4th Global Conference (2011)

4th Global Conference

Tuesday 8th March – Thursday 10th March 2011
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

Tuesday 8th March 2011
from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

14:00
Session 1: Culture: Critical Examinations
Chair: Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

Karol Chrobak
Culture from the View Point of Philosophical Anthropology

Mehmet Ruhi Demiray
Defining and Limiting the Moral Significance of Cultural Praxis: Reflections on Cassirer’s Critical Philosophy of Culture

Aga Jarzewicz
The Challenge of Cultural Transgression: In Search of Lingua Universalis

15:30
Coffee Break

16:00
Session 2: Living Together: Questioning Assimilation & Integration
Chair: Farida Fozdar

Ekaterina Bagreeva and German Mendzheritskiy
Integrational Politics and Migrant Aspirations – Finding the Balance

Carlos Delclós
Learning to Live with Others: The Nebulous Boundaries between Adaptation, Assimilation and Integration in Empirical Research and Public Discourse

Alison Snyder
Istanbul’s Simultaneous Identities are contained within Beyoglu’s Street Spaces

Alicia Crumpton
Thinking about Intercultural Leadership:  Are We Going Deep Enough to Bridge Cultural Differences?

18:00
Wine Reception (with delegates from other conferences)

Wednesday 9th March 2010
09:30
Session 3: Intercultural Dialogues
Chair: Carmen Zamorano Llena

Shawn Simpson
Cultural Fusion

Katherine Peters
The Genesis of a Radical: Intercultural Dialogue Between the East and the West in Perveen Shakir’s Second Collection Sadburg (Marigold) (1980)

Farida Fozdar
Intercultural Interactions on a Diverse Australian Campus: Identity Formation

11:00
Coffee Break

11:30
Concurrent Sessions
Session 4a: Transnational Identities: Diaspora and Subject Formation
Chair: Igor Rubinov

Loretta Qwarnström
Transmigrant Movements and Crossings in Kamila Shamsie’s Novel Burnt Shadows

Ahmet Hamdi Akkaya
Kurdish Diaspora: Creating New Contingencies in Trans-National Space

Pei-chun Han
Reconstructing Hybridity and Negotiating Identity – A study on Taiwanese Diaspora in Japan

Session 4b: Transnational Identities: The European Experience
Chair: Sonia Fournier

Valeria Camia
Framing the European Identity in Space and Time: Comparing Constructions of Social Democratic Parties

Emanuel Crudu
European Identity in the Making: The Refurbished Eastern European ‘Other’

Tuuli Lähdesmäki
Representations of European Cultural Identity in Mini-Europe

13:00
Lunch

14:30
Concurrent Sessions
Session 5a: Remaking and Re-Inventing Identities
Chair: Verita Sriratana

Matteo Di Figlia
Left-Wing Italian Jews from the 1960’s to 1980’s: A Fluid Identity

Lia Tsuladze
How Things Are Remade Georgian: Glocalization and the Assertion of “National” among Georgian Youth

Jennifer Tran
Disfigured Past: Unmasking the Identity and Meaning of Historic Architecture

Session 5b: Educational Institutions and the Making of Identities
Chair: Alison Snyder

Dan Grabowski
Construction of Identities in School – Through Interdependent Observation-Structures

Marta Infante and Ruby Vizcarra
Constructing Novel Subjectivities in Educational Public Policies: The Vulnerable Student

Georgina Tsolidis
Mirroring Absences – Spatiality and the Schooling of Minorities

16:00
Coffee Break

16:30
Session 6: Aesthetic Self and Narratives: Weaving Identities
Chair: Cheryl Sim

Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
Irreverent Dialogues: Narrative, Love and Sense of Reality

Angela Facundo
Negotiating the Culture Industry: From Surrealist to Appropriate Art, Identity to Citation

Carmen Zamorano Llena
‘Our identity is our own instability’: Intercultural Exchanges and the Redefinition of Identity in Hugo Hamilton’s Disguise and Hand in the Fire

18:00
Sessions End

Thursday 10th March 2010
09:30
Session 7: Migrants and Flexible Identities
Chair: Aga Jarzewicz

Alexandra Simou
The Migrant ‘Other’: Conventional and Challenging Representations of the Migrant Subject in two Greek Plays

Joanna Cukras-Stelągowska
The Transformation of Jewish Identity in the Contemporary Poland: Visibility, Subjectivity and Flexible Forms of Belonging

Igor Rubinov
Kyrgyz Feasts and Migrant Dreams: Embedding Remittances in Hybrid Social Networks

11:00
Coffee Break

11:30
Concurrent Sessions
Session 8a: Authenticity, Identity and Media
Chair: Dan Grabowski

Katharina Stadler
Being Authentic – Identity Issues in Georgian Contemporary Music

Tatiana Lishchenko
Advertising Strategy for Teenagers in Taiwan

Christian Tablazon
The Jejemon as Postcolonial Symptom: Notes on Issues of Power & Identity in Media Literacy & (Mass) Communication

Session 8b: Borders and the Negotiation of Identities
Chair: Lia Tsuladze

Francesco Bondanini
How to Rebuild Life in the Frontier: Narratives of Immigrants in Detention Centres of Melilla

Miroslava Hukelova
Tensions, Contradictions and Conflicts of Identity Formation and Social Membership – The Case of British Muslims and the Search for Identity and Belonging

Clara Saraiva
Convivial Cultures and Super-Diversity in a Downtown Neighborhood in Lisbon

13:00
Lunch

14:30
Concurrent Sessions
Session 9a: Multiculturalism and Minority Rights
Chair: Loretta Qwarnström

Cheryl Sim
Ruptures and Continuities: Examining Engaged Curatorial Practices in Canada

Session 9b: Place: Anchoring Identities
Chair: Tuuli Lähdesmäki

Jayon You
Sense of Place and Identity in a Globalizing Environment

Verita Sriratana
“Martin was in the jungle alone, and the sun was sinking”: The Weather, Culture and Identity in Virginia Woolf’s The Years

15:30
Coffee Break

16:00
Session 10: Reaching Out, Crossing the Cultural Divide
Chair: Katherine Peters

Kim Berman and Jane Hassinger
Women on Purpose: A Model for Cross-Cultural, Interdisciplinary Collaborations

Sonia Fournier
Art and Education: Culture of Peace

Vladimir Shabes, Göran Bostedt, Ekaterina Troshchenkova, Lena Ivarsson, Ulla Lamber and Tamara Potapova
An Experimental Study of Russian and Swedish Value Systems

17:30
Development Meeting

18:00
Conference Ends