5th Global Conference
Monday 5th May - Wednesday 7th May 2008
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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.1.4c)
Monday 5th May 2008
from 09.30
Registration
10:30
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher, Graeme Goldsworthy and Andrew Wilson
11.00
Session One: History, War and the State
Chair: Bob Brecher
Mustafa Serdar Palabiyik
The Ottoman Perception of War: From the Foundation of the Empire to its Disintegration
Ali Çaksu
The Secular and the Sacred: Sacrilisation of War in the Modern World
Javier Franzé
Politics, the Political and Violence
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session Two: Theoretical Philosophy in the Analysis of War
Chair: Andrew Wilson
Jeff and William Harmon
Across the Margins: Toward an Interdisciplinary Theory of War
Nick Mansfield
War as Double: Modern and Post-Modern Thinkers Redefine War.
Jason Edwards
Foucault and the Continuation of War in the 20th Century
15.30
Coffee
16.00
Session Three: Security, Rights and Sovereignty in the Shadow of a Hegemon: Canada and Hemispheric Security
Chair: Elizabeth Moore
Robert Teigrob
The Canada-United States Border and Hemispheric Security: From Cold War to War on Terror
Olivier Courteaux
Canada’s War on terror since 2001: Security or Human Rights? A Difficult Balance
Arne Kislenko
On Guard for Thee? The Realities and Dilemmas of Canada’s Border Security and Immigration System
17.30
Notices and Announcements
17.40
Wine Reception
Tuesday 6th May
09.00
Session Four: The IRA, LTTE and Al Qa’ida: Three Unholy Terrors
Chair: Tara Hopkins
Timothy Hoyt
Like a Phoenix from the Ashes
Graeme Goldsworthy
Tiger, Tiger burning bright
Avery Plaw
The Legality of Targeted Killing as an Instrument of War: The Case of Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session Five: Playing War, Playing Peace. Enemies Real and Imagined
Chair: Timothy Hoyt
Gideon Shimshon
Baby Sitting or Bird Watching; Creative Learning in Conflict Resolution
Michael Nagenborg
The World of Warcraft: Creating a Safe and Secure Place for an Entertaining War
Kostas Physentzides
Vernor Vinge’s ’Technological Singularity’
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session Six: Epistemology and Methodology in the Study of Conflict
Chair: Noelle Higgins
Mette Haakonsen
Experiencing German Bunkers in Denmark
Stuart Murray
Consolidating the Gains made in Diplomacy Studies
Bård Mæland
Enduring the Inner Enemy: Military Boredom, Past and Present
15.30
Coffee
16.00
Session 7: Responses and Representations of the Trauma of War
Chair: Andrew Wilson
Nolen Gertz
Censorship, Propaganda and the Production of “Shell Shock” in World War One
Elizabeth Coble
Entertainment and Understanding: The Evolving Role of Movies in the Combat Zone
Tim Markham
The Correspondent’s Experience of War
17.30
Sessions End
Wednesday 7th May
09.30 Concurrent Sessions
Session Eight (A) : Law, War and Terror
Chair: Robert Teigrob
Irene Banias
The Role of Law in the Context of War and Peace
Bob Brecher
There is no such thing as Political Terrorism
Session Eight (B): Art in War: Depicting Conflict
Chair: Rob Fisher
Sam Bowker
Their War and Mine: The Implications of Self-Portraiture for Australia’s Official War Artists
Nahal Zamani
Iraqi schoolchildren draw ‘Shock and Awe’
10.30
Coffee
11.00 Concurrent Sessions
Session Nine (A) Human Security, Replacing or Replicating a Human Rights Approach?
Chair: Andrew Wilson
Pamela Chrabieh Badine
Voices – Paths of Peace in Lebanon: Contributions of the 25-40 Age Group
Elizabeth Moore
Women and Security: Victims No More
Benjamin Rampp
Insecurity by Impreciseness: Towards a Specific Concept of Security
Session Nine (B): International Law: Regulating Conflict or Legitimising Means and Methods?
Chair: Avery Plaw
Manuel Rodriguez
Morality, Global War on Terrorism and the Emergence of a New Biopolitical Order
Noelle Higgins
‘The Regulation of Armed Non-State Actors – Promoting the Application of the Laws of War among National Liberation Movements’
Aoife Duffy
Human Rights and Conflict in Darfur
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session Ten: Battlegrounds: Old and New
Chair: Elizabeth Moore
Axel Auge
African Peacekeepers
Matthew Ford
Battlefield Interpretations and the Role of the Imagination in the Development of British Infantry Weapons, from the 1880s to the Present Day
15.30
Tea
16.00
Development Meeting
16.30
Conference End