Jean Monnet Seminar

This Seminar is offered as part of the Master of Law Program

in European Union Law, International Law and Comparative Law

and the Jean Monnet Chair

EU-Asia relations:

Perceptions of the EU, a view from Macau

University of Macau, Macau SAR – 10th of December 2010

18.00	Arrival and Registration

18.30	Chairpersons Remarks:

Prof. Rui Martins, Vice Rector (Research), University of Macau

&

Ms. Maria Castillo Fernandez, Head of Office of the European Union to Hong Kong and Macau

18.40 Presentations by Speakers

Improving perceptions for greater partnership: How Asian media, public, and elites view the EU

Presented by

Prof. Martin Holland – Director, National Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury

Dr. Natalia Chaban – Deputy Director, National Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury

The Perception and Image of the EU in Macau

Presented by

Prof. Paulo Canelas De Castro– Jean Monnet Chairholder, Faculty of Law, University of Macau

Ms. Joana Carolina Martins Vieira – Researcher, University of Macau

Ms. Wu Xia – Researcher, University of Macau

Expanding the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM): Improving the outlook for Asia-Europe relations through closer cooperation and better informed policy

Presented by

Ms. Anjeli Narandran – Project Manager, Intellectual Exchange Dept., Asia Europe Foundation.

19:30	Audience Q&A

20:00	Concluding Remarks

Speakers Profiles

Prof. Rui Martins Vice Rector (Research), University of Macau Prof. Rui Martins received the Bachelor (5-years), the Masters, and the Ph.D. degrees as well as the Habilitation for Full-Professor in electrical engineering and computers from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), TU of Lisbon, Portugal, in 1980, 1985, 1992 and 2001, respectively. Prof. Rui Martins has been Vice-Rector of the University of Macau since 1997. Prof. Rui Martins is an IEEE Fellow, was the Founding Chairman of the IEEE Macau Section from 2003 to 2005, and of the IEEE Macau Joint-Chapter on Circuits And Systems (CAS) / Communications (COM) from 2005 to 2008. He was the General Chair of the 2008 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits And Systems – APCCAS'2008, and was elected Vice-President for the Region 10 (Asia, Australia, the Pacific) of the IEEE Circuits And Systems Society (CASS), for the period of 2009 to 2010. He is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, for the period of 2010 to 2011. In July 2010 was elected, unanimously, as Corresponding Member of the Portuguese Academy of Sciences, in the class of Sciences, 7th section of Engineering Science and other Applied Sciences.
Ms. Maria Castillo Fernandez Head of Office of the European Union to Hong Kong and Macau Born in Madrid, Ms. Maria CASTILLO FERNANDEZ received her law degree from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and postgraduate studies in international relations and European law (College of Europe, Bruges - Institute of European Studies, Strasbourg). In 2000, she acted as the Principal Administrator responsible for the European Commission's relations with the Korean Peninsula, including both the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the Republic of Korea (RoK). In 2005, she became the Deputy Head of Mission at the EU Delegation in Seoul (Republic of Korea) in charge of EU political relations and economic cooperation activities with RoK and DPRK. Since September 2008, she has been serving as the Head of Office of the European Union to Hong Kong and Macao.
Prof. Martin Holland Director National Centre for Research on Europe University of Canterbury Prof. Martin Holland holds a Jean Monnet Chair (ad personam), and is Director of the National Centre for Research on Europe in New Zealand. Professor Holland is internationally recognised for his work on EU Development policy, Common Foreign and Security Policy and on the Perceptions of the EU, especially within the Asia Pacific region. He has written or edited more than 20 books and is a visiting lecturer at several EU Studies programmes in Asia and the USA. Previously he has been an EUI Jean Monnet Fellow (1987), an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (1992-4) as well as a Rockerfeller Bellagio Fellow (2000).
Dr. Natalia Chaban National Centre for Research on Europe (NCRE), University of Canterbury Dr Natalia Chaban is Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director of the National Centre for Research on Europe (NCRE), University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Since 2002, she has been a research leader and co-supervisor of the comparative cross-national research project “The EU in Asia Pacific Region: Public, Elite and Media Images and Perceptions" currently involving 18 locations in the region. Dr Chaban has an extensive publication record actively pursuing her research interests in cognitive and semiotic aspects of political and mass media discourses, cross-cultural adjustment, image studies, and European/EU identity studies outside the EU.
Prof. Paulo Canelas de Castro Jean Monnet Chair Faculty of Law University of Macau Prof. Paulo Canelas de Castro is the Jean Monnet Chair at the Faculty of Law of the University of Macau and is on extended leave from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Prof. Canelas de Castro is internationally recognised for his work on water law and policy issues, on which he has advised at country and International Organisations levels. Prof. Canelas de Castro has also showed up as Counsel before the International Court of Justice and the European Court of Justice. He has a record of numerous publications in EU and international law matters. He has been Visiting Professor in Brazil and Germany and held conferences in four continents. Most recently he was a founding member of the European Community Studies Association, Macau (ECSA, Macau), and elected President of the Board of Directors. His work at the University of Macau includes a series of Jean Monnet Seminars, bringing high level experts on the EU to Macau to discuss a wide range of important EU-related issues.
Ms. Joana Carolina Martins Vieira Researcher University of Macau Joana Vieira is currently doing her master thesis in European Union Environmental Law. She has a law degree given by University of Coimbra (which she concluded in September 2008). In the meantime she did a one-year exchange in Belgium, in the Catholic University of Leuven. She is also committed with several research activities in the area of Environmental Law in the University of Macau.
Ms. Wu Xia Researcher University of Macau Wu Xia is a Master’s candidate at the University of Macau currently, majoring in European Union Law. In 2007, she got her Bachelor Degree (MA in Law) from the Zhong Nan University of Economics and Law, China. Since 2008 she has been engaged in several research programmes in the University of Macau.
Ms Anjeli Narandran Project Manager, Intellectual Exchange Dept. Asia Europe Foundation Anjeli Narandran received her BA from the National University of Singapore where she read European Studies and Theatre. She joined ASEF in 2004 upon the completion of her Masters degree (DESS) in Geopolitics and International Relations at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Toulouse in France. As a Project Executive, she was responsible for the conceptualisation, management, implementation and evaluation of multi-stakeholder projects targeted at promoting Cultural Exchange between Asia and Europe. In 2007, she left for Japan on a two-year teaching programme and was subsequently a volunteer teacher onboard the 67th 3 ½ month global voyage of Peace Boat, a Japan-based international NGO in Special Consultative Status with the UN ECOSOC. She rejoined ASEF earlier this year as Project Manager of the Intellectual Exchange department.
Administration
Ms. Laura Lei Jean Monnet Chair Project Manager, University of Macau Ms. Laura Lei received her bachelor degree in Business Administration from the University of Macau. She is responsible for the management of projects and activities related to the Jean Monnet Chair. Tel: 8397 4088 Fax: 8397 4767 Email: lauralei@umac.mo