april 15th, 2007
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In an attempt to challenge Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinajad’s call to wipe Israel off the map, the Israeli Holocaust Museum Yad Vashem has launched a website in Farsi, targeting the Iranian people in their own language with a more moderate message. But will the museum be able to convince the more than 60 milion inhabitants of a country, who’s leader simply calls the holocaust a myth?
Read full article (ABC News, April 14, 2007)
Website of Yad Vashem (in Farsi)
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Posted by Michiel van Iersel
april 15th, 2007
For some a battle between science and religion is being fought for the soul of America. The Creationists argue God created the world in six days and want their beliefs given equal status to evolutionary science. And so they opened their own museum.
Read full article (BBC News, Saturday, 14 April 2007)
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Posted by Michiel van Iersel
april 15th, 2007
Globalism - Crisis and opportunity
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The inaugural Symposium C6 will bring together an international group of socially engaged artists, scientists, curators, technologists, patrons and cultural entrepreneurs who are confronting the new challenges and possibilities of our profoundly interconnected world.
Go to Symposium C6 website
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Posted by Juha van 't Zelfde