Variations in the Anglo-American Model

Chair: Michael R. Smith McGill University (Canada)

"Labour Markets and Social Provision: How Paid Care is Organized in Australia and Britain"
Bill Martin, Flinders University (Australia)

"Economic Ties, Economic Differences, and the Future of Transatlantic Relations"
Stefan Immerfall, Pädagogische Hochschule Schwäbish Gmünd (Germany)
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"Anglo-American Cultures and institutions of Economic Distribution: An Historical Comparative Case Study of Prisoner of War Camps"
Benjamin Manning, University of New South Wales (Australia)

"Is there an Anglo-American Model of Labour Market and Social Policy? The Cases of Canada and the United States"
Michael R. Smith, McGill University (Canada)

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Varieties of Globalization: Structures, Processes, Movements, Session A

Chair: John Boli, Emory University (USA)

"Visualizing Globalization"
Sara R. Curran, Princeton University (USA); Paulette Lloyd, Princeton University (USA); Miguel Centeno, Princeton University (USA); John Galloway, NetMap Analytics and Suresh Sood, University of Technology Sydney (Australia)
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"Constituting a Gendered Global Political Space: Women's International Struggle for Peace during WWI"
Nitza Berkovitch and Sara Helman, Ben Gurion University (Israel)
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"Globalization Before 'Globalization': Sociology, Ancient History and the Experience of the 'Global' in Human Affairs"
Roland Robertson and David Inglis, University of Aberdeen (UK)

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Varieties of Globalization: Structures, Processes, Movements, Session B

Chair: John Boli, Emory University (USA)

"Global Networks, Local Processes: Understanding the Influence of Global Structures and Discourse on National Actors in the Mental Health Field"
Sigrun Olafsdottir, Indiana University (USA)

"Measuring Global Talk: Global Frames in Newspaper Editorials"
Elizabeth Essary, Duke University (USA)

"The Globalization of Human Rights Ideology and the Triumph of the Individual"
Michael Elliott, Emory University (USA)

"Neoliberalism, Liminality, and Globalization"
Johanna Bockman, George Mason University (USA)

Distributive Paper
"Globalization and the Transformation of Environmentalism in Turkey, 1980-2004"
Gabriel Ignatow, Koç University (Turkey)
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Varieties of Globalization: Structures, Processes, Movements, Session C

Chair: John Boli, Emory University (USA)

"Globalisation at the Peripheries of Capitalism: The Rise and Spread of International Auditing Standards in Post-Soviet Russia"
Andrea Mennicken, London School of Economics and Political Science (UK)

"Landscapes of Memory: Open-Air Folk Museums and National Identity in a Transnational Age"
Jennifer A. Jordan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (USA)

"Hybridization, Glocalization and Transnationalism: The Roma Case"
Ioana Bunescu, Polish Academy of Science Warsaw (Poland)

"Global-Local Dynamics: The Making of a Life Insurance Market in China"
Cheris Shun-ching Chan, University of Pittsburgh (USA)

Distributive Paper
"Cultural Globalization, Fundamentalism, and Feminist Identities in the Middle East"
Valentine M. Moghadam, UNESCO

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Visual Culture, Session A

Chair: Helena Wulff, Stockholm University (Sweden)

"Looking for the Nation in the Archive: Film, Nation, and Society in Colonial India"
Marcus Banks, University of Oxford (UK)

"The Frame, the Title, the Glass, and the Signature"
Thomas Fillitz, University of Vienna (Austria)

"Visual Cartographies: Deconstructing Representations of 'Trinidad' in the Nineteenth Century"
Amar Wahab, Ryerson Polytechnic University (Canada)

"Visual Scenes of Model Trains"
Patrik Aspers, The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne (Germany) and Stockholm University (Sweden)
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"From Concepts to Images: Visual Representations of Science in Museums"
Ana Delicado, University of Lisbon (Portugal)
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Visual Culture, Session B

Chair: Helena Wulff, Stockholm University (Sweden)

"Optics of a City in Celebration: Images of Athens During the 2004 Olympic Games"
Eirini Papadaki, Educational Institute of Epirus, Arta (Greece)

"Text's Look: Practising Visual Letteracy"
Malcolm Ashmore and Thomas Wahl, Loughborough University (UK) and Uppsala University (Sweden)

"Performing Performances: Watching Meaning Making in Youth Theatre"
Anna Lund, Växjö University (Sweden)

"Longing for the Land: Emotionalization of Nature in Irish Travel Advertisements"
Helena Wulff, Stockholm University (Sweden)

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Visual Sociology, Session A (Special session)
Part 1: Program Introduction: Expressions of the Visual in the Dynamic Continuum of Identity; Natives and Foreigners
Part 2: The Global-City; The Individual and the Environmental Changes - Rulers vs. Mob

Chair: Simon Kagan Tel-Aviv University (Israel)
and Sandra Weil, Tel-Aviv University (Israel)

Coordinators: Amir Tausinger, Sandra Weil and Ohad Regev, Tel-Aviv University (Israel)
Film Archives: Liviu Carmely
Technical Assistant: Moshe Gishry, Sergei Freedman and Avishai Krashin, Tel-Aviv University (Israel)
Room: Aulan

PROGRAMME INTRODUCTION:

Forward: "The Visual Kick in the Age of Mass Media"

Screening: "The Audience", opening scene from "The Magic Flute" (1974) dir. Ingmar Bergman.

THE GLOBAL-CITY; THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES - RULERS VS. MOB:

"Vulnerable/Frightening Metropolis: In-Habitus And Social Morphology"

Lecture in Homage to Marcel Mauss
Simon Kagan, Tel-Aviv University (Israel)

Screening: scenes from "Stockholm (1897-1929)" dir. Jan Bergman; and "Metropolis" (1927) dir. Fritz Lang.

Followed by Scenes from films depicting cities around the world, in times of peace and war, including:
"Berlin" (1927) dir. W. Ruttmann; "Casablanca" (1943) dir. M. Curtiz; "An American in Paris" dir. V. Minnelli (1951); "Tokyo Story" (1953) Y. Ozu; "Orpheo Negro" (1958) dir. M. Camus; "Cairo Station" (1958) dir. Y. Chahine; "Topkapi" (1964) dir. J. Dassin; "Roma"1973) dir. Fellinn; "The Towering Inferno (1974) dir. J. Guillermin; "Manhattan" (1979) dir. W. Allen; "The Last Emporer" (1987) dir. B. Bertolucci; "Salam Bombay" (1988) dir. M. Nair; "London Kills Me" (1992) dir. H. Kureishi; "Jerusalem" (1996) dir. B. August; "Matrix Revolution" (2003) dir. A. and L. Wachowski; "Sin City" (2005) dir. R. Rodrigues. Also, Newsreels and TV Reports of Attacks on Stalingrad, Dresden, Hiroshima, New-York, Tel-Aviv, Beirut, Baghdad, etc.

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Visual Sociology, Session B (Special session)
The Vernacular/Regional-State: The Individual and Cultural Changes - Nationality vs. Ethnicity

Chair: Simon Kagan Tel-Aviv University (Israel)

Screening: "Getting to Know You" (the Geography Lesson), a scene from "The King and I", dir. Walter Lang.

"People Filming People: The Genealogy of Ethnographic Films: Kino Pravda, Cinéma Vérité, Free Cinema, Candid Eye, Direct Cinema, Danish Dogma, and Israeli Degem."

Lecture in Homage to Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin
Simon Kagan, Tel-Aviv University (Israel)

Screening: scenes from films depicting local identities, including:
"Nanook of the North" (1921) dir. R. Flaherty; "Drifters" (1929) dir. J. Grierson; "The Man with a Movie Camera" (1929) dir. D. Vertov; "Que Viva Mexico" (1932) dir. S. Eisenstein, cam. E. Tissé; "Song of Ceylon" (1933) dir. Basil Wright; "Man of Aran" (1934) dir. R. Flaherty; "It's All True" (1942/1993) dir. O. Welles; "Louisiana Story" (1948) dir. R Flaherty, cam. R. Leacock; "Stromboli" (1949) dir. R. Rossellini; "The Cranes are Flying" (1957), dir. M.Kalatozov; "Every Day Except Christmas" (1957) dir. L. Anderson; "I, a Negro" (1958) dir. J. Rouch; "Chronicle of a Summer" (1960) dirs. J. Rouch and E. Morin; "Primary" (1960) dir. R. Leacock and Drew Assoc.; "Hospital" (1970) dir. F. Wiseman; "Black Shack Alley" (1983) dir. E. Palcy; "The White Balloon" (1995) dir. J. Panahi; "Festen" (1998) dir. Thomas Vinterberg; "Late Marriage" (2001) dir. D. Kosashvili; "Check Points" (2003) dir. Y. Shamir; and "Thirst" (2004) dir. T. Abu-Wail.

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Visual Sociology, Session C (Special session)
The Continental-Village: The Individual and the Personal Changes - Class and Chaos

Chair: Simon Kagan Tel-Aviv University (Israel)

Room: Aulan

"Indo-European Studies and Comparative Mythologies"
Session in Homage to Georges Dumézil

Screening: TV News Reports of the Tsunami Disaster.
"From Sweden back to India"

Introduction
Gunilla Gren-Eklund, Uppsala University (Sweden)

Screening: a scene from "Mahabharata" (1989) dir. Peter Brook.
"Satyajit Ray, Ingmar Bergman and the Nuclear Family" (Video recording by Ohad Regev)
Suresh Chabria, The Film and Television Institute of India, Pune

Screening: a selection of scenes from Satyajit Ray's films, including: Song of the Road, (1955), The Unvanquished (1957), The Music Room (1958), The World of Apu (1959) and Nights in the Forest (1970).

Screening: a selection of scenes from Ingmar Bergman's films, including: Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), Wild Strawberries (1957), The Magician (1958), Through a Glass Darkly (1961), Hour of the Wolf (1968), Scenes from a Marriage (1973).

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Visual Sociology, Session D (Special session)
Comparative Views; Students look at their own communities: The Filmmaker as a Social-Anthropologist

Convener and Chair: Simon Kagan, Tel-Aviv University (Israel)

Coordinator: Anne-Marie Harms, Dramatiska Institutet, Stockholm (Sweden).

In conjunction with Centre International de Liaison des Ecoles de Cinema et de Television (CILECT) and The International Student Film Festival, Tel-Aviv University (Israel)

Room: Aulan

Film Screening:
Awarded Student Films from Sweden, India and Israel.

"Viktor and His Brothers" (2002)
Dir. Marten Klingberg, Dramatiska Institutet, Stockholm (Sweden)

"In the Month of March" (2002)
Dir. Kranti Kanade, and: The Rites (2004), Dir. S. Manasvi, The Film and Television Institute of India, Pune

"With Rules" (1998)
Dir. Dover Kosashvili, Tel-Aviv University (Israel)

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Visual Sociology, Session E (Special session)
The Visual Contribution To Research in Sociology and Neighboring Disciplines: The Social-Anthropologist as a Filmmaker (Open Forum)

Convener and Chair: Simon Kagan, Tel-Aviv University (Israel)

Room: Aulan

Introduction:
"Scholars, 'Kino-Eye' and 'Caméra-Stylo'"

Screening: "When The Neanderthal Meets The Sapiens", a scene from "A Species Odyssey" (2004) by
J. Malaterre and Y. Coppens.

Open Forum:
Screening and Debate of Visual Works by participants.
You are invited to bring your own visual works for viewing (VHS, DVD or CD formats).

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Visual Sociology, Session F (Special session)
Human Rights and Social Sciences: The Revolution Will Be Televised

Convener and Chair: Simon Kagan, Tel-Aviv University (Israel)

Coordinators: Laura Marcellino and Giulia Grassilli, Venice Biennale (Italy)

Room: Aulan

Screening: "Miriam Makeba, Zulu Song", a scene from "Come Back Africa" (1959) by Lionel Rogosin; and "Off with Apartheid", a scene from "Gandhi" (1982) dir. R. Attenborough.

Introduction:
Giulia Grassilli, Venice Biennale (Italy)

Film Screening: Yizo-Yizo" - "This is it; The Real Thing" (part 1), Drama Series, Dir. Teboho Mahlatsi (South-Africa; 2004); Human Rights Award, Venice Biennale (2004).

PROGRAMME CONCLUSIONS:
Simon Kagan, Tel-Aviv University (Israel)

Screening: "Hopes for a Kind New World"; final scene from "The Great Dictator" (1940) Dir. Charles Chaplin.

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Voluntary Effort in Weaker Community Development

Chair: G. Satyanarayana, Osmania University (India)

"Voluntary Effort in Weaker Community Development: An Indian Experience"
G. Satyanarayana, Osmania University (India)
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"Voluntary Effort in Weaker Community Development: Problems and Prospects"
Asok Kumar Ray, University of Delhi (India)

"Non Governmental Organisation and Empowerment of Women"
Masoumeh Bagheri, Shahid Chaniran University (Iran)

"Role of NGO's in Rural Development"
C.Ganesh, B.Niranjan Rao, Osmania University (India)

"Role of N.G.O's in Rural Development"
Ram Shaker Reddy, Osmania University (India)