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.
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.
February 2012 Issue
Chapter Leader
Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen, Ph.D.
(ASDP 03, 04, 07)
Associate Professor of History
History Education Coordinator
University of Central Oklahoma
LAR 202D, Box 182
100 N. University Drive
Edmond, OK 73034
Phone: (405) 974-5451
If no answer, please call (405) 974-5277
Email: jsheetznguyen@uco.edu
Chapter Officers
Julien Farland, Middlesex Community College, Vice President
Robert Adams, Roger Williams State College, Secretary
Joanna DelMonaco, Middlesex Community College, Treasurer
Carolyn Kadel, Johnson County Community College, Member-at-Large
Joseph Overton, Kapiolani Community College, ARCAS Representative
Asian Studies Development Program Chapter By-Laws
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