1st Global Conference (2009)

1st Global Conference

Tuesday 22nd September – Thursday 24th September 2009
Mansfield 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

Tuesday 22nd September 2009
from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

14.00
Session 1: The Meaning of Crossing Borders and Frontiers
Chair: Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

Franc Rottiers
Crossing Borders, a Citizenship Expertise Perspective

Oana-Elena Strugaru
Choosing to be a Stranger: Romanian Intellectuals in Exile

Catalina Botez
Imre Kertesz’s Fateless as Problematisation of the Alien

15:30
Coffee Break

16:00
Session 2: Inter-Subjective Bonds and Ethics
Chair: Lelia Green

Joshua Getz
Infinite Responsibility for the Other in Emmanuel Levinas and Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces

Wendy O’Brien
Beyond the Page – Beauvoir and the Theory of Other Minds

Graciela Susana Pérez-Boruszko
The Self and the Other, a Journey of Mutual Recognition

17:30
Wine Reception

18.30
Dinner

Wednesday 23rd September 2009
09:00
Session 3: Reconstructions of the Past and the Making of Identities
Chair: Catalina Botez

Kevin DeLapp
Ancient Egypt as Europe’s ‘Intimate Stranger’

Elsa Peralta
Fictions of a Creole Nation: Public Representations of Portugal’s Colonial Past

Winter Werner
‘The breaking asunder’ of Fanny Kemble: Figuring Trauma and the Discourse of Hygiene in Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839

10:30
Coffee Break

11:00
Session 4: National Identities and Citizenship
Chair: Audrey Verma

Helen Vella Bonacita
Staying True to England: Representing Patriotism in Sixteenth Century Drama

Ron Geaves
Fatwa and Foreign Policy: New Models of Citizenship in an Emerging Age of Globalisation

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 5: Constructions of Otherness (and Self)
Chair: Joshua Getz

D. Burcu Egilmez
The Representation of the Non-Muslims in the Ottoman-Turkish Popular Drama

Elżbieta M. Goździak
Constructing ‘The Other’: Linguistic and Cultural Representations of Attitudes toward Foreigners in Poland

Lelia Green
Australian Muslims’ Constructions of the Western Other

15:30
Coffee Break

16:00
Session 6: Constructions of Selfhood (and Others)
Chair: Kevin DeLapp

Iren Annus
Post-socialist Hungarian Identity and Foreign Tourism

Józef Jaskulski
‘The Few, the Proud, the Marines.’ Hegemony, Empire and the Fashioning of the Superhuman Community in the Rhetoric of the US Marine Corps Television Commercials

Gado Alzouma
Ethnic Statistics and Social Classifications in France: How the `Black Community´ was Born

17:30
Sessions End

Thursday 24th September 2009
09:00
Session 7: Migration, Identity and Otherness
Chair: Józef Jaskulski

Beenash Jafri
The Other Bodies on Native Land: Ruminations on Colonization, Migration and Settlement

Joseph Viscomi
Between Egypt and Italy: Masculinity, Memory, and Migration

Elizabeth Canon
Language Ideology in the United States: Migration, Local Identity and Discrimination

10:30
Coffee Break

11:00
Session 8: Work, Inequality and Otherness
Chair: Wendy O’Brien

Audrey Verma
Black Magic Women: On the Purported Use of Sorcery by Female Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore

Mamta Sachan Kumar
Notes on Historicizing the Present: The Sindhi Merchants in Japan as a Case Study

Ada Ingrid Engebrigtsen
Purity and Danger – The Poor in the Urban Space

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Thematic Reflections and Development Meeting

15:00
Conference Ends