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First International Congress on Reciprocal Knowledge
15. und 16. November 2001, Brüssel
First Day - November 15th, 2001
Official Opening
Strategies for a Mutual Knowledge
between European and Non-European Cultures
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9h30
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Opening speech by Mrs Viviane Reding,
european commissioner for Education, Culture and Sport
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9h40
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Speech by Mr Alessandro Gozzi,
councelor by the president of the European Commission
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9h50
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Introduction by Prof. Umberto Eco,
professor of Semiotics, Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, Università
degli studi di Bologna
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10h10
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Speech by Mr Amin Maalouf, writer
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10h30
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Speech by Prof. Michel Kaplan,
president of the Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
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10h40
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Alain le Pichon, president of Transcultura : Sur la voie de la
connaissance réciproque : Présentation du « Manifeste pour une
connaissance réciproque » (On the Way to Reciprocal Knowledge,
Presentation of the "Manifest for a Reciprocal Knowledge")
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11h10 - First Session -
chairpersons: Dhruv Raina (New Delhi), Ivar Ekeland (Paris)
Reciprocal Knowledge, Geopolitic
and Economical Patterns
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11h10
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Fiorella Kostoris Padoa Schioppa (Istituto di Studi e Analisi Economica, Roma, Italy), Mutual Recognition Concept in European Union Policy
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11h25
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Lu Xiang (Zenocom Ltd., China), Towards the Interactive Understandings
among Civilisations
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11h40
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Imtiaz Ahmad (Nehru University of New Delhi, India), The Making of Islamic
Self-identity in an Interactive World
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11h55
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Zhao Tingyang (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China), Understanding and
Acceptance
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12h10
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Debate - Discussants: Musa Ghani
Nejad (Tehran), Rajeev Bargheva (New Delhi)
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Questions for the afternoon
debates
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14h15
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Jacques Perriault (Université Paris 10 Nanterre, France) Modèles de
connaissance et réseaux numériques (Knowledge Patterns and Digital
Networks)
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14h30
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Luis Rodríguez-Rosselló (Information Society Technology Unit, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium)
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14h45 - Second Session -
chairpersons: José-Antonio Fernandez de Rota (La Coruña), Mame Kouna Sene
(Dakar) : European Identity and Reciprocal Anthropology
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14h45
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Zhang Yuan (Film Director, Beijing, China), Introduction to the Cultural
Studies Documentary Films: "Crazy English", "Adopted Chinese
in America"
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15h00
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Éloi Laurent (Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, France), L'Europe,
laboratoire de l' « unidiversité » (Europe, a laboratory for
"unidiversity")
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15h15
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Wang Mingming (Institute of Anthropology, Beijing University, China), Presentation of an Anthropological Inquiry: "The Voyage to the West" - First
Sequence; "Ancestorsless" - Europe, a Land without Ancestors?
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15h30
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Tobie Nathan (Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis, France), Pour une ethnopsychiatrie réciproque des modèles de connaissance
multiculturels dans les sociétés européennes (For a Reciprocal
Ethnopsychiatry of Multicultural Knowledge Patterns in European Societies)
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Proposals for a Transversal Euro-African Research in
European and African Societies
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15h45
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Moussa Sow (Institut des Sciences Humaines, Bamako, Mali), Images passées et présentes de l'Européen au Mali (Past and present images of the
European in Mali)
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15h45
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Benedetta Lauricella (Roma, Italy), Redéfinitions identitaires au sein des
nouvelles communautés religieuses en Afrique et en Europe (Identitary
Redefinitions among New Religious Communities in Africa and Europe)
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16h15
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Debate - Discussants: Pascal
Vaillant (Paris), Mohamed Mambaay Sene (Dakar)
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17h00 - Third session -
chairpersons: Piotr Slonimski (Paris), Tarcisio Della Senta (Geneva) Scientific
Knowledge Patterns between Universality and Locality - Epistemological Aspects
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17h00
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Ivar Ekeland (Université Paris 9 Dauphine, France), Universalité et localité
en mathématiques (Universality and Locality in Mathematics - Report
about the Seminary "Sciences and Knowledge Patterns" - Paris La Sorbonne Sept. 27)
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17h15
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Guo Shuchun (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Discussion of the
"Nine Chapters"
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17h30
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Dhruv Raina (National Institute of Sciences, Technology & Development
Studies, India), How Enlightened was the Enlightenment? A Postcolonial
Interpretation of Interpretations of Science in India and Europe
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17h45
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Pierre Varrod (Éditions Le Robert, France), Towards a New Form of Dictionary,
Beyond the Present Crisis of Encyclopaedia: A XXIst Century Echo to Diderot's
and d'Alembert's « Encyclopédie »
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18h00
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Ahmed Jebbar (Université Paris 11 Orsay, France), Mille ans d'échanges
scientifiques euro-méditerranéens (A Millenium of Euro-Mediterranean
Scientific Exchanges)
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18h15
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Ali Paya (Tehran University, Iran), Can Situational Logic and Dialogue
Help?
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18h30
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Debate - Discussants: Imtiaz Ahmad (New Delhi), Baudoin Jurdant (Paris)
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21h30
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Presentation of Zhang Yuan's films
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Second Day - November 16th, 2001
9h00 - Fourth Session -
chairpersons: Cosimo Zene (London), Zhao Tingyang (Peking)
Micro versus Macro Societies
Regulation Models
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9h00
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Musa Ghani-Nejad (Tehran University, Iran), La problématique du paradigme
économique moderne : Le tiers-mondisme face à l'économie libérale
(The Problematics of the Current Economic Paradigm: Tiers-Mondisme
facing Liberal Economy)
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9h15
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Christian de Boissieu (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France), Modèles de
régulation économiques (Economical Regulation Models)
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9h30
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Rajeev Bargheva (Nehru University of New Delhi, India), What is Indian
Secularism and What is it for?
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9h45
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Mineke Schipper (Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands), "Never Marry a
Woman with Bigger Feet than Your Own": Universals in Mankind's
Proverbial Imagination
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10h00
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Anne Deysine (Université de Paris 10 Nanterre, France), International
Management and Transcultural Negociation
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10h15
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Debate - Discussants: Fiorella
Kostoris Padoa Schioppa (Roma), Imtiaz Ahmad (New Delhi)
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11h00 - Fifth Session - chairpersons: Ali Paya (Tehran), Imtiaz Ahmad (New Delhi)
Distant Communication and Transcultural Methodologies
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11h00
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Tarcisio Della Senta (UNDL Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland), The UNL Programme and
Local Knowledge
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11h15
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Gérard Chollet (École Nationale Supérieure de Télécommunications, Paris, France) Distance Education: What could Technology Offer?
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Presentation of Projects
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11h30
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Corinne Hermant-de Callataÿ (Administrator for the SOCRATES and eLearning actions, General
Direction for Education, Culture and Sport) - title to be communicated
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11h45
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Lu Xiang (Zenocom Ltd., China), Alain le Pichon (Université Paris 1
Panthéon Sorbonne, France), Presentation of a Transcultural Distant
Learning Portal Project
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12h00
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Pascal Vaillant (École Nationale Supérieure de Télécommunications, Paris, France), Présentation d'un projet de jeu interactif euro-chinois :
« Tong Yeou Ki » (« Le Voyage vers l'est ») (Presentation
of a Euro-Chinese Interactive Game Project: "Tung Yu Chi"
["The Journey to the East"])
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12h15
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Marie Hartmann (Centre National d'Enseignement à Distance, France) Politique transculturelle du Centre National d'Enseignement à Distance
(Transcultural policy of the French CNED [Center for Distance Education])
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12h30 - Conclusions
Proposals for Future Transcultural Programmes.
Recommendations to the European Commission and International Institutions.
Transcultura, international network of
researchers for reciprocal knowledge, supports various research projects on
transcultural studies:
- Reciprocal Anthropology Research Programs:
"The Voyage to the West" (studies on Europe by Chinese
researchers),
Études transversales Afrique-Europe (studies on European and African
societies)
- Distance Education programs: "Tr@nscultur@"
- Mutual discovery by playing: the "Tung Yu Chi" game
- Guide of Transcultural Keywords
Concluding remarks by Umberto Eco,
Università di Bologna, Italy.
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