3rd Global Conference (2011)

3rd Global Conference

Tuesday 27th September – Thursday 29th September 2011
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

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.

Tuesday 27th September 2011
From 12:30
Registration

13:30
Opening Remarks
Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

14:00
Session 1: Rethinking Home: Movement, Fluidity and Place
Chair: Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

At Home: A Phenomenological Study
Wendy O’Brien

A Way out of the Contradictory Foundations of Colonial and Postcolonial Difference
Paulus Pimomo

Kul-Touring and the Exoticisation of the Familiar: On Otherness and Alternation
Elia Ntaousani

15:30
Coffee

16:00
Session 2: Recasting Membership and Belonging
Chair: Wendy O’Brien

Multiple Belongings to Cultural ‘Sub-Groups’: A Derridian Explanation of Plural Identities and Cultural Complexity
Teresa Cal

Who Is a Citizen? Membership and the Practices of Categorizing Cultural Identities in Côte d’Ivoire
Penelope Muteteli

Rethinking Belonging and Foreignness in the Context of Europeanisation: a Perspective of Political Theory
Chenchen Zhang

17:30
Wine Reception

18:30
Dinner

Wednesday 28th September 2011
9:00
Session 3: Agency, Public Space and Political Imagination
Chair: Leora Farber

Imagined Communities within the Cosmopolis: The Filling and Leaking of the Luxembourgish Container
Christian Lamour

Self and Other in Public Space Disclosed Through Technology
Kelly Cooper

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 4a: The Weight of Representations
Chair: Tiago Barbedo Assis

Media Representations and Discourses: Are Ethical Encounters with Refugees Still Possible?
Anamaria Topan

Visions of the Former Other in Contemporary German Film
Jean-Paul Muller

From Ridiculed Minority to National Enemies – Public and Media Reactions to the Homosexual Movement in Serbia
Marija Uzarevic

Session 4b: Memories that Make: The Weight of History
Chair: Ekaterina Bagreeva

Economic Crisis, Identity and Alterity: Romanian Principalities in the 16^th Century
Corina Daba-Buzoianu

‘No People and a Foolish Nation’: The Thirteenth Century Mongol Empire through Western Eyes
Hassan Bashir

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 5a: Interlacing of Self and Other
Chair: Elia Ntaousani

The Imitation of the Other: Little Big Man and Iron Eyes Cody
Heike Endter

‘Ours is America’: Self and Other Interwoven within the Immigrant Homemaking Myths
Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska

Encountering the Other, or Encountering the Self?  The Construction of Otherness into ‘Volunturism’ Experiences
Chiara Gius

Session 5b: Humanness and Otherness
Chair: Lia Tsuladze

In/Human Other
Yi-Jen Chang

Sado-Masochistic Behaviour in Large Groups: Promoting Sacrifice and Violence
Anne-Christine Hoff

‘More Human than Human’ – Ethics/Aesthetics of Authenticity in Battlestar Galactica
Ingvil Hellstrand

15:30
Coffee

16:00
Session 6: Making/Negotiating Identities
Chair: Pedro F. Marcelino

Self, Other, Mother: Black British Women Playwrights Negotiating Identity
Nicola Abram

Constructing Catalan Identity: a Cognitive Approach to Immigration in Two Catalan Novels
Antonio Cuadrado-Fernandez

Construction and Contestation of Turkish Cypriot Identity
Bahar Taseli

17:30
Sessions End

Thursday 29th September 2011
9:00
Session 7: Visual Imagination and Aesthetic Critique
Chair: Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowsk

A Disquieting Strangeness: Evocations of the Uncanny in Penelope Siopis’s Who is Pinky Pinky? Painting Series
Leora Farber

The Visual Artist as Mediator of Transformation between the Self and Other: The Dweller on the Threshold Integrating Being through the Chains and Networks of Becoming
Rob Burton

On Muses and Nymphs – Strange Friends of Inspiration
Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 8a: Finding/Making a Place: Relocations/Dislocations
Chair: Teresa Cal

Where is your home, stranger? A Comparative Analysis of the Adaptation Experiences of Russian Speaking Migrants in Three Countries
Ekaterina Bagreeva

Peripheral Nodes of African Migration: ‘New’ Africans in Argentina
Pedro F. Marcelino

‘Sometimes It’s Tough Just Fitting It All In’: The Tensions, Contradictions and Conflicts of Identity Formation and Social Membership among Teenagers in an Immigrant Community in the West of Ireland
Orla McGarry

Session 8b: Symbols, Perceptions and the Politics of Othering
Chair: Antonio Cuadrado-Fernandez

Encountering the Stranger: Conflict and Tension in Communities of Color in Maryse Condé’s Crossing the Mangrove
Sonia Gertzou

Perception and Enactment of Westernization among Georgian Youth
Lia Tsuladze

Fear Mongering and Exclusion: Understanding Anti-Latino Nativism in the US
Loreto Prieto

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 9a: Staging, Living and Representing
Chair: Ágnes Zsófia Mayer

‘I Don’t Understand You People’: Staging Intercultural Conversations in the Drama of Philip Kan Gotanda
Teresa Botelho

TV Series ‘Kursadzije’: A Ventriloquist for Serbian Group Identity
Marija Krstic

Session 9b: Hybridities: Boundaries that Bend and Resist
Chair: Anamaria Topan

Deconstruction of the Dominant Culture by Contaminating it through the Linguistic and Racial Differences of the Native Self
Katherine Peters

Hybrid Identity in the Colonial Dutch East Indies
Sani van der Spek

‘The Stranger Within’: British-Jewish Identity in Contemporary Literature
Ruth Gilbert

15:30
Coffee

16:00
Session 10: Narratives and Agency: Redefining the Conditions and Terms of Our Identity
Chair: Corina Daba-Buzoianu

The Archeology of Shame: Literary Constructions of Asian Subjectivity in the Pacific
Seri Luanphinith

Place Identity and Place Replication: An Indian Ethnic Enclave in the UK
Ágnes Zsófia Mayer

Human Terroir: Arts, Authorship and Technology as Reference for Cultural Identity
Tiago Assis

17:30
Closing Reflections & Development Meeting

18:30
Conference Ends