1st Global Conference
Thursday 8th May - Saturday 10th May 2008
Budapest, Hungary
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Conference Programme, Abstract 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.1.4)
Thursday 8th May 2008
from 09.30
Registration
10:30
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and Paul Reynolds
11.00
Session 1: Intellectuals and the Public
Chair: Paul Reynolds
What is the Public Responsibility of Intellectuals?
Bob Brecher
Out of the ivory tower, into the public sphere? Academics as intellectuals
Alyce Von Rothkirch
12.15
Lunch
14.00
Session 2: Politics and the Intellectual
Chair: Tatiana Saburova
Otherness, Autonomy and the Critical Ontology of the Contemporary. A Theory of the Intellectual in the Age of Globalization
Kjetil Jakobsen
Turkish Journalists as Intellectuals
Incilay Cangoz
A Farewell to the Ivory Tower? The Literary Review Decision and the Changing Self-Perception of American Intellectuals in 1941.
Elisabeth Piller
15.30
Coffee
16.00
Session 3: Intellectuals and Ideas
Chair: Carool Kersten
Historical Discourse: The Dis/continuity of a Detour of Meanings
Jennifer Luo
“Last intellectual” or Institutionalized Simulacrum? Contemporary international reception of Walter Benjamin
Yuliya Salauyova
A Moment of Reflection about the Construction of Knowledge in a Post-modern Research Set-up
Caroline Newton
17.30
Notices and Announcements
Wine Reception (with delegates from The Idea of Education)
Friday 9th May 2008
09.30
Session 4: Intellectuals, Knowledge and Property
Chair: Sue Tate
Globalisation, Economics and Intellectual Property Rights
Venkata Ramana Rao Chunchu
Cross-cultural Diversity in the Knowledge Management
Concepts of 20-21st Centuries within the Framework of International
Dialogue for Creation of a New Model of Knowledge Management.
Khvatova Tatiana & Ignatyeva Irina
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session 5: Intellectuals and ‘Central Europe’
Chair: Bob Brecher
Russian intellectuals of the first half of the XIXth century: representations and strategy of behaviour.
Tatiana Saburova
Old intelligentsia – new intelligentsia – pseudointelligentsia - no intelligentsia: self-definitions, idealised images, ‘faked’ standings and ‘outdated’ categories among intelligentsia in Lviv (Ukraine)
Eleonora Narvselius
Slovene Intellectuals in Emigration: Between Myth and Loyalty: Slavdom and Dynasty
Irena Gantar Godina
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 6: Intellectuals in Cultural Life Panel
Joint Session with "The Idea of Education"
Rachael Evans
Julia Moszkowicz
Clare Johnson
Angela Partington
Gary Peters
Sue Tate
15.30
Coffee
16.00
Session 7: Intellectuals: Roles and Responsibilities
Chair: Alyce Von Rothkirch
Is the Lock on the Inside or the Outside? Is There a Lock at all? The Ivory Tower, Intellectuals and their Role for Today
Rachel I. Waterstradt
‘The Responsibilities of Intellectuals and the Value of Understanding’
Ward Jones
17.00
Sessions End
Saturday 10th May 2008
09.30
Session 8: Intellectuals and the ‘East’
Chair: Caroline Newton
19th Century Ottoman Intellectuals and Their Perception of ‘Civilization’ (1800-1918)
Mustafa Serdar Palabiyik
Occupants Of The Third Space: ‘New Muslim Intellectuals’ And The Study Of Islam
Carool Kersten
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session 9: Intellectuals and Aesthetics
Chair: Eleonora Narvselius
Augusto Boal’s Intellectual Theatre Pedagogy and Its Encounters with Aristotle’s Notion of Tragedy.
Ebru Gokdag
An Intellectual in the Theatre Scene: Euripides
Suleyman Ýnceefe
Architect Sinan: An Intellectual Design in 16th century Ottoman Capital
Selen Onur
12.30
Lunch
13.45
Session 10: Whither Intellectuals Now? Panel Discussion
Chair: Elisabeth Piller
Discussion Leader - Paul Reynolds
Duscussant: Norman Layne
15.00
Coffee
15.30
Project Development Meeting
16.00
Conference Close