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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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