QUESTIONING TRANSNATIONALISM: CULTURE, POLITICS & MEDIA
Date: 17 December 2010
Venue: Arts Building
Royal Holloway College, University of London
The Departments of Media Arts and Politics and International Relations (PIR)
Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Thomas Diez (Political Science, University of Tübingen)
Prof. David Chandler (Politics and International
Relations, University of Westminster)
Prof. Randall Halle (Department of German, University of Pittsburgh)
This interdisciplinary postgraduate conference
focuses on transnationalism and securitisation,
issues of increasing relevance in both Politics
and International Relations, and Media and Film
Studies. In both disciplines, there is currently
a prevailing tendency to conceive of borders as
ever increasingly permeable elements in a
globalising world. The new communication
technologies have certainly reinforced the image
that the world becomes a single place. However,
a ?borderless world? proves to be illusionary as
witnessed in the global rise of securitization
practices after the September 11 terrorist
attacks. Since then, even a bottle of water -at
the airport- has started to be perceived as a
potential security threat. ?Transnationalism'
thereby becomes a useful lens through which
issues such as securitization, borders,
legitimacy, citizenship, memory and solidarity
can be re-examined from a fresh theoretical perspective.
Within this framework, the major aims of this
international conference are threefold: to
question the extent and limitations of
transnationalism; to analyse the cultural and
political functions of transnational actors and
the impact of new communication technologies
such as the internet in the contemporary world;
and finally to encourage interdisciplinary
approaches and critical perspectives in the studies of transnationalism.
All are welcome!
For further details please see:
<http://royalhollowayconference.com/>http://royalhollowayconference.com/
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QUESTIONING TRANSNATIONALISM: CULTURE, POLITICS & MEDIA
Program
10:30-11:00 Registration and coffee/tea
11:00-11:15 Welcome and Introduction (ALT1):
Opening remarks by the Head of the Department of
Media Arts in Royal Holloway, Prof. Jonathan
Powell and the Head of the Department of
Politics and International Relations in Royal Holloway, Dr. Nathan Widder
11:15-13:15 45-minute keynote speech by each
speaker and a 30-minute general Q&A
Session (ALT1)
Transnational Securitisation, Prof. Thomas Diez
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The Post-Liberal Governance of Transnational
Insecurity, Prof. David Chandler (Politics and
International Relations, University of Westminster)
13:15-14:15 Buffet Lunch (Foyer)
14:15-16:15 1st two simultaneous panels; each
consisting 4 presenters (20 minutes each) and
followed by a 30-minute general Q&A session
Panel A: Chair Dr. Ben O?loughlin (Royal
Holloway, University of London) (ALT1)
Exotic Disease or Local Disease?A Framing
Analysis of H1N1 Swine Flu Coverage on Chinese
Media, Weia Xu (Department of Communication, University of Illinois-Chicago)
Questioning the Role of New Media in Framing
Democracy in Africa?s Dictatorships: Zimbabwe A
Case Study, Andrew Chatora (Institute of Education, University of London)
Transnational Diaspora Linkages: A Comparative
Analysis of Diaspora Networks, Priya Kumar
(School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
Stereotypes about Muslims in American and German
News Magazines before and after September 11,
2001, Karoline Schultz (Technische Universitat Ilmenau)
Panel B: Chair Dr. Daniela Berghahn (Royal
Holloway, University of London) (AG24)
Turkey to Germany: Kurdish Films in
Transnational Space, Ayca Ciftci (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Bridging Pop Culture and Identity Politics:
Borders, Transnationalism and Identity in Fatih
Akin?s Road Film In July, Dr. Aisha Jamal (Trent University)
Transitory Strategies of Belonging: European
Union Film Funding and Transnational Networking
of Filmmakers from Bulgaria, Romania, and former
Yugoslavia, Mariana Ivanova (Department of
Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin)
The Crisis of Women in Diaspora Identities,
Tugba Elmaci (Dokuz Eylul University)
16:15-16:30 Coffee/tea break (Foyer)
16:30-18:30 2nd two simultaneous panels; each
consisting 4 presenters (20 minutes each) and
followed by a 30-minute Q&A session
Panel C: Chair Prof. David Chandler (University of Westminster) (ALT1)
The Actual Boundaries of Transnationalism,
Santanu Chakrabarti (School of Communication and
Information, Rutgers University)
World cup, Monuments and Souvenirs: The Symbolic
Public Sphere, Mon Rodrigues (Department of
Digital Communication, University of Vic)
Transforming Identity at Russian-Baltic Border
in XXI century: Challenge to Transnationalism,
Olga Romanova (University of Nizhny Novgorod& University of Cambridge)
Who hold power in cyberspace? The 2008 Candle
Demonstration in Korean and its aftermath, Dong
Hyun Song (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Panel D: Prof. Mandy Merck (Royal Holloway, University of London) (AG24)
Glocalised Muppets: Planned Transnationalism in
the Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock Production
Models, Aaron Calbreath-Frasiuer (Department of
Culture, Film and Media Studies, University of Nottingham)
The Reproduction and Negotiation of the Global
Neo-liberal Narrative in the Television Format
Top Model, Miriam Stehling (Institute of
Communications and Media Culture, Leuphana University Lueneburg)
Representing Self as Other: Transnationalism,
?National Geographic Magazine, and Universal
Humanism in Reza Deghati?s Photography, Mohsen
Biparva (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Second Life and the Arts: Towards a New
Language, Aleksandar Brkic (University of Arts in Belgrade)
18:30-19:30 Close of conference by the third
keynote speaker (45 minutes) and a 15-minute
Q&A session (ALT1)
Interzone Europe, Prof. Randall Halle
(Department of German, University of Pittsburgh)
19:30 Wine reception (Foyer)
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