• Professor Akhil Gupta, Stanford University, USA: Global Movements of Crops Since the ‘Age of Discovery’ and Changing Culinary Cultures
• Professor Ming-Bao Yue, University of Hawai'i-Manoa, USA: The Americanization of Subjectivity: A View of Globalization from Asia Pacific

Discussant: Pertti Alasuutari, University of Tampere, Finland

• John Hartley, Queensland University of Technology, Australia: The Value Chain of Meaning: from Cultural Studies to Creative Industries?
• Anu Kantola, University of Helsinki: A Perfect Match? Tracing Meeting Points for Political Theory and Cultural Studies

Discussant: Joke Hermes, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Chair: Alvaro Pina, University of Lisbon, Portugal

• Professor Shunya Yoshimi, University of Tokyo, Japan: Why is Television still so National in the Age of Trans-Nationalization? Domestication and Nationalization of Television in Post-war Japan
• Professor David Morley, Goldsmiths College, London, UK: What`s `Home` Got to Do with It? The Domestication of Technology and the Dislocation of Domesticity

Discussant: Ann Gray, University of Birmingham, UK

• Dave Hill, University College Northampton, UK: Six Theses on Class, Global Capital and Resistance by Education and Other Cultural Worker
• Ilkka Tuomi, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Spain: Learning and Creative Destruction: Melting the Networked Modernity with Electrons and Information
• Yvonne Spielmann, Braunschweig School of Art, Germany: On the Matrix of Hybridisation: Challenges to the Frames of Representation and Communication of Knowledge
• Handel Kashope Wright, University of Tennessee, USA: The End(s) of Critical Pedagogy

Chair: Mikko Lehtonen, University of Tampere, Finland

Chair: Soile Veijola, University of Lapland, Finland