Thursday, 21st February
16:30 - 17:00 Registration
17:00 - 17:30 Welcome to Delegates and Introduction of Professor Sassen
17:30 - 18:30 Opening Keynote Address by Professor Saskia Sassen
19:15 - 20:30 Dinner
Friday, 22nd February
08:15 - 08:45 Coffee
08:45 - 09:00 Introduction to the Discussions
Session 1: The Corporation, Globalization, and its Mediators
09:00 - 09:30 Reinventing Globalization, Yves Doz (INSEAD) and Keely Wilson (Acton University)
09:30 - 10:00 Fashioning Global Markets: Think Tanks as Mediators in Global Governance, Christina Garsten (Stockholm University)
10:00 - 10:30 The Role of Corporations in Global Society, Kerstin Sahlin (Uppsala University)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Session 2: Transnational Governance and the Strength of Geography
11:00 - 11:30 The Two Geographies of Competition Regulation: The Case of Africa, Marie Laure Djelic (ESSEC)
11:30 - 12:00 Institutional Change through Transnational Path Generation: The Case of Urban Sustainability, Joel Bothello (ESSEC)
12:00 - 12:30 Global Challenges, Local Responses: Regulating the “Tragedy of the Commons” in the Financial Industry, Matthias Thiemann (ESSEC) and Jan Lepoutre (ESSEC)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
Session 3 Track 1: Connecting Geographies: Trade and Innovation
14:00 - 14:30 Exploring the Geography of EU-East Asia Production Networks: Key Characteristics and Drivers of EU-East Asia Trade in Intermediate and Final Goods, Michael Thorpe (Curtin Business School) and Louise Curran (Toulouse Business School)
14:30 - 15:00 Not with My Own: Long-term Effects of Cross-country Collaboration on Subsidiary Innovation in Emerging Economies, Tufool Alnuaimi (Imperial College), Jasjit Singh (INSEAD), and Gerard George (Imperial College)
15:00 - 15:30 Connecting Clusters Across the Globe through Global Production Networks: Norwegian Maritime Multinationals in the Yangtze River Delta, Petter Amdam (Norwegian Business School), Jinmin Wang (Nottingham University), and Over Bjarnar (Molde University)
15:30 - 16:00 The Dynamics of Export Market and Export Segment Diversification in a Post-MFA World: A Comparative Study of Madagascar and Mauritius, Arielle N’Diaye (Université d’Auvergne) and Harshana Kasseeah (University of Mauritius)
Session 3 Track 2: Towards Sustainable Globalization: A Balancing Challenge?
14:00 - 14:30 How Forecasts about Nuclear Winter Promoted Transnational Governance : Cold War Spaces in Politics and Technoscience, Egle Rindzeviciute (Sciences Po, Paris)
14:30 - 15:00 Back to Balancing: A Geopolitical Perspective on Governance in an Age of Globalization, Aharon Klieman (Tel Aviv University)
15:00 - 15:30 For a Qualitative Geography, Laurent Bibard (ESSEC)
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
Session 4: Emerging Economies and Globalization
16:30 - 17:00 Consequences of being Public vs. Private on Firms’ Investments and Differences Across Countries, Aude Le Cottier (IE Business School)
17:00 - 17:30 The ‘Soft Hydro Power’ of China in its Southern Regions and Borders : An Analysis of its Implementation in the Autonomous Province of Guangxi, Mériade Laurent (CUFR Champollion) and Nicolas Mainetto (University of Auvergne)
17:30 - 18:00 Regional Variation: Should We Look within Nations?, Arijit Chatterjee (ESSEC)
18:15 - 18:30 Dean’s Word and Introduction of Professor Duara
18:30 - 19:30 Closing Keynote Address by Professor Prasenjit Duara
19:30 - 20:30 Cocktail