Programme: SOCIAL THEORY 2002
Monday, July 1st
2.00 Introduction – Charles Turner, Ralf
Rogowski – room 4
2.30 Parallel Sessions
America’s
New War – room 4
R. Danielle Egan (St Lawrence University, USA ) Bio-Terrorism and the Construction of the Middle Eastern Other
Marina Llorente (St Lawrence University, USA ) "Barbarism" and the Attack on "Civilization"
Ross Glover (St Lawrence University, USA ) The War On…Terror
John Collins (St Lawrence University, USA) Terrorism is Terrorism. A genealogy of tautology
Nationalism
– room 5
Murat Akan, (Columbia University, USA) Nation and Identification
Ceren Ozselcuk, (University of Massachusetts, USA) Globalized Nationalisms and Nationalized
Globalisms: A theoretical intervention into the current debates on nationalism
and globalization
4.00 break
4.30 Parallel Sessions
Civil Society I: Social Theory and Civic Professionalism – room 4
Wolfgang Natter (University of Leipzig, Germany) Social Theory, Civic Professionalism, and
Global Regionalism
Elizabeth Natter (University of Leipzig, Germany) title unknown
Marxism and
neo-Marxism – room 5
Carl Levy (Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK ) Antonio Gramsci and Anarchism
Bruno Gulli (City University of New York, USA) The Problem of Radicalizing the Ontology of Labor: The concept of
productive labor in the work of Michel Foucault
6.00 Wine reception
(Sponsored by
the University of Kentucky Committee on
Social Theory and the International
Social Theory Consortium)
Tuesday July 2nd
9.30 Parallel Sessions
Theatricality and Performance – room 4
Diane Johnson (Kutztown University, USA) Selves in Transition: A cultural psychology of regulatory hearings
Eugene Halton (University of Notre Dame, USA) The Live Gesture and the Signifying Moment
Vikki Bell (Goldsmiths College, UK) The Performance of Peace: The public sphere and the transition to
plurality in Northern Ireland
Problems of Youth I – room 5
Sergey Govorukha (Central European University) Towards the model of contemporary Ukrainian student youth political
culture
Louis Kontos (Long Island University, USA) Sociological Theorizing on Gangs
11.00 break
11.30 Parallel Sessions
Relativism
and Universalism – room 4
Donald Poochigian (University of North Dakota, USA) Order as a Condition of a Universal Ethics
Patrick Baert (University of Cambridge, UK) Popper as a Philosopher of Social Sciences
Problems of Youth II – room 5
Margaret Sen & Galina Shchelbanina (Grodno State University,
Belarus) Religion and Its Role in
Students' Life
Ulyana Blyudina (Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw) Conceptual Analysis of Drug Abuse: A Case of
the Volga Region of Russia
1.00 Lunch
3.00 Parallel Sessions
Applied
Social Theory: Eastern Europe – room 4
Anthony Haynor (Seton Hall University, USA) Durkheim's 'Cult of the Individual' and the Contemporary World
Situation
Mihail Evans (University of the West of England, UK) Derrida and Slovakia: A (Re)Presentation
Stephen On (University of California at Los Angeles, USA) The Self and Not-Self Question:
Manifestation of Hegel's Dialectic in International Politics
Children and
International Law – room 5
Julia Belozerova (St Petersburg State University, Russia) Protection of the Child's Rights as the
Factor of Formation Global Legal Statehood
Vanessa Pupavac (University of Nottingham, UK) Children's Rights and the New International Human Security Paradigm
4.30 break
5.00 Parallel Sessions
Classics in
Social Theory – room 4
Fred Nebbia (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City) Some Convergences on the Parsonian Action
Model
José Crisóstomo de Souza (FFCH/UFBa Salvador, Brazil) Karl Marx, Gattungswesen and the Empirical
Individual
Brian Singer (York University, Toronto) The Discovery of the Social: Montesquieu and Adam Smith
Gender – room 5
Alexander Shashkin (Kazan State Technological University, Russia) Violence and Victimization on the Street:
Power struggle and masculine hierarchies in Russia
Esra Erdem (University of Massachusetts, USA) Theorising Anatolian-German Women's Associations: The role of
transnational feminist praxis and identity
6.30 break
8.00 Banquet
Wednesday July 3rd
9.30 Parallel Sessions
Civil Society II – room 4
Leszek Koczanowicz (Opole University, Poland ) Civil Society as an Ethical Challenge
Scott Schaffer (Millersville University, USA) The Engagement of Social Theory: The relationship between critical
social theory and daily life
Systems Theory – room 5
Ralf Rogowski (University of Warwick, UK) The Discourse of Reflexive Law
Valentina Podshivalkina (Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University) The System Approach and Social Transformation
Processes
Bela Pokol (Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary) Contribution to the Comparison of the Theories of Bourdieu and Luhmann
11.00 break
11.30 Plenary Session
The Balkans
and Europe – room 4
Ozren Pupovac (Central European University, Warsaw) Discursive Construction of Croatian National
Identity
Milan Rakita (Belgrade University, Yugoslavia) Newly Undiscovered Balkans, or: How to avoid the new Balkanization of
Balkans
Sobrina Edwards (University of Sussex, UK) Europe and the European: A Union without a European People?
1.00 Lunch
3.00 Parallel Sessions
The Politics of Recognition –
room 4
Mette Andersson (University of Bergen, Norway) The Situated Politics of Recognition
Stefan Auer (University College Dublin) The Politics of Recognition and the Question of Social Justice with
Respect to Romanies in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Media – room
5
Sunil Maghani (University of Nottingham, UK) The Real Thing! (No) Logos in
Eastern Germany: Further reflections for an image critique discourse
Adam Arvidsson (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) The Value of Resistance: General intellect
and media consumption in the post-modern
4.30 Break
5.00 Parallel Sessions
Metatheory –
room 4
Susan McManus (University of Nottingham, UK) Creating the Wor(l)ds of Theory
Leslie Miller (University of Calgary, Canada) An Uncomfortable Bed: "strategic essentialism", unity and
diversity, and the contribution of discourse analysis
Ann Vogel (University of Washington, USA) and Iain Lang (University
of Sussex, UK) Society for Scripts and
Building Blocks? Action and
Institutionalization in the New Institutionalism
Religion,
Violence and the State I – room 5
John Meeks (Lutheran School of Theology) Severed Fingers: On the Obscenity of the Face
Barbara Turk (University of Chicago, USA) Religion and Violence
6.30 Social Theory
Consortium Meeting
Thursday July 4th
9.30 Plenary Session
Liberalism
and Individual Freedom – room 4
Bogusia Puchalska (University of Central Lancashire, UK) Individual Freedom under the Conditions of
Capitalist Economies
Mehmet Tabak(Columbia University) Liberal Principles, Illiberal Realities: Can there be an alternative?
Stephen Turner (University of South Florida, USA) Charisma Reconsidered
11.00 break
11.30
Parallel Sessions
Civilisations
and Regions – room 4
Jose Vargas (Centro Universitario del Sur Universidad de
Guadalajara) Challenges for Latin
American States at the Turn of the New Millennium
Haldun Gulalp (Bogazici University, Turkey) The Eurocentrism of Secularization Theory and the Question of
Democracy: A view from Turkey
Religion, Violence and the State II – room 5
Anne Caldwell (University of Louisville, USA) Sovereignty in the Age of Bio-Politics: Law, Violence and Bare Life
Michael Trice (Loyola University, Chicago, USA) Cruelty: Limit, Excess, and the Execution of David Jr. Ward
