“In 1946, Dr. David P. Boder, a psychology professor from Chicago’s
Illinois Institute of Technology, traveled to Europe to record the
stories of Holocaust survivors in their own words.”
>project homepage
Voices of the Holocaust
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Chicago, David P. Boder, Europe, Holocaust, oral history, research project, testimony on 7 July 2013 by delclemFrom Prague to Washington
Posted in Uncategorized with tags biography, Czechoslovakia, gender, Madeline Albright, Marie jana Korbelová, Prague, USA, Washington on 5 July 2013 by delclem
Roma Stand Against Prejudice in Hungarian University
Posted in Uncategorized with tags civil rights, discrimination, gypsies, Hungary, prejudcie, Roma, Stereotyping on 3 July 2013 by delclem
“Two people of Roma origin and an activist who fought a two-year battle to ban course material they found racially offensive at one of Hungary’s most respected universities have finally won an apology and the promise of a scholarship for a Roma student.”>text (c) Emerging Europe / WSJ, 2013; image (c) WAZ, 2013
Croatia joins EU
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Croatia, EU on 1 July 2013 by delclem
“With the EU in financial turmoil and Croatia’s economy in recession for five years, initial excitement has dimmed.” >text & photo (c) THE GUARDIAN , 2103
“When the Devil Danced in Hungary”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Hungary, László Krasznahorkai, Literature, review, Satantango on 30 June 2013 by delclem
“One evening in October 2010, the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai—a man in his fifties with a biblical look—appeared on the balcony of the Collegium Hungaricum in Berlin, a white modernist building that’s a block north of Unter den Linden. At the same time an image of a dog, in silhouette, was projected from inside the building onto a large window below the balcony. Without introduction or explanation, Krasznahorkai then began to speak.”>more/ review (c) NYROB, 2013
Monument-Building Boom in the Balkans
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Balkans, bosnia-hercegovina, Croatia, cultural analysis, Kosovo, memory politics, war monuments on 29 June 2013 by delclem
“Hundreds of war memorials have been built since the Balkan conflicts, but some governments exert no control over how much public money is spent or whether new monuments provoke ethnic tensions.” >text (c) balkaninsight.com 2013
(reblogged)
Franz Ferdinand’s Journey around the World
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Austria, diary, review, travel, World on 28 June 2013 by delclem
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, “the Austrian crown prince whose assassination triggered World War I, started a trip across the world in 1892. His newly published diary from the journey reveals a world of extremes, from island cannibals to skyscrapers.”>full text (c) SPIEGEL INT’L, 2013 Photo (c) DOROTHEUM, 2010
65 years since the “Luftbrücke”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1948, air lift, Berlin, Berlin Blockade, Cold War, Germany, Luftbrücke on 27 June 2013 by delclem
Amazing photos from the Berlin Blockade 1948-49 (c) THE INDEPENDENT, 2013
Faceless
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, Austria, exhibition, faceless, governance, identity, powe, Vienna on 25 June 2013 by delclem
This exhibition at the Vienna MUQA “explores the phenomenon of inescapable recognizability in the media and the resulting strategies of media users to become virtually faceless.
FACELESS takes a radical look at this fairly recent phenomenon of everyday media culture and shows how it manifests in visual art, fashion, photography, advertising, and dance.”
4 July – 1 Sept >more
Picture: Lady Glittersky, 2009, C-print, 121x92cm
(c) Thorsten Brinkmann, VBK, Wien 2013 and VG Bildkunst Bonn 2012
55th Venice Biennale
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, Biennale, exhibition, Italy, review, Venice on 22 June 2013 by delclem
Model houses of Austrian officer Peter Fritz at the main pavilion in the Giardini. It’s Biennale time again in the historical lagoon city. >full text & more photos
(c) wieninternational.at 2013 >alternative text (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2013
delirium clemens 