Challenges of the 21st Century
Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, 6th June 2008, University of Cambridge

 

8:30

Registration and coffee

9:30

Opening speech

To be confirmed

9:45

A: Resource Management

S.F. Carrizo
Using Data Mining Approaches to Detect Species Responses to Global Change

Y. Marique
Thinking about Challenges – What could be Learned from the English PPPs Experiment

J.R. Bayer
Patterns in Sense-Making: A Complexity Approach to Crisis Management

B: Interdisciplinarity: Theory and Practice

A. Morley
Interdisciplinarity in the 21st Century

A. Trautsch
Pathologies of Cultural Evolution. A Plea for a Truly Interdisciplinary Project of Human Self-Understanding

M. Robinson
Moral Futures: Neuroscience and the Emerging Science of the Moral Mind

C: The Human Condition in the 21st Century

B. Sloan
Property Law and the Unpaid Carer

J. Aleksic
Defining the Human?

F. Ugwumadu
Reinvention of Family Receprocity Beyond Informal Care Giving to Older People (65) and Over

10:45

Coffee

11:15

Keynote address

Professor John Bell and Professor Graeme Barker

12:30

Lunch

13:15

A: Border Movements: Identity and Citizenship

D.A. Yildiz
Building Subjunctives: Female Members of Turkish Transnational Managerial Class

C.H. Lee
Politics of Immigration in Japan: Immigrant Identities and the New Mode of Citizenship

N. Falkenhayner and M.W. Nau
“Localise” your Enemy: (Trans)national Idioms in Responses to Terrorism

U. Staiger
Mind the Gap: Reconsidering and Representing the Breach Between Citizenship and Human Rights

I. Untea and P. Untea
On the Concept of “Fundamentalism”: Why Has it Become a Dangerous Word for Intercultural Dialogue?

B: Climate Change

S. Lawrence
Reactive Oxygen Species – a Possible Challenge for the 21st Century

J. Erdos
Famine in the 21st Century: The Coming Crop Failures

A. Abrusci
Photoinduced charge transfer in controlled blends of polyflurene copolymers and CdSe nanoparticles for photovoltaics

Speaker to be confirmed

 

C: Visual Media

B. Goesl
Planetaria as Schools for Visual Literacy and Hotbeds for Future-Oriented Cogitation

N. Steffen
The Phenomenon of Porn Chic – Porn Chic in Clubflyers

C. Town
Managing Image Overload: Making Sense of Multimedia

J. Gruenwald
Apocalyptic Boys - The Representation of Masculinity within the Web  
2.0 - community „myspace“

14:45

Keynote address

Professor Lord Martin Rees

15:45

Coffee

16:15

A: Innovative Research Approaches

S. Guldin
Catching the Light: Polymer-Derived Nanostructures and Their Multifunctional Use for Dye-Sensitised Solar Cells

R. Robison
Fuel Efficiency vs. Noise on Short Haul Flights

K. Yano
A Case for Cell Consciousness: Towards a True Understanding of Stem Cell Behaviour

L. Goodings
The Facebook Challenge for Academics

B: Globalisation

K. Gerasimova
A New Generation of NGOs (nongovernmental organisations): An Artificial Import of the Institutions and Implications for Development.

C. Jungbluth
Awakening Dragons? Chinese Corporations Facing Globalisation

K. Holt
Infectious Disease Surveillance in the 21st Century

P.P. de Matos
Cities Playing Global Games: Is Hosting the Olympic Games Really Worth it?

C: Health and Medicine

P. Brandao
Body sensor networks: devising your health

S. Th. Rassia
Occupational epidemiology: assessment of the impact of office environments on user physical activity

S. Cheung
Using Chemical Genetics to Dissect the Role of Signalling Enzymes in Drug-Resistant Prostate Cancer

E. Tan
Next Generation Drug Discovery Research – Challenges and Opportunities

17:45

Keynote address

Professor Martin Kemp

18:45

Award of the
 IGC08 Prize for Best Presentation

19:00

Wine reception

20:00

Conference Close

 


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