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Tentative program

Program of ACEI Conference 2012

Day Time Program Room
Thursday
21 June
9-12:45 Young scholar workshop  
14:00-14:30 Short lecture on Japanese Manga by German Professor Jaqueline Berndt
"Locally Global: The Kyoto International Manga Museum as a Mirror of Japanese Comics Culture"
http://berndt.ehoh.net/
The manga museum
15-18 Board meeting  
18:30-19 Welcome speech
Prof. Tetsuo Yamaori, religious philosopher
Kambaikan hall
19-20 Welcome drink Kambaikan B1
Friday
22 June
9-9:30 Presentation by Seiichi Kondo, Commissioner of cultural affairs Japan
http://www.bunka.go.jp/english/index.html

Welcome
 
9:30-10:30 Opening plenary session, Stan Liebowitz
Ashbel Smith Professor of Economics, Center for the Analysis of Property Rights and Innovation
"What has the Internet wrought for the production of Entertainment and Culture?"
Discussant R.Towse
 
10:30-11 Break  
11-12:30 Parallel sessions 1
- Session 1.1 Risk-takers in Arts and Culture
- Session 1.2 Artists'carreers
- Session 1.3 Copyrights 1
- Session 1.4 Internet and the production of culture
- Session 1.5 Cultural diversity and innovation
- Session 1.6 Cultural value and creativity 1
- Session 1.7 Creative cities 1
- Session 1.8 Information, experts' critics and demand for cinema
 
12:40-13:10 Ikebana Performance :Mr. Ryuho Sasaoka
(Head of the school of the Ikebana Misho-ryu Sasaoka)
http://www.kadou.net/international/index.html
 
13:10-14 Lunch  
14-15 Plenary session Roberto Zanola  
15-15:30 Break  
15:30-17 Parallel sessions 2
- Session 2.1 The economics of Internet
- Session 2.2 Art markets
- Session 2.3 Market knowledge: Product design, Advertising, WTP, CRM
- Session 2.4 Consumer information in the digital age
- Session 2.5 The performing arts 1
- Session 2.6 The film industry
- Session 2.7 Creative cities 2
- Session 2.8 Demand and social cohesion
- Special session on video games, with Mr. Shigeru Saito(President of the TOSE CO. Ltd. http://www.tose-us.com/), Tatsuo Tanaka, Associate Professor, Keio University, Joe Cox, Univ. of Portsmouth, Nicolas Auray, Telecom-ParisTech
 
17:15-18:45 Parallel sessions 3
- Session 3.1 Creative clusters 1
- Session 3.2 Contents and programs in the film and TV industries
- Session 3.3 Copyrights 2
- Session 3.4 The Economics of tourism 1
- Session 3.5 Games and music markets
- Session 3.6 Cultural policies 1
- Session 3.7 Creative cities 3
- Session 3.8 Audiences
 
Saturday
23 June
9:30-11 Parallel sessions 4
- Session 4.1 Crafts, Arts and Culture
- Session 4.2 Auctions and prices 1
- Session 4.3 Museums
- Session 4.4 International trade
- Session 4.5 Cultural policies 2
- Session 4.6 Art and commerce
- Session 4.7 Cultural value and creativity 2
- Session 4.8 Cinema. The box office
- Invited session. Measuring cultural industries by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and the ministry of economy, trade and industry of Japan
 - David Throsby, Professor of Economics, Macquarie University
 - Hristina Mikic Mikic from the Higher School of Professional Business Studies Novi Sad
  in Serbia,
 - Ryotaro Mihara, Deputy Director, Creative Industries Division, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Japan
 - Maria Luisa Palma, Professor, Department of Economics and Economic History, University
  of Seville
 
11-11:30 Break  
11:30-12:30 Plenary session Pr Fujita
"Diversity and Culture in Knowledge Creation: The Story of the Tower of Babel Revisited"
(http://www.rieti.go.jp/users/fujita-masahisa/index_en.html)
Discussant M. Hutter
 
12:30-14 Lunch  
14-15:30 Parallel sessions 5
- Session 5.1 Creative clusters 2
- Session 5.2 Auctions and prices 2
- Session 5.3 Creative clusters 3
- Session 5.4 Culture, development and tourism
- Session 5.5 Books
- Session 5.6 Cultural policies 3
- Session 5.7 Institutions, local habits and the arts
- Session 5.8 Employment and Wages
 
15:30-16 Break  
16-17:30 Intangible cultural heritage : an Asian perspective
Keynote speaker:
Koichiro Matsuura, former Director-General of UNESCO who played a leading role in the development and adoption of the Intangible Heritage Convention.
Panellists:
Dimiter Gantchev, Acting Director of the Creative Industries Division in the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva.
Kazuko Goto, Professor of Economics, Saitama University, Japan.
Christer Gustafsson, Director of Heritage Halland (Sweden) and Honorary Professor, Nanjing University, China.
Chair:
David Throsby, Professor of Economics, Macquarie University, Sydney.

Parallel session 6
- Session 6.1 Demand for online goods
- Session 6.2 Creative clusters 4
- Session 6.3 Determinants of arts participation 1
- Session 6.4 Intangible heritage
- Session 6.5 Social well-being and the Arts
- Session 6.6 Cultural policies 4
- Session 6.7 Festivals
- Session 6.8 Cultural policies in Europe
 
19:00 Gala Banquet with the Rokusai-nembutsu
(the traditional folk performance in Kyoto) sponsored by Suntory
 
Sunday
24 June
9:30-11 Parallel sessions 7
- Session 7.1 The economics of heritage 1
- Session 7.2 Determinants of arts participation 2
- Session 7.3 Cultural value and creativity 3
- Session 7.4 The Economics of tourism 2
- Session 7.5 Cultural policies 5
- Session 7.6 Creative clusters 5
- Session 7.7 Measuring competitiveness in the cultural sector
- Special session on digitized books
With Mr. Masahiro Kitagawa (Executive vice president, Impress Holdings Inc. Japan) http://publishingperspectives.com/2011/07/cultivating-japanese-ebook-market/, Hisashi Sasaki, Deputy director of Shonen (boys) Manga group, Former editor in chief of Weekly SHONENJUMP Shueisha Inc.
http://www.facebook.com/shonenjump.com.portal, and Françoise Benhamou, Pr Univ. Paris 13
 
11-11:30 Break  
11:30-13 Parallel sessions 8
- Session 8.1 The economics of heritage 2
- Session 8.2 Heritage and tourism
- Session 8.3 The Performing Arts and music markets
- Session 8.4 Copyrights 3
- Session 8.5 Culture and growth
- Session 8.6 Cultural value and creativity 3
 
13-13:45 Lunch  
14:00-15:30 General meeting ACEI  

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Tofuku-ji Tsuten-kyō bridge (640x480, type=image/jpeg, 138.4 KB)

Tofuku-ji Tsuten-kyō bridge
Tofuku-ji is the head temple of the Tofukuji School of the Rinzai sect of Zen Buddhism. It was built in 1236.There are a number of gardens in the various precincts of Tōfuku-ji.The temple features a large number of Japanese maple trees, and is most crowded during the autumn season when people flock to see the autumn foliage. It is a tradition to view the leaves from the Tsūten-kyō bridge.
links, wikipedia, wikitravel, web site of Tofuku-ji