08:30-09:30

Registration

09:30-10:00

Opening Ceremony

Ø   Chin-chu Wong, Minister of Council for Cultural Affairs

Ø   Chen-chung Deng, Chief Negotiator, Office of Trade Negotiations

Ø   Professor Chang-fa Lo, Director of ACWH

10:00-12:00

  Session I: Culture and Trade - Specific Treatment of Cultural Goods and Services in the Context  of Regional Trade Agreements

 Chair:

Ø   Professor Michael Hahn, University of Waikato, New Zealand

  Speakers:

Ø   Creating Shelf-Space: NAFTA's Experience with Trade and CultureProfessor Chi Carmody, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Ø   Screen Quota and Trade—Debates in Korea-US FTA Talks, and Convention on Cultural Diversity Professor Won-mog Choi, Ewha Womans University, Korea

Ø   The Cultural Components in FTAs as the WTO-Plus: Impairing or Helping Cultural Diversity? Professor Chang-fa Lo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

12:00-13:30

Lunch Break

13:30-16:30

Session II: Culture and Trade—Conflict between Trade Liberalization and Domestic Cultural Policy

Chair: Professor Chang-fa Lo, National Taiwan University

Speakers:

Ø   The Relationship between the UNESCO Diversity Convention and International Economic Law Professor Michael Hahn, University of Waikato, New Zealand

Ø   Trade Commitments Actually Promote Cultural Diversity Laurie Sherman, President of Laura B Sherman LLC, USA

Ø   The Mighty Pen, the Almighty Dollar, and the Holy Hammer and Sickle: An examination of the conflict between trade liberalization and domestic cultural policy with special regard to the recent dispute between the US and China on restrictions on certain cultural productsProfessor Henry Gao, Hong Kong University, China

Ø   Exploring the Link between Trade and Culture Concerns in Trade Remedy Professor Tsai-yu Lin, Soochow University, Taiwan

09:30-11:30

 Session III: Cultural Diversity and the Development of Cultural Industry: Policy and Practices

 Chair: Professor Chi Carmody, University of Western Ontario, Canada

 Speaker:

Ø   Can the WTO Regulate Cultural Diversity: the Limitations of a Legal Approach Professor Fiona Smith, University College London, UK (sponsored by British Council Taiwan)

Ø   Trade in TV and TV-like Services: Cultural Policy ConsiderationsProfessor Shin-yi Peng, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Ø   Cultural Exception and Globalization Professor Joëlle Farchy, Université Paris1, France (sponsored by the French Institute)

11:30-13:00

Lunch Break

13:00-15:20

  Session IV: Culture, Trade, Traditional Knowledge and IPRs

  Chair: Professor Won-Mog Choi, Ewha Womans University, Korea

  Speaker:

Ø   International Law Making on Traditional Knowledge Professor Kuei-jung  Ni, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Ø   Copyright & Cultural Property: Law's Role in Creating Incentives to Create Professor Raymond Ku, Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Ø   IPR / Traditional Knowledge: Where do we (want to) go from hereProfessor Krishna Ravi Srinivas, Indian Institute of Management

Ø   Conflict and Complementarity in Trade, Cultural Diversity and Intellectual Property Rights Professor Tomer Broude, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

15:20-15:35

Coffee Break

15:35-17:45

 Session V: Cultural Industry Policies: Film and TV

Chair: Fiona Smith, University College London, UK

Speaker:

Ø   Pleasures and Headaches of International and Intercultural Film Production Dr. Monika Treut, independent film director and producer, Germany (sponsored by Deutsches Kulturzentrum Taipei)

Ø   Experience ARTE Jerome Clement, President of ARTE France (ARTE: Playing the Program Trailer)

17:45-18:00

Closing Remarks