2nd Global Conference (2004)

Thursday 2nd December – Saturday 4th December 2004
Vienna, Austria

Conference Programme, Abstracts & Papers

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 (v.1.6)

Thursday 2nd December
From 09.00
Registration

10.15
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and Jones Irwin

10.30
Session 1: Citizenship, Corporate Interculturalism and Nationalism
Chair: Jones Irwin

Robert Imre
Political Pluralism in Diverse Societies: Citizenship and Migration in Australia, Canada and Aotearoa/New Zealand

Fauziah Kamaruddin and Khatijah Shamsuddin
Interculturalism and Language in Malaysian Corporate Advertisements

Klaus Zilles
Interculturalism, Nationalism and Internationalism in the Catalonian Media

12.00
Lunch

14.00
Session 2: Cosmopolitanism, Diversity and Hybrids
Chair: Ram Vemuri

Holli Thomas
Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Diversity

Jones Irwin
Interculturality and Cosmopolitanism between the Cynics and Derrida

Marcelo Svirsky
Constructing Intercultural Hybrids: Adding Necessity to Contingency

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 3: Knowledge, Economy and Intercultural Policy
Chair: Marjorie Greene

S. Ram Vemuri
Managing Knowledge Pluralism

Patrick Imbert
The Belief in Life as a ‘zero sum game’ and the Belief in Life as a ‘non-zero sum game’ and Intercultural Relationships.

Catherine Bovill
Cross-sector Policy and Practice at the UK Government Department for International Development (DFID) in the UK and Nepal

17.30
Notices/Announcements
Wine Reception

Friday 3 December
09:00
Session 4a: Interculturalism in Music, Art and Literature
Chair: Nicole Ridgway

Jessica Wiskus
Music: In Search of a Universal Meaning

Beatriz Tomsic Cerkez and Tonka Tacol
Interculturalism and Visual Art Education: Seeking for “Spaces in Between”

Yeeyon Im
The Paradox of Intercultural Shakepeare Theatre

Session 4b: Said: Others, Power and Comparatives
Chair: Marcelo Svirsky

Saleh Abdelazim
Comparative Study between Edward Said and Fouad Ajami

Ahmed Ali
Crossing Over to the Other and Precincts of the Cultural Hurdle: A Reading of Two English Texts (Said)

Helena Motoh
Influence of the Inferior: Intercultural Transmission Beyond the Terminology of Power

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 5a: Ethics, Morality and Corruption
Chair: Francesco Belfiore

Laurence Santiago
Rawls and Habermas on Intercultural Ethics

Hendrik Vanmassenhove
Does Western Ethics Demolish Morality?

Stephen Beets
International Corruption and Religion; An Empirical Examination

Session 5b: Pluralism, Cultural Constructions and Difference
Chair: Shu-Ling Berggreen

Melissa Steyn
The Cultural Construction of “The New South Africa” in Resistant Whiteness

Marjorie Greene
Building Freedom: Pluralistic Visions of East Timor

Lynne Parmenter
Interculturalism in Japan? An Analysis of the Negotiation of Cultural Citizenship among Students in Japanese Universities

12:30 p.m.
Lunch

14:00
Session 6a: Pluralism, Others and Communities
Chair: John L. Hochheimer

Hilal Ahmed
Social action and Indian Muslim communities: Understanding the Islamic Religious Plurality in India

Priya Virmani
Interculturalism the Capitalist Way: An Indian Example

Limin Bai
Chinese views of Self, Others and Plurality

Session 6b: Roles, Race and Interculturalism
Chair: Saleh Abdelazim

Jennifer Dasteel
Mixed Race and Gender in African American Literature

Wilhelmina Orozco
The Roles of Religion, sexuality, age, status, profession, and other parameters in determining the level of nurturing qualities of Filipino women, young, middle-aged and elderly

Edo Nyland
A New Approach Towards Translating Ogam Scripts

15:30
Coffee

16:00
Session 7: Base Questions: Understanding Cultures
Chair: Melissa Styn

Nicole Ridgway
Culture, Contact and Contagion

Rob Imre
Multi/Inter/Mono/Trans? What are we Talking About: Some Theoretical Explorations of the Culture Debate

Francesco Belfiore
Multiculturalism and Interculturalism: A Basic Philosophical Approach

17:30 Sessions End

Saturday 4th December
09:00
Session 8: Multiculturalism, Transnationalism and Nascernt Pluralism
Chair: Klaus Zilles

Tahir Abbas
British South Asian Muslims and the Future of Multiculturalism: Structural and Cultural Racisms and New Assimilationism

Robert Imre
Transnationalism and Migrations – Re-ascribing Meanings

Lynne Parmenter
Managing Nascent Pluralism: Social and Educational Policy in Contemporary Japan

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 9: Media, Colonization and Communications
Chair: Jessica Wiskus

Shu-Ling Berggreen
Interculturalism through Disney and Nickleodeon

Natalie Mault
From Patola to Paisley: How Colonization Led to Changes within Textile Designs

John L. Hochheimer
Communications Media in Emerging Democracies

12:30 p.m.
Development Meeting

13.00
Conference Close