2nd Global Conference (2006)

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.2.6)

Monday 18th September 2006
from 12.30
Registration

14.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and Stephen Neff

14.15
Session 1: Hope and Relationality
Chair: Rachel Waterstradt

Hope and the Ethics of Dying
Janet Horrigan and Rochelle Green

Theorizing on How Attachment Drives Hope
Stephen Neff

Envisaging Possible Futures in Relation to Possible Selves
Paul Salvatori

15.45
Tea

16.15
Session 2: The Darker Side of Hope
Chair: Bill Lawson

Hope When the Game is Over: The Effect of Exploitation on Athletes
Janet Horrigan

Self-Deceptive Hopes
Roland Bluhm

Melancholy Hope: Friendship in Paul Celan’s Letters
Felix Christen

Hope and Advertising
Mauro Dujmovic

18.15
Notices
Wine Reception

19.00
Dinner

Tuesday 19th September
09.00 Concurrent Sessions
Session 3A: Novel Paradigms for Hope
Chair: Wendy Rountree

A Cultural Movement to Increase Hope in the 21st Century
Lida Sharafatmand

From Fad to Journey: Embodying Hope through Digestion in Hawai’i
Lucy Pickering

Caliban’s Ariel: Postcolonial Hope and Chicana Struggle in Cherrie Moraga’s The Hungry Woman
Juan D. Mah y Busch

Session 3B: Bloch, Hope and Modern Society
Chair: Shane O’Neill

Ernst Bloch an the Phenomenology of Hope as Fundamental Ontological Question
Cinzia Romagnoli

Ernst Bloch: Hope as the Conscious Action towards and Open-Future
Iris Meyer

Is Life Worth Living or Does it Depend on the Liver?: Three Responses by William James and Ernst Bloch
Noel Boulting

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4A: The Psychology of Hope
Chair: Felix Christen

Children, Family Violence, and Hope-in-the-Making in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Jennifer Infanti

Hope, Time and Trauma
Wendy O’Brien

Hope, Neurolinguistics and the Self
Mariangela Marcello

Session 4B: Hope, Despair and Evil
Chair: Mauro Dujmovic

Pedagogy of the Hope-Possessed: Kierkegaard and Ricoeur on Hope over Despair in the University
Rachel I. Waterstradt

Reflections on a Broken World: William James and Gabriel Marcel on Despair, Hope, and Desire
Rosa Slegers

Hope and Its Incongruence with Evil
Ioannis S. Christodoulou

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5: Love and Relativism at the Crossroads
Chair: Fotini Vaki

Hope to Love You: Love Beyond Self in the Philosophies of Emmanuel Levinas and Chogyam Trungpa
Tahseen Basheer

Relativism and Culture in Political Argumentation
Martin Palecek

At the Crossroads of Science, Religion and Utopia: Rediscovering Spiritualitistic Paradigms of Redemption in the Context of Bioethics
Alena Govorounova

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 6: Hope, Self and Community
Chair: Paul Salvatori

Hoping For and Against Hope: Lived Experiences of Hyphenated Dis-located Identities
Veena Balsawer & Rebecca Feng

The Affective Politics of Insurgent Hope
Lia Haro

Hope Across the Razor Wire: Student-Inmate Reading Groups at Monroe Correctional Facility
Ed Wiltse

17.30
Sessions End

Wednesday 20th September
09.00 Concurrent Session
Session 7A: Hope, Invisibility and Relation
Chair: Wendy O’Brien

On the Hope for the Hope for Those without Hope
Marek Palasinski

Hope for the Invisible Women of India: Disability, Gender and the Concepts of Karma, Shakti in the Indian Weltanschauung
Shilpa Das

Relation, Hope and Mass Communication Society
Rochelle Green

Session 7B: Hope, Faith and Human Nature
Chair: Iris Meyer

The Divine Experience in Lagerkvist’s Works as the Embodiment of the Quest for Hopeful Existence
Anna Zebialowicz

Doubt One Minute, Faith the Next: Hope and Faith in John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany
Alex Hobbs

Hope and Human Nature
Nicholas Smith

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8A: Hope in South Africa
Chair: Martin Palacek

An Alchemy of Hope: Law and Legal Education – Voices from Post-Millennium South Africa
Jacques Mahler

Hope in View of HIV/AIDS in South Africa: Conflicts of Public Discourse and Power
Jill Olivier

The Age of Hope Begins with e-lollipop
Hale Tsehlana

Holding On or Letting Go? The Resolution of Grief in Relation to Two Xhosa Rituals in South Africa
Gary van Heerden

Session 8B: Philosophy of Hope
Chair: Ed Wiltse

Walter Benjamin and Theodore Adorno on Hope: a Conversation
Fotini Vaki

Ruth Linn
Against all Hopes – Escaping Auschwitz and the Politics of Memory

Hope Pro/Contra Fear?
Inga Leitane

12.45
Lunch

14.00
Session 9: Hope and the Oppressed
Chair: Anna Zebialowicz

Needs and Experiences of Street Children Battling with Poverty
Elohor Biuwovwi

Hope, Derrick Bell and the Permanence of Racism
Bill Lawson

ZZ Packer’s Drinking Coffee Elsewhere: Singing the Millennial Blues
Wendy Rountree

15.30
Tea

16.00
Development Meeting

16.30
Conference Close