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.1.7)

Monday 8th August 2005
from 12.30
Registration

14.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and Stephen Neff

14.15
Session 1: Hope in History
Chair: Stephen Neff

Hope and Historical Consciousness
Richard Nelson

Shattered Love: Thinking History as the Yet-To-Be-Completed
Nicole Ridgeway

Ha-Tikva: The Concept of Hope in Jewish History
Yoram Lubling

15.45
Refreshment Break

16.15
Session 2: Hope in South Africa
Chair: Kenneth Seeskin

The Role of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in Facilitating a Changeover to Democratic Government in South Africa in 1995 and its implications as a role Model for hope in the future
Sandra Pilowsky

Assessment of Hope - The Process of Constructing a Gender-sensitive Scale for Hope Within a South African Context
David JF Maree & Marinda Maree

An Open Future for Indigenous Law in South Africa? Hope for a Constitutional Dialogue
David Taylor

17.45
Notices and Announcements

18.00
Wine Reception

 

Tuesday 9th August 2005

09.00
Session 3: Phenomenology of Hope
Chair: Fontini Vaki

Chancing Upon the Sleeve of Another: The Existential Meaning Of Hoping Itself
Claire Potter

Is there Hope at Twilight?
Çagdas Ceyhan & Erhan Akarçay

A Developmental Look at Hoping: Hope as Attachment Process
Stephen Neff

10.30
Refreshment Break

11.00
Session 4: Cultivating Hope and the Role of Religion
Chair: John Hochheimer

Cultivating Hope: Simone Weil, mextaxu, and the Literature of the Divine
Christine Howe

Religion Beyond Religion: A. N. Whitehead and the Advancement of Civilization
Kenneth Masong

Cigdem Bugdayci
Hope through Romantic Love

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5: Hope Expressed Clinically
Chair: Nicole Ridgeway

Hoping is Better than Hope: A Discursive Analysis of Dying Cancer Patients’ Speech
Jaklin Eliott

Hope in the Age of Cancer Genetics: Coping with Genetic Susceptibility for Breast Cancer
Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli

Fostering Hope in a Psychiatric Hospital
Kelley Raab

15.30
Refreshment Break

16.00
Session 6: Hope and the Social
Chair: David JF Maree

Cosmopolitan Hope
Catriona McKinnon

The Promise and the Problems of Hoping for a Better Future
Kenneth Seeskin

Hope and Philosophies of History
Fotini Vaki

17.30 Sessions End

 

Wednesday 10th August

09.00
Session 7: Contexts of Hope
Chair: Sandra Pilowsky

Whiteness and the Displacement of Hope: South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace
Victoria Burrows

The Neverending Story: A Model for the "Work of Hope"
Rebecca Jacoby

Hoping for a Better Self: Critical Approaches to “Authentic” Identity
Will Tregoning

10.30
Refreshment Break

11.00
Session 8: Hope in the Media
Chair: Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli

Representing Hope in Persuasive Communication: An Advertising Discourse Perspective
Vincent Chang

On the Joyful Event: Hoping Against Hope
James Tobias

The Use and Abuse of Mass Media in Conflict Resolution and Crisis Management
Mahmoud Eid

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9: Probing the Boundaries of Hope
Chair: Kenneth Masong

How to go on in the Darkness of our Time: Wittgenstein’s Consolation by Philosophy
Jason Scruton

What is Still to be Found in Pandora’s Box?
Vardan Torosian

Hoping Against or Towards Hope? The Mysterious Stranger And the Dwarf in the Search for the Meaning of life: A Comparative Study
Anna Zebialowicz

Communication and the Human Spirit: Notes Towards a Pedagogy of Hope
John Hochheimer

16.00
Refreshment Break

16.30
Development Meeting

17.00
Conference Close