REGISTRATION DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL JULY 29
Participants who haven’t yet had a chance to register for Navigating Globalization
need not despair: there are still spaces available in the conference, and the
conference committee has decided to extend the deadline for participants to pay the
regular price until July 29. Use the on-line registration form on this page.
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Programme
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The Globalization Program at the Norwegian University of Science and
Technology (NTNU), has the pleasure of inviting you to participate in
this international conference on globalization. We invite researchers
and doctoral fellows to present papers on finished and ongoing work
about globalization and its manifestations.
Key note speakers:
Professor Amit Bhaduri, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi:
Global asymmetries
and their consequences for development
Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen,
University of Oslo:
Every
country is a land of contrasts: Norway in the eye of the whirlwind
Professor Victoria de Grazia, Columbia University:
Globalizing
consumer cultures - historical perspectives
from Woolworth to Walmart
Professor Barry Gills, University of Newcastle upon Tyne:
Empire
versus cosmopolis
Professor Roland Robertson,
University of Aberdeen:
Glocalization,
diffusion, isomorphism, or parallelism?
Professor Gayatri Spivak, Columbia University:
From the
archaic corner of the humanities
Globalization is the inescapable force that propels events of the 21
st
century. Our conference seeks to make
fresh contributions to the debate over globalization's consequences, as
described by the three overarching themes in our conference title.
Stability
reflects the ability of cultures, languages, the environment, nation
states and global institutions to maintain equilibrium in the face of
globalization.
Friction results from the tensions and ethical dilemmas inherent in the push and pull of globalization’s far-reaching effects.
Fluidity
describes globalization's
most visible outcomes: the movement and changes in individuals and
information, goods and services, and culture, arts, and religion.
We are most interested in the broad, interdisciplinary aspects of
globalization’s challenges and benefits. Our speakers and
conference sessions will explore both the positive value inherent in
globalization’s manifestations as well as the difficulties posed
by such a dominant phenomenon.
