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Friday November 11:
13:00-17:00: Registration and Information Desk Open
13:00-16:00: Conference tour of the Panasonic Center, Osaka. Leaves from the hotel at 13:30 and returns at 16:00. Please meet in the hotel lobby at 13:15.
18:00-19:30: Welcome drinks and networking reception
Saturday November 12:
9:15-12:00: Plenary Session
13:00-13:45: Featured Speaker Jeffrey Sommers
13:45-15:15: Panel discussion and Q & A Session with Michael Hudson and Jeffrey Sommers
15:45-17:15: Parallel Sessions
19:00-21:00: Conference Dinner (meet in the Lobby at 18:30)
Sunday November 13:
9:00-10:30: Parallel Sessions
10:45-12:15: Parallel Sessions
13:15-14:45: Parallel Sessions
15:15-16:15: Featured Speaker William Saito
16:15-16:30: Closing Remarks
Events
Conference Tour of the Panasonic Center - 13:00-16:00
Friday: Conference tour of the Panasonic center, Osaka. Leaves from the hotel at 13:30 and returns at 16:00. Please meet in the hotel lobby at 13:15.
Welcome Drinks and Networking Reception - 18:00-19:30
Conference Tour of the Panasonic Center - 13:00-16:00
Friday: Conference tour of the Panasonic center, Osaka. Leaves from the hotel at 13:30 and returns at 16:00. Please meet in the hotel lobby at 13:15.
Welcome Drinks and Networking Reception - 18:00-19:30
Friday Evening: Complimentary welcome reception with wine and soft drinks. No need to reserve: everyone welcome.
Conference Dinner
Saturday Evening: 19:00-21:00
The official conference dinner will be held in a downtown Osaka izakaya, and provide a relaxed and enjoyable environment to meet and network with other delegates. This is ticketed and there are a limited number of places. For more information mail conferences@iafor.org
The official conference dinner will be held in a downtown Osaka izakaya, and provide a relaxed and enjoyable environment to meet and network with other delegates. This is ticketed and there are a limited number of places. For more information mail conferences@iafor.org
Keynote Speaker: Michael Hudson
Professor Michael Hudson is a financial analyst and president of the Institute for the Study of Long Term Economic Trends. He is distinguished research professor of economics at the University of Missouri at Kansas City and an honorary professor of economics at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Hudson has served as an economic adviser to the US, Canadian, Mexican, and Latvian governments, and as a consultant to UNITAR, the Institute for Research on Public Policy, and the Canadian Science Council, among other organizations. While at the Hudson Institute, he published studies on world monetary reform (with Herman Kahn), the balance of payments implications of the energy crisis, technology transfer, and related topics for the Energy Research Development Agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and other US agencies. He is a past director of economic research at the Riga Graduate School of Law and has served on the graduate faculty of The New School for Social Research, as a guest lecturer at the Berlin School of Economics, and as a visiting scholar at New York University. In conjunction with Harvard University's Peabody Museum, he headed an archaeological research team on the origins of private property, debt, and real estate.
Hudson has written or edited more than ten books on the politics of international finance, economic history, and the history of economic thought, including Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (1972); Global Fracture: The New International Economic Order (1977); and Trade, Development and Foreign Debt (1993). His trade books have been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, and Russian. He sits on the editorial board of Lapham's Quarterly and has written for the Journal of International Affairs, Commonweal, International Economy, Financial Times, and Harper's, and is a regular contributor to CounterPunch.
He has been a Wall Street analyst, chief economist at the Hudson Institute, and served as chief economic adviser to the 2008 US presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich. He was listed one of six economists by the Financial Times who correctly predicted the 2008 economic crisis.
Hudson holds a BA from the University of Chicago and an MA and a Ph.D. in economics from New York University.
Featured Speaker: Georges Depeyrot
Professor Georges Depeyrot is a monetary historian at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. He began his scientific career in the 70's in studying coin finds and joined the CNRS in 1982. After some years he joined the Centre de Recherches Historiques (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) and now works at the Ecole Normale Superieure.
Following his habilitation in 1992, he specialized in international cooperative programs that aim to reconsider monetary history through a global approach. He has headed many cooperative programs linking several European countries, and those nearby, such as Georgia, Armenia, Russia, and Morocco. The author or coauthor of more than one hundred volumes, he founded and currently manages the Moneta publishing house, now the main collection of books on money and monetary economics (www.moneta.be). As well as a continued interest in the studies of Ancient coin finds, his current research program is mainly devoted to the history of the 19th century monetary unifications and crises, in cooperation with researchers from European countries, Russia and Japan.
A member of the IAFOR International Advisory Board, Geroges will be spending much of 2011 in Tokyo at the head of a joint research project between the CNRS and the University of Tokyo.
Featured Speaker: William H. SaitoHudson has served as an economic adviser to the US, Canadian, Mexican, and Latvian governments, and as a consultant to UNITAR, the Institute for Research on Public Policy, and the Canadian Science Council, among other organizations. While at the Hudson Institute, he published studies on world monetary reform (with Herman Kahn), the balance of payments implications of the energy crisis, technology transfer, and related topics for the Energy Research Development Agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and other US agencies. He is a past director of economic research at the Riga Graduate School of Law and has served on the graduate faculty of The New School for Social Research, as a guest lecturer at the Berlin School of Economics, and as a visiting scholar at New York University. In conjunction with Harvard University's Peabody Museum, he headed an archaeological research team on the origins of private property, debt, and real estate.
Hudson has written or edited more than ten books on the politics of international finance, economic history, and the history of economic thought, including Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (1972); Global Fracture: The New International Economic Order (1977); and Trade, Development and Foreign Debt (1993). His trade books have been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, and Russian. He sits on the editorial board of Lapham's Quarterly and has written for the Journal of International Affairs, Commonweal, International Economy, Financial Times, and Harper's, and is a regular contributor to CounterPunch.
He has been a Wall Street analyst, chief economist at the Hudson Institute, and served as chief economic adviser to the 2008 US presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich. He was listed one of six economists by the Financial Times who correctly predicted the 2008 economic crisis.
Hudson holds a BA from the University of Chicago and an MA and a Ph.D. in economics from New York University.
Featured Speaker: Georges Depeyrot
Professor Georges Depeyrot is a monetary historian at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. He began his scientific career in the 70's in studying coin finds and joined the CNRS in 1982. After some years he joined the Centre de Recherches Historiques (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) and now works at the Ecole Normale Superieure.
Following his habilitation in 1992, he specialized in international cooperative programs that aim to reconsider monetary history through a global approach. He has headed many cooperative programs linking several European countries, and those nearby, such as Georgia, Armenia, Russia, and Morocco. The author or coauthor of more than one hundred volumes, he founded and currently manages the Moneta publishing house, now the main collection of books on money and monetary economics (www.moneta.be). As well as a continued interest in the studies of Ancient coin finds, his current research program is mainly devoted to the history of the 19th century monetary unifications and crises, in cooperation with researchers from European countries, Russia and Japan.
A member of the IAFOR International Advisory Board, Geroges will be spending much of 2011 in Tokyo at the head of a joint research project between the CNRS and the University of Tokyo.
Recently selected as a 2011 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, William H. Saito is an advisor to governments worldwide, venture capitalist, educator and lecturer. He has spent the past two decades shaping information security policy, establishing and selling companies, and managing public corporations.
In 1991, he founded I/O Software, Inc., in California, and built it into a global leader in security software development, earning recognition in 1998 as Entrepreneur of the Year from Ernst & Young, NASDAQ and USA Today.
In 2000, Microsoft integrated the company’s core authentication technology into the Windows operating system, and the technology was licensed to over 160 companies globally. After the acquisition of his company by Microsoft in 2004, Saito moved to Japan to address business and technology issues for clients worldwide and founded InTecur, K.K., a consultancy that helps companies identify and develop applications and markets for innovative technologies.
Conference Chair & Featured Speaker: Jeffrey Sommers
Dr Jeffrey Sommers is Associate Professor of Political
Economy in the Department of Africology at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is also visiting faculty at the Stockholm
School of Economics in Riga, where he created and curates the Andre
Gunder Frank Memorial Library. Dr. Sommers did his doctoral work under the supervision of Andre Gunder Frank, Patrick Manning and Noam Chomsky. He publishes academic works on the spatial fixes the long crisis of capital accumulation. His analysis also appears in The Guardian, Al-Ahram, The Moscow Times, The European Voice, Counterpunch, and several other journalistic and policy venues. He has also provided economic counsel to governments at the prime minister level with his colleague Michael Hudson.
