From: Donald Weber
International Colloquium on Anti-globalism
Ghent, Friday 9 September 2005
Organized by Amsab-Institute of Social History
www.amsab.be/anti-globalism
Survey of the research on the anti-globalist movement.
Position towards the global governance authorities.
Amsab-Institute of Social History will bring together a number of researchers in the International Colloquium on Anti-globalism, who will survey the research on the anti-globalist movement. The colloquium will touch upon a theme that in the coming years will become ever more important in the evolution of the anti-globalist movement, namely its position towards the 'global governance authorities'. Key note speaker is the Indian researcher Vandana Shiva, who has developed the notion of 'living democracy' in order to counter the 'commercial universalism' of our present world with a 'moral universalism'.
Programme
International Colloquium on Anti-globalism
Friday 9 September
Morning 9 - 12 am
Documentation and Research on Anti-globalism
9.15 Wouter Steenhaut (Amsab-Institute of Social History), Welcome
9.30 Francine Mestrum (Attac-Flanders, Université Libre de Bruxelles), Introduction
9.50 Piet Creve (Amsab-ISH) Archives and documentation anti-globalist movement Belgium
10.10 François Polet (Centre Tricontinental), Archives and documentation anti-globalist movement international
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Marcel van der Linden (International Institute of Social History), Research on the anti-globalist movement
11.30 Thomas Ponniah (Clark University), Research on the anti-globalist movement
12 am Lunch break
Afternoon 1.30 - 4 am
Inside Outside. Social Movements and Global Governance
1.30 Vandana Shiva (Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology), Key note speaker
2.00 Panel discussion, chairman Gie Goris (Mo Magazine)
Marc Bontemps (Ethibel, former director of Oxfam Belgium)
Rudy De Leeuw (Belgian socialist trade union ABVV-FGTB)
François Houtart (Centre Tricontinental, prof. em. Université Catholique de Louvain, member International Council World Social
Forum) James Howard (International Confederation of Free Trade Unions) Anne Morelli (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
3.30 Francine Mestrum (Attac-Flanders, ULB), Conclusions
4.00 Reception
Practical
International Colloquium on Anti-globalism
Friday 9 September 2005
PAC Zuid, Woodrow Wilsonplein 2, Ghent
The official languages of the colloquium are English and French.
Simultanous translation will be provided in English, French and Dutch.
Organized by
Amsab-Institute of Social History
Gerrit Kreveld Foundation
International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI)
Information
Amsab-ISH Anti-globalism, Bagattenstraat 174, B-9000 Ghent (Belgium)
Tel. +32 9 224 00 79
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