1. Thursday, 25th November 9:00 - 11:00
- Introduction to the Session’s Theme

-Ken Saltman (Depaul University, Chicago) and 
Pepi Leistyna (University of Massachusetts, Boston): 
Leaving in the Dust the ‘Real Versus Cultural Politics’ Debate:
Why it is Important to Fight Capital from More Than One Front

-Matteo Stocchetti (Arcada International Research Institute, Helsinki): 
The Politics of Fear: A Critical Inquiry into the Role of Violence in 21st Century Politics

-Brett Neilson (University of Western Sydney): 
Just-in-Time Security: Finance Capital in the Era of Permanent Global War


2. Thursday, 25th November 11:30 - 13:30

- Garrett A. Duncan (Washington University in St. Louis): 
Language Research, Cultural Imperialism, and
the Education of Black Students in the United States

- Eugénia Sequeira (Universidade de Lisboa):
Transnational Higher Education in a Globalised World, Competitiveness and Quality in Question

- Enrique Banús, Gonzalo Prieto, André Sáenz (Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona):
New Communications for Old Cultures? The Websites of the Ministries of Culture

- Maria Touri (University of Leeds, Leeds):
The Media as an Actor in Political Decision-Making: The Example of the Greek-Turkish Relationship


3. Friday, 26th November 14:00 – 16:00

- Hernan Cuevas (University of Essex, Colchester):
Talking About … ‘Chilean Democracy?’

- Linda Venter (Monash University, Johannesburg):
Linking Spirituality, Meditation and Work Satisfaction

- Char Miller (George Mason University, Fairfax):
The Perfect Machine: Cars, Cows, Bodies and Desires

- Ana Isabel Lopes (Universidade de Lisboa): 
Breaking Through the Screen of ‘Globalisation’

Session 2 - Englishness and ‘Englishnesses’: the politics of the past
Session organiser:
Sofia Sampaio

Wednesday 24th November 16.30 - 18.30

- CM Weedon, Cardiff University, UK, “The Colour of Englishness”

- Stephen Ingle, University of Stirling, UK, “English Ethical Socialism”

- Sofia Sampaio, University of Lisbon/ FCT, Portugal, “Englishness and the ‘other’: the imperial connection (towards a post-imperial identity)”

Session 3 - Humanist Photography
Session organiser:
Álvaro Pina

Panel 1 - Friday, 26th November 9.00 - 11.00 (morning panel)

- Álvaro Pina: Introduction to the session

- Glenn Jordan: The Somali Elders project: Humanist photography as portraiture and cultural politics

- Darren Newbury: ‘Lest we forget’: Photography and memory at the Apartheid Museum, Gold Reef City, and the Hector Pieterson Museum, Soweto


Panel 2 - Friday, 26th November 14.00 - 16.00 (afternoon panel)

- Nina Lager Vestberg: Kiss and sell: Humanist photography and the Parisian imaginary of love

- P. R. Dallow: Visual rhetoric and humanist photography: Reality, visuality and culture

- David Bate: Anti-humanism—murderous humanitarianism

- Emília Fonseca & Paula Horta: Using photography in the FL classroom—where language gains a body and a soul


Panel 3 - Saturday, 27th November 9.00 - 11.00

- J. F. Myles: Imaging war and Abu Ghraib: some arguments for the continuity of the ethics of documentary in the era of the digital image

- David Slayden: Image, authenticity, and visual representation in a global image economy

- Álvaro Pina: Notes on the humanist photography session

Session 4 - “The role of indigenous Languages: the driving force behind development”
Session organiser:
Vicky Hartnack

(Papers now included in session 7)

Session 5 – Making Sense of Tourism in/and Contemporary Globalised World
Session Organiser:
Maria João Ramos
Maria João Cordeiro

Thursday, 25th November  9.00 - 11.00

Introduction to the session’s theme

Mike Robinson (Sheffield Hallam University)
- The World from my Room: Tourism and the Intimacies of the Familiar

Maria João Cordeiro (College for Technology and Management, Beja)
- For a (Re)definition of Literary Tourism

Chien-Ting Lin (NCTU Graduate Institute of Linguistics and Cultural Studies Hsinchu – Taiwan)
- Touring World Top Skyscraper and Shopping Mall in Taipei? ---“Taipei 101”

M. C. Cadavez (College for Hotel and Tourism Management, Estoril)
- The Global Tourism Promotion: Playing Hide and Seek

Maria João Ramos (College for Technology and Management, Beja)
- S. Domingos Mine (Alentejo, Portugal): From the misfortunes of an industrial past to the bliss of a tourist future?

Session 6 - Media Events and Cultural Memory
Session organiser:
Cláudia Álvares

Panel 1 - Friday, 26th November 09:00 - 11:00

- Claudia Alvares: Introduction to the Session

- D. J. Oswell: When Images Matter: Internet Child Pornography, Media Events and Virtual Observations

- E. Saranovitz: Grafting the Present onto the Past: An Examination of how the Israeli Media puts the Media back into the Event

- M.M. Lundén: To Be Part of a Media Event – From Texto to Life

- Pablo Castagno: "Capital, Culture and Video - match in Argentina

Session 7 - “Performing Critical Pedagogy/ies: Cross-cultural Perspectives and Practices”
Session organiser:
Édia Cristina Pinho

Panel 1 - Wednesday, 24th November 14:00 – 16:00 

- “Enhancing Citizenship and Critical Awareness in Language Classes: The Project “Together with Languages and the Arts Towards Citizenship”
A. Dias Pinto

- “Teaching diverse Communities: Bringing the learner to the centre”
Alexandra Nunes

- “Problematizing the dominant discourse concerning asylum seekers: A community education programme”
Kathryn Choules

- Influence of Native Culture and Language on Intercultural Communication – Case of Nigerian Student Immigrants in the United States
Fred Raymond Otabor


Panel 2 - Wednesday, 24th November 16:30 – 18:30


- “From Landscape to Literature: What can Nature Writing Bring to Classes?”
Isabel Alves Fernandes

- “The Curriculum as Contact Zone and Representation”
A. Mottart, Ronald Soetaert

- Making Sense of the World – Learning for Life in Southern Africa
Vicky Hartnack

- “Teaching as Caricature: Performing a Critical Pedagogy of Representation”
Édia Pinho

Session 8 - KNOWLEDGE AND POWER
Session organisers:
Luísa Leal de Faria
Teresa Malafaia
Adelaide Serras

Panel 1 - Thursday 25th November - 11.30-13.30

- N. Chauduri “Indian Women's Encounter with Colonialism and Racism, 1880s-1920s”
- Isabel Cruz “The Indian “otherness” and its different scent...”
- F. Nicora “Palm Tree Lovers” And ‘Real’ India. The Representation Of The Mutiny In British And Anglo-indian Novels.
-  David Callahan "Solidarity, Difference and Janette Turner Hospital's The Ivory Swing"

Panel 2 - Friday 26th November -  9.00 -11.00

- Jacinta Matos “Edward Said, V.S. Naipaul and the condition of the Exile”
- Elena Martos “To Know Something Is To Change It’: Knowledge And Power In Amitav Ghosh’s Fiction”
- A. Ramamurthy “Visualising anti-colonial and anti-racist struggle in Britain”

Panel 3 - Friday 26th November 14.00 -16.00

- Rosa Figueiredo “Living on the Seam of Two Worlds: Soyinka’s Post-Colonial Experience”
- Jacopo Corrado “The Creole elite and the rise of Angolan proto-nationalism 1880-1910”
- David Evans “The Wind and the Whirlwind: Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Lady Augusta Gregory and the Egyptian Uprising” 
- Gabriela Terenas “Images of imperial experiences: Portugal, Britain and the Transvaal (1877-1882)”

Panel 4 - Saturday 27th  9.00 - 11.00

- Yen Chen “Lure Of Visualization: The Construction Of View Photography In Taiwan Shashinjo
- Gil M. Martins “ Gender and Citizenship: two differentiated communities within a single empire?”
- R. Seferdjeli “French women promoting l'Algerie francaise during the Algerian war: the Mouvement de Solidarite Feminine”

Session 9 - Representations of Culture from Within and from Without
Session organiser
Maria José Simas

Panel 1 - Wednesday 24th November 10.30 - 12.30

- Maria José Simas: Introduction to the session

- “Poland as Post-Coloniality”
D. Skorczewski

- “‘Navigare necesse’: Some communicative aspects concerning the rhizomorphic structure of the web”
René Schneider

“Development and Multiculturalism: Projects of Modernity?”
Nabila Jaber

Panel 2 - Thursday 25th November 11.30 - 13.30

“Listen To Me, Taiwan? --- Possibilities And Restrictions Of Migrant Workers Poetry Writing Contest Taipei, Listen To Me!”
- YSH Yang

“Translating The Other: Jorge Amado’s Novels And Brazilian Culture Resistance To Appropriation”
- R. H. Correa

“Phallacious fraternity? Feminism, consumerism and the ‘lad mag’”
- M. M. Talbot

“Cultural practices and cultural identity in notes on the session”
- Maria José Simas

Session 10 - Young People, New Media & Intercultural Exchanges
Session organiser:
Margarida Morgado

Panel 1 - Wednesday 24th November 10.30 - 12.30

Static media, interactive media and children’s informal learning contexts – Mediating texts for children in intercultural education
- Margarida Morgado

Uses of Computer and Communication Technology and Perceptions of Cultural Change
- JM Ritter

Classics of Children’s Literature in the IT Medium
- D. Tezak

New Media as a Bridge to the World in Higher Education: A Professor’s and Two Scholar’s Perspectives
- Katherine L. Hall, Alyson Lyons, Tracy Lemle 

Panel 2 - Saturday 27th November 9.00 - 11.00

An Etnographic semiotics on mobile phone culture in Bangkok: The diffusion, adoption and its expression of modernity
- Ukritwiriya Chaensumon

Meditations on a Mobile Phone
- V. A. PASCHALIS

Young People and New Media Usage in Turkey
- Nurdan Öncel

Rai and Rap Music as a Means of Understanding a Different Culture
- Uwe Schulz

Session 11 - Negotiating Borders: Constructing the Self and the Other
Session organiser:
Ana Clara Birrrento

Panel 1 - Thursday, 25th November 9.00-11.00

- Ana Clara Birrento: Introduction to the session

“Reflexive literacy: performing reading and writing as a narrative project of the self”
- Rick Evans

“ Cosmopolitanism as trans-border identity form and its relation to multilingualism”
- K. Gunesch

“Managing through the adages: a Malaysian social construction”
- S.K. Omar

Panel 2 - Friday, 26th November 9.00-11.00

“Spatialization of experience in digital media”
- Ayse N Erek

“Framing the other: how Greek press present Turkey”
- Ioana Kostarella

“The discursive construction of identity and the consumption of transnational texts of popular culture”
- G. Subramaniam

“Negotiating borders, ‘New Mannism’ and ‘Laddishness’ in British Magazines Problem Pages: a critical discourse analysis approach”
- E. de Gregorio-Godeo

Panel 3 - Friday, 26th November 14.00-16.00

“The search of self and melancholy: immigration and cultural antropophagy in Brazilian literature”
- Alamir Aquino Correa

“The death of language and the language of the dead: monolingualism, identity crisis and language loss in Yalo”
- A Hamdar:

“Self – Negotiating Borders, Constructing Identity”
- Ana Clara Birrento

Session 12 - Eastwards / Westwards: Which Direction for Gender Studies in the XXIst Century?
Session organiser:
Clara Sarmento

Panel 1 - Thursday – 25th November 11.30 – 13.30 

“Gender Dimension of Linguistic Justice: Moving Eastwards”
- Alissa Tolstokorova

“Construction of Womanhood in the Bengali Language of Bangladesh”
- Rmd Mahmood, 

“How to Discuss Age and Relationships in Classroom: Revealing Gender Stereotypes in India” 
- Anjali Pande, 

“The Rebirth of an Old Language: Issues of Gender Equality in Kazakhstan”
- Maria Helena Guimarães


Panel 2 - Saturday- 27th November 9.00 – 11.00

"Marriage as Expression of a Changing Society: Return to Tradition?”
- Elisabetta Colla-Rosado

“Female Slavery, Orphanage and Poverty in the Formation of Colonial Nuptial Markets: the Case of Macao” 
- Ivo Carneiro de Sousa, 

“Heading East this Time: Critical Readings on Gender in Southeast Asia”
- Clara Sarmento,

Polarts Panel 1

Wednesday, 24 November - 10.30 - 12.30

Panel Title: Crimes of History: Genres of Cultural Resistance
Chair: Michael J. Shapiro

contact information:
Professor
Dept of Political Science
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI 96822
shapiro@hawaii.edu
Ph 808-956-8628
Fax 808-956-6877

papers:

Jorge Fernandez
Beyond the City: An Aesthetics of Gendered Detection

This essay explores the disruptive agency of the female detective of 
color. Focusing on the works of Lucha Corpi, Pauline Hopkins, and 
Barbara Neely, I maintain - in contradistinction to the Blues 
Detective’s dialectical instinct - that the female detective of color 
functions less as an informant through whom authors trace contemporary 
racial geographies, but rather as a presence that destabilizes the 
fixity of racialized cartographies and identities. Inasmuch as she 
inhabits shifting statist and gendered temporalities and spaces, I 
argue that the female detective of color functions as an unruly, 
deterritorializing agent, whose presence ruptures the isomorphism 
between place and identity, inaugurating a fractal political 
aesthetics.

contact information: 
Jorge Fernandez
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Ethnic Studies
228 Shatze Hall
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, Ohio 43402
419.372.2796
jorgef@hawaii.edu 


Michael J. Shapiro
Aesthetic Comprehension and Post Colonial Resistance

This paper begins with the explication of “aesthetic comprehension,” a Kant-inspired method for discerning the alternative thought worlds that exist alongside the mainstream narratives of the emergence of the geopolitical world of states. Then, by examining diverse “ethnic” crime novels - Euro-American, Native American, Latino American, Hawaiian, among others- the analysis seeks to lend historical depth to the collective attachments and grievances that are a residue of the nation-building, nation-destroying events that attended state formation and territorial expansion in continental America and beyond.


Hannah Maria Tavares
Manuel Ocampo and the Postcolonial Imagination

In Reading and Teaching the Postcolonial Greg Dimitriadis and Cameron McCarthy maintain that postcolonial aesthetic formulations have powerful implications for curriculum and educational practices in contemporary schools. Situated within the field of education, my paper examines the paintings of Manuel Ocampo to treat the way they provoke political reflection and invite the interrogation and renegotiation of the relationships among self, nation, and community. 
contact information:
Hannah M. Tavares
Assistant Professor
Department of Education Foundations
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI 96822 

ph 808-956-8624
fax 808-956-
hannaht@hawaii.edu

Polarts Panel # 2

Wednesday, 24 November - 14.00 - 16.00

Chair, Michael J. Shapiro

Dept of Political Science
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI 96822
Shapiro@hawaii.edu
Ph 808-956-8628
Fax 808-956-6877

A. F. Mathew

Human Rights, Kashmir and the Indian State: 
The case of subsumed history, draconian media representations and persistent Resistance
This paper would consist of three parts. The first would be an introductory section on the state of Human Rights and the ‘nature’ of the Indian State ever since independence was achieved from British colonial rule in 1947. The approach would be to give some examples regarding the same. The second section would consist on the case study of the nationality struggle in the state of Kashmir. Unlike the dominant international and South Asian perception of Kashmir being a ‘bilateral issue between India and Pakistan’, history would be revoked to show otherwise. Kashmir is a typical example of where peoples’ history has been subsumed to dominant interests. In particular, The paper would examine the vital draconian role that the Indian media played in drumming up support for the death sentence of Prof. Geelani, falsely accused of being the mastermind of the attack on the Indian Parliament . The trial of Prof. Geelani would be discussed by placing it in the context of the global war against ‘terror’ and to point out the fact that in the end it was more about politics rather than about evidence against him. 
Contact information:
A.F.Mathew Assistant Professor
Mudra Institute of Communication (MICA),
Shela, Ahmedabad 380058
Gujarat, India 
Phone home number: 00-91-9824331561
Professional phone number: 00-91-2717-237946 Phone home number: 00-91-9824331561
Professional phone number: 00-91-2717-237946 
Fax number: 00-91-2717-237945
adoo28@yahoo.com


Stephen Ingle
Aesthetics, Ethics and Ideology: The Politics of William Morris.

William Morris was a poet, architect, wallpaper designer, printer, furniture maker and Marxist. He played a leading role in the art and craft movement, was part of the pre-Raphaelite set and was an active member of first the Social Democratic Federation and then the Socialist League. Though Gissing may have deplored a man of letters being arrested for participating in a banned political march, for Morris his aesthetics and his politics were in fact complementary.

Morris believed that man was first and foremost a creative animal and his critique of British capitalism was that it prevented people from fulfilling themselves. Morris’ contribution to Marxist thought was this: that alienation was primarily the consequence of a loss of man’s creative role. Equality was important only insofar as it enabled all people to create. Uniquely, Morris’ Marxism was anchored in the past; in a society that, for all its hierarchy, encouraged ordinary workers to express themselves artistically. I propose to explore Morris’ thought primarily through the prism of his Utopian novel, News from Nowhere, which he wrote as a riposte to Bellamy’s mechanised, collectivised future world set out in Looking Backward.

In short, this paper will establish how successfully Morris incorporated his aesthetic and ethical concerns into an ideology, and the measure of this success will be chiefly the extent of the discernible influence of Morris’ ideology.

Contact information:
Stephen Ingle, Professor

Dept Politics, The University, 
Stirling FK9 4LA, 
tel. 0044 1786 467593
fax 466266) 
s.j.ingle@stir.ac.uk

Nobuo Morikawa
Counseling method in a cultural context

Although ,in Japan, the Western sense of values was received in after the Meiji era, Japanese mental or moral structure has still caught human relations at the center. Notwithstanding their interest in scientific psychoanalysis, they do not become a client at home. As Yukio Mishima's exemplary and well-publicized suicide shows, in Japan, death is regarded as an aesthetic event. This paper treats the problem of a psychoanalytically-oriented counseling in the context of Japanese culture, as expressed in a variety of cultural texts.

Contact Information:
Morikawa Nobuo Ph.D , Professor
Kinki university at School of Humanity- oriented science and Engineering
Department of Management and Communication

11-6 kayanomori Iizuka city Fukuoka Pref. 820-8555 Japan
TEL 0948-22-5656(Ext.456?
Direct 0948-22-5659(456)
FAX 0948-29-8935
E-mail morikawa@fuk.kindai.ac.jp