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Conference Announcement "Impasse? Cultures of globalization and the globalization of culture" Interdisciplinary Conference International Research Center for Cultural Studies Vienna (Austria) 11-13 October 2007 __________________________________________________ Fierce debates on globalization as a key concept imagining the world in the 21st century are running deep in all social sciences today. Attempts at theorizing space and place go hand in hand with a far reaching critique of mainstream social thought and knowledge, particularly the idée fixe of self-containedness and territorial enclosure of societies, communities, and cultures. It is this spatial turn in combination with the radical shift of analytical attention from stasis to mobility that define the main issues of quotidian globalization discourse. Although range and deep structure of the ongoing processes of socio- spatial reconfiguration are highly controversial, a few common features can be discerned. In conceptualizing the transnationalization of commodities and people, of financial and cultural markets, of loyalties and collective identities, globalization theories share at least two basic assumptions. They usually construct two separate territorial logics by differentiating a global space of flows from a more traditionally located space of places, and they break with the longstanding and foundational isomorphism between territoriality, identity, and culture. These hypotheses converge into the basic question: the question of new modes of the spatial organization of social relations in particular and sociation in general. Cultures of Globalization and the Globalization of Culture(s) serves as a shortcut into major conceptual problems as well as paradoxical outcomes of what might be called cultural globalization. Explorations into three contested heartlands of globalization the global-local interplay, the homogenization-heterogenization paradigm, and the topics of territoriality and de-territorialization shall offer profound insights into where we stand in the global here and now. The meaning of impasse, however, varies from hopelessness to blind alley to stand off. Thursday, October 11, 2007, Venue: IFK 14.00 Address of Welcome Helmut Lethen Introduction Helmuth Berking Chair: Rolf Lindner CONCEPTUALIZING GLOBAL CULTURES 14.30 Ulf Hannerz Theorizing cultural globalization: where we stand 15.30 Anna Wessely National tradition and globalization 16.30 Coffee Break 17.00 John Tomlinson Global immediacy 18.00 End Friday, October 12, 2007, Venue: IFK Chair: Helmuth Berking SPACE, PLACE, CULTURE 9.30 David Morley The geography of modernity 10.30 Michael A. Crang The shape were in: spatial imaginaries of globalization 11.30 Coffee Break 12.00 Jonathan Friedman Local globalities 13.00 Lunch Break Chair: Martina Löw ARCHITECTURE, URBANISM, AND THE POSTCOLONIAL 15.00 Rob Shields Urban cultures and globalization 16.00 Coffee Break 16.30 Anthony King More of the same or something new? Architecture, built environments, and representations in space debates on cultural globalization 17.30 Jyoti Hosagrahar Urban melancholy: reconciling global modernities and local identities 18.30 End Saturday, October 13, 2007, Venue: IFK Chair: Claus Pias TRAVELLING IMAGES AND THE POWER OF VISION 9.30 Heike Behrend Visual media, global flow and closure: politics of images in Mombasa/ Kenya 10.30 Purnima Mankekar Unsettling India: impersonation, mobility, identity in an era of transnational media 11.30 Coffee Break 12.00 Mark. B. Hansen Global time, global media? 13.00 End Conception: Helmuth Berking Institute of Sociology, Technical University Darmstadt Contact: Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK) Reichsratsstraße 17 1010 Wien Austria Tel.: +43-1-504 11 26 Fax: +43-1-504 11 32 E-Mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.ifk.ac.at __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
