Transformations - 2003 Conference Programme

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 for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation

Final Programme

Monday 8th December
From 12.30pm
Registration

2.00pm
Welcome and Opening Words
Christopher Macallister

2.15pm
Session 1: The Transformative Power of the Media
Chair: Christopher Macallister

Banu Dagtas
Transformative Role of the Journal of ‘ÜLKÜ’ in Turkish Modernisation Process in the Era of the Single Party and rhe Leadership of Ataturk

Eric C. Oparoha-Njoku
Media Power And Political Transformation In Nigeria

Linda Venter
Print Media and the Glocalisation of Knowledge: a Case Study

3.45pm
Coffee

4.15pm
Session 2: Transformation and Globalisation
Chair: Maria Way

Ken McDonagh
A Global Public Sphere?

Antonia Chao
An Emerging Social Movement: Citizenship, Mainland Brides, and the Old Soldiers in Contemporary Taiwan

5.15pm
Wine Reception

Tuesday 9th December
9.30am
Session 3: Image, Media and Transformations
Chair: Peter Remington

Tiina Seppälä
The Changing Character and Image of War - "New Wars" in the Hierarchical International System

Veronica Usachyova
State Regulation of Mass Media: Russian Experience

10.30am
Coffee

11.00am
Session 4: Art and (Non)Violence
Chair: Linda Venter

Marty Branagan
The Art(s) of Nonviolence

Ruth Helyer
America was born in the Streets :Gangs of New York

Sarah White
A Rhetorician Reads Violence: Baudrillard, the Twin Towers, and Bowling for Columbine

12.30pm
Lunch

2.00pm
Session 5: Bodies, Flirting and Sex
Chair: Cheryl-Ann Potgieter

Linda Venter & Franzel Du Plooy-Cilliers
Western Influences on Flirting Behaviour in African Cultures

Albert de Plazaola
Sexual Simulacra

Karen Lysaght
Hypermasculine/Hyperlocal: changing patterns of working-class masculinity in the deindustrialised city

3.30pm
Coffee

4.00pm
Session 6: Medium, Message and Story
Chair: Marty Branagan

Maria Way
Change the Medium, Keep the Message!

Christopher Finlay
The Toronto Syndrome: SARS, public health and the quest for control of the story

5.00pm
Sessions End

Wednesday 10th December
9.30am
Session 7: Dispute, Self-Image and Visions of Insanity
Chair: Christopher Finlay

Noemi Galor
Outsourcing of Justice as a Form of Legal Transformation: The Place of International Alternative Dispute Resolution in International Economic Relations and in International Law

Peter Remington
Several Pages of Madness: The Changing Face of Insanity in Cinema

10.30am
Coffee

11.00am
Session 8: Emerging Horizons
Chair: Albert de Plazaola

Kalli Paakspuu
Paradigms of Collaboration in Postcolonial Aesthetics

Ruksana Patel
Disengagement and Transitions: Stories of Tensions and Dilemmas in an Emerging Democracy

Cheryl-Ann Potgieter
Black South African Academics experiences in a transforming Educational landscape

12.30pm
Lunch

2.00pm
Project Development Meeting

Conference Close