Pluralism - Conference Programme 2007

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 (v.1.3b)

Friday 16th November 2007
from 12.00
Registration

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

14:00
Session 1: Political Participation, Multiplicity and Citizenship
Chair: Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

Cristina Nunes de Azevedo
Youth Engagement: The Impact of the Quality of Participation Experiences on Political Development

Johan Nordensvärd
One or Many Citizenships? Re-thinking Citizenship and Citizenship Education

Ilaria Vanni
Cultural Citizenship, Media and Design in Current Italian Activist Practices.

15:30
Coffee Break

16:00
Session 2: Fluid Boundaries of Citizenship
Chair: Pamela D. Ryan

Luis Cabrera
Mobile Global Citizens

Noémi Michel & Manuela Honegger
Thinking Postcolonial Difference: Colonial Memory and Citizenship in France

Natalie Djohari,
Rethinking Citizenship and Belonging: Young People's Struggles for Political Engagement in the Fledgling Democracy of Post-War Guatemala

Marion Girod
De-nationalising Citizenship through the Emergence of European Citizenship Education Policies? A Comparative Case Study of France and England

18:00
Wine Reception

Saturday 17th November 2007
09:00
Session 3: Migrants and Refugees
Chair: Jeremy Moses

Cecile T. Lowe
Migrant Workers: The Excluded 'Others' in a Globalising World

Katy Long
Reclaiming Guatemala: The Impact of Refugees' Collective Return on Ideas of National Citizenship

Esra Pakin
United States-Haitian Relations: 1960-2002 - Competing Discourses on Immigration

10:30
Coffee Break

11:00
Session 4: Nation and Nationalism
Chair: Terhemba Shija

Richard Sigurdson
Immigration and Nationalist Resistance

Farida Tilbury
The Retreat from Multiculturalism: The Australian Experience

Ifeoma Obauasi
English Language in a Nationistic State: The Crisis of National Integration in Nigeria

Anna Mirkova
Pluralist Citizenship at the End of Empire, or How Did Ottoman Muslims and Christians Belong to the Nascent Bulgarian Nation-state?

13:00
Lunch

14:30 Concurrent Sessions
Session 5a: Shifting Boundaries of Identity
Chair: Luis Cabrera

Pamela D. Ryan
Giving up on Given: The Making of Identity in the Contact Zone

Shoba Arun
Interpreting Global Identities and Transnational Citizenship: Case of Nursing Sector Workers

Dan Soen
A Question of Identity: On the Israeli Identity of Arab and Jewish Students on Two College Campuses

Session 5b: Globalisation and Global Citizenship
Chair: Johan Nordensvärd

Terhemba Shija
Exile and Globalization in the Poetry of Tanure Ojaide: A Study of When it no Longer Matters Where You Live

Primož Pevcin
The Effect of Socioeconomic Fractionalisation of Population on Government Policy in Developed Countries

Said Faiq
The 'Inter' of Intercultural Encounters

16:00
Coffee Break

16:30
Session 6: Media and Citizenship
Chair: Gabriele M. Mras

Kevin W. Gray
Media and the Rise of Shia Islam in Iran

Zoetanya Sujon
New Media Citizens? Dual Systems of Membership and Patterns of Affiliation in Two Citizenship Initiatives

Stefan Mertens
Digital Citizenship Among Ethnic Minorities in Brussels: Presentation of a Multimethodical Research Approach

18:00
Sessions End

Sunday 18th November 2007
9:00
Session 7: Global and Trans-National Politics
Chair: Richard Sigurdson

Jeremy Moses
'We are the World': Cosmopolitanism, Neo-conservatism, and Global Humanity

Nontsasa Nako
Emasculating Violence: An Analysis of Women Perpetrators and Transitional Justice Mechanisms

Elizabeth Moore
The United Nations in a World of Increasing Complexity: Problems of State-Based Membership

10:30
Coffee Break

11:00
Session 8: Identity Politics
Chair: Marco Baldassari

Ofer Kenig
The Political Representation of Israel's Arab Minorities: The Challenge of Marginality and the Dilemma of Influence versus Protest

Mihai Fifor
Shaping Identities in an Ethnic Minority by Means of Oriented Performance of Folkloric Texts

Nkolika E.Obianyo
Citizenship and Ethnic Militia Politics in Nigeria: Marginalization or Identity Question?-The Case of Massob

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 9: Ethics, Tolerance and The Political
Chair: Cecile T. Lowe

Stefan Riegelnik
On the Significance of Ethics for Modern Social and Political Institutions

Gabriele M. Mras
The Concept of Tolerance and Ethical Relativism

Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
Beyond Tolerance

15:30
Coffee Break

16:00
Session 10: Political Inclusion
Chair: Kevin W. Gray

Themistokles Gogas
An Endless Century?

Noor Al-Qasimi
Accommodating Gendered Subjectivities in the United Arab Emirates

Marco Baldassari
European Constitution as Political Belonging

17:30
Development Meeting

18:00
Conference Ends