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Global Nomad Retreat - Tuscany!
16 Jul 2008
JANERA.com cordially invites you to the first Global Nomad Retreat, September 7-13, 2008, at the gorgeous Il Pero Villa in the heart of Tuscany. Participants in the Global Nomad Retreat will have plenty of time to engage in relaxing and restorative activities-lounging by the pool, roaming the surrounding countryside, visiting area wineries, shopping and strolling through neighboring towns-punctuated with sessions of yoga, meditation and structured conversation, during which guests will have the chance offer their personal perspectives and define what it means to be a Global Nomad. To reserve your place, half of the fee needs to be paid by August 12th. Click here to check out the program.
Global Nomad Salon Istanbul
09 Jul 2008
Anastasia Ashman and I hosted the first Global Nomad Salon in Istanbul. Our one long table was placed on the roof terrace of the Four Seasons in the city’s old neighborhood, Sultanahmet. This building used to be a jail, and the setting of the movie Midnight Express. We looked up to the minarets of the Blue Mosque and the Hagia Sofia, and enjoyed cocktails as the sun set over the Sea of Marmara. Talking about Turkish Identity while in the shadow of the Agia Sofia, a structure that symbolizes the internal tensions of the country and its people, set the tone for our conversation about East-West Identity. For more details on the conversation, please read Hannah Wallace’s blog post and the one-page article that appeared in the Turkish Daily News.
GN Salon Istanbul on June 26th
11 Jun 2008
All eyes are on Turkey, a Westernized, secular-but-Muslim, half European-half Asian country, as it tries to determine its modern identity. Around the globe, our daily lives are increasingly affected by other cultures. Could this uniquely positioned microcosm be a model for integration – or is it a cautionary tale? On June 26, 2008, thirty social scientists, businesspeople and cultural thought leaders will gather in Istanbul for the Turkish city’s first Global Nomad Salon to try to answer these questions. Hosted by JANERA.com and Istanbul-based cultural writer Anastasia M. Ashman, coeditor of Tales from the Expat Harem, Turkey-based experts will guide a dinner discussion on the evening’s topic: "Turkey's East/West Identity". The conversation will be anchored by Ersin Akarlılar, the CEO of Mavi Jeans; Neşe Gündoğan, the secretary general of the National Turkish Olympic Committee; Şerif Kaynar, the country managing director of executive recruiting firm Korn/Ferry; Ferhan Alesi, a global intercultural trainer; and Tara Hopkins, an Open Society/Soros Foundation grantee and American activist. The dinner will take place on the rooftop of the Four Seasons in Sultanahmet, overlooking the Haghia Sophia, the Blue Mosque and the Sea of Marmara. To attend please send an email to RSVP@JANERA.com
Art Basel
04 Jun 2008
This week our Senior Editor, Hannah Wallace, will be reporting from Basel on the art fair, its parties and the gossip. Hannah, an insider, will give us the scoop, identify new trends and keep us entertained. Keep checking the Column section for more details.
JANERA.com at the Guardian Hay Festival
01 Jun 2008
We are heading out from London shortly to drive through the castled lanes of the British Cotswolds, on our way to Hay-on-Wye to attend the Guardian Hay Festival. Ahead of us, beyond the winding roads, lies in wait over 400 literary offerings. From an evening with The Economist debating free migration of peoples, to a talk by Jimmy Carter about conflict resolution, to the inimitable Christopher Hitchens speaking with Asne Seierstad about reporting undercover in Chechnya, to Boris Spassky talking about Russian and chess culture and that famous loss to Bobby Fischer, we'll be reporting here daily on the best and brightest ideas coming from a festival renowned for gathering great thinkers and throwing great parties. This year the Festival is placing emphasis on all things Green, so we'll have quite a bit to say about that, relaying ideas from such lectures as "Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth?" and George Monbiot's "In the Green Corner." And as always, we'll bring you thoughtful reportage on what it means to be global, and mobile, and to live in a world where borders are both as fluid and viscous as we dare to dream.
Lakeside in Russia
22 May 2008
At a mile deep, Russia's Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world. It's also the largest freshwater lake, by volume, in the world. Formed in a rift valley over 25 million years ago, it's generally considered to be the world's oldest lake as well. Home to thousands of different species of plant and animal life, up to 80 percent are classified as endemic, or unique to the area. In 1996, UNESCO declared the region a World Heritage Site, and a recent economic boom in this frozen northern region has ignited a growth in tourism previously unseen. The lake is called The Pearl of Siberia, and though the region isn't exactly known as vacation-friendly, the legendary Trans-Siberian Railroad includes a scenic loop around the lake's perimeter. More resort hotels have appeared in the last ten years, but with the increased access, so has the energy industry. Plans for an oil pipeline, scheduled to include a section within a mile of the shore, were recently diverted, and a local paper mill continues to dump its waste into the lake. Read more
Vaccinate
19 May 2008
Planning to visit a developing country? Many vaccination portfolios won't include a rabies booster, but perhaps they should. The usual suspects include Yellow Fever, TB, Hepatitis, and Typhoid Fever among others but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also recommends a rabies shot for those traveling to the third world. The vaccine has been around for 75 years, but is underused throughout the world, and shouldn't be neglected. Major killers like HIV/AIDS and Malaria get a lot of attention but, argued recently by Alice Dautry of the Institut Pasteur, there are literally hundreds of other ailments affecting people every day. Rabies kills over a hundred thousand people a year, and is just one small example of the kind of pathogen threat facing not only travelers but residents of these developing countries. Find out more…
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