Beyond Infrastructure
Programme
Thursday, September 11, 1997
Room: UIA-campus, Promotiezaal, next to the Aula
16h30 - Welcoming address
Cornelius H.W. Remie
President, Association for Canadian Studies in the Netherlands and Flanders
Opening of the Conference
His Excellency Jean-Paul Hubert Canadian Ambassador to Belgium
Beyond Infrastructure
Leen d'Haenens, Conference Organizer
17h00 - Keynote address
Charles Johnston, Information Highway Advisory Council, Canada
17h30 - Keynote address
Stacey Spiegel, Immersion Studios, Toronto
Room: UIA campus, Foyer
18h00 - Reception
19h30 - Transportation to the Alfa-Congress Hotel, central Antwerp
Rooms: Vlaanderen & Limburg
20h00 - Buffet dinner (for speakers and those paying full-rate fees)
Friday, September 12, 1997
Room: UIA-campus, Promotiezaal
09h00 - Plenary Session
Address by Cees Hamelink, University of Amsterdam
Address by Lorna Roth, Concordia University, Montreal
Room: UIA-campus, Foyer
Room: UIA-campus, Vergaderzaal 1
10h45 - Workshop 1: Cyberlaw (Chair: Dirk Vanheule)
Patrick Van Eecke, Interdisciplinary Center for Law and IT, University of Leuven
Garipis Stylianos, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Lode Goukens, Journalist at Knack, former chief editor of the internet magazine Wave
Room: UIA-campus, Vergaderzaal 2
10h45 - Workshop 2: Communities in Cyberspace (Chair: Nick Jankowski)
Cees Leeuwis, University of Wageningen, the Netherlands
Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Martina Huber (European Commission, DGXXII)
Room: UIA-campus, Foyer
Room: UIA-campus, Promotiezaal
14h15 - Plenary session
Address by Derrick de Kerckhove, McLuhan Program of Culture & Technology, University of Toronto
Address by Robert Kroetsch, Victoria, BC
Room: UIA-campus, Foyer
Room: UIA-campus, Vergaderzaal 1
16h00 - Workshop 3: Business on the Net (Chair: Chris Lebeer)
Chris Lebeer, Delaware Computing Group, a Bekaert division, Belgium
Karel Uyttendaele, Fabrimetal, Brussels, Belgium
Gilbert Quellette, Association des Producteurs en Multimédias du Québec
Room: UIA-campus, Vergaderzaal 2
16h00 - Workshop 4: A User Perspective (Chair: Geert Lernout)
Yoko Fujimoto, Waseda University, Tokyo
Valerie Frissen, University of Amsterdam
Mary Jane Edwards, Carleton University, Ottawa
Irwin Shubert, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby
Room: UIA-campus, Foyer
18h00 - Reception
19h30 - Transportation to the Alfa-Congress Hotel, central Antwerp
Rooms: Vlaanderen & Limburg
20h00 - Dinner (for those paying full-rate fees)
Saturday, September 13, 1997
Dudelange, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg
Gent (Zwijnaarde), Belgium
Room: UIA-campus, Promotiezaal
09h00 - Plenary session: Governmen and Internet
Keynote presentations: the Canadian, Quebec, Flemish and European perspectives on Government policy with regard to Internet will be assessed.
Room: UIA-campus, Foyer
Room: UIA-campus, Promotiezaal
10h30 - Final plenary and summation session of workshops and conference; discussion
Room: UIA-campus, Foyer
12h00 - Closing reception and lunch
14h00 - Optional post-conference program (city tour)
Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen (UIA)
Hotel Alfa-Congress, Antwerp
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