2nd Global Conference
Friday 12th March – Sunday 14th March 2010
Salzburg, Austria
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
Friday 12th March 2010
from 12.30
Registration
13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and Paul Reynolds
14.00
Session 1: Ethics and Contemporary Capitalist Modernity
Chair: Paul Reynolds
A “New Global Ethics”? UNESCO’s Cultural Diversity Convention
Ben Garner
Public Policy Theories and Ethical Dimension
Arash Moussavi
Rooted and Flowing: Ethical Subjectivity in Late Modernity
Celia Grace Kenny
15.30
Coffee
16.00
Session 2: Ethics in the Public Sphere
Chair: Celia Grace Kenny
Culture, Politics, and Ethics: Media Representation of Immigrants and Policy in Canada
Ritendra Tamang
Italian Mafia in the Spectrum of Culture and Politics
Baris Cayli
The Idea of the University: 10 years after the Bologna Process
Sonia Pavlenko & Cristina Bojan
17.30
Notices/Announcements
Wine Reception
Saturday 13th March
09.00
Session 3a: Ethics, Politics and Cultural Difference I
Chair: Ben Garner
Acculturation of a Cult Figure : The Infusion of Sonia Gandhi as a Matriarchal Figure into the Indian National Congress as well as the Multicultural / Multilingual Political Space of India
Reshmi Reghunath
A Reformulated Orientalism: The Impact of Cultural Visions on Reconstruction of Turkey’s Tourism and Cultural Heritage Policies
Neslihan Binatli Hekimoglu
Sociological Examination of the Relationship between Democracy and Secularism: Case Study of France Great Revolution and Islamic Revolution of Iran
Mehdi Rafiee
Session 3b: Ethics, Politics, Policy I
Chair: Alison Wolanski
The Contemporary Kurdish Question of Turkey
Nazli Sila Cesur
Irish-America, Memory and Ethics: The Northern Ireland Peace Process and Lesson Learning for U.S. Foreign Policy
Martin Russell
NPT as a Social Contract: Challenges and Options for 2010 RevCon
Salma Shaheen
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session 4a: Ethical Questions
Chair : Philipp Altmann
What About The Nonhumans In Communities Experiencing Conflict? A Case For Revising Perceptions On Democracy And Freedom
Artwell Nhemachena
General Disadvantage and the Intermingling ‘ethos’ of Work, Consumption and Authenticity
Isaac González-Balletbó & Roger Martínez-Sanmartí
“New Ethics” In Understanding Politics?
Gülşen Seven
Session 4b: The ‘Real’ Injustice of a ‘Hyper-real’ Politics – An Interactive Workshop
Chair Angela Bartram
The ‘Real’ Injustice of a ‘Hyper-real’ Politics – An Interactive Workshop
Claudia Megele, Peter Buzzi
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 5: Session Free For Seeing Salzburg and Informal Discussions
15.30
Coffee
16.00
Session 6: Ethics and Political Thinking I
Chair: Scott Boyd
Identity Politics and Interculturality – The Case of Ecuador
Philipp Altmann
New Politics and Contemporary Public Life: Will Citizens Love Politics Again?
Giuliana Di Biase
ThePpolitical and the Ethical Significance of the Concept of Need in Political Philosophy
Demet Evrenosoglu
17.30
Sessions End
Sunday 14th March
09.00
Session 7: Aesthetics, Culture and Politics
Chair: Peter Buzzi
The Sacrifice Made by Audiences: The Complicit Discomfort of Viewing Performance Art
Angela Bartram and Mary O’Neill
Inter-artistic Identities Within the Socio-political Space
Bello Benischauer & Elisabeth M Eitelberger
‘Ways of Peeing’: Traces of Modernity In the Public Lavatory
Eray Çaylı
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session 8a: Aesthetics and Ethics
Chair: Giuliana Di Biase
Towards a Geo-Political Understanding of Architecture
Alison Wolanski
Images of the Dead: Ethics and Contemporary Art Practice
Mary O’ Neill
Benjaminian Memory in Contemporary Work of Art
Paula Kuffer
Session 8b: Ethics, Politics, Policy III
Chair: Martin Russell
Son Preference Culture and Female Children’s Empowerment in China
Wendy Wang
China’s Strategies towards Southeast Asia: An Effort to Go through the Black Box of Chinese Decision Making
Jenn-Jaw Soong & Nghia Khac Nguyen
The End of ‘New Politics’ in Thailand? The Fall of Thaksin Regime and Its Implications for Thai Democracy
Pei-Hsiu Chen, Jenn-Jaw Soong
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 9: Ethics, Interpretation, Practice
Chair: John McSweeney
Reintroducing Ethics and Social Justice Concerns into the Academic Equation?
Ken Kyle
Ethics in Trouble: A Philosopher’s Role in Moral Social Practice
Anne Siegetsleitner
Political Paradoxes and Crises of Interpretation in the Context of Contemporary Cultural Relations
Slavica Srbinovska
15.30
Coffee
16.00
Session 10: The Ethical Turn
Chair: Ben Garner
Time, Interdisciplinarity, and Ethics in Autopoietic Cultures
Scott H. Boyd
From Decision to Event: Complicating Badiou’s Politics of Truth
John McSweeney
The Ethical Turn and Post-Marxism: Some Critical Remarks
Paul Reynolds
Summary/Development Discussion led by Paul Reynolds
18.00
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