The Unifying Aspects of Cultures

INST-Conference 7-9 November 2003

This page served for the collection of presentations, sections and section groups until the deadline on 30 September 2003. At the end of October this page will be replaced by a detailed program, which can be downloaded as a PDF-File. A printed program will be available at the conference.

SECTION GROUPS

1. Methods/Views | 2. Culture/Civilization | 3. Cultural Processes | 4. Transnationalism |  5. Literatures/Aesthetics
6. Languages/Communication | 7. Translations | 8. Pedagogy/Education | 9. Culture and Economy | 10. Virtual Space
11. Culture of Peace

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1. Methods/Views

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Anil Bhatti (New Delhi) / Jeroen Dewulf (Porto): Hermeneutic and Non-Hermeneutic Accesses to Cultures
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Jeff Bernard (Vienna): Signs/Texts/Cultures. Conviviality from a Semiotic Point of View
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Thomas V. Gamkrelidze (Tbilisi): Ecology and Culture
ABSTRACT/REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION

Valery Timofeev (St. Petersburg): Universal and National Concepts in Historical Perspective
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

John D. Pattillo-Hess (Vienna): Masses - Symbols of Nations
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Vasil Rainov (Akademie der Wissenschaften, Sofia): Die Sprache die verbindet und zerteilt
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Michael Benedikt (Vienna): Methods of the Natural and Social Sciences and Humanities in Terms of Society's Demands
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Klaus Feldmann (Hannover): Cultural Aspects of Visualization in the Social and Cultural Sciences
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Agata S. Nalborczyk (Warsaw): The image of the "Other" in the contacts of Europe, Asia and Africa
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Gerhard Fröhlich (Linz): On the Use of Cultural Differences (Vilém Flusser)
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Josephine Papst (Graz): The Unifying Method of the Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences: The Method of Transdisciplinarity
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Alexandr W. Belobratow/Elena Apenko (St. Petersburg): Unite/Divide/Unite: World, National, Transnational Literature
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Juri Mosidze (Tbilissi): The Mountain as Axis of the World in Comparative Mythology
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION

SECTION GROUPS

1. Methods/Views | 2. Culture/Civilization | 3. Cultural Processes | 4. Transnationalism |  5. Literatures/Aesthetics
6. Languages/Communication | 7. Translations | 8. Pedagogy/Education | 9. Culture and Economy | 10. Virtual Space
11. Culture of Peace

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2. Culture/Civilization

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Penka Angelova (Rousse): Civilisation and Culture
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Pascal Lardellier (Dijon): Anthropologcal perspectives on the globalization of cultures: persistency, evolutions, revolutions
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Zrinjka Peruško (Zagreb): Media and cultural aspects of civil society
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Knut Ove Arntzen (Bergen/Norway) / Ulf Birbaumer (Vienna): Nomadism
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Jorge Bauer (Buenos Aires): Technology and Culture
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Arne Haselbach (Vienna): Societies and Cultures as Polylogues
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Gennady Uzilevsky (Orel, Russia): Post-industrial Civilization and Culture
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Sunday Erhabor Idemudia (Bremen/Ibadan, Nigeria): Culture, Psychosocial Disorders and Mental Health: an African Perspective
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Munira Shahidi (Dushanbe): Central Asia and the Modern World: confrontation, dialogue or interactivity?
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SECTION GROUPS

1. Methods/Views | 2. Culture/Civilization | 3. Cultural Processes | 4. Transnationalism |  5. Literatures/Aesthetics
6. Languages/Communication | 7. Translations | 8. Pedagogy/Education | 9. Culture and Economy | 10. Virtual Space
11. Culture of Peace

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3. Cultural Processes

SECTIONS

Fawzi Boubia (Caen): Exile and Migration
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Herbert Eisele (Paris): Cultural monuments
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION

Michael Niedermeier (Berlin): Altes Europa und Neues Amerika. Kulturelle Imaginationen zwischen Stereotyp und Utopie?
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION

Michael Strähle (Vienna): Socially Acceptable Sciences
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Franz J. Nahrada (Vienna): Electronic Cooperation and work on life Space
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Steven Totosy de Zepetnek: Minor Cultures, National Culture, and the Administration of Culture
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Chinarabubu Tuleeva (Bischkek, Kirgistan): Wechselwirkungen regionaler, nationaler und internationaler Kulturen
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION

Maria Klanska (Kraków/Krakau): Interrelations between Jewish, Slavic and German Cultures
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

András F. Balogh (Budapest)/George Gutu (Bukarest)/Dagmar Kostalova (Bratislava/Preßburg): Cultural and Linguistic Multiplicity. Coexistence, Interferences and Divergences in Multiethnic Regions
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Axel Borsdorf/Vera Mayer (Vienna): Culture in the Outskirts of the Cities
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Michael John (Linz): Ethnicity, Migration, Aesthetics
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION

Neriman Eratalay (Hacettepe Université, Ankara): Quelle culture enseigner?
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Maurits G.T. Kwee (University of Flores, Buenos Aires, Argentina): Well Being: Integrating Eastern Knowledge in Western Culture and Western Knowledge in Eastern Culture
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SECTION GROUPS

1. Methods/Views | 2. Culture/Civilization | 3. Cultural Processes | 4. Transnationalism |  5. Literatures/Aesthetics
6. Languages/Communication | 7. Translations | 8. Pedagogy/Education | 9. Culture and Economy | 10. Virtual Space
11. Culture of Peace

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4. Transnationalism

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Duška Knezevic Hocevar (Ljubljana): In/visible communities at and across border
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Leo Kreutzer (Hannover): Pantheistic Religiosity and Philosophy as Unifying Aspects of Cultures
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Otto Kronsteiner (Salzburg): The Mountains and Their Names: Not Unified But Unifying
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION

David Simo (Yaounde): Localism, Globalism and Transculturalism: Cultures and Their Locations
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Naoji Kimura (Tokyo): Transnational Endeavors and Contradictions in Asia
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Rabeh Sebaa (Oran): Arabization, transnationalism and interculturalitty
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION

Larissa Cybenko (Lviv): Transnational and National Endeavors in the Ukraine
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Tamás Lichtmann (Debrecen): The Transnational Character of Jewish Culture
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Ludmilla Kostova (Veliko Tarnovo): Re-telling the Past, Mapping the Future: Feminist Interventions across Times and Cultures
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Kathleen Thorpe (Johannesburg): The Woman as a Place of Cultural Encounter
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Maria A. Wolf (Innsbruck/Melbourne): "Beginning". The Meaning of Being Born and the All-Embracing Potentials of the Relationship of Birth
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION

Fritz Peter Kirsch (Vienna): Discontent in Culture - A Unifying Element in the World of Today?
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Tamara Fessenko (Tambov/Russia): Transcultural Stereotypes in Works of Art and Literature
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Mikhail Blumenkrantz (Charkow): Culture and Socium and Culture. Problems of Globalisation
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Zeki Cemil Arda (Gazi Üniversitesi, Ankara): Die verbindende und trennende Rolle der Türkei bei den kulturellen Beziehungen
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION

SECTION GROUPS

1. Methods/Views | 2. Culture/Civilization | 3. Cultural Processes | 4. Transnationalism |  5. Literatures/Aesthetics
6. Languages/Communication | 7. Translations | 8. Pedagogy/Education | 9. Culture and Economy | 10. Virtual Space
11. Culture of Peace

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5. Literatures/Aesthetics

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Kopystianska Nonna (Lvov/Lemberg): The Attitude toward "One's Own" and to the "Foreign" as a Unifying and Dividing Factor of Cultures
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Hartmut Cellbrot (Herford): On the Topography of the Color Blue in Modern Poetry
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION

Helmut Pfanner (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee): Exil und Literatur
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Peter Horn (Capetown): I First Learned about Russia from Dostoievski. Literature as an Imaginary Way of Understanding Another Country.
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Walter Weyers (Memmingen): Europe/Africa - The Foreign as the Other Self
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Zalina A.Mardanova (Vladikavkaz/Nordossetien-Alanien): Ein Fremder unter den Einheimischen, ein Einheimischer unter den Fremden: zur literarischen (Selbst)Repräsentation des nomadisierenden Subjekts
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Albena Bakratcheva (Sofia): Frontier Metamorphoses: Americanization and Otherness
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Han-Soon Yim (Seoul): Laughter in East and West
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Giuseppe Dolei/Alessandra Schininà (Catania): Literature versus Nation in German-Language Artists of the 19th and 20th Centuries
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Donald G. Daviau (Riverside): Twentieth-Century Austrian Authors as Examples of the Unifying Aspects of Cultures
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Charles I. Armstrong: The Mountain and Cultural Aesthetic
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Klaus-Dieter Ertler (Aachen/Graz): Writing in the Migration: Literature and Cultural Contexts (in Romania)
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Gabriella Hima (Budapest): Narrations in Literature and in Writing History
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Andrea Horváth (Debrecen/Ungarn) / Eszter Pabis (Debrecen/Ungarn): Geschlecht und Nation: Narrative kollektiver Identitäten
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION

Monika Leisch-Kiesl (Linz): "It is a matter of reducing the concept of art to the size of a dot." Art as a Field of Communication
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Reinhard Krüger (Stuttgart): "Literature" as a Cross Section of Cultures
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Gregor Thuswaldner (Gordon College Wenham, Massachusetts): Apocalypse Now? Eschatalogical Tendencies in Contemporary Literature
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

SECTION GROUPS

1. Methods/Views | 2. Culture/Civilization | 3. Cultural Processes | 4. Transnationalism |  5. Literatures/Aesthetics
6. Languages/Communication | 7. Translations | 8. Pedagogy/Education | 9. Culture and Economy | 10. Virtual Space
11. Culture of Peace

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6. Languages/Communication

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Rudolf Muhr (Graz): Standard Variations and Conceptions of Language in Various Language Cultures
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Gisela Fehrmann (Köln) / Erika Linz (Köln): The Influence of the Media on the Structures of Language Communication and the Organization of Cultural Memory
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Hermann Reichert (Vienna): Multiplicity of Languages, Cultural and Literary Contact in Medieval Europe - Horrible Example or Model for the Present?
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Ernest Hess-Lüttich (Bern): Transcultural Competency in Environmental and Developing Communication
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Markus Warasin (Brussels): The European Information Society. A Cultural-Political Concept between Claim and Reality
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION

Michaela Bürger (Genua): Computer-, Medien - und Werbesprache im internationalen Vergleich
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION

Manuel Durand-Barthez (Toulouse): Semantics, knowledge and information systems
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Anselm Eder (Vienna): Culture and Body Language: How Foreignness Is Conveyed
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Gerburg Treusch-Dieter (Berlin): Speaking without Words or the Tone Makes the Music: The Mimetic Aspect of Communication
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION

Heinrich Pfandl (Graz) / Walerij Susmann (Nishnij Nowgorod): "As Many Languages as You Know, You Are That Many Times a Person." Questioning a Myth
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Bachyt Spikbajeva (Almaty): Multilingualism in Kasachstan
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION

Regula Rohland de Langbehn (Buenos Aires): Book Printing and the National Languages
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION

SECTION GROUPS

1. Methods/Views | 2. Culture/Civilization | 3. Cultural Processes | 4. Transnationalism |  5. Literatures/Aesthetics
6. Languages/Communication | 7. Translations | 8. Pedagogy/Education | 9. Culture and Economy | 10. Virtual Space
11. Culture of Peace

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7. Translations

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George Echu (University Yaounde I, Camerun): Borrowing and Translation at the Crossroads of Language and Culture Contact
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Gertrude Durusoy (Izmir): Translation and Culture
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Ugur Güven (Izmir): The Translation of Literary Texts
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION

Vilayat Hadschiyev (Baku): Translations and Transnational Processes
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION

Katja Sturm-Schnabl (Vienna): Translation and Cultural Understanding
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

SECTION GROUPS

1. Methods/Views | 2. Culture/Civilization | 3. Cultural Processes | 4. Transnationalism |  5. Literatures/Aesthetics
6. Languages/Communication | 7. Translations | 8. Pedagogy/Education | 9. Culture and Economy | 10. Virtual Space
11. Culture of Peace

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8. Pedagogy/Education

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Susanne Binder/Mikael Luciak (Vienna): Intercultural Education
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Wolfgang Gombocz (Graz): The "general human right" in Multilingual Elementary Education
ABSTRACT / ANMELDUNG: REFERAT / REFERENTINNEN, THEMEN

Heiner Benking (Berlin): Integrales, lebendiges, gemeinsames Lernen, Orientierungs- und Sinnfragen, Mehrspachigkeit und Kulturnavigation
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Mirela Moldoveanu (Ottawa, Canada): Multicultural education or Is it possible to create a common cultural space?
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1. Methods/Views | 2. Culture/Civilization | 3. Cultural Processes | 4. Transnationalism |  5. Literatures/Aesthetics
6. Languages/Communication | 7. Translations | 8. Pedagogy/Education | 9. Culture and Economy | 10. Virtual Space
11. Culture of Peace

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9. Culture and Economy

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Ingo Mörth (Linz): Tourism for Culture - Culture of Tourism: A Unifying Aspect of Cultures?
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Olga Rösch (Wildau/Germany): Economy and Culture
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Ivan Vashakmadze (Sustainable Tourism Center, Georgia): Mountain eco-tourism - myth and reality
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION / PRESENTER, TITLE

Bernhard Schneider, Eleonore Lappin (Vienna): Austria, the Czech Republic and the EU. A Bilateral Relationship in the Realm of European Integration
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION

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1. Methods/Views | 2. Culture/Civilization | 3. Cultural Processes | 4. Transnationalism |  5. Literatures/Aesthetics
6. Languages/Communication | 7. Translations | 8. Pedagogy/Education | 9. Culture and Economy | 10. Virtual Space
11. Culture of Peace

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10. Virtual Space

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Wolfgang Coy (Berlin)/Sabine Helmers (Berlin): What Does Visual Evidence Mean?
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Gerald Ganglbauer (Sydney): Cyberspace - The Closeness out of Difference
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Ursula Hentschläger/Zelko Wiener (Vienna): Art and New Media
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Klaus Wiegerling (Stuttgart) / Christoph Hubig (Stuttgart): Virtualization of Space, Perception and Culture
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Herbert Gantschacher (Klagenfurt): Forms of Life - Theatre Forms as An Articulated Way of Life
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Christa Hassfurther (Hallein): Theater of Regions or the Division between Provincialism and Interculturalism
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Jana Wisniewski (Vienna): Photography: The Picture of the World - The World of Pictures
ABSTRACT / REGISTRATION: PRESENTATION

Simone Griesmayr (Linz): Creative Contexts
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SECTION GROUPS

1. Methods/Views | 2. Culture/Civilization | 3. Cultural Processes | 4. Transnationalism |  5. Literatures/Aesthetics
6. Languages/Communication | 7. Translations | 8. Pedagogy/Education | 9. Culture and Economy | 10. Virtual Space
11. Culture of Peace

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11. Culture of Peace

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Fatima Festic (Los Angeles): The Autobiography of the Other: powers of literary transference
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Gazi Caglar (Hannover): The Culture of Peace in Islam and in Christianity
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Reinhold Schrappeneder (Vienna): Write for Peace?
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Ram Prasad Adhikari (Nepal): Role of Religious Leaders and world Peace
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LAST UPDATE: 2003-10-05