This paper looks at the possibilities for imaginative writing to face the 'gaze of the future'. Disturbing the linear model of time and crossing the boundaries of the real are two among many narrative strategies with which to ponder a human future.

Two recent decisions of the High Court of South Africa dealt with the development of customary law of succession, which was transfixed by colonial laws and this paper will mainly deal with the modern day impact of these two decisions within the field of the customary law of succession.

This conference paper investigates the relationship between form and content within the context of market based rationality in Zoe Valdes's "Te di la vida entera."

This paper details Howard University's approach to "blackness" in the Humanities.

I identify "ecological thinking" as a distinctive way of knowing and report specific ways of teaching and assessing it.

Hybrid cultural phenomena are not opposed to notions of identity, purity, and authenticity. Rather, they exemplify the process of identity formation common to any tradition.

In 'The Custom of the Country', Edith Wharton Uses mirrors and other reflecting surfaces to create a heroine, Undine Spragg, who is incapable of self-knowledge.

This paper explores the historical origins, phenomenological boundaries, and historiographical prospects of "political theology" as an analytical category by which historians now measure Late Antiquity.

In Fugard's "Master Harold," Hally's accession to whiteness and mastery entails a violent displacement of affects associated with Sam, his surrogate father.

Murdoch’s view of ethics is analogous to a particular view of aesthetics. Hence the act of aesthetic appreciation involves the contemplation of particular others in a similar fashion - as “unique wholes.” We see the others as standing in sharp focus out of the rest of the world as we appreciate them for their own sake, morally speaking.

The question to be addressed is whether biotechnology is, in the long term, a threat to what it means to be human.

This paper explores, with reference to Shelley, the subjugation of humanity to a new yardstick, that of market value (as opposed to morality).

Exile-Writing in the work of Austrian Romni Ceija Stojka

Three experienced biographers/memoirists sketch a range of issues pertaining to contemporary 'Life Writing,' and offer provocative views of the future of biography

Failed asylum seekers address the agencies, governments and international bodies from whom they are alienated through agency and a politics of recognition.

This presentation will discuss how the humanities, as the centerpiece of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, might help the Catholic Church read 'the signs of the times' in light of the Gospel to better understand its role in the contemporary world.

'We many peoples make one nation' or are we all one nation? Nationalism and racism in New Zealand

The twentieth century began in 1918, the year the Great War ended. This panel will examine these conflicts and tensions from three perspectives: 1) The influenza pandemic of 1918; 2) a redefinition of the birth control movement to align it with anti-immigration forces; and 3) If the permanent deletion of ethnically German New York despite the fact that private banking houses and transatlantic shipping lines to the repertories of the Metropolitan Opera and Philharmonic Society, much of New York's metropolitan scene was the legacy of German-ancestry.

The prison industrial complex has been a salient feature of hip-hop narratives since the late 1980s. Inasmuch as hip-hop is a broad expression of politics, rappers offer perspectives ranging from romantic notions of authenticity to radical narratives of prison abolition.

This paper explores the possibilities of language arts in the context of the humanities as going well beyond otherwise limiting parameters of literacy and mechanical competence with written and spoken texts.

I will ask both why Nietzsche ultimately chose to abandon his project (i.e., We Classicists) and what we can salvage from his exemplary critique of the oldest discipline in the humanities.

Postmodern epideictic rhetoric presents celebrations of human aspirations and achievements as showcased by the Olympics and the many empowering images packaged by Oprah Winfrey.

An examination of nineteenth-century defences of classical literature and the liberal arts in education will show that Victorians arguments are equally applicable today.

This presentation will analyze the style and iconography in some of the imprese used by the members of the Accademia della Crusca.

Crito's exhortation of Socrates to flee Athens grounds Socrates' arguments for legal obligation. Crito's assumption that actions speak louder than words underscores the tension between citizenship and Socratic philosophy.

How adhocratic organizational structure and transdisciplinarity form the pillars of a learning culture of contingency and inventiveness.

Four-Block is a program to improve reading skills for grades 1-3.

A theoretical model of adolescent identity developmental is presented focusing on the need for youth to balance autonomy and belongingness or connectedness. This presentation emphases the importance of family and parental influences that foster this balance of attributes as part of youthful identity development.

A paper on Aeneas' experiences in viewing scenes in the temple of Juno in Book 1 of the Aeneid and the doors of the temple of Apollo in Book 6. The paper considers how the reading of the two scenes affects our view of the hero in light of the recurring trend to look at negative aspects of the hero in recent scholarly literature.

Specialisation in western science and technology has provided western polities with insight into universal processes, at the same time separating and objectifying much of the sensuous experience from our life-world. To survive globally, I contend that western humanity must develop a popular ecopedagogy that links western science with the sensuous ecosphere, our common heritage.

The paper examines new directions in neurocognitive research, with particular reference to autism, and considers the impact and implications for the human sciences.

A critical analysis of the government and popular psychology of 'happiness' in a discontented world.

Comparison between support systems for victims of crime in developed and developing countries by means of case study to illustrate gap that exists within globalization

Strategies for improving independence and quality of life for elderly people with low vision.

This paper explores the works of Le Clézio and Cheng to show how their protagonists found an alternative way of defining their destiny, rejecting the two ways offered: to be the oppressor or the oppressed.

This paper examines how a sense of place has been created in the Millennium Quarter, Manchester, England. The area was devastated by an IRA bomb in 1996 and has consequently undergone intensive regeneration

This paper explores the paradoxes of what I call alternative media in the Middle East region and how these new media are renegotiating the dynamic relationship between the local and the global.

Are new transnational identities challenging the dominance of the nation state? This session examines this question across a variety of groups and global locations.

According to many linguists, American English is the liveliest of all modern languages due in part to its ability to continuously change through its standardization of colloquialisms, malapropisms, even "errors."

After exploring the global impact of Anti-Americanism, the paper will speculate as to whether this universal trend can be conceived as a response to a common threat.

This presentation examines how expressive forms of culture continue to inform and re-shape contemporary historiographies.

This paper discusses the potential perils of genetic testing and how it may adversely affect the human need to form illusions, hopes and fantasies. In a society where a future can be genetically fore-told, human beings may no longer suffer from knowing too little but from knowing too much too soon.

Video game culture is characteristically comprised by modes of representation (images, discourses, genres and styles/voices) through which both the self and the other are imagined, constructed and articulated.

An analysis of computer and telephone usage by respondents of different races in the New York City Metropolitan Area.

This paper investigates the dynamics of cultural transformation by exploring parallels between Modernism and the literary revolution in the period following the death of Alexander the Great (323 BCE).

This paper views the liberal arts that comprised the trivium, particularly rhetoric and dialectic, as technologies every bit as revolutionary as electronic technologies are today.

D. T. Suzuki’s observations on the Japanese and the American spirits as expressed through the animism of cherry blossom and that of the “nose art” of the American bombers during WW II, respectively.

There is certainly anti-Americanism sentiment throughout the Arab World. Why the Arabs hate America? What are the causes of these feelings?

The paper revisits the divide between those who view social science as a means of understanding reality (and even progress) and those 'sceptics' who view it as theory more akin to literary criticism, for example in post-structuralism

A Summer Institute for the Visual Arts undertakes collaboration with biologists and engineers to reimagine the fate of the San Joaquin River delta.

People commonly assume that politics should provide for collective happiness. This paper explores what happiness, is and how researchers in political studies must approach it.

This paper will examine Aristotle's rejection of materialism in form of separability and This-ness to clarify the ethics and metaphysics of Genetic Manipulation.

Aristotle’s definition of the soul as human emotion, capacity, and attitude provides common ground to discover paradoxes and parallels that defuse the polemics of the past.

This paper specifically examines contemporary Swiss comic book publishers who challenge existing notions of the mass media by producing hand-made books.

I suggest that artists as workers point the way for work in Toffler's Third Wave and Drucker's knowledge society.

This paper considers the debates around disciplinary domains and what “counts” as evidence. It is illustrated through a life history and issues of self, gender and aging across disciplines and types of evidence.

The focus falls on aspects of "history" in a recent Afrikaans novel, The long silence of Mario Salviati. The literary text as a construct to create "social memory" is examined.

Regarding terrorism, statements are made about the legitimate use of force. However, two questions are never asked: who are the innocent? are all innocents equal?

An examination of database protection in the context of bioinformatics with a general focus on the Human Genome Project and its social, legal and ethical implications.

This panel addresses the limits of representation and looks to music, media technologies, and performativity as a way of re-imagining social identities.

An examination of the tensions caused in EU affairs by UK policy preferences revealed since the second Iraq war and during the process surrounding the Convention on the Future of Europe.

Through a critique of Luhmann's systems theory, the question of politics and excess in the contemporary world is explored.

The ancient Greeks and Romans practiced infanticide as a means of population control. Since modern ethicists such as Peter Singer (Princeton) have advocated this practice, it is entirely relevant to consider afresh what the ancient texts teach about it.

The application of postcolonial theory to Baltic literatures and cultures will be surveyed and analysed, looking for connections to work done in other regions.

Considers recent political philosophies in their negotiation of the interruptive presence of the alien and the 'echo of Babel' - the horror subtending cosmopolitanism.

Traditional society is based on Revelation, Scripture, Tradition, Authority. Luther demolished the latter two, and Galileo made the other two irrelevant. We face the consequences.

Using a multi-disciplinarily approach to the history of art makes it possible to develop an insight into the transference of designs and patterns across cultures.

Awareness that brings humanity closer to awareness of who and what forces have monopolies on individual belief systems and to validate others’ equally valid belief system.

Italy is a place that lures Americans in such a magnetic way and this attraction translates to the work of travel writers like Frances Mayes, Barbara Grizutti Harrison, Tim Parks, Kate Simons, and others.

Creating and supporting the learning community is a key factor in successful theological education, for both theological and educational reasons that are distinctive to this particular context.

Being based especially on Jewish sources I shall discuss the tension between Reason and Revelation and the importance of heteronomous ethics.

The history of globalization in the Asia Pacific during the past century has been marked by a series of failed attempts to fashion a regional identity based upon a common set of "Asian values." Is education part of the problem, or part of the solution to this dilemma?

This presentation examines the role writing plays in deepening literary study for students at a diverse urban university.

Examining the role of grief, mourning and monument-building in the Humanities, and exploring ways research and pedagogy might move 'beyond grief.'

As a mode of communicating, invitational rhetoric seeks to achieve understanding through the offering of perspectives and the creation of an environment of freedom, safety, value and openness.

This international panel, composed of pioneers in the use of the internet for historical scholarship, will discuss four key avenues for the development of historical knowledge in the internet era.

A 21st century response from a visual artist and writer to the sonnets of women poets of the Italian Renaissance.

This paper explores the various stages of Afro-German identity development based on autobiographical texts written by Afro-German women.

The basic diagram of conceptual blending presented by Fauconnier and Turner must be radically modified to avoid a regression to mind-body dualism.

This paper examines issues of interdisciplinarity, the creative process, and body-centered knowledge by focusing on a collaborative teaching project between a poet and an architect.

A study of health equity in Cuba illustrates the utility of new political economy in gerontological and other social science research.

As humanists we talk about conveying the importance of our work to the public. In the United States, state humanities councils provide a vital means of doing just that.

This paper seeks to outline a teaching and research agenda that permits political science as a social science to incorporate the research and insights of the humanities.

Scholars have explored Jewish rabbinical texts to elucidate the concept of the female body as Œhouse‚ They suggest the term Œhouse‚ is used in these texts as a substitute for the female body or more specifically as a euphemism for female sexual organs.

Popular discussions of moral principles for artificial intelligence have focused on the content of the principles. I argue that such principles, regardless of their content, must be recognized and freely adopted by the (artificial) being’s own power of reason, rather than appearing as external constraints. In other words, such moral principles must be autonomously legislated.

This paper gives a definition and historical perspective of spoken word poetry, provides tools to analyze and appreciate it, and gives it a useful place in the world of literary and critical pedagogy.

This paper calls for the strengthening of the position of the Humanities in the college curriculum through realizing and exemplifying their relevance.

An examination of the traditional influences and connections between orality, performance, imagery and narrative as they are applied in current and future communications media.

Career development works towards the construction of identity. This process unveils the dynamics of culture, agency and identity.

A proper pragmatic account of justification is required in multicultural contexts. This account focuses the aim of education, and shows that it is central to epistemology.

The paper will summarize the experience of developing the concept of Lithuanian national science policy in the field of humanities and social sciences in context of EU hss policy

An 1897 literary representation of European-African dialogue will serve as a stimulant to scrutinize current positions toward cultural multiplicity and human in/equality in the global age.

1.(Ady) Helping students acquire news media literacy skills in the face of Big Media framing of information. 2. (Murphy) Disconnections between graduate school training of professors and the needs for humanistic teaching practices. 3. (Corrigan) How professors can help students claim their education by challenging them to choose their canon of significant texts

Analyzing the Old English epic "Beowulf" and the Sumerian poem "The Descent of Inanna," the paper problematizes the militarism of heroic values. The author argues that the academy, through study in the humanities, must offer students diverse cultural and gendered alternatives for the (patriarchal and patriotic) heroic ideal if we are to survive as human beings on the planet.

Dissident movements convey unequivocal messages of respect for human rights and are effective in pressuring totalitarian regimes. This frequently facilitates transitions to governments founded on respect for human rights.

Analysis of community-based intervention, culturally sensitive in nature, after cases of child abuse, much of it incestuous, in small town in Israel.

The paper discusses and analyzes e-media debates on the human rights discourse with special reference to the Chinese diaspora

Concerning the issue of human behaviour and its relationship to religion, relevant both now and in the future, in the music of Benjamin Britten.

Development is increasingly seen as not just GDP growth, but the enhancement of human freedom and capabilities. It is argued that from this standpoint Development Studies can rightfully be claimed for the Humanities.

An international collaborative team of scholars from different field would be suited, not only to treating the problems of Zoroastrian studies, but to a renewal of the humanities.

This paper will discuss the findings of a research study on the identities of ESL speakers in a post-colonial, multicultural society and responses towards the spread of English

An overview and critique of anthropological approaches to the future.

Critical Theory should be introduced, albeit simplified, in all schools or colleges, especially in totalitarian systems, in order to prepare students to critical thinking in academic life.

This paper explores cultural meanings and understandings of the individual and reveals how individuals develop a cohesive sense of self through fragments of memory.

This paper explores ways in which focusing on communication can facilitate the recapturing of humanity within the doctor-patient relationship by presenting a theoretical model of rapport-building and bridging the disconnect between science and humanity.

Paper studies the parameters of the Communist concept of the 'Bright Future" using Russian historical material.

Composition is usually considered a skill or an art rather than a humanity, but its teaching, as with literature and linguistics, explores how we communicate with each other and how our ideas and thoughts on the human experience are expressed and interpreted.

This workshop would consider the promises and pitfalls of "autoethnography" - the study or consciousness of social groups by members rather than outsiders - for future humanities research.

Presenters will share strategies for the connecting of writing with Service Learning and Technology. The team will provide multimedia delivery through the use of powerpoint and CD ROM. Participants will have interactive opportunities for journal writing strategies during the session. Furthermore, presenters will demonstate ways for engaging students in the building of intergenerational "BUILDING BRIDGES WITH BYTES".

The Virginia Standards of Learning reflect a conservative education agenda in both content and process. Their implementation represents a retreat from humanities- oriented history instruction.

An examination of the plentitude of art in urban centers. This strong relationship between the artist and the city is due to the number of ways in which the city fosters the artist as an individual producer of art and as a participant in a global art culture and art market.

A review and assessment of "cultural hegemony" as an evaluative and predictive guide for contemporary global relations.

This paper examines the patterns of thought in the work of contemporary poet Anne Carson, who takes well-known figures from the Western tradition and makes them operate both in their own original matrix and in the new Carson story of it.

Creole Louisiana as the site of debates over nationalism, race, and identity in the US that have influenced/mirrored attitudes toward hybridity and global "Creolization."

The purpose of this paper is to enlighten its readers about overcoming the negative, socially divisive cultural consequences of “bad” graphic, industrial, fashion and interior design.

The purpose of the proposed paper is to demonstrate how Professional Business Communication is structured and taught in an interactive setting at the University of Toledo.

This work presents the application of corpus linguistics techniques to information retrieval in the area of terrorism.

This paper offers some reflections on "modernist" impulses in the work and life of the South African poet, Roy Campbell.

The proposed paper will discuss the role of positive behavior support in our culture and participants will be involved in creating the