2nd Global Conference (2008)

Conference Programme, Abstracts and 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 (0.6b)

Wednesday 3rd September 2008
from 12.30
Registration

13:30
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

14:00
Session 1: Multiculturalism – Critical Assessments
Chair: Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

Breda Gray
Affective and Political Categories in Multicultural Debates about Social Justice

Muriel Kahane
The Plural Self & The Social: Some Considerations for Political Theory

Nahshon Perez
Recognition between Self Respect and Self Esteem, or: Recognition between the Redundant and the Self Contradictory?

15:30
Coffee Break

16:00
Session 2: Representations
Chair: Rob Burton

Janette Edwards
Expatriate Literature and the Problem of Contested Representation: The Case of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner

Sunny Lam
The Challenge of Global Media Technologies to Cultural Representation in Digital Cinematic Productions

Caitlin Nunn
A Space to Speak: Challenging representations of Sudanese-Australians

Mattie Turnbull
The Power of the Media Then and Now: Representation of the Evacuation of Scottish Children during World War Two versus the Representation of Polish Migrants in Britain in 2008

18:00
Wine Reception (with delegates from Fear, Horror & Terror 2)

18.30
Dinner

Thursday 4th September 2008
09:00
Session 3: Nations, National Identity & Nationalism
Chair: Patrick Loobuyck

Bryan Fanning
Ethnocentric Liberalism or Ethnic Nepotism? – The Reinvention of Western Nation States as Bounded Communities/ Post-multicultural ‘Realism’, Immigration and the 21st Century Nation State

Ifeoma Obuasi
English Language in a Nationistic State: The Crisis of National Integration in Nigeria

Joan Ramon Rodríguez-Amat
The Ghost of the Nation: A Methodological Discussion

10:30
Coffee Break

11:00
Session 4: Social Imaginary and Identity
Chair: Farrah Ahmed

Eleni Pavlides
Do People Make History?

Hironori Onuki
The Myth of Homogeneity and its ‘Others’: Migrant Workers as Political Agents and Their Everyday Struggles and Negotiations in Globalizing Japanese Political Economy

Theophilus Ejorh
Imagining the Diasporic African Community in Dublin: Identity, Identification and Experiences

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 5: Belonging and the Need to Belong
Chair: Janette Edwards

Ana Bravo-Moreno
Socio-cultural Belonging in Legal Limbo

Jonathan Rollins
Ariel Dorfman Writes Home: Literary Citizenship and Transnational Belonging

Sandra Evers
Longing and Belonging in Real Time: How Chagossian Children in Mauritius See Themselves and the Chagos Islands

Marguerite Daniel
Created Kin – New Support Networks for HIV Positive Children in Tanzania

16:00
Coffee Break

16:30
Session 6: Politics, Globalisation and Culture
Chair: Catalina Botez

Rob Burton
The Enduring Legacy of Bandung, Non-Alignment and Richard Wright

Davide Torsello
Engaging in Civil Society under Post-Socialism: Images and Forms of Environmental Protest in Slovakia

Tina Rahimy
Expressions of Exceptions and Exceptions of Expressions: On Broken Languages as Political Discourse

Jae Seung Moon
The Social Construction of Grievance and its Role in Social Movements: Overseas Filipino Workers Activism and Homeland Filipino Politics

18:30
Sessions End

Friday 5th September 2008
9:00
Session 7: Minorities and Reasonable Accommodation
Chair: Ifeoma Obauasi

Masakazu Matsumoto
The Politics of Toleration in Contemporary Liberal Societies: Assessing the Validity of Minority Cultural Rights

Alan Wong
The Winter of Our Discontent: ‘Reasonable Accommodation’ and the 2007 Quebec Election

Reine Meylaerts
New Forms of Inclusion in the Multilingual World: Translating for the Minorities

Marion J. Kiprop
Female Circumcision: Universal Principles versus Relative Traditions

11:00
Coffee Break

11:30 Concurrent Sessions

Session 8a: Migrants: Culture, Politics and Inequality
Chair: Sunny Lam

Nese Öztimur
Gender, Migration and the Denationalization of Citizenship: Kurdish Women Migrants’ Life Strategies in Turkey

Yoon Jung Park
Recent Chinese Migrations to South Africa: New Intersections of Race, Class and Ethnicity

Laura Seibokaite, Aukse Endriulaitiene & Rasa Marksaityte
The Portrait of New Lithuanian Emigrants: Integrative Model of Psychological & Social Factors

Session 8b: Multicultural Complexities
Chair: Caitlin Nunn

Shota Ogawa
12 Years Diary: Issue of Cultural Essentialism in ‘Multicultural’ Japan

Iwona Jakimowicz-Ostrowska
National Minorities in Poland after 2001 – A Political Issue or an Element of Multicultural Reality?

Naoko Maehara
The Dialogical Self and Memory-Shaping Processes: Japanese Migrant Mothers in Ireland

13:00
Lunch

14:30
Session 9: Cultural Politics
Chair: Eleni Pavlides

Tuuli Lähdesmäki
Concepts of Locality, Regionality and Europeanness in European Capitals of Culture

Agnès Rocamora
La Parisienne in the Media: Moving Beyond France

Raluca Manoliu & Mariana Fartatescu
Dream or Nightmare?: The Architectural Illustration of Conflicted Cultures and Identities in Post-Communist Eastern Europe

16:00
Coffee Break

16:30
Session 10: Ethnicity and Boundaries of Difference
Chair: Ana Bravo-Moreno

Jacqueline Knörr
Pidginization Beats Creolization

Krushil Watene
Should Freedom be Central to our Understanding of Culture?

Mesut Yegen
Banditry to Disloyalty: The Kurdish Question in Turkey

18:00
Sessions End

Saturday 6th September 2008
09:00
Session 11: Conflict, Identity and History
Chair: Tuuli Lähdesmäki

Pelin Aksoy
Identity and Alterity of the Turkish Cypriots Living in the Northern Part of Cyprus

Atousa Ebrahimi
Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”: Conflict of Identities EXIT

Leone Porciani
Mediterranean Identities in the Ancient World

10:30
Coffee Break

11:00
Session 12: Social Constructions of Identity
Chair: Bryan Fanning

Margriet van der Waal
‘A paranoia of Identity Crisis’?: Recent South African Literary Historiography and the Discourse of Cultural and Political Transformation

Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
Dance, Rituals and the Performance of Transnational Identities: A Mexico-United States Case

Catalina Botez
De-/ Re-constructed Jewish Identities in Post-Holocaust Europe and America

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 13: Multiculturalism, Public Service and Reasonable Accommodation
Chair: Breda Gray

Shilinka Smith & Shona Hill
Changing Paradigms in the Public Service: Reconceptualising Difference

Farrah Ahmed
Personal Autonomy and Models of Multicultural Accommodation in Family Law

Patrick Loobuyck
How Solidarity Works in Highly Diversified Societies: How Far Do We Get with National Liberalism?

15:30
Development Meeting

16:00
Conference Ends