Risk, Complex Crises & Social Futures

11-13 October 2003

List of Participants & Topics

(Selected articles and conference abstracts in  BRIIFS vol.6, no. 1)

1. Dr. Brandon Hamber
Research Associate of the Belfast-based think-tank, 
Democratic Dialogue & consultant to the Office of Psychosocial 
Issues based at the Free University, Berlin, Germany 
Topic: Flying Flags of Fear:The Role of Fear in the Process of Political Transition

2. Professor Carolyn Nordstrom
Department of Anthropology
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
Topic: Prestidigitation: Wars, Profits and the Creation of Risk 

3. Professor Ghassan Hage 
Associate Professor of Anthropology 
Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts 
School of Society, Culture and Performance 
University of Sydney, Australia
Topic: Worrying & Risk: The Nation-State and the Unequal Distribution of Social Hope 

4. Dr. Hans Levander
Member of the International Physicians for the Prevention 
of Nuclear War (IPPNW)
Deputy Head, Rheumatology Department, 
University Hospital Uppsala, Sweden 
Topic: Changing the Paradigm of International Security: 
the Role of Non-Governmental Organizations 

5. Professor Hassan Hanafi
Department of philosophy
University of Cairo, Egypt
Topic: Islam, Risk or Promise? 

6. Dr. Heribert Adam
Department of Sociology 
Simon Fraser University, 
Vancouver, Canada
Topic: The Politics of Reconciliation and Transitional Justice: Lessons from South Africa for Israel/Palestine 

7. Professor Howard Margolis
Harris School, University of Chicago
Illinois, USA
Topic: Expert vs. Lay Risk Intuitions 

8. Dr. James Whitman
Department of Peace Studies,
Bradford University, UK
Topic: Global Governance and the Mitigation of Complex Risk 

9. Professor John Torpey
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
& the Institute for European Studies
University of British Colombia
Vancouver, Canada
Topic: Religion and Politics in Contemporary World Affairs: 
The Global Implications of American Exceptionalism 

10. Professor Michael Humphrey
Head, School of Sociology
University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
Topic: Terrorism, Human Rights and Social Futures: 
From Reconciliation to Risk 

11. Professor Nathan Brown
Director 
Middle Eastern Studies program
The Elliott School of International Affairs
Washington, D.C., USA
Topic: Imagining and Building Syncretic Futures 

12. Professor Riaz ul Hassan
Sociology Department
Flinders University
Adelaide, Australia
Topic: Globalization's Challenge to the Islamic Ummah 

13. Professor Sari Nasser
Professor of Sociology
Amman, Jordan
Topic: Risk and Uncertainty in the Arab World 

14. Dr. Sultan Barakat
Director, Post-war, Reconstruction & Development Unit
The University of York, UK
Topic: Reconstruction after War: Between Principles and Practice 

15. Professor Susan Kippax
Director
National Centre in HIV Social Research 
The University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
Topic: Risk and Responsibility: Interventions in HIV Prevention 

16. Professor William O. Beeman
Department of Anthropology;
Theatre, Speech and Dance
Director, Middle East Studies
Brown University
Providence, Rode Island, USA
Topic: The Concept: 'Risk,' East and West