Programme

13.30 – 14.15: Press Conference

1. Plenary address by Prof. Flora Carrijn, President of UNeECC

2. Plenary address by Councillor Steven Rotheram, Lord Mayor of Liverpool

3. Plenary address by Prof. Gerald Pillay, Vice chancellor of the Liverpool Hope University

4. Plenary address by Sir Howard Newby, Vice chancellor of the University of Liverpool

5. Plenary address by Prof. Roger Webster, Dean of Liverpool John Moores University

6. Plenary address by Charles-Louis d’Arenberg, Prince of Arenberg

15.30 – 15.45: Coffee break

15.45 – 17.00: Plenary Session

1. Plenary address by Sir Bob Scott, International Director, Liverpool Culture Company

2. Plenary address by Anne Britt Strømnes, Head of Programme, Stavanger 2008

3. Plenary address by Katalin Bogyay, State Secretary for International Affairs, Ministry of Education and Culture, Hungary

4. Plenary address by 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

17.00: Tour of the Tate Gallery

19.30: Conference Reception and Dinner at Liverpool Hope University Hope Park Campus

Venue: Liverpool Hope University Hope Park Campus

09.15 – 11.00: Parallel Session 1

European Capitals of Culture - whose culture?

(Location: Conference Room 1)

Chair: László Komlósi, University of Pécs

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

(Location: Conference Room 2)

Chair: Angela O'Neill, College of Europe, Bruges and Warsaw

- Drs. Phil. 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

- Vishwas Maheshwari - Dr. 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

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

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

- Vladimiras Grazulis, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius: Vilnius - cultural heritage nurturing city (of the 2009 European Capitals of Culture context)

11.00 – 11.20: Coffee break

11.20 - 12.15: Parallel Session 2

European Capitals of Culture - whose culture?

(Location: Conference Room 1)

Chair: László Komlósi, University of Pécs

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

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

(Location: Conference Room 2)

Chair: Angela O'Neill, College of Europe, Bruges and Warsaw

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

- Dr. 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

12.15 – 13.00: Lunch

13.00 - 15.00: Parallel Session 3

European Capitals of Culture - whose culture?

(Location: Conference Room 1)

Chair: Wim Coudenys, Lessius University College

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

- 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

- Dr. Helen Churchill - Dr. Mike Homfray, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool: Whose culture? Gay culture in Liverpool

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

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

(Location: Conference Room 2)

Chair: Carole Gueret, University of Avignon

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

- 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

- 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)”

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

15.30 - 16.15: Roundtable discussion

(Location: Conference Room 2)

16.15 - 17.00: Conclusion

(Location: Conference Room 2)

19.00: Depart for Reception at Liverpool Hope University Cornerstone Campus

19.15: Gala Dinner

09.30: Optional bus tour of Liverpool