Friday 6th December
from 12.00pm Registration

2.00pm
Welcome and Opening Words
Dr Rob Fisher

2.15pm
Session 1: Trajectories of Subversion
Chair: Maria Way
Sofie van Bauwel, ‘Representing Gender Benders: Consumerism and the Muting of Subversion’
Karin Klenke, ‘Women Weaving Webs: The Transformative Powers of the Internet’
Thomas Beischer, ‘The Struggle to be JJP Oud: A Trajectory History’

3.45pm
Tea

4.15pm
Keynote Paper
Dr Merl Storr and Dr Stephen Maddison
‘The Edge of Reason’: The Myth of Bridgit Jones

5.30pm End

7.30pm
Session 2: Transitions, Values and Women’s Writings
Chair: Thomas Hey
Timothy Walters, ‘Transitional Women II: A Case Study of Values of University-age Women in the Context of an Arabic/Islamic Society
Nawar Golley, ‘Arab Women Writings in the 1990's; The Challenges after September 11th.’

8.30pm End

Saturday 7th December
9.00am
Session 3: Transformations, Technology and Cultures
Chair: Rob Fisher
Virpi Oksman, ‘Children and Communication technologies in Everyday Life’
Jinbong Choi & Il Nam Kwon, ‘Understanding the Culture and Characteristics of Cellular Phone Communication: A Korean Case Study’
Asli Tunc, ‘Internet Regulation A La Turque: Historical and Contemporary Problem Analyses of the Internet Environment in Turkey’

10.30am Coffee

11.00am
Session 4: The Boundaries of Political and Cultural Change
Chair: Isabel Sendlak
Patrick Spero, ‘The Legacy of the Paxton Boys: The Restructuring of Colonial Pennsylvania’s Political Landscape’
Sergey Govorukha, ‘Political Cultural Models of Ukranian Student Youth: Shifts and Constants’
Theophilus Ogbhemhe, ‘A Reconstruction is Immanent: A Critique of Paulin Hountondji’s Contribution to the Search for an African Identity Debate’

12.30pm Lunch

2.00pm
Session 5: Dissent, Popular History, and Media Images
Chair: Edith Sheffer
Joss Hands, ‘Living with E-utopia: Camus, Habermas and the Politics of Virtual Dissent’
Emine Oncular, ‘Challenging Nationalist Discourse through Popular History’
Maria Way, ‘Politics, the Papacy and the Media’

3.30pm Tea

4.00pm
Session 6: Transformations in the Media and the Press
Chair: Karin Klenke
Nancy Kwak, ‘Neither Private nor Public: The New York Times and the Evolution of Public Housing in the 1950's’
Kate Omenugha, ‘The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Difference: An Analysis of Newspaper Reports of the Yoruba/Hausa Ethnic Clash of 1st - 3rd February 2002'
Braam van der Vyver, ‘The Role of Alternative Afrikaans Media in the Political Transformation Process in South Africa’

5.30pm End

7.30pm
Session 7: Media and Change in Central Europe
Chair: Timothy Walters
Brett Marie Van Hoesen, ‘Critiquing Visual Tropes of the Rhineland Controversy: The Intersection of Popular Press Caricature and Berlin Avant-Garde Photomontage in Weimar Germany.’
Edith Sheffer, ‘Boundaries of Change: East and West Germany in the Borderland’

8.30pm End

Sunday 8th December
9.30am
Session 8: Accession and Conflict
Chair: Stephen Maddison
Thomas Hey, ‘Accession to the European Union and Cultural Transformation’
Shane Lachtman, ‘The Conflicted Significance of Racial Controversies in Major League Baseball and American History’

10.30am
Coffee

11.00am
Session 9: Transformation, Migration and Asylum
Chair: Sofie van Bauwel
Isabel Sendlak, ‘Adaptation of Migrants to a New University Culture: Perceptions, Expectations, and Reality’
Tamara Gurtueva, ‘Zinaida Gippius: Philosopher, Critic and Poetess of Russian Emigration’
Eugenia Siapera, ‘Asylum Politics in Cyberspace’

12.30pm
Lunch

2.00pm
Session 10 Film, Trauma and Change
Chair: Joss Hands
Reinhart Lutz, ‘Transformations of Trauma without Rehabilitating Failure: The Dual Attempt at reshaping America’s memory of the War in Viet Nam in Mel Gibson’s We Were Soldiers (2002)’
Hanh Nguyen, ‘Capturing Changes in a Changed Land: Tony Bui’s Three Seasons and Images of Transformation in Post-War Vietnam’

3.00pm
Tea

3.30pm
Development Meeting and Conference Close