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Please
note: This is a provisional program only and is subject to
change before the event.
Thursday,
February 20
| 10:00 –
10:30 |
Conference
Opening
Professor Dietrich Kappeler (President,
DiploFoundation and former Director, Mediterranean
Academy of Diplomatic Studies)
Professor Jürg Gabriel (Director, Mediterranean
Academy of Diplomatic Studies) |
|
10:30 – 11:15 |
Foreign
Cultural Policy of States
(Ambassador Heinrich Reimann,
Swiss Ambassador to the OSCE, UN and other
international organisations in Vienna)
|
| 11:15 –
11:45 |
Coffee
Break |
|
11:45 – 12:30 |
Organisational
Culture of UN Agencies: Identifying and Managing
Porous Boundary Phenomena
(Dr Raymond Saner and
Dr Lichia Yiu, Center for
Socio-Eco-Nomic Development, Geneva) |
| 12:30 –
14.00 |
Lunch |
| 14.00 –
14:30 |
Intercultural Communications and Crisis
Public Diplomacy
(Dr R.S. Zaharna, American University, Washington DC) |
| 14:30 –
15:15 |
The
Impact
of Cultural Diversity on Multilateral Diplomacy and Relations
(Professor Dietrich
Kappeler, DiploFoundation)
|
| 15:15 –
15:45 |
Coffee
Break |
| 15:45 –
17.00 |
Lessons
from Two Fields: A Diplomat and an Interculturalist Converse
(Heather Robinson, Success Across Borders, and
Lewis R. Macfarlane, US Foreign Service, retired) |
| 17:30
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Cultural
Tour to Valletta |
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Friday, February 21
|
9:00 – 9:45 |
Cultural Chasm: The Ill-Fated 1999-2000
Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations
(Professor Raymond
Cohen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
|
9:45 – 10:30 |
Dealing with Asian Diversity: Communicating
across Cultures
(Dr Eun Y. Kim, CEO International) |
|
10:30 – 10:45 |
Coffee
Break |
|
10:45 – 11:30 |
Mullah
Zaeef and Taliban Diplomacy: Bridging the Culture Gap
(Professor Paul Sharp, University of Minnesota, Duluth)
|
| 11:30 – 12:00 |
Diplomats
Communicating across Cultures
(Dr Zareen Karani
Araoz, Managing Across Cultures) |
|
12:00 – 12:30 |
Justice–Home Affairs Diplomacy and the
Contemporary Migrations
(Anis H. Bajrektarevic, IMC – University of Applied Management
Sciences, Krems, Austria)
|
| 12:30 – 13:45 |
Lunch |
| 13:45 –
14:15 |
Misreading
the (o)ther: Remarks on Iraq
(Sinan Antoon,
Harvard University) |
| 14:15 –
15:00 |
Misunderstood: The Information
Technologist’s Lament
(Dr Eduardo
Gelbstein,
DiploFoundation and United Nations Institute for Training and
Research)
|
| 15:00 –
15:15 |
Coffee
Break |
| 15:15 –
16:00 |
Selling
Multiculturalism to the Masses: Visual Language and Political
Subtext in Post 9/11 Social Advertising
(Dr Biljana Scott, University of Oxford)
|
| 16:00 –
16:45 |
Cultural
Content on the Websites of Diplomatic Systems
(Dr Valentin
Katrandzhiev, DiploFoundation) |
| 20:00 |
Conference
Dinner |
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Saturday, February
22
|
9:00 – 9:45 |
Language,
Culture and Political Discourse
(Dr Diana Lewis, University of Oxford)
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|
9:45 – 10:30 |
European
Challenges to Cross Cultural Borders
(Dr Elena A.A.
Garcea, University of Cassino)
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|
10:30 – 10:45 |
Coffee
Break |
|
10:45 – 11:30 |
Making
the “Other” Human: The Role of Personal
Stories to Bridge Deep Differences
(Nike
Carstarphen,
Alliance for Conflict Transformation, Barcelona)
|
| 11:30 – 12:00 |
The Dual Nature of Russia-West
Intercultural Communication
(Yuliya Anatol evna
Druzhinina, Moscow State Linguistic University)
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|
12:00 – 12:30 |
Revisiting
the Feasibility of Using Cultural Patterns for Diplomacy
Training in New Zealand
(Dr Yunxia Zhu, UNITEC,
Auckland, New Zealand) |
| 12:30 – 13:45 |
Lunch |
| 13:45 –
14:15 |
Challenges Facing Women in Overseas Diplomatic Positions
(Dr Caroline Linse, Minsk
State Linguistic University)
|
| 14:30 –
15:30 |
Workshop
(Dr Zareen Karani Araoz, Managing Across Cultures, and
Professor Alberto
Araoz, University of Massachusetts, Boston)
|
| 15:30 –
15:45 |
Coffee
Break |
| 15:45 –
17:30 |
Workshop (con’t) |
| 18:00 |
Cultural
Tour to Mdina |
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