4th Global Conference
Wednesday 2nd May - Saturday 5th May 2007
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Conference Programme, Abstracts & Papers
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)
Wednesday 2nd May
from 12:30
Registration
14.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher, Alejandro Cervantes-Carson and Graeme Goldsworthy
14:30
Joint Session 1: Critical Assessments
Chair: Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
Mel Kohlke
Sublime Violations: Trauma Literature and the Search for Transcendence
through Violence
Rob Fisher
The Heathlands of Humanity
Cheri Carr
The Value of Violence
16:00
Coffee
16.30
Joint Session 2: On the Ground; Experiences and Reflections of War
Chair: Bob Brecher
Victor Emthoven
Black Soldiers: Military Force and Slavery in the Early Modern Atlantic
World
Lu Liu
The War of Resistance: China 1937-1945
Gary Baines
Breaking Ranks: Secrets, Silences and Stories of South Africa’s
Border War
18.00
Notices and Announcements
Wine Reception
Thursday 3rd May
09.00
Session Three: There is Your Enemy……..
Chair: Elizabeth Moore
John R. Schindler
Bin Laden’s European War: Bosnia, Al Qa’ida and the rise
of Global Jihad
Avery Plaw
Is the War on Terror Real? Should it be?
Kiran Sarma
A Psycho-Social Perspective on Support for Terrorism in the Wake of
Attacks
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session Four: War Talk
Chair: Peter Vanderkruit
Janicke Stramer
The Language of War: George W. Bush’s Discursive practices in
Securitising the “Western Value System” in the War on Terror
Asta Maskaliunaite
“Fight is not the past, but the present and the future”.
Language of Conflict and War in the Spanish Basque Country.
Stephenie Young
Yugonostalgia and the Post-National Narrative
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session Five: That’s Entertainment:
War in Pictures
Chair: Helen Fox
Jason McEntee
The Immediacy of Narrated Combat: Operation Iraqi Freedom as Public
Spectacle
Susan Scheibler
Experiencing War the Video Game Way: Call of Duty 2
K Neil Jenkings
The Representation of British Soldierly Identity in Print Media and
Soldier’s own Photographic accounts.
15.30 Coffee
16.00
Session Six: Force Multipliers? Worse than States? NGOs and Conflict
Chair: Graeme Goldsworthy
Tom Kane
The Madness of Coalitions
Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen
The Benefits of Combating Global Warming
Efstathios T. Fakiolas
Reflecting on Human Security Or, About the Inherent Nature of National
Security
17.30
Sessions End
Friday 4th May
No morning session. Sightseeing / Cultural Tour of Budapest
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session Seven: Writing about War
Chair: Susan Scheibler
Elke Rosochacki
Ethical Crossings
in War Writing: Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost and
the Sri Lankan Civil War
David Boulting
Mobility and Transformation: Engaging the Enemy in Larry Heinemann's Paco's Story
Julia Boll
The Unlisted Character
15.30
Coffee
16.00
Session Eight: Trauma, Recovery and Remembrance
Chair: Elke Rosochacki
Brenda Roche
Understanding of Trauma in Post War Resettlement
David William Seitz
Approaching New Parameters of Remembrance in the American War Memorial
Bob Brecher
Torture and the “Ticking Bomb”: a Case Study in Fantasy
in the so-called War on Terror
17.30 Sessions End
Saturday 5th May
09.00
Session Nine: Protection. Transitory, Illusory or Reality?
Chair: Peter van der Kruit
Hitomi Takemura
Rights and Duties of the Individual to disobey Manifestly Illegal Orders
under International Law
Daniel Blocq
Western Soldier’s Combat motivation in UN Peacekeeping
Lucas Walsh
International Security and the Paradox of Proximity in the Coverage
of War in Cyberspace
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session Ten: Means and Methods: Prohibition, Interventions and Alternatives
Chair: Julia Boll
Julien Barbara
Reconstructing war as a Pathology of Underdevelopment and the Imperative
for Western Humanitarian Intervention
Seth B. Scott
The Killers and the Dead: An exploration of the Validity of and Alternatives
to Lethal Warfare
Graeme Goldsworthy
The Weakness of International Prohibitions on Small Arms: The Case
of Growing Self-Sufficiency in Landmine Production by the LTTE in
Sri Lanka
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session Eleven: Ethics; Morality and Philosophy of War
Chair: Daniel Blocq
Kimana Zulueta-Fuelscher
The Mechanics of Judgment on then Topic of War
Tarik Kochi
Questioning Just war Thinking
Arjen Vermeer
The Laws of War in Outer Space: Some
Legal Implications for the Jus ad Bellum and the Jus in Bello of the
Militarisation and Weaponisation of Outer Space
15.30
Coffee
16.00
Session Twelve: Reinventing War and Peace
Chair: Tom Kane
Claudia Croci
Human Security: A Possible Operational Tool in Conflict Prevention
Helen Fox
Teaching Non-Violence
17.00
Tea and Development Meeting
17.30
Conference Close