1st Global Conference (2008)

Thursday 8th May – Saturday 10th May 2008
Budapest, Hungary

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intelligentsia – pseudointelligentsia – no intelligentsia: self-definitions, idealised images, ‘faked’ standings and ‘outdated’ categories among intelligentsia in Lviv (Ukraine)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