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---------------------------------------------------- European Art and Culture Between Free Trade and Cultural Diversity. A Delicate Dialogue? Helsinki, Finland 15 -16 December 2006 This year's CIRCLE Round Table focuses on the status of the arts and culture in the evolving global economy. It is increasingly important to consider cultural diversity together with the development of international trade regime and trade rules. Also national cultural policies need to take into account these external forces. Cultural issues become relevant in a range of contexts of international trade law including e.g. WTO agreements: General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). The main objectives of GATS and GATT agreements are to promote liberalisation of trade in goods and services and equity between parties. TRIPS requires member states to provide strong protection for intellectual property rights. UNESCO's new Convention on the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expression recognises the need to take measures to protect the diversity of cultural expressions. Article 6 the Convention takes a clear stand that the parties (the states and their transnational organisation, e.g. the EU) can, in its cultural policies, adopt measure ".aimed at protecting and promoting the diversity of cultural expression within its territory". Article 7 legitimises the promotion of cultural expression and Article 8 makes an allowance for special protection which a party to the Convention can resort to in the case ".cultural expressions on its territory are at risk of extinction, under serious threat or otherwise in the need of urgent safeguarding". The Convention as such does not solve the issues of the position of the arts and culture in the trade liberalisation negotiations. It has also been pointed out that its Article 20 contains a clause that "nothing in this convention shall be interpreted as modifying rights and obligations of the parties under any other treaties". Irrespective what this clause may mean, there is, due to th collapse of the trade negotiations at Cancun, a standstill, which allows for looking a balance between "free traders" and "protectionists". The CIRCLE Round Table will bring together experts and practitioners of international cultural co-operation and world trade to investigate and assess how this balance could be achieved. Programme Friday 15th December 2006 9h30 Registration 10h30 Opening Session - EUROPEAN ART AND CULTURE BETWEEN FREE TRADE AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY, WHAT IS AT STAKE? Kimmo Aulake, Special Government Adviser, Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland; Chair of the Steering Committee for Culture, Council of Europe Xavier Troussard, Head of Unit, Directorate General for Education and Culture, European Commission (tbc.) Hannu Takkula, MEP, Member of Committee on Culture and Education, European Parliament (tbc.) Welcome Speeches by the Organisers CIRCLE, Boekman, Cupore 11h15 Session I - REGULATIONS AND LAWS Chair: Kimmo Aulake, Special Government Adviser, Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture WTO, Free Trade and Culture Peter van den Bossche, Professor of International Trade Law, Maastricht University Global Cultural Contract Christophe Germann, Attorney-at-law, Institute of European Economic Law of the University of Bern Why Do We Need a Convention on Cultural Diversity Jukka Liedes, Director of Culture and Media Policy Division, Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture Discussion 14h00 Lunch at the Cable Factory The Cable Factory Tour (optional) 16h00 Session II - AUDIOVISUALS AND THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES Chair: Kirill Razlogov, Director of the Russian Institute for Cultural Research Creative Industries and Regulations John Howkins, Deputy Chairman, BSAC (tbc.) Culture Inc. or Trade Revisited? How Interinstitutional Dialectics and Dynamic Actor Positions Affect the Outcome of the Debate on Cultural Trade and Diversity Jan Loisen, Researcher, Free University of Brussels Karen Donders, Scientific Researcher, Institute for European Studies, Brussels Panel discussion John Howkins, Deputy Chairman, BSAC (tbc.) Jan Loisen, Free University of Brussels Karen Donders, Scientific Researcher, Institute for European Studies, Brussels Verena Wiedemann, Secretary General, German Public Broadcasting Company (ARD), Berlin 20h00 Christmas Dinner at the Cable Factory Saturday 16th December 2006 09h30 Session III - ARTS, HERITAGE, TOURISM AND FREE TRADE Moderated by Christopher Gordon, Board member of CIRCLE Introductory speeches by: Joost Smiers, Professor of Political Science of the Arts, Utrecht School of the Arts Nina Obuljen, Research Fellow, Department for Culture and Communication, University of Zagreb Ferdinand Richard, Director of AMI (Aide aux Musiques Innovatrices), Marseille Discussion 11h30 Break 11h45 Closing Session - CONCLUSIONS OF THE ROUND TABLE AND AND THE FUTURE CHALLENGES FOR CULTURAL POLICY RESEARCH Discussion moderated by Dorota Ilczuk, President of CIRCLE and Rod Fisher,Director, International Intelligence on Culture 13h00 Lunch 14h30 CIRCLE Annual General Meeting at the Cable Factory --------------------------------------------------------- Venue: High Tech Centre, Helsinki, Tammasaarenkatu 1-7, located in the district of Ruoholahti. Registration latest by 5th of December 2006 - we would encourage you to register as soon as possible. To register, please send your contact information (e-mail, organisation, title/position, country) to: Minna Ruusuvirta Foundation for Cultural Policy Research Tallberginkatu 1 C 137 FIN-00180 Helsinki minna.ruusuvirta@cupore.fi Tel. + 358 (0)9 7746 0412 Fax. +358 (0)9 7746 0437 http://www.cupore.fi/en_index.php Warm welcome to Helsinki! -- H-MUSEUM H-Net Network for Museums and Museum Studies E-Mail: h-museum@h-net.msu.edu WWW: http://www.h-museum.net
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