Day One: Wednesday 30th June

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Foyer 101

Registration desk is open

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Mihi whakatau

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Opening address by Dr Manuka Henare
Associate Dean Māori & Pacific Development, The University of Auckland), introduced by Dr Chris Tremewan (Pro-Vice Chancellor (International), University of Auckland).

10.30

11.00

Foyer 101

Morning tea

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12.30

OGGB 4

WA02: Foreign and Security Policy in the Bush and Obama Administrations
Chair: Robert Ayson (Victoria University of Wellington)

• Michael Harland (University of Canterbury), “’Democratic vanguardism’ and the Bush Doctrine: The case of Francis Fukuyama”
  
• Jo-Anne Gilbert (Griffith University), “The US and national security space decision-making 2001-2008: Rods from gods – a solution in search of a problem?"
  
• Aiden Warren (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University), “The transition in US nuclear policy from Bush to Obama"

OGGB 5

WB02: New Dimensions in Chinese Foreign Policy I
Chair: Gerald Chan (University of Auckland)

• James Reilly (University of Sydney), “China’s overseas development aid: Accommodation or innovation?”
  
• Jian Yang (University of Auckland), “China’s human rights diplomacy: Perceptions and policies”
  
• Marcus Chu (University of Auckland), “China’s Taiwan policy in international sporting bids”

Case Room 3

WC02: Navigating the Feminist Pacific: New Paddles, Perspectives, and Practices
Chairs: Teresia Teaiwa (Victoria University of Wellington), Yvonne Underhill-Sem (University of Auckland)

• Claire Slatter (National University of Fiji), “Today I have more questions than answers’: A reflection on global, regional and national politics and my growing feminist unease”
• Priya Chattier (University of the South Pacific), “Agency, cultural well-being and self-respect: A challenge for capability approach and feminist theory”
• Tulia Thompson (University of Auckland), "Shame on you”: Heterogender and mechanisms of disgust in Fiji”
• Anita Lacey (University of Auckland), “Development aid and security: Security or insecurity for women in Solomon Islands?”
• Asenati Liki Chan Tung (Australian National University), “Navigating some rough Pacific seas:  Women’s leadership experiences in the public services of Solomon Islands and Samoa”
  

Case Room 2

WD02: Civilizing Violence: War and Conflict Within the Project of Modernity  
Chair: Heloise Weber (University of Queensland)

• Brett Bowden (University of New South Wales), “Might civilization be bad for us?”
• Richard Devetak (University of Queensland), “Invoking humanity: The sentimental origins of humanitarian intervention”
• Simon Springer (National University of Singapore), “Violence sits in places? Cultural practice, neoliberal rationalism and virulent imaginative geographies”
• Constanze Bauer (University of the Free State, South Africa), “Britain’s gulag: A black spot on Britain’s human rights record”
  

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WF02: Changing Attitudes to National Identity
Chair: Lena Tan (University of Otago)

• Michael Leach (Swinburne Institute of Technology), "Surveying East Timorese tertiary student attitudes to national identity, 2002-2009"
• James Scambary (Swinburne Institute of Technology), "Papua New Guinea: A nation of twenty nations? Tertiary student attitudes to national identity"
• Matthew Clarke (Deakin University), "Yumi ol man blong Vanuatu: Finding a nation amongst the islands of Vanuatu”
  

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WG02: New Readings of the Political
Chair: Martin Wilkinson (University of Auckland)

•   Robert Deuchars (Victoria University of Wellington), “Deleuze and the political”
• Ken Fraser (University of New England), "The claim to be established: Mechanisms of unit-creation in world political ontology"
• Gideon Baker (Griffith University), “Cosmopolitanism as hospitality”
• Mark Olssen (University of Surrey), “Communitarian cosmopolitanism: A philosophical defence”

12.30

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Foyer 101

Lunch

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OGGB 4

WA03: Militarism and Gender in the Pacific I
Chair: Beth Greener (Massey University)

• Beth Greener (Massey University), “Peacebuilding, gender, policing and militarism in the Solomon Islands”
• Edwina Hughes (Peace Movement Aotearoa) and Teresia Teaiwa (Victoria University of Wellington), “Mapping militarism and gender in the Pacific”
• Torika Bolatagici (University of New South Wales), “Representing Fijian bodies and the economy of war”
• Teresia Teaiwa (Victoria University of Wellington), “Theorising a military cultural complex”

Case Room 3

WC03: State Failure and Security in the 21st Century
Chair: Sara Davies (Griffith University)

• Pierce Lane (University of Auckland), “Intervention as imperialism? Critical reflections on state-building and democracy promotion in the Solomon Islands”
• Dan Halvorson (Griffith University), “Reconceptualising state failure for the twenty-first century”
• Gavin Mount (University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy), "Linkage security"

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WD03: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Southeast Asian politics
Chair: Avery Poole (University of British Colombia)

• Sue Thompson (University of Canberra), “The western powers and the origins of regional cooperation in Southeast Asia: The international dimension of regionalism 1945-67”
• Linda Quayle (University of Melbourne), “Southeast Asia through an ‘English School’ lens: Problems and possibilities”
• Adam Simpson (University of South Australia), “Cambodia to the rescue”: An old friend steps up for Thaksin in Thailand’s colour politics”

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WE03: Whither Free Trade?
Chair: Marc Williams (University of New South Wales)

• Mark Manger (London School of Economics), “Vertical specialisation and Free Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific”
• Marc Lanteigne (Victoria University of Wellington), “The rise, fall and rise of the Beijing Consensus”
• Dean Coldicott (Deakin University), “Saving neoliberalism: The rise of the G20 beyond the global financial crisis”
• Heike Hermanns (Gyeongsang National University, South Korea), "South Korea’s green growth project: Maintaining economic growth with green credentials?"
  

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WG03: Revisiting the Classics: Enduring Influences, Enduring Challenges
Chair: Geoffrey Kemp (University of Auckland)

•   Jeremy Moses (University of Canterbury), “The enduring influence of Kant’s perpetual peace”
• Katherine Smits (University of Auckland), “Liberal peace plans and the problem of cultural difference: Bentham, Kant and the limits of Enlightenment universalism”
• Terrell Carver (University of Bristol), “Finding the postcolonial Marx”

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Foyer 101

Afternoon Tea

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17.00

OGGB 4

WA04: Issues in Australian and New Zealand Foreign Policy
Chair: David Capie (Victoria University of Wellington)

• Jeffrey D. Wilson (Australian National University), “Resource nationalism or resource liberalism? Explaining the Australian approach to Chinese investment in its minerals sector”
• Simon Le Quesne (Victoria University of Wellington), “Mixing business with politics: The role of the Australia-New Zealand Leadership Forum”
• Hannah van Voorthuysen (Victoria University of Wellington), ““Just a damned nuisance”? New Zealand’s changing attitudes towards Israel: From recognition to the present”

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WB04: Roundtable: Navigating the Feminist Pacific - Looking Backwards to Move Forward
Chairs: Teresia Teaiwa (Victoria University of Wellington) and Yvonne Underhill-Sem (University of Auckland)

• Vanessa Griffen (Fiji/Australia)
• Margaret Jolly (Australian National University)
• Raijeli Nicole (Canterbury University)

Case Room 3

WC04: Changing Sovereignties: Security, Statebuilding and Democratization
Chair: Megan Mackenzie (Victoria University of Wellington)

• Isiaka Alani Badmus (University of New England), “Security sector reform in post-conflict West African states: The cases of Sierra Leone and Liberia”
• Colin Robinson (Cranfield University), "Creating a generic framework for post-conflict army reconstruction"
• Keiran Barbalich (Victoria University of Wellington), "Sugar and democracy in Fiji: The material foundations of post-colonial authoritarianism 1970-2005"
• Hamish Woodside (Canterbury University), "Dismantling a dynasty: Democratization and the process of reform in Tonga"

Case Room 2

WD04: Development Assistance and Governance: Unpacking Theoretical and Practical Issues
Chair: April Biccum (Australian National University)

• Tom Davis (University of Melbourne), "Understanding the uncomfortable relationship between foreign policy and development assistance"
• Susan Engel (University of Wollongong) and Susan Park (University of Sydney), "'Play it again, Sam?' Neoliberal critiques of official development assistance"
• April Biccum (Australian National University), "Marketing development:  The celebritization of politics and the ‘new’ development advocacy"
• Sandy Ross (University of Melbourne), "The food crisis and the failure of development: Déjà vu all over again?"
• Czeslaw Tubilewicz (University of Adelaide), "Taiwanese foreign aid and the MDG challenge"

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WE04: Social Justice / Distributive Justice
Chair: Katherine Smits (University of Auckland)

• Muhammed Haque (Monash University), “Justiciability of the constitutional principles on economic and social rights in India”
• Janis van der Westhuizen (University of Stellenbosch), “Brazil, South Africa and the quest for global redistribution”
• Lawrence Powell (University of the West Indies, Jamaica), “International comparisons of distributive justice perceptions”
• Nasir Khan (University of Auckland), “Social justice, capabilities and collective intent: A search for a common ground”

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WF04: New Media, Visual Culture and Contemporary Conflict
Chair: Gavin Mount (University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy)

• Eric Louw (University of Queensland), “Visualized culture as the soft underbelly of counter-insurgency warfare”
• Sebastian Kaempf (University of Queensland), “Waging war in the new media age”
• Andrew Phillips (University of Queensland), “The caliphate vs Anglo-balisation: Old and new media technologies and pan-Islamic mobilisation from the Khilafat movement to the ‘war on terror’”
• Robin Cameron (Australian National University), “War on terror, Jack Bauer and the everyday man: Shaping citizens into agents of security”
• Peter Mantello (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University), “Aesthetics and politics of the ‘Special Ops’ first person shooter game”

WG04: The European Union as a Global Actor
Chair: Matthew Doidge (University of Warwick)

• Ana Paula Brandao (University of Minho, Portugal),  “EU security actorness and the fight against transnational terrorism”
• Katherine Vadura and Genevieve Taylor (University of Canterbury), “Child rights and humanitarian action in the Asia-Pacific: The European Union as a global actor”
• Matthew Doidge (University of Warwick),  “The European Union and interregionalism”

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Conference address by Claire Slatter (National University of Fiji)
Invited speaker of the OCIS IV organizing committee.
Download the presentation here.

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Foyer 101

Drinks reception, sponsored by Wiley on behalf of International Studies Perspectives; and Sage on behalf of Political Science.