CROSSROADS IN CULTURAL STUDIES
Fourth International Conference
June 29 - July 2, 2002, Tampere, Finland

SHORT SCHEDULE OF SESSIONS
SCHEDULE OF SESSIONS (PDF 267kb)
PLENARY SESSIONS
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

How to read the schedule

Each session has a code. The first number of the code indicates the day when the session will take place. Second character -letter- indicates the hall where the session will be held (see below the explanation of symbols.) The last number is used to make the sessions distinguishable from each other.

All the sessions will be held in Tampere Hall and in Pinni building at the University.

Example: 2-A2-37 means that session will be held on Sunday in hall A2

Explanation of hall symbols in Tampere Hall
SA Small Auditorium
A1 Hall A1
S Studio
A2 Hall A2
R Room 200
B Hall B
C Hall C
V Vip Room
Explanation of hall symbols in University's Pinni building
P1 LS0078
PK Paavo Koli Hall
P2 LS0081
P3 LS2111

Saturday June 29

Time

Code

Session

08.30-10.15

1-SA-1

Media Professionals and Media Production

 

1-A1-2

Audiovisual Images in Cultures of Historical Memory: The Case of War as "Modernist Event"

 

1-S-3

The Culture of "Other": Examining and Avoiding Stereotypes

 

1-A2-4

Sport, Globalisation & Corporate Nationalisms

 

1-R-5

Doing Cultural Studies in Cyberspace

 

1-B-6

Nation, Community and the Construction of Place in Contemporary Theatre

 

1-C-7

Material Culture Studies

 

1-V-8

When French Social Sciences Meet Cultural Studies

 

1-P1-9

Community: An Alternative to the Nation?

 

1-PK-10

Internet Domestication Across Cultures

 

1-P2-11

Dissection, Animality, Anachronism and Murder: Dangerous Bodies in Discourses of Modernity

10.30 - 12.30 Plenary Session: Globalisation and Identity

Time

Code

Session

13.30-15.15

1-SA-12

Media Convergence: Cultural Effects of Mediatisation and Digitization (Informationalisation)

1-A1-13

Ideology and Its Discontents: Between Textuality and Zionism

1-S-14

Post/Colonial Texts and Identities: Nations, Diasporas, Novelists

1-A2-15

The University Now (and its Related Institutions of Interpretation)

1-R-16

Cultural Representations of Age and the Life-Course: Youth Transitions as Cultural Representations

1-B-17

Impact of Globalization on Language and Culture: Local/Global 1: Language, Culture, Internet and Film

1-C-18

The Joint Session for Material Culture Studies and Cultural Studies on the Technology in Use

1-V-19

Gilles Deleuze

1-P1-20

Gender, Ethnicity, Missionaries, and the "Other": Global Cities, Cross-Cultural Perspectives

1-PK-21

Governing the Female Body: Gender, Health and Economies of Power

1-P2-22

How Can One Face an Interface? Art, Science, Cultural Studies, and the Question of Experience

Time

Code

Session

15.45-17.30

1-SA-23

Mediated Emotions

1-A1-24

The Moral Transnational

1-S-25

Post/Colonial Texts and Identities: Globalization, Culture, Intellectuals

1-A2-26

Multiculturalism in Nation-State

1-R-27

Cultural Representations of Age and the Life-Course: Diverse Spheres, Diverse Meanings of Age

1-B-28

Impact of Globalization on Language and Culture: Local/Global 2: Race, Gender, Diversity, and Political Power

1-C-29

Cultural Studies on the Technology in Use

1-V-30

The Joint Session for Reanalysing Social and Cultural Concepts / Local Cultures, Political Struggles and Transformations

1-P1-31

The Discourse of Travel in a Portable Age

1-PK-32

Beyond Master and Slave: Modernity's Chinese Connection or Chinese-ness's Modern Connection

1-P2-33

City, Memory and Performing Body

Sunday June 30

Time

Code

Session

08.30-10.15

2-SA-34

Achievements, Obstacles, and Exemplars in Audience Research

2-A1-35

Producing Meaning: From Media Production to Media Texts

2-S-36

Is Nothing Sacred?: Critical Analysis of the Use of "Religion" in North American Popular Culture

2-A2-37

Looking into Visual Culture: Issues of Women and Gender

2-R-38

Creativity and the Creative Industries

2-B-39

States of Containment: Culture and Pedagogy in the Neoliberal Order

2-C-40

Mapping the Present: Race and Culture in Contemporary Global (Trans)Formations

2-V-41

Consumer Culture, Cultural Politics and the Circulation of Value

2-P1-42

Women and the Politics of Activism in the Post-Quake Era in Turkey

2-PK-43

New Theoretical Approaches to the Self in Cyber-Culture

2-P2-44

Cultural Studies and the Natural Environment

2-P3-45

‘Wanted Dead or Alive': Discourses of Terrorism and Differences in Media

10.30 - 12.30 Plenary Session: Quality and Questions of Value

Time

Code

Session

13.30-15.15

2-SA-46

Theorizing the Media's 'Place' in Globalization: Exploring the Media's Links to Local Culture

2-A1-47

Bodies, Technology and Aesthetics: New Engagements, New Possibilities?

2-S-48

Consumption and Construction of Tourist Landscapes I: Places and Spaces

2-A2-49

Representations of Strong Women in Film and Tv-Fiction I: Pin-Up or Heroic Action?

2-R-50

Author ©: Intellectual Property and Contemporary Authorship I

2-B-51

Intellectual Practices in Culture and Power: Transnational Dialogues 1/2

2-C-52

Politics and Poetics of Post-Colonialism and Ethnicity

2-V-53

Disasters as Cultural Events I: Nation and Community

2-P1-54

Professional Studies

2-PK-55

Agency, Differences and New Technologies -- Everyday Practices

2-P2-56

Themes and the City: Themed Environments and the Construction of Urban Imaginaries

2-P3-57

Religion and Culture

Time

Code

Session

15.45-17.30

2-SA-58

Theorizing the Media's 'Place' in Globalization: The Global and Local in Media Discourse

2-A1-59

Bodies, Technology, Aesthetics: New Imag(in)ings

2-S-60

Consumption and Construction of Tourist Landscapes II: Texts and Textures

2-A2-61

Representations of Strong Women in Film and Tv-Fiction II: Truly Strong and Dangerous Women in Popular Film Genres

2-R-62

Author ©: Intellectual Property and Contemporary Authorship II

2-B-63

Intellectual Practices in Culture and Power: Transnational Dialogues 2/2

2-C-64

Youth Development in Underdeveloped Countries

2-V-65

Disasters as Cultural Events II: Public/Private Memory

2-P1-66

Unsettled Boundaries: Welfare and the Contested Construction of Subjects, States and Spaces

2-PK-67

Agency, Differences and New Technologies -- Reflecting Networks of Agency

2-P2-68

The Cultural Violence of Globalization in East Asia

2-P3-69

Nationhood and Nationalism – The Case of Israel

17.30 - 19.30 The Founding Meeting of The Association for Cultural Studies

Monday July 1

Time

Code

Session

08.30-10.15

3-SA-70

Media in Spaces of Consumption: Transnational Practices – Histories and Images

3-A1-71

Critical Psychology and Cultural Studies

3-S-72

(New) Technologies - (New) Methodologies? ICT Consumption and Everyday Practice

3-A2-73

In Between Spaces: Mapping Cultural Geographies of Istanbul

3-R-74

The ‘Things’ of Tourism

3-B-75

Arctic Youth Research - Challenges and Visions

3-C-76

Popular Culture and Cultural Production

3-V-77

Indigenous Peoples and Cultures of Resistance

3-P1-78

(White) Britishness and its Racialised Others I

3-PK-79

"Post/Colonial" Approaches to Central Europe: Power, Ethnicity, and Culture 1848-1918

3-P2-80

Creating an Social and Environmentally Sustainable City in Brazil: Citizenship, Culture and Urban Policy

3-P3-81

Childhood Representations, Postmodernity and Cultural Pedagogy

10.30 - 12.30 Plenary Session: The Domestication and Mobilisation of the Media

Time

Code

Session

13.30-15.15

3-SA-82

Reflexive Media Ethnography in Spaces of Consumption

3-A1-83

The Interpellation of Experience I

3-S-84

Cultural Studies, Culture and Freedom: Freedom

3-A2-85

Visual Culture Studies: Theoretical Frameworks and Pedagogy I

3-R-86

Trade Diasporas and Identity Construction

3-B-87

Youth, Media and Communication Technologies I

3-C-88

Power Relations And Classroom Practice: The Teacher and Classroom Practice

3-V-89

Rock Music and Nationalism

3-P1-90

(White) Britishness and its Racialised Others II

3-PK-91

Pop-Intimacy: Reality-TV and the Construction of Televisual Identities

3-P2-92

Dark Nights, White Spaces: Cultural Imaginations of Northern Landscapes

3-P3-93

Conversations about Citizenship and Citizenship Education

Time

Code

Session

15.45-17.30

3-SA-94

Consolidation. New Trend(s) in Cultural Studies & Popular Media

3-A1-95

The Interpellation of Experience II

3-S-96

Cultural Studies, Culture and Freedom: Hegemony and Technologies of Freedom

3-A2-97

Visual Culture Studies: Theoretical Frameworks and Pedagogy II

3-R-98

"Playing the Game" in the Context of Globalisation: The New Political Economy of Higher Education

3-B-99

Youth, Media and Communication Technologies II

3-C-100

Power Relations And Classroom Practice: Culture and Classroom Practice

3-V-101

Collateral Language: Mapping the Discourses of America’s New War

3-P1-102

Whiteness and the Racialised ‘Other’ I: The Nation, Identity and Whiteness

3-PK-103

Pop-Intimacy: Mapping Different Forms of Reality-TV

3-P2-104

White Nights, Dark Spaces: Cultural Abstractions of Northern Landscapes

3-P3-105

Beneath Representation

17.45 - 19.15 Special Plenary Session: Critical Literacies and Pedagogies

Tuesday July 2

Time

Code

Session

08.30-10.15

4-SA-106

Media in Spaces of Consumption: The Give and Take of Consumption as Production and Resistance

4-A1-107

Diasporic Visuality and Its Modernity: The Case of Taiwan Auteur Tsai Ming-liang

4-S-108

Whiteness and the Racialised ‘Other’ II: The Invisible White Self: Punctured, Probed and Analysed

4-A2-109

Visual Art and Ethnicity: Lessons from Methodologies of Cultural Studies

4-R-110

Clothing as a Border

4-B-111

Historical and Modern Aspects of Russian Imperial Policy in Central Asia, Siberia and Far East

4-C-112

Culture and the Rule of Law

4-V-113

Cultural Economy and Imperialism

4-PK-114

Communication & Community: Definitions

10.30 – 12.30 Panel Discussion: After Crossroads IV: Impressions and Future Ideas

Time

Code

Session

13.30-15.15

4-SA-115

Cultural Studies and/in Education

4-A1-116

Planned Exits. Suicide Concepts in Contemporary Fiction

4-S-117

Whiteness and the Racialised ‘Other’ III: Cultural Constructions of the [Colonial] Other

4-A2-118

The Joint Session for AIDS and the Body: Representations of Risk / Cultural Differences Between the Hearing World and the Deaf World: A Conflict Between Cultures

4-R-119

Space and Culture

4-B-120

Gendered Dimension of Nationalism

4-C-121

Technologies of the Self in Contemporary (Business) Management

4-PK-122

Communication & Community: Locations