5th Global Conference (2011)

5th Global Conference

Thursday 22nd September – Sunday 25th September 2011
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

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.

Thursday 22nd September 2011
From 12:30
Conference Registration

13:30
Opening Remarks
Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

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

If Multiculturalism is the Answer, What is the Question?
Iain McKenna

An Obituary to Conventional Multiculturalism and its Friend ‘Passive Tolerance’
Ruth Hadley

What Holds Citizens of Multicultural Polities Together? : Diversity, Solidarity and the Public Sphere
Emilia  Swietochowska

15:30
Coffee

16:00
Session 2: Taking on the Concept of Culture
Chair: Tina Rahimy

The Role of Cultural Values for Transnational Trust
Tuuli-Marja Kleiner

The Interplay of Multiculturalism and Cultural Racism in Europe
Bengi Bezirgan

Do We Still Need the ‘Term’ Culture – and What if We Don’t?
Albin Wagener

17:30
Wine Reception

18:30
Dinner

Friday 23rd September 2011
9:00
Session 3: Power Interruptions & Emancipatory Horizons
Chair: Michael Kearney

First and Foremost a Feminist: Social Movement Leaders’ Framing of Multiple Equality Claims
Susanne Bygnes

Interrupting the ‘Technium’: Language, Technology and the Media in Communities as a Process of Cultural Emancipation
Tiago Assis

Translating the Sentiments in Tahrir Square: Reversing Otherness – ARAB Revolts and the Process of Global Oneness
Maggie Nassif

Transformative Solidarity against Contemporary Propaganda for War
Agnieszka Jarzewicz

11:00
Coffee

11:30
Session 4a: Acculturation & Integration Processes
Chair: Michelle Aguayo

Acculturative Stress among Refugees: The influence of Personality, Isolation Feeling, and Social Discrimination
Noor Rosli

The Measurement of Acculturation: A Cross Cultural Instrument
Yaron Yagil

Session 4b: Political & Cultural Experiences Beyond Nations
Chair: Laura Davis

‘The Ghat of the Only World’: Agha Shahid Ali and the ‘Smooth Space of the Transnation’
Abin Chakraborty

Korea and the ‘Multicultural’ Other
Joowon Yuk

Youth, Communication and Cultural Identities: Transformations in an International Migration Community of Southern Mexico
Martín Echeverría

13:00
Lunch

14:30
Session 5: Alienation, Dislocations & Otherness
Chair: Paul Prinsloo

Ethnic Minorities, Politics of Alienation and Political Instability in Nigeria
Abosede Omowumi Babatunde

Paradigms of the ‘Other’ as ‘Outsider’ and Competitive Patriarchy in Selected Vignettes of Eduardo Galeano and Lalsalu of Syed Waliullah
Sanghita Sen and Indrani Mukherjee

16:00
Coffee

16:30
Session 6: Critical Interlacing(s) of Art & Culture
Chair: Tuuli Lähdesmäki

The Hushed Silence
Tina Rahimy and Parisa Yousef Doust

Teasing the Transitions in Performing Difference: Krishen Jit’s Staging of the Interstitial Space in Malaysian Contemporary Theatre
Charlene Rajendran

18:00
Sessions End

Saturday 24th September 2011
9:00
Session 7: Cultural Politics & Nation-Building
Chair: Albin Wagener

The indigenous peasant ‘Otherness’: Land Conflicts, Identity-Shaping and State-Building in Contemporary Bolivia
Lorenza Belinda Fontana

Inclusion, Exclusion, Collusion and Confusion: The Role of Religion in Nation-Building, a South African Case Study
Paul Prinsloo

The Role of Multicultural Policy in the Process of Nation Building: The Australian Case
Krzysztof Batorowicz

The Construction of Antagonistic Nations in Post-colonial Sri Lanka
Anne Gaul

11:00
Coffee

11:30
Session 8: Power Play, Resistance & the Shifting Symbols of Identity
Chair: Handel Wright

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

From Left to Right: How the Radical Right Co-opted Political Music in Britain
Ryan Shaffer

British Multiculturalism through Pathography: Sathnam Sanghera’s ‘The Boy with the Top Knot’
Jennifer Takhar

World Heritage Listing Policies, Local Knowledge and Indigenous Peoples in Argentina’s Quebrada de Humahuac
Karina Bidaseca

13:30
Lunch

15:00
Session 9a: Seeking New Angles: Assessing Cultural Politics and Justice
Chair: Charlene Rajendran

Through the Lens: Photographic Cross-cultural Encounters in the Progressive Era
Susana M. Costa

Does Qualitative Data Gathering Enlighten a Legal Pluralist Study of Law?
Amy Jackson

The National Taste for Home: Researching Identity through Home Possessions
Anna Pechurina

Session 9b: Paradoxes and Contradictions of Belonging
Chair: Lena Nans

Latinas and Meaning-Making: Identity, Belonging and Popular Culture
Michelle Aguayo

Hanging Around in Suburbia: Understanding Normalizing Power in Professional Relationships of Dutch Caribbeans, a Foucauldian and an Action-Network View
Jacquelien Rothfusz

Valentine Globalization and Identity of the Youth: Destruction of Identities or Construction of Compound Identities
Farzad Gholami

16:30
Coffee

17:00
Session 10: Understanding Identity
Chair: Iain McKenna

Deconstructing the Frameworks of Identity: The Identity Matrixing Model
Michael Kearney and Setsuko Adachi

Searching for Total Fluidity: Social Construction of Identity Model
Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

General Discussion & Reflections: On Knowledge and the Possibility of Modelling Identity

18:30
Sessions End

Sunday 25th September 2011

9:00
Session 11: The Experience of Multiculturalism & the Politics of Authenticity
Chair: Agnieszka Jarzewicz

The Rise of Christian Dominionism and its Threats to Singaporean Multi-culturalism
Lim Lee Ching

Canadian Multiculturalism and Settler-Descendent Identities in Margaret Laurence’s A Bird in the House and The Diviners
Laura Davis

Constructing the Self and the Other in the Narratives of Some 19^th and Early 20^th Century Bengali Pilgrims to the Himalayas
Anandarup  Biswas

Questionable Ethics or Ethical Questions? : The Texts of Robert Bringhurst
Roger Davis

11:00
Coffee

11:30
Session 12: Contesting Boundaries of Identity
Chair: Tiago Assis

Borderland Identities: Queer, Multiracial and Immigrant Youth on the Edge of the American Nation
Handel Wright

Lines, Walls, Cities, and the People between Them
Lena Nans

Multicultural Identity and Conflict between Pastoral Social Institutions and Sustainability in Indian Himalayas
Rubina Nusrat

13:00
Lunch

14:30
Session 13: Nations Seeking Identities
Chair: Setsuko Adachi

‘The Past is not Dead; it is Not Even Past’: The Role of Mass Media in Shaping Collective Memory in Turkey
Umit Kurt

Discourses of Europeanness in Festival Audiences in Pècs, the European Capital of Culture 2010
Tuuli Lähdesmäki

Paradox, Hybridity and Asymmetry: Reconfiguring National Identity in a Global Context
Haifen Nan

16:00
Coffee

16:30
Closing Reflections & Development Meeting

17:30
Conference Ends