Group-Analytic Contexts, Issue 80, June 2018
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52 <strong>Group</strong>-<strong>Analytic</strong> Society International - <strong>Contexts</strong><br />
Evaluation Report of the Local Organising<br />
Committee (LOC)<br />
By Kurt Husemann<br />
The local organising committee for the Berlin symposium (LOC)<br />
began its work immediately on the last days of the Lisbon symposium.<br />
A group of five persons - all from the executive board of the Berlin<br />
Institute for <strong>Group</strong> Analysis (BIG). This nucleus of this<br />
group remained constant until end although the areas of responsibility<br />
changed. This group enlarged itself up to 26 participants, all from the<br />
Berlin Institute and with one participant from the Zurich institute,<br />
resident in Berlin.<br />
The tasks of the LOC<br />
1. Preparations for a contract with GASi and, at a later time, with D3G.<br />
2. The search for a congress venue and a venue for the gala evening.<br />
A central task was finding an appropriately big and acoustically good<br />
room for the large group. The experiences with previous symposia had<br />
shown that the large group is the central critical element for the<br />
success of the conference. Furthermore, we had to look for premises<br />
where more than 24 parallel events would be possible during the day.<br />
The distances between the events should be short as possible for the<br />
participants. This search in the city of Berlin was hard work and took<br />
us more than a year.<br />
Special feature<br />
For the first time GASI did not only cooperate with a national<br />
organisation (here D3G) but also with a local one (BIG). This was an<br />
unusual feature of the whole organisation. The two German<br />
institutions had no experience with the organisation of international<br />
events. The local committee wanted to start working as free as<br />
possible of influences within the D3G, so the Berlin<br />
committee decided against accepting members into the LOC who also<br />
have their place of residence in Berlin. The contract expansion<br />
between GASi, the LOC and D3G was carried out after<br />
approximately one year.<br />
A further task was the search for a professional<br />
conference organisation. We made a good choice with the company<br />
Geber and Reusch. Last, but not least, a time schedule relevant to all<br />
committees was a central task.
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