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 their own P.B.S. (Positive Behavior Support) action plan for success.

Political traditions associated with German social democracy is critical in maintaining relative congruence between its predominately cultural based national identity and stable democracy. More broadly our findings suggest the possibility of successful hybrid national identities, in which the cultural basis of the nation may remains largely intact but selective political traditions employed to largely curtail the most negative aspects of the so-called eastern version of nationalism.

An interactive workshop which explores the creative and visual arts including movement/dance, art, music, drama, photography and poetry in learning, transformation and personal growth.

Change and crisis, philosophically, allow to develop a "Renaissance" and reorientation. Pre-modern responses to catastrophe and convulsion allow to develop strategies for recovery.

Is any fruitful interdisciplinary dialogue between postmodern philosophy of science and postmodern religion possible or does the pluralism and localization of postmodern discourse place theologians and scientists into “near-complete epistemological incommensurability”? (VanHuyssteen)

The aim of this workshop is to demonstrate pedagogical qualities of film in the formation of thinkers across the humanities disciplines.

This is a study of the application of African insights from rural, agrarian areas to western understandings of New Testament parables.

The aim of this research was to obtain insight into previously disadvantaged students' learning and study strategies at a tertiary institution in South Africa.

This paper examines a small corpus of contemporary European and Australian narratives, whose authors cross boundaries between types of writing previously considered non-fictional.

Charrière’s “Letters of Mistriss Henley published by her friend” explores a young woman’s search for identity in a world of reason, of conventions and of alienation. Cultivating humanity is the main character’s goal for women that lived after the French Revolution.

Australia is a culturaly and linguistically diverse country. This presentation will examine the communication and delivery strategies adopted by Centrelink, the Australian Government's Service Delivery Agency.

I contend that indigenous peoples and their cultures should serve as models for the future and merit empowerment.

My paper shows a significant role of China in Yosa Buson (1716-1783), a Japanese poet-painter, and his work as an example of dynamism of cultural diversity in eighteenth-century Japan.

Cultural diversity is used as a bulwark in human development and identity, in particular the development of the law and promotion of enjoyment of human rights.

This paper makes connections between cultural dimensions and occupational stress.

The colloquium interrogates issues of ethnically or culturally defined conflict, its conceptualisation, and its management; with questions for anthropology and for practitioners.

Curricular changes in methodology in higher education to bring about a sustainable future.

This paper examines the significant role and implication of Japanese ‘cute culture’ in today’s local and global societies as an effective, powerful communication device.

U suk… Welcome to the world of cyber bullying where in a few minutes you can be spammed by an anonymous bully who will make your life hell. This is the reality of identity formation for adolescents in cyberspace.

This paper explores the nature of the participation of the digital audience as contrasted with that of the theater.

Dancing on the Last Stump is a description and analysis of the series of paintings, prints and peformance art. Slides or Powerpoint images of the artwork will accompany the presentation.

This paper examines dating and coupling trends among college students across the United States.

The discovery of the phenomenon of Italian emigration to South America as seen through the "virgin" eyes of late-19th-century brilliant society writer Edmondo De Amicis.

Illustrated history of changing ideals in modern bodybuilding. Muscle magazines have now marginalized women's bodybuilding, replacing it with soft-porn and "Ms. Fitness" competitors.

An examination of contemporary debates about the role of sexuality in the coming into being of feminist subjectivity.

This paper reads Acts of the Apostles as an allegory of the discontinuity between representation and the sacred. Its approach is de Manian deconstruction.

The middle 1990s saw Australia embrace a coordinated National Competition Policy (NCP) following the framework laid out in the Hilmer Report (1993). This overarching neo-liberal policy brings into line state and federal government institutional set up and practices in alignment with doctrines of free market. The community service sector is subjected to NCP through the government funding practices facilitated under Competitive Tendering and Contracting (CTC) system. This paper discusses the deployment of mechanisms and practices of efficiency and related codification systems enabling technologies and mentalities of rule emerging in the CTC of labour market programs for unemployed people.

With the emergence of design as a global lingua franca, this paper will explain and analyze the emerging collaborations between design and the humanities.

This paper proposes a new model in which to critically analyze the effectiveness of a composed visual communication.

Culture of Reclamation integrates poetry, historical photographs, music and videography in a video presentation that reclaims Idaho history and can serve as an educational prototype.

This paper argues that the principles of open forms of creativity in the 'arts' provide significant impact upon concepts of leadership, governance and risk as applied to workforce leadership development in tertiary academic institutions.

Humanistic anthropology is developing the case for the study of the whole human being, body, mind, and soul, using the knowledge of indigenous peoples.

Theatre that draws on story, as does much collaboratively devised theatre, and which embraces multivalent perspectives, is a productive vehicle for overcoming personal trauma and social conflict.

The Western socio-political evolution witnessed the disestablishment of religion from the state, which seemed logical and inevitable. The present paper attempts to analyze this disestablishment in its historical and philosophical context.

Countering the Eurocentric approaches used to study Native American literature,the present study will focus on the native American perspective to study native American literature.

Presentation of a digital archive of historical images and examination of its methodological implications for interpretation and analysis of historical data.

How can we maintain the delicate balance between teaching art aesthetics and technology? Do we even care at this point about keeping art aesthetics alive?

Scholarly communication and the information research behavior of humanists are changing in the 21st century. This paper explores the "Digital Dilemma" of interfacing the traditions of the academy with the possibilities afforded by a broader international "information society."

Impact of the social practices of transnational higher education on the formation of student identity

An introduction to the theory and practice of the emerging area of Disability Studies, with demonstrative examples from my specialization in the study of life writing

This paper questions the explanatory power of social capital and suggests that the concept expresses a filleted vision of social life, which instead of bringing the social back in, re-imagines and re-reconstitutes informal social bonds in a way that is homologous to the social form of the commodity.

Diversity and the effect it has on the study of humanities in this century will be examined. The main focus will be looking at new visions for future humanities study.

Diversity and the effect it has on the study of humanities in this century will be examined. The main focus will be looking at new visions for future humanities study.

The paper will illustrate the use of common heritage words in European languages

Some philosophers argue that the fact of human evolution undermines the facts of morality. I argue that the fact of human evolution does not undermine the facts of morality, but supports them.

This paper relates the story of two professors that have made a bridge between the two cultures, science and humanities. They teach a humanities course together.

Contrasts a Kleinian with a Fairbairnian interpretation of the vampire myth.

This paper examines seminal plays, personas and organizations of the current 21st century American theatrical canon as templates to piece together an understanding of what it is to be AMERICAN.

I consider indegeneity, appropriation, and inheritance in an examination of Israeli Jewish musicians with roots in Islamic countries who are both insiders and outsiders to the regional soundscape.

This multimedia interdisciplinary workshop focuses on Buckminster Fuller’s 1947 Dymaxion House as an historical symbol of future ideas, a future that is upon us today.

This research describes the use of a virtual reality process oriented instructional strategy to provide informative insights into the complexity of cultural dynamics and awareness.

This paper examines the professional identity and ideology of second career non-traditional teachers and their potential for providing an empowering education for inner-city students.

This paper will examine the generic characteristics of dystopia in Russian postmodern fiction, by focusing on the relationship between dystopia and fantasy, on the one hand, and dystopia and satire, on the other.

This study attempts to see who are the leaders and laggards in e-government in Canada's provinces, and to explain why this is so.

Case study and demonstration of a team-taught, interdisciplinary, online course on civic culture and global awareness that engages adult learners in learning about complex citizenship in a wired world.

Of the four major geographical areas where fossil humans are found, Southeast Asia is the least understood. Recent fossil finds shed light on the earliest human occupants of this area.

Looking to Echo as a form of repetition, this paper reflects upon women's story-telling as a form of repetition which alters the course of future generations' lives

This paper examines the post-modernist critique of history, and offers its own critique of post-modern history. To this end, my paper argues that history, together with other humanistic disciplines, must seek to integrate the scientific value of research with the philosophical pursuit of fundamental principles.

I speak of "Edith Stein and the Phenomenology of Empathy (or An Account of How Human Beings Comprehend the Psychic Life of Others.)

A brief history and exploration of the worldwide Waldorf School movement and the underpinning philosophy of education developed by Rudolf Steiner that integrates the arts, sciences and humanities.

Educating the educators in Greek schools focuses on finding the stereotypes about learning and teaching history nowdays in a intercultural level

The “get tough movement” and the “war on drugs” have had a significant impact on the detection and involvement of youth, especially African Americans, in the juvenile justice system. Using the symbolic threat thesis as a theoretical framework and data that covers a 21 year-period (1980 to 2000), the present research examines and compares patterns in case processing within the context of the factors that might influence case outcomes for whites and African Americans in one Iowa juvenile court. The findings have implications for advancing our understanding of the social control of youth and in particular, African Americans.

An examination of circus arts training's effect upon behavioral aspects of developmentally disabled adults was undertaken to address the human services needs of an underserved population.

This paper presents results of a two-year WebCT pilot project at the University of Akron, examining and comparing web-enhanced teaching strategies for international and American graduate students.

This paper investigates the effects of the termination of pregnancy on black adolescent schoolgirls in the Eastern Free State region of South Africa. Findings of the study suggest the need for support on various levels. Consequently the role of the affective is examined and possibilities for assessing affect are suggested in an attempt at alleviating certain negative affective traits.

Considers the political value of fractal, baroque and cosmopolitan sociability for understanding socio-political change, through an analysis of ‘shared responsibility’ for HIV transmission in sexual practice.

The internet and online learning environments are rapidly transforming education and learning experiences across the globe. Could this change presage a new Renaissance?

This paper explores Elena Garro’s use of intertextuality to expose the silencing of the female creative voice and the appropriation of women’s lives/texts by men.

Granados, Albeniz, and Falla are the composers that first come to mind when we think about Spanish music at the turn of the century. All Spanish composers in the twentieth century have been influenced by their music legacy. Elena Romero (1907 - 1995) inherited the Spanish “flavor”, especially from her composition teacher Joaquin Turina, to create a very distinctive compositional style in which the nationalist elements blend with Impressionist and Expressionist qualities. The purpose of this lecture-recital is to analyze Elena Romero’s music in the context of a very turbulent, rebellious life.

What lies in store for the humanities in Africa? A discussion of current and future trends in South Africa higher education.

In my paper I show that bringing the element of performance into the classroom (for language courses mostly but other humanities courses as well) solidifies the knowledge that students gain through intellectual inquiry. The concept of embodied learning is rooted in many ancient cultures with oral traditions and confirmed by learning specialists. Rather than being passive recipients of information, students can learn to explore and experience new materials and concepts through gestures, sounds, and other means of active connection to knowledge.

This paper examines how the theory of emergence, drawn from biology, can open up new avenues for research in the humanities. It concludes that an increased sensitivity to new communication methods acting on an expanded audience can deepen and broaden our understanding of rapid or explosive change.

The Employment Equity Act, 1998, has been unsuccessful in ensuring the employment of disabled persons in the labor market. What are the issues and challenges?

This paper examines the ordeal of words in Weil and Zen, and proposes to show how words can be used to delude or clarify.

Racism and heterosexism are problems in society today. Science educators can help stop perpetuation of the racism and homophobia that is currently prevalent by bringing their stories to our classrooms.

Exploration of the hidden desires, passions, goals of technological culture, as in the frantic lust for speed, dreamy utopias, a quest for ultimate meaning in space travel, and seeking omnipotence creating android robots.

Post-Human Genome Project ontology of the self, I believe, will be neither Modern nor post-Modern. The mapping of the human genome will mark the beginning of the end of the post-Modern period.

The end of theory? The end of ideology? Where do we stand?

My paper will address the nature and future of English studies in a globalized world, especially in the United States.

Drawing on the experiences and work of Elie Wiesel, Alice Miller and students in classes aimed at understanding violence, the processes of personal transformation and rehumanizing are explored.

A conceptual framework for development of culturally sensitive health-related messages utilizing the entertainment-education strategy of communication.

In this paper social niche is presented as a promising theoretical concept for framing environment and transaction between person and environment. This paper furthermore suggests revisions and modulations to the strengths perspective and the social niche construct to get to a clearer understanding of environmental strengths.

A discussion of the metaphysics of the African epic and its ethical relevance for human values in the 21st century.

Compares three different views in agriculture: use of Biotechnology, Organic farming and Conservation Agriculture. Conservation agriculture can be considered the most ethical option because it integrates the use of chemical herbicides and genetically modified organisms to produce desired yield and conducts zero-tillage practice that restores soil biology

One teacher's journey from center to margin as a university instructor of courses on race, class, gender and sexual orientation.

Our paper addresses through interviews, the tendencies of field and the treaties that fix the place of woman of mentors (sxoliki simbouli) in the Greek educational system and more specifically when it serves in places of power (director, school adviser etc).

Examines the recent use of evolution to imagine communication systems that value human biology and explore possibilities for new modes of interaction.

By comparing the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, this project examines increasing executive authority and assesses efforts to ensure greater democratic accountability.

The empirical sciences (including cognitive psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology) have insufficiently theorized the problematic nature of human signification—in particular, the relation between signs, deception, orders of intensionality (in theory of mind research), and the economic horizon of life.

Experiences of belonging resist globalization’s carceral effects by grounding a community’s identity in its shared history, conjoining politics of difference with the hermeneutics of place.

This paper describes the humanizing effects upon students at an engineering university when they are required to experience nature with the goal of creating a personal expression, either in paint or in words.

The two presenters will introduce Bafa Bafa®, a hands-on exercise for the classroom used to simulate problems created through the interaction of two distinct cultures.

This paper argues that postmodernist approaches to language games, and the provisional nature of truth claims are necessary for solid empirical ethnography.

Cultural studies provides useful concepts and methods for the analysis of health. These concepts are particularly valuable for understanding the risk activities of subcultures.

This study explores factors which affect the retraining participation of the laid-off workers.

The accelerating disappearance of the aesthetic canon in the world of art today, which the surrealists had celebrated and hoped for, defines, among other things, the postmodern condition. The romantic and surrealist movements to remove the barrier between dream and reality seem to have found an audience in the post-modern age, with the elimination of the ultimate barrier, that of the real and the fake.

This paper tries to analyse the evolution of the concept of family from the concept of community and how, the relation between both based on a duty based jurisprudence in India, is under considerable strain from the western rights based jurisprudence.

This paper arguments that, in parallel to the perpetuation of some patriarchal symbolic values, coexist a process of cultural _ and moral_ transformation, which can be verified in areas that are apparently not tangible, such as work and leisure. For this reason, this process will be referred in the modern sphere of the administrative vision of the leadership corporations, as well as in themes of the hollywood´s cinematography productions, where both the elements of the so called “masculine identity crisis” and of the recovered feminine aspects will be pointed out.

This work examines the generative and developmental phases of a multi-disciplinary artistic collaboration. It is a creative method that offers the opportunity for intellectual conversation and critical discourse as part of the evolution of an artwork.

This essay explores how the comparative and dialectical study of literature(s) from new epistemological models preserves a humane connectedness in a varied and threatening world.

Figures of Disfiguration: literary and visual representations of rape and dismemberment in ancient, early and modern images of violence against women. The purpose of this study is to explore the possible links between modern, early modern images and their ancient counterparts. I suggest that there is evidence of a pattern in the artistic reuse of these ancient tales in the 18th century, there are also implications for the way literature is understood today in modern and post modern arenas.

This paper investigates the experiences of Filipino women - commonly referred to as 'mail-order brides' -who have migrated from the Philippines to marry Australian men living on the island of Tasmania. Based on the accounts of Filipino women living in Tasmania, this paper provides new insights into the ‘mail-order bride’ phenomenon, questioning and challenging the many assumptions that are made about their migration.

My paper will redraw schematically the coordinates of a humanist programme centered in rhetoric and hermeneutics. The practical, productive resources of rhetoric combined with the interpretive resources of hermeneutics yields a platform upon which to stand the cultural enterprise of intellectual engagement and learning.

In this paper I wish to explore the refuge-seeking journeys of the heroines in 3 contemporary women's novels and the relationship of these journeys to the dislocating consequences of men’s wars in Europe.

An Opera Singer’s Acting Out Seen As Potential Space.

Conference on the role of the foreign language teacher in the process of developing cultural awareness in the classroom.

Foucault's commentary on Kant's 'Anthropology' exposed a general shortcoming in Western European rationalism and modernism.

The paper uses frame and content analysis to explore newspaper coverage of a gender-based election controversy.

This is a presentation of the following papers: - Paper 1: "Sacred Space in Chajul: Reaffirming Home(s) in 21st Century Guatemala." Paper 2: "Landscape. Loss, and Longing: The Visions of Scott Momaday and Leslie Marmon Silko" Paper 3: "The Dream and Its Dreamer: Farther from God" Paper 2: "Landscape. Loss, and Longing: The Visions of Scott Momaday and Leslie Marmon Silko" Paper 3: "The Dream and Its Dreamer: Farther from God"

A discussion of the latest scholarship concerning Francis of Assisi in his own time and how to apply those historical insights in the developed and the developing world.

This is an investigation of Frankensteinian body politics in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake.

Free speech underpins academic debate, which is essential to the future of humanities studies. This paper considers how press notions of free speech and democracy differ in greater China and the former colony of Hong Kong; where the system of one country two systems was intended to protect individual rights.

This paper explores the educational theory of Northrop Frye. I argue that Frye's theory offers a compromise between the post-modern critique of traditional authorities in liberal eduation, and those who wish to maintain the "classics".

A study of border crossing in Kingston's China Men and Tripmaster Monkey by reference to Confucius, Zhuangzi, and Derrida.

The evolution of the "posthuman" can be explored through changes in the religious language used to mark the boundary between the human and the divine.

As the Enlightened self gives way to the 'healthy-self', stargazing gives way to navel-gazing.

Our panel will look at transformations in the way the humanities communicate with the world from three different perspectives: the history of literary criticism, the interaction between literature and the world of business management and the expansion of humanism into a “world-culture” at the end of the sixteenth century. All of these approaches represent, in some way, a return of things full circle: in particular with respect to literature’s interaction (or lack of interaction) with the outside world.

Peter Singer presents a view of a future global ethics in his recent book titled "One World." This presentation discusses and critiques Singer's view especially as it relates to the idea of international corporate social responsibility and the field of business ethics.

This paper raises the issue of whether philosophy itself can any longer be expected to exercise its foundational critical function with respect to the question of meaningful life that human beings could envisage for themselves in future. In this sense this issue is at the same time a questioning of the traditional role of philosophy as a critical inquiry aiming at (a) the widest possible application and allowing (b) nothing more ultimate than itself to be reducible to.

The paper examines recent changes in views about the purposes of school history and considers their implications for the future of the subject in schools.

In a analysis of contemporary popular European writers, this paper will examine the vanishing boundaries between "serious" literature and "entertainment" literature.

To look at the state of ethnic geography in the USA and Canada today

The six papers explore the current state of feminist efforts to engender the Humanities as well as the challenges and contradictions that project carries with it.

The idea of the extraterrestrial as a model of and a model for human personhood in a new religious movement, raises questions about faith, science, and the media in contemporary public culture.

The paper discuss the issue of feminism and pacifism as expressed in a few contemporary Israeli non-fiction films directed by women

Outline of the gender differences in academic performance from primary through university in the Malaysian education system.

Picture books are powerful sources of gender role socialization for children. This content analysis of the top 25 children's picture books examines current gender trends.

This paper predicts employment income by educational credentials and employment status, controlling for other variables, for a national cohort of U.S. older workers.

This presentation will explore the idea that architecture was and continues to be gendered-regulating and dictating the identities of all members of society.

This cross-genre study examines, through the linguistic multivalence of gendered virtue, the symbiotic relationship of two-in-one and the intricate operations of the individual will within the intimate human relationship, be it a bond of lust, of marriage, or of mother and offspring.

Do business cases, as a genre, reflect social change or work to inhibit changes that threaten prevailing structures of power?

The paper focuses on the geopolitical and non-Jewish origin of Herzlian Zionism and draws upon a geopolitical economy approach and the deconstruction of Zionist historiography

The paper is an examination of universal configuration of social and political relationships between different cultures by comparing the views of George Orwell and Albert Camus

The paper explores the journey towards democracy as a process in the minds of the people of Poland and South Africa.

This paper examines a constructive experiment with global citizenship and invites other humanities scholars to do the same, in order to fill an important gap in the literature on globalization.

This study considers the structure of the world in terms of economic trade and Global Diffusion of Internet at the regional and intra-regional levels with their implications on inter-regional diversities.

This paper examines the development of modern social thought in Japan during the 1870s in light of the Meiji state's global encounters

This presentation examines how service-learning can render visible the significance of our work in the humanities and can humanize the use of technology.

The role of Literary Culture and the worship of dialogue and conversation in the global Anglophone economy

How can intensive training in Asian theatre genres in a University setting foster cultural exchange and understanding?

An exploration of the work of Takeshi Miike to open up questions on globalisation, subjectivity and cinema. Theoretical models will include Lacan, Jameson and Deleuze.

My paper explores issues of globalisation in contemporary Mexico through the analysis of two recent films: "Y tu mama tambien" (Cuaron 2002) and "Senorita Extraviada" (Portillo 2001)

Under the impact of globalisation, social inequalities in advanced societies are increasingly complex, with socio-economic, sociopolitical and sociocultural aspects changing in different directions

Trade & the process of globalization are considered, criticized & viewed from a Gandhian perspective.

The modern globalization stage actualizes the geoculture formation problem. Its solution is possible today if based upon the abstract principles of tolerance and cultural openness.

This study examines income polarization effects of globalization in major U.S. metropolitan areas by integrating two schools of thought, one found in the more recent literature in urban political economy on globalization, the other found in the traditional literature in economics on income distribution.

This paper aims at analyzing the role of world/global cinema courses in the undergraduate curriculum at an international college in light of changing notions of cultural identities and national cinemas.

I explore the question whether the meaningfulness of human lives depends on the existence of God.

We will be presenting plans for an online database that will allow humanities faculty to collaborate in curriculum and design in order to make humanities methods more accessible to a general education audience.

This paper analyses a university program designed to promote critical thinking among science students. The paper also analyses Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as a text that demonstrates how literature can help frame significant questions about the profession of Science.

Focus on a group of Hollywood films that glorify warfare and help shape public opinion regarding past, present, and future military actions.

We take a local artefact and show how it can be studied from a variety of perspectives.

Vector analysis of visual relations in Carl Barks comic book pages reveals an immanent social vision produced through the act of reading.

This paper will examine the role of Sociologists and other academics to work with communities to respond to oppressive conditions imposed by global capitalism.

The popular Hong Kong comedy, The Greatest Lover, re-incarnates one of the most popular western musicals, My Fair Lady.

This paper analyzes how online communities clash and/or create fluid and flexible political bodies capable of effective political activism in the post-9/11 world.

This paper compares and contrasts the rhetoric and justifications offered by Neo-Confederate movements in the U.S. South and loyalist extremists in Northern Ireland.

Hume's theory that custom is the central source of knowledge shows us that the foundation of meaning should be sought in the history of our ideas.

The humanities currently face a crisis for a number of reasons - one being their assumed irrelevance in a era dominated by the concerns of science, technology and economic development. But another reason has to do with their fragmentation, caused partly by increasingly rigid disciplinary boundaries in the academy and the requirements of specialized research.

"Big History" tries to see the past whole, as in a Creation Myth. It raises powerfully the problem of the relationship between History and the Sciences.

HIV/AIDS Awareness and Attitudes among Mine Workers: A Case Study

Male homophobia affects all men, not just gays. It has the potential to shape and control men's behaviour, although little attention is paid to its impact on heterosexuality.

Life expectancy has increased dramatically over the past several decades. This increase has triggered a related growth in the number of older men and women. Cultural differences exist in the lives of older men and women around the world. Economic factors, availability of health care, family and kinship structures, and modernization are some of the factors influencing these differences. This paper presentation focuses on a comparative analysis of the hopes, fears, and anxieties regarding later adulthood experienced by immigrants to the US.

This presentation will look at residential hotels as cultural expression in the built environment in Seattle, Washington's Chinatown.

Two different approaches can be used for the definition of the “knowledge worker”: one looking from the education side, another from the job side. If “knowledge worker” means a highly educated young man or woman, with post-graduate qualifications and international experience, the first question to deal with is the problem of access to educational resources.

The paper investigates faculty perceptions regarding diversity issues, discrimination and the effectiveness of humanistic initiatives that focus on the improvement of diversity and opportunities for women and minority faculty.

A rhetorically transformed mathematics course provides the model for a new program linking humanities majors to an integrated mathematics, science, and technology major.

Examination of how the traditional ideals in rhetoric and communication are applied to the relatively new areas of information architecture, usability and web site design.

The information in the U.S. media largely ignores regions/countries and the topics that are not directly related to the United States interest.

Based on problematic encounters with the use of 'whiteness' as an analytical category and tool for research, this paper draws on interviews conducted among post-Second World War British migrants to Australia and explores the dynamics of culture, identity and place-making in a local/situated context.

Gossip has a bad reputation generally. I challenge this comfortable orthodoxy by arguing for ways in which gossip can be a benefit. Though not a vindication of gossip per se, my paper is a plea for partial acceptance of this commonplace practice by appreciating what it can do for individuals.

A workshop in poetry as "the language of human life: poems in translation from Spanish, German, Italian and English. The events of our inner world guide and influence who we become and how we define what is human.

This workshop explores the question of human progress in the age of post-modernity and globalisation by examining the development of the Humanities in self-portraits and Intimate Literature.

The idea of human rights, a desired objective for many, becomes extremely complex and hardly consensual when is a matter of defining it conceptually. How one can talk about universal human rights and, at the same time, respect the particularities of each community? Is it possible the coexistence of apparently exclusionary institutional arrangements, such as sovereign national states that presuppose the centralized control by the state of coertion and binding legislation and political organizations with an inter- or supranational character, such as the UN, CSOs or NGOs, some of which also aiming at ensuing commands and declarations with a binding character?

This paper will examine important developments in public discourse around refugees and human rights treaties in the contemporary Australian political landscape.

The scientistic approach to morality that characterizes the liberal tradition is not only structurally inadequate to guide the moral life in its full breadth and complexity, but, without deliberation or debate, it abdicates the space for moral consideration of personal, “familial,” and social relations to anti-egalitarian conservatives.

The British Enlightenment, distinguished by humanism, dissent and citizenship, now finds itself in conflict with managerial populism

Because of the critical assault on humanism by such theorists as Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault, humanism would seem to be in disarray. Recently, however, Edward Said, among others have made a concerted effort to revive humanism. This paper will explore how that effort is possible.

An examination of the attempt by geographers to introduce a humanist geography into the discipline

William Trevor approaches our pop-cultural world as a humanist, but he leaves it as a writer who has learned the latest lessons of deconstruction.

My book "Humanism" presents the system that will replace capitalism

This paper and presentation will use representative excerpts of medical literature to explore the humanistic perspective within this otherwise scientific field.

The economic collapse of the United States cannot be understood by Classical or Marxian economics. A better understanding of the human condition and of our sociality allows for the prediction of this collapse.

Against the background of Marx's analysis of "alienated activity," I project an "unalienated" mode of being involving a transformed rationality; and I argue that development in such a direction is now possible, and practically necessary.

In this paper, I will discuss the important and significant role that the humanities, especially Philosophy, have played and can play in helping us to understand how to achieve and sustain mental health. Through an examination of literature in the humanities, especially Philosophy, I will highlight some views concerning happiness and melancholia so as to obtain some insight into some reasons for the increase in depression and malaise in the 20th and 21st centuries and speculate about some of ways in which humanities education, and humanistic practices, may help to alleviate some of these problems.

Interdisciplinary courses between humanities and sciences engage and benefit students who desire a true Liberal Arts education. Interdisciplinary study abroad is but one effective model that can have life-long, meaningful impact.

This research will review the role of teacher education in serving humanities by education the whole child.

A look at the strategies for ensuring that engineers and technologists are aware of humanistic pursuits in their specialised education.

An examination of current versions of right wing religious and cultural critiques of the humanities in the United States.

The idea of a person in the scientific image grows in conflict with idea of a person in the common sense image. The Humanities must reconcile these clashing images.

Conceptual and practical presentation of the vital role the Humanities can - and should - play in the business world.

Hyperspace and World Wide Web environments are producing revolutionary challenges and opportunities for teaching and scholarship in the humanities.

A relevant Humanities for the 21st Century must find ways to integrate new global intellectual images of the human project with political action that confronts the destructive elements of the emerging New World Order

This paper will investigate the work of the cultural historian Raphael Samuel for the purpose of teaching humanities through major archives and collections.

A cursory look and observation of the nature of human beings around the globe, suggest that whilst some beings display characteristics of what came to be known as evil, others boast unwitting good characters in them. The coinage and acceptance of the principle of justice, therefore, reflect the near balance between these two characters. The one of evil based on power and that of good based on reason.

We outline a contemporary quadrivium of rhetorically based liberal arts, including genre study, argumentation, recognizing the relationship between discourse and expertise, and recognizing how language use determines genre, argument, and expertise.

Organizations cannot be transformed and effectively process accelerating change until and unless one commits themselves to personal transformation and servant leadership; anchored in a deep belief of trustworthiness, unconditional trust, accountability and both personal and organizational alignment.

This presentation will review efforts to transform the humanities curriculum, an intellectual product of patriarchy, to include the contributions of humanity in its fullest sense, inclusive of women and people of color.

Hume’s brief discussion of curiosity at the end of Book II of the Treatise is analyzed and explained according to the notion of “general rules” introduced in Bk. I.

Paper argues that studying film adaptations can attract recalcitrant readers to literature and make them better readers, too.

The idea of humanity entails a primary and constituting ideal of human kind, an essential kinship conprising all human beings, that places the other as my kinsperson, as beneficiary of my genuine concern.

Steps toward universal social responsibility or global ethics in partnerships between governments, corporations and communities will evolve the process in creative cultural policy making.

This research is confined to the main social and political and economic problems caused by these refugees in our society. Before the coming of such influx of refugees these problems were there in our society but not so much great in number and severe.

I discuss in my paper the importance of the reader referring to recent theories of reception from Europe, U.S.A. or Canada. I analyze the role of the reader in receiving digital literature, discussing texts written by authors like Michael Joyce, Shelly Jackson or Juliet Ann Martin.

French governments have pursued, for centuries, a linguicide policy aiming at the elimination of the existing traditional minority languages. Lately some meagre improvements were made to improve the rights of individuals or groups to be educated in their own languages. The highest courts in the country ruled that these changes were anticonstitutional

It is essential to work with the entire school community and beyond to advocate the worth of humanities subjects.

This paper will revisit the supposed problem of "presentism"--that is, projecting the concerns and preoccupations of the present onto the past--in order to defend presentism as a needed part of securing a future for the humanities.

This paper will examine the ascent of Hindu majoritarianism in India.

This paper discusses how Mary Lavin revives readers’ perceptions of women’s struggles and search for freedom from gendered boundaries.

The popularity and increasing complexity of videogames challenge us to reassess the ways we think about storytelling, culture, meaning, and representation.

The tribal artist/artrisans of Afghanistan have begun to incorporate representations of war violence in traditional, woven prayer rugs. These images show their resiliency in the presence of violent power while developing a new economic market.

This paper presents an African dimension of human trafficking and uses the narratives of ten trafficked Nigerian women to highlight migratory trends and practices.

The aim of my paper is to explore the possibility of “deep” experience afforded by a range of Indian films.

This paper discusses classical and early modern ways of thinking of power and governance, focusing on the loci of authority and the ideal of ethical governance.

An analysis of the depictions of Superman, Batman, and Captain Marvel from the 1960s until the present will demonstrate that these depictions parallel the bodies anabolic steroids helped bodybuilders to produce—bodies that were ever larger and yet more muscularly defined.

The information society has developed many ways to help people with psychological problems, but it is a mixed blessing and should be evaluated as such

An ethical analysis of the precautionary principle shows that it protects industrial interests and the bottom line rather than preventing harm to humans, animals and the natural environment.

H. G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau has been interpreted by critics and adapted by filmmakers to reflect contemporary controversies. John Frankenheimer’s 1996 film offers insight into the insular thinking that characterizes an ongoing gay marriage controversy that began in the mid 1990s with court decisions in the island state of Hawaii.

Students required to take a core Literature and Philosophy course begin to navigate the significance of a liberal arts education to their lives.

Integrating demographic studies, site location analysis, and transportation studies with medical management and operation techniques to develop a strategic plan for a medical clinic.

The presentation briefly examines theories of intellectuals from Grasmci to Gouldner, Foucault & Bourdieu, and suggest why self-narratives become central to intellectual writing in a politics of recognition.

The presentation briefly examines theories of intellectuals from Grasmci to Gouldner, Foucault & Bourdieu, and suggest why self-narratives become central to intellectual writing in a politics of recognition.

Interact is a tandem course integrating the concepts pf psychology of personal growth with the concepts of fundamentals of theatre.

I’d like to present a paper on an on-going experiment with team-teaching Victorian studies. I’m co-teaching a course in Victorian Gender Politics with a colleague, Dr. Paul Custer, in the Lenoir-Rhyne history department, and the experience has been fruitful in several different ways.

Issues, challenges, and strategies experienced when conducting interdisciplinary research projects with community partners. Negotiating roles, conceptualizing design, and disseminating results as a collaborative team.

Through the interrogation of works of art and the political/social context of the paradigm in which they were created, one can see an interpretation of the state of the human condition with reference to the past and hopes for the future.

A media literacy approach to international communications represents a new direction in international communications pedagogy, which emphasizes the critical analysis of international media and media content. This presentation identifies the media literacy approach to international communications, introducing selected strategies for the systematic analysis of international communications.

A consideration of evidence-based practice through insights drawn from postcolonial studies

Science enriches our appreciation of the literary genius of Proust. Proust, in turn, reminds us of the richness of memory and suggests areas for systematic research.

Should genetically modified living things be considered inventions and subject to patents? In this paper I examine the Harvard Mouse case recently decided by the Supreme Court of Canada.

This study examines the intercultural experience of U.S. science majors who worked in laboratories in France for three months.

This presentation investigates the radical rhetoric of the woman who earned a large female and male following during her life and after death was named a doctor of the Roman Catholic Church, the patron saint of Italy, and most recently the patron saint of Europe. Her letters provide a striking, stirring model of dynamic civil discourse that is sorely needed today

A response to the environmentalist critique of humanism, the essay shows (a) what the humanist tradition has really been about, and (b)that environmentalism is--or ought to be--a humanism if properly understood.

Bernard Williams argues that there is a crisis of truth in the humanities. I favour his diagnosis of the "crisis," but argue that his positive story falls short.

Is there an emerging transnational literary aesthetic and if so, is it driven by American capitalism or postcolonial political resistance? This key question begins my exploration of transnational literary influences in the late twentieth century.

The increasing prominence of qualitative sociology, as rival to the quantitative, is seen in its relevance to causal analysis, social problems, and a value-free sociology.

Identity, role and gender issues in the Italian and Italian-American families. Cultural similarities and differences relating to the deep transformation of the family in contemporary Italy.

This is an analysis of the problem of cultural history as exemplified in Jacob Burckhardt;s “The Greek Cultural History”

Explores the meaning of disabling conditions through the writings of JP Sartre. Describes how fully understanding disabling conditions from an existential viewpoint can impower persons with disabilities.

An investigation of suicidal jouissance in Freud’s analysis of a homosexual girl and in Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther and Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.

In this paper, I will argue that journalism studies and journalism practice should move beyond the limited sphere of the art and craft training tradition. Journalism is not a mere technique. Journalism should be seen as an academic endeavor and an intellectual journey.

An examination of the postwar autobiography of Kamei Katsuichiro ((1907-66), a prominent Japanese cultural critic, exploring such themes as ideological conversion, the relationship between politics and literature, and the question of "sin."

Bodmer was a young Swiss artist who accompanied a German prince on his journey through the American West in 1833-34. His record of the places and people provides a valuable insight into the early exploration of the western United states in the first third of the l9th century

The paper will detail the initial discoveries of an academic and ecumenical discussion group underway in Romania, which is focused upon the possibilities of community when "keywords" of faith meet "keywords" of rationality (or of other faith traditions).

This paper will analyse the 'caste wars' in North India where women and children are the chief arm bearers. It will examine the complexities of caste, violence and gender.

This paper discusses nine modes in which knowledge and socially productive action proceed from humanities and arts: rhetorical, artistic, philological interpretive, phenomenological interpretive, explanatory historical, narrative historical, technical/aesthetic critical, cultural critical, and analytical.

This presentation will be made in Spanish and all questions will be answered in English

Recent studies in lexical processing show ways in which we can more fully recreate the literary experience of ancient readers.

This is a linguistic analysis of conflicts with students as constructed and represented in teachers' narratives.

The paper presents a summary skeptical survey of recent and current non-standard theories of language origins and/or linguistic change, proposed by amateurs or by those on the fringe of the professional mainstream.

This paper traces the history of language planning and policy in the Sudan. It also explains how policies were driven by political and religious ideologies.

This paper examines how the incorporation of women's humor in the classroom can enrich discussions of cultural diversity and difference.

The purpose of this study was to examine Puerto Rican and Dominican women’s perception of divorce with particular emphasis on divorced women’s experience in these countries.

Influence of Latin Canon law and of the court of Aragon upon Hungarian laws of the thirteenth century.

I argue that learners make errors on vowel length in Japanese in a phonologically systematic manner.

Rediscovering the past is a cultural revival for the indigenous people, but it is not enough. They must find their way in this word.

This paper discusses the development of college-level service-learning programs in history and sociology, with special attention paid to cross-disciplinary assessment methods and findings.

We will explore the role of service-learning in the curriculum of high school students with disabilities by looking at the historical foundations, theoretical frameworks, and curricular ramifications of service-learning, particularly noting its effect on high school students with disabilities development in caring for self and others. The ways in which giving back to others through service-learning affects a student with disabilities quality of life both in and out of school through altruism and caring behavior will be examined.

An outline of an introductory philosophy course which takes as its organizing theme the infamous Leopold and Loeb murder case of 1924.

This book chapter examines in detail the relationship between embodied experience and discourse practice. I argue that the effects of embodiment are revealed as speaking subjects articulate and negotiate their temporal experience of self and other.

The focus of this study is to explore the motivations of White women teachers of diverse students who have stepped out of the often ubiqutous myopia of culture and race to affirm and support their ethnically and racially diverse students to help them thrive in academic pursuits.

Instead of viewing natural language as an approximation to an ideal language, human language should be viewed as temporal, communicative and creative and as embedded within the lifeworld.

The odd comparison between Marguerite Duras, Jacques Derrida and Voltaire offers what Barthes used to call a "combinatoire": as this paper will attempt to show, this "combinatoire" is worth examining in the context of the Humanities today and the debate which opposes lingua franca and Koine.

From a literary perspective, this paper intends to reveal the multicivilizational dimension of a European identity in the context of the current discussion of Turkey's membership in the European Union.

A study of the cultural and literary implications of recent developments in Latin American literature.

Works in the humanities are not fully appropriated by seeing or reading—they must be lived in a real encounter, an experience of ‘real presence.’

From a postapartheid perspective I mourn the absence of lives of action, thinking and revolt within the South African context and contemplate continuous beginnings and contestations.

Problems related to human-computer interaction, communication, and co-existence will be discussed with potential solutions that present ways to humanize technology from the perspective of social informatics and communication.

Our world differ from our predecessors world, But the tragic mode of human life remain in that manner. We must distinguish between Mysteries and illusionism.

The paper undertakes a localised study of two Ahmadi mosques within historical, international and virtual perspectives as an approach to understanding a unique form of Muslim transnationalism.

This paper discusses and compares the short stories, poems, songs and novels written by the participants of two virtual communities: ‘Cold as Stone’, an Internet chat forum focussing on a-ha (a Norwegian synth-pop band), and ‘Slank.com’, an Internet chat forum focussing on Slank (an Indonesian hard–rock band). Ultimately, this literary analysis will highlight the ways in which fiction reconfigures local identity and connectivity, not to mention masculine identity.

Humans have hypothesized that madness and creativity are related since Aristotle, who equated insanity with genius. Recent research indicates this link may involve in part a phenomenon called latent inhibition.

The humanities can help change and deepen our understanding of consumption, and curb its negative influences on countries and the global community.

Using such tools as allegory, analogy, and conceptual categories, one can integrate into one’s life experience the unlimited knowledge available via the Internet and media.

An examination of the role of state sponsored compulsory education in promoting Thai citizenship in a Lao speaking village in northeast Thailand.

A Cririque of The Right to Cultural Privacy in Indigenous Cultures and the defense of a radical Moral Cosmopolitan theory of culture

Proposed is a non-Eurocentric concept of philosophy, culturally anchored, though universalizable.

Preliminary results of an international & interdisciplinary investigation of the role of mapping in the European colonial conquest in South Africa and Australia will be communicated.

This paper examines a tension between a horizontal humanist value system and a vertical market value system that uncomfortably converge in persons, and it suggests a paradigm for assessing our modern condition during a time of increasing globalization.

Redefinitions of masculinities that allow for a broad range of emotional expression offer significant potential in moves towards a more human(e) future.

This paper traces the cultural shift in masculinity in David Fincher's film Fight Club as the protagonist struggles to integrate the shadow and the anima within a collective consciousness shaped by desire for apocalypse, sacrifice and myth.

Brief rehearsal of the persistence of master narratives of Euro-centric 'wulf to Woolf' story of English and effect on language institutionalizations, followed by critique and resistance.

This paper will investigate the value of understanding race as a matrix and critique the use of such a metaphor by American Popular culture.

The present contribution analyzes the way in which political speeches use the present tense when creating a future universe.

Young learner’s gender role identities directly impact cultural modeling and preconception realizations, and aspects of the Internet are imperative towards the young child’s perceptions.

The “Gen Zeds” of the title are female Emirati students in their early twenties at Zayed University who oscillate between the traditional Islamic culture of their families and that which they experience through the media This paper looks at the when, where, and how they use media and what they are looking for when as they use it.

The development of the media literacy movement in the U.S. is hampered by the struggle between the humanists and those wedded to economic rationalism.

Science and technology have driven the study of mass media in order to control and to predict communication outcomes. The rhetorical tradition offers an alternative approach.

“MediaTo[u]r” is an effort to democratize the mediation of ideas in the public sphere, it deals with audio-visual documentation of border cultures.

Cyrus H. Gordon’s vision of cultural synthesis in the Late Bronze Age East Mediterranean as paradigm for generative interaction of cultures.

This presentation will first, explore characteristics of learning disabilities in second language acquisition, and second, provide information and key questions to assist instructors as well as students in identifying factors that may contribute to the student with LD’s chances for academic success.

This paper investigates the contradictions and implications of Benedetta Cappa Marinetti’s unique intersection of modernity and memory in her paintings dedicated to Futurist and Fascist ideology. The paintings, located in the Central Post Office, Palermo, were part of the Fascist program of constructing historical memory by creating monumental buildings and artwork in order to establish a new cultural nationalism.

How can a humanistic understanding of metaphor contribute to our current scientific understanding of chaotic nature in such a way as to help us resolve some global, environmental ethical concerns?

Foucault's linking of discourse, knowledges and power demands that humanists be responsible for what they say.

Many East Asian masters students in the U.K. prefer a 'Middle Way' approach rather than full academic acculturation. This enables them to maintain the value systems of their own cultures whilst synergising them with elements of the Western academic approach.

As a historical and socially engineered category, hegemonic U.S. military masculinity is both constructed and incited in ways ultimately strategic to interests of the state.

The paper focuses on comparative literary interpretation or hermeneutics by focusing on the concept of mimesis.

This paper examines mimetic communication in visual media, focusing on certain queer productions.

Cultural cognitivism and the interaction with global mindset and identity offer a richer explanation of the multi-dimensional dynamics involved in the global experience.

Using the literary to challenge the timelessness of the mirror as metaphor of recognition within both popular and academic discourses of age.

Brant's Ship of Fools (1494) could be considered as an ideological landmark, establishing a new approach toward fools and folly. The author creates a new, fashionable humanistic trend. Recognizing the power of the image he employs the illustration as a tool for his moral teaching.

This paper draws on an empirical study to inquire into mechanisms for facilitating teaching and learning in dental education.

A discussion on spiritual preparedness as being the gap that currently exists in the area of disaster preparedness.

This paper aims to gain an understanding of the reasons for contemporary yoga practice outside of India, the traditional home of yoga. It is based on the responses provided by eighty yoga students at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institue at the beginning of 2004.

This paper tries to link a particular type of phenomena, i.e., moral luck, to a general thesis about normativity with its significance for contemporary philosophy.

The objective of this paper is to address ways by which faculty teaching or administering upper-division business curricula can select assessment methods that reflect a more humanistic approach.

Adopting a post-structuralist stance, this paper presents a reflection on a multidisciplinary educational context.

This presentation will show an alternative teaching method which is multisensory, structured and metacognitive, for students who struggle to learn a foreign language.

Teaching music from a critical thinking perspective provides opportunities for making aesthetic meaning, enhancing higher-order thinking, and engaging students’ interest through self-expression.

An examination of some narratives of belonging to explore feminine magic as a strategy of identity creation.

With the demise of Stalinism and Social Democracy, nationalism remains as the prime barrier to socialism. The failure of nationalism and absence of socialism has led to despair and the rise of reactionary and mystical forms of religious nationalism

The aim of this paper is to elucidate the perceptions of 12-years old primary school students concerning certain aspects that formulate the Greek culture and to reveal their attitudes towards the arrival and settlement of immigrants in Greece.

The role of pidgin as the language of resistance amongst marginalized members of society is now problematised in the current age of globalisation and multiculturalism.

This paper presents a phenomenological study of Native American ceremonialism as "kinaesthetic imagining" or a process by which the perceptions arising from the moving muscles generate particular structures of consciousness.

A cross-cultural analysis of representations of racial violence in the recent French film "The Adventures of Felix" and the classic African-American novel "The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man"

This paper examines the issues of identity politics, of cultural marginality, and of alternative subjectivity, and discusses the problematic status of Pearl S. Buck and Xingjian Gao.

The goal of this paper is to defend Quine's radical thesis that traditional epistemology must be replaced by naturalized epistemology. The argument develops in response to Putnam's criticisms of Quine.

Neo-political theory seeks to restore the fundamental validity of political theory, the importance of the public realm as the space of appearance and the centrality of freedom for political theory.

I will discuss the relationship between individual needs and satisfactions on one hand and their constitutive relationship to corporate power and private interests on the other.

Networking among emerging communities in absence of proper welfare services is the only way to survive.

The neuro-constructivist model of learning draws from neuro-science and psychology. It constructs an alternative view of the relationship between brain development, learning, and the environment.

The emerging information and communication technologies are creating a new process of “glocalization”, a hybrid of global and local. As a result, a dynamic global-local relationship is being formed.

In Japan today, transnational writers' new linguistic and thematic literary devices are guiding Japanese contemporary literature to the new directions. My paper investigates two transnational writers comparatively: Minae Mizumura and Fumiko Kometani.

Creative Aerobics is an evolutionary multi-cultural, time-sensitive, process-driven heuristic paradigm I designed that utilizes new methodologies to generate new messages.

A colloquium presentation on innovative tactics in the teaching of the humanities.

I examine how the nationalist and unilateral foreign policy of the United States is rooted in U.S.-based energy corporations and political/ideological currents in the U.S.

New information technology and scientific development provided us with means that extend the limits of our traditional cultural bounds. More and more they become ‘cognitive prosthesis’ who contribute to reshape our human understanding of life, our human identity.

This paper examines the severe growth delays in institutionalized children, and the limits of recovery when they move to new families in new cultures.

"Ego death," the giving up of one's personality, appears consistently in literature and religious ritual and is mirrored by the experience of near-death survivors.

This paper uses an empirical discursive framework to examine the impact of constitutional devolution on identity categories in Northern Ireland. Emphasis is on strategies of politicisation, maintenance and transformation within a changing socio-political context.

This paper examines organizational strategies, structures and female leadership in a globalized NRM, Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Organization.

Course objectives are used to create an electronic syllabus and to provide means of communication and resources for the students' electronic portfolios.

This news diffusion study of the February 2003 destruction of the Columbia space shuttle examines how respondents learned news of this international news event.

Is a cynical press undermining democracy? Is there any hope for the future?

Nietzsche’s “Overman” (Uebermensch) challenges hierarchic control over the Will to Power of creative beings. The Nietzschean artist would, therefore, counter the logic of empire by augmenting the self-generating process of cultural and biotic life.

Nine eleven was a non-nuclear model of a nuclear first strike, with the goal of surprise decapitation, as planned by several states including the USA. It illuminates the debate on whether nuclear weapons are a probable constraint on world population growth.

Neuroscience has created an unsettling notion that a human is simply the product of electro-chemical impulses. But the human is more than wisps of chemicals and electricity. The soul of the individual has been all but ignored from scientific and theological debate.

This paper will address the dialog between art and archaeology through contemporary visual culture in representations of ancient Mediterranean sites.

This paper will discuss the aesthetic preferences of young children who viewed original works of art housed in an art museum. In order to assist them in their understanding of these works, children were provided with related studio and art appreciation activities that were developmentally appropriate.

The significance of mermaids and sea goddesses to women today. The resurgence of oceanic female deities and the historical occurrences of same: the powerful image of the mother of the sea, and the many names by which She has been called throughout the ages.

This talk makes a critical assessment of a hitherto unpublished and largely unknown play by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson entitled Ulysses Africanus

The paper analyzes two contemporary Spanish novels and one film, and it asks how these works of popular fiction speak of complex logics of information flows.

Using Colombian Contemporary narratives, this paper attempts to show the way in which crime not only creates invisible territorial borders, but also, serves to articulate society, subjects, culture and literature.

My paper discusses the question if cultural studies can benefit from a theory of transcultural hermeneutics.

A look at some of the ways the computer has affected the nature of narrative, together with some suggestions about what computers cannot do and why.

The goal of this study was to analyze mother-daughter relationships at a time of transition when mothers start to become frail and caregiving might be needed.

The approaching end of the 50-year dominance of the Semantic Epoch over Western cultural life signals a “return to being,” the Ontic Turn.

This document analyses Thirza's role in Dame Ethel Smyth's most widely acclaimed composition, "The Wreckers," an operatic setting of Harry Brewster's Cornish drama, "Les Naufrageurs."

American Indian myths and four paradigms of discourse analysis. Reflective of world intellectual development, these are 1) primal, 2) modern, 3) post-modern, and 4) organicism. Emphasis is given to theorizing the organicism paradigm.

The ideas of courtly love first appeared in the lyric poetry composed by the troubadours of Southern France. In Occitania, many of these wandering minstrels were also Cathar. Speculatively, the Occitanian troubadour ideas of love and relations with women grew spontaneously out of the environment supplied by the region in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

We can learn something about our post-human descendants and heirs via a reading of Francis Bacon's literary-philosophical prescription of epoch and progress.

A discussion on the complex array of factors influencing how and when news passes from one culture to another, and how fast that passage can take place.

Philosophers can learn from the paradox of Plato’s ‘Apology’ as a protreptic wherein Socrates moves some to accept philosophy by moving others to reject it.

The "Dian-shi-zhai hua bao," an illustrated newspaper from 1884 to 1898 and its role in late Qing literature

This talk will trace discourses on parasites in film and the media and will link these discourses to the creation of para-sites in politics.

Though facing fragmented identity, nations continue to encounter globalization through their particular character. Britain has reasserted its national identity through the reattribution of meaning to places and spaces.

Examination of the site of Catal Höyük (southern Anatolia) and its lessons for a cognitive understanding of the future and the social realities of the present.

This paper explores the rephrased question of German and self-identity posed in recent literary texts from the Federal Republic of Germany.

Changing critical reception of the art of Paul Cadmus offers an interesting perspective on how attitudes toward privacy and fame have shifted during the twentieth century in and beyond the United States.

The paper explores the transition of universities from a humanistic culture to a corporate culture.

Mediated human-human and human-computer interaction is a complex index of theory, measurement and interpretation.

This article will give information regarding the perception of teachers as portrayed in documentaries and Hollywood movies.

This article will give information regarding the perception of teachers as portrayed in documentaries and Hollywood movies.

This article shows that typological predictions and implicational universals can't account for the word order in contemporary Persian.

The bureaucratic demands for asylum seekers to translate their narratives of personal trauma into narratives of political oppression articulate a crisis between the personal and the political.

Philanthropic Studies, an emerging discipline, ought to become a central subject in the humanities and liberal education.

Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau are often seen as antagonists. In fact they were not, a combination of their theories could be the way forward for political philosophy.

This paper analyzes war-related news photography in the context of French propaganda theorist Jacques Ellul's concept of integrative propaganda.

This paper will demonstrate to participants at the conference the evils that wars, violence, crisis is doing to humanity and also give a robust analysis, beauty, advantages and application of the alternative of dialogue.

An analysis of Toni Morrison's newest novel, "Love," contextualized by critical interrogations of love, erotic relationships, kinship, and homescape as Black feminist issues.

This session will describe the development of a Long Range Strategic Plan on Aging for the state of California, and its implications for political discourse regarding the emerging meaning of age and aging.

One of the challenges in creating an online learning community is choosing an appropriate collaborative model; another challenge is being a catalyst for social learning.

Argues that Plato's attack on rhetoric in the Georgias is flawed, but can form the basis of a useful approach to mediated public persuasive discourse.

This paper presents poetry as a method of inquiry into individuals' perceptions of their own communication behaviors: art as a method of thoughtful inquiry.

An interactive workshop relating poetry to the lives and experience of men throughout the world.

The paper addresses how technology and new media have had a destructive and negative impact on teaching and student receptivity for the humanities as subject matter of choice.

The interaction of politeness and impoliteness with orthophemism (straight talking), euphemism (sweet talking) and dysphemism (speaking offensively).

The increasingly popular application of the idea of path dependency in political analyses may lead to a paradigm shift in political "science".

This paper deals with two problems, namely the absence of a sophisticated and critical theory of literary production in the Bible and the need for a positive theory of political myth in contemporary politics.

This paper examines the role of globalisation in problematising sexual politics, identities and communities.

An examination of East India Company's policy on European settlement in India as a form of resistance against British interference in colonial affairs and the implications of the policy for stucturing colonial rule and its nature.

5{ Florentine Mannerist painter Jacopo Pontormo and the body of 20th century modernist paintings collectively and individually defined as monochromes, can be seen to pictorially document a struggle with the “end of the world”, that is with a “rupture” to the symbolic order. I propose to explore this tension psychoanalytically using as a focus Lacan’s das Ding.

This presentation explores the imagery created in American historical sheet music that established an information system of attitudes and perceptions about race and ethnicity.

The paper explores the concept of The Turning in the Philosophy of Heidegger as the image of Post-Enlightenment technology and suggest that the worldview embodied in the image of the Hindu Goddess Kali contains elements that would be characteristic of that worldview.

This paper analyzes canonical female heroic figures in a collection of 1999 plays by Chilean dramatist Marco Antonio de la Parra.

The paper reports the findings of a focus group study on public attitudes to DNA paternity testing.

This paper examines Hilsenrath's literary representation of the Holocaust in Transnistria.

Describes the present state of lesbian and gay studies in the humanities in US university culture

We read selected texts in philosophy of religion and literature to explore how, in the postmodern world, to construct the “human,” how to connect ideas of beauty and ethics, and how to engage in politically and aesthetically ethical praxis without traditional philosophic and literary groundings. We emphasize first the necessity of articulating a destabilized and specified (as opposed to a generalized and essentialized) “human.” The task of representing such subjectivities in any transparent way, we suggest, is impossible. At the same time, we also maintain that we are compelled as material beings – inevitably political, aesthetic, and ethical life forms -- to enact forms of beauty and justice that bear upon our materiality.

Regulations worldwide on the ownership and distribution of art works and cultural property are being reexamined as source nations such as Greece, Italy, Egypt, Iraq, and Mexico find their cultural treasures being looted, stolen, dismantled or sold to foreign collectors , dealers, and museums.

Understanding changing conceptions of self, author, text, publication through comparison of sixteenth century and contemporary technology shifts

Following a longitudinal survey of Canadian teacher education registrants this paper looks at social reproductive effects of teachers in the family of Aboriginal/minority registrants

The human desire for happiness, as observed and described in The Nichomacheaen Ethics of Aristotle, bodes ill for the human prospect.

The search for an appropriate value base for global society is stymied by the widespread assumption that values are exclusively subjective. This paper suggests that the objective idealist tradition offers useful insights and that a reexamination of some of its key ideas might lead to a more fruitful discussion of appropriate global values.

This session poses practical strategies to ease relational tensions and foster collegiality in light of academe’s increased opportunities for partnerships and interdependence across disciplines

The purpose of this paper is to present a primer regarding some of the major concepts related to the development of psychiatric rehabilitation in the United States.

This session provides a forum for thinking about public knowledge and public practice in the context of curriculum innovation in the humanities.

This paper focuses on a specific question concerning public opinion as a social-political action, i.e., how can the “public” participate when the media seem the sole providers of public space?

This paper provide an in-depth understanding of those systems which strive to promote human rights. It develops public choice theoretical framework and demonstrates its significance in terms of the struggle for human rights in Third World societies.

This paper introduces a new public relations model that serves as a basis to explore influences that can behave as catalysts for organisational change.

Quality of Life, Gender, Citizenship and Globalization: Does Happiness = P+(5XE) + (3XH) everywhere? The paper explores the increasing global obsession with measuring happiness and quality of life.

The managerial revolution in higher education has transformed academic life and is destroying academic values. The Orwellian nature of managerialism is analysed and methods of resistance proposed.

This paper discusses how an online environment was used to develop postgraduate students critical questioning skills.

A review of our fears about Human and Machine interaction and outline 21st century scientific "plans" for a post human future.

This paper focuses on curriculum changes, specifically on how they address issues of race, culture, and equity in the social sciences curriculum during the 1998-2002 period.

The creative application of constructivist thinking and paradox in teaching with the aim of re-energising our outlook on the intrinsic value of selecting theories and teaching methods for the humanities.

Randomized advertising is presented as jointly supporting commercial competition and free expression and individual consumer freedom and integrity.

Globalization is distinctively characterized, as a social process, with the re enchantment of life. By re enchantment, I mean the rejection of the dominance of instrumental rationality that was the hallmark of modernity.

African American and recently emergent literatures map a vision for a re-defined humanistic endeavour in the Academy.

A re-reading of ancient classics inspires one with human wisdoms that may help humanize inhuman paradoxes today and create a more humane future.

This paper looks at ways in which taiko drumming traditions, seen as having a connection to a nostalgic past, are utilized in the construction of contemporary identities and attempts to shape future social processes in Japan, and throughout the world.

Interactive session designed to build an international perspective around presenters’ theoretical proposal to re-vision the parameters of childhood.

The workshop introduces visual culture analysis as a framework for exploring global issues of tourism in the classroom. Textiles and clothing provide a case study.

By looking at the contradictions inherent in the character of Clorinda, the main heroine in Torquato Tasso's 'Gerusalem Delivered,' we are able to extrapolate a notion of pride that hinders man's path toward true faith.

My second novel, “A Human Silicon Chip,” tries to capture the philosophical underside of the information revolution even as it traces the boom and bust of the dot com era. This is not a defining portrait of a young man caught in the gold rush of the silicon valley boom years. There is no conscious portrayal of the physical or mental characteristics of any single entrepreneur who contributed to this boom.

An exploration of the blurring of the lines between reality and virtual reality, and the reasons for, and implications of, this phenomenon.

The paper explores the value of a repetition strategy in television advertising within an environment of brand competition.

An examination of why and how the Celto-Germanic tradition should included in the teaching of Western Humanities

This paper focuses on the changing influence of American foreign policy on United Nations' deliberations in world affairs, providing a tentative model for social change in a globalized world.

This paper studies the transforming effects of travel through Italy on American women during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

An exploration of the impact of the changing patterns of scholarly communication in the humanities as demonstrated through electronic journals, Weblogs, and innovative Internet resources.

An examination of the recreation of the required General Education curriculum, with an example of a new course development proposal. (theory/application)

The collision of American foreign and domestic policy in 1965 represents an opportunity to challenge the traditional historical narrative that tends to isolate these events and thus minimize the interrelationship between the American war in Vietnam and the civil rights movement.

Alain Finkielkraut is the true intellectual posited by Julien Benda to resolve the crisis in leadership in modern civilization.

Spatial concepts, useful in different fields as philosophy or literature, can be derived from various musical theories, and practises.

This paper will examine whether a reconstruction of natural law is a viable option towards exploring a revised basis for rules of human conduct and in fostering the dialogue between rationality and faith, as well as in developing a wider normative agendas for the humanities.

Action manifested through human activity is the fundamental means by which a playwright communicates character. Its identification significantly contributes to understanding of the human condition.

This paper will examine how in the center of the Empire called the United States our capacity to imagine and enact liberatory possibilities in relation to difference is enabled by reflection on cultural and religious dominance.

Using oral and written memoirs, this study examines religious expression among American POWs held in Dresden's infamous Slaughterhouse 5 -- the first in a series exploring religious expression among oppressed groups lacking formal infrastructure.

To be truly humanistic, religious studies needs to move beyond the category of the sacred to the category of the good. The humanities, too, would do well to recognize the problem of good.

This paper will discuss the lessons to be learned from Geoffrey Chaucer about the importance of the human element in technical communication.

Human Rights were promoted as a way to explain World War II. The public memory of the war usually undermined this idealism.

Visual academies were unique occupational and instructional bodies in the ancien regime, and so can be compared to modern professions.

This paper analyses the contemporary politics of protest using the 2000 World Economic Forum protests in Melbourne, Australia (termed the S-11 protests) as a case study

Some global and inter-cultural aspects of the origin and continuity of Abstract Expressionism.

A critical discourse analysis of the representation of Aboriginal people in a 19th century Australian Catholic newspaper.

Image analysis of Muslims and Arabs will be studied during the war with Iraq to see what sort of recurring elements are used to portray them.

Asymmetric valuations work against 2000 humanists/philp-politicos such as Garvey, though his philosophical contributions, inspiration guided millions.

The paper attempts to re-examine the photographic and ethnographic work of Edward S. Curtis against the grain of contemporary critiques by exploring Native American agency in his work.

The workshop will explore major intellectual, social, and economic trends that prompt a re-thinking and restructuring of the public humanities; the issues presented will be the focus of a national US summit for humanities, civic, and business leaders at the Aspen Institute in October 2004.

This paper will argue that "film theory" could be taught more effectively if it were systematically considered – as it seldom is – in relation to modern philosophical aesthetics, with special emphasis on Kant and Romantic poetics.

We will experience sensation physically, emotionally and intellectually. Through discussion we will trace the path of sensation experienced.

In this workshop the presenters examine the rhetoric of and surrounding the 2001 Patriot Act passed by the United States Congress.

In the bioethics arena in New Zealand, the rights of the child are widely theorised. My paper will examine rhetoric and practice in health-related care, treatment and research in respect of children.

This paper explores the scope and dimensions of human trafficking and examines the role of civil society in combating trafficking.

I argue that scaffolding enables the emergence of abstract thought, and is preferable to alternative theories existing in the literature.

This paper will explore the representation of indigeneity in millennial historical novels, with a particular focus on the work of Australian novelists, Peter Carey and Kim Scott.

A content analysis of Hollywood movies released between 1992 and 2002 showed that the kind of roles, positive or negative, played by the actors were related to the ethnicity of the characters.

Proper understanding of the defining intellectual tasks and methods of science serves to enlighten and expand our understanding of appropriate roles for the humanities.

This paper examines the topos of encounters between goddesses and men. I focus on the poetics of the theme of the goddess in love with a mortal, and look at how this literary and folk motif can illuminate questions such as what is it to be human and what is divine about love.

It is the aim of this paper to consider what it means to put on a par the two genocides, Auschwitz and Rwanda, and to evaluate what might be missing from Mahmood Mamdani’s analysis.

The workshop will focus on school counselors working for all students' educational equity and high achievement.

Going back to the texts of the Bible and the Talmud, Levinas's concepts of ethics and justice lead in the quest for new ethical markers.

This paper will use John Bowlby's attachment theory to illuminate family relationships and characterisation in Elizabeth Gaskell's short novel, Cousin Phillis.

A comparison between attitudes toward digital image-guided surgery technologies and Vertov’s kino-eye in relation to the pursuit of truth and the definition of ‘life.’

This paper examines the relationship between personal freedom and individuality, and security and belonging, in an Australian community

The present study explores self-construal of American college students in a military academy following a multidimensional self-construal theory proposed by Harb (2001).

This presentation explores images of women prostitutes made in 1973-1974 by insiders ( i.e., working party photographers) who freely roamed the walled community of Boystown in Nuevo Laredo.

Building capacity to serve the needs of international marginalised communities - an innovative, flexible and mixed mode delivery of the Certificate IV in Workplace Assessment and Training. Building vocational training skills in mixed mode delivery with volunteers of a major aid organisation, this paper is for the development of an Australian Volunteers International flexibly delivered Certificate IV in Workplace Assessment and Training Research and Pilot Project.

An examination of fictional and scientific narratives on embryonic and genetic technologies and their relationship to sexual and reproductive politics.

In "Beauty and Sadness" the female gaze interferes with the working of male consciousness. It is Kawabata's writing style that makes possible an analytical investigation of this novel from the perspective of the disruptive female gaze.

Teaching Shakespeare in the two-year college requires a different approach from teaching to upper division students. This session explores ways of facilitating the study of Shakespeare for general education and beginning college students.

The warriors and their ethos, from the history plays through the tragedies, show an ambivalent view of war and heroism, relevant to our own time.

This presentation investigates attitudes and perceptions of language students from diverse cultural contexts, exploring the implications for their sense of cultural self in the language classroom.

This paper examines the interconnections between the production of social capital and youth development through voyage experiences.

An exploration of how the self, when faced with the implications of Nietzsche's declaration that 'God is dead', uses the space of absence-presence to enact a process of auto-transformation.

Qualitative research on the transition of Chinese students to the American classroom.

Paper explores the dilemma of working psychoanalytically with alienated and avoidant individuals who seek quick reassurances and immediate gratification

Slavery was a foundation of modern economies. Slavery today continues in a different form.

A Black Feminist/Postcolonial exploration of the 18th c. painting “Portrait of a Negro Slave” a rare Canadian portrait of a black female slave. Examines the portrait as the site of visual commodification of the black female slave.

The late-night television talk show, Slavi's Show, attempts to reconstruct a new Bulgarian national consciousness, which is simultaneously transnational and communal.

After the end of the Third Reich slavs in Europe were rarely found in German-speaking societies which had been part of the Third Reich. This paper examines one of those exceptions, the Slovenes in the Austrian province of Carinthia.

Slow Food, an organization with origins in northern Italy, advances goals that are potentially subversive.

This paper studies possibilities of writing fiction on the Web; it examines a number of ways in which texts are ‘spatialised’ and critical discourse is ‘mapped’.

This article evaluated over 500 magazine print advertisements via content analysis to reveal cause related, nonprofit, and profit oriented advertisements.

This presentation on the dynamics of culture and identity focuses on non-accompanied refugee adolescents' resilience in adapting to immigration procedures violating their refugee children's rights

My research paper will examine social justice and governance challenges in the gene age. My particular concerns center around biodiversity and the protection of indigenous peoples attempts at capacity building as vital components of international development.

This study examines the use of language as a mirror of the consciousness that shapes our engagement with the material world.

This paper examines a range of socialist writings on patriotism in the years leading up to the first world war.

Consistent with the 4th theme of the conference (Transformation), teaching peace, conflict resolution & tolerance through the use of children's literature will be the focus of the session.

An examination of Socrates' conception of education, with emphasis on habituation of the appetites and passions.

The role of the Socratic and Isocratic ideals of liberal education is key to understanding how to engage in reform and how to manage academic culture wars.

Because unremediated sexual misconduct is endemic on U.S. campus, it raises the question of whether, and if so how, we might engage in genuine coeducation.

This paper examines the persistence and significance of religious imagery, themes, and narratives within 19th c. American poetry.

The paper will consider the clash between the impulse to create a new nation-state in South Africa and the forces of globalisation that operate against such impulses.

In its two landmark decisions relating to the socio-economic rights of children, the South African Constitutional Court took into account various socio-economic considerations to assist it in interpreting the content of these rights. The object of this paper is to identify and analyse the use of these considerations.

An examination of the architectural harnessing of the body and the possible modes of resistance

Our encodings of time into spatial language bring literary analysis to the interface between ordinary rhetoric and the unfamiliar operations of cognitive processing.

This paper argues that the study of cultural practices in the Humanities should be reconceptualized in critical and contextualist terms by focusing on silenced voices.

Bénouville and Robert establish racial, national and gender equivalencies, study the role of literacy and religious conversion as integral components of the subjugation process of colonialism and explore possible strategies of resistance.

This paper explores relationships between local activists and international donors and the globalization of civil society in Tanzania

The impact of aspects of biotechnology on human non human animal relations

This paper examines recent advances in evolutionary theory from the perspective of the humanities, especially the claims made by Evolutionary Psychology regarding human universalism and sexual difference.

My paper is about the enunciation of FEMININITY in mainstream movies as exemplified by Steven Spielberg's futuristic movie, Minority Report.

How Robert and Elizabeth Browning used spin to manipulate the London Times

This paper explores the impact and importance of St. Francis' encounter with Islam in Egypt in 1219 as dramatized in Giotto's frescoes in Assisi and Florence.

Humanities majors should be statistically literate about the strengths and weaknesses of the statistical methods used by the social sciences.

This workshop will use the subject material of diversity and intercultural relations to demonstrate the value of a an active teaching/learning style.

An exploration of David Stoll's critique of Rigoberta Menchú, utilizing not only his text and her narrative, but narratives from people displaced by the Shining Path war in Peru. The implications of these data for ethnographic inquiry and the nature of “truth” are explored, as are the problems of translation and the different standards of judgement people employ in making oral and written statements.

This presentation will discuss the creation of Kinetic Shadows, a dance work with video art that was set to a contemporary music score and utilized internet2 technology to realize a simultaneous performance by an eleven-member cast separated by 2400 miles. The goal of the project was to use the technology FOR the art rather than to use art to showcase the internet2 technology. This presentation will explain how that was achieved by a collaboration of artists and technology experts from Case Western Reserve University, The Cleveland Institute of Music, The Cleveland Institute of Art and the Cleveland Orchestra with support that came from a wide range of corporate sponsors. Included will be video documentation of the creative processes of the choreography and video art and the multifaceted production aspects of the project from its inception to the premiere at the Internet2 Consortium’s conference event, Cultivating Communities: Dance in the Digital Age - A Music and Dance Performance Event. Culminating the session will be a film of the premiere performance.

The study examined the use of strategies for coping with home/work role conflict among a sample of Jewish and Arab dual-earner families in Israel.

An attempt to address the perceived lack of rigor in the humanities by applying a structuralist critical model to a significant historical text.

This paper intends to examine the realm of the void beyond language is either the sublime transcendental status or merely a horror of madness, that is, contesting whether the ontological notion of being is an infinite multiplicity or a unified totality.

In this study we analyse the relationship between the surrealistic spirit and black humour, emphasizing the projection of play and of dream-like thinking, as well as their integration, in the act of writing.

Since the scientific narrative is the narrative of global culture, what is not expressible in it becomes very important in sustaining the human and natural.

This is a critical assessment of T. H. Green's analysis of family rights.

Globalization demands new social relations and "sail-training" provides a context for subjective reflection and the construction of new identity.

An audience of psychoanalysts reacted enthusiastically to a speech in favor of terrorism. Some possible reasons for this to happen are here discussed.

An interactive session, providing humanities scholars with images and supporting materials that can be used to teach diversity concepts in a variety of disciplines.

The traditional education paradigm with a group of students directed by a single teacher has inherent limitations. Modern technology, and particularly the Internet, provides an opportunity to shift to a new paradigm if we can teach both teachers and students how to effectively use these resources.

This paper is based on my experience of teaching a first –year poetry subject, ‘Poetry and Desire’, during the last few years.

Films are critical sources of information in understanding cultural ideas, beliefs, values, ideologies, and stereotypes. This paper discusses the use of films in teaching the sociology of terrorism and genocide and how these films personalized these incomprehensible events to students in ways that are difficult to convey through lectures and texts.

‘Technobiopoiesis’ is a process that precipitates Life in a fictional direction, in a passage ‘that traverses both the liveable and the lived’ (Gilles Deleuze: 2000).

This paper reads “global learning” in the U.S. university. It explores globalizing the university from a feminist perspective facing class scandals in global feminism.

What is the "place" of humanities education, both in the sense of geography and that of status and position, within a curriculum focused primarily on technology and career preparation?

The research uses socio-historical and archetypal approaches to compare characterizations of women in Euripidean and Senecan versions of The Phoenician Women.

This paper explores historical time, everyday time, ritual time, and eternity as experienced by German peasants and Pastor of a Hessian parish during the 18th century. It argues death was a circumstance in which these different orders of time became confused.

Considers the ideological aftermath, in American culture and discourse, of September 11, 2001, with reference to the philosophy of Maurice Blanchot, and the continuing controversy about his youthful right-wing journalism.

This paper considers the implications of the International Accounting Standard Board’s (IASB) development of a single set of international accounting standards.on the developed and developing world.

This article discusses culturally-conditioned shifts in the analytical assessment of nationalism and suggests that there has been a back-and forth dynamic in the mood of scholars commenting on the value of nationalism as a form of political organization.

This paper examines the meaning of the “pananthropinon” (panhuman) in two poems by Ritsos and Vrettakos. “Pananthropinon” is considered the vision of peace, reconciliation, fraternization and love for all the children of the world.

Accountable, equitable, sustainable and empowering events in culture, ethics, education, health, environment and quality of life should be the by-product of an ecosystemic model of culture, in which each dimension of being-in-the-world (intimate, interactive, social and biophysical) are proactively intertwined, supporting each other as donors and recipients. Heuristic-hermeneutic processes are described in the socio-cultural learning niches; problems of quality of life are defined deep inside the “boiling pot”, not in terms of the apparent “bubbles” in the surface.

This paper examines the use of non-standard language/dialect in academic contexts as an attempt to re-assess the construct of literacy. The data come from the diglossic student community of Cyprus.

A discussion of the power of comparative studies to break down cold war ideas of national exclusivity particularly in the case of the US and the USSR during the 1930s. Through a comparative study we begin to find striking similarities in the way in which both states exploited popular culture (by creating "us" and "them" groups, heroes and villains) as a means of engendering public loyalty to the political status quo.

There are currently well over one million students studying overseas, many of whom are funding the cost of their own education to pursue studies that are not available in their home countries. In Australia, New Zealand, the UK and a growing number of other countries, income derived from international students is essential for the continuation of university operations, as government funding shrinks.

The analysis of local political and media discourses in a range of international case studies raises questions on whether a globalisation phenomenon really exists.

Recently in Toronto the city had the opportunity to rework the official city plan. Within this plan an important charter was introduced for the first time in north America--the pedestrian charter.

My paper deals with how the policy of educating primary school children in their mother language is practiced in Eritrea and the political implications of such a policy.

Aesthetics, like religion, has become a sampler for artists.

The paper describes the rhetorical features of a "good" trauma narrative--one that helps the victim heal.

The humanities and social sciences, often presented as discrete substantive areas, in fact bleed one into the other and so point up the absurdity of disciplinary boundaries. The validity of this observation is discussed and illustrated.

The Critique of the impact of HIV/AIDS on the law and democracy - A South African Perspective

The proposed paper seeks to undermine the conceptual autonomy of theory by showing how it has been consistently framed by primordial disciplinary axioms that condition one's institutional subjectivity as academic agents, not thinkers.