Traveling Norms and the Politics of Contention
Conference, October 24–26, 2013
Convenors
Prof. Dr. David Chiavacci (Institute of Asian and
Oriental Studies)
Prof. Dr. Benedikt Korf (Department of Geography)
Prof. Dr. Fabian Schäfer (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Prof. Dr. Andrea Büchler (Institute of Law)
Prof. Dr. Bettina Dennerlein (Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies)
Prof. Dr. Katharina Michaelowa (Department of Political Science)
Prof. Dr. Shalini Randeria (The Graduate Institute, Geneva)
Dr. Ralph Weber (URPP Asia and Europe)
Description
The URPP Asia and Europe’s Research Field 3 Norms and Social Order(s), which is responsible for the organization of this year’s annual conference, studies the frameworks of normative beliefs and ordering systems that are established on various levels supportive of the exchange of ideas, goods, persons and global interdependence. Specific subjects to be addressed include questions of economic and political interdependencies, the transnationalization of law, the interaction of individuals, local communities, national, and international organizations, as well as global discourses on statehood and development.
Within this theoretical framework, this year’s conference will look into the actors, mechanisms and processes through which different norms and ideas (of citizenship, equality, human rights, etc.) are negotiated in spaces of contentious politics, and how norms and ideas travel from and to different places and contexts, what happens to them when they travel, and how they gain legitimacy and credibility in specific settings (or not). The conference will bring together scholars working on three empirical spaces of contentious politics: the Arab spring, the anti-nuclear movement and protests against special economic zones, with a particular focus on human rights and their circulation, media mechanisms for the diffusion of ideas and the power struggles in different spheres (political, legal, social) to make specific norms legitimate.
The aim of this international conference is to strengthen and expand international cooperation with scholars and global institutions working on similar subjects. Moreover, it will provide URPP Asia and Europe’s doctoral candidates with the opportunity to present their research to an audience of renowned international scholars within the framework of two “young scholar’s panels.” The conference will be comprised of one keynote, the screening of the film “The Green Wave” with subsequent discussion, five panels with distinguished speakers from all over the world and two young scholar’s panels (with 2 doctoral candidate’s presentations per panel).
Program
| Thursday, October 24, 2013 | ||
| Room KO2 F-152, Karl Schmid-Strasse 4, 8006 Zurich | ||
| 15:00–15:30 | Welcome Address Andreas Fischer (University President, University of Zurich) Wolfgang Behr (Academic Director URPP, University of Zurich) David Chiavacci (Conference Organizer, University of Zurich) Benedikt Korf (Conference Organizer, University of Zurich) |
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| 15:30–16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00–17:30 | Panel 1: Political Protest – History of Concepts: Protest, Contention, and Contestation Chair: Ralph Weber (University of Zurich)
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| 17:30–19:00 | Buffet Reception | |
| 19:00–21:30 | Film and Discussion: Iran and the Green Revolution Katajun Amirpur (University of Hamburg) Ali Samadi Ahadi (Filmmaker) |
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| Friday, October 25, 2013 | ||
| Room KOL G-217, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich | ||
| 09:00–10:00 | Keynote: Global Protest Paul Routledge (University of Leeds) Contentious Norms for the 21st Century: Sovereignty and the Politics of Occupations |
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| 10:00–10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30–12:00 | Panel 2: Anti-Nuclear Movements in International Comparison Chair: Katharina Michaelowa (University of Zurich)
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| 12:00–13:45 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:45–14:30 | Intermezzo: Young Scholar’s Panel 1
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| 14:30–15:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:00–17:30 | Panel 3: Protesting the Land Grab in South Asia: Special Economic Zones as Spaces of Exception and Norm Production Chair: Benedikt Korf (University of Zurich) and Shalini Randeria (The Graduate Institute, Geneva)
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| 19:00–21:00 | Dinner Reception (by invitation) | |
| Saturday, October 26, 2013 | ||
| Room KO2 F-152, Karl Schmid-Strasse 4, 8006 Zurich | ||
| 9:00–10:30 | Panel 4: Re-Negotiating Citizenship in the Arab World Chair: Bettina Dennerlein (University of Zurich)
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| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00–11:45 | Intermezzo: Young Scholar’s Panel 2
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| 11:45–13:30 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:30–15:00 | Panel 5: Actors, Mechanisms, and Processes of Traveling Norms: The Case of Constitutions and Human Rights Chair: Andrea Büchler (University of Zurich)
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| 15:00 | End of Conference | |
