6th Global Conference (2011)

6th Global Conference

Friday 11th March – Sunday 13th March 2011
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

Friday 11th March 2011
from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

14:00
Session 1: Recasting Citizenship
Chair: Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

Mehnaaz Momen
De-Territorializing Citizenship: Globalization and the State

Noa Leuchter
Creating other Options: Negotiating the Meanings of Citizenship

Puja Kapai
Building Just and Inclusive Societies and Reconceptualising Citizenship in Modern States

15:30
Coffee Break

16:00
Session 2: National Identity and Belonging
Chair: Pamela Ryan

Carmen Zamorano Llena
Transnational Movements and the Limits of Citizenship: Redefinitions of National Belonging in Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland

Rebecca Ehata
The Impact of Autochthony on Practices of Belonging in the UK

Farida Fozdar
The Use of Christianity in Constructions of Australian Identity and Values

17:30
Wine Reception (with delegates from other conferences)

Saturday 12th March 2010
09:00
Session 3: Politics of Exclusion and Citizenship
Chair: Carmen Zamorano Llena

Amanda Gondek
Citizenship and the Globalized Economy

Chintagumpala Bharath
Citizenship and Radical Multiculturalism

Terry Haydn
What Messages does School History Send about Pluralism, Inclusion and Citizenship? A View from the UK

Srdjan Jovanovic Maldoran
Citizenship and Passportism: Modern Means of Discrimination

11:00
Coffee Break

11:30
Concurrent Sessions
Session 4a: Practice of Citizenship
Chair: Sana Nakata

Rebecca Welge
All Equal – All Different? European Citizenship and Emerging Opportunity Structures for Individuals

Hungwe Servious
Towards Union Citizenship in Africa: What Specific Roles for Pan-Africanism and the Free Movemenet Of Persons? Lessons from the European Union Experience

Anna Sanina
Citizenship and Civic Values in Modern Russia

Session 4b: Otherness, Identity Anxiety and Xenophobia
Chair: Michael Merrigan

Sílvia Gomes
Moral Panic over Gypsies and Immigrants

Samuel Bennett
Above, Below and Between the Lines: A Critical Analysis of the Interplay between Articles and Online Comments on Immigration in the UK Media

Manish Kumar Thakur
Democracy, Pluralism and the Religious Minorities: The Muslim Question in India

13:00
Lunch

14:30
Session 5: Forms of Empowerment, Forms of Inclusion
Chair: Noa Leuchter

Krzysztof Bierski
Making Change Online – Mental Health Activism and Social Networking Sites

Sebastian Netscher
Transferring Knowledge EU-In-Migrants and their Need for Political Information Acquirement

Marie-Laure Mallet
Understanding the Diversity of the Hispanic Vote in the U.S.A.: Comparing Hispanic Political Participation in Miami and Los Angeles

Marina Kaneti
Choices under Constraint: Redefinitions of Protection and Empowerment Options for Refugees, Migrants and Minority Groups

16:30
Coffee Break

17:00
Session 6: Fluid Boundaries, Fluid Spaces
Chair: Peter Bal

Tuuli Lähdesmäki
Notions on Locality, Regionality, Nationality and Europeanness in the Reception of European Capital of Culture Events

Mohita Bhatia
Community and Cultural Linkages across the Line of Control: Beyond State and Nation

Aaron Martin
From Borders to Buffers: Euroregions and the Changing European Border Regime

18:30
Sessions End

Sunday 13th March 2010
09:00
Session 7: Embodying Citizenship
Chair: Farida Fozdar

Michael Merrigan
Human Rights and the Concept of Individual Duty: Foundations for Global Democratic Citizenship?

Sana Nakata
The Politics of Becoming Adult: The Child as Both (Future) Citizen and Alien in Liberal Political Theory

James Moir
Graduate Attributes, Personalisation and Citizenship

Alparslan Nas
Mehmet Aurelio and Festus Okey Controversies: Outsider Body’s Subjectification and Performativity of Citizenship in Turkey

11:00
Coffee Break

11:30
Session 8: Politics and Paradoxes of Inclusion
Chair: Srdjan Jovanovic Maldoran

Peter Bal
The Democratic Paradox of Foundation and Inclusion in a Globalizing World

Gulay Ugur Goksel Yasar
Immigrants and Politics of Inclusion

Noelia González Cámara
Neither Included, Nor Excluded: Politico-Philosophical Reflections on the Paradoxes of the Production of Migrant Irregularity

13:00
Lunch

14:30
Session 9: Cosmopolitanism
Chair: Amanda Gondek

Daniel Bray
Is There Any Use for Cosmopolitanism these Days?

Regan Reitsma
Cosmopolitanism and Tolerance

Bettina Scholz
Embracing the Tensions within Cosmopolitanism

16:00
Coffee Break

16:30
Session 10: New Approaches, New Horizons
Chair: Mehnaaz Momen

Charles Robinson
Matt Harding’s Fungibility Machine

Laury Bacro
Pluralism, Integration, Immigration and Identity: Towards a new Approach of Diversity

17:30
Development Meeting

18:00
Conference Ends