Conference Programme, Abstracts and Papers

7th Global Conference

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Monday 12th March – Wednesday 14th March 2012
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

Monday 12th March 2012
12.30
Conference Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Remarks

Ram Vemuri

14.00
Session 1: Global Influences
Chair : Ram Vemuri

Global Citizenship from Below: Migrant Farm Workers’ Campaign Against Shadow Economy and Migration Controls in Southern Italy
Federico Oliveri

Are European Democratic States Experiencing a Greater Democratic Deficit in the Last Decade? The Portuguese Case in a Longitudinal and Comparative Perspective.
Jonatas Pires and Conceição Pequito

Blasphemy Laws and The Global Citizenry: Toward a Theory of Religious Boundaries, Blasphemy, and Citizenship in a Global Age
Peter Geel

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 2: Development of Communities
Chair: Natalie J. Walthrust Jones

The Struggle of Becoming Citizens
Synnøve Bendixsen

Negotiating “Bulgarianness” in e-migration. The Cases of Bulgarian Communities in Spain and Greece
Magdalena Slavkova

Postnationalism and its Discontents: Moral Panic and the Development of Muslimophobia in the US and Europe
Saeed Khan

17.30
Notices and Announcements

17.40
Wine Reception

Tuesday 13th March 2012
09.00
Session 3: Media and Networks
Chair: Marissa McHugh

Transnational Feminism: “Feminist” Agency in the African Women in Europe Network
Gavaza Maluleke

Experiencing the Egyptian Television Media Croduction in Morocco and the Construction of the Pan-Arab Imagined Community
Maja Dolinar

Identity and Society in the UAE: A Discourse on Synergy
Mohammed Baharoon

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4: Changing Roles and Challenges
Chair: Synnøve Bendixsen

Intimate Partner Femicide against Ethiopian Women in Israel
Arnon Edelstein

Sense of Self and Sense of Place in a World of Increasing Movement of People.
Mahni Dugan

Being South African and Belonging: The Status and Practice of Mediated Citizenship in a New Democracy
Herman Wasserman and Anthea Garman

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5: Migration influences
Chair: Anthea Garman

Libyan Cooperation on Migration within the Context of Fortress Europe
Sabrina Tucci

From National Subject to National Threat: The Representation of German-Canadians in Contemporary Canadian Theatre
Marissa McHugh

Whose Neighborhood is it? On Belonging and Neighborhood Citizenship in the Baka Neighborhood of Jerusalem
Hila Zaban

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 6: Pluaralism: Roundtable Discussion
Chair Ram Vemuri

17.00 Sessions End

Wednesday 14th March 2012
09.00
Session 7: Redefining Boundaries
Chair: Sabrina Tucci

Eocnomic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Challenges of Building a New Citizenship in West Africa
Bappah Habibu Yaya

Post-colonial Boundaries in Coimbra: The Production of Identity and Difference in the Experience of Academic Mobility
Geraldo Adriano Campos and Manolita Correia Lima

Participation and Inclusion: The Sites of Citizenship
Martin Castro, Mª Belén

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8: Confronting Multiculturalism

Chair: Saeed Khan

Esteem and Respect in a Multicultural Society: A Critical Analysis of Axel Honneth’s Recognition Theory
Francois Levrau

Justice and Injustice within a Pluralistic Society
Margareta Hanes

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9: Fluidity

Chair : Federico Oliveri

From Migrants to Retail Small Businessmen: Perspectives on the East Indians of Barbados 1910 – 2010
Natalie J. Walthrust Jones and Trevor G. Marshall

Citizenship, National Identity, and the Challenges of Political Participation in the UAE
Kenneth L. Wise

15.30
Development meeting and closing remarks

16.00
Conference Ends

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