Monday, September 22, 2014 |
(all day) |
Delegate arrivals in Taipei (or earlier), hotel check-in and optional Taipei city tour |
16:00 – 20:00 |
Reception – Taipei – Songs of Islands |
Tuesday, September 23, 2014 |
09:00 – 10:30 |
Flight from Taipei to MagonCity, Penghu Archipelago |
14:00 – 15:30 |
Opening Ceremony |
Keynote: Prem Saddul, Mauritius – Barbados+20 – Island connections and the UN year of Small Island Developing StatesKeynote: Mark Bynoe, CCCCC, Belize –Small Islands and Climate Change – adaptation and innovation |
16:00 – 17:30 |
Plenary Session: Panel A “Small is beautiful” – 40 years experiencing Schumacher’s epoch-making bookFacilitator Grant McCall, AustraliaKeynote: Robert Reed, UK – Is small beautiful?Panellists: Eric Clark, Mark Hampton, Robert Read, Kathryn Burnett (t.b.c.) |
Wednesday, September 24, 2014 |
09:00 – 10:30 |
Plenary Session: Panel B “Innovation and Island future” – Green technology, tourism and sustainabilityFacilitator Karin Topsø Larsen, Bornholm, DKKeynote: Godfrey Baldacchino, Malta – The Future and IslandsPanellists:Clyde Sakamoto, Hiroshi Kakazu, John Liu, Godfrey Baldacchino |
11:00 – 12:30 |
Concurrent Sessions 1. Smallness, Greenness, Society and Island Studies |
13:30 – 15:00 |
Concurrent Sessions 2. … |
15:15 – 17:00 |
20th Anniversary ISISA – Islands of the World conferences 1994-2014Exhibition and social eventKeynote: Grant McCall and Beate Ratter – ISISA past and future –Sharing experiences: From Okinawa to Penghu |
Thursday, September 25, 2014 |
09:00 – 10: 30 |
Plenary Session: Panel C “Journey across home” – Migration as solution?Facilitator Joie Taylor, Maui, U.S.A.Keynote: Jonathan Pugh, UK – Being in exile at home: what is ‘Caribbean’ development?Panellists: Elaine Stratford, Dana Lewis-Ambrose, Jonathan Pugh, Bo-Wei Chiang |
11:00 – 12:30 |
Concurrent Sessions 3. … |
13:30 – 14:00 |
Keynote: Christian Depraetere, France – Nissology: Island Studies on its own terms |
14:00 – 15:30 |
Concurrent Sessions 4. … |
16:00 – 17:30 |
Concurrent Sessions 5. … |
Friday, September 26, 2014 |
08:00 – 9:30 |
Boat trip to Chi-Mei Island |
09:30 – 12:00 |
Site visits: stone weirs, bay, museums, communities |
14:00 – 16:00 |
Island Community Forum: ‘Small is beautiful’ – nature-culture interactions, community-based education, tourism & island economyKeynote: Clyde Sakamoto, Maui, U.S.A. –Progress in sustainability: the impact of ISISA on our campus, island and state since 2006 |
16:00-17:30 |
Back to Magon |
Saturday, September 27, 2014 |
09:00 – 11:00 |
InternationalSmallIslands Studies Association |
General Meeting and election of new executives |
11:30 – 12:30 |
Conference Conclusions and Declaration |
Closing Ceremony |
14:00 |
Flights from PenghuIsland to Taipei |
Sunday, September 28, 2014 |
(all day) |
Departure; or optional tours in Taiwan |