Conference Programme, Abstracts and Papers

5th Global Conference

Friday 9th March – Sunday 11th March 2012
Prague, Czech Republic

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

Friday 9th  March 2012
12.30
Conference Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Ram Vemuri

14.00
Session 1: Significance of Geographic  Spaces for Creating Identities
Chair: Ram Vemuri

Imagining the Nation through Urban – Rural Opposition
Seher Sen

Catch + Release: Mapping Stories of Geographic and Cultural Transition
Ruth Beer

Impacts of the EU’s Cultural Policy on Urban Development and Transformation of City Space
Tuuli Lahdesmaki

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 2: Contemporary Identity
Chair: Ashley Greenwood

Scottish Dancing and Patterns of Identity
Sergey Alterov

Who are we?: The Rediscovery of Hong Kong Identities in the Disappearing Architecture
Ho Hon Leung

A Barbarian as a Metaphor of an Ethnic Identification in Russian Discourse
Sergey Yakushenkov

17.30
Notices and Announcements

17.40
Wine Reception

Saturday 10th March 2012
09.00
Session 3a: Insider and Outsider
Chair: Plaut Shayna

The Anthropologist and the Ashaninka: Separating the Roots of Culture and Identity from Within the Amazon
Ashley Greenwood

Thinking Inside the Box: Michael Ondaatje’s Cubist Approach to History
Chris Margrave

Session 3b: Influences of Media and Journalism
Chair: Bilgen Sutcuoglu

Who is Crafting the Nation? Media as Nation Building- Self-Representation as Politics: The Different Roles and Audiences within Transnational People’s Journalism
Plaut Shayna

Media and the Construction of Cultures and Identities
Oluwatoyin Sogbesan

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4a: Negotiating Boundaries
Chair: Oluwatoyin Sogbesan

Where Common Defines Differences: Experiences of Israeli and Jewish Women Living in Brussels
Efrat Tzadik

Masculinity and Fatherhood in South Africa – A Colourful Hierarchy
Frederika Cronje

11.00
Session 4b: Shifting Narratives
Chair: Ruth Beer

Who Steals the Magician’s Art?: Intercultural Interpretation of the Contemporary Legend Theatre’s The Tempest
Jui-Sung Chen

(Re-) making Culture for Sale: The Strategic Commodification, Construction and Performance of ‘Traditional’ Cultural Identity in South African Cultural V
illagesAnnemi Conradie

“Hungarians are Thieves, Killers and Terrorists”: The Image of Hungary, Budapest and Magyars in Hollywood Movies
Arpad Papp-Vary

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5a: Defining, Contesting and Redefining
Chair: Frederika Cronje

Construction of a Nation: The early Years of the Turkish Republic and Dersim Events
Aylin Demir

The Role Played by Culture in Redefining the Indigenous Identity in the Process of Decolonizing Bolivia
Nieves Zunig

Play and Profession: Discourses of Masculinity and Violence
Sara Cole

Session 5b: Labels and Identities
Chair: Arpad Papp-Vary

So, What are you? And does this Matter? Second Generation Identities: Formation and Effects
Asoka Koczan

Towards a Pluralistic Vision of Culture in Post-Soviet Ukrainian Cultural Sociology
Iulina Soroka

Battle Over the Formation on ‘Turkish Culture’: Two Narratives of Kemalist Cultural Project Articulated by the Turkish Left
Bilgen Sutcuoglu

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 6a: Global Trends and Influences
Chair: Nieves Zunig

Global World Revising Words: Globalization and European Culture
Trandafir Andreea Alina

Globalization and English as a Lingua Franca: Is there the Future of Carbon Copy or Inimitable Societies?
Irina Khoutyz

“Brave Words”: A Comparative Study of Contemporary Publishing in Small Nations: The Cases of Scotland and Catalonia
Daniel Boswell

Session 6b: Defining, contesting and Remaking
Chair: Jui-Sung Chen

The Nomad Gypsy through Decolonial View
Iona Vrabiescu

Racism in Barbados in the 21st Century: Forty Year Beyond the Growth of the Modern West Indies
Natalie Walthrust Jones

The Ethics Between the Self and the Other: The way to Formosa in The Most Distant Course.
Liu Shu-Jhen

11th March 2012
09.00
Session 7: Cultural Constructions and Influences
Chair: Daniel Boswell

Culture in Consciousness: An Epigenesis of Mind.
Roger O’Shea

The State, Definer of Culture: the Case of Quebec
Gaelle Lemasson

Valencia’s Battle for Cultural Recognition
Gillian Darcy

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8: Power of Media
Chair: Straescu Oana – Camelia

Role of Mass Media in Constructing Cultural Identities: Example of the Construction of Arab Transnational Community
Maja Dolinar

Media and the Construction of Cultures and Identities
Oluwatoyin Sogbesan

Immigrati, Migranti, Clandestini, Profughi, Rifugiati – A New Wave of North Africans in Italy.
Weronika Sobita

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9: Cultural Connotations and Relations
Chair: Maja Dolinar

A New Ethics of Cultural Relations?: A Critical Evaluation of Postracial Humanism Chasing the Wind: Satanism, Moral Panic and Cultural Change in White South Africa, 1989 – 1993WDanielle Dunbar
Joshua Paul

Asserting the Self: The Importance of Religion for Migrant Women in Black British Literature
Sabine Klinck

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 10: Place, Pedagogy and Perceptions
Chair: Chris Margrave

Critical Pedagogy as a Reflexive Decolonization Strategy to Challenge Colonization and Immigration Practices that Shape Changing Cultural Identities in a Canadian Context
Jan Clarke

Which Identity for Place? A Geophilosophical Approach
Laura Menatti

Mediating Diasporic Whiteness and Ethnicity in Contemporary South African Art, with Particular Reference to the Work of Penny Siopis
Juliette Leeb-du Toit

17.30
Development meeting and closing remarks

18.00
Conference Ends