Friday: (Some of the scholars listed below have already committed to participating in the conference, others are considering participating.)
* Session 1 (9 -10:30) Political/economic changes and culture
(Globalization -- the market -- enrichment or homogenization? -- commodification of culture)
* Rob Kroes: on European citizenship/diversity/homogeneity
Benjamin Barber: Globalism and citizenship
* Tyler Cowen: on Western Market economy & cultural production
Wolfgang Fritz Haug: on commodity aesthetics and the commodification of culture
Session 2 (10:45 -12:15): Cultural Studies
* Simon Mundy: cultural diversity: obstacle to European unity
Richard Kuisel: Chair
Francisco Fernandez Buey (Barcelona): on multi-culturalism in the European academy/is cultural difference divisive/ how to recognize difference without endangering project of creating European unity?/question of regionalism
Session 3 (1:30 - 3pm): Literary Constructions of the European Imaginary
* (Wlad Godzich and possibly J. Talens)
Session 4: ( 3:15 - 4:45pm) Cinema
* (Is the global reach of Hollywood a threat to European cinema? / Is there a distinctive "European" cinema?/ Does a "European" cinema dilute "national"cinemas)
* Has a hybridization of the cinema occurred that submerges national components?
* Possible participants Paul Smith, Geoffrey Nowell Smith, Jo Labanyi, Francesco Masselli
* Evening: Film screening
Saturday
Session 1 (9:00-10:30): Mass media (TV, Newspapers, etc)
Session 2 (10:45 -12:15): Cultural Spaces (High culture/mass culture)
(Privatization of cultural space. Effects on urban spaces/architecture? Creating Europe through mass spectacles: sports, song contests, etc)
Martin Irvine: on cyber-culture?
Edward Soja
Session 3 (1:30 - 3:00): Performing Arts
Session 4 (3:15--4:45): Music (Possible participants Laurent Dreano, Iain Chambers)
Movie "Recital" by group Kafig