1st Global Conference (2007)

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.1.8b)

Monday 3rd September 2007
from 12.30
Registration

14.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

14:15
Session 1: Representations
Chair: Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

Ranjan Bandyopadhyay
Rethinking Western Colonial Touristic Representations of the “Exotic Other”

Bahar Emgin
Framing the East: Cultural Representation in Contemporary Turkish Product Design

Laura Ceia-Minjares
This is Not Your Home, or the Return of the Exiled: Cosmopolitan Nostalgia and The Impossibility of Representation in Orhan Pamuk’s Snow

15:45
Tea

16:15
Session 2: Multiculturalism: Critical Assessments
Chair: Martin Palecek

Barbara Saunders
Why Preserve Traditional Cultures?

Iain McKenna
Reasonable Accommodation and Common Citizenship

Annamari Vitikainen,
Multiculturalism and Group Membership

Selen Ayirtman
Beyond Multiculturalism: Conditions for Deliberative Accommodation of Cultural Diversity

18:15
Wine Reception

19:00
Dinner

Tuesday 4th September 2007
09:00
Session 3: Language, Identity and Integration
Chair: Rob Burton

Ariadna Strugielska
Idiomatic Expressions in Multicultural Integration: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Carmen Valero-Garcés
Communicating in Multilingual Societies: Expanding the Role of the Interpreter in Public Service Interpreting

Sari Pöyhönen
Ethnic Duty and Other Obligations? Negotiation of Identities of Finnish Language Teachers in Russia

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 4: Multiplicity and Solidarity
Chair: Laura Ceia-Minjares

Kelvin Clayton
Thinking the Multiple: Michel Serres and the Deconstruction of Social Unities

Pathik Pathak
Fukuyama’s Folly: Why Europe Can’t Securitize Solidarity

Jonathan D Smith
South African Interfaith Solidarity: A Model for Social Transformation

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 5: National Identity
Chair: Ginger C. Wang

Jason Hansen
Defining Deutsch: Encyclopedias, Dictionaries and the Problem of National Belonging in Imperial Germany

Sidsel Fabech
The Nation in the News – Managing National Identities in Old and New Media

Katherine Harbord
(Re)inventing Rabin: A Case Study in the Construction of Israeli Identity

15:30
Tea

16:00
Session 6: The Normative and the Institutional
Chair: Felicity Thomas

Ron Angel
The Institutional Context of Immigrant Incorporation

Andrew Harvey
The Place of Culture in the University

Simon Cushing
Reaching For My Gun: Why We Shouldn’t Hear the Word “Culture” in Normative Political Theory

17:30
Sessions End

Wednesday 5th September 2007
9:00
Session 7: Constructions of Race and Ethnicity
Chair: Iain McKenna

Kaori Mori
A Hapa Future: Creating a New Racial Frontier

Siumi Maria Tam
Being Female and Ethnic Minority in Hong Kong: The Double Marginalization of Nepalese Women and its Policy Implications

Heidi Louise Cooper
Puppetry and Race in 20th Century United States

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 8: Culture, Identity and Human Rights
Chair: Pathik Pathak

Vincent Depaigne
National Identity, Law and Human Rights

Markku Valtanen
Identity, Structure and Ideology – Manuel Castells’ Contribution to the Identity Policy Discussion

Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
Is There a Place for Culture in Human Rights? Recommendations from Cultural Sociology

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 9: Identity Complexities
Chair: Barbara Saunders

Diane Martinez and Tanya Peterson
Cultural Shifts and Identity Crisis in the Wake of Online Education

Michael Willemyns
Cultural Identity Paradox in United Arab Emirates Male and Female Managers

Martin Palecek
Identity – A Treacherous Concept

15:30
Tea and Sessions End

Thursday 6th September 2007
09:00
Session 10: Redefining Belonging
Chair: Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn

Rob Burton
Artists of the Floating World: Bessie Head and Kazuo Ishiguro

Hrishikesh Ingle
Globalised Culture: A Perspective from Mira Nair’s Lens

Ilse Josepha Maria Lazaroms
Melodies of Melancholy: Joseph Roth and the Idea of Belonging in Retrospect

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 11: Constructions of Threat and Otherness
Chair: Ranjan Bandyopadhyay

Mhairi Guild
Asylum, Terrorism and the Guantanamo ‘Anomaly’: The Collapsing of Security Threats in US Asylum Discourse 2001-6

Janette Edwards
Smoke and Mirrors: Greek Self and Turkish Other

A. Sameh El Kharbawy
Architectural (Con)Quests: Politics, War and Freedom (Tower)

12:30
Lunch

14.00
Session 12: Home and Homelessness
Chair: Heidi Louise Cooper

Ginger C. Wang
Representing the Human Clone: The Homeless Stranger in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go

Adia Mendelson-Maoz
Being an Immigrant in One’s Homeland: Narratives of Immigration in Contemporary Israeli Literature

Wei Ruan
New Media and the Contemporary Mainland Chinese Diasporas

15:30
Tea

16.00
Development Meeting

16.30
Conference Ends