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Transnationalism:
The Impact of Transnational Processes on the 

Nation-State and National Cultures

19-21 June 2001

List of Participants & Topics


(Selected articles and conference abstracts in  BRIIFS vol.3, no. 2)


1- Professor Michael Humphrey

University of New South Wales

Australia 

2- Professor Maroun Kisirwani

American University of Beirut

Lebanon
Topic: Impunity, Nationalism and Transnationalism: The Recovery of the 'Disappeared' of Lebanon


3- Professor Mohammed Bamyeh

University of Rochester, USA 

Topic: Postnationalism

 

4- Professor Bruce Kapferer

University of Bergen, Norway 

Topic: Globalization, the State and Civil Violence in Sri Lanka 

5- Professor Jan Nederveen Pieterse

Institute of Social Studies, 
The Netherlands

Topic: 'Manchester United to Expand in China': Fault Lines of Transnationalism 


6- Professor Elizabeth Jelin, Argentina 

Topic: Human Rights Activism in the Southern Cone: From National Sovereignty to Transnational Networks

7- Dr. Ger Duijzings

University College London, UK

Topic: 'Ancient Ethnic Hatreds' or 'a Very Modern War'? Ethnic Unmixing in the Former Yugoslavia Under the Aegis of the International Community

8- Dr. Cilas Kemedjio

University of Rochester, USA 

Topic: Remembering Globalization: Fragmented States, the Deferred Global Civil Society, and the Globalized Humanitarian Misunderstanding



9- Professor Kazuhiko Okuda

International University of Japan 

Topic:  Transnationalism and the Meiji State: On the Question of Cultural Borrowing


10- Mrs. Saskia Van Hoyweghen

Free University of Brussels, Belgium

Topic: Mobility, Territoriality and Sovereignty in Post-Colonial Tanzania

11- Dr. Ibrahim G. Aoudé

University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu 

Topic: Global Impact on Hawaii's Public Policy


12- Professor Michael Hudson

Georgetown University, USA 

Topic: Creative Destruction: Information Technology and the Political Culture Revolution in the Arab World


13- Professor Stephen Castles

Oxford University, UK 

Topic: Labour Migration, Transnational Communities and State Strategies in East Asia

14- Dr. C. J. Wan-Ling Wee

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 

Topic: Beyond the Potemkin Metropolis: Cultural Experience and Production in the Homogenized Urban Environment


15- Professor Andrew Vincent

Macquarie University, Australia 

Topic: Transnationalism on Campus: The Teaching of Middle East Politics by Interactive Computer-Based Simulations

16- Professor Leif  Manger

University of Bergen, Norway

Topic: Hadramis in Singapore: Making Muslim Space in a Global City 

17- Professor Ann Lesch

Villanova University, USA 

Topic: The Intensification of Internal Cultural Contradictions in an Era of Globalization: The Case of the Sudan


18- Dr. Estela Valverde

University of New South

Wales, Australia

Topic: Transnationalism and De-Nationalisation: The Experience of Exilio (Exile) and Insilio (Internal Exile) in Reshaping Uruguayan Identity 

 


 

     

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