Conference Programme, Abstracts and Papers

3rd Global Conference

Tuesday 10th November – Thursday 12th November 2009
Salzburg, Austria

The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Conference Programme

Tuesday 10th November 2009
from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Rob Fisher and Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

14:15
Session 1: Culture – Critical Assessments
Chair: Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

The Cultural Defence versus the Defence of Human Rights
Marie-Luisa Frick

15:00
Coffee Break

15:30
Session 2: Otherness
Chair: Zsuzsanna Ardó

Immigration and Liminality in Rawi Hage’s Cockroach
Jesse Hutchison

Refusing to be the Other: Interculturality as ‘Belgitude’ in German-Speaking Minority Literature in Belgium
Arvi Sepp

17:00
Wine Reception (with delegates from other conferences)

Wednesday 11th November 2009
09:00
Session 3: Identity Constructions
Chair: Irena Veljanova

America, Americanness and Puritanism: The Writing of a Puritan National Identity through U.S. Foreign Policy Practices
Erica Simone Almeida Resende

Puerto Rico: Art and Identity Policies
Dialitza Colón Pérez

10:30
Coffee Break

11:00
Session 4: Aesthetic Representations
Chair: Shih Ying Lin

Gazing at the Gaze and Back
Zsuzsanna Ardó

Defining Cultural Identity: Floral Imagery and Symbolism in the Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish
Naglaa Hassan

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 5: Constructions of Self
Chair: Marie-Luisa Frick

Building the Past through the Eyes of the Present: Medieval Hispanic Kingdoms as a Model of Tolerance?
María Jesús Fuente

The Influence of Cultural Division on Country Image: The Case of Belgium, Flanders versus Wallonia
Lavinia Cinca and Dumitrita Dorina Hirtie

15:30
Sessions End

Thursday 12th November 2009
9:00
Session 6: Identity Politics
Chair: Dialitza Colón Pérez

The Qipao and the Politics of Dress
Shih Ying Lin

Fragmented Identities in Doron Rabinovici’s Novel Ohnehin
Anabela Valente Simões

10:30
Coffee Break

11:00
Session 7: The Recourse of Culture and Ethnicity
Chair: Jesse Hutchison

Preserving Arab Culture in the Kingdom of Bahrain
Magdalena Karolak

The Consequences of the In-Effect Dissociative Policies in Australia: Practiced Macedonian Ethnicity and Empty –Shelled Slav-Macedonian Ethnicity
Irena Veljanova

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Thematic Discussion and Development Meeting

15:00
Conference Ends