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NEWS, UPDATES FROM IS[R]A MEMBERS NETWORK RECOLLECTIONS (1986-2006) NETWORK EVENTS THE DECENTRALIZED ART AND THE WORLD Series of lectures by György Galántai (Budapest), Colette & Günther Ruch (Geneva, Switzerland), Peter Küstermann / Netmail (Minden, Germany), Károly Tóth (Rotterdam, Netherlands): 3 November 2006, from 6 p.m. - György Galántai (Artpool, Budapest) works and documents of the Budapest Session of the World Vide Networker Congress in 1992, Fax Action, Faxzine, videos from the Artpool archives of different Networker Congresses organized between 1986 and 2006 8 November 2006, from 4 p.m. - Colette & Günther Ruch (Geneva, Switzerland) and parallel screenings of video-documents: ”DIRECT”,1995 / ”A L’ECART”, 1977 / ”Z-COMME RESEAUX”, 1994 / "MAIL-PERFORMANCE-FAX-PROJECT", 1994 18:30-19:00 - Colette & Günther Ruch “COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS - LIVE DOCUMENTS”, ”SOUND & MAILBOX” soundaction / network-poetry, with a short introductory lecture about the development of worldwide congresses in the eighties (supported by Pro Helvetia , Swiss cultural foundation)/ 8 November 2006, from 7 p.m. - Peter Küstermann (Minden, Germany)"NETWORKING HAS CHANGED MY LIFE".Lecture with slide show about the activity of this travelling artpostman, Peter Netmail, who thanks to the Decentralized Networker Congresses (DNCs) got a world champion?s title from the Guinness Book of Records. Presentation of multilingual handmade books and color catalogs in mixed media about the worldwide DNCs from 1986 on and other art projects organized by him in his hometown, Minden, the Mekka of Mailart. See detailed program for 8 November 2006 at: http://www.artpool.hu/ 10 November 2006, from 6 p.m. - Károly Tóth (Rotterdam, The Netherlands): THE DECENTRALIZED WORLD AND THE ARTS 15 November 2006, from 6 p.m. - Marko Stamenkovic curator (O3ONE - Belgrade, Serbia) Dis-Economy of Life - On Migratory Aesthetics, Travelling Concepts & Organization of Economic Life - Collaborative Media Project, a Travelling Video Installation of the Amsterdam based Cinema Suitcase. Members of the collective are Mieke Bal (Netherlands), Zen Marie (South Africa), Thomas Sykora (Netherlands), Gary Ward (Ireland), Michelle Williams (England) In the videoworks by means of visual description, narrative, encounters, and reflexivity dis-economy of life occurs at the present time in all the domains. As a result, people float in uncertainty, at the same time economically connected to and yet, disconnected from one another. One can see the levels on which lives have been dis-organized, and look at what people do to cope, reorganize, and find alternative units and places to get their act together again. 17 November 2006, from 6 p.m. - Péter Fuchs (Budapest): lecture on the aestetics of fleeing, the building up of an economic life and its incomprehensibility ArtPool, Hungary NEW BOOK Dan Catanus, Vasile Buga, Power and Society, The Soviet Bloc under the Impact of De-Stalinization, 1956, The National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism, Bucharest, 2006. Celebrating half a century from 1956, this volume brings together new information from the archives, documents, theories and new perspectives on the effects of de-stalinisation process in Communist countries, the relation between Moscow and its allies, especially on the revolutionary events that took place in Poland and Hungary in 1956 autumn. The studies published in this volume refer to the most important events in the Communist countries during 1956 year: Nikita Krushev’s Secret Speech (Aleksandr Stykalin, Nikita Khruschev’s Secret Speech an the Process of its Making); the de-stalinisation process in Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia (Ana Lalaj, Tirana's conference of April 1956 - an Abortive Spring of Democracy in Albania, Iskra Baeva, 1956 in Bulgaria - A Year of Reforms and Adjustment, Stanislav Balik, Czechoslovakia in the Year 1956: the Roots of the Silence and the Distance, Dan C*t*nu*, The Impact of the Secret Speech on the Romanian Workers’ Party Leadership. The Process of De-Stalinization in Romania); october 1956 events in Poland (*ukasz Kami*ski, Poland in 1956, Adam Burakowski, The Events of 1956 in Poland as a Movement of the Whole Nation); the Hungarian revolution (Csaba Békés, Could the Hungarian Revolution have succeeded in 1956? Myths, legends and illusions, János M. Rainer, A Progress of Ideas: The Hungarian Revolution of 1956); Chinese, Romanian and American reactions to Hungarian revolution (Shen Zhihua, China’s Role and Influence in the Revolts in Poland and Hungary in 1956, Florin Constantiniu, 1956: From Budapest to Bucharest, Ana-Maria Catanus, Paul Goma and the Experience of 1956. The Beginning of a Dissident Biography, Alexandru-Murad Mironov, In the Middle of the Hungarian *Counter-Revolution”. The Testimony of a Romanian Communist, Alexandru Purc*ru*, The United States and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution). NIST, Romania ROUNDTABLE ON THE JEWISH NATIONAL MOVEMENT IN THE USSR The process of revival of the national consciousness of Soviet Jews: reasons, specific tendencies, and context. Round table moderators: Oleg Budnitskii, Director of the Research Center of Russian and East European Jews and Arsenii Roginskii, Chairman of the Council of the International Organization Memorial COMMEMORATION OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1956 HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION WEBPAGE, CONFERENCES THE 1956 HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION PROGRAM AT OSA ARCHIVUM, HUNGARY The OSA Archivum cordially invites you to a series of events to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution on the 4th of November. The commemoration is dedicated to those who left the country in 1956 and 1957 as a result of the suppression of the Revolution. OSA Archivum, Hungary OTHER EVENTS CONFERENCE EXHIBITION Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, USA INTERVIEW With Poet And Former Political Prisoner Irina Ratushinskaya The INTERNATIONAL SAMIZDAT [RESEARCH] ASSOCIATION (IS[R]A) NEWSLETTER |