2nd Global Conference
Wednesday 3rd September - Saturday 6th September
2008
Mansfield College, Oxford
Conference Programme, Abstracts and Papers
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 (0.6b)
Wednesday 3rd September 2008
from 12.30
Registration
13:30
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
14:00
Session 1: Multiculturalism – Critical Assessments
Chair: Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
Breda Gray
Affective and Political Categories in Multicultural Debates about Social Justice
Muriel Kahane
The Plural Self & The Social: Some Considerations for Political Theory
Nahshon Perez
Recognition between Self Respect and Self Esteem, or: Recognition between the Redundant and the Self Contradictory?
15:30
Coffee Break
16:00
Session 2: Representations
Chair: Rob Burton
Janette Edwards
Expatriate Literature and the Problem of Contested Representation: The Case of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner
Sunny Lam
The Challenge of Global Media Technologies to Cultural Representation in Digital Cinematic Productions
Caitlin Nunn
A Space to Speak: Challenging representations of Sudanese-Australians
Mattie Turnbull
The Power of the Media Then and Now: Representation of the Evacuation of Scottish Children during World War Two versus the Representation of Polish Migrants in Britain in 2008
18:00
Wine Reception (with delegates from Fear, Horror & Terror 2)
18.30
Dinner
Thursday 4th September 2008
09:00
Session 3: Nations, National Identity & Nationalism
Chair: Patrick Loobuyck
Bryan Fanning
Ethnocentric Liberalism or Ethnic Nepotism? - The Reinvention of Western Nation States as Bounded Communities/ Post-multicultural ‘Realism’, Immigration and the 21st Century Nation State
Ifeoma Obuasi
English Language in a Nationistic State: The Crisis of National Integration in Nigeria
Joan Ramon Rodríguez-Amat
The Ghost of the Nation: A Methodological Discussion
10:30
Coffee Break
11:00
Session 4: Social Imaginary and Identity
Chair: Farrah Ahmed
Eleni Pavlides
Do People Make History?
Hironori Onuki
The Myth of Homogeneity and its ‘Others’: Migrant Workers as Political Agents and Their Everyday Struggles and Negotiations in Globalizing Japanese Political Economy
Theophilus Ejorh
Imagining the Diasporic African Community in Dublin: Identity, Identification and Experiences
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Session 5: Belonging and the Need to Belong
Chair: Janette Edwards
Ana Bravo-Moreno
Socio-cultural Belonging in Legal Limbo
Jonathan Rollins
Ariel Dorfman Writes Home: Literary Citizenship and Transnational Belonging
Sandra Evers
Longing and Belonging in Real Time: How Chagossian Children in Mauritius See Themselves and the Chagos Islands
Marguerite Daniel
Created Kin – New Support Networks for HIV Positive Children in Tanzania
16:00
Coffee Break
16:30
Session 6: Politics, Globalisation and Culture
Chair: Catalina Botez
Rob Burton
The Enduring Legacy of Bandung, Non-Alignment and Richard Wright
Davide Torsello
Engaging in Civil Society under Post-Socialism: Images and Forms of Environmental Protest in Slovakia
Tina Rahimy
Expressions of Exceptions and Exceptions of Expressions: On Broken Languages as Political Discourse
Jae Seung Moon
The Social Construction of Grievance and its Role in Social Movements: Overseas Filipino Workers Activism and Homeland Filipino Politics
18:30
Sessions End
Friday 5th September 2008
9:00
Session 7: Minorities and Reasonable Accommodation
Chair: Ifeoma Obauasi
Masakazu Matsumoto
The Politics of Toleration in Contemporary Liberal Societies: Assessing the Validity of Minority Cultural Rights
Alan Wong
The Winter of Our Discontent: ‘Reasonable Accommodation’ and the 2007 Quebec Election
Reine Meylaerts
New Forms of Inclusion in the Multilingual World: Translating for the Minorities
Marion J. Kiprop
Female Circumcision: Universal Principles versus Relative Traditions
11:00
Coffee Break
11:30 Concurrent Sessions
Session 8a: Migrants: Culture, Politics and Inequality
Chair: Sunny Lam
Nese Öztimur
Gender, Migration and the Denationalization of Citizenship: Kurdish Women Migrants’ Life Strategies in Turkey
Yoon Jung Park
Recent Chinese Migrations to South Africa: New Intersections of Race, Class and Ethnicity
Laura Seibokaite, Aukse Endriulaitiene & Rasa Marksaityte
The Portrait of New Lithuanian Emigrants: Integrative Model of Psychological & Social Factors
Session 8b: Multicultural Complexities
Chair: Caitlin Nunn
Shota Ogawa
12 Years Diary: Issue of Cultural Essentialism in ‘Multicultural’ Japan
Iwona Jakimowicz-Ostrowska
National Minorities in Poland after 2001 – A Political Issue or an Element of Multicultural Reality?
Naoko Maehara
The Dialogical Self and Memory-Shaping Processes: Japanese Migrant Mothers in Ireland
13:00
Lunch
14:30
Session 9: Cultural Politics
Chair: Eleni Pavlides
Tuuli Lähdesmäki
Concepts of Locality, Regionality and Europeanness in European Capitals of Culture
Agnès Rocamora
La Parisienne in the Media: Moving Beyond France
Raluca Manoliu & Mariana Fartatescu
Dream or Nightmare?: The Architectural Illustration of Conflicted Cultures and Identities in Post-Communist Eastern Europe
16:00
Coffee Break
16:30
Session 10: Ethnicity and Boundaries of Difference
Chair: Ana Bravo-Moreno
Jacqueline Knörr
Pidginization Beats Creolization
Krushil Watene
Should Freedom be Central to our Understanding of Culture?
Mesut Yegen
Banditry to Disloyalty: The Kurdish Question in Turkey
18:00
Sessions End
Saturday 6th September 2008
09:00
Session 11: Conflict, Identity and History
Chair: Tuuli Lähdesmäki
Pelin Aksoy
Identity and Alterity of the Turkish Cypriots Living in the Northern Part of Cyprus
Atousa Ebrahimi
Alice Walker's "Everyday Use": Conflict of Identities EXIT
Leone Porciani
Mediterranean Identities in the Ancient World
10:30
Coffee Break
11:00
Session 12: Social Constructions of Identity
Chair: Bryan Fanning
Margriet van der Waal
‘A paranoia of Identity Crisis’?: Recent South African Literary Historiography and the Discourse of Cultural and Political Transformation
Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
Dance, Rituals and the Performance of Transnational Identities: A Mexico-United States Case
Catalina Botez
De-/ Re-constructed Jewish Identities in Post-Holocaust Europe and America
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Session 13: Multiculturalism, Public Service and Reasonable Accommodation
Chair: Breda Gray
Shilinka Smith & Shona Hill
Changing Paradigms in the Public Service: Reconceptualising Difference
Farrah Ahmed
Personal Autonomy and Models of Multicultural Accommodation in Family Law
Patrick Loobuyck
How Solidarity Works in Highly Diversified Societies: How Far Do We Get with National Liberalism?
15:30
Development Meeting
16:00
Conference Ends