GK EN UI 2001 - 2003

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12.1.1 American Dreams and Nightmares

Abi 2003: Gardens of the World

	Gotham's Gazette's Nine New Plans
	NPR's Present At The Creation Series: Empire State Building
	23 January, 2003, BBC news: Gaudi design proposed for WTC
	Ground Zero: Where the Buffalo Roam?
	Alternet.org: Casulaties of Consensus
	Winning WTC plan is taller than twin towers
	A Design for Lower Manhattan (NPR Feb 27)
	WTC Afterimages: A Living Archive

12.1.2 Islam in the Framework of British Culture

	Interview with Damien O'Donnell (East is East)
	Film Terms (I)
	Film Terms (II)
	Film Terms im Context
	India and Pakistan - Fifty Years of Independence (CNN timeline)

12.2.1 Energy Matters

	AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News, July 12, 02
	Senate Vote Allows Yucca Mountain Project to Proceed
	anuary 17, 2003 / SPACE.com
	Bush OKs more money for nuke-powered ships
	F-16s Shoot Down Skull Valley Nuclear Fuel Storage... Environment News Service (12 March)
	Justice Talking (Nov 2002): Yucca Mountain
	Man Against a Mountain (Sciam March 2003)

12.2.2 New Englishes

	NPR (October 9, 2002) Salman Rushdie Crosses the Line Correspondent Karen Grigsby Bates interviews author Salman Rushdie about his new book Step Across This Line. Rushdie talks about his own experience with violent Muslim extremists, his love of free speech, rock and roll, and the movie Barbershop. (10:00)
	Bollywood confidential (Salon.com)
	Conversation with Salman Rushdie (NPR, Mar 5)

13.1.1 Shakespeare's Macbeth

Do you feel that Saddam Hussain could be called a modern day Macbeth? (Shakespeare4Kids)

13.1.2 Individual & Society - Dystopian Concepts

BNW - Human Cloning Debate

13.2. Media Moguls

Abi 2003: Foxnews

	Profile of Rebekah Wade (editor of News of the World)
	British quality and popular papers
	Citizen Kane (Film narratology) Purdue.edu

Student Projects OI

No	Course	Topic	Contributors
1	Shakespeare's Macbeth (2a)	Historical Repercussions in Macbeth	Meures/Weller (OI/2)
2	Shakespeare's Macbeth (2b)	Alternative impersonations Macbeth and Lady Macbeth	Jäger/Weindorf (OI/2)
3	Shakespeare's Macbeth (1a)	Shakespeare's sources (links)	Bongen/Hantschel/Nimtsch/Nowaczinski (OI/1)
4	Shakespeare's Macbeth (1b)	Reviews of Macbeth productions (links)	Hartmann/Havertz/Overheidt/Nerlich (OI/1)
5	Dystopian Concepts (2a)		Stauch/Pelzer/Schmitt (OI/2)
6	Dystopian Concepts (2b)	Environmental Changes in Matrix	Lauer/NN (OI/2)
7	Dystopian Concepts (2c)	Environmental Changes in Twelve Monkeys Links: a) script b) environment	Frenken/S. Holz (OI/2)
8	Dystopian Concepts (1a)	Environmental Extrapolations in Mad Max and Waterworld	Janknecht/Kurth/Römer (OI/1)
9	Media Moguls (2a)	Examples of media bias	Plauschinat/Lipp (OI/2)
10	Media Moguls (1a)	Wapping - Technological Revolution in Murdoch's Print Empire (links)	Hoffmann/Schmitz/Jakob (OI/1)
11	Media Moguls (1b)	Rupert Murdoch's Media Empire (links)	Wuppermann/Neumann (OI/1)
12	Media Moguls (1c)	Murdoch - ?	Jansen (OI/1)

Rules: Number of participants for each project is 2-4. Work is to be presented in written and oral form. The contribution of each participant has to be clearly discernible. The topics have to be registered on the forum page with a summary of each participant's contribution. Detailed suggestions for projects are to be found on the respective pages of each course. The projects have to be registered by 20 September 2002. Principle is 'first come first served'. Parallel projects are not accepted.