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Order and Disorder

The Transcultura conference in Beijing

(March, 5-7, 2007)

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Preliminary Program
The program will be updated continually (last update: 16 February 2007)

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Conference Convenors:

Alain Le Pichon

Balveer Arora

Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn

Tinka Reichmann

Huang Ping

Zhao Tingyang

Conference Chairs: Yang Yang / Alain Le Pichon

Scientific Chairs: Umberto Eco / Huang Ping

Scientific Collaborative Committee:

Alain Le Pichon

Balveer Arora

Zhao Tingyang

Sunday (March 4, 2007)

18:00

Pick-up at the Beijing International Hotel

18:30

International Reception at the Embassy of the EU Delegation

    15 Dongzhimenwai Dajie
    Beijing 100600

Monday (March 5, 2007)

Morning: 9:00 - 12:00

Opening:

09:00-09:10

Welcome speech (10 mins.): Yang Yang (Chair, International cooperation of CASS)

09:10-09:20

Opening speech (10 mins.): EU ambassador Serge Abou

09:20-10:20

Key-note speech: Umberto Eco (60 mins.)

10:20-10:40

Coffee break (20 mins.)

General Concept to Order and Disorder

Chair: Yang Yang

10:40-11:10

Key-note speech: Alain Le Pichon (30 mins.)

11:10-11:40

Key-note speech: Huang Ping (30 mins.)

11:40-12:00

Discussion (20 mins.)

Afternoon: 14:00 - 17:20

Chair: Roland Marti

14:00-14:30

Key-note speech: Balveer Arora (30 mins.)

14:30-15:00

Key-note speech: Antoine Danchin (30 mins.)

15:00-15:15

Discussion (15 mins.)

15:15-15:30

Coffee break (15 mins.)

15:30-16:00

Key-note speech: Varun Sahni (30 mins.)

16:00-16:30

Key-note speech: Maurice Olender (30 mins.)

16:30-17:00

Key-note speech: Ahmed Djebbar (30 mins.)

17:00-17:20

Discussion (20 mins.)

18:30-20:00 Dinner offered by CASS

Tuesday (March 6, 2007)

Morning: 9:00 - 11:55

Topic 1: New Concepts of War and Peace

Chair: Yue Daiyun

09:00-09:30

Key-note speech: Claes G. Ryn (30 mins.)

09:30-10:00

Key-note speech:Cha Insuk (30 mins.)

10:00-10:10

Discussion: (10 mins.)

10:10-10:20

Coffee break: (10 mins.)

Paper Session

10:20-10:35

Nicole Lapierre (15 mins.)

10:35-10:50

Francesco Sisci (15 mins.)

10:50-11:05

Gu Guoliang (15 mins.)

11:05-11:20

Wang Mingming (15 mins.)

11:20-11:35

Alain Bertho (15 mins.)

11:35-11:55

Discussion (20 mins.)

Afternoon: 14:30-17:30

19:00-20:00 Cocktail reception at French Culture Centre

Guangcai International Mansion
18 gongti xilu, Beijing
Tel : (0086 10) 65 53 26 27


Topic 2: Humans and Rights

Chair: Tinka Reichmann

14:30-15:00

Key-note speech: Dieter Grimm (30 mins.)

15:00-15:30

Key-note speech: Zhao Tingyang (30 mins.)

15:30-15:40

Discussion (10 mins.)

15:40-15:50

Coffee break (10 mins.)

Paper Session

15:50-16:05

Umberto Eco (15 mins.)

16:05-16:20

Nicolas Chapuis (15 mins.)

16:20-16:35

Lu Jiande (15 mins.)

16:35-16:50

Jesus Garcia Ruiz (15 mins.)

16:50-17:05

Roland Marti (15 mins.)

17:05-17:30

Discussion (25 mins.)

Wednesday (March 7, 2007)

Morning: 9:00 - 12:00

Topic 3: Social Justice and harmony

Chair: Ahmed Djebbar

09:00-09:30

Key-note speech: Wang Hui (30 mins.)

09:30-10:00

Key-note speech: Rukmini Bhaya Nair (30 mins)

10:00-10:10

Discussion (10 mins.)

10:10-10:20

Coffee break (10 mins.)

Paper Session

10:20-10:35

Gonzague de Pirey (15 mins.)

10:35-10:50

Moussa Sow (15 mins.)

10:50-11:05

Prabhu Gaunkar (15 mins.)

11:05-11:20

Cheng Guanyun (15 mins.)

11:20-11:35

Tinka Reichmann (15 mins.)

11:35-12:00

Discussion (25 mins.)

Afternoon: 13:30-18:00

Sightseeing at Mutianyu Great Wall or Free time (shopping in Silkway, Friendship Store,etc)

18:30-22:00:

Closing Session: Final Comments and Discussions

during Dinner at Mahjiami

Chairs: Alain Le Pichon & Huang Ping

Commentary team: Christine Cornet, Balveer Arora, Tinka Reichmann, Moussa Sow

 

Special activities after the conference:

1.       8 March 2007: Transcultura Arts workshop

Directors: Shu Kewen / Huang Ping

Morning: Visiting Beijing arts village and artists.

Afternoon: Aesthetics and arts talk in Dushu café (most famous place for Chinese intellectuals. Many important Western scholars visited this café, including Habermas, Derrida, Giddens, Negri, Dworkin, etc.) Dinner: invited by Dushu magazine (the most famous intellectual magazine in China)

2.       8-9 March 2007: Anthropology Transcultura Workshop

Director: Wang Mingming

A meeting in a hotel on a hill.

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