Ms. Demeulemeester graduated from the Royal AcademyofFineArts in Antwerp in 1981 with other soon-to-be-famous designers Dries Van Noten and Dirk Bikkembergs.
According to Fan Di'an, vice-president of the Central AcademyofFineArts in Beijing, the last five years has seen a sea change in Chinese policy towards the arts.
Various speakers took the floor including Kiran Manandhar, Chancellor of the Nepal AcademyofFineArts and Ram Kumar Panday, President of PEN Nepal and papers were presented on freedom of expression in literature, cinema and new media.