Conference Programme, Abstracts and Papers

6th Global Conference

Sunday 6th May – Tuesday 8th May 2012

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

Sunday 6th May 2012
From 12.30
Conference Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Niall Scott

14.00
Session 1: Challenges to Expression, Contrasting the Global, the Loud and the Silent
Chair: Niall Scott

The Silence Regime: Disappearing Public Space and Disappeared Democracy
Hannah Rose Mendoza and Thomas Matyók

Globalisation and the Challenges of the State System in the Twenty-first Century
Emmanuel Joseph Chukwuma Duru

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 2: What to Make of Pluralism?
Chair: Cosmin Sebastian Cercel

Liberalism Today: The Challenges Posed by Plural Societies
Carla Gomes

“Civic” Versus “Ethnic” Nationalism : The Building of Modern Pluralist Democracies.
Ian McIntosh

17.30
Notices and Announcements

17.40
Wine Reception

Monday 7th May 2012
09.00
Session 3: Studies on the Romanian Past
Chair: Thomas Matyók

“Where is the Law ?”: Legal Discourse and Ideology in Interwar Romania
Cosmin Sebastian Cercel

The Jews’ Involvement in the Anti-National Communist Movement in Romania During the Inter-war Period: Historiographical and Contemporary Myths Versus the Historical Reality
Arthur Viorel Tuluş

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4: Notes on the Arab Spring
Chair: Ian McIntosh

The Concatenation of Street Art and Revolution: Resisting the State and the Politics of Display in Cairo
Lewis Sanders IV

Metal Uprising? The Place of Heavy Metal Music in Political Dissent in the “Arab Spring”
Niall Scott

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5: A Uniquely Turkish Question?
Chair: Carla Gomes

Policing Dissent: Authoritarian Reformulation of the State in AKP’s Turkey
Cihan Ozpinar

Victim of the Past-Evil of Today
Ayşegül Sabuktay

15.30
Coffee

Early finish to allow for sightseeing in Prague

Tuesday 8th May 2012
09.00
Session 6: Roundtable Discussion
Chair: Niall Scott

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 7: Forms of Violence
Chair: Hannah Rose Mendoza

Transnational Internal Security, Democracy and the Role of the State
Ronan Kaczynski

State and Femicide: Gender Violence and Politics of Representation of “Third World Woman” in Post-Colonial Wars in Latin America
Karina Bidaseca

I Speak of the House, a Home Today, and Tomorrow a Ruin, Stolen and Resurrected
Catherine Hamel

12.30
Lunch

14:00
Session 8 : The Political Voice
Chair: Ronan Kaczynski

Good Government: The United States Shapes a New Zealand Politician
Raymond Richards

Does Service Delivery Influence the Voting Choices made by Voters During Local Government Elections ? An Anthropological Investigation Conducted in the Municipal Wards of the Botshabelo Township
Jan van der Merwe

15:30
Development meeting and closing remarks

16:00
Conference Ends