101UBIAS Directors Conference on “Rising New Perspectives
in an Age of Globalization: Challenges and Prospects”
Institutes for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Science,
National Taiwan University, November 27–29, 2014

What is distinctive about the present age of globalization? Peoples, nations,cultures from across the globe, are communicating, meeting, interacting,confronting, cooperating, conflicting, and working together on an unprecedented range of levels. In the course of their myriad interactions andexchanges in the rising and falling maelstroms of events, they tend to arrive
at mutual recognition of varying degrees and struggle for mutual respect,which are cornerstones of developing and realizing a fairer and more justsociety, internationally as well as domestically.
In this age of globalization, the players are forced out of their comfort
zones into new arenas, where others see things differently and play by otherrules; yet since the world is shrinking the players all desperately need tomutually adjust and accommodate one another to certain extents. Hopefully,
such adjustments can for the most part be positive and progressive, and instigate improvements in not just mutual understanding and respect but also in
fostering mutual love and appreciation, fairer distributions of wealth andresources, and generally better quality of life everywhere. Of course, suchgoals are implicit in the formation of every 1AS, especially every UBIAS.
In this spirit, this meeting will have a two-fold theme. The general theme
is: Breaking Through Old Boundaries and Paradigms in the New Age of Glob­al­iza­tion. The related specific theme is Rising East Asia in the New Age ofGlobalization. The general theme is to bring all perspectives and voices to thetable; the boundaries and paradigms can be at any level — from political andeconomic, to social, cultural, civilizational, academic, and so forth. In fact, forus, the academic level is the key pivot. The specific theme is for all our IHS(NTU) and our UBIAS brethren and sisteren in East Asia, and Latin Americaand Iberia, to showcase our different cultures, experiences, and the newperspectives and fresh paradigms we have been investigating and developing.
At the same time, this is a Directors Meeting. We hope that our conference themes will dovetail and cross-fertilize with the crucial issues that theUBIAS steering committee and UBIAS member institutes are most concernedto address.

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Conference ScheduleVenue: ‌Liang Kuo Shu International Conference Hall, College of Social
Sciences/Si Liang International Conference Hall, College of Sciences
National Taiwan University
Thursday November 27, 201408:30-9:00

Registration

09:00-09:30

Welcome remarks
1) Pan-Chyr Yang, President of National Taiwan University (NTU)
2) Carsten Dose, Managing Director of FRIAS, Freiburg University
Moderator: Chun-chieh Huang, Dean of IHS, NTU, Taiwan

09:30-09:50

Group Photo

09:50-10:20

Keynote speech 1
Perspectives of Globalization in Academia
Hideyo Kunieda, Trustee and Vice-president of Nagoya University,
Japan
Moderator: Chun-chieh Huang, Dean of IHS, NTU, Taiwan

10:20-10:35

Coffee Break

10:35-10:50

Session 1 (A)Thinking from East Asia: NTU IHS researches into the political,
cultural, and economic dynamics of East Asia, and its Global
ImpactDVD Introduction to Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities andSocial Sciences (IHS)
1) Chao-ying Chen, Executive Director, Program for East Asian
Confucianisms:
Well-spring of core values for East Asian peoples, societies, institutions, and civilizations.
2) Kwang-kuo Huang, Principal Investigator, Program for
Psychological Research on Chinese Self in East Asia:
Relational self vs. Individual self

10:50-12:00

3) Jiunn-rong Yeh, Principal Investigator, Program for East Asian Courtand Legal Transplant:
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4) Szue-chin Philip Hsu, Investigator, Program for Contemporary
China’s Development and the Transformation in the Subjectivity ofChina Studies under the Rise if East Asia:
Evolving cultural sensitivities.
Q&A and Free Discussion
Moderator: Kirill O. Thompson, Associate Dean of IHS, NTU,Taiwan
12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-14:00

Campus Exploration of NTU

14:00-14:50

Session 1 (B)5) Yun-han Chu, Principal Investigator, Program for East Asia
Democratic Studies: Contemporary regional democratic development
6) Joseph Tao-yi Wang, Investigator, Program for Trade, Labor,
Finance and Productivity of East Asia Countries:
Multifaceted and interdisciplinary look at the real situation
Q&A and Free Discussion
Moderator: Jeff Chien-fu Lin, Associate Dean of IHS, NTU, Taiwan

14:50-15:20

Coffee Break

15:20-17:05

Session 2
UBIAS Impact on Research: What is the special strength of UBIAS
institutes?
Carsten Dose, Managing Director of FRIAS, Freiburg University,Germany
Clarissa Ball, Director, Institute of Advanced Studies Perth, Universityof Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka, Director of Center for Interdisciplinary
Research (ZIF), University of Bielefeld, Germany
Morten Kyndrup, Executive Director of Aarhus Institute of Advanced
Studies (AIAS), Aarhus University, Denmark
Q&A and Free Discussion
Moderator: Yun-han Chu, Professor of Political Science, NTU, Taiwan

17:05-17:30

Session 3
Sao Paulo — Nagoya Intercontinental Academy 2015: Overview,Prospects, and Progress Report
Martin Grossmann, Director of IEA, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Cai Dapeng, Associate Professor of IAR, Nagoya University, Japan
Moderator: Yun-han Chu, Professor of Political Science, NTU, Taiwan

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Friday November 28, 2014
09:00-09:30

Keynote speech 2
How to think from East Asia: What, Why and How?
Chun-chieh Huang , Dean of IHS, NTU, Taiwan
Moderator: Jiunn-rong Yeh, University Chair Professor of Law, NTU,Taiwan

09:30-10:25

Special session 1
CreativityDominic Scott, University of Kent, United Kingdom
Sari Kivistö, Deputy Director of Helsinki Collegium for AdvancedStudies, University of Helsinki, Finland

10:25-10:45

Coffee Break

10:45-11:25

Special session 2
Creativity and Interdisciplinarity
Sami Pihlstrom, Director of Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies,
University of Helsinki, Finland

11:25-12:30

Jose Vicente TAVARES-DOS-SANTOS, Director of ILEA, Federal
University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Changbom Park, Professor of KIAS, Korea
Moderator: Jo-shui Chen, Dean of College Of Liberal Arts, NTU,
TaiwanOpen Discussion
Fostering Creativity at an UBIAS institute
Dominic Scott, Susan Takao, Gerd Folkers, Sami PihIstrom
Jose Vicente TAVARES-DOS-SANTOS, Changbom Park
Moderator: Jo-shui Chen, Dean of College Of Liberal Arts, NTU,
Taiwan

12:30-14:30

Lunch

14:30:-15:45

Session 4Thinking from East Asia: Other Perspectives
Hideaki Miyajima, Director of WIAS, Waseda University, Japan
Jaewan Kim, Professor of KIAS, Korea
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Mike Robinson, Professor of Cultural Heritage and Director, Ironbridge
International Institute for Cultural Heritage, University of Birmingham,
United Kingdom
Q&A and Free Discussion
Moderator: Hui-Lin Lin, Dean of College of Social Sciences, NTU,
Taiwan
15:45-16:15

Coffee Break

16:15-17:15

Session 5
Cooperation and collaboration between UBIAS institutes — ideas,
initiatives, experiences
De-min Tao, Founding President of Society for Cultural Interaction
Studies, Professor of Kansai University, JapanCong Cong, Deputy Dean of IAS, Nanjing University, China
Olivier Bouin, Director of Roseau francais des instituts d’etudes
avancees, Paris, France
Q&A and Free Discussion
Moderator: Bernd Kortmann, Director of Freiburg Institute forAdvanced Studies, University of Freiburg, Germany

17:15-17:30

Book Launch Ceremony: Humanities World Report
17:15-17:30 Poul Holm, Professor of Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity
College Dublin, Ireland; Dominic Scott, University of Kent, UnitedKingdom

17:30-20:00

Traditional Chinese Music performance
Cocktail Hour and Buffet

Saturday November 29, 2014
09:00-10:15

Session 6
Thinking from Latin America and Iberia
Martin Grossmann, Director of IEA, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Jose Vicente TAVARES-DOS-SANTOS, Director of ILEA, Federal
University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Rocio G. Davis, Professor of Institute Culturay Sociedad, Universidadde Navarra, Spain
Q&A and Free Discussion
Moderator: Luisa Shu-Ying Chang, Dean of Office of International
Affairs, NTU, Taiwan

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10:15-10:45

Coffee Break

10:45-11:45

Session 7
The Contribution of Natural Sciences and Technology within an IAS
Michal Linial, Director of IIAS, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,Israel
Jaewan Kim, Professor of KIAS, Korea
Hideyo Kunieda, Trustee and Vice-president of Nagoya University,
Japan
Q&A and Free Discussion
Moderator: Gerd Folkers, Director of Collegium Helveticum Zürich,University Zürich, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

11:45-13:30

Lunch

13:30-14:30

Session 8
Impact Humanities (and Social Sciences): Leading research tomake a difference on pressing issues
Poul Holm, Professor of Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity CollegeDublin, Ireland
Q&A and Free Discussion
Moderator: Kirill O. Thompson, Associate Dean of IHS, NTU,Taiwan

14:30-15:00

Coffee Break

15:00-16:15

Session 9Issues concerning the network, future conferences, membershipdecisions, information on the ICA
Moderator: Carsten Dose, Managing Director of FRIAS, Freiburg
University, Germany

16:15-16:40

Closing remarks
Carsten Dose, Managing Director of FRIAS, Freiburg University,
Germany
Moderator: Kirill O. Thompson, Associate Dean of IHS, NTU,Taiwan