TOWN AND GOWN programme

University Network of the European Capitals of Culture

General Assembly Meeting and Annual Conference

25-26 October 2007

Sibiu

„Town and Gown”

Programme

Thursday, 25 October 2007

13.00 – 14:00: Registration

Venue: “Lucian Blaga” University, the Hall of the Faculty of Letters and Arts,

5-7, Victoriei Bd.

14.00 – 16.00: Opening Ceremony

Venue: “Lucian Blaga” University, Avram Iancu Auditoriu, 5-7, Victoriei Bd.

1. Plenary address by Roger O’Keeffe, Principal Administrator, Directorate-General for Education and Culture, European Commission

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

3. Plenary address by Klaus Werner Johannis, Mayor of Sibiu

4. Plenary address by Prof. Constantin Oprean, Rector of the “Lucian Blaga” University

5. Cristian Radu, General Coordinator, Sibiu Europan Capital of Cultural Programme - Sibiu 2007 Presentation

6. Dr. Hatto Fischer, Coordinator of Poiein Kai Prattein and Associate Member of ECCM, Poiein Kai Prattein and Network of European Capitals of Culture - Presentation on the Network of European Capitals and Months

16.00 – 16.15: Coffee break

16.15 – 18.00: UNeECC General Assembly Meeting

Venue: “Lucian Blaga” University, Avram Iancu Auditoriu, 5-7, Victoriei Bd.

19.30: Dinner for all participants

Venue: Palace

Friday, 26 October 2007

08.30: Departure from “Lucian Blaga” University to Astra Open Air Museum

09.00 – 12.00: Scientific Conference I.

Parallel sessions:

1. The meaning of cultural politics: How does being a ECC affect local cultural traditions? Why does a city want to be a ECC in the first place? Why is it good for a university to be located in a ECC town?

Chair: László Komlósi, University of Pécs

- Francisca Abreu, Júlio Mendes, Paula Aleixo and Elisa Pérez Babo, Guimarães City Hall and Portuguese Culture Ministry, Portugal: GUIMARÃES, EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2012 – A challenge for a knowledge-based development of the city

- Alfonsas Daniūnas, Asta Radzeviciene,Irena Garbeniene, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University,Public institution „Vilnius - European Capital of Culture 2009, Lithuania: Vilnius: university and town growing together

- Dan Maniu Duse - Simona Pop, “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu - City Hall Sibiu, Romania: The organizational culture of the Sibiu City Hall

10.30 – 10.45: Coffee break

- Silvia Florea, "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, Romania: Access and Equity in Higher Education: Sibiu-European Capital of Culture-2007

- Hilmar Rommetvedt, International Research Institute of Stavanger, Norway: Stavanger2008: From Norwegian Oil Capital to European Capital of Culture

- John Phillips, Jan Brown, Liverpool Hope University, Great Britain: Liverpool08: What Does It Mean To The City’s Residents?

2. The relationship between local traditions and European culture: How can a city/region with its local identity define/re-invent itself as a European Capital of Culture?

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

- Wim Coudenys, Lessius University College, Antwerp, Belgium: Frontiers and Limits of European Culture

- François Carbon, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg: “Three Penny Opera 2007”

- Antal Bókay, University of Pécs, Hungary: City and University in a Post-modern Culture

10.30 – 10.45: Coffee break

- Inge Saerheim, University of Stavanger, Norway: Official naming and cultural identity in a European capital of culture

- Johannes Haas, University of Applied Sciences FH JOANNEUM, Graz, Austria: Linking Culture and Sustainability for Regional Development in Styria: The Responsibility of the University of Applied Sciences FH JOANNEUM in Graz as Driving Force

- Fania Pallikarakis, Cultural Organisation of the City of Athens, Greece: The Cultural

Volunteers Program of Patras 2006; a Procedures Description Report

- Adriana Galvani, University of Bologna, Italy: Bologna:European City of Culture 2000

12.00 – 13.30: Lunch

Venue: Astra Open Air Museum

13.30 – 15.30: Scientific Conference II.

Parallel sessions:

3. The importance of the European Capital of Culture movement: Place branding, local culture vs. European vocation

Chair: Inge Saerheim, University of Stavanger

- Yves Roose, Deputy Mayor for culture and education, Brugge, Belgium: The impact of a European Cultural Capital on the local cultural policy

- Vladimiras Grazulis - Lucia Bartkiene, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania: The Preservation of Cultural Communities in the New History of Vilnius (According to the Example of Romanian Cultural Community “Dačia”)

- Ib Omland - LeRoy Olaf Tonning, University of Stavanger, Norway: The Wooden Gown of Stavanger - strengthening the genius of the morphology and material qualities of the city

- Corneliu Ioan Bucur, Astra Open Air Museum Sibiu, Romania: The ethos and the ethnology of  people the fundament of an European culture identity

- J. Christian B. Kirsch, International Delphic Council, Berlin, Germany: A Stage for European Culture? YES, but…Attempt for answers to questions / difficulties we all know

4. The geography of European Capitals of Culture: Are ECCs European cultural 'capitals'? A Joint session with Herodot Network

Chair: Bill Chambers, Liverpool Hope University

- Alexandra Zaparucha, Didactical Laboratory of the Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences/ Association of Polish Adult Educators, Toruń, Poland: The city of Copernicus, Gothic architecture, gingerbread and university - Toruń in Poland for the European Capital of Culture 2016

- Wlodzimierz Sady, Agricultural University in Krakow, Poland: Benefits of being European Capital of Culture - Krakow 2000-2007

- Karl Donert, Liverpool Hope University, Great Britain: Liverpool-Capital of Culture: an interdisciplinary opportunity

- Alexandre Frey Pinto de Almeida, University Fernando Pessoa, Portugal: “'Porto' or 'Oporto'? Language as an indicator of the cultural background: linguistic / geographic integration of a European Capital of Culture”

15.30 – 15.45: Coffee break

15.45 – 17.45: Visiting of the Open Air Museum in Dumbrava Sibiului

19:30: Gala Dinner

Venue: Restaurant Roman Emperor