2nd Global Conference (2010)

2nd Global Conference

Monday 20th September – Wednesday 22nd September 2010
Oriel 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

Monday 20th September 2010
from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

14.00
Session 1: Strangeness and the Condition of Strangers: Critical Reflections
Chair: Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

There’s No Place Like Home
Wendy O’Brien

A Metaphysical Metamorphosis in Japanese Theater
Yukihide Endo

Confronting or Embracing the Foreigner Within? Hidden Faces of Identities, as Played out in the Art Exhibition Dis-Location/Re-Location
Leora  Farber

15.30
Coffee

16:00
Session 2: Interlacing of Self and Other
Chair: Oana-Elena Strugaru

Polyphony in Talk about the Cultural ‘Here’: Cultural Variability in Expatriate’s Talk about Living Abroad from a Dialectic Ontological Perspective
Jennifer Munsie

Ideological Borders, Self and Others Along With Conflict
Mehdi Damali Amiri

The Turkish Self and the Non-Muslim Other: Parliamentary Discourse on Ethic and Religious Difference
Beyza Tekin

17.40
Wine Reception (with delegates from the Monsters conference)

18:30
Dinner

Tuesday 21st September 2010
09:00
Session 3: Migration as Confinement
Chair: Jason Breen

Global Flows, Local Profits: Private Sector Involvement in Migrant Detention
Sarah Batten

Labour Camp for Moroccan Women in Huelva: A Way of Housing Immigrant Workers, A Way of Making Them Invisible
Djemila Zeneidi

Processes of Arrival, Integration and Exclusion: Exploring a New Migratory Corridor in West Africa
Pedro F. Marcelino

10.30
Coffee

11:00
Session 4: Breaking with Alienation and Misrecognition
Chair: Wendy O’Brien

From ‘Shame’ to a ‘Politics of Sorrow’
Amy Gordon

Checking in to Hotel Yeoville: Undoing Xenophobia through Fresh Constitutions of Self in the Trans-National Public Sphere
Alexandra Dodd and Teresa Ann Kurgan

Solidarity Art
Jacqueline Adams

Collective Action in Support of Asylum Seekers: The Actions of a Minority Australian Population in the Period 2001-2006
Diane Gosden

13.00
Lunch

14:30 (Concurrent Sessions)
Session 5a: Diversity, Identity Anxieties and Exclusion
Chair: Roman Horak

A Matter of Character? Membership and Long-Term Residency in Australia
Amy Nethery

The Differences in Diversity: Political and Everyday Interpretations of Neighbourhood Diversity as Plus or Problem
Gwen van Eijk

A Hole in My Spine: Wounding in Avatar and District Nine
Brenden Gray

Session 5b: Twists and Turns of Identity
Chair: Alessandra Beasley Von Burg

Native Hue, Pale Cast: Migration, Indeterminacy and the Geographies of Authority and Identity
Don Domonkos

The Illegal Immigrant and the Construction of an ‘Assamese’ Identity
Aparna Bhattacharyya

Illicit Proximities: The Conundrum of Creole Identity in the Eighteenth Century
Beccie Puneet Randhawa

16.00
Coffee Break

16.30
Session 6: Aliens as Monsters
Chair: Hema Kiruppalini

Discourse with the Monstrous: ‘Able-bodied’ and ‘Disabled’ Encounters with ‘Primitive Other’ in Africa
Elizabeth Cherniak

From Non-recognition to Cultural Violence: The Baha’i as ‘Monstrous Aliens’ in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a Case Study
Nadia Riazati Kesheh

18.00
Sessions End

Wednesday 22nd September 2010
09:30
Session 7: The Politics of Othering
Chair: Jennifer Munsie

Us and Them: The Image of ‘Others’ in Swedish-American Periodicals for Youth (1890-1920)
Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska

‘We have become niggers!’: Josephine Baker as a Threat to Viennese Culture
Roman Horak

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 8: Problematising Citizenship
Chair: Alexandra Dodd

Proving Worthiness: Citizenship Tests and the Politics of Membership
Jessica Merolli

‘It’s Not My Fault that My State Won’t Accept the Law of Peoples’: Why Rawls’ Exclusion of Citizens of Outlaw States from the Global Community is Unjust
Jason Breen

Stochastic Citizenship: Philosophy, Rhetoric and Freedom of Movement
Alessandra Beasley Von Burg

12.30
Lunch

14:00
Session 9: Representations and the Symbolic Construction of Others
Chair: Amy Gordon

Mirroring Identities: Reflecting Realities – Mumbai and its Politics of Representation
Triveni Goswami Vernal and Meruswamayajula Anuradha

Strangers and Aliens in Romanian Medieval World
Corina Daba-Buzoianu

15.00
Coffee Break

15:30
Session 10: On the Margins of Life and Membership
Chair: Sarah Batten

Narcisistic Estrangement: The Need for Autobiography
Oana-Elena Strugaru

Aliens of the Same World: The Case of Bangla Science Fiction
Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay

Silenced Guards: The Foreigner Positionality of Singapore Gurkhas
Hema Kiruppalini

17.00
Development Meeting & Closing Reflections

17:45
Conference Ends