METAPHORS OF GLOBALIZATION

Mirrors, Magicians and Mutinies

Workshop Conference
Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto
19-20 March 2006

Sunday 19 March

7 PM Diner at Kensington Kitchen

Monday 20 March (Room 208N, Munk Centre)

8:45 – 9:00 Opening Remarks

Louis W. Pauly (Director, Centre for International Studies)

9:00 – 9:30 Introducing Metaphors: Mirrors, Magicians and Mutinies of Globalization

Markus Kornprobst, Vincent Pouliot, Nisha Shah and Ruben Zaiotti

9:30 – 11:00 Session I: Interrogating the Metaphorical Mirror of Globalization

• Markus Kornprobst (Ohio State U), “Reasoning by Analogy: Leading or
Misleading”
• Vincent Pouliot (U of Toronto), “‘Everything Takes Place As If’: The
Globalization of Threats and the Metaphor of Social Science”
• Ruben Zaiotti (U of Toronto), “Pursuing new Cultures of Border Control:
the ‘Schengen Laboratory’”

11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 – 12:30 Session II: The Magic of Metaphors of Globalization

• James Brassett (U of Warwick), “Breaking the Esoteric Architecture of
Global Finance: The Tobin Tax as a Sentimental Metaphor”
• Matthew Farish (Memorial U) and Simon Dalby (Carleton U), “The
Cartographies of Military Globalism”
• Rainer Hulsse (U of Munich), “The Fight against Money-Laundering: How
Metaphors Are Used to Construct a Global Problem and Its Solution”
• Andre Spicer (U of Warwick), “From National Service to Global Player:
Discourses of Globalization and the Transformation of Public
Broadcasting”

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 – 15:00 Session III: Metaphorical Mutiny

• Tim Luke (Virginia U), “Technology as Metaphor: Tropes of Construction,
Destruction, and Instruction in Globalization”
 • David Mutimer (York U), “Waging Wars against Iraq: Metaphoric
Constitution of the War in the US and the UK”
• Nisha Shah (U of Toronto), “Beyond Sovereignty and the State of Nature:
Metaphorical Readings of Global Order”
• Sian Sullivan (U of Warwick), “Conceptualizing Glocal Organization:
From Rhizomes to Holograms in Constructing the Post-Human”

15:00 – 15:15 Coffee Break

15:15 – 15:45 Theoretical Reprise: Metaphors and Globalization

• Karin Fierke (Queen’s University—Belfast)

15:45– 16:30 Wrap-up Session

• General Discussion about the Book Project

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