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The Intercultural World: Theoretical Approaches, Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Draft programme

Day 1

Day 2

 

Day 1 - Thursday November 29

9:00 - 9:30 Greetings, Opening remarks - Joel Kahn
9:30 - 11:00 Invited speaker: Armando Salvatore
Secular formations and public spheres in intercultural, comparative and transnational perspective
(Abstract)
11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE
11:30 - 12:00 Religion and the project of autonomy
Karl Smith
(Abstract)
12:00 - 12:30 Varieties of Autonomy and the Intercultural World: Towards a Post-Phenomenological Perspective
Suzi Adams
(Abstract)
12:30 - 2:00 LUNCH
2:00 - 2:30 Intercultural Internet Interaction
Sarah Pasfield Neofitou
(Abstract)
2:30 - 3:00 Conflicting assumptions in approaches to intercultural Internet communication
Juliana de Nooy
(Abstract)
3:00 - 3:30 The discursive electronic self, thirdspace and marketing Australian higher education online
Chinh Nguyen
(Abstract)
3:30 - 4:00 COFFEE
4:00 - 4:30 Intercultural Worlds: translations of Australianness in Italy and Germany from 1945 to the present
Denise Formica & Leah Gerber
(Abstract)
4:30 - 5:00 Antipodean hybridity and Canadian Prairie Literature: Towards and Intercultural Pedagogy
Debra Dudek
(Abstract)
  Conference Dinner (details TBA)

 

Day 2 - Friday November 30

9:30 - 10:00 A Postcolonial Analysis of the Transformation of Cultural Identity: Overcoming a Sense of Shame
Daphne Cazalet
(Abstract)
10:00 - 10:30 Latin-American Multicuturalism and Early-Modern Globalisation: Revising Colonial Mythologies in Light of Postcolonial Critiques
Roberto González-Casanovas
(Abstract)
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE
11:00 - 11:30 Modernity, Interculturality and the Project of Anthropology
Joel Kahn
(Abstract)
11:30 - 12:00 The hybrid stranger and the idea of the intercultural
Vince Marotta
(Abstract)
12:00 - 12:30 Civilizational sociology and intercultural models of American societies
Jeremy Smith
(Abstract)
12:30 - 2:00 LUNCH
2:00 - 2:30 Clash of civilizations and/or clash of political discourses? The case of Iran and the US
Farzad Sharifian
(Abstract)
2:30 - 3:00 Taming the other: A critical comment on Boltz's theory about the evolution of Chinese writing system
Zhiqun Chen
(Abstract)
3:00 - 3:30 International Medical Graduates and problems of interculturality
Simon Musgrave & Marisa Cordella
(Abstract)
3:30 - 4:00 COFFEE
4:00 - 5:00 General Discussion - led by Michael Janover & Natalie Doyle

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