2nd Global Conference (2003)

Conference Programme and Abstracts
The draft 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 for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Programme

Thursday 24th July

12.00pm-2.00pm
Registration

2.00pm
Opening Words
Dr Rob Fisher

2.15pm
Keynote Address
The Military Ethics of Fighting Terror
Asa Kasher
Laura Schwarz-Kipp Professor of Professional Ethics and Philosophy of Practice, and Professor of Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

3.30pm
Tea

4.00pm
Session 1: Ethical Bombing, Legitimate Contexts
Chair: Bruce Stanley

Alison Hills
The Ethics of War

Paul Kan
What Should we Bomb? New Targets for a New Millennium

Christopher Macallister
Changing Paradigms of Warfare in the 21st Century: What Exactly is so Different about the US Way of War?

5.30pm
Session Ends

6.00pm
Wine Reception

6.30pm
Dinner

Friday 25th July
9.00am
Session 2: Virtual Warfare and Media Reality
Chair: Humphry Crum Ewing

Mark Hill
6 Degrees of Bin Laden: the Potential Casualties of Counterterrorism in a Networked World

Robert Hodgins-Vermaas
Effects Based Operations in a Virtual Environment

Meera Thilagaratnam
Obscuring the Reality of War: the Media and Military-spawned technology

10.30am
Coffee

11.00am
Session 3: Visions of Leaders and Warriors
Chair: Barbara Korte

Maria Beatrice Bittarello
Women Warriors in Greek and Roman Mythology

Fransjohan Pretorius
Boer civilians and the scorched earth policy of Lords Roberts and Kitchener in the South African War of 1899-1902

Mark Grandstaff
Visions of New Men: The Percival Motif and the Heroic Soldier Narrative in American Advertisements During World War II

12.45pm
Lunch

2.00pm
Session 4: Identity, Public Opinion and Narratives of War
Chair: Jessica Meyer

Enika Abazi
The Power Politics of Identity and Conflict/War: The Case of Western Balkans

Barbara Korte
War and Britishness after 1945: Narrating Bosnia

Paul Joseph
Are Americans Becoming More Peaceful? Public Opinion and U. S. Post-Cold War Military Missions

3.30pm
Tea

4.00pm
Session 5: Images and Representations of War
Chair: Meera Thilagaratnam

Esther MacCallum-Stewart
Out of this platoon, and going back to Blighty’. Changing representations of the Great War in Television History

Horst Tonn
Visual Images of War in Early American Film

5.00pm
Session Ends

6.30pm
Dinner

Saturday 26th July
10.00am
Session 6: The Literature and Poetry of War
Chair: Asa Kasher

Jessica Meyer
The literary history of the First World War

George Walter
‘The Old Lie’: War Poetry and the Representation of Experience

11.00am
Coffee

11.30am
Session 7: The Changing Face of Conflict
Chair: Paul Kan

Humphry Crum Ewing
The Necessary Role of Controlled Military Force as One of the “Instruments of Order” in the Search for a Secure Society

Georg Wolf
Armoured Police versus Pick-up Warriors?

12.45pm
Lunch

2.00pm
Session 8: Cities, Conflict Resolution and Humanitarian Relief
Chair: Maria Beatrice Bittarello

Bruce Stanley
City Wars or Cities of Peace: (Re)Integrating the Urban into Conflict Resolution

Christopher Ankersen
Carrots AND Sticks: Security and Humanitarian Relief in Postmodern War

3.00pm
Tea

3.30pm
Project Development Meeting

4.00pm
Conference Close