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German rapper U-Cee on life in Prague
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The musician with North African origins refuses to be boxed into a certain music style, so we’ll mark him down as a ‘reggae-soul-hip-hop’ kind. We meet up in Prague where the thirtysomething’s latest album 'International Call' was released in...
November 26th, event on Historiana in the EP
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For its 20 year anniversary and the launch of www.Historiana.eu, the online alternative to the idea of a common European history textbook, EUROCLIO, the European Association of History Educators, invites you to a celebratory event at the Europea...
75 to Tomas Venclova
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Tomas Venclova, a Lithuanian poet, scholar and author, has reached 75 years. During the cold war he emigrated to the United States, where he resides until now and where he [...]...
“The right side of history”
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--> I’ve come across this phrase twice in the last few days (here and here) and it’s a wonderful instance of a hidden normativity. First of all, it assumes that history has a purposiveness. I thought that this very Hegelian concept...
“Stop the Presses” | Youropa’s Press Review #14
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In this week’s press review, Youropa looks at Europe’s role in the US presidential election, at Russian bloggers and on the (lack of) EU spending on culture. The best articles on Europe selected by Youropa’s editors. ...
Ink Duel: Bulgarian Artists vs Egyptian Artist in London
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Studio 75, a London-based “100% independent, not part of any school, trend, fashion or directive” artist space is hosting ‘The Orientophobia Sessions' this weekend. In the program of the Out Of The Deep East, Bulgarian artists Krum and...
Google’s Doodle for November 2nd : Odysseas Elytis
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Odysseas Elytis, one of Greece’s most prominent poets, the Literature Nobel Prize laureate of 1979 is today’s doodle in Google’s ... Continue reading...
Google Art Project intergrates more Greek Museums
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Google announced earlier this week the second phase of Google Art Project ; the programme aims to offer the users ... Continue reading...
Sorry, we’re no Longer Shocked
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Artists whose interests received a boost with the €12 million renovation of a museum and art center are advancing an unintelligible protest against cuts to subsidies of their craft which no-one deems worth paying for of their own volition.Behold, t...
The LUX Prize 2012 – Shun Li and The Poet
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The last finalist of the 2012 LUX Prize and which I’m reviewing is Shun Li and The Poet, from first time feature director Andrea Segre. The film examines issues such as cultural alienation, xenophobia, exploitation, splintered families and the...
The LUX Prize 2012 – Just the Wind
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The next finalist film in the LUX Prize this year is Benedek Fliegauf’s Just the Wind (Csak a szél). This is the chilling story of a Romany community living amongst an atmosphere of fear and paranoia. A recent spate of murders has left...
Upphovsrätt: EU-direktivet om anonyma verk
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I förrgår avslutades ett lagstiftningsprojekt på EU-nivå när direktivet om anonyma verk, som rör upphovsrätten och därmed den inre marknaden, publicerades officiellt: EUROPAPARLAMENTETS OCH RÅDETS DIREKTIV 2012/28/EU av den 25 oktober 201...
Music and politics in Western Ukraine
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A man with a rather large bushy grey moustache plonked three glasses of thin brackish coffee down on the fold-away table of our railway carriage and demanded 12 hryvnia (around 1 euro). It wasn't so much the clink and crash of the glasses as they hit...
EU:n orpoteosdirektiivi julkaistu
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Kirjoituksessa Digitaaliset kirjastot ja orpoteokset (joka teknisten vaikeuksien jälkeen ilmestyikin kahteen kertaan) kävin lukijoiden muistin virkistämiseksi lyhyesti läpi EU:n komission teollis- ja tekijänoikeuksia koskevan strategian, kulttuu...
Digitaaliset kirjastot ja orpoteokset
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Viime vuoden toukokuussa EU:n komissio julkaisi suunnitelman teollis- ja tekijänoikeuksien nykyaikaistamiseksi (tiedote IP/11/630 22 EU-kielellä ja muistio MEMO/11/332 englanniksi: Intellectual Property Strategy FAQs). Digitaaliset kirjastot Eu...
The Ghosts of World War II
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"The haunting collection of images shows what it would look like if the ghosts of World War II returned to our streets" writes The Daily Mail's Emma Reynolds (merci à Hervé) of some "remarkable pictures [which] overlay modern scenes from France wit...
Thank you Vasili Arkhipov, the man who stopped nuclear war | Edward Wilson
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Fifty years ago, Arkhipov, a senior officer on the Soviet B-59 submarine, refused permission to launch its nuclear torpedoIf you were born before 27 October 1962, Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov saved your life. It was the most dangerous day in history...
EU orphan works directive officially published
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The new EU directive on orphan works has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union: DIRECTIVE 2012/28/EU OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 25 October 2012 on certain permitted uses of orphan works; OJEU 27.10.2012...
Hobsbawm interviewed in 1985
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The present issue of the neo-Con magazine Standpoint carries a fascinating interview with the late Eric Hobsbawm. It was conducted in 1985 by Miriam Gross, a personal friend (though not a political ally) of Hobsbawm’s, for the now-defunct publi...
Merlin Holland after Wilde
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When Merlin Holland was invited to the United States some years ago to give a lecture on his grandfather, Oscar Wilde, the woman at immigration at JFK asked him what claim he had to be an authority on the Irish playwright. Merlin confessed the blood...
Known as the shelter
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Tomorrow is a big day for my better half, who has a vernissage at the Rossi Gallery ( http://www.rossicontemporary.be/ ) in the afternoon. Being married to an artist is an immense privilege because I have a ringside seat at the act of creation. I...
Photo documentary on print: “The Unpromised Land” portrays the life of the Meskhetians
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'The Unpromised Land' is finally out and available online. The photo portrayals of Meskhetian life serve the purpose of making aware of one of Georgia’s returning populations. Continue reading →Source: ECMI InfoChannel @ European Centre for M...
This video will have you reaching for your revolver
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Either that, or it'll have you doing a fair imitation of a hyena who's just heard a good one from another hyena. You know what? I can't resist linking one more time to this abomination by the Young European Federalists.
The West in 2012 and Ancient Athenian culture
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The we pay therefore our views count more than others' is emblematic of a departure from the roots of Western World philosophy. Which begs the question(s): How far and since when has The West departed from the roots of Ancient Athenian culture? Si...
Id-Dukat Clockwork Orange
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Dalgħodu jien u nsuq lejn ix-xogħol minn dari gawdejt festival ta’ lwien li jpaxxi s-sensi. It-temp bħal donnu żamm biss sakemm l-eredi tad-Dukat qal is-sinjorsi u issa beda jħejji għall-wasla tax-xitwa. Il-kuluri tas-siġar ilhom li bdew...
There is no such thing as 1 + 1 = 2
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Picture credit: SP-Studio What runs through most of my writings is a subjectivist approach to life, springing from a deep and pervasive desire to emancipate myself from any cozy pattern of thought that has been established or greatly influenced by p...
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? I Was Painting
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Philippe Dagen on a Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris exhibit on "that cursed era" (cette période maudite), "L'art en guerre, France 1938-1947", how artists reacted to the German occupation during World War II: La question est de celles qu...
Hegemony and liberalism
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There was an interesting thought in the TLS 17 & 24 August (“No cause for despair”, review by David Hawkes of Susan Hegeman, The Cultural Return, [paywall]). This is a review of culture and its development in the 20th century, and it offers t...
Untranslatable words of 'longing' across Europe
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‘Saudade’ and ‘hüzün’ have become famous untranslatable words. They are deeply set in their given cultures, revealing the specific nature and emotion of being Portuguese or Turkish, whilst, simultaneously becoming literary phenomenons. The...
5. Bölüm. M.Fatih Cantemir (@emefsi) Oyuncak Müzesini fotoğrafladı…
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Buyrun: oyuncak müzesi V Related posts: 2. Bölüm. M.Fatih Cantemir (@emefsi) Oyuncak Müzesini fotoğrafladı… 4. Bölüm. M.Fatih Cantemir (@emefsi) Oyuncak Müzesini fotoğrafladı… 3. Bölüm. M.Fatih Cantemir (@emefsi) Oyuncak M...
Slovakia: Music Copyright Agency Vs. School Drama Club
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The Slovak Performing and Mechanical Rights Society imposes a €975 fine on a high school drama club for a fundraiser ball, which included a raffle and featured songs authored and performed by the club members - but had not been properly registered...
The mystique of the metalworker
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Many of the initiation visions seen by the shamans took similar forms to this, and the famous anthropologist Mercia Eliade has shown that they are closely related to the high priestly standing enjoyed by metalworkers among primitive peoples.
Poland’s Jewish Museum Nears Completion
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Construction work at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews is almost finished, with the building set to open to the public in April next year, officials said Wednesday.
Dr. Özgür Uçkan’la Sanat Felsefesi Konuşmaları devam ediyor: The Empire Project
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Vol. 1 Sokrates, Platon, Aristoteles: Sanat bugün nerede duruyor? – 6 Ekim 2012 Cumartesi 14:30 – 17:30 Vol. 2. Kant ve Schiller: Yargı Yetisi, Oyun, Terapi, Politika ve Sanat - 20 Ekim 2012 14 Cumartesi 14:30 –...
The Oldie British Artists Award
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Earlier this evening I joined other contributors to and staff of The Oldie magazine, including Editor Richard Ingrams, at Dartmouth House (headquarters of the English Speaking Union) to celebrate the inaugural Oldie British Artists Award. Many oth...
The first world war: the real lessons of this savage imperial bloodbath | Seumas Milne
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David Cameron wants to turn the first world war into a focus of national pride. That should be resisted every step of the wayIn the midst of deepening austerity, David Cameron is desperate to play the national card. Any one will do. He's worked the Q...
European Heritage Days of the Future - Are we There Yet?
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Reblogged from Cyprus.Diverse.City: The Heritage Days in Review was a report published in 2010, a paper reviewing the European Heritage Days and which centrally sustained the validity that European Heritage...
Scotland Monuments in Kilmartin Are a Prehistoric European Sky Map of the Heavens
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This is a posting about technological innovation in prehistoric Europe for all our readers who hail from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, England, or who have an interest in Europe's or man's history or that of Ancient Britain, broadly seen. Reposted from t...
Book Review: European Identity and Culture: Narratives of Transnational Belonging
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European Identity and Culture explores cultural aspects of transnational identity formation. At its core, it tries to shed light on why there is both resistance and a search for common belonging in Europe. Amy Ludlow finds that in reframing our ̷...
The Good, the Bad and the Multiplex by Mark Kermode
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Mark Kermode has seen about a hundred films to my one, but as his opinion of the one we’ve both seen coincides with mine, I naturally find him an intelligent film critic. The Good, the Bad and the Multiplex is a collection of essays –...
Turkish tide might be coming to an end in Middle East… “Lebanon bans ‘Fetih 1453’ from theaters…
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Lebanon bans ‘Fetih 1453’ from theaters BEIRUT: Turkish director Faruk Aksoy’s “Fetih 1453” has been banned from Lebanon’s theaters because it is offensive to Orthodox Christians. “Fetih 1453” tells the story of Mehmet II, who ascends...
Decision-making
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If an important decision is to be made [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk and the following day the master of the house…submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve it, it … Co...
Madagascar & Reunion: Maraina, The First Opera from the Indian Ocean
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Marie-Clémence & Cesar Paes present a trailer of Maraina, a film that showcases, in their words, ”the first opera to be created in the Indian Ocean region” [fr]. Written by Rakotomalala · comments (0) Share: Donate · face...
