New York City, December 18, 2008: Judit and Ikhlaq get married!
They had Nikah, the Muslim ceremony, on December 18, and the Jewish/interfaith ceremony on December 19 (pictures at the bottom).
This is our first HumanDHS wedding! After Victoria gave us our first HumanDHS baby in 2007!
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Thanking Beth Fisher-Yoshida, Juliette de Wolfe, and Molly at the ICCCR, Alba Taveras at SIPA, and Camilla Hsiung. New York City, December 17, 2008.
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New York City Westside, December 13, 2008.
1. Judit Revesz picked up the wedding gift offered to her and dear Ikhlaq by our HumanDHS network!
2. Metropolitan Opera, with Judy Kuriansky's shoes! (I usually buy the cheapest Opera tickets online in advance, for the Family Circle under the roof of the Opera, for something like 15 dollars each, which means that I only have partial view of the stage. This serves me well because I am usually so tired that I would fall asleep if I did not have to engage in the continuous exercise of bowing forward to see the stage and backward to read the subtitles! This is my very special "vacation and exercise program" in NY! This year I went to five performances, in four weeks (Madama Butterfly, La Damnation de Faust, The Queen of Spades, Tristan and Isolde, Don Giovanni)!)
3. Demonstrating Evelin's office
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Round Table 2 on Day Two of our workshop, Friday, December 12, 2008.
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Third pre-workshop meeting, December 10, 2008:
We have our Board of Directors meeting with Kristabelle Munson and Tiffany Melendez presenting us with ab IT solution that can move our work forward, and they kindly offer to mentor us also in the future. Thank YOU, dear Kristabelle and Tiffany! Your help is life-saving for us!
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This laptop is the headquarters of our HumanDHS network. It is slowly breaking down since about one year, both with respect to its inner and its outer workings. The outer damage shown above (all buttons are worn down and I had to remove the space bar, since its underlying mechanism no longer works) would be easier to repair than the inner failings, which require about half a day of repeated re-booting after crushes for half a day of work.
The HumanDHS network has generously collected the resources to buy a new computer, which Evelin will receive in Norway in January 2009. Our warm thanks go to all the sponsors of the new laptop and the IT engineers at the Department of Psychology at the University in Oslo for their untiring selfless support. In October 2008, they kindly invested three days into re-installing Windows on the old computer, in a last-ditch attempt to prolong its life, unfortunately in vain; the general break-down of the system is too severe.
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Ikhlaq Hussain's sitar concert on December 6, 2008 (at the The BodyTalk Center in New York City at 1123 Broadway, Suite 1205)
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International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (ICCCR), Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, Party on December 4, 2008.
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The International Conference on Rebuilding Sustainable Communities for Children and Their Families after Disasters conference.
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Château de Chillon, Montreux-Veytaux, Canton Vaud/Waadt, Switzerland, Sunday, October 26th, 2008.
The picture on the left side is taken from http://www.myswitzerland.com/.
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The Château de Chillon was not always inhabitated, but visited from time to time. In the Middle Ages, there were no capitals or seats of government. Rulers were always on the move. The reason was that local communities, with their lords, based on agriculture, were rather sedentary and not yet interconnected in the same way as today. Anybody who wished to forge larger communities from smaller ones, who aimed at creating a higher level of unity so to speak, had to begin with bringing local units together by traveling to them. Today, global mobility and communication are much more advanced. However, even today, global unity is lacking. By being globally mobile, I attempt to stimulate this global unity. Clearly, I have no power, and I am not like a king of the Middle Ages. What I do, however, is taking the unifying task very seriously. I regard our HumanDHS network as a seed for an alternative global community. Not only am I not a kind, the other difference is that unification in former times was typically imposed from above, not just by traveling persuasion, but also by the sword. I wish to forge a new global identity and consciousness bottom up.

The Swiss National Museum – Château de Prangins, Canton Vaud/Waadt, Switzerland, celebrates its 10th anniversary, on Saturday, October 4th, 2008, from 3 pm to 11:30 pm with Le Jardin des Lumières, a social sculpture orchestrated by Muma.
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The Castle of Prangins on Lake Geneva or Lac Leman was once owned by
Katharine Dexter McCormick (1875–1967), who once owned this castle and who, almost single-handedly, financed the development of the birth control pill.

"Dignity or Humiliation: The World at a Crossroad," Lecture at the Department of Psychology (part of PSYC3203 - Anvendt sosialpsykologi), 30th September 2008, 10.00-12.00.
Please see early versions of this introductory talk/paper here or at http://ssrn.com/abstract=668742 (this paper's SSRN ID is 668742); see a more recent version in the first issue of the Journal of HumanDignity and Humiliation Studies, March 2007.
These pictures are taken on 2nd October, upon departure from Oslo.
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The unspeakable Brunswick Monument in Geneva, Switzerland, in September 2008.
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Katharine Dexter McCormick almost single-handedly financed the development of the birth control pill. She once owned the castle of Prangins on Lake Geneva or Lac Leman, Canton Vaud/Waadt, Switzerland, see the picture from the http://www.myswitzerland.com/ website.
For exercise, I attempt to swim for 15 minutes in the early morning in front of her castle. (By the way, dear Zsuzsa, I don't need to dry my hair afterward swimming, because I put it up! See the picture above which I took for you!)
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Visting Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi's office in Yverdon, Canton Vaud/Waadt, Switzerland, 3rd August 2008.
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Varda Mühlbauer & her husband Arik visit Hameln, Niedersachsen/Lower Saxony, Germany, 24th July 2008.
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16th-17th July 2008, with Color Line (MS Color Fantasy), from Norway (Oslo) to Continental Europe (Kiel), a journey of 20 hours. The journey begins with waiting in Oslo (before driving onboard), then MS Color Fantasy leaves the harbour of Oslo, and arrival is next morning in Kiel, when everybody drives off the ship again.
MS Fantasy is a veritable cruise ship and these picture document this. Since 1994, I am used to its predecessor MS Prinsesse Ragnhild, a much more modest ship, where I always got an inexpensive cabin under the car deck and shared it (first with several people, in later years with one person). Through sharing a cabin I met many very interesting people on these ship journeys, and I regret that this option is no longer available on MS Fantasy and MS Magic (which replaced MS Kronsprins Harald).
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Here (and further down), you see the pictures from Evelin's camera, for each day separately - here you see the photos of Monday, 23rd June 2008: Midsummer Eve Party on Bygdøy.
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Day Six, Sunday, 29th June 2008.

•  Top row: Bergen Art Musuem (Bergen Kunstmuseum):
Left: Kinetic Art by Argentine Julio Le Parc - "Multiple" (1968, a motor propels polished metal bands, which reflect and rotate the painted background strips, thus creating novel perspectives - this could be a suitable metaphor for our HumanDHS work: taking core ideas and creating something new), see here the pictures taken by Svanibor Pettan
Middle: Arne Ekeland - "Sisters of Liberty" (1938)*
Right: two pictures of humiliation - Reidar Aulie "The Brothel" (1933), and Christian Krohg - "The Fight for Survival" (1890)

•  Middle row: Fløyen, see here the pictures taken by Svanibor Pettan

•  Bottom: Bryggen

*Text on the leaflet of the museum explaining Arne Ekeland's 'Sisters of Liberty': Arne Ekeland is one of the most unusual figures within Norwegian 20 th century art. He expressed clear political convictions through a highly personal style, rich in symbolism. One of Ekeland's chief works is the Sisters of Freedom . This was a proposal he submitted to a competition for decorating the main auditorium of Oslo 's city hall. The pictorial program would have covered three walls. On one side wall, human figures would be depicted as isolated individuals in society, with war as their only source of community. The other side wall would show a multitude protesting against the governing powers. In the picture intended for the central wall, The Sisters of Freedom , we see 'a new earth.' Here, a black woman and a white woman remove the 'false borders between nations', and thus unite the entire world's liberated peoples, farmers and industrial workers. Although the jury purchased Ekeland's proposal, they nevertheless rejected it, arguing that the motifs were morbid and the literary context unclear. In all likelihood, Ekeland's vision of society was too radical. It lacked the 'festive effect and Norwegian character' found in Henrik Sørensen's winning proposal.

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Day Nine, Wednesday, 2nd July 2008, Oslo, with Linda Hartling, Rick Slaven, and Finn Tschudi:
From left:
1. Frognerseter (in front of a picture of Arne Næss, who participated in our 2nd Annual Conference in Paris, France, in 2003)
2. The Norwegian Nobel Institute (Det Norske Nobelinstitutt), with Alfred Nobel guarding the entrance
3. The Castle (Slottet), then we paid Norsk Design, and Juhls' Silvergallery in Kautokeino a visit
4. City Hall (Rådhuset)
5. Meeting with Finn Tschudi
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15th-16th June 2008, with Color Line (MS Color Fantasy), from Continental Europe (Kiel) to Norway (Oslo), a journey of 20 hours. The journey begins with waiting in Kiel (before driving onboard), then MS Color Fantasy leaves the harbour of Kiel, and arrival is next morning in Oslo, when everybody drives off the ship again.
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Choral / Classique, Musique ancienne TRIO MEDIAEVAL de Norvège, Abbaye de Bonmont, Canton Vaud/Waadt, Switzerland, 18th May 2008.
Trio Mediaeval: Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Anna Maria Friman, Torunn Østrem Ossum.
The pictures on the right show Bonmont church (12th May 2008).
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Yvoire, Canton Vaud/Waadt, Switzerland, on Lac Leman/Lake Geneva, 11th May 2008.
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The castle of Nyon, Canton Vaud/Waadt, Switzerland, 26th April 2008.
"Having conquered Gaul, Julius Caesar decided to establish a colony on the shores of Lake Geneva, the Colonia Iulia Equestris. Its urban centre, Noviodunum ('new fortress' in the Gallic language) was built on the same spot as the modern town centre of Nyon, which owes its modern name to the colony. Imposing public monuments were constructed there from the early years AD. The town prospered during the first two centuries AD."
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Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France, 21st April 2008.
Meeting with Alain d'Iribarne, Senior Fellow, CNRS, Administrator Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme.
April 2008, walking through my beloved Paris: Centre Pompidou; Pont Neuf with Eiffel Tower in the background; Saint Michel, la Seine, Louvre; Sacré Cour (from afar), the amazing new (since 2007) public bicycle fleet.
Each minute, while walking through Paris, I am happy that Hitler's order to burn the city was disobeyed. Likewise, I am so glad that Corbusier was not permitted to replace the city's wonderful buildings with his "living machines."
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Meeting with Jean-Damascène Gasanabo in Geneva, Switzerland, 15th April 2008.
Damas presents his chapter in the book "Comprendre les Génocides."
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Geneva Motor Show, 16th March 2008.
Lifecar: "A 'zero-emission' sports car with a top speed of nearly 100mph is unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show. The hydrogen-powered Lifecar, based on the design of the Morgan Aero-8 roadster, produces little noise and only water vapour from its exhaust," writes Jonathan Fildes, Science and technology reporter, BBC News, please read more at http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/technology/7265267.stm.
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Budapest, Hungary, NATO Advanced Research Workshop 'Indigenous Terrorism: Understanding and Addressing the Root Causes of Radicalisation among Groups with an Immigrant Heritage in Europe,' 7-9th March, 2008.
From left:
1. 9th March: Group photo!
2. 9th March: Zsuzsa and Evelin
3. Danubius Hotel Gellert, photos taken from the hotel's own photo gallery
4. 6th March: National Gallery in the Buda Castle Royal Palace
5. 6th March: Walk along the Danube, being sad about the sight of the Sofitel, Intercontinental, and Marriott hotels (with respect to their architecture and design)
8th March: Evelin's talk: 'The Relevance of Humiliation Studies for the Prevention of Terrorism' (long first draft)
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