Knowledge, Differences, and Harmonies in the Time of Globalisation

 

Knowledge, Differences, and Harmonies in the Time of Globalisation <A Conference in 4 Panels>

"...This conference explores the question and the role of the university in the time of globalization.  On the one hand, the university serves as an institution in relations between knowledge and the state.  While on the other hand it serves as an idea, a potentiality of mind. In May, 2009 we come together from different lands and different continents at the dawn of the new millennium to revisit ideas and discuss how we organize knowledge by way of power, culture, communication and ways that such discourse relates to differences and possible harmonies in issues yet to be resolved or fully understood."

 

The Dates are 21 May through 22 May 2009

Location:  Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta TRNC

 

 

Scope of the conference:  International Higher Education

"...Importance to EMU: The conference brings scholars from the international research community to EMU and focuses on issues that are timely in discussions about higher education around the world. The conference suggests and directs our attention toward new and fruitful areas of research. It renews our interest in the domains of research, teaching, preparation and learning at the same time as we develop Quality Assurance Systems in our university. Importantly the conference will raise awareness of Cyprus issues with representatives from international ties in a manner that can enhance the ongoing search for reconciliation and peace on o ur island."

 

 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

 

Assistant Professor Dr. Jim Kusch, Dept. of Educational Sciences;

Associate Professor Dr. Ahmet Sözen,  Director of Cyprus Policy Center;

Associate Professor Gül İnanç,  Dept. of History;

Assistant Professor Dr. Ülfet Kutoğlu, Dept. of Communications;

 

 

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

 

Professor Gita Kashmi Columbia University;

 

 

LIST OF SPEAKERS

University of Wisconsin-Madison USA: Professor Thomas Popokewitz; Professor Carl Grant;

 

University of Gothenburg Sweden: Professor Sverker Lindblad; Professor Rita Foss Linblad;

 

University of Lisbon Portugal: Professor Luis Miguel Carvalho;

 

Universityof Turin: Professor Monica Mincu;

 

King Alfred College Winchester United Kingdom: Professor Charly Ryan;

 

Eastern Mediterranean University TRNC: Professor Ahmet Sözen; Professor Gül Barkay; Professor Michael Walsh; Professor Bahire Özad; Professor Sklp Norman; Professor Uwe Muller, Professor Bekir Azgın; Professor Jim Kusch

 

Association for Historical Dialogue and Research: Professor Charis Psaltis; Professor Chara Makriyianni

 

Unıversity of Carleton-Ottowa: Alda Kokallaj

 

PANEL 1 Knowledge & Power ... MAY 21, 2009

 

09:00-09:30 Conference Registration

 

09:30-09:45 Keynote Speech: Minister of Education

09:45-11:00 Panel Chair Professor Michael Walsh

Professor Thomas Popkewitz, "Cosmopolitanism, The Citizen And Processes of Abjection: The Double Gestures of Pedagogy,"

Professor Luis Miguel Carvalho, "On the Cultural and Organizational Features of Making Knowledge for Policy: Seeing OECD’s PISA as Knowledge-based Regulation Tool,"

Professor Rita Foss-Lindblad, "Education restructuring as a World Movement: On the Production of Educational Change in Political and Professional Contexts,"

Discussant: Prof. Michael Walsh;

11:15 – 12:15 Break and visit to Library Exhibition Hall

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Tower Restaurant

 

 

PANEL 2 Knowledge & Culture ... MAY 21, 2009

14:15 – 16:00 Panel Chair Professor Bekir Azgyn

Professor Monica Mincu, "Myth, Rhetoric, and Ideology in Eastern European Education: Schools and Citizenship in Hungary, Poland, and Romania,"

Professor Uwe Muller, "The Kaleburnu-Kral Tepesi Salvage Excavation: an Example for International Collaboration in the Fields of Research and Education in the TRNC,"

Professor Skip Norman;

Alda Kokollaj, "Globalization and The State: the Education Path to the ‘Green State’,"

Discussant: Eriola Pema;

 

 

 

PANEL 3 Knowledge & Communication ... MAY 22, 2009

10:00 – 11:45 Panel Chair Professor Bahire Efe Özat

Professor Carl Grant, "Education, Experience and Globalization: What Should I Teach My Grandchildren About the Significance of Social Justice in Achieving a Fluorishing Life in the 21st Century?"

Professor Sverker Lindblad, "Education Under a Performative Turn –Incomplete Organisation and the Agora,"

Professor Charly Ryan, "Knowledge and Communication in the Time of Globalisation,"

Discussant: Tugrul Ylter

 

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

 

 

 

PANEL 4 The Cyprus Issue, Knowledge and Globalisation ... 22 MAY

13:30 – 15:00 Panel Chair Professor Ahmet Sözen

Professor Gül Barkay, "Imagining the Future and Rewriting the Past: Nationalism and History Education in Northern Cyprus 2004 -2009,"

Professor Chara Makriyianni;

Professor Charis Psaltis, "Do “you have the right to remain silent?” Intercultural Dialogue as an Effect of Power,"

Professor Yücel Vural;

 

15:30 – 15:45 Break

15:45 – 16:30 Plenary Meeting