1st Global Conference (2003)

Conference Programme and Abstracts
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 for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation

2003 Final Programme

Thursday 30th September
From 12.00pm
Registration

2.00pm
Opening Words
Rob Fisher & Jones Irwin

2.15pm
Session 1: Intercultural Contexts
Chair: Jones Irwin

Kathy Batha
A Search for Senses of Connection and Possibilities in Counselling Interculturalism

Leonard Hammer
Interculturalism and the Rights of Migrant Workers

Nada Bucat & Cristina Finocchiaro
Integration of female domestic workers in Italy

3.45pm
Tea

4.15pm
Session 2 : Aesthetic Interculturalism
Chair: Eleonore Wildburger

Sandra Song & Minh Nguyen
Intercultural Visuality: Image and Memory

Diane Powell
Living Souvenirs: Intercultural Memory, Longing and Nostalgia

5.15pm
Wine Reception

Friday 31st October
9.30am
Session 3: Interculturalism East/West
Chair: Tony Gallagher

Lenart Skof
The Mediterranean and Asia : a History of their Intercultural Encounters and of Related Issues in Comparative Philosophy

Karen Bandlow
East Asia in the Art of Roy Lichtenstein

Samantha Chen
South East Asia and Independent Travelers

11.00am
Coffee

11.30am Concurrent Session
Session 4A: Interculturalism and Philosophical Hermeneutics
Chair: Patrick Imbert

Bart Vandenabeele
Gadamer and Davidson in Dispute

Helder DeSchutter
Gadamer and Interculturalism:Ethnocentrism or Authenticity

Session 4B: Interculturalism, Religion, and Theology
Chair: Rob Fisher

Ram Adhakari
Interculturalism and Religion

Kiyoshi Seko
Silent East: How Can We Give a Voice to Asian Theology?

12.30pm
Lunch

2.00pm Concurrent Sessions
Session 5A: The Role and Place of Intercultural Philosophy & Religion
Chair: Nada Bucat

Alfredo Culleton
Philosophy’s Role in an Inter-Cultural Dialogue

Flavia Monceri
The Philosopher as Intercultural Mediator

Marjaana Kopperi
Moral Perfectionism as a Challenge to Human Rights

Session 5B: Film, Music and Interculturalism
Chair: Kathy Batha

Sylvie Hermans
In-between cultures: “Calendar”

Olivier Beguin
L’Auberge Espagnole: Interculturalism in the European Melting Pot

Tamara Roberts
The Elusive Truth: Intercultural Music Exchange in ‘Addictive’

3.30pm
Tea

4.00pm
Session 6: War, Peace and Everyday Life
Chair: Leonard Hammer

Jones Irwin
Intercultural Everyday Life Via Henri Lefebvre

Robert Bruce Ware
War and Peace in the North Caucasus: The Cases of Dagestan and Chechnya

Khalida Isazedeh
‘An Inter-cultural Learning Environment in post-Soviet Azerbaijan’

5.30pm
Sessions End

Saturday 1st November
9.30am
Session 7: Interculturalism and Education
Chair: Leonart Skof

Mark Brasher
Interculturalism and the Crisis of Value Advocacy in Education

Eleonore Wildburger
Decolonizing Methodologies; Intercultural Research Ethics at Stake

Tony Gallagher
Intercultural Education in a divided School System

11.00am
Coffee

11.30am
Session 8: Interculturalism and the Americas
Chair: Helder DeSchutter

Patrick Imbert
Epistemological Displacements in the Media and Literatures of the Americas

Thelma Foote
Black African Acculturation and White European Paranoia in Eighteenth-Century Colonial New York City: A Historical and Theoretical Reconsideration of Homi Bhabha’s Concepts of Mimicry, Hybridity, and Ambivalence

12.30pm
Lunch

2.00pm
Session 9: Creativity, Culture and Performance
Chair: Diane Powell

Eric Lau
The Ownership of Cultural Hybrids

Fiona Sze
How Interculturalism Performs: Performativity and
Performability of Interculturalism

Simome Griesmayr
Creative Contexts

3.30pm
Tea

4.00pm
Development Meeting & Conference Close
Jones Irwin and Rob Fisher