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20 December 2003
     
9:30
Introductory Remarks by Dr Asahiko Hanzawa, Hokkaido University
  ‘The International Political Dynamics of the UN’
     
Session 1: International Organisations in the Making
9:45 - 11:45
Chair: Dr Asahiko Hanzawa, Hokkaido University
  Panelists: Dr Antony Best, The London School of Economics
    ‘Internationalism, Regionalism, and Nationalism in East Asia in the Inter-war Period’
    Dr Haruo Tohmatsu, Tamagawa University
    ‘From the Mandates System to the Trusteeship System’
  Commentators: Prof Masataka Matsuura, Hokkaido University
    Prof. Tetsuya Sakai, The University of Tokyo
     
11:45 - 13:15
Lunch
     
Session 2: The UN in the 1950s and 1960s: the Rise of the Third World
13:15 - 15:45
Chair: Prof Ken-ichi Nakamura, Hokkaido University
  Presentations: Prof William Roger Louis, The University of Texas at Austin
    ‘The Suez Crisis of 1956: the British Empire and Commonwealth and the United Nations’
    Dr Asahiko Hanzawa, Hokkaido University
    ‘An Invisible Surrender: the UN and the Disappearance of the European Formal Empires’
  Commentators: Prof Yoichi Kibata, The University of Tokyo
    (Prof Yuta Sasaki, Nagoya University)
   
Special Session (in the Large Hall)
16:00 - 18:45
Chair: Prof Ken Endo, Hokkaido University
  Keynote speech: Dr Sadako Ogata, former High Commissioner of the UNHCR
    ‘The End of the Cold War and the Activities of the UNHCR’ (tentative title)
    (Presentation in Japanese: translated into English by Mr. Benjamin Middleton, Hokkaido University)
  Keynote speech: Sir Marrack Goulding, former Under Secretary General of the UN in charge of Peace Keeping Operations (1986-97)
    ‘The End of the Cold War and the UN PKO’ (tentative title)
  Round Table 1  
  Discussants: Prof Hideaki Shiroyama, The University of Tokyo
    Prof Masayuki Tadokoro, Keio University
    Prof Neil S. MacFarlane, the University of Oxford
     
19:00 - 20:30
Reception at Hokkaido University, Faculty House Enreisou, Restaurant Elm
     
21 December 2003
     
Session 3 / Modernity and the League/UN
9:45 - 11:45
Chair: Dr Antony Best, The London School of Economics
  Panelists: Prof Shin Kawashima, Hokkaido University
    ‘Continuity and Discontinuity: from the League to the UN: the East Asian Context’
    Prof Chang Li, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
    ‘From Recipient to Contributor: Nationalist China as a Member State in the League and UN,’
  Commentators: Prof Rumi Aoyama, Waseda University
     
11:45 - 13:15
Lunch
Session 4 / The Cold War and the UN
13:15 - 15:15
Chair: Dr Asahiko Hanzawa, Hokkaido University
  Panelists: Prof Nobuo Shimotomai, Hosei University
    ‘The Soviet Union, the Cold War in East Asia, and the UN’
    Prof Chul-koo Woo, Yeungnam University, Korea
    ‘The UN involvement during and after the Korean War’
  Commentators: Prof Ken-ichi Nakamura, Hokkaido University
Kongsoo Lho, Seoul National University
   
Round Table 2 / From the Cold War to the Post-Cold War
15:30 - 18:00
Chair: Prof Ken-ichi Nakamura, Hokkaido University
  Panelists: Sir Marrack Goulding
    ‘The UN Peacekeeping in the 1970s and the 1980s’
     
    Prof Neil S. MacFarlane, The University of Oxford
    ‘Theory and Practice of Peacekeeping after the Cold War’
  Commentators: Dr Chiyuki Aoi, United Nations University
    Prof Ken Endo, Hokkaido University
    Prof Hideaki Shiroyama, The University of Tokyo
     
*All sessions will be held in the University Conference Hall (see the map)
*Presentations: 30 minutes (each)
*Comments: 10 minutes (each)
*Presenters are asked to submit their paper by 1 December 2003. At this stage the paper does not necessarily have to be the final version (40 ‘genkou-youshi’ pages in Japanese = 8,000 to 10,000 words in English) to be submitted by the 28 February 2004 for publication in Japanese.
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