboration with Prof. Marie-Claire Hoock-Demarle (Univ. of Paris 7) brought together one hundred speakers from many different countries. See: www.unesco.org/most/exclus.htm 

His lecture on "TAY-SACHS: ALLEGEDLY JEWISH GENETIC DISEASE" is co-sponsored by the City for the Cultures of Peace and the University of Pittsburgh: its Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, its Cultural Studies Program, its Jewish Studies Program, the Center for Western European Studies and the EU Center in UCIS.

University of Pittsburgh, 17 April 2005
CITY FOR THE CULTURES OF PEACE CONCERT:  GOLEM IN BAYREUTH -- MUSICAL RECITAL AND WORKSHOP BY LESCH SCHMIDT (Schott Verlag/Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Germany). Sunday, 17 April 2005, 3 PM, FRICK FINE ARTS AUDITORIUM.

Lesch Schmidt, noted composer from Germany, is the recipient of the "Franz Liszt Award for Musical Composition 2004" from the prestigious European Cultural Foundation: Pro Europa. His opera "The Golem in Bayreuth: A Music Theater Play" (1999) was performed by the Burgtheater/Akademietheater (Vienna, Austria) and published by the Suhrkamp Verlag and Schott Verlag, Germany, see: http://www.schott-musik.de. Ulla Berkéwicz, well-known author, actress, and editor, wrote the libretto. Zweitausendeins-Verlag - www.zweitausendeins.de - distributes the CD recording. 

EVENT ORGANIZED BY THE CITY FOR THE CULTURES OF PEACE IN COOPERATION WITH THE CULTURAL STUDIES PROGRAM, THE CENTER FOR WESTERN EUROPEAN STUDIES & EU CENTER, THE GERMAN DEPARTMENT, THE JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM, AND THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH.


MARGINALIZATION AND EXCLUSION
GENOCIDE AND SHOAH STUDIES

Professor Dr. Geoffrey Hartman
Sterling Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Co-Founder of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Mitbegründer des Fortunoff Video Archivs für Holocaust-Zeugenschaft, Yale University

PROFESSOR DR. STANLEY HOFFMANN
Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor, Co-Founder of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Mitbegründer des Minda de Gunzburg Zentrums für Europäische Studien, Harvard University

This lecture was organized by the City for the Cultures of Peace in cooperation with the Cultural Studies Program, the CWES/EU Center, and the German Department at the University of Pittsburgh.
 
Professor Patrick Imbert, holder of the Research Chair at the University of Ottawa, is Canada’s leading Comparative, Canadian, and French literature expert. He is  also a specialist on Latin American Studies. His current groundbreaking work focuses on the impact of stereotypes on contemporary society in the Americas and Europe. Professor Imbert is not only a scholar, but also a well-known novelist. He is the author of numerous scholarly and literary publications, including:

Consensual Disagreement: Canada and the Americas, University of Ottawa Research Chair: Canada, Social and Cultural Challenges in a Knowledge-Based Society: Exclusions/Inclusions : déplacements économico-symboliques et perspectives américaines/Economic and Symbolic Displacements in the Americas (dir. avec Daniel Castillo Durante et Amy D. Colin), Ottawa, Éditions Legas, coll. des Amériques/The Americas Series/Collecion de las Américas, vol. 4, 2005; Réincarnations [roman], Gatineau, Vents d'Ouest, 2004; Trajectoires culturelles transaméricaines, Ottawa, Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa, 2003; L'interculturel et l'économie à l'œuvre : les marges de la mondialisation/Interculturality and Economy : The Margins of Globalization, (Dir. Daniel Castillo-Durante et Patrick Imbert), Collection des Amériques/The Americas Series/Colleciòn de las Américas, Orléans, Éditions David, 2003; L'interculturel au coeur des Amériques, (dir. D. Castillo-Durante et P. Imbert), Colecciòn de las Américas/The Americas Series/Collection des Amériques, U. d'Ottawa /U. du Manitoba/Legas, 2003; Transit, Hull, Vents d’Ouest, 2001; Breve Antología del Noroît/Petite anthologie du Noroît (présentation P. Imbert/S. Yebara; traduction S. Yebara), Montréal, Éditions du Noroît, 1998; The Permanent Transition, Frankfurt, Vervuert-Iberoamericana, 1998; Breve Antología del Noroît/Petite anthologie du Noroît, présentation P. Imbert et S. Yebara; traduction S. Yebara, Montréal, Éditions du Noroît, 1998; Le réel à la porte, Nouvelles, Hull, Éditions Vents d'Ouest, 1997; Les Discours du Nouveau Monde au XIXe siècle au Canada français et en Amérique latine/Los discursos del Nuevo Mundo en el siglo XIX en el Canadá francófono y en América latina (en collaboration avec Marie M. Couillard), Ottawa, Éditions Legas, 1995; L'Objectivité de la presse, Montréal, Hurtubise HMH, 1989; « Mensonge et désinformation » (éd.), Carrefour, vol. 16, no 1, 1994; Construction et discours, Montréal, Ciadest, 1991; L'objectivité de la presse, Montréal, Hurtubise HMH, 1989; Roman québécois contemporain et clichés, Ottawa, Éditions de l'Université d'Ottawa, 1982; Sémiotique et description balzacienne, Ottawa, Éditions de l'Université d'Ottawa, 1978.

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA, 20 - 24 February 2006
Forum, Panel and Workshop organized by the CITY FOR THE CULTURES OF PEACE in cooperation with UNESCO

BERLIN, Germany 13 - 14 June 2007 
FORUM ON THE CULTURES OF PEACE