EWCA - Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP)
Region: Constituent/Special Interest
The Asian Studies Development Program 15th National Conference was held March 5-7, 2009, at the Community College of Philadelphia in Philadelphia, PA. The conference was hosted by the Community College of Philadelphia with Fay Beauchamp, head of CCP's ASDP Regional Center, handling local arrangements. The program was chaired by George Brown of Slippery Rock University in Slippery Rock, PA.
The ASDP National Conference is the largest event for ASDP alumni in the United States and it continues to grow in quality and popularity. Over 100 people registered for the conference. There were 27 panels totaling well over 65 presenters discussing matters of pedagogy, philosophy and religion, history, the social sciences, business and law, literature and the arts.
The conference featured a special event in the Chinese Rotunda and adjoining Egyptian Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum with Nancy Steinhardt, Professor of Chinese Art at the University of Pennsylvania, and Roger Ames, Professor of Chinese Philosophy, University of Hawaii collaborating on the presentation: “The Meaning of Splendor: Chinese and Egyptian Art.” The conference included two keynote addresses, at Friday’s luncheon Victor Mair, Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Pennsylvania presented “Storytelling with Pictures in the Tang Dynasty” and at Saturday’s luncheon, Zia Mian, Research Scientist, Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University presented “Peace and Security Issues: Pakistan.”
The 16th ASDP National Conference will take place on June 29 to July 1, 2010, in Honolulu, HI and will be hosted by Kapiolani Community College. Joe Overton is the local arrangements chair with Bruce LeBlanc, Annie Malloy, and Greg Moore will serve as program co-chairs.
The ASDP Alumni Chapter held its annual meeting on Friday, March 6, 2009, with the minutes available for downloading at the bottom of this page.
ASDP Alumni Newsletter
The November 2009 issue is the fifth 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.
- Dr. David E. Jones
CHAPTER CONTACT
The current head of the chapter is:
Dr. David E. Jones
(ASDP 95-96, 98, 00, 04)
Professor of Philosophy
Kennesaw State University
Atlanta Center of Asian Studies
1000 Chastain Road, #2206
Kennesaw, Georgia 30144-5591
Phone: 770-423-6596
E-mail: djones7459@aol.com
CHAPTER OFFICERS
David Jones (Kennesaw State University), President
Carolyn Kadel (Johnson County Community College), Vice President
Paul Dunscomb (University of Alaska at Anchorage), Treasurer
Michele Marion (Paradise Valley Community College), Secretary
Jeff Dippmann (Central Washington University), Member at Large
Ronnie Littlejohn (Belmont University), Member at Large
CHAPTER BY-LAWS
Asian Studies Development Program Chapter By-Laws
Meeting Minutes
