Mapping the intersection between the mythological heroine's journey and integral feminism, Inanna’s descent is addressed as living mythology.

This paper focuses on the dichotomized local and global reception of the novel as a typified reaction emanating from the tension between shifting cultural values.

A study of Japanese families who choose to forgo the mainstream Japanese education system and send their children to international schools.

This paper explores the question of 'being white' with a small group of young, well-educated women from Australia and Germany.

This is a comparative study of attempts to translate traumatic experiences into a variety of cultural forms.

Carl Schmitt's concept of 'nomos', and its critique by Giorgio Agamben, are used to help rescue problems of 'new world order' from the de-politicizing stress on globalization and governance.

This paper examines the concept of the human as a constitutive and unifying factor in the work of particular black South African writers (Mphahlele, Mda, Mpe).

This paper examines the myriad rhetorical functions served by ellipses in internet communication, from its inception to its current forms. Detailed examinations of both the length of the ellipses and their rhetorical functions indicate that more than simply mimicking speech, internet text tries to mimic thought.

The article theorizes and problematizes the concepts of self and nation as exemplified in stories of return migration to the ancestral homeland. The personal plan of action as illustrated in the project of return migration to the parents’ homeland is densely interconnected with processes of identification perceived by the returnees themselves as the dynamic context where the cultural self intersects with the ethnic self in both private and public national constructions.

This paper would contemplate on the contemporary revelations of the Chinese classical work, the “Great Learning.” It would examine the relevance of the teachings to the study of the Humanities and see in what ways the teachings could shed light on the future prospects of Humanities teaching.

The paper examines the global-local dichotomy in which the global is never global enough, and the local not local enough either.

As a philosopher my interest lies in portraying globalization as an all-encompassing concept of moving towards the creation of a one-world culture/civilization where the world economy will have a crucial place but will be only one among many other significant factors.

Although the common border dividing Cameroon and Nigeria has changed several times in history, women of this region have virtually ignored the official borders and have governed in their own way, according to embedded African matriarchal traditions. This reality has given new meaning to the concept of 'nation'

Taking as its premise that foreign missionaries were the original agents of cultural globalization, my presentation will analyze anarchism and Islamic fundamentalism as symbolic rejections of the missionary project.

Has the nature of peace and war changed in and as a result of the age of globalization? Raymond Aron’s typology of peace and war is used to evaluate the present condition of these two institutions of world politics.

Argues that the fusion of the sacred and the secular and the transnational reach of Al-Qaeda will be an increasingly common variant of monotheism in the 21st century

This essay is an abridged version of my current book project's fourth chapter. As a whole, the chapter examines the formal tempo that a number of cross-over female hip-hop and R&B artists — Mary J. Blige, MeShell Ndegeocello, and India Arie — give to lyrical projections of black female sexuality in the face of high (national) rates of divorce, single-parenthood, and domestic violence.

While the USA are the leading proponent and strongest force in globalizing technologies and economics worldwide, her own culture in many ways lags behind in adjusting to this new world order. Since 9/11/01 the primary interest of the USA lies in globalizing its security. My presentation will focus on the cultural and political contradictions and conflicts. It offers a historical and ideological analysis of the new policies and their interface with US culture.

Globalization may be providing the tools by which art and thought will break out of the boundaries of nation-states and language groups that have dominated since the Renaissance.

Interpreting, explaining and describing difference has become increasingly contentious as ethnic identities become politicised. South Africa and Canada offer contrasting examples of how difference has been managed in the social sciences, and in anthropology in particular.

The concept of myth can help explaining the social paradoxes of Soviet history

This workshop will bring Humanities scholars together with a view to establishing a formal network for the purposes of collaborating on a formal research agenda for a trans-disciplinary approach to assessing the social, economic, political and ethical impacts of emerging scientific and technological innovations.

This paper presents a framework of analysis for Intercultural Communication that foregrounds the individual as a social actor, the stranger rather than the ‘cultural other’ or exotic ethnie.

This paper examines aspects of the political theory of Arendt and explores the continuing relevance of key insights on the public realm and political theory for the humanities more generally.

Often viewed as entertainment, travel literature has other, more complex purposes and its values are in fact often ignored. I focus on American travel literature about Greece.

Chronicles a school's decision to start values courses. Tells how a curriculum was developed and classes are conducted for a religions/art values class.

In 2004 the Olympic games will return to the Athens since it hosted the first modern Olympic Games in 1896. The return of the Games to Greece is of special importance to the Olympic movement and affirms the special contribution of Greece to the modern globalised Olympic Games .The role of modern Olympic Games in the development of the modern nation state in the early 20th Century is explored with particular reference to Australia

The paper explores the concept of nothingness as seen by Martin Heidegger (as an extension of Nietzsche’s work on nihilism). The nothingness of the Bali bombing relates to the basis of the notion of the will to power.

John Macmurray's ideas are used to clarify the link between place and selfhood and to explore the role of a geographical education in the humanities.

The paper proposes to examine the ancient poetic and dramatic interpretations of Helen of Troy as a justification for war. It asks the questions: why is a female non-combatant assigned the blame for male violence?

Bertolucci's films consistently reveal a pattern in which characters attempt to reach an idealization of themselves, but fail because of their fundamental natures.

An examination of concepts and their connection to art practice that deals with place memory and identity.

The paper explores how Fijians as an indigenous group carve out their identity given the interplay of the forces of globalism and localism

This paper argues for a concept of ‘development’ which accounts for the articulation of local and global, particular and universal.

This paper will draw comparisons between Nietzsche and Heidegger's attempts to overcome metaphysics and the notion of the Dao in the writings of Laozi and Zhuangzi.

I examine how two Greek-Americans position themselves in social interaction and struggle to balance identification and dissonance with two cultures.

The paper explores the relationship between language and thinking, and discusses the cognitive benefits of bilingualism, as well as the need for early language education.

This paper addresses embryonic stem cell technology, which tests socio-cultural, ethical and legal precedents, fuelling political and media debate.

This cross-cultural study examines the relationship between artistic expertise and aesthetic judgement and explores its implications to art education.

The evolution of a new German language and identity in Turkish-born writer Emine Sevgi �zdamar�s novels in German.

Decades ago, my first encounter with the term global nomad gave me a new sense of identity in context. As a result, my work as a visual artist shifted from personal concerns and began to explore the larger issues of identity relationships in a changing world. With a childhood shaped by the Asia-Pacific arena, my life has ranged from coming of age in Central America, to the opportunities of the United States, to birthing my creative voice while living in Europe

The rage behind the attacks on September 11, 2001 lie in the international status dislocations and loss of identity experienced by certain peoples following the end of the Cold War. This rage has its roots in a twofold dislocation that occurred internationally when the Soviet Union imploded-a power vacuum and an ideological collapse. The old classification of countries into first, second, and third world nations disappeared when the Marxist ideology that defined the second world fell into disrepute; nations that had believed they were more advanced "historically" if not economically simply became less developed nations absent the Marxist interpretation of history. The old classification of nations into Western, Communist, and non-aligned disappeared in a similar manner. Western nations, for the most part, occupied the top of the strategic and economic hierarchy internationally; Communist nations occupied the middle and bottom rungs; and the formerly non-aligned nations like India and Pakistan were often simply ignored.

The aim of this paper is to convey a message of the important role of positive human-animal interaction in promoting the well-being of society at large.

The New Information Society, the globalization of economy, culture and communications, and New Cosmopolitanism lead to a total reconstruction of the world, of the society and the role of human as citizen. Education, in particular, has received the impulses and consequences of these new developments. At times of crisis, a new Paradigm, more effective, is being born and replaces the old one. John Dewey’s paradigm on building a pragmatic community in school and society stands as an effective alternative for the formation of democratic character, and for intelligent growth.

The aim of the paper is to articulate the intricate relations among built space, cinema and the changing city by way of a critical review of the recent scholarships on the relation between spectrality and globality.

A re-reading of a corpus of wine poetry sheds light on humanities education in that it inspires man to pursue truth and harmony.

The argument for censorship in Book III of Plato's Republic examined with respect to advertizing in a globalizing world.

Digitization and related visual technologies are transforming traditional constructions of the humanities and transforming the ways in which the university situates itself and its educational processes within a global economy. We will examine these developments from a variety of specific disciplinary perspectives and, more generally, address the cumulative effects of these trends on the role of the humanities in a technical university.

We discuss the implications of a number of ideas from chaos and complexity theories in understanding the social world.

We discuss the implications of a number of ideas from chaos and complexity theories in understanding the social world.

Children's literature, always responsive to social movements, is currently shaped by the so-called New World Orders adumbrated since the end of the Cold War and the consequent reconceptions of the constraints on human agency and human survival. This paper examines how concomitant changes to children's literature are inflected through utopian rhetoric.

An interdisciplinary core curriculum course integrates instruction in communication, humanities, Christianity and environmental service learning.

Recording the stereotyped views of 11-12 year old Greek Children, about the social classes characteristics and occupations.

An analysis of the prominence and popularity of contemporary versions of Greek and Roman classical literature on the contemporary New York stage

This paper presents a corpus of texts concerning the recent events of the Iraq crisis. The corpus encompasses a wide range of genres - poems, reports, political analyses as well as public speeches carried out by some of the protagonists of the campaign.

Western coffee culture often portrays the 'Orient' positively. The history of sophistication in Europe and America is examined through this lens.

Influence of media use on construction of collective identity markers in an ethnic group.

This paper will illuminate the genocidal and ecocidal effects of globalization on the world, particularly Indigenous peoples.

The paper examines the role of the Greek Ethnic Schooling in Australia and in particular its importance in promoting the so-called community building education.

Conservation is not only about nature. Including humans, i.e. local communities in conservation efforts is necessary for sustainable development.

The purpose of this study was to determine whether there was any difference in attachment styles among university students according to ethnicity and gender.

Global pressures force all scholars to work in English and thereby create identity conflicts which are embedded in their texts.

My point of departure is that the true centrality of jouissance and its problematic disjunction from the symbolic was not recognized until the advent of the Freudian-Lacanian field. Lacanian psychoanalysis is a radical movement through and beyond signifiers to the real of drive and jouissance. For the late Lacan, it is only on this level that meaningful change can be effected in the human being. This is a revolutionary reversal compared to certain past religious and philosophical attitudes towards passion and it has important implications for how we view and evaluate our humanistic texts of the past and how we promote the humanities in the future.

Sustainability is this century�s contestable issue - the corporation�s role will be hotly debated. The paper outlines characteristics of future sustainable and sustaining corporations, examining how humanities can contribute.

Hypothesis: ‘ethical distance’ occurs when there is disparity between collective values of individuals within a corporation and the value sets imparted by corporate activity

During turbulent globalisation, the ongoing clash of norms has generated instability in terms of poor social and environmental sustainability, especially in developing countries.. Models of governance need to incorporate a new vision of cosmopolitanism that can deal with the emerging transnational realities of the 21st century, reduce great asymmetries of power, and counter the rise of state-based authoritarianism.

Sustainability is discussed in reference to the values that support sustainable urban lifestyles, and the connection between values and actions.

Creativity is crucial for growth and problem-solving. Ascertaining what furthers and what diminishes creativity is therefore an urgent task at this time in history.

This paper will examine digital art and political resistance to Globalization, with reference to Local versus Global conflicts, and the tensions operating between notions of individuality and homogeneity; resistance and conformity. In this combined oral/visual presentation, I will question whether digital artists necessarily resist Globalization, in their defence of art’s freedom from commodification and political aggregation. Key questions that I will raise are: How is resistance projected across digital media? Is defiance to Globalization convincingly achieved? And, how are audiences implicated, as they engage with the interfaces of digital art?

Africa today is marred by violent and bloody conflicts caused by ethnic, tribal, economic, and political misunderstandings. Creative writing (poetry and fiction)and storytelling/epic literature both in European languages and African languages can help toward resolving these conflics and, better yet, prevent them in the first place. Before people in Africa get to arms and fight each other, they will discover the rich cultural and linguistic heritage that they share in common.

My multimedia presentation will discuss how immersive digital environments, virtual worlds, with their gamelike performative and critically reflective possibilities, might themselves be created and understood as entirely new kind of textual editions.

Given an intitial survey of the body of knowledge on leaders and leadership, one can quickly see that there are many variations of descriptions of leaders and defintions of leadership. The hypothesis of this research is that there is a cultural context of leaderhsip and that current leadership theories that appear to be global may in fact be culturally bound to the author's country. The authors have done a meta-analysis of six major or emerging leadership theories against six different cultures to test their hypothesis.

Alienation as a factor of cultural diversity was identified as having important consequences for employee behavior and interaction in a corporate environment.

This paper will examine and critique notions of cultural diplomacy and exchange in the Global Era – with a focus on Australian cultural relations with Indonesia.

The prospects for a humanistic cultural globalization will be evaluated by examining the propitious intersections between the arts and technologies.

Putting computers in the homes of low-income Maori and Pacific Nations families empowers them to explore genealogy (whanau) and put own content online.

What is our cultural memory concerning spirit? Where do we place our understanding of this outside the realms of the church? If our actors aren't trained with a sense of spirit in their bodies then will their reflection of us give us the fullest possibility with which to construct our notion of self and therefore culture? The way we train actors affects their ability to reflect the many dimensions of our humanity and our potential back to us.

This paper examines the Scottish Gaelic cultural revival prior to Scottish devolution, specifically the revival of traditional Gaelic song in the decades preceding devolution. This paper analyses the extent to which this could be considered a cultural revolution preparing the path for major political transformation in Scotland.

A comparative analysis of social representation of the EU in France, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

In this era during which human interaction with new technologies are becoming increasingly seamless and bio-bodies are constructed as just another designer interface, it is proposed in this paper that being human also necessarily implies being embodied. The closeness and connectivity that exist between women, new technologies and embodiment are explored in this paper by tracing some of the intellectual and artistic roots of cyberfeminism.

This paper utilizes de Tocqueville's observations on the America of the 1830s to analyze the capacity of cyberspace to serve as "turf" for the formation of communities based on the rejection of offline democratic societies and on the dynamics of alternative identity construction.

This presentation will provide a model for a course that was developed to include Dance as a subject area from which students could elect courses to complete requirements in a humanities sequence typical in general education requirements. The two semester sequence was designed to survey both theatrical dance forms and ethnic styles and forms from a wide range of cultures and periods in history in order to circumvent the traditional, western approach to studying Dance as an art form.

America's best novelists have recognized the paradox that the stronger the country is, the more it has to fear, and they have explored this notion of debilitating strength for more than 150 years.

There is pressing need to defuse religious conflict in order to create world stability. It is proposed that religion be ‘decentred’ following the SAn model.

Many contemporary scholars (e.g., Martha Nussbaum) attempt to dismiss or resolve ethical conflicts between goals of cultural self-determination and feminism. How successful are these attempts?

Our paper wrestles with issues of textual or non-textual representation of the other or 'subaltern': those whose fragmented voices often get reified and homogenized in the dominant culture of scientific and economic rationalisms. Specifically, we discuss the problematics and identity politics inherent in the representation of two different, yet similar, subaltern groups: domestic abuse victims currently in shelter and culturally and linguistically diverse undergraduate students in professional communication courses.

This research presents an overview and analysis of the common democratic concern as they emerged during the past two decades in the Arab World .In the case of Jordan this article aims at analyzing the role of Jordanian women in political life by trying to demonstrate the size of their participation,the social opposition,and other numerous restraints that hinder their political participation in Jordan .

Workshop discussion of the effectiveness and mission of the UN in the 21st Century.

This session will explore the 'operatic' culture in Italy post Risorgimento and today as demonstrated in both theatre and society as well as the importance of theatre in eliciting response in society for national and global change.

Development of an interdisciplinary teaching unit, which includes: art, music, literature, science, mathematics and history.

This paper will focus on the campaign to protect human rights during the course of the 20th Century.

This proposed paper is an offshoot of a core concern, namely whether there is a widening gap in current uses and definitions of culture in "cultural studies", as practiced not only in its explicit institutionalised manifestations but also in disciplines as varied as anthropology, sociology, literature, media and mass communications, etc.

The thesis put forth here is both easy to state and difficult to contemplate. It is that globalization as it is defining itself in our time is creating for humanity a new set of ethical challenges for which we have not yet discovered either the intellectual or spiritual resources to address.

This paper discusses the value of philosophy. I argue that because philosophy is an activity that encourages critical thinking and questioning of tradition and authority, is pivotal to the solution of the world problems today.

This paper discusses 'dog-whistle politics' and the concomitant dog-whistle journalism in Australia in relation to anti-Muslim racism since 2001.

This paper addresses the sociological significance of alcohol in Europe.

Developing Identity Through Making Visual Art

What causes people to feel attachment to land and to landscapes? How does this attachment translate into a political agenda in the 21st century?

Indigenous peoples claim rights unrecognized a century ago, based on the moral importance of prior possession and by environmental concerns.

A case study in poetry's value to a sense of ecological dwelling in the midst of crisis

Using a case study approach the author examines eco-toursim as a strategy to sustainable development.

The performance of organisations?wether economic or social?is often conceptualised as the result of congruency between the level of satisfaction of internal stakeholders and that of external stakeholders (e.g., Heskett, Sasser and Schlesinger 1997). Interactional psychology (e.g., Endler and Magnusson 1976), social identity theory (e.g., Stets and Burke 2000) and social impact theory (Latan?981) provide the theoretical grounding for this notion. Utilising these theories, in this paper, the effects of two societal changes are discussed: globalisation (e.g., cultural diversity) and technology (e.g., internet communication). The paper concludes with clarifying those conditions that can hinder the performance of economic and social organisations.

Censored letters written by French trench soldiers can contribute significantly to our understanding of the evolution of French society after WWI.

Recent translations into English of Nazim Hikmet�s poetry will contribute to reconsiderations of genre and period boundaries in discussions of modern poetry. _____________________________________________

This paper will discuss the causes and consequences of environmental insecurity on the future of international relations.

The paper explores the cultural norms and ideological basis of Eritrea’s self-identification as a different and a unique nation in Africa. The roots of this sense of difference are built on a long history of cultural norms and ideology that have been practiced within Eritrea and easily merged with the western writers’ perception of Eritrean cultural distinctness from other sub-Saharan Africans.

This conference presentation discusses the viability of technological supplements for developing multiliteracy in adult ESL students who are learning how to write for academic purposes.

This study wrestles with issues of textual representations of the other or 'subaltern': those whose fragmented voices often get silenced in the dominant culture of scientific and economic rationalisms.

This paper studies income distribution trends across ethnic groups, viz. Maori vs non- Maori/European, in New Zealand paying particular attention to the impact of the free market reforms of the mid-1980s.

Sixth grade students of primary schools in Kastoria were asked to write about ''Europe and Us''. A discourse analysis of their written product aims at investigation of the parameters influencing their identity designation.

This paper will focus on what do European studies mean in an Anti-European continent and increasingly globalised world/community. The challenge is immense especially in times where there is a great controversy across the globe between European and American values or between Western and non-Western values

This paper presents a model developed for teaching a core interdisciplinary Humanities course in a global, rather than a western context.

Religious texts and modern pluralism threaten each other. We suggest an approach to biblical texts that encourages both religious passion and tolerance.

This paper explores problems of the concept of the public sphere as a space of democratic politics in the twenty-first century world order.

The human factor is implicated in globalization, yet it is invisible in the explication of and the search for solutions to the problems of globalization

This paper looks at Tolkein's 'Lord of the Rings' (the novel and the recent films) and the Philip Pullman Dark Materials trilogy in the context of prevailing discourses about global terrorism. It sees fantasy as a terroristic genre: concerned with global alliances and moral universalism; spectacular, nostalgic for a non-porous space (middle earth), always nervous, yearning for and in endless deferral of 'the end'; configuring evil as both remote and proximate, as over there (somewhere) and already here.

The theme of fear of the future in songs and other self-expressions of Contemporary German and Austrian Gothic Bands.