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International Workshop: CONTEMPORARY ANTI-WAR MOBILIZATIONS

oxy | 27.09.2003 11:57 | Social Struggles | World

International Workshop on Contemporary Anti-war Mobilisations in Corfu, Greece in November.

An International Workshop on
CONTEMPORARY ANTI-WAR MOBILIZATIONS:
Agonistic Engagemenent Within Social Movement Networks
will take place at Ionion Conference Centre, Corfu, Greece on November 6-7, 2003.

This workshop is organized by Dr Iosif Botetzagias and Prof Moses Boudourides, University of Patras, Greece.

Find below the programme which is also posted at the workshop web site:

 http://nicomedia.math.upatras.gr/conf/CAWM2003/

The abstracts of contributed papers are available online at the URL:

 http://nicomedia.math.upatras.gr/conf/CAWM2003/abstracts.pdf

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International Workshop

CONTEMPORARY ANTI-WAR MOBILIZATIONS
Agonistic Engagement Within Social Movement Networks

November 6-7, 2003
Corfu, Greece

Ionion Conference Centre (Faliraki)

PROGRAMME

Thursday, November 6, 2003

9:00 am - 10:30 am

Iosif Botetzagias (Keele Univ.), Perceptions of war and justice amongst
Greek mobilisers: The case of the second war in Iraq

Joris Verhulst (Univ. of Antwerp), The February 15 worldwide protests
against the war in Iraq. An empirical study of transnational social
movement networks

Discussion

10:30 am - 11:00 am

Break

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Abby James (Open Univ.), The social articulation of contemporary
political movements for collective action

Epaminondas Marias (Univ. of Crete), Supranational political parties and
contemporary anti-war mobilizations

Discussion


16:00 pm - 17:30 pm

Christine Agius (Lancaster Univ.), Globalisation and the decline of
progressive politics?

Martin Hultman (Linkoping Univ.), How can the theoretical logic of Empire
make possible a radical change of contemporary political regime?

Discussion

17:30 pm - 18:00 pm

Break

18:00 pm - 19:30 pm

Shyam Tekwani (Nanyang Tech. Univ.), Network technologies and anti-war
mobilization

Anastasia Kavada (Westminster Univ.), Social movements and current
network research

Discussion


Friday, November 7, 2003

9:00 am - 10:30 am

Martin Hultman (Linkoping Univ.), Racism discourse (re)expolited - The
events at the EU-summit in Gothenburg 2001 and their racialisation by
Swedish news media

Dimitris Kalamaras (Patras Univ.), Anti-globalization and anti-war
protest events during the first half of 2003

Discussion

10:30 am - 11:00 am

Break

11:00 am - 13:00 pm

Roy Panagiotopoulou (Athens Univ.), The media coverage of the Iraq war in
the US and Greece: Decisions and effects on public opinion

Dimitris Maos (Athens Univ.), Media, nationalism and foreign policy: From
September 11th to the war in Iraq

Sophia Nika (Athens Univ.), The 'construction' of the American public
opinion towards the war in Iraq

Discussion


16:00 pm - 17:30 pm

John Hibbs (Franklin Inst.), The inextricable links and the Trojan mice

Richard Pine (Durrell School of Corfu), Polarisation: Finding a third way
- The writer¢s contribution to ending aggression

Discussion

17:30 pm - 18:00 pm

Break

18:00 pm - 19:30 pm

Yannis Balabanidis (Univ. Paris 8), Trends of contemporary social
movements in Greece

Moses Boudourides (Patras Univ.), Evaluating web sites of online
activism

Discussion

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