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5th International
Forum of the Universal Academy of Cultures
What
Globalisation ? 13
& 14 November 2001 Grande
Halle de La Villette
211,
Avenue Jean-Jaurès
75019 Paris - France
Métro Porte de Pantin with
the support of the French Ministries of
Education, Culture and Foreign Affairs
and
of the Maison des Sciences de l'homme Scientific
Committee :
Elie
Wiesel, Amartya Sen, Ariel Dorfman, Umberto Eco,
Franz-Olivier Giesbert,
François Gros, Joshua Lederberg, Paul Ricoeur,
Jorge Semprun, Liv Ullmann,
Françoise Barret-Ducrocq A
video document on " The earth seen from the sky " by Yann Arthus-Bertrand has
been graciously made available to the Universal Academy of Cultures by the autor.
It will be shown during the Forum. Tuesday,
November 13th 
9h15
:
Keynote Speech by Elie Wiesel,
President of the Universal Academy of Cultures
Speech
by Jack Lang, French Education Secretary
Abdoulaye
Wade, President of the Republic of Senegal
"Emerging Countries and Globalization
" Yves Lacoste, geographer,
director and founder of the Journal Hérodote
"Has the Earth Shrunk
Down ?" Franz-Olivier Giesbert,
director of Le Point, member of the Academy
" News as Merchandise "
SESSION
N°1 10H00 12H00
HISTORY,
GENEALOGY, DEFINITIONS
Chair
: Elie Wiesel Arundhati
Roy, writer, laureate of the 2001 Great Prize of the Universal Academy of
Cultures Umberto Eco, philosopher
and writer, member of the Academy
" A Story of Conspiracies " Jacques
Le Goff, historian, member of the Academy
" Ancient Forms of Globalisation
" Bernard Kouchner, French
Health Minister, member of the Academy
" Health and Globalisation " Monique
Canto-Sperber, philosopher
" Is Globalisation compatible with certain values
" François de Bernard,
president of the Research Group on Globalisations
" Problematics on Globalisations
" Roger Pol-Droit, philosopher
and columnist for Le Monde
" Farewell to barbarians " Dominique
Schnapper, sociologist, member of the French Constitutional Court
"
Citizenship and globalisation " Debate
with the floor Tuesday,
November 13th
SESSION
N°2 14H30 18H00
ECONOMY
AND FINANCE
Chair
: Franz-Olivier Giesbert Jeffrey
Sachs, economist, Director, Harvard Center for International Development
"
Globalisation and the Developing Countries" Jean-Paul
Fitoussi, economist, President, French Observatory of Economic Circumstances
"
Market and Democracy" Albina
du Boisrouvray, Chairwoman of a Charity Fund
" A Global Plague : AIDS'
Orphans " Kotaro Suzumura,
economist, Institute of Economic Research, Itotsubashi University, Tokyo
"
The Interface Mechanism between Different Economic Systems " Arjun
Sengupta, economist, Independent Expert, Human Rights Commission, Geneva
" Globalisation and the Right to Development " Nicolas
Baverez, economist and historian
"Governing globalisation" Maxine
Molyneux, professor, London University
" Globalisation and gender inequality
: political challenges and recent trends " Jaan
Kaplinski, former member of the Estonian Parliament, member of the Academy
" Globalisation : For or Against Nature ? " Round
table gathering : Alain
Minc, President of the Board of governors of SA Le Monde
Nicole
Notat, Secretary General of the French Trade Union CFDT
Philippe Cohen,
journalist, economic editor at Marianne
Dominique Plihon, professor
of economics at Paris XIII University,
President of the scientific advisory
council, ATTAC
moderator
: Jorge Semprun Debate
with the floor Wednesday,
November 14th
SESSION
N°3 9H00 12H30
CULTURE,
INFORMATION, EDUCATION
Chair
: Umberto Eco François
Gros, biologist, member of the Academy
" Science and Technology in a
Global Environment " Mohamed
Talbi, historian, member of the Academy
" Is Western Style Globalisation
Promethean ? " Lady Helena
Kennedy, president of the British Council, member of the Academy
" Toward
the Homogenization of Culture ? "
Junzo Kawada, anthropologist, University of Hiroshima, member of the Academy
" Reviving Local Values in the Global Context ? " Susana
Villavicencio, philosopher, professor at the Buenos Aires University
"
Latin Americain Perpectives with Age of Globalisation " Ezra
Chammah, Chief Executive Officer of SoccerAge.com
" SoccerAge : the Correct
Way of Applying Globalization " Ariel
Dorfman, playwright, member of the Academy
" Missing Persons and Photography
: the Uses and misuses of globalisation " Furio
Colombo, director of l'Unità, member of the Academy
" Globalisation
News and News in the age of Globalisation "
Chrystof
Wulf, anthropologist, Freie Universität, Berlin
"Globalised Education
and Training in Intercultural Relations" Jacques
Poulain, philosopher, University of Paris VIII - Saint-Denis
"Towards
a Universal University" Debate
with the floor Wednesday,
November 14th
SESSION
N°4 14H30 17H30
ETHICS,
LAW AND POLITICS
Chair
: Bronislaw Geremek Mireille
Delmas-Marty, lawyer, member of the Academy
" Legal Systems between Economic
Globalisation and the Universal Aspiration of Human Rights " François
Ost, Professor of Law, University of Brussels
" In search of good governance
: Protagoras'challenge " Jean-Michel
Séverino, President of the French Development Agency,
former vice chairman
of the World Bank
" Deregulation and Control" Irwin
Cotler, lawyer, member of the Academy
" Globalisation, Human Rights and
human Security " Harris Memel-Fötê,
anthropologist, member of the Academy
" An essay on human-faced globalisation
" Françoise Héritier,
anthropologist, member of the Academy
" Are the So-Called Cultural Obstacles
to a Universal Ethic Valid ? " Jean
Marie Colombani
"Globalisation : current state of the debate in Le Monde"
Jorge Semprun, novelist,
member of the Academy
" The Notion of Nation Withers away " Debate
with the floor
CLOSING
SPEECH 18H00
Jorge
Semprun, novelist, member of the Academy | 
