Coming up in March and April 2005 at the East-West Center

Release Date:	2/25/2005

EWC Honolulu

EWC Washington

In the Arts

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East-West Center Tsunami Relief Fund Update

As of Feb. 21, the Center's relief fund had raised $396,129. To find out how the money is being spent, see the latest news release at:
www.eastwestcenter.org/events-pr-detail.asp

***Monetary donations can be dropped off at or mailed to the East-West Center, 1601 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96848-1601; made online at www.eastwestcenter.org or dropped off at any First Hawaiian Bank. For more information, call 944-7111.

The East-West Center Tsunami Relief Fund has raised nearly $396,129 statewide since it was launched a month ago today, with most of the funds earmarked for immediate relief efforts and the rest for longer-term recovery and rebuilding.

Several East-West Center staff have traveled to Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand to discuss possible partnerships for recovery programs. Travel was supported by the EWC, not the Tsunami Relief Fund.

“The reports we have from our team as well as our alumni are that people in Aceh, Thailand and Sri Lanka are enormously grateful for all the help and attention they received,” said Charles E. Morrison, president of the East-West Center.

“The people there also want to move ahead,” Morrison said. "The priority now is shifting from short-term emergency relief toward longer-term rebuilding. They will continue to need a lot of financial help, training, and encouragement, and we want to continue to be proactive in helping them.”

Terry Bigalke, director of the East-West Center’s Education Program, traveled to Aceh, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka to meet with relief agencies that are receiving money from the Center’s tsunami fund. In Aceh, he was accompanied by Muhamad Ali, an East-West Center graduate student from Jakarta, Indonesia.

The two also met with local officials from educational institutions and media organizations, some of them East-West Center alumni, to identify possible longer-term recovery projects.

The East-West Center's AsiaPacificEd Program has initiated Schools-Helping-Schools to bring schools in the tsunami-affected communities together with schools elsewhere in partnerships that will support long-term recovery and foster ties between cultures. Also, given that many teachers lost their lives in the tsunami, Schools-Helping-Schools' scholarship fund will help student teachers who lost their means of support to complete their training to become certified teachers.

Namji Steinemann, director of the AsiaPacificEd Program, recently met with Thai education officials and visited schools in Thailand's tsunami-affected provinces of Phuket, Phangnga, and Ranong. The Thai government, with the help of domestic and international groups, has quickly mobilized resources to rebuild schools that were completely destroyed or badly damaged. Tuition and other educational support for the orphaned children are also being provided. However, schools that suffered minimal damage find themselves with little or no support to restore their programs. Immediate assistance is needed to replace books, bookcases, desks, and chairs for classrooms and libraries, teaching materials and computers for language labs, and equipment and supply closets for science labs. All school officials also recognize the need for counseling for students and for curriculum and training support for teachers to help their students gain a sense of normalcy. AsiaPacificEd is also in the process of identifying the needs of schools in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and India.
For more information, contact Susan Kreifels at 944-7176 or kreifels@eastwestcenter.org

Seminar: Main Ideas on China's 1 Percent Population Survey in 2005 by Zhang Weimin
Burns Hall 2012, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
March 1, 2005
According to an arrangement by the Chinese government, a one percent population sampling survey will be done in 2005. Technologically, this survey is an improvement to the 2000 Population Census.

Overall, the 2000 Census is a success. However, there are still some deficiencies such as data deterioration and the unprecedented challenge of full coverage. The undercount rate of the 2000 Census is 1.81 percent, more than 30 times the 1990 Census, which is 0.6 percent. Many factors contribute to undercounting the population census, including census design, organization, implementation and the varying environment. This paper will probe into the major problems of the 2000 Census.

The 2005 One Percent Sampling Survey is well aligned with current socio-economic development and takes into consideration variations in the census environment and demographic landscape. This paper will reveal some major concerns for the design of the survey.
EWC contact: Jiajian Chen (808) 944-7426
email: chenj@EastWestCenter.org

Symposium: People on the Move: Globalization and Diaspora
EWC
March 3-4, 2005
This symposium is only open to current grantees of the U.S. Department of Education's Title VI Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program.

U.S. Department of Education and East-West Center co-sponsored symposium on globalization and migration in the Asia-Pacific region. The program, comprising a reading list, keynote speaker, panelists and discussion takes place at the Hawai‘i Imin International Conference Center at Jefferson Hall in Honolulu.
Symposium Schedule(pdf)
Reading List(pdf)
EWC contact: Wendy Nohara (808) 944-7338
email: noharaw@EastWestCenter.org

Seminar: Age Data - Census 2001 India by J.K. Banthia
EWC Burns Hall 2012, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
March 4, 2005
The seminar will include the question canvassed on age in Indian censuses, typical problems encountered during data collection on age in India, and special efforts made in Census 2001 to improve the data collection on age. This will be followed by presentation of age data from 1961 to 2001 Census and the changes in age structure at the India and state level, including population pyramids. The proportion by five year age groups as returned in Census 2001 will be compared with the UN and certain other estimates such as NFHS 2 and SRS. Analysis of age data and their implications will be made with respect to certain important age groups such as 0-9, (0-14, 15-59, 60+), 18+ etc. Discussions on child woman ratio, dependency ratio etc. will also be taken up. Finally, the quality of age data will be assessed by discussing the Whipples Index, Myers Index Age Sex Ratio Scores, etc.
EWC contact: Jiajian Chen (808) 944-7426
email: chenj@EastWestCenter.org

Workshop: Innovation, Global Production, and Work: Why Is Chip Design Moving to Asia?
Berkeley, California
March 5 - 6, 2005
The information technology industry is a symbol for science based innovation, with semiconductor production as its technological core. Specialized chip firms from U.S. high tech centers have also been pioneers for new forms of industry organization. In the 1990s, a new mode of innovation gained global leadership that combined market control through the rapid definition of new products by global brand name firms with vertical specialization in the manufacturing of chips, IT hardware, and key components. This industry model evolved under a hitherto unknown dominance of financial markets over technological innovation and has been based on the proliferation of global production networks (GPN) dominated by "flagship firms." In this context, the design and development of semiconductors became part of what has been described as a "distributed system of innovation."

However, recent developments indicate that this mode of innovation has become problematic. The bursting of the "high tech bubble" of the late 1990s demonstrated the limits of rapid technological innovation driven by oligopolistic market segmentation and excessive profit expectations.

The workshop will be a starting point for a collaborative research project of the Institut fur Sozialforschung (IfS) and the East West Center. This project is one of several initiatives from a working group on working group on working group on "Pathways to Innovation in Asia", jointly established by the U.S. Social Science Research Council and the East West Center. The workshop will explore the changing shape of the innovation system in chip design, as related to new forms of global production networks, the changing organization of engineering work, and the perspectives for industrial upgrading in developing Asia. The workshop will bring together leading industry experts on chip design and design automation, industrial policy makers from key high tech locations in Asia, and experts from labor unions and professional organizations from Europe, the U.S. and Asia.
EWC contact: Dieter Ernst (808) 944-7321
email: ernstd@EastWestCenter.org

22nd Population Census Conference
Seattle, Washington
March 7 - 9, 2005
The meeting brings together the heads of the national statistical agencies and leading demographers in the Asia-Pacific region and the United States. The conference is organized by the U.S. Census Bureau and the East-West Center in cooperation with the Association of National Census and Statistics Directors of America, Asia and the Pacific (ANCSDAAP). The theme of this year's conference is "Innovations in Collecting, Processing, Using, and Disseminating Census Data." Further information on the conference is available here.

The East-West Center serves as the secretariat for the member agencies of ANCSDAAP. The Population Census conference series was initiated in 1972 to share experience, knowledge and techniques for the collection and use of population census and related statistical information among the countries of Asia, the Pacific and the United States.
EWC contact: Jiajian Chen (808) 944-7426
email: chenj@EastWestCenter.org

Meeting: Integrating Social Science Methods into Emerging Infectious Disease Research
EWC
March 8 - 12, 2005
This three day interdisciplinary meeting focuses on integrating social science methods and ecosystem approaches to improve infectious diseases research in the Asia-Pacific region. The goal of the meeting is to strengthen capacity for ongoing innovation in infectious diseases research through the integration of social, ecological and biomedical sciences. This meeting is co-hosted by the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa and the East-West Center. Coordinators: Nancy D. Lewis, director of research, East-West Center and Margot Parkes, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai‘i.
EWC contact: June Kuramoto (808) 944-7267
email: kuramotj@EastWestCenter.org

Workshop: Natural Resources and Violent Ethnic Conflict in the Asia-Pacific Region
EWC
March 18 — 20, 2005
The purpose of the workshop is to bridge the analytic gap between scholars who focus on ethnic conflict, and those who have focused on resource conflict, in order to arrive at a better understanding of the processes underlying civil or internal conflicts and develop better prescriptions for managing them. Coordinators: Arun Swamy and Jefferson Fox.
EWC contact: Carolyn Eguchi (808) 944-7510
email: eguchic@EastWestCenter.org

Building the Foundation Training Seminar: Pacific Island Power Utility Managers
EWC
April 11-22
Two-week leadership training seminar for technology and resource managers of power utilities in the Pacific Islands. This program is part of the Building the Foundation series, an on-going series of seminars created to assist developing countries in the Pacific in building more effective management regimes that address resource sustainability in light of rising indigenous, regional and international demands. This seminar in the series will focus on essential job-specific skill sets that emphasize critical thinking, problem solving, decision-making and leadership - all building blocks critical to developing and implementing informed and effective responses to the current and future challenges faced by power utility managers in the Pacific Islands. Effective power utilities management is a critical function for Pacific Island nations in order to manage security and environmental risks, encourage economic development and foreign investment and ensure governmental stability.
EWC contact: Meril Dobrin-Fujiki (808) 944-7352
email: fujikim@EastWestCenter.org

Asian Studies Development Program 11th Annual National Conference
Whittier, California
April 21 - 24
The 2005 ASDP National Conference will bring together ASDP alumni and other interested faculty for a two-day program in Whittier, California. For the 2005 meeting, ASDP is joining with AsiaNetwork to provide an opportunity for faculty affiliated with each of these national organizations to share their current research, curriculum projects, and strategies for infusing Asian studies into the undergraduate curriculum. The program includes keynote presentations by leading scholar-teachers. Participants pay a modest registration fee and cover their own expenses.
EWC contact: Grant Otoshi (808 ) 944-7454, email: otoshig@EastWestCenter.org
For further information see Asian Studies Development Program

EWC Washington

March 10: Congressional Study Group on Asia-Pacific Trade & Investment
Guest speakers: Professor Michael Plummer of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and Barbara Weisel, Deputy Assistant USTR for Southeast Asia and Pacific Affairs (invited).

April 25: Asian Security Forum
Speaker: Avery Goldstein
Topic: China’s Grand Strategy.
By invitation only.

(Sessions are closed)
For more information, please email Washington@EastWestCenter.org

In the Arts . . .

EWC Exhibition: “Gods and Demons, Monkeys, and Men: Masks of Southeast Asia”
Continuing through March 16, 2005
This exhibition illuminates the mask theatre of Indonesia, Thailand, and Cambodia, indicating relationships to theatres of Burma, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Malaysia. The character types displayed show the expanse possible to the human and cosmic soul.

This exhibition is made possible by generous grants from the Hawai’i Pacific Rim Society, the Jackie Chan Foundation USA, the Arthur Goodfriend Fund, and other contributors to the EWC Foundation. Special thanks to the Fulbright Program in Indonesia (AMINEF), the Asian Cultural Council, the UC Pacific Rim Program, the UCSC Arts Division and Arts Research Institute, the UCSC Committee on Research, and the East-West Center Asian Studies Development Program.

March 13, 2:00 p.m.: Performance-demonstration featuring Thai dancer, Rose Sutrabutra in the gallery.

EWC Exhibition: “The Palace and the People: Arts of Rajasthan”
March 31, 2005- June 3, 2005
EWC Gallery

This exhibition focuses on the inter-relationship between the arts of village and nomadic people and the urban merchants and nobility of Rajasthan. Both low fired clay objects and gold enamels encrusted with jewels demonstrate common motifs. Silver jewelry worn by tribal women, miniatures found in merchant palaces, a temple god and village shrine, wood toys and puppets, elaborate embroidered clothes will all demonstrate the diversity of medium found in this desert region.

April 3-6: EWC Artist-in-Residence Kiran Soni Gupta will give demonstrations of miniature painting, and present lectures on the arts of Rajasthan.

For information on group tours, please contact Pattie Dunn, arts outreach assistant, 944-7584
email: dunnp@EastWestCenter.org

For further information on the EWC Gallery, contact Dr. Michael Schuster, 944-7543
email: schustem@EastWestCenter.org

Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday noon-4 p.m. Closed Saturdays and holidays. Admission is free. Visitor parking on the adjacent UH campus is $3 and is usually easily available on the upper campus after 4 p.m. weekdays; Sunday parking is normally free and ample.

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The East-West Center Arts Program presents
the Grammy-nominated
“Masters of Persian Music”
from Tehran, Iran

Tues.-Wed., March 1-2, 2005
7:30 p.m.
Orvis Auditorium, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
Corner of University Ave. and Dole St.

General Admission $20
Students, seniors, military $15

Tickets available at the UH Campus Center Box Office
M-F, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Call 944-7177 to charge-by-phone.
Any remaining tickets will be available at the door.

"Sheer virtuosity"
---Portland Oregonian

"Magnificent music"
---Toronto Star

Mohammad Reza Shajarian, the undisputed master of Persian traditional singing, is regarded as a national treasure in Iran. He is considered the embodiment of a perfect vocalist and a major source of inspiration to other musicians. For this 2005 U. S. national tour, he is joined by the superb musicians, Hossein Alizadeh, Kayhan Kalhor, and Homayoun Shajarian. In addition to singing, the musicians will play the traditional Persian instruments tar (plucked lute), kamancheh (spike-fiddle), and the tombak drum.

Their 2003 CD, "Without You" was nominated for a Grammy award; their newest recording, "Faryad," will be available for sale at the EWC performances.

For further information, please call 944-7177
email: feltzb@EastWestCenter.org

May 1-28
Spring Jefferson Fellowships
EWC, U.S. mainland, Asia
EWC contact: Ann Hartman, email: Seminars@EastWestCenter.org

May 31 — June 30
36th Summer Seminar on Population
EWC
EWC contact: June Kuramoto, email: KuramotJ@EastWestCenter.org

June 9-11
6th Building the Foundation Training Seminar: Follow up Workshop for Pacific Island Disaster Managers Papua New Guinea
EWC contact: Meril Dobrin-Fujiki, email: fujikim@EastWestCenter.org

June 20 — July 22
ASDP NEH Institute — Southeast Asia: The Interplay of Indigenous Cultures and Outside Influences
EWC
EWC contact: Peter Hershock, email: hershocp@EastWestCenter.org

June 21-July 18
AsiaPacificEd Travel Seminar -- Experiencing Southeast Asia: Vietnam and Thailand
For U.S. teachers, school librarians and administrators in grades 3-12.
EWC and Southeast Asia
EWC contact: Gordon Walker, email: walkerg@EastWestCenter.org

July 10-21
4th Changing Faces: Women’s Leadership Program
EWC
EWC contact: Abigail Sines, email: sinesa@EastWestCenter.org

July 12
“An International Affair 2005” — The EWC Foundation’s Annual Dinner
Coral Ballroom, Hilton Hawaiian Village
EWC contact: Stephanie Handa, email: handas@EastWestCenter.org

July 23-August 6
AsiaPacificEd Institute -- Teaching Southeast Asia: Strategies, Standards,
and Resources
EWC
For 3rd-12th grade classroom teachers in the U.S. and Asia-Pacific region.
EWC contact: Gordon Walker, email: walkerg@EastWestCenter.org

July 25-August 12
ASDP Institute on Infusing Asian Studies into the Undergraduate Curriculum
EWC contact: Peter Hershock, email: hershocp@EastWestCenter.org

August 7-10
Senior Policy Seminar
EWC
EWC contact: Jane Smith-Martin
email: smithj@EastWestCenter.org

August 7-12
AsiaPacificEd NEH Workshop -- Remembering Pearl Harbor: History, Memory,
and Memorial
Imin Center-Jefferson Hall
Open to U.S. high school social studies/history and language arts teachers.
EWC contact: Gordon Walker, email: walkerg@EastWestCenter.org

August 17-19
7th Building the Foundation Training Seminar: Follow-up Workshop for Pacific
Island Power Managers
Guam
EWC contact: Meril Dobrin-Fujiki, email: fujikim@EastWestCenter.org

August 28 — 31
Muslim Initiative: Journalists Study Tour
U.S. mainland
EWC contacts: Abigail Sines, email: sinesa@EastWestCenter.org
and Dick Baker, email: BakerR@EastWestCenter.org

September 1-10
Muslim Initiative: Journalists Study Tour (CONT. from August)
EWC contacts: Abigail Sines, email: sinesa@EastWestCenter.org
and Dick Baker, email: BakerR@EastWestCenter.org

September 4-18
15th New Generation Seminar
EWC and Asia-Pacific
EWC contact: Ann Hartman
email: hartmana@EastWestCenter.org

September 6-21 (tentative)
7th Hong Kong Journalism Fellows
China and Hong Kong
EWC contact: Marilyn Li, email: lim@EastWestCenter.org

October 2-22
Jefferson Fellowships
EWC, U.S. mainland, Asia
EWC contact: Ann Hartman, email: hartmana@EastWestCenter.org

2006

December 3-6 (tentative)
EWC/EWCA 2006 International Alumni Conference
Hanoi, Vietnam
EWC contact: Gordon Ring, email: ringg@EastWestCenter.org

Contact information and dates are subject to change.
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For further information contact:
Bruce Bottorff
Public Information Specialist
email: bottorfb@EastWestCenter.org
Coming Up on the EWC website: www.eastwestcenter.org/news-cp.asp