4th Global Conference (2010)

4th Global Conference

Thursday 23rd September – Sunday 26th September 2010
Oriel College, Oxford

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

Thursday 23rd September 2010
from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

14.00
Session 1: Protean Contradictions, Production of Identities
Chair: Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

Politics, Identity and the Sacred
Robbie Duschinsky

The Pursuit of Authenticity: Collective Memory, Connectivity and Cultural Identity
Rachel Wai Lo Yan

Psyche: East and West – The Problem of Identity and Strangeness
Anuradha Choudry

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 2: Taking Culture to Task
Chair: Rob Burton

Is it Possible to Avoid the Exclusionary Power of Culture?
Agnieszka Jarzewicz

Towards a School Inter-Disciplinary Curriculum of Culturally Based Conflicts
Nir Ressissi

Transcultural Values in the Network Society
Anabella-Maria Tarnovan

17:45
Wine Reception (with delegates from the Fashion conference)

18:30
Dinner

Friday 24th September 2010
09:00
Session 3: The Elusive Sense of Belonging and Multiculturalism
Chair: Michael Kearney

Translation of Multicultural Heterogeneity of Literary Text into Film: A Study of The Namesake
Chetana Pokhriyal and Surekha Dangwal

Multicultural Belongings on the Contemporary Stage: Krishen Jit’s Theatre of Identity in Malaysia
Charlene Rajendran

Effects of Collective Trauma, Suffering and Sense of Belonging: Minority Groups and Networks, the Case of Palestinian Students Living in Greece
Athena Marouda Chatzouli and Lila Mastora

10.30
Coffee

11.00 (Concurrent Sessions)

Session 4a:  Unfolding Identities: Social Narratives
Chair: Robbie Duschinsky

‘United in Diversity’ – Outlining European Cultural Identity in the Cultural Policy of the European Union
Tuuli Lähdesmäki

Defining Self-Identity among Young Turkish Australian Females Living in Australia
Ruhil Amal Azmuddin

Writing New Identities: South Asian Women, North America and three Asian-American Novels
Madhubanti Bhattacharyya

Session 4b: Unfolding Identities: Context and Institutions
Chair: Handel Wright

Subjectivity and Identity in Contemporary Multicultural Amazon
Cláudia Regina Brandão Sampaio Fernandes da Costa

Identity Formation and Muslim Women in the UK: The Roles of Religion, Family and Education
Salima Murji

Youth Identities through Bricolage in a Changeable Society: The Case of Georgia
Lia Tsuladze

12.30
Lunch

14:00 (Concurrent Sessions)
Session 5a: Place and Conflict: Sites, Imaginaries and Geographies
Chair: Agnieszka Jarzewicz

Geographies of Intimacy in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth
Tawnya Ravy

The Cheongsam: A Site of Wonder and Contestation for Canadian Women of Chinese Heritage
Cheryl Sim

Social Imaginaries and Conflict: Money, Work and Fraud in Czech Republic
Ondrej Stech

Session 5b: Art, Narratives and the Interlacing of Self and Other
Chair: Renante Pilapil

Performative Others: Vulnerability and Community in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss
Hsi-Lin Pan

Dialogue between the Third World Writers and their Western Audiences: Influence of English Literature in the Urdu Love Poetry of Perveen Shakir in Khushboo (Fragrance)
Katherine Peters

Mind, Body and Environment in Indigenous Anglophone Writing: Poetic Interventions for a New Modernity
Antonio Cuadrado-Fernandez

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 6: The Aesthetic and the Political
Chair: Setsuko Adachi

Politics of … On Conceptualization of the Politics of Art
Tina Rahimy

I Will Maintain: Memory, Performativity and the ‘Never Enough’ of the Portrait in Contemporary Photographic Art from Northern Ireland
Amanda Holloway

Recovering the Real: Understanding the Socio-Political Facets of Contemporary Argentine Theatre
Philippa Page

17:30
Sessions End

Saturday 25th September 2010
09:00
Session 7: Culture and the Experience of Everyday Life
Chair: Tina Rahimy

The Diasporic Eye: America as Metaphor in the Writing of Diana Abu-Jaber
Majed Aladaylah

Belonging through Everyday-Life Practices: The Dutch Case
Edip Asaf Bekaroglu

In Pursuit of Hop Harmony: What Sierra Nevada Brewing Company Can Teach Us about Quality of Life in an Age of Globalization
Rob Burton

‘Dek Inter’ and the Other: Thai Youth Subcultures in Urban Chiang Mai
Anjalee Cohen

11:00
Coffee Break

11:30 (Concurrent Sessions)
Session 8a: Networks and Tribes
Chair: Tuuli Lähdesmäki

Global Tribe in the Local Practice: Lapses in the Celebration of Brazilian’s Rave Scene
Carolina de Camargo Abreu

Crioulas Media
Tiago Barbedo Assis

Intercultural Communication in Online Games: Obstacles and Opportunities
Raluca Maria Mihăilă

Session 8b: Migrants and Aliens
Chair: Salima Murji

Between Cultural Exclusion and Economic Inclusion: Moldovan Immigrants’ Everyday Life Strategies in Istanbul
Görkem Dagdelen

Ke Nako (it is time) to Scrutinise Ubuntu: Negotiating South African Hospitality towards African Immigrants in Two Contemporary South African Novels
Rebecca Fasselt

Compatible Catholic: Polish Migrants Merging into Irish Society through Religious Practices
Kerry Gallagher

13.00
Lunch

14:30
Session 9: Recognition, Cultural Claims and Cosmopolitanism
Chair: Albin Wagener

From Telos to Praxis?: Re-examining the Meaning of Struggles for Recognition
Renante Pilapil

Rethinking the Premises of International Organizations: Human Development Report 2009
Eren Karaca

Cultural Claims and Human Rights: A New Perspective on the Rights of Minorities within Minorities
Meital Pinto

Cosmopolitanism and the Boundaries of the Self – An Ethical Perspective
Janyne Sattler

16:30
Coffee Break

17:00
Session 10: Identity Constructions: Exploring, Shaping, Designing
Chair: Benjamin Herscovitch

Immigrant Canadian New Youth: Expressing and Exploring Youth Identities in a Multicultural Context
Handel Wright and Maryam Nabavi

Designing Singaporeans: A Project in Identity Construction
Michael Kearney

Baraka’s Revolutionary Theatre: The Role of Culture in the Black Identity Construction in Select Plays
Samy Azouz

18:30
Sessions End

Sunday 26th September 2010
09:00
Session 11: Ethnicity and the Politics of Living Together
Chair: Anjalee Cohen

Undermining Coexistence: Japanese Discursive Formations Related to Empathy
Setsuko Adachi

Ridiculously Ethnic?: Othering and Counterstrategies in Contemporary Novels
Therese-Marie Meyer

Are You Chinese? – An Ethnographic Study of Chinese Students in Cyprus
Hsin-Yi Li

10:30
Coffee Break

11:00
Session 12: Problematising Nationalism
Chair: Cheryl Sim

‘Let’s All Fit into this Multi-Culture Anyway’: (Re)Producing and Challenging Canadian National Identity
Samah Sabra

The Effects of the Nationalization Campaign: The Prohibition of the German Language in Southern Brazil during the Second World War
Cynthia Machado Campos

Representations and Defence Processes in Cross-Cultural Conflicts: France and the Case of its ‘National Identity’
Albin Wagener

Who are the ‘Aliens’?: A Theoretical and Practical Discussion of Transnationalism within the African Diaspora
Rochelle Renere Davidson Mhonde

13:00
Lunch

14:30
Session 13: Liberalism: Critical Assessments
Chair: Janyne Sattler

Philosophy of Liberation contra Political Liberalism: Some Consequences for the Definition of Self and Other
Ondřej Lánský

The ‘Liberal’ in Question: Can Nationalism Be Liberal?
Caglayan Arslan

Liberal Democratic Values & Progressive Nationalism
Benjamin Herscovitch and Debopriyo Bal

16:00
Coffee Break

16:30
Development Meeting & Closing Reflections

17:30
Conference Ends