Conference Programme

EUROPE AND ASIA: REGIONS IN FLUX
CERC International Conference 2006

6 – 7 December 2006

to be held at

CONTEMPORARY EUROPE RESEARCH CENTRE
Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence
The University of Melbourne
Level 2, 234 Queensberry St, Carlton

Europe and Asia program pdf
Europe and Asia abstracts & biogs (pdf)

Day 1

WEDNESDAY 6 DECEMBER 2006

9.00-9.30 REGISTRATION
Level 2, Grand Foyer, 234 Queensberry Street

9.30-9.45 Opening Remarks

A/Prof Philomena Murray (Director, CERC, The University of Melbourne, Australia)

9.45-10.45 SESSION 1: Integration in the EU and Asia: Changing Dynamics
Level 2, Lecture Theatre, 234 Queensberry Street

Chair: A/Prof Philomena Murray (CERC, The University of Melbourne, Australia)

Prof Frank Delmartino (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium):
The European Integration System and its Methods of Policy-making. An Overview and Assessment

A/Prof Derek McDougall (University of Melbourne, Australia):
The East Asian Experience of Regionalism

10.45-11.00 TEA BREAK
Level 2, Grand Foyer, 234 Queensberry Street

11:00-12.30 SESSION 2: Economic Integration: Europe and Asia Compared
Level 2, Lecture Theatre, 234 Queensberry Street

Chair: Prof Howard Dick (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Dr Christopher M Dent (University of Leeds, UK):
The Economic Geography of Regionalisation in East Asia and Europe

Prof Hee-Yul Chai (Kyonggi University, Korea):
A Roadmap of Monetary Cooperation in East Asia: Some Lessons from the European Experience

Prof Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan (Univesity of Limerick, Ireland), presented by A/Prof Philomena Murray:
Comparing and Contrasting Economic Integration in the Asia-Pacific Region and Europe

12.30-13.30 LUNCH
Level 2, Grand Foyer, 234 Queensberry Street

13.30-15.00 SESSION 3: How Europe Perceives Asia
Level 2, Lecture Theatre, 234 Queensberry Street

Chair: Dr Christopher M. Dent (University of Leeds, UK)

A/Prof Philomena Murray (CERC, University of Melbourne, Australia):
Contemporary European Perspectives on East Asia and EU-Asia Relations

Mr Natee Vichitsorasatra and Professor Michael Smith (Loughborough University, UK):
The European Union as a Foreign Policy Actor in Asia: Theorising and Defining EU-Asia Relations

Dr Georg Wiessala (University of Central Lancashire, UK):
“Re-Orienting” the Fundamentals? - Human Rights and New Connections in EU-Asia Relations

15.00-15.30 TEA BREAK
Level 2, Grand Foyer, 234 Queensberry Street

15.30-17.00 SESSION 4: How Asia Perceives Europe
Level 2, Lecture Theatre, 234 Queensberry Street

Chair: Dr Yeo Lay Hwee (Singapore Institute of International Affairs, Singapore)

Mr Eijiro Fukui (Keio University, Japan):
Japan's Perspective on European Integration

Prof Toshiro Tanaka (Keio University, Japan):
Asian (ASEAN +3) Perspectives on European Integration

A/Prof Ralph Pettman (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
Asian Perspectives on the European Experience

17.00-19.00 CONFERENCE RECEPTION
Level 2, Grand Foyer, 234 Queensberry Street

Prof Belinda Probert, Dean of the Faculty of Arts at The University of Melbourne, will officially launch the CERC 2006 Working Papers Series of the Contemporary Europe Research Centre. The official launch will be followed by the conference reception.

Day 2
THURSDAY 7 DECEMBER 2006

9.30-10.00 REGISTRATION
Level 2, Grand Foyer, 234 Queensberry Street

10.00-11.45 SESSION 5: Strategic Partnerships and Interregional Dialogue
Level 2, Lecture Theatre, 234 Queensberry Street

Chair: A/Prof Derek McDougall (The University of Melbourne, Australia)

James Moran (DG External Relations, The European Commission):
Europe Raises its Asian Game: New Directions in the EU's Engagement with Asia

Prof Nicholas Rees (University of Limerick, Ireland):
European and Asian Security and the Role of Regional Organisations in the Post-9/11 Environment

Dr Pradeep Taneja (The University of Melbourne, Australia):
EU-China Relations: A Strategic Partnership?

11.45-12.00 TEA BREAK
Level 2, Grand Foyer, 234 Queensberry Street

12.00-13.00 SESSION 6: Europe and Asia: Policies Compared
Level 2, Lecture Theatre, 234 Queensberry Street

Chair: Mr Peter Dreher (Australian Business in Europe - Victoria, Australia)

Dr Cesar de Prado (UNU-CRIS, Belgium):
Comparing the External Dimensions of the EU and East Asia

Mr Alistair Cook (The University of Melbourne, Australia):
Regions’ Influx: ASEAN and EU Perspectives on forced migration: The case of Myanmar

13.00-14.00 LUNCH
Level 2, Grand Foyer, 234 Queensberry Street

14.00-15.00 SESSION 7: Regional and Global Governance: The ASEM Framework
Level 2, Lecture Theatre, 234 Queensberry Street

Chair: A/Prof Marko Pavlyshyn (Monash University, Australia)

Prof Stephanie Lawson (Macquarie University, Australia & University of East Anglia, UK):
Asia/Europe and the Construction of Regional Governance

Dr Yeo Lay Hwee (Singapore Institute of International Affairs, Singapore):
The ASEM Framework and EU-East Asia Relations: Potential and Reality

15.00-15.15 TEA BREAK
Level 2, Grand Foyer, 234 Queensberry Street

15.15-16.15 SESSION 8: Thinking Outside of the Square
Level 2, Lecture Theatre, 234 Queensberry Street

Chair: Dr Georg Wiessala (University of Central Lancashire, UK)

Prof Michael North (Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald, Germany):
The Baltic Sea Region as a Model of Transnational Integration

Prof Arie Reich (Bar Ilan University, Israel):
The Principle of Subsidiarity as Applied to Regional Economic Integration in Asia

 

16:15-16.30 TEA BREAK

16.30-17.30 Session 9: Regional Integration as an Instrument for Nationalism, Sovereignty and Peace?
Level 2, Lecture Theatre, 234 Queensberry Street

Chair: Ms Annabel Anderson (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia)

Dr David Camroux (CERI-Sciences Po, France):
'Janus Revisited, Brahma Visited’: Nationalism(s) and Regionalism(s), Perspectives from Asia and Europe

Ms Imelda Deinla (University of New South Wales, Australia):
Patterns of Sovereignty and the Rule of Law in Southeast Asia: Implications for Closer Integration in ASEAN

18.30 CONFERENCE DINNER

Venue: Ghurkas (Nepalese Restaurant, 258 Lygon Street in Carlton)

The CERC International Conference 2006 on “Europe and Asia: Regions in Flux” is part of the University's Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence activities, supported by the European Commission.

The conference is an outcome of a major cross-national project whose contributors are based at the University of Melbourne (Australia), the University of Limerick (Ireland), Keio University (Japan) and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). This transnational cooperation is funded by a grant from the European Union (Contract number 2005-2762/001-001), with additional support form the above universities. The organisers are thankful to the participating universities as well as the European Commission Jean Monnet Transnational Research Grant for their contribution.

Finally, the organisers would also like to thank the British High Commission in Canberra for its support of this event.