Presentations

- Neil Peterson, Head of Liverpool Welcome, Liverpool Culture Company (pdf)

- Anne Britt Strømnes, Head of Programme, Stavanger 2008 (pdf)

- Katalin Bogyay, State Secretary for International Affairs, Ministry of Education and Culture, Hungary

- Beatriz Garcia, Director:  Impacts 08 - The Liverpool Model, EuropeanCapital of Culture Research Programme:Providing a referent for universities to evaluate and contribute to the legacy of being a European Capital of Culture (pdf)

Parallel Session 1

European Capitals of Culture - whose culture?

- Annick Schramme, University of Antwerpen, Antwerpen: European Cultural Capital - whose culture? (pdf)

- Tomke Lask,University of Liverpool, Liverpool: Local cultural habitus on the map: evaluation methods for cultural policy (pdf)

- Luc van Doorslaer, Lessius University College, Antwerpen: Centre vs. periphery In the ECC's, analysing the ECC exposure in european media (pdf)

 
- John Bennett, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool: 'We don't answer to anybody except the audience' : Artistic freedom, commercialism and progressive/reactionary tensions in popular theatre programming (pdf)

European Capitals of Culture and their impact on culture(s)

- Marc Delbarge, Lessius University College, Antwerpen: The European Capitals of Culture, their past, the future of Europe and the actual European awareness policy: The cases of Salamanca and Bruges (pdf)

- Vishwas Maheshwari -  Ian Vandewalle, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool: Sustaining place brand identity: key construct for continuous economic development across the region – a study of Liverpool’08 brand campaign (pdf)

- Alexandre Frey Pinto de Almeida, University Fernando Pessoa, Porto: Contrasting patterns of communication in Portuguese and Brazilian culture – how they interact at Porto (pdf)

- Krystyna Koziec, University of Agriculture, Krakow: European Capital of Culture: Multifarious impacts of European Capitals of Culture on Krakow university life (pdf)

  - Spyros Mercouris, Honorary President of the Network of  Cultural Capitals of Europe, Co-ordinator of the First European Cultural Capital – Athens 1985, Athens: Europe's cultural & political voice - the role of Cultural Capitals of Europe (pdf)

Parallel Session 2

European Capitals of Culture - whose culture?

- François Carbon, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg: Synergy and internationalization espace cultures @ uni.lu ... beyond 2007 (pdf)

 
- Péter P. Müller, University of Pécs, Pécs: Paradoxes in the mediation of culture for foreigners (pdf)

European Capitals of Culture and their impact on culture(s)

- Mindaugas Šapoka, Vilnius University, Vilnius: Essen, Krakow and Vilnius in comparative perspective: contributing to a truly European history (pdf)

 - Juergen Mittag - Kathrin Oerters, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum: The European Capitals of Culture as incentives for local/regional transformation and creative economies: tendencies − examples − assessments (pdf)

Parallel Session 3

European Capitals of Culture - whose culture?

- Jan Brown - John M Phillips, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool: The ethics of place branding: a study of Liverpool as Capital of Culture 2008 (pdf)

- Çiğdem Kurt, Bosphorus University, Istanbul: A mirror of culture: how the centers of European culture have affected its periphery using the example of French literature’s impact on Turkish literature (pdf)

- Helen Churchill - Mike Homfray, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool: Whose culture? Gay culture in Liverpool  (pdf)

  - Ana-Karina Schneider, Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu: Minorities, borders, peripheries and the discourse of Cultural Capital (pdf)

European Capitals of Culture and their impact on culture(s)

- Neil Peterson, Liverpool Culture Company, Liverpool: European Capital of Culture: Creating a welcome and engaging local people and partners (pdf)

 - Tímea Németh, University of Pécs, Pécs: A longitudinal study on the intercultural impact of student mobility programs at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pécs, Hungary (pdf)

 - Sarah Louisa Phythian-Adams - David Sapsford , University of Liverpool, Liverpool: “Measuring the Economic Impacts of European Capital of Culture status: The potential of new techniques to capture public ‘value’ (Methodology and some illustrative early results from Liverpool 2008)” (pdf)

- Erika Hancz, University of Pécs, Pécs: Researches on Ottoman Turkish architecture in Pécs (pdf)

- Özlem Etus, Istanbul University, Istanbul: “Fostering inter-cultural understanding in pre-service language teacher education programmes” (pdf)