Concurrent Sessions 1
FRIDAY, MAY 2nd, 2008
9:30-11:00
K227 Special Pre-formed Panel: Terra, Terre, Territory: The Ever Present Persistence of the ‘War on Terror
( Chair: Devina Bhandar, Assistant Professor, Department of Canadian Studies, Trent University)
1. Genealogies of Settlerhood – Inheritance, Entitlement and Space, Stacy Douglas, Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies, Trent University
2. Terrorizing (Un)Citizens: A Genealogy of Security Certificates, Sarah Hamilton
MA Candidate in Theory, Culture, and Politics, Trent University
3. Will Studying Life Save Us From Terror?, Thelma Boyd Evans, Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies, Trent University.
4. Welcome to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. “Great Place, Great People, Doing What No One Else Can Do.” (Naval Station Guantanamo Bay Web Site), Karena Kyne, Department of Theory, Culture and Politics, Trent University.
K225 The Laws of State-Terror
1. The Dimension of Meaning in Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Totalitarianism, Philip Walsh, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts
York University.
2. The Terrors of the Law and Non Compliance. Lester de Souza, Assistant Professor, Huntington University, University Partnerships Centre, Georgian College.
3. Imperial Terror: War and Post-modern ghosts, Irina Boca.
K221 Non-sovereign peoples subjected to the authority of the privileged.
1. Darfur: Terror, Ethnic Cleansing and Land Reform, Abdelkérim Ousman, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Royal Military College of Canada
2. Terror’s Challenge to the Rule of Law: the Philippine Experience, Emmanuel Q. Fernando D. Phil. (Oxon.), M.A. (Cantab.) Professor Department of Philosophy, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines (UP) Professorial Lecturer, UP College of Law
3. Child Soldiers, Dr. Sadhna Sharma, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi, New Delhi.
K219 Structures that organize, control, punish, and reward subjects.
1. Liberalism and Governmentality in the War on Terror, Matthew Morgan
Graduate Student, Carleton University Institute of Political Economy
2. Counter-Terrorism and the Intelligencification of Governance Willem de Lint, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Head, Sociology and Anthropology, University of Windsor, Windsor Ontario Canada
3. National Security as Terror: From the war on ‘queers’ to the wars
on ‘subversion’ and ‘terror.’ Gary Kinsman, Professor, Department of
Sociology, Laurentian University, Sudbury.
K319 Denial to total self-governance
1. Deprived Human Conditions and Denial of Self Governance in the Slums in Cities in Northern India: The Fear and Emerging Discontent among the Urban Poor, Manoj Kumar Teotia, Assistant Professor, HUDCO Chair, CRRID,Chandigarh, India and Sukhdev Singh
2. The Cambodian Experience: Terror of the status quo, Mark Halverson-Wente, Adjunct Instructor of Political Science, Rochester Community and Technical College, and Lori Halverson-Wente, Rochester, MN.
3. Unresolved Issues: The Roots of the 1970 FLQ Crisis in the Rebellions of 1837-1838 in Lower Canada. Dr. Marty Wood, History Department, Laurentian University at Georgian
K218 Communications of Terror
1. Rhetoric of Terror and the Promulgation and Public Acceptance of U.S. Policies. Catherine A. Luther, Ph.D, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Electronic Media, College of Communication and Information, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee.
2. Terrorism and Communication Charanjeet Kaur Senior Executive,
Contfrieght Shipping Agency India Private Limited, Dhandari Kalan, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
3. Re(con)figuring the Spectacle: State Flexibility in Response to Imaged Terror, Rebecca Adelman, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Comparative Studies, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
K220 Propaganda, public relations and other communication management in the opinion industry.
1. Learning a New Language for Terror: World War One Literature and the reinvention of Awe, Dr. Bruce Meyer, Department of English, Laurentian University @ Georgian College, University Partnerships Centre, Georgian College, Ontario, Canada.
2. Eating One’s Words: An Analysis of Risk and Crisis Communication Strategies in the Menu Foods Pet Food Recall, Carolyn Meyer, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Department of Professional Communications, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
3. SUV Advertising: The Detroit Project (previously published in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism), Sandra Zichermann, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology and Equity Studies, OISE, University of Toronto.
K222 The centrality of spin and lobbying in communicating Terror
1. How do the News Media Play the Role of Anti-Peace Maker in the Context of Globalization: Analyzing News Coverage in a Time of Terror and War, Narges Valibeigi Graduate Student, McMaster University, Institute on Globalization and
the Human Condition.
2. The Possibility of Terror Through the Story of Anxiety, Melissa Abbey Strowger, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology & Equity Studies in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.
3. “The New York Times” and the Debates on “International Terrorism” at the United Nations, 1972 to Present. Remi Brulin, Research Fellow, The Steinhardt School of Education, NYC and Ph.D Candidate, La Sorbonne, Paris.
K224 Think tanks and policy communications
1. Documenting Difference, Cindy Vander Meulen, Ph.D Candidate, Cultural and Policy Studies, Faculty of Education, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada.
2.Toward a Grammar of Terrorism: Captivity and the Empty Vessel of International Relations, Dr. Michael Dartnell, Laurentian @ Georgian, Barrie, Ontario
3. Legal Cover for Torture in the War on Terror: The Military Commissions Act of 2006, Alan Clarke, J.D., L.L.M. Associate Professor of Integrated Studies, Utah Valley University.
K320 The Manufacture and Management of Terror
1. AIDS and Migration: Risky Sexual Behaviour of Male Migrants in Two Cities of India Parveen Nangia, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Laurentian University Sudbury with S.K. Singh, K. Gupta and S. Lahiri
2. The Language and Logic of the War on Terrorism:vFrom Manipulation of Fear to Rational Risk Analysis, Gail Presbey, University of Detroit Mercy, Michigan USA
3. Accidental Terrorism: Artificial Materialities, Synthetic Biology and the Chronopolitics of Risk, Elisabeth A. Abergel, Department of International Studies, Glendon College, York University
K321 The relationship of Terror to the modern malaise: anxiety, disorders, disease
1. Fear of Terror - Gender Differences, Prof. Sarah Ben-David and Keren Cohen-Louck, (M.A.) Ariel University Center of Samaria, Israel
2. Terror as an Excising of Truth and an Assault on Memory, Naomi Binder Wall.
(M.A.) Education Consultant; Women in Solidarity with Palestine (formally
known as Jewish Women’s Committee to End the Occupation)
3. CTO’s, A New Order of Terror?, Katie Aubrecht, PhD Candidate, Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University, Toronto, Ontario.
K322 Terror and the Transformation of States and Nations
1. The Parapresidential Terror: Between Insurgency and Para-politics, (El Terror Parapresidencial: A Caballo Entre La Parapolítica Y La Insurgencia ) Miguel Herrera Zgaib, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Columbia.
2. Media Promotes Terror by Glamourising it, Raja Riaz MA & LLB, University of the Punjab, independent journalist in Pakistan.
3. Elpidio Valdés, a Mirror of Nationalism & Identity in Cuba: The function of cubanidad against broader constructions of power, Luis René Fernández Tabío, PhD, Deputy Director, Center for US Studies (CESEU), Havana, Cuba and Auxiliary Professor, University of Havana, Cuba and Joanne Elvy, PhD candidate, OISE/University of Toronto Sessional Professor, Humanities Division, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada.
Concurrent Sessions 2
FRIDAY, MAY 2nd, 2008
11:00-12:30
K227 Forces in society which resist Terror via fighting, politics, activism or critical journalism.
(Chair: Dr. Adam Sol, Department of English, Laurentian University @ Georgian College.)
1. Terrorism vs. Politicalization:The Divergent Paths of Revolutionary Insurgency in Northern Ireland and South Africa , John O’Connor, Central Connecticut State University
2. Re-conceptualising democracy: individual rights and common good, Morta Vidunaite Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University, Lithuania
3.Technologies of Resistance: The role of public and collective memory in responding to past and present state-violence in Argentina, Ana Laura Pauchulo, Ph.D Candidate, Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto
K225 The Construction of the Transnational Terrorist
(Chair: Norm Smith, Department of Economics, Laurentian Program @ Georgian College)
1. The Oslo Regime of Biopower: Producing Palestinian “Terrorism”, Sean McMahon, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Fellow, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, The American University in Cairo
2. “Post-9/11 State Reformations: A Continuation of Colonial Law and the Creation of the Tamil Terrorist” Jessica Devi Chandrashekar, M.A Candidate, University of Toronto, Women and Gender Studies Institute
3 Constructing the Aboriginal Terrorist: Depictions of Aboriginal Protestors, the Caledonia Reclamation, and Canadian Neoliberalization, Jennifer Adese, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Indigenous Studies, Trent University, Ontario, Canada.
K221 Deconstructing and reconstructing designations: “terrorism”, “Freedom fighter”, “peacekeeper”, “organized crime”, “legality”, and “human security”
(Chair: Dr. Jill Rettinger, Department of Psychology, Laurentian University @ Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario)
1. What’s in a name? Interpreting terrorism from the perspective of personal construct theory , Ian McPhail and James Horley, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology Department of Social Sciences Program in Crime and Community
Augustana Faculty, University of Alberta Camrose, Alberta.
2. Cosmopolitan Hospitality in Post 911 Popular Fiction: Asad’s “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” and McEwan’s “Saturday” Amy Hildreth, PhD student, Department of English, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
3. Who is the Terrorist?: Analysing the discourse and practices surrounding the confrontation between governments and insurgent organizations Maritza Felices-Luna, Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa
K219 Falsified news coverage and the intelligence industry.
(Chair: Dr. Michael Johns, Department of Political Science, Laurentian University @ Georgian College)
1. A Comparison of Two Academic Accounts, Beatrice Marry, Department of Political Science, McGill University.
2. Visual Representations of Terror in Corporate Security Training, Rayhan Malik, M.A candidate, Communications Studies, Wilfred Laurier University
3. The media in the service of terrorism, Dario Kuntić, Doctoral Studies Programme on Comparative Politics, Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia.
K209 Terror as pleasure
1. The relationship between music and the psychography of drama in
occidental cultures Panos Demopoulos (in absentia)
2. Musical Paradigms of Social Horror in the Apartheid Poetry of Dennis Brutus, Kontein Trinya, Ph.D, Department of English, School of Languages, River’s Satte College of Education, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
3. Terror in Horror Genres: Western Culture’s Love-hate Relationship with the Zombie, Nicole Birch-Bayley, Department of English, Laurentian @Georgian Program
K 218 Designating Terror
1.Terror, Outlawry, and the Experience of the Impossible, Mary Bunch. Ph.D Candidate, Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario.
2. “Shall We Finish It Off?”: A Micro-sociological Analysis of the 9/11 Cockpit Fight, Bridget Rose Nolan, University of Pennsylvania
3. The Semiotics of Hegemony, Darren Alexander, Media, Culture and Film Studies, Laurentian University @ Georgian College.
Concurrent Sessions 3
SATURDAY, May 3rd, 2008
9:30-11:00
K227 Special Pre-formed Panel: Interrogating Institutional Culture Across An Educational Spectrum
(Chair: Dianne Bergsma)
1. Learning Roles and Rules, Dianne D. Bergsma Ph.D Candidate, Department of Philosophy, Brock University
2. The Rules and the Game, Beatrix Prinsen, B.A., Department of Education, Brock University
3. The Rules are No Game, Maureen Connolly, Ph.D, Department of Education, Brock University
K225 Special Pre-formed Panel: Forgiveness and Terror: Master Tropes of Cosmopolitanism
(Chair: Leonhard Praeg, Department of Political and International Studies. Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa)
1. Homo Sacer and the numinous structure of sovereignty, Leonhard Praeg, Department of Political and International Studies. Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
2. ‘Terror(ism)’ in the context of cosmopolitanism, Bert Olivier, Department of Philosophy, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth South Africa.
3. In a democracy, the Midnight Knock on the Door can be Friendly: State Terror, Forgiveness and Narrative, Roger Bromley (in absentia), University of Nottingham, U.K.
K221 Spaces of Terror
1. Houses of Terror John Steckley, Professor, General Education & Humanities, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Humber Institute
2. Can You Be a Terrorist in your Sleep? Benjamin Shaer, University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Barbara Falk, Royal Military College of Canada
3. Spaces of Terror: Mapping the Gendered City, Riley Olstead, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
K219 Hospitals, clinics and the medical industry as Terror
1.The Tyrannizing Order of Mental Health Promotion, Cindy Vander Meulen, Ph.D Candidate, Cultural and Policy Studies, Faculty of Education, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada.
2. Taking Back Projections: the despair and hope in projective identification, Karyne E. Messina, Ed.D, Psychologist, Supervising & Training Analyst
Washington Center for Psychoanalysis, Washington, MD.
3. Terrorized by Melancholy: The Science of Depression and the Production of the Happy Consciousness Marianne Vardalos, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Laurentian University @ Georgian, University Partnerships Centre, Barrie, Ontario.
K218 Intellectual Property and Politics in The Academy
1.The Man with the Hissing Bomb: Anarchism and Terrorism in the North
American Imagination, Dr. Richard J.F Day, Queen’s University
2 Antidotes to Terror: Addressing Terror through Group Psyche,
Sophia Hughes, Ph.D, LPC, The Union Institute and University, Charlottesville VA.
3. Academic Cultures of Innovation: Biosecurity and the Political Economy of Wars on Terror, Jamie-Lynn Magnusson. Associate Professor, Department of Theory and Policy, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
K220 Otherness as Terror
1. Youth Terror or Terrorized Youth? Youth Violence in Nigeria: Redefining spaces of politics and belonging, Andrea Kirschner, M.A. Candidate, Forschungsgruppenassistentin/Research Group Assistant ,”Control of Violence” Center for interdisciplinary Research Universität Bielefeld/Bielefeld University
Wellenberg 1, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany
2. Stereotyping Islam A Critical Study of Terror in John Updike’s Terrorist,
Amal Al-Leithy, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Alsun Ain Shams University (in absentia).
3. The reality of indigenous youth on the Dourados Reservation: a traumatic trajectory, Maria de Lourdes Beldi de Alcântara-PostPhD, Support group for the indigenous young-GAPK.
K222 Popular responses to state terror
1. TBA
2 Anarchist violence in Spain during the 19th century, George Esenwein, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Florida (in absentia), presented by Dennis Talon, Graduate Studies in Sociology, Laurentian University, Sudbury.
3. Combating Terror of Law in Colonial India : The Law of Sedition and the Nationalist Response, Dr. Aravind Ganachari, University of Mumbai
K224 Recreational Terror
1.Terrortainment: The Culture of Amusement and Entertainment in Repressive Society, Guy Kirby Letts, Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, Laurentian University, UPC, Georgian College, Barrie, ON
2. “United in blood”: Canadian National History in Ginger Snaps Back, Dr. Sunnie Rothenburger, Professor, Department of English, Laurentian @Georgian.
3. The Rhythm of Terror, Nandan Choksi, American Intercontinental University.
K319 Artistic expressions of Terror
1. Fate and Terror in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man, Christine Muller, Ph.D Candidate, American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park.
2. Tolstoy’s Views on Terror, Inessa Medzhibovskaya, Assistant Professor of Literature, Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, NYC, NY
3. The Chocolate Truffle Martyrdoms: A Theatrical Representation of the Social Psychology of Terror, Katherine Bischoping, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, York University, Toronto with Dahlia Katz.
K320 The Terror of morality
1. Freedom and Terror in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, Dr. Toivo Koivukoski, Political Science, Nipissing University
2. Humanist Terrorism in the Political Thought of Robespierre and Sartre, Timothy Scott Johnson, Twinsberg, Ohio.
3. The Language of “Terrorism”: Do as I Say , Not as I do. Dr. Thomas J. Butko Department of Political Science University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
K 322 Literature and Terror
1. “Terrorism, Poetics, and Traumatic Repetition” , Walter Kalaidjian, Professor, Department of English, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
2. Terror as Text: DeLillo’s Falling Man and the representation of Poker as Terror, Charly Norton, University of Winchester, U.K.
3. We Are Right; You Are Wrong: Terror(ism) and Culpability in Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun, Busuyi Mekusi, School of Literature and Language Studies, Discipline of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Concurrent Sessions 4
SATURDAY, May 3rd, 2008
11:00-12:30
K227 Gender, Sexuality and Terror
1. The Terror of Institutional Discourse: An Investigative critique of an official report on behalf of the Sexual Assault Audit Steering Committee of Toronto, Beverly Bain Women Studies Laurentian University @Georgian.
2. Language, Gender and Terror, Stephanie Barann
3. Lesbians Under Surveillance: Citizenship and Immigration in the Aftermath
of Terror, Rachel Lewis, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
K225 Terror as Text
1. “Don’t Say the Zed Word!”: Toward a Linguistic Construction of Social Class in the Contemporary Living Dead Film, Leslie Ashby, Graduate Student, Department of English, Illinois State University, Illinois.
2. “Terrorizing Masculinity: Phallocentric Ideology and the Monstrous-Feminine in Grimm and Disney” Angela Aujla, Professor, General Education & Humanities, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Humber Institute.
3.Terror, Sublimity and Horror: The Origins of the Gothic Conventions in Epistemology and Myth, Dr. Bruce Meyer, Department of English, Laurentian University @ Georgian College, University Partnership Centre, Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario.
K221 Education and Terror
1. Curing and Educating through Terror: (A Case Study) Razvan Amironesei, Laval University.
2. The Psychology of Terror: Worldview Threat and Defense, Joseph Hayes, Jeff Schimel, and Todd J. Williams
3. Climate change – are we doomed? Dr Mary J. Thornbush, Lecturer, Lakehead University, Orillia Campus, Canada and Senior Research Associate, University of Oxford, Oxford Centre for the Environment, UK.
K219 Discourses and Counter-discourses of Terror
1. The Potential for Terror in Moral Intentionality, Monica Mueller
PhD Candidate, Binghamton University, SUNY.
2. Sunera Thobani, Biopolitics, and Discursive Operation, Robin Claire McCullough, York University.
3. The Perils and Possibilities of Using Discourses of Terror for Progressive Purposes, Heidi Pitzer, Doctoral student, Cultural Foundations of Education
Syracuse University Syracuse, New York.
K218 Historic Perspectives on Terror
1.Ghost Tours: A Mechanism for Invoking Terror About Our Past, Sylvia Thornbush
2. Speaking of Blood and Terror: On Remembering the Ruins of the Other, Ricky Varghese, Ph.D Candidate, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.
3. ‘The Ethics of Terror and Counter-Terror in War-Torn Italy, 1943-1945′ Assistant Professor Michael C. Kelly Department of History , Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences National University of Singapore, Singapore
K220 The Terror of Fundamentalisms
1.From Religious Fundamentalism to Ideologies of Terror: Contemporary Christian Extremism, Douglas Pratt, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Waikato, New Zealand.
2. In the Shadows of the Hindu Right: Television, Popular Epic and the Manufacturing of Terror in Contemporary India, Paritosh Kumar, Department of Global Development Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
3. What Catholic and Calvinist Terrorism Teach Us About Islamic Terrorism, Lee Hester Thurman, The University of Science and Arts, Oklahoma.
K222 Military logic as Terror
1. National Interest and/or Domestic State Terrorism? The Politics of Petroleum and the Nigerian Niger Delta, Raphael O. Ogom PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Public Service, International by Design, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
2. The Causes and Role of Armenian Terrorism from the 1970’s until late 1980’s, Ohannes Geukijan Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Political Science, PSPA Department, American University of Beirut (AUB).
3. PKK and Turkey: The Domestic and International Extensions of Ethnic Violence, Dr. A. Baran Dural, Assistant Professor, Trakya University, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Department of Public Administration Center, Edirne.
K224 The Culture Industry as Terror
1. On Terror Considered As One of the Fine Arts, Milo Sweeder, Assistant Professor, French and Cultural Analysis and Social Theory (CAST) Wilfrid Laurier University.
2. “In the name of 9/11” Terror after the making of an event: notes from the damaged life, Anas Karzai, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Laurentian University @Georgian.
3. Terror against Muslim women in India and the role of Indian Cinema: Exploring the Linkages, Reena Kukreja, Department of Film and Media, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
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