4th Global Conference (2008)

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 (1.5f)

Friday 31th October 2008
from 12.30
Registration

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

14:00
Session 1: Unfolding Recognition
Chair: Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

Kjersti Fjørtoft
Justice, Recognition and Public Reason

Monica Mookherjee
Recognising the Cultural Particularity of Interests and Vulnerabilities: The Right to Mediation

15:00
Coffee Break

15:30
Session 2: Images and Representations
Chair: Fiona MacDonald

Barbara Prillinger
The Role of Media and Education in Creating/Redefining Identities in South Africa with Special Focus on the Pre-Colonial Heritage of Mapungubwe

Camilla Møhring Reestorff and Carsten Stage
Canon Projects and Caricatures – Re-territorializations and the Forgetting of Difference

Kristian Steiner
The Image of Islam and Muslims in Swedish Radical Christian Press

17:00
Wine Reception (with delegates from The Erotic)

Saturday 1st November 2008
09:00 Concurrent Sessions

Session 3a: Identities
Chair: Luicy Pedroza

Catalina Botez
From ‘Non-Citizens’ to Suburb Immigrants: Post-Holocaust Hyphenated Identities and the Post-War Metropolis

Saskia Hooiveld
Vietnamerican War Children: Identity Politics and Identity Development

Hemanta Kumar Nath
Morphication of Identity in North East India: The Case of Tai-Ahom Identity

Claudia Sandberg
‘Facing the Forests’ (1996) – Landscapes of Israeli Identity

Session 3b: Migrant Integration and Exclusion
Chair: Kjersti Fjørtoft

Özlem Güzey and Ela Ataç
Assimilation/Integration Debates and Spatial-Social Exclusion of Migrants upon a Divided City, Netherlands/Deventer

Wendi Boxx
Migrant Sex Workers as the Other: The Realities of Public Demand and Political Exclusion in German Law

Nora Gottlieb
The Many Boundaries of Universal Health Care – Migration, Membership and Health Rights in Germany and Israel

Melanie Eijberts
The Importance of Sense of Belonging in the Integration Process of Women of Turkish and Moroccan Descent in the Netherlands – A Qualitative Exploration

11:00
Coffee Break

11:30 Concurrent Sessions

Session 4a: World Governance and Globalisation
Chair: Andrew Poe

Mark Benjamin Peace
Finding One’s Place in the World – The Role of Narrative in Global Ethical Existence

Patrick Bresnihan
Local Knowledge in a Global Environment: Fishing in South-West Ireland

Session 4b: Violence
Chair: Guppy Ahluwalia-Lopez

Nkolika Obianyo
Citizenship and Ethnic Militia Politics in Nigeria: Marginalization or Identity Question? -The Case of Massob

Jason W. Levine
Challenges for European Integration: Human Trafficking and Forced Labour in Eastern Europe

Katherine Fallah
Citizen Soldiers and Alien Outlaws: National Membership and the Transformation of Military Violence

13:00
Lunch

14:30 Concurrent Sessions

Session 5a: Political Membership
Chair: Claudia Sandberg

Guppy Ahluwalia-Lopez
Members Only: The Aches and Pains of Joining the Political Transmigration Club (Denmark and Somalia)

Lien Warmenbol
Explaining Populist Radical Right’s Success through a Neighbourhood-Level Ethnographic Study of a West-European City

Ipshita Basu
Who Belongs and Who Deserves? Political Membership and Resource Demands in Jharkhand, India

Leonel Pérez Expósito
Learning Political Participation: A Cultural Educational Practice (The Case of Young Indigenous People in Mexico)

Session 5b: Political Contest and Negotiation
Chair: Wendi Boxx

Kripa Ananthpur
Pluralism in Practice: Stories of Political Bargaining and Selection from Rural South India

Michael O’Broin
The Good Friday Agreement of Northern Ireland: A Critical Review

Kwoh-Jack Tan
Harnessing ‘Political Society’ for a Stronger Civil Society: A Look at Singapore

Bolaji Omitola
Contesting the Political Space in Nigeria: The Case of the Niger Delta Region

16:30
Coffee Break

17:00
Session 6: Voices from the Migrant Experience
Chair: Christian Karner

Noga Wizansky
A Wrinkle in the Mind: Notes from an Emigrant-Immigrant Daughter

Slobodan Dan Paich
More Than One Kind: Diversity, Integration and Immigrant Experience and New Cultural Paradigms

18:00
Sessions End

Sunday 2nd November 2008
9:00

Session 7: Identity, Diversity and Politics
Chair: Michael O’Broin

Floris Mansvelt Beck
Coping with Pluralism: Immigrant Integration and the Siren Song of Liberal Identity

Mebs Kanji and Nicki Doyle
Value Diversity and Social Cohesion in Canada

Léa Tosold
From Identity to the Political: Reframing the ‘Identity Politics’ Debate

10:30
Coffee Break

11:00 Concurrent Sessions
Session 8a: Strangers and Citizenship Transformations
Chair: Catalina Botez

Andrew Poe
The Presence of Strangers

Luicy Pedroza
The Creative Destruction of Citizenship: On How Democracies Debate the Enfranchisement of Settled Immigrants and Redefine Citizenship in Doing So

Lyn Parker & Chang-Yau Hoon
A New Form of Inclusion for the Post-9/11 World: Conceptualising Religious Citizenship

Session 8b: Plural Citizenship
Chair: Floris Mansvelt Beck

Eleni Kalampakou
Towards a Pluralistic Conception of Citizenship: The Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights

Christian Karner and David Parker
Ethnic Pluralism, Social Deprivation and Lived Citizenship in Inner City Birmingham

Young Ju Rhee
The Dual Citizenship Debate in South Korea

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 9: Democracy and Ethics
Chair: Noga Wizansky

Fiona MacDonald
Relational Group Autonomy: Ethics of Care and the Group Rights Paradigm

Aaron Tyler
‘Extreme Makeover’:  Remaking Tolerance – A New Imaginative Framework of Inclusion

Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
Beyond Tolerance

15:30
Coffee Break

16:00
Development Meeting

16:30
Conference Ends