Tentative Symposium Schedule

Health, Law and Justice in Asia
Dickinson College
April 28-30, 2006

Friday, April 28th

8:00 a.m. Light Breakfast- Blumberg Reading Room, Library
8:45 a.m. Welcome Remarks by Provost Neil Weisman, Neil Diamant and Sandra Hyde
9:00 a.m. The life cycle and law (Robert Leflar, University of Arkansas Law School; Shohei Yonemoto, University of Kyoto)
10:45 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 a.m. Religion and Health in Japan and China (William Lafleur, University of Pennsylvania; Patricia Thornton, Trinity College)
12:30 p.m. Lunch-Sideroom 201-202, Holland Union Building
2:00 p.m. Health-related litigation in Japan (Yoshiharu Kawabata, Omiya Law School; Shinichi Sugiyama, Harago & Partners Law Offices in Tokyo)
5:30 p.m. Reception
6:00 p.m. Dinner- Sideroom 201-202, Holland Union Building

Saturday, April 29

8:30 a.m. Light Breakfast- Blumberg Reading Room, Library
9:00 a.m. Women's health (Susan Greenhalgh, University of California, Irvine; Tiana Norgren, Medical and Health Research Association of New York City (MHRA))
10:45 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 a.m. HIV/AIDS in China (Sandra Hyde, McGill University; Xia Guomei, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; Liu Yingshuang, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) Institute of Law
12:30 a.m. Lunch-TBA
2:00 p.m. Disability in China and Japan (Karen Nakamura, Yale University; Neil Diamant, Dickinson College)
5:30 p.m. Reception
6:00 p.m. Dinner-Bosler Atrium

Sunday, April 30

8:30 a.m. Light Breakfast
9:00 a.m. Health care reform in China (Iris Jin, Institute of Economics, SASS; Liu Changqiu, Institute of Law, SASS)
10:45 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 a.m. Student Panel
12:30 a.m. Lunch- The Depot

Gettysburg Trip TBA