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Preliminary programme now available here
The European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS) 2016 take place at the University of Tuebingen, Germany, 6-8 April 2016. There will be 20 workshops. You can find a full list of workshops with convenors and a short description here:
WS A: Worlding beyond the Clash of Civilizations: An Agenda for an International Relations – Islam Discourse
Convenors: Nassef Manabiland Adiong (Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakif University, Istanbul, Turkey) / Raffaele Mauriello (University of Tehran, Iran) / Deina Abdelkader (University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA)
The research agenda of the International Relations and Islamic Studies Research Cohort (Co-IRIS) aims at fostering research that is inclusive of Islamic Studies in International Relations.Co-IRIS is established and built to explore Islamic contributions to the field of IR on many levels: the theoretical level and the praxis of international affairs in Muslim societies.
The workshop aims:1) to provide synergy between Islamic notions/practices and Euro-American notions/practices of international relations, and2) to provide an analytic platform whereby the relations between the Western world and the Muslim world are contextualized.That is to say, going beyond civilization clashes to the stem causes of differences and worldviews to provide a theoretical bridge between the existing viewpoints of international relations at large.
Prospective themes and topics include:
WS B: Resilience and World Politics
Convenors: Philippe Bourbeau (University of Cambridge, UK)
Resilience has gained substantial traction in international politics of late. This scholarship has sparked debates concerning the meaning of resilience and how scholars should go about studying it. IR scholars have employed resilience to describe the actions employed by individuals/groups in the face of economic liberalization and labor market reforms. Others have highlighted the utterly positive influence of resilience on individuals caught up in violent conflicts, while still others have underscored the role of resilience in counter-terrorism strategies and management infrastructure responses.
At the same time as these issues are being explored, new terms of dispute are drawing a dividing line. Scholars attuned to Michel Foucault's governmentality thesis argue that resilience is a product of contemporary neoliberalism and constitutes a strategy permitting states to abdicate responsibility in times of crisis. For these scholars, beneath resilience lurks a dehumanizing political agenda and a strategy for creating unequal regimes of power. In contrast, other scholars have proposed a different socio-political story of the connections between resilience and international politics. They argue that although resilience may be in some instances a neoliberal device for governance, it has a wider range of meanings as well; reducing resilience to a neoliberal product limits more than it reveals in the context of international politics.
The objective of the workshop is to bring together these two understandings of the link between resilience and world politics, bolster the dialogue between them, and evaluate the added value (or lack thereof) of a resilience approach to international studies.
WS C: Institutionalized Inequalities – How International Organizations Shape Global Order
Convenors: Caroline Fehl (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF - HSFK), Germany) / Katja Freistein (Centre for Global Cooperation Research/University Duisburg‐Essen, Germany)
The workshop will investigate the idea how studying International Relations through the conceptual lens of "inequality research" can add to our understanding of global order.This order can be understood as societal, i.e. as relations among unequal global subjects. In particular, we seek to draw attention to the manifold ways in which inequality is institutionalized. Inequality among states, non‐state groups and individuals, we argue, is never simply a material feature of the system – as a realist perspective on unequal power relations would hold – but is constituted, produced, reproduced and changed through institutional mechanisms.
Examples such as the G20 or the UN Security Council are best‐known cases of such inequalities, but almost any other international organization can be involved in the reproduction or transformation of unequal relations – be they material or non‐material.Which inequalities are concerned and how they are brought about will be empirical questions for the workshop.
The individual contributions to the workshop should explore the institutionalization of inequality in international politics across a broad range of policy‐areas. By aiming to combining case studies of issue‐specific organizations with analyses of broader institutional processes of world order formation, the workshop is meant to reconcile micro, meso and macro perspectives on unequal order with a focus on the reproductive role of international institutions.
The main goal of the workshop will be to identify patterns of (in)equality production throughout a variety of international institutions and across different policy fields, focusing on intra‐ and interorganizational processes (or mechanisms).
WS D: An International Society of What? The State and Beyond
Convenors: Charlotta Friedner Parrat (Uppsala University, Sweden) / Kilian Spandler (Tübingen University, Germany) / Bettina Ahrens (Tübingen University, Germany)
Current international dynamics seem to belie prophets of the advent of a post-Westphalian era. Centrifugal tendencies and secessionist movements aim at creating new states and even the EU as a prototypical post-Westphalian idea seems to adopt features of 'stateness', such as increasingly restrictive borders and the build-up of military capabilities. While seemingly contradictory, these dynamics suggests that the sovereign state seems to be back at centre stage of international society with a vengeance. However, it is far from clear whether conventional concepts of the state, sovereignty and authority provide an adequate lense through which the current, often ambiguous developments can be analysed and normatively assessed.
This workshop therefore aims at problematizing the state from a variety of theoretical perspectives and at examining its special position as the constituent unit of international society from various empirical, conceptual and normative angles. Possible topics for papers include:
WS E: The Politics of Translation in World Society: On Discourses, Knowledge and Ordering
Convenors: Zeynep Gulsah Capan (Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey) / Maj Grasten (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) / Filipe dos Reis (University of Erfurt, Germany)
The concept of translation is essential when it comes to understand social change and the constitution of agency.This workshop focuses on translation both as an analytical lens to observe discursive formations in their relationship to knowledge conditions and as a practice in and through which social differences are enacted, contested and recursively altered.
The workshop departs from the observation that translation is a central concern in various disciplines and schools interested in how orders and differences are enacted in and through discourses (most explicitly in Actor-Network Theory, but also in anthropology, postcolonial, feminist and critical legal studies, and among critical constructivists in International Relations).
Notwithstanding, there has to date been no thorough discussion in International Relations of what the concept of translation means, how we empirically observe processes of translation, and what methodological implications the concept entails in and across these scholarly fields.
To this end, the workshop aims at bringing together various perspectives on translation and creating an interdisciplinary environment to reconstruct the ways in which discourses, knowledge and ordering intersect in processes of translation.
The aim of this workshop is thus to explore and discuss new perspectives on the social practice of translation vis-à-vis the making of and interaction between social orders and representations (eg. 'the Other'). In analytically foregrounding practices of translation it is therefore possible to inquire into how boundaries are drawn and binaries made to select, classify and appropriate knowledge for specific aims.
WS F: Rethinking Responsibility: Military Humanitarianism beyond Western States?
Convenors: Mischa Hansel (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany) / Alex Reichwein (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany)
Ten years after its endorsement by the UN world summit, the status, meaning and applicability of the responsibility to protect (R2P) remain disputed. Unsurprinsingly, NATO's intervention in Libya 2011 reinforced the view of critics who continue to see it as an encroachment on the sovereignty of weak states and as a hegemonic project of the West. At the same time, however, there is a tendency among some non-Western powers to legitimize their military interventions in humanitarian terms. Russia's interventions in Georgia 2008 and in the Crimea 2014, where humanitarian reasoning has been coupled with the politics of irredentism, are cases in point. Other examples are military actions by regional organizations and hegemons such as Brasil, the African Union, Nigeria or Saudi-Arabia.
The workshop sheds light on such instances of non-Western military humanitarianism by asking a number of empirical, conceptional and theoretical questions:(1) Are references to humanitarian principles simply meant to duisguise geopolitical motives in the abovementioned cases? Or is there an element of norm diffusion at work?(2) Do military efforts to "save our people" question the cosmopolitan foundation of humanitarian ideas?(3) Is it still adequate, or has it ever been adequate to understand the R2P debate in terms of a divide between democratic and non-democratic or Western versus non-Western states?
The workshop encourages contributors working within and between different theoretical traditions to discuss all these and other fundamental questions and, thus, to rethink the R2P in light of non-Western military humanitarianism.
WS G: Social Media´s Puzzle and Possibilities in/on IR
Convenors: Susan Jackson (Malmö University, Sweden) / Libby Hemphill (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
International Relations (IR) as a discipline is only beginning to explore the implications of social media. Yet this is already influencing the functioning of the state domestically and internationally.It is thus apposite for IR to support a systematic discussion regarding the gaps found in the literature so allowing for a more complex understanding of how social media use affects international politics and the contributions and challenges social media research has for IR.
The workshop will foster a structured conversation on IR research and social media. The focus includes a discussion of the empirics of social media and how social media contributes to and affects IR, and on the methods of using social media in IR scholarship.
It is framed to investigate how social media changes the relationships between, and constellation of, the actors and influences in international politics, as well as to examine how social media itself challenges (the field of) IR because of the methodological challenges posed by the structure and use of social media. Possible questions for papers in this workshop include: How does social media impact the political realm in ways that reach beyond as well as incorporate the initial social intent of the technology? Who counts in political space and what counts as political discourse? What kinds of new methods might we need in order to handle the amount of data now created on a daily basis? How does the availability of data impact our ability to study significant international events?
WS I: Secure worlds in motion: exploring the security/mobility nexus
Convenors: Matthias Leese (University of Tübingen, Germany) /Stef Wittendorp (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
While critical work on borders and security has brought about innovative theorizing of the international and its circulations, it is nevertheless structured primarily around two political figures – that of the migrant and that of the terrorist. This workshop engages in more detail the characteristics of contemporary mobility and the ways in which mobility is being conceptualized to render the international secure. Thus, we seek to explore the security/mobility nexus through a juxtaposition of (critical) security studies with the mobilities turn in Political Geography.
Mobilities literature calls to problematize how mobility is enabled and brought into being, while at the same time scrutinizing how (new) forms of mobility (re)structure social life. Security studies should pay increased attention to how the formation of 'fixities' and 'moorings' makes possible certain forms of international mobility. Moreover, security scholars should examine how connecting mobilities of material infrastructure (e.g. roads, railway tracks, airports, seaports, pipelines, electricity cables, etc.) and communication networks, enable a politics of security that is grounded in both data-driven practices of risk assessment and pre-emption, and more classic guarding practices.
Exploring security/mobility also highlights the necessity to engage normative questions of power and justice that are deeply entangled in today's international system, thereby producing strongly diverging travel experiences based on citizenship and social status. The workshop therefore also encourages participants to speak to questions of who is rendered harmless and mobile and who is rendered a (potential) threat and therefore immobilized.
WS J: Doing Research Differently: Empirical Challenges for Postcolonial/Decolonial IR
Convenors:Franziska Müller (University of Kassel, Germany) / Aram Ziai (University of Kassel, Germany)
The 'postcolonial turn' took some time to reach the realm of International Relations, but has since then been quite successful in opening up epistemological and methodological debates. In doing so, it suggests two strategies that point to a different way of actually doing IR research: the deconstruction of existing methodologies and methods, that (re)produce the coloniality of knowledge; and a reconstruction and/or reinvention of research practice.
Nevertheless, the existing body of empirical research is still fragmented and particularly lacks works that apply a different kind of epistemology/methodology. While postcolonial studies have already found their way into some IR textbooks many IR topics (including some highly politicized ones: global climate/energy governance, international political economy, security studies, EU studies) widely miss postcolonial perspectives. In fact that is where it becomes delicate: while postcolonial theory promotes the fancy feeling of theorizing in a somewhat wild and unconventional way, empirical research still needs to live up to its theoretical claims.
To challenge the "right to research" (Appadurai) points to some questions post-/decolonial IR needs to take into account:
WS K: Geopolitics and strategic thinking in EU foreign policy
Convenors: Cristian Nitoiu (London School of Economics, UK) / Monika Sus (Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany)
The Ukraine crisis has deeply affected the EU's understanding of its role in international relations. Diplomats in Brussels, Berlin or London seem to have embraced the idea that the EU must have a more strategic approach to the politics of the neighborhood, but also world politics.
To a great deal of academics and analysts this shift should have occurred much sooner. Scholars taking this stance have particularly focused on the EU's grand strategy, its strategic partnerships, the role of public diplomacy, (soft) geopolitics, the development of CSDP missions or the relationships between values, interests and strategic thinking.
The workshop aims to discuss and contextualize the recent shift towards geopolitics and strategic thinking in EU foreign policy. It will evaluate how recent events international arena (such as the Ukraine crisis, the Arab spring or the rise of Isis) have emphasised the need for the EU to engage with geopolitics and strategic thinking in foreign policy.
In this sense, the workshop willa) focus on developing theories of EU foreign policy that can capture and explain the role of geopolitics and strategic in the EU's foreign policy,b)discuss empirically grounded accounts of the way geopolitics and strategic thinking shape EU foreign policy.
The workshop will provide a forum for discussing in a systematic manner the role of geopolitics and strategic thinking in EU foreign policy. The results of the workshop are to be published in a special issue in leading journal as well as an edited volume on foreign policy mistakes.
WS L: Political Struggle and Performative Rights in Global Politics: New Directions in Research
Convenors: Louiza Odysseos (Univeristy of Sussex, Brighton, UK) / Anja Eleveld (VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands)
The workshop aims to develop new research directions in the juncture of rights, performativity and political struggle. It is particularly interested in contributions examining the links between practices of claiming rights, performativity and contemporary political struggles, seen for instance in recent claims to the right of dignity or the right to decent work. It acknowledges the concerns of critical scholars questioning the ability of rights to promote change, which have focused on the cost of increased state power, possible invigilation of civil society activity and normalization of identities (e.g. Brown 1995).
Its objectives, however, are to analyse the relationship between rights and democracy anew by exploring further how it is that rights-claiming as performance contributes to, and shapes, political struggles, as seen in recent work by Zerilli (2005), Madison (2011) and Zivi (2012). The workshop invites contributions exploring the performative dimensions of rights-claiming as democratic practice, investigations of the often ambivalent effects of rights claims in both contesting and constituting the meaning of identity, the contours of community and the forms which political subjectivisation may take.
In this vein, the workshop has three main aims: first, to theoretically develop the concepts of 'performative rights' and performativity. Second, to use such theorizations to inform and heuristically analyse distinct forms of contemporary political struggle, ranging from procedures of judicial activism to processes of adjudication and strategic litigation to struggles over meanings of rights and also their apparent rejection in recent riots
and other forms of socio-political conduct. And finally, to question inductively the very notions of struggle on the basis of empirical research on historical and ongoing political performances.
WS M: The Politics of Otherness: The Identity/Alterity Nexus in International Relations
Convenors: Erica Simone Almeida Resende (Candido Mendes University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) / Sybille Reinke de Buitrago (University of Hamburg (IFSH) and Institute for Theology and Peace (ITHF), Hamburg, Germany)
Traditionally, IR has understood its object of study as state actions outside national borders in a context of anarchy. Following this, the discipline has evolved perceiving its problématiques as pertaining to either the war-peace nexus or the conflict-cooperation nexus.
This workshop acknowledges the emergence of a third nexus in IR: the identity/alterity nexus, which allows us to conceive international relations as the continuous process of constructing relations of self and other, or even the construction of difference through a process of othering. This workshop aims to understand the process of othering, its factors and dynamics, and to elucidate if othering is negatively colored or not and thereby generate insights regarding conditions for seeing the other as equal.
By exploring the implications of the identity/alterity nexus as related to processes of othering for explaining and understanding international relations, we propose to formulate a new research agenda about identity and alterity in IR: How do identity and identity formation processes occur and develop at different levels, times and dimensions? How do discourses of differentiation and identification construct state identities and interests? How do otherness and othering practices express themselves in foreign policy discourses, narratives, images, literature, and popular culture? How could questions of tolerance, religion, collective memories, gender as well as feelings of solidarity and empathy be called upon to modify state behavior? If it is true that otherness could come in diverse forms and not only from negative differentiation, how could one maintain their own identity without producing barriers toward others?
WS N: Popular Culture and World Politics – Time, Identity, Effect, Affect
Convenors: Nick Robinson (Leeds University, UK) /Kyle Grayson (Newcastle University, UK)
This workshop aims to bring together leading and emerging scholars who are currently exploring the state of the art in the sub-field of popular culture and world politics (PCWP) with a particular interest in questions of methodology and method.
The general motivations of the workshop are to unpack how popular culture might matter, when it might matter, where it might matter, to whom it might matter, and how its myriad influences might be assessed and/or perceived. In light of the broader aesthetic turn in the social sciences in general, and the discipline of international relations in particular, it is envisioned that papers could examine how aesthetic approaches can provide additional insights into popular culture and world politics. It is anticipated that questions of method and methodologies, as well as engagement with core concepts shaping how we might understand the popular culture-world politics continuum, will be areas of shared interest amongst participants.
A central concern of the workshop is to empower researchers. We are minded that many early career researchers and postgraduates (in particular) find it difficult to legitimate research on popular culture and world politics within what often appears to be the confines of mainstream IR. Central to the workshop is an emphasis that far from being trivial, popular culture is, in fact, of foundational importance to all international studies scholars.
While submissions are invited from across the range of work in PCWP, we are particularly interested in papers that speak to the aesthetic subject; methods and concepts beyond the visual; affects and effects; temporality; and identity construction.
WS O: International Politics in the Anthropocene
Convenors: Delf Rothe (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Amongst geologists there is a growing consent that we have entered a new geological epoch of the Anthropocene. The emergence of the Anthropocene is intrinsically linked to international politics. It is the dark side of a global economic model that rests upon the large-scale exploitation of fossil fuels resources and which is sustained, amongst others, by global economic, development or security governance. At the same time, the identification and definition of the Anthropocene itself is an inherently political process. The Anthropocene is not simply discovered but actually performed through hybrid networks of different techno-scientific, aesthetic and political practices.
The Anthropocene also affects international politics at a fundamental level by changing the very conditions in which it takes place. Processes like changing climate patterns, large-scale migration, species extinction and shifting international power relations could change international politics considerably. One might even speak of an emerging "Anthropocene geopolitics" (Dalby 2013).
Finally, the Anthropocene offers a possibility to rethink theories of (international) politics. Accepting the notion of the Anthropocene might help overcoming the artificial boundary between the natural and the social worlds that has haunted modern political thought and thereby pave the way for a new global ethics.
The workshop addresses these multiple imbrications between the Anthropocene and international politics from a variety of conceptual angles. It decidedly seeks to transcend the established disciplinary boundaries of IR and invites empirical, theoretical as well as aesthetic approaches that address the international politics of the Anthropocene.
WS P: Decentred Practices of Regionality: How the Practical Turn in IR and Critical Border Studies Contribute to Theorising Regionalism
Convenors: Alessandra Russo (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy) / Luca Raineri (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy)
Research on regional orders and complexes has questioned the exclusive prerogative on the part of the state in "going regional": neither the state is the only regionalising actor nor is the only place where decisions to go regional are made. Notions of "trans-state regionalism", "shadow regionalism" and "micro-regionalism"1 have been introduced more than one decade ago to account for the presence of alternative providers of regionhood2 sustaining different patterns and processes of regional interaction.
The panel is designed as a venue to unfold, examine, and disclose the potential of turning to practices3 to study shadow regionalism, through different perspectives:
WS Q: Transforming violent war-economies: What we know and what we need to know
Convenors: Sascha Werthes (University Koblenz-Landau, Germany) / Nina Engwicht (University Koblenz-Landau, Germany)
Profits resulting from the production and trade of valuable natural resources have long been identified as a driving force of violent conflict. The prospect of profits enables and exacerbates armed violence and facilitate the occurrence of (illicit) war-economies. Accordingly, the transformation of war-economic structures and dealing with involved entrepreneurs ranks high on the (inter-)national post-conflict peacebuilding agenda as both factors might constitute a major risk to the lasting peace and stability of post-conflict states. Yet, we know little about the fate of war-economies after the end of violent conflict and their sustainable impact on post-conflict societies.
The workshop aims to shed light on existing examples of transformation processes of war-economies and their impact on post-conflict societies. We welcome papers that link academic research on the topic with current policy debates. The goal is to collect possible contributions for publication of an edited volume on the topic. Papers should address one or several of the following subject areas:
WS R: Living the "new normal": Post-crisis politics of money, debt and time
Convenors: Joscha Wullweber (University of Kassel, Germany) / Benjamin Wilhelm (University of Erfurt, Germany)
The global financial crisis has left the European Union in a protracted 'post-crisis' state defined by ongoing crisis dynamics of sovereign risk, clashes between financial rationalities and democratic legitimacy, and growing social tensions and inequality. While some of these shifts manifest themselves openly, their full reach is hidden in the complexities of recent structural reformations in the EU. The post-crisis transformation of fiscal relations, financial regulation and governance, as well as economic policy, have shifted the very meaning of normality outside of public debate but with profound social, political and economic implications. This workshop wants to shed light on the new normal in the EU and beyond, by examining the politics of three central aspects: money, debt and time.
The politics of money concerns the new role of the common currency in the eurozone and its impaired symbolism for the imaginary of a unified Europe in an era of 'unconventional' monetary policy and excess liquidity. The nature of debt,and in particular of sovereign debt, is undergoing a profound transformation, requiring increasing levels of collateral and guarantees. Both money and debt crucially involve the notion of time. The moment when debt turns into the obligation to pay is politically highly contested and implies a particular formatting of possible futures in the present. The workshop will explore these new configurations in terms of their production of specific social futures, their relation to power and sovereignty and new epistemologies of safety.
WS S: Human rights, humanitarianism, security: beyond the sovereign politics of life
Convenors: Chenchen Zhang (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) / Polly Pallister-Wilkins (VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands)
The proliferation of the international human rights regime and the development of humanitarian governance in the second half of the 20th century have presented humanity or human life as a limit on the exercise of sovereign power. However, the literature inspired by the concepts of biopolitics and biopower has drawn attention to the originary and paradoxical relation of both rights and human life to sovereignty.
This workshop aims to address theoretical and empirical questions on how human rights, humanitarianism and security entangle with one another in different arenas of international relations, such as military intervention, disaster relief and the multiple regimes of governing human mobility at, within and outside territorial borders. It is particularly interested in examining the contingent and ambiguous features of humanitarian politics that cannot be captured by the primacy of sovereignty and which might enable us to rethink concepts such as rights, humanity and solidarity.
How do claims of human rights and those of humanitarianism differ and how do they conflate with one another in the form of a minimalist biopolitics? How does the doctrine and practice of preemptive self-defence bear upon the discussion on humanitarian intervention in terms of sovereign exception and the depoliticisation of life? In what ways do human rights and humanitarian organisations challenge as well as participate in the regimes of border and mobility control?How do we envisage a political approach to humanitarianism and alternative understandings of humanity?
The workshop welcomes contributions from different disciplinary perspectives and focused on varied geographical locations.
WS T: Regional Integration for Peace? Comparing Integration Experiences Across Regions
Convenors: Marco Pinfari (American University Cairo, Egypt) / Giulia Piccolino (GIGA Hamburg, Germany)
Regional integration is often seen as a tool to transform conflicts and bring about peace. The EU thus received the Peace Nobel Prize in 2012, and it has promoted integration across the world for both economic and political reasons. Yet the existing literature is much more sceptical about the link between integration and peace, even in the European context. Often integration only seems to offer a framework to draw on if windows of opportunity for change arise.
In addition, the effects of integration seem to be determined by a whole range of additional factors, from global power distribution to local identity narratives. In this workshop, we invite papers that analyse the link between integration and peace in a variety of geographical contexts. Our definition of integration in this endeavour is a broad one, which includes more intergovernmental regional projects as well as more supranational ones, and takes into account economic as well as openly political integration processes.
We are also interested in papers that look at the degree to which the promotion of integration is legitimised by its contribution to conflict transformation, and whether this promotion has led to any successes in integration and peace. We invite papers from a variety of disciplinary and methodological backgrounds, from explanatory to critical, in order to look at this issue from as many angles as possible.
Each workshop may accept up to 20 participants. Please note that participants are expected to attend their workshop for the entire period of the event. The deadline for paper proposals is 2 October 2015. Proposals MUST be submitted via this link.Applicants will be notified about the outcome of the selection process by the end of October 2015.
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Note that the following is a framework programme, and that workshop convenors are responsible for the organisation of individual workshops, including the allocation of papers to specific slots.
The keynote speaker at the plenary on 6 April will be Michael Zürn, Director of the Global Governance research unit at the WZB-Berlin Social Science Centre and a graduate of Tübingen University. You can view his profile here.
Registration opens on 16 October 2015 and closes on 30 November 2015. The registration fee for EISA members will be EUR 100 (full) / EUR 50 (research students). The non-member rate is EUR 200 (full) / EUR 100 (students) and does not include membership. Click here to register .
Tübingen is one of the oldest university cities in Europe. The university was founded in 1477. For a fee of 5 Euros, EWIS participants can take part in a walking tour of the old town which can only be booked in advance during registration. To book, select the "Tübingen walking tour" excursion and add the 5 Euro fee to your cart. Walks will take place in any weather; fees are non-refundable unless we cancel the tour.
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Tübingen is conveniently located with easy access from Stuttgart.
By plane: Take bus 828 from Stuttgart airport in front of Terminal 1 (6,60 Euros one-way, payable on the bus), ca. 1 hour. Tübingen main station is the final stop. Taxis take only 20 minutes, but cost 70 Euros one-way. A timetable and further information (in German only) is available here (http://www.bahn.de/regiobusstuttgart/view/angebot/buslinien/airport_sprinter.shtml). The last bus leaves the airport at 22:15. It is best to avoid arrivals later than that. If you do arrive later and do not want to take a taxi, it is often possible to find good rates for hotels either on or close to the airport, or you can check out other travel options here.
By train: Most train routes lead via Stuttgart, from where you have to take a regional train (every 30 minutes) to Tübingen. From Italy/Switzerland (Zurich), you ought to change at Horb and take the regional train from there. Further information is available here.
By bus: Tübingen is also served by a number of long-distance buses. To compare possibilities and prices, visit this page.
Find more information about accommodation here.
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"Enemy fighters at 2 o'clock!...Roger, What should i do until then?"
2010 r1200r, 2009 harley crossbones, 2008 triumph/sidecar, 1970 norton commando 750
I'll take a guess.....$22,750.00 plus $510.00 shipping for a total of $23,260.00 for a base model. However, for the first 6 months of availability they will only come with a Premium Package and that will add an extra $1,385.00, for a total of $24,625.00. Of course, if you want additional options you could end up around $26,000 to $27,000.
I'm sure they won't put a USA price on it till they're ready for delivery.
Look at the price of competing large tourers. The 2010 Goldwing lists for $28K for the top-of-the line model. Starts at $22.9K
The 2010 Electra Glide CVO Ultra Classic sells for $36K (not sure if this is a real competitor, though - in my book, there is no competition to BMW)
So there.
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My buddy bought a 2010 1300GT for $23,000 two months ago because he couldn't find one that wasn't loaded. My guess is you should expect all bikes to be fully loaded.
The adaptive headlight alone is probably over $1000.
$28,000 is my completely uneducated guess. The GT should be about $25K
Last edited by zoridog; 09-14-2010 at 02:35 PM. Reason: added GT guess
I say $24,500 for the GT, $28,00o for the other model.
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I have a brochure I got at the Toronto bike show from BMW Motorrad Canada. It has the price of the GT at $24,100 and the GTL at $27,225. This is the MSRP for base model, before taxes, prep charges and options.
If $27,225 CAD is accurate for a GTL (Base?) That converts to $26,761 US at todays exchange rates. Add $1,385 for the premium package and you have around $28,100 plus shipping. Very competitive with a 2010 Gold Wing with promised substantial performance and technology advances! This would not be out of line with pricing strategy to capture market share of the luxury tourer segment and in fact, closely resembles BMW's statement in the pre-sales program announcement regarding pricing to be announced.
There was NO financial commitment at my dealer to participate in the pre-sales program. If I don't want to pay the eventual price, maybe I can sell my order position! (Just kidding)
Although the conversion to US$ is interesting it doesn't show the whole picture. In the past, let's say for an R1200RT the price in the US has been a couple of thousand lower than Canada. Prices in Canada are simply higher than in US and it doesn't seem to be related to exchange rate at all. I've never figured it out. The only comment that is offered is market base. Canada smaller = higher prices. I wouldn't be surprised if the US price of the K1600s is at least a couple thousand dollars below the Canadian prices. You lucky folks.
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When you figure in taxes, shipping, options, etc., etc., I think you will ride out the door at $30K plus.
Jeff Dean − BMW MOA Co-founder (1972)
Add TTL depending on where you live and its 30,000 +.


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Steele has tapped into bubbling discontent among independent-thinking minority voters--a phenomenon ignored by MSM elites intent on smearing him as an Uncle Tom, sellout, or "lawn jockey" and pandering to the tired, old liberal establishment.
Lemuel Jones, as he likes to be called, has spent a lifetime guarding the front entrance of one of the oldest surviving mansions in Annapolis, Maryland. But that doesn't mean he's a traitor to his race.
"I've voted straight Democratic in every election they take me to," he said in a personal interview Friday. "Just who is that Malkin woman to be telling stories about me? She's one of those Asians, isn't she? Probably Korean. Or Jewish. I've got no use for her kind."
On the touchy subject of whether he's going to vote for Maryland's black senate candidate, Michael Steele, Mr. Jones is firm: "He's a Republican. I don't vote for Republicans, white, black, brown, or purple. Never did. Never will. Period. So if my ride shows up, I'm going for the other fella."
Why, he's asked, do people continually think that black people of his profession are closet conservatives, capitalists, and other despicable things?
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smile at all the rich white crackers who drive through this entrance. And that goes double for Michael Steele and all the other white, racist Republicans -- like that no-account Malkin broad. And that Bush. Did I tell you how much I hate the President? Well, I do. Any more questions?"
No. That's about it. Now, if you'll excuse us, we have to track down a lead about Laura Bush's torrid sexual affair with Lynn Cheney and George Bush's secret deal to let Halliburton strip-mine all the blue states for coal slag. One of these stories just has to break in time to make sure the Dems win the Senate on Tuesday. Trust us. Would we lie?
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Breathing Deeply
. No. We're not going there. NOT. Try this instead. Log off the usual crap. Forget Michellle Malkin's guilt-ridden 'Come home to Mama and vote Republican' schtick. Get away from Glenn Reynolds's misdirection and sly shilling for Harold Ford and a Dem Congress. GET THE WEDGE OUT OF YOUR BAG and start focusing.
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AORA has announced that Israel's Minister of National Infrastructures, Binyamin Ben Eliezer, has signed AORA's license provide solar electricity to the national grid at its solar thermal power plant at Kibbutz Samar in Israel's southern Arava region.
This is the first such license to be granted by the Israeli government to a solar-thermal technology.
AORA's power plant began construction in January, and following the government's approval will now begin the final phase of the project, commissioning the plant and connecting it to the national power grid.
The company expects to begin power generation by the end of March. Once it begins generating power, AORA expects the unit will supply 100 kW of power to the grid, enough to sustain approximately 50 households.
"By granting AORA the country's first solar-thermal power generation license, the government of Israel fully recognizes the importance of our technology and the significant impact that it could make on Israel's power production," said Haim Fried, CEO of AORA.
"We look forward to following the successful launch of this initial power station with additional units based on our game-changing technology".
AORA's technology, stemming from collaboration with the Weizmann Institute and with Rotem Industries, could see tremendous success if adopted across Israel, supporting the local workforce, academia and further enhancing Israel's competitive advantage in the field. Still, the company is working to set up future installations in other countries as well.
"At the moment we are looking to expand our operations abroad, since the current tariff regime in Israel does not provide economic conditions for implementing solar-thermal projects, said Fried."
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6:30-8pm: Readings
Four authors who are not afraid to challenge the status of poetry, confronting both style and substance with a contemporary approach. Douglas Kearney's latest collection delves into fatherhood, while maintaining a sensitivity to both the words on the page and in the ears. Afaa Michael Weaver explores his childhood traumas through Chinese spiritualism and Daoist ideals. Robin Coste Lewis' examination of the life of Matthew Hensen, an African American explorer who helped discover the North Pole, illumines history with vivid imagery and lyricism. Brett Fletcher Lauer's new work probes into the psyche and complexities of human relationships through a tender and urgent narrative.
Poet/performer/librettist Douglas Kearney's first full-length collection of poems, Fear, Some, was published in 2006 by Red Hen Press. His second, The Black Automaton (Fence Books, 2009), was Catherine Wagner's selection for the National Poetry Series. It was also a finalist for the PEN Center USA Award in 2010. His third collection is Patter (Red Hen Press, 2014). He has received a Whiting Writers' Award, a Coat Hanger award, and fellowships at Idyllwild and Cave Canem. Raised inAltadena,CA, he lives with his family inCalifornia's Santa Clarita Valley. He teaches at CalArts.
Brett Fletcher Lauer is the Deputy Director of the Poetry Society of America. He is the author of A Hotel in Belgium (Four Way Books, 2014) and the co-editor of Poetry in Motion from Coast to Coast (Norton, 2002), Isn't It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets (Wave, 2004), and Bartlett's Words for the Wedding (Little, Brown & Company, 2007). His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Fence, Harper's, Tin House, and elsewhere, and he is a poetry editor of A Public Space.
Robin Coste Lewis is a Provost's Fellow in English and Visual Studies at the University of Southern California. A Cave Canem Fellow, she received her MFA from New York University's Creative Writing Program where she was a Goldwater Fellow in poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including The Massachusetts Review, Callaloo, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, Transition, VIDA, and the Best of Kore Press, amongst others. Fellowships and awards include the Caldera Foundation, the Ragdale Foundation, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Summer Literary Seminars in Kenya. Born in Compton, California, her family is from New Orleans.
Afaa Michael Weaver, formerly known as Michael S. Weaver, is an American poet, short story writer and editor. He is author of numerous poetry collections and his honors include a Fulbright Scholarship and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pew Foundation, and Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Born in Maryland, he studied two years at the University of Maryland. He started 7th Son Press and Blind Alleys, a literary journal. He graduated from Brown University on a fellowship, with an M.A, and Excelsior College with a B.A. He taught at National Taiwan University and Taipei National University of the Arts as a Fulbright Scholar, and was a faculty member at the Cave Canem Foundation's annual retreat. He also studied Chinese language at the Taipei Language Institute in Taiwan. He teaches at Simmons College, and is director of the Zora Neale Hurston Literary Center. He is Chairman of the Simmons International Chinese Poetry Conference. Tess Onwueme, the Nigerian playwright, gave him the Ibo name "Afaa," meaning "oracle," while Dr. Perng Ching-hsi has given him the Chinese name "Wei Yafeng."
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Maddow Accuses Scarborough of 'Tying Barack Obama to Hitler'
I'm beginning to see Joe Scarborough's skirmishes with Mika Brzezinski on Morning Joe as mere batting practice for the much more serious battles he undertakes in the evening with Rachel Maddow on Race for the White House.
As Noel Sheppard documented, Maddow and Scarborough tangled on April 17th, with Joe possibly having exited the set in the end. The pair were back at it on this evening's "Race," the Air America host this time accusing Scarborough of "tying Barack Obama to Hitler."
Maddow's theme throughout the show was that the media has devoted too much coverage to the Rev. Wright matter. David Shuster, subbing for host David Gregory, lit the fuse.
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DAVID SHUSTER: Rachel Maddow, Jay Carney says [Obama] wasn't angry enough [in his comments today on Rev. Wright]. I thought he was exceptionally angry, especially when he talked about how Reverend Wright has taken up three or four consecutive days in the middle of this major debate. Was he not angry enough for you?
RACHEL MADDOW: I thought he seemed angry. But as I said before, so far Barack Obama has said, and I've made notes of it as he's done it: he vehemently disagrees with him, he strongly condemns him, he categorically denounces him, he rejects him outright, today we got that he's appalled by him, that he's outraged by him. I find it incredible that we're all sitting here going "why won't the Jeremiah Wright controversy go away?" Well, you know what? Today, John McCain unveiled his health plan. We got three different statements, three different policies from the candidates on gas prices. We got the President of the United States making a huge economic speech and speaking to reporters for 40 minutes. We got four Marines, four U.S. soldiers, who were announced to have been killed in Iraq yesterday. What else has to happen in the news to push Jeremiah Wright out of the headlines before we do it for six straight headlines on every politics show in the country? This is all we're capable of talking about.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: When you have Jeremiah Wright going in front of the National Press Club saying, again, Barack Obama's spiritual mentor, someone that Barack Obama didn't distance himself from until today, saying that Louis Farrakhan was one of the great people of the 20th and 21st century. The same Louis Farrakhan that said Hitler was a great man and that Judaism was a gutter religion. It required the Obama campaign to do something. There's a big difference between Barack Obama saying in Philadelphia--
Maddow could be seen guffawing on camera.
MADDOW: It didn't require that.
SCARBOROUGH: I'm sorry, you may find that funny. I can guarantee you there are millions of people in America who don't.
MADDOW: I don't find you tying Barack Obama to Hitler funny. I find it funny for you to say--
SCARBOROUGH: Did I do that?
MADDOW: --that what Jeremiah Wright is doing requires a response from Barack Obama.
SCARBOROUGH: Well, it does.
MADDOW: What requires a response is the blanket media coverage of everything Jeremiah Wright does, that will not quit.
SCARBOROUGH: OK, Rachel, if I can talk for a second here.
MADDOW: Please do.
SCARBOROUGH: In Philadelphia Barack Obama said this: "I can no more disown him--Jeremiah Wright--than I can disown the black community or my white grandmother." That's not him separating him[self]. Today, he said he was "divisive and destructive, he was appalling. He gave comfort to those who prey on hate. He is not the man I met 20 years ago." He had to do that.
SHUSTER: Point made, point made.
SCARBOROUGH: He knew he had to do that. And Axelrod knew he had to do it. It's going to make a big difference.
My two cents:
Can any serious person disagree when Scarborough says Obama was obliged to separate himself definitively from Rev. Wright? Maddow might think she's boosting Barack. But had he listened to her when she scoffed at the idea "that what Jeremiah Wright is doing requires a response from Barack Obama," he would have, in my opinion, eventually found himself out of this race.
I don't doubt Obama was angry in his denunciation of Rev. Wright today. But his tone was oddly affectless. In his lack of overt emotion, he reminded me of Dukakis's disastrous response to the Bernie Shaw question. As Bob Herbert has observed, "there is such a thing as being too cool."


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Unions have blasted claims by business groups that the industrial relations system is to blame for the nation's low productivity.
ACTU assistant secretary
Business groups such as Australian Industry Group blame low productivity on the inflexibility of labour practices under the legislation that replaced the Howard government's controversial Work Choices laws in 2010. But an ACTU report that Mr Lyons will release today points to data that shows productivity growth began to fall in the late 1990s, prior to the implementation of Work Choices – and the enactment of that legislation did not have a discernible effect on the rate of productivity growth.
Productivity growth since July 1 last year when the FWA was introduced has been no worse, the report says. The statement echoes similar comments by Fair Work Australia president
The ACTU said last week it was difficult to establish a direct link between the type of industrial regulation and productivity growth. In the last year of Work Choices, he said, agreements between employers and workers removed conditions such as shift loadings, annual leave loadings, penalty rates, public and overtime pay, and rest breaks.
He said: "Cutting wages and conditions and removing employment protections will not increase productivity . . . The real sources of sustainable productivity growth are increased human capital, including through education and training; and increased physical capital in the form of infrastructure and technology and innovation."
On Wednesday, Australia Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive
Also that day, in Sydney, Business Council of Australia president
"What we are asking for is a system that supports the kind of flexibility that saved jobs and businesses during the global financial crisis."
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text: Apparently I'm on some kind of music kick or something this week? I don't know. Either way, Eleanor Friedberger (she's one half of The Fiery Furnaces and the heroine of Franz Ferdinand's "Eleanor Put Your Boots On") has a new single out called "Heaven," and it's good. And the video features some illustrations that look exactly like Chick Tracts.For those of you who didn't grow up in the Bible Belt, Chick Tracts are these little flip book comics about how if you don't accept Jesus as your … [Read more...]


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Starring: Val Kilmer, Kate Bosworth, Lisa Kudrow, Josh
Lucas, Tim Blake Nelson, Christina Applegate, Carrie Fisher and
so on...
Directed by: James Cox
Sadly Wonderland,
even with its delectable cast, slips and clucks through its own
artful delivery ultimately creating nothing more then a kinetic
mess of a film with glimpses of genius.
story is kind of a non-proven fictional tale of an infamous non-fictional
massacre in Hollywood California. Back in the early eighties a
group of drug dealing thieves took the advice of a sleazy coke-snorting
ex porn-star John " Johnny Wadd" Holmes (Val Kilmer)
and decided to rob a huge (and powerful) Los Angeles crime boss-like
entrepreneur named Eddie Nash.
the group of would-be-rich-from-the-take fools didn't realize
who they were hitting until the repercussion of their act
showed up in the form of a group of metal-pipe toting murderers
sent by Nash to unlife the lot.
the real Hollywood-style twist came in how these thugs knew where
to find the addle headed crooks. Seems their ex-porno film king
"friend" sold them out to save his own neck - or for
revenge for their treatment of him regarding his share of the
take after the fact
even a smidge of thought given that Holmes himself assisted in
the head smashing the thieves got. Which makes sense if he were
pleading he had "nothing to do with it." A kind of old-world
hoodlum test if you will.
are also introduced to Holmes' Holly Hobbie-ish almost catatonicly
dense wife Sharon (Lisa Kudrow) who still helps Holmes and his
new teenage gal pal Dawn (Kate Bosworth) try to escape all the
self wrought trouble
film's all over the place, and that's its error. You can divert
and ricochet to and from times and characters (Charlie Kaufman
continually proves that), but you can't just stitch together haphazardly
get lost.
Val Kilmer as the well-endowed porn king John Holmes as always
just disappears into the skin of his character though here
the manlyberry studmuffin is all bearded up and looking more like
Bee Gee Barry Gibb then sleazstack Holmes visually. I run to see
anything Val-yum does. I'm not opposed to tripping old ladies
to get my center seat when he's involved! I am never disappointed
with his performance - rent Salton
Sea for example and enjoy
Kate Bosworth is great as the clueless teen under Holmes' spell.
Good for her and this non-all-American good girl soiree!
Bogosian is just terrifying as the Austin Powers-like villain
Eddie Nash. You could practically smell the Aqua Velva and death
around him!
A virtually unrecognizable Dylan McDermott sheds his practical
Armani and slips into the skin of a drug-snorting creepazoid as
tough as an angel from Hell. Who knew this Studly Doright was
so buff-o-rama? Not I said the little reviewer wiping her brow
in fond memory of the vision of man yum before her
But the rest of the incredibly talented cast is given tiny and
infuriating bits to develop. The film has sexy mansicle Josh Lucas,
quirky Tim Blake Nelson, Carrie Fisher, delightful Janeane Garafalo,
Natasha Gregson Wagner, a scummed-up Christina Applegate and so
forth just wasted.
style is superb. The sets are absolute time capsules of the era
without being a cartooned memory thanks to the production design
from Franco-Giacomo Carbone and the cinematography of Michael
Grady. The editing and graphics are fresh and visually exciting.
But director James Cox (who also co-wrote the screenplay with
Capt. Mauzner) moves so quickly through oodles of information
and characters he neglected to develop the story's people and
make us care about their tale. Maybe he knew the script too well
to guide it to first-time viewers? Cox does however, show he's
immensely talented and just needs to take himself out of
the mental vacuum before release in the future.
recommendation: Sixteen sugar packets and small black coffee.
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The Woodstock Theatre presents the 12th Annual Woodstock International Film Festival, featuring five Academy Award Nominated Best Foreign Films. The series continues with Omar on Monday, September 22 at 4:45 & 7:00 p.m.
Omar (Adam Bakri) is a Palestinian baker who routinely climbs over the separation wall to meet up with his girl Nadja (Leem Lubany). By night, he's either a freedom fighter or a terrorist -- you decide -- ready to risk his life to strike at the Israeli military with his childhood friends Tarek (Eyad Hourani) and Amjad (Samer Bisharat). Arrested after the killing of an Israeli soldier and tricked into an admission of guilt by association, he agrees to work as an informant. So begins a dangerous game-is he playing his Israeli handler (Waleed F. Zuaiter) or will he really betray his cause? And who can he trust on either side? This series runs through Tuesday, September 23 and will also feature The Missing Picture. Tickets for all five films may be purchased in advance for $30. Single tickets for each feature are $7.50.


text: "There is very little difference between wild primates in the jungle and the average domesticated primate in a large city. We are literally living on the Planet of the Apes. Once you realize that, there's no point in being angry about it anymore. We're in a zoo, and the biggest, ugliest, meanest baboons are always picked to lead the herd. If you look at the news and think that the incredible stupidities and brutalities you hear have been done by human beings (who are rational beings according to Aristotle) you can only despair or take to heroin, I guess. But if you realize these things are being done by primates -- by apes dressed up in funny costumes, like chimps who drive motorcycles in circuses -- then it all makes sense, and it's quite astounding that the apes can handle the machinery and walk upright and so on." - Robert Anton Wilson, interviewed in Notes from the Pop Underground


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'Boss' Star Kelsey Grammer Welcomes Daughter With Wife Kayte
The couple weclomed a daughter, Faith Evangeline Elisa Grammer, at 1 a.m. Friday, July 13 in Los Angeles. She weighed in at 6 lbs., 2 oz.
"We are thrilled," the couple told PEOPLE. "Mother and child are in excellent health."
But the news was still bittersweet for the couple.
In the statement, the couple revealed that their daughter's twin brother did not make it to full term.
"We were ecstatic earlier this year when we announced that Kayte was carrying twins. Tragically, we lost the little boy shortly thereafter," the couple revealed.
"This was not something we cared to make known publicly at the time. It was unspeakably painful and we know that people will understand our desire to keep the news private then, as we know they will respect our privacy in this matter now. A glorious birth with a lingering sadness is ours today. We choose to celebrate the life that has been given us. We proudly introduce our Faith to the world today looking forward to the days ahead and the children yet to come."
The couple married in February of 2011. This is their first child together.
They previously lost a child in the fall of 2010.
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|Horton the Elephant
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|Horton Hatches the Egg
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Kent Rogers (Horton Hatches the Egg)
Frank Welker (In Search of Dr. Seuss)
|Morton the Elephant Bird (son), Uncle Norton
Horton the Elephant is the kind-hearted elephant character who first appeared in the 1940 book, Horton Hatches the Egg. He also appears in Horton Hears A Who! and Seussical the Musical.
Horton is a gray (presumably Indian) elephant with blue eyes. His ears sprout like wings.
- He has a tuft of black hair on the top of his head. His body is round in shape.
In each of Horton's book appearances he endures a good amount of ridicule, for believing in something that no one else does. In 1942, Horton the Elephant appeared in Horton Hatches the Egg.
Horton never loses faith, though, even after being roped and caged he continually insisted that the Whos existed, which they did. In The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, he was performed by John Kennedy.
Horton is also one of the main characters of Seussical, played by Kevin Chamberlin, combining his roles in Horton Hatches the Egg and Horton Hears a Who. The basic storyline of the musical is centered around him.
Videos with Horton
Book Appearances
- Horton Hatches the Egg (1942)
- Horton Hears a Who! (Cartoon)
- The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss
- Seussical
- Suessical (TV Special)
- Horton Hears a Who! (Film)


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Design Challenge 2012 features new prizes and new opportunities for designers
The competition invites any architect or interior designer to "create, collaborate and cash in" by uploading carpet design concepts to the Mannington tx:style website.
CALHOUN, Ga.—Mannington Commercial announced today the launch of its annual tx:style design challenge, a social networking design competition for the interiors industry. The competition invites any architect or interior designer to "create, collaborate and cash in" by uploading carpet design concepts to the Mannington tx:style website.
From among the entries, four finalists will be chosen by a panel of judges on the basis of public comments, votes, aesthetics, creativity and manufacturability. Each finalist wins $3,000, promotion in a national advertising campaign, a trip to New York for a two-day Design Workshop, and a trip to NeoCon World's Fair in Chicago.
Voting will then be opened to the public, with the Grand Prize Winner announced at NeoCon. This winner will create a full carpet collection to be manufactured and marketed by Mannington, a total purse of $7,000 and a trip to the International Furniture Fair in Milan.
"As interiors product manufacturers, we're part of an amazing community of creative doers," says Natalie Jones, Mannington's vice president of commercial brand development and creative product. "The tx:style design challenge is an open invitation to designers to think creatively about what sort of products they wish were available in the market, and then make these products a reality. With three highly successful years under our belts, we have seen that the competition stimulates the kind of dialogue that explores new ideas, supports optimism in the industry and inspires new choices that work for design projects everywhere. A little inspiration can take you a long way—to New York, Chicago and even Milan!"
Upload designs, view and comment at http://manningtontxstyle.com. Submissions close on February 12, 2012.


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AMES, Iowa -- The following Worth County 4-H'ers have earned state 4-H project awards. A state 4-H project award is the highest achievement 4-H'ers can receive in project work. Each student also received a $100 savings bond from the Mary Jo and Glen Mente Endowment and the Iowa 4-H Foundation.
A six-year nontraditional 4-H member, Holstad has been very involved in 4-H programs. She has completed projects on citizenship and leadership. She participated in her county 4-H council, State 4-H Council and the Iowa 4-H Youth Conference.
"4-H has helped me acquire tools that will carry me through speeches, interviews and other situations where leadership capabilities, self confidence and communication skills are crucial," said Holstad.
A seven-year 4-H member, Nelson has completed projects on science and technology, pigs, home improvement and crop production. He has been the treasurer and secretary of his 4-H club. He has participated in his county 4-H council and the Iowa 4-H Youth Conference.
"Through my participation in 4-H, I have gained many life skills that will be helpful to me in the future," said Nelson.
[PHOTO] Taylor Nelson
A nine-year 4-H member, Nettleton has completed projects on poultry, beef, woodworking, leadership and photography. In his club, he was president and vice president. He has participated in his county and area 4-H councils, State 4-H Council, National 4-H Council and the Iowa 4-H Youth Conference.
"4-H has shaped my life," said Nettleton. "I have been changed from the shy, quite person I was in elementary school to the more talkative and outgoing person I am today."
A seven-year 4-H member, Olson was the reporter in his 4-H club. He participated in county 4-H council and the Iowa 4-H Technology Team.
"I have gained so much from my experience in 4-H," said Olson. "By being able to go to photo camp and being on the tech team, I have been able to try different things and develop my interests in the technology field."
A seven-year 4-H member, Prestholt has completed projects on horses, dogs, sheep, photography and communications. In her club, she was vice president, secretary and reporter. She has participated in her county and area 4-H councils and the Iowa 4-H Youth Conference.
"4-H has helped me to gain both life skills and knowledge as to who I can be," said Prestholt.
A nine-year 4-H member, Tweeten has completed projects on communication, clothing, food and nutrition, citizenship and home improvement. She has held the president, reporter and secretary positions in her 4-H club. She participated in her county and area 4-H councils, State 4-H Council and the Iowa 4-H Youth Conference.
"From preparing me for the work force through interviews to helping me meet life-long friends, the 4-H program has shaped me into who I am and continues to impact me today," said Tweeten.
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Jennifer Aniston Engaged to Justin Theroux: 17 of Her Wedding Rumor Magazine Covers (PHOTOS)
Ever since her very public split with ex-husband Brad Pitt in 2005, the former Friends actress has frequently been speculated to be headed for the altar.
It seems like every week, celebrity rag covers scream with the latest twist in her love life, from rumored heartbreak to reported weddings.
But that's about to change.
After years of "I do" buzz, the magazines can finally cover the story they've long awaited.
Because it's now official: Aniston is engaged to beau Justin Theroux, the actress' rep confirmed to Celebuzz
The couple is set to swap vows after Theroux popped the question to his longtime love while celebrating his birthday on August 10 in North Carolina, the screenwriter's rep told PEOPLE.
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Good morning everyone,
As you know on my Facebook page and on my twitter I am always encouraging everyone to share their testimony if they have one and Val emailed me hers and it was truly a blessing! Remember that in Revelation 12:11 it says that we overcome by the words of our testimony. I hope you are blessed as much as I was by it:
My name is Val Walton. I saw your tweet about sharing my testimony, so I thought I would share.
I was a runner. I would train hard for races. I was up at the crack of dawn, training and running all over Birmingham, AL, for the October 2011 Marine Corps Marathon that I would ultimately run with a dear friend. I also was disciplined in getting my miles in for my half-marathon training and making my long runs.
God used an injury and 1 Corinthians 9: 24-25 and Acts20:24 to show that I was like most runners devoted, disciplined and going hard after a crown through running that would not last and, before God, had no eternal value when I was not going just as hard or harder for the race that matters and has eternal value. My goal is to be like the apostle Paul to finish the race and task Jesus gave me to testify to the gospel of God's grace. I am now up early, sometimes at the crack of dawn, but I am now in God's Word to learn His ways, to know Him and to get my directions from Him for my day, my life. I am disciplined now to meet with The Lord at least twice a day, not to do daily runs. I now know I will have no physical bread before I get my daily spiritual Bread (Jesus). My interest in running has waned, but I am so excited that I am being prepared to make a short mission trip to share Christ's love and the Gospel to orphans. I am in preparation to tell others about God's grace through Jesus crucified and resurrected. I can be successful in lots of things in the sight of man that have no real relevance other than to post on Facebook for likes and have the applause of fickle man. My reward is in heaven, not likes on Facebook. I realise now that it's the eternal that matters, doing work to advance the Kingdom of God and to do the good work God ordained for me long ago! I am being transformed to be used for His glory, not mine.My soul sings to the Lord for removing the scales from my eyes! I am now in training for the Right race.
I am 48, about to turn 49 in October. I have never been married. It has not been easy to stay the course and trust while watching others appear to find love so easily, but I believe in my heart that I will get married to a true man of God. We will have a ministry to let people know that God's grace is indeed amazing.
May God continue to bless you Val as you work in ministry for the kingdom and wait on God and thanks again for sharing your testimony!