Programme

9h Welkom by Pr. Laurence van Ypersele

9h30-10h10 Pr. Tanguy de Wilde (UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique) « International relations, strategies of small countries facing big neighbors »

10h10-10h50 Three Panellists :

• Pr. Hsueh (NCCU) "Mainland China Policy During Lee Teng-hui's Administration"
• Edouard Xia (UCLouvain) « Belgium and the war in Irak, 2003”

• Pr. Tanguy Lepesant (NCU) « When geography comes into play: another perspective on the military imbalance in the Taiwan Strait»

• Discussion

Pause Café

11h-11h40 Pr. Jean-Yves Heurtebise (National University Sun Yat Sen, Kaohsiung, Taiwan) « Geopolitics & Epistemology of Cultural Relations among Asymmetric Nations (& Categories of Cultural Relations: Similarity, Subalternity, Alterity & Hybridity) »

11h40-12h30 Four Panellists :

• Pr. Hubert Roland (UCLouvain) « Belgium, Flamenpolitik and German Occupation, WWI »

• Pr. Stéphanie Vanasten (UCLouvain) “Dynamiques transnationales de traduction littéraire en pays plurilingues” 

• Pr. Geneviève Warland (UCLouvain) & Chih-hung Chen (NCCU) : « The University According to Humboldt: Its Variations in Belgium and Taiwan”

• Pr. Frédéric Laugrand (UCLouvain) “When Taiwan identifies itself as the cradle of Austronesian peoples: what interspecies relations reveal”

• Discussion

12h30 Conclusions by Pr. Annette Becker (Université de Paris-Nanterre, France)

13h Lunch, sandwichs