Global Dialogues
Global Dialogues is honoured to join forces with Dunsford Publishing a company which stands for ethics in the publishing world. Ethics: empowering writers in fulfilling their vision of the text, democratizing the publishing industry, transparency of work modalities.
We realize that we are facing a new phase in the publishing industry. In the next few years opportunities to publish texts independently from the media and the publishing houses presently known to us will skyrocket. This is good as it liberates all authors with vision of the constraints of fossilized avenues of publicizing their ideas. One of the basic human rights: freedom of expression is taken from the control of a literary establishment and given back to authors who want to explore new ways. With this liberty comes also the obligation of serving the public with the best any writer is capable of.
Global Dialogues works within the mainstream publishing industry on translation and publishing projects and is represented at the major international bookfairs like Frankfurt. However, we also wish to help those writers not in the top 1% taken by the mainstream to get their books published.
We offer our services to explore your creative potential in writing and other areas of human endeavor and to facilitate its fruition.
Translation and publishing services
Our team provides services in the world of books, manuscripts and writing processes.
Whether you seek:
- translations
- editing and proofreading
- manuscript assessment
- or research assistance
We can offer expertise in a number of languages and across many fields.
Beyond this we offer writing workshops and seminars in Germany, Aotearoa New Zealand, Orkney and other countries on request.
Members and associate members of our team are native speakers of German, English in a number of variations, Chinese and others. We translate from and into all of these and beyond that from a number of European and non-European languages into German and English. Let us know your specific request and we will supply you with a quote.
Our team was established in 1986. We cover a broad thematic range. We share a love of literature – be it from Europe or Asia, Africa, the Pacific, or so-called minority literatures. This high literary quality is also reflected in translating and editing non-fiction. We all have a multi- and interdisciplinary approach. Our main subject areas are (in alphabetical order):
- agriculture
- architecture
- (auto)biographies
- ecology
- economy
- fundamental research
- history
- humanities and social sciences
- management
- music
- photography
- politics
- spiritual themes
- technology (esp. Our Chinese colleague)
- (natural) science history
- philosophy
- travel guides
- visual arts
Our mailing address is the Frankfurt office and requests are sent on to individual members. We welcome inquiries by email. If you wish for personal contact: our team respresents Global Dialogues’ work and Dunsford Publishing Consultants and their authors at the Frankfurt Bookfair. Appointments by prior arrangement only.
Whether you need us for a substantial book or a short manuscript — we look forward to hearing from you.
Dr. Karin Meissenburg (for Global Dialogues Team)
Member of the Association of Literary Translators, a subdivision of the Association of Authors (VS) , Germany
The Dynamic Web
Dynamic Web: The book
The Dynamic Web invites us to reconsider our approach to life in all its manifestations. It is a manual presenting the key issues of contextual logic — thinking in correlations and starting out from the whole. The text is based on more than 25 years of research, experience and observations. Each chapter starts with examples for the fundamental ideas to be discussed. The annotated bibliography and the acknow-ledgements indicate the wealth of material condensed to its essentials in 70 pages. Subject areas are ecology, education, the (natural) sciences, economy, politics, epistemology, and cultures in their artforms.
The Dynamic Web with its Pacific Paradigm encourages us to see life from a new perspective. The author, Karin Meissenburg, has a background in project management, consultancy for students and postgraduates, and was affiliated with an ecological physics research project. She has also worked for more than twenty years as a translator, editor and facilitator. Histories, literatures, cultural studies, sociology of edu-cation, the history of the natural sciences, music and ecology form her research spectrum and feed her work. For forty years she has experimented with different ways of organic horticulture. She is author of a wide range of publications among them her book The Writing on the Wall on 150 years of Chinese American history.
Dynamic Web - The workshops:
Creative Project Development in the Dynamic Web A series of seminars with a difference
The seminars are based on my book The Dynamic Web: Tuning into Contextual Logic. They help you to have a closer look at your approach to life, learning, being. Each day is a self-contained module and can be booked on its own. In small groups we explore a theme of the book in its relevance to our own lives. Themes: Methods (how do I approach an issue or a task), Ecology, Education, Natural sciences and other select branches of research, Cultural multiplicity of the world - artistic expression, Implementation of contextual logic, Pacific Paradigm.
We work with practical exercises to apply what is relevant to each individual. Structure of day: Introduction to the subject of the day; relevance of the theme and applying it in our own realm; further reading introduced, time for reading and reflecting; specific work on own projects, concluding plenary session. Evenings: Experience Orkney: Ancient sites, nature walks.
No specific knowledge is required for these seminars. Bring an open mind and the willingness to reflect on your experiences.