Region: Constituent/Special Interest
ASDP National Conference
The ASDP National Conference is an annual event that provides an opportunity for ASDP alumni and other interested college and university faculty members to share research related to Asian cultures and societies, as well as strategies for effectively infusing Asian content into undergraduate humanities, social science, business, and science curricula. The ASDP National Conference affords a supportive and energizing environment for those new to Asian studies, as well as for Asia specialists committed to enhancing undergraduate Asian studies. The eighteenth annual national conference will be held in downtown Seattle's Crowne Plaza Hotel from March 29-31, 2012.
This year’s conference features two addresses and an original noh play performed by members of the Central Washington University Theatre Arts program. On Friday, playwright Elise Forier-Edie and director/performer George Bellah will make a presentation on the preparation and performance of Forier-Edie’s original Greek/Noh fusion production, Icarus. On Friday evening, Icarus will be performed for all attendees of the ASDP conference. Saturday will feature the keynote address by Professor Paul Pickowicz (University of California San Diego), a specialist in twentieth-century Chinese history. His research deals with fragile urban-rural alliances in peasant-based revolutions, explosive tensions in village-state relations, the rise and fall of state socialist societies, and the vicissitudes of culture--including popular cultures of resistance and the many political dimensions of filmmaking.
Friday breakfast and lunch on Saturday, along with a small reception Thursday night, are included in the registration fee.
Seattle Art Museum
Attendees may also be interested in a new exhibition running at the Seattle Art Museum entitled Gauguin and Polynesia: An Elusive Paradise. Located just blocks from the Crowne Plaza, the SAM will be offering two docent led tours for interested participants. For more information, follow this link: http://seattleartmuseum.org/exhibit/exhibitDetail.asp?eventID=20873
Conference Registration
The Conference Registration forms are located on the ARCAS website at: http://www.arcas-us.org. Registration fee is $150.
For more information on the conference, please contact:
Jeff Dippmann, Local Arrangements Chair
Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies
Co-Director of the Asia/Pacific Studies Program
Central Washington University
Ellensburg, WA 98926-7555
Email: dippmanj@cwu.edu
Phone: (509) 963-1830
The February 2012 issue is the eighth edition of the Asian Studies Development Program's Alumni Newsletter. We hope to continue to make the Newsletter informative and interesting, something you will look forward to as it appears twice a year each Fall and Spring.
Chapter Leader
Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen, Ph.D.
(ASDP 03, 04, 07)
Associate Professor of History
University of Central Oklahoma
LA 202D, Box 182
100 N. University Drive
Edmond, OK 73034
Phone: (405) 974-5451
If no answer, please call (405) 974-5277
Fax: (405) 974-3837
Email: jsheetznguyen@uco.edu
Chapter Officers
Julien Farland, Middlesex Community College, Vice President
Roberta Adams, Roger Williams State College, Secretary
Joanna DelMonaco, Middlesex Community College, Treasurer
Carolyn Kadel, Johnson County Community College, Member-at-Large
Janine Fujioka, Laney College, Member-at-Large
Joseph Overton, Kapiolani Community College, ARCAS Representative
Asian Studies Development Program Chapter By-Laws (amended March 31, 2012)
The 17th Annual ASDP National Conference on Globalization, Higher Education and Diversity was held in Spring, 2011. Scholarly presentations included findings on China’s terracotta army, Japan’s strategy in the world economy, and dancers from the Ankor Wat Troop. The Chapter’s Spring meeting occasioned new officers for the ASDP Alumni Chapter. The new officers are as follows: Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen, Pres., Julien Farland, VP, Roberta Adams, Sec., Joanna Dellmonaco, Treas. Carolyn Kadel is member-at-large and ARCAS Rep., Joseph Overton. David Jones, former ASDP Pres., is now Editor of East-West Connections Journal. Of important relevance to the Student Scholarship Fundraising, the Chapter plans to file for a 501 C account, thus making the chapter an official charity for tax exemption purposes. The Board discussed ASDP Chapter plans to promote the ongoing Alumni Endowment Student Scholarship project in the coming year.
Recipient of the Best Alumni Chapter at the EWC/EWCA 2010 International Conference with several of its chapter attendees presenting papers in Honolulu, the ASDP engaged in the following activities for the last quarter of 2010: 1) Published a peer reviewed issue on the ASDP Journal, East West Connections: Review of Asian Studies, 2) maintained the Asian Studies Development Program listserv, ASDP-L, 3) developed and coordinated (via its relation with the ASDP Assoc. of Regional Centers for Asian Studies) the 16th Asian Studies Development Program National Conference 2010 in Honolulu and 4) under Julien Farland as editor, the Asian Studies Development Program’s Alumni Newsletter, was published this quarter.
Minutes for March 25, 2011 meeting