Thursday, Aug. 4, 11.00-13.00 hrs

Session 1
Exploring the Frictions Between Transnational Capitalism and the Globalization of Social Justice

Chair:
Olav Korsnes, Professor of Sociology, University of Bergen, Norway

Asunción St. Clair, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Bergen, Norway

Featured speaker:
William I. Robinson, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA: The Crisis of Global Capitalism and the Struggle for Social Justice

Papers:
State-anchored pluralism or plural governance? The Johannesburg Summit and UN reform - Birte Bjørkelo, PhD Fellow, Department of Administration and Organization Theory, University of Bergen, Norway

Social movements from above and below at the dawn of the new millennium: Whose rights? Whose Justice? - Alf Nilsen, PhD Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Bergen, Norway

Business elites, globalization and regionalization in Latin America- Benedicte Bull, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway

Globalization of Neoliberal Policies and Privatization of Cities - Faranak Miraftab, Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois, USA

Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Class in the Context of Globalization -
Quincy Obayuwana and Betty Obadiaru, Researcher, Environmental Sciences Department, Delta State University, Abraka, Delta State, Nigeria

Global Institutions and Human Rights: Challenging Practices of Responsibility for the Eradication of Poverty - Desmond McNeill, Professor of Political Economy, Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, and Asunción St. Clair, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Bergen, Norway

Session 2
Globalization of Production: Corporate Social Responsibility

Chair:
Annik Magerholm Fet, Professor of Environmental Management, NTNU, Norway

Featured speaker:
Rolf Lunheim, Professor of Industrial Economics and Anthropology, NTNU, Norway: Overview

Papers:
A comparative study of CSR-strategies in the oil and gas industry - Alexander Dahlsrud, PhD Fellow, Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management, NTNU, Norway

Corporate citizenship, social responsibility and navigating cultural difference - Rosetta Moors, Research Fellow, Corporate Citizenship Research Unit, Deakin University, Australia

Communication, indicators and ecosystem production and service values - John Hermansen, Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management, NTNU, Norway

Economic development by means of free trade - Rune Skarstein, Associate Professor, Department of Social Economics, NTNU, Norway

CSR initiatives in the supply chain - Robert Strand, Fulbright Scholar, NTNU, Norway

Session 3
Media, Communication, Culture: Will the Global Make the Local Disappear?

Chair:
Kathrine Skretting, Professor, Department of Arts and Media Studies, NTNU, Norway
Toril Aalberg, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU, Norway
Eiri Elvestad, PhD Fellow, Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU, Norway

Featured speaker:
Annabelle Sreberny, Professor of Media and Film Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK:
Globalisation and Media

Papers:
Public Service Broadcasting, the Nation and Globalisation - Ole J. Mjos, PhD Fellow, School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, London, UK

The Death of "Pernille and Mr. Nelson": The cultural globalization debate in Norway - Trine Kvidal, PhD Fellow, Department of Communication, University of Utah, USA

‘Relocators’ and local media - Eiri Elvestad, PhD Fellow, Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU, Norway

Cultural Economy and the Making of Place - Torill Nyseth, Associate Professor, and Brynhild Granås, Master, Department of Planning and Community Studies, University of Tromsø, Norway

A Norwegian version of the global NIKE? - Kathrine Skretting, Professor, Department of Arts and Media Studies, NTNU, Norway

Cross-cultural Differences in Consumer Behaviour in Latvia - Biruta Sloka, Professor, and Iluta Skruzkalne, PhD Fellow, Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Latvia, Latvia

A Discussion of the spread of ICT as a forerunner to the spread of globalization - Jussi Raumolin, Lecturer, Vice Director, Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland

Thursday, Aug. 4, 15.15-17.15 hrs

Session 4
Music, Race, Place and Globalism

Chair:
Bjørn Alterhaug, Professor, Department of Music, NTNU, Norway

Featured speaker:
Robert Walser, Professor and chair, Musicology Department, University of California, USA: On Musical Translation: Texts, Places, and Exuberant Listening

Papers:
Mediterranean Trade Routes and Music of the Early Seventeenth Century - Susan McClary, Professor, Musicology Department, University of California, USA

Footsteps in the Dark: Race, Place, and Popular Music - George Lipsitz, Professor, American Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Creative Misunderstandings - Christopher Small, author and emeritus, Ealing College of Higher Education in London, UK

Producing Global Culture. A musical experiment - Svein-Halvard Jørgensen, Post. Doc. Fellow, Department of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, NTNU, Norway

Improvisation as tool for worldwide communication and interaction - Bjørn Alterhaug, Professor, Department of Music, NTNU, Norway

Session 5
Working in the Aftermath of War and Natural Disasters: The Practitioner-Researcher Nexus

Chair:
Hans Skotte, Post. Doc. Fellow, Department of Urban Design and Planning, NTNU, Norway

Featured speaker:
Sultan Barakat, Professor of Reconstruction, Director of Post-war Recovery and Development Unit, York University, UK: Post-Saddam Iraq: deconstructing a regime, reconstructing a nation

Papers:
Knowledge producers and knowledge brokers: Roles, responsibilities, competencies, and limitations when working in crisis and post-crisis response - Ragnhild Lund, Professor of Geography, NTNU, Norway, and Simon Weatherbed, FORUT, Sri Lanka

Alternative Modes of Development: Tamil Diaspora’s Activism in Reconstructing Jaffna, Sri Lanka - Eva Kristin Gerharz, PhD Fellow, Institute for World Society Studies, University of Bielefeld, Germany

Making space for participation - participatory research after war and disasters - Cathrine Brun, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, NTNU, Norway

From Relief to Development’ is barking up the wrong tree - Hans Skotte, Post. Doc. Fellow, Department of Urban Design and Planning, NTNU, Norway

Catastrophes, Art and Collateral Damage - Ole Møystad, Post. Doc. Fellow, Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art, NTNU, Norway

Session 6
Global Industry

Chair:
Jan Ola Strandhagen, Professor, Department of Production and Quality Engineering, NTNU and Senior Researcher, SINTEF, Norway

Featured speaker:
Riitta Smeds, Professor of Information Networks and Director, Enterprise Simulation Laboratory, SimLab, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland: Innovation in global business networks: new managerial challenges

Papers:
Global Collaboration: The Mobile Knowledge Worker and Flexible Work Arrangements - Kjetil Kristensen, Post. Doc. Fellow, and Jens Røyrvik, Research assistant, Department of Engineering Design and Materials, NTNU, Norway

Production transfer as a cultural translation process: Some reflections on a Scandinavian establishment in Poland - Sigurd Damman, PhD Fellow, Department of Social Anthropology, NTNU, Norway

Reverse Vending Machines - Globalization in Reverse? - Finn Arne Jørgensen, PhD Fellow, Department of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, NTNU, Norway

The concept of work and globalization - Negin Minae, PhD Fellow, Faculty of Architecture, Azad University, Kerman, Iran

Challenges for balancing the local and the global in health information systems development and implementation: Work processes and organization culture as situated actions - Faraja K. Mukama, PhD Fellow and Judith Gregory, Associate Professor, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway

Friday, Aug. 5, 11.15-12.15 hrs

Session 7
Language Contact and Change

Chair:
Wim van Dommelen, Professor, Department of Language and Communication Studies, NTNU, Norway
Tor Åfarli, Professor, Department of Scandinavian Studies and Comparative Literature, NTNU, Norway

Featured speaker:
Carol Myers-Scotton, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of English and Linguistics Program, University of South Carolina, USA:
As the World Turns: Globalization and Bilingualism

Papers:
Globalization: The Encounter of Languages
Wim van Dommelen, Professor, Department of Language and Communication Studies, NTNU, Norway

Third Language Acquisition - Jin Fufen, PhD Fellow, Department of Scandinavian Studies and Comparative Literature, NTNU, Norway

(Inter)language Transfer in L2 and L3 Acquisition - Yan-kit Ingrid Leung, Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex, UK

Social Approach to the Linguistic Effect of Globalization - Alissa V. Tolstokorova, Associate Professor, University of Economics and Law, Kyiv, Ukraine

Coping with Our Common Language - Stewart Clark, Adviser, NTNU, Norway

Session 8
Globalization, State Capacity, and Conflict

Chair:
Indra de Soysa, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU, Norway

Featured speaker:
Indra de Soysa, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU, Norway:
Slouching Towards Utopia? The Correlates of Globalization and Peace

Papers:
About Basic Questions Of Ontology Of Global Civilization
Marian Markarian, Chair of Applied Politics, School of Political Science, Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University, Armenia

Roar of the Lions: Globalization and its impact on the Caribbean and Latin America in the 21st century - Jerome Teelucksingh, PhD, Department of History, University of the West Indies, Trinidad

The Death of Distance? The Globalization of Armed Conflict - Halvard Buhaug, PhD Fellow, Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU, Norway

Some effects of globalization on Latin-American civil wars - Roy Krøvel, PhD Fellow, Department of History, NTNU, Norway

Stabilizing power - Ulrike Höppner, PhD Fellow, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Top down globalization: The international financial institutions (IFIs) and governments’ respect for human rights - Silja Eriksen, Master student, Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU, Norway

Session 9
Social and Ethical Aspects of Mobility in the Globalization Process

Chair:
Erling Holden, Post. Doc. Fellow, Department of Civil and Transport Engineering, NTNU, Norway

Featured speaker:
John Urry, Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University, UK:
Mobilities and Networks

Discussant:
Per Otnes, Professor of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Norway

Papers:
Global Vagabonds: Place and the Self - Some Reflections on the Psychological Effects of Work-related Mobility on Morality and Worldview - Peter Nynäs, Teol. dr., Åbo Akademi, University, Finland

Between Citizenship and Human Rights: Irregular Migrants and the Ethics of Internal Boundaries - Marit Hovdal Moan, Master, Department of Philosophy, NTNU, Norway

Exploring the Patterns of Mobility among Immigrant Groups in Norway - Tanu Priya, Researcher, Department of Civil and Transport Engineering, NTNU, Norway

Work-travel, aeromobility and need of co-presence: A rapport from knowledge organisations - Claus Lassen, PhD Fellow, Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark

Friday, Aug. 5, 14.30-16.30 hrs
Session 10
Artistic Expressions of Globalization

Chair:
Kristin Bergaust, Professor, Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, NTNU

Featured speaker:
Sarat Maharaj, Malmø Art Academy, Sweden /Humboldt University, Germany: Globalization and contemporary art

Papers/presentations:
New Blends - Gustavo Aguilar, percussionist, composer, and improviser, Music Director, GroundWorks Dance-Theater of Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Project-presentation: Dialogues and negotiations - Asbjørn Tiller, PhD Fellow and Johan Magnus Elvemo, Assistant Professor, Department of Arts and Media Studies, NTNU, Norway, and Alexis Parra, artist, Cuba

Excerpts from musical dialogues - Gunnar Andreas Berg, Associate Professor, Department of Music, NTNU, Norway.

Public space in the global world? - Maaretta Jaukkuri, Professor, Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, NTNU, Norway

Presentation: "Dhruzba" - friendship - Gediminas Urbonas, artist, and Nomeda Urbonas, artist, Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, NTNU, Norway

Session 11
China the Emerging Region in the World Economy: Cultural and Social Change

Chair:
Merete Lie, Professor, Department of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, NTNU, Norway

Featured speaker:
Cindy Sun, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China: Redefining Chinese Female Identity In the Workplace: Gender, Class and Motherhood in Foreign Companies

Papers:
A global meeting: Women Workers in an Increasingly Globalized Economy - Merete Lie, Professor, Department of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies and Ragnhild Lund, Professor, Department of Geography, NTNU, Norway

Migrant Women Workers during Globalization in China - Jufen Wang, Associate Professor, Institute of Population Research, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Welfare and Living Conditions of Chinese Workers in Shanghai: Foreign Enterprises Within the Context of Globalization - Lina Shi, Institute for Studies of Gender and Development, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

China MNCorps - Gard Hansen, PhD Fellow, Department of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, NTNU, Norway Session 12
Religion, Values, and Globalization

Session 12
Religion, Values, and Globalization

Chair:
Ragnhild Nordås, Researcher, Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU, Norway

Featured speaker: Jeff Haynes, Professor of Law, London Metropolitan University, UK:
Religion and international relations after 9/11

Papers:
The Impact of religion on attitudes towards human rights, democracy and gender equality - Ola Listhaug, Professor, and Matthew Carlson, Guest Researcher, Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU, Norway

Globalization and Youth in Iran: Misgivings and Hopes - Amir Mehryar, Dr. and Shirin Ahmad-Nia, Dr., Center for Population Studies and Research, Iran

Culture: A Problematic Concept - Ulrika Mårtensson, Associate professor, Department of Religion, NTNU, Norway

Globalization and religious zeal - Ragnhild Nordås, Researcher, Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU, Norway

Saturday, Aug. 6, 10.15-12.15 hrs

Session 13
Democracy Unbound

Chair:
Charles Ess, Professor of Philosophy, Drury University, USA

May Thorseth, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, NTNU, Norway

Featured speaker:
Joachim Nergelius, Professor of Law, Örebro University, Sweden:
Institutional Settings of Democracy in a globalized world

Papers:
Privacy, Data Privacy, Democracy, and Asia - Charles Ess, Professor of Philosophy, Drury University, USA

Computer ethics and deliberative democracy - the re-ontologization of democracy - Johnny Søraker, Master, Department of Philosophy, NTNU, Norway

State sovereignty and supranational governance: Non-intervention or non-dominance? - Magnus Jiborn, Assistant professor, Department of Philosophy, Lund University, Sweden

Democracy and Constitutional Protection of Future Interests - Kristian Ekeli, PhD Fellow, Department of Philosophy, NTNU, Norway

Worldwide deliberation online - global democracy offline? - May Thorseth, Associate professor, Department of Philosophy, NTNU, Norway

Session 14
Difference, Change and Power: Globalization as a Challenge for the Humanities

Chair:
Frode Helland, Professor, Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo, Norway
Priscilla Ringrose, Associate Professor, Department of Modern Foreign Languages, NTNU, Norway

Featured speaker:
Terry Eagleton, Professor, Department of English and American Studies, University of Manchester, UK: Addressing Globalization: After Theory

Papers:
Legitimation Crisis: Subject, Citizen and the Postcolonial Social Contract - Joseph N. Clarke, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, USA

"Garçon Manqué" by Nina Bouraoui. Well-disconnected: Why Globalization Theories Failed to Account for "Nina" - Priscilla Ringrose, Associate Professor, and Nelly Stenkløv, PhD Fellow, Department of Modern Foreign Languages, NTNU, Norway

The Critical Space of Globalization - The End of Ideology-Critique - Frode Helland, Professor, Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo, Norway