Coming up in May and June 2005 at the East-West Center

Spring Jefferson Fellowships

36th Summer Seminar on Population

6th Building the Foundation Training Seminar: Follow up Workshop for Pacific Island Disaster Managers

ASDP NEH Institute – Southeast Asia: The Interplay of IndigenousCultures and Outside Influences

AsiaPacificEd Travel Seminar -- Experiencing Southeast Asia: Vietnam and Thailand

In the Arts

Exhibition: “The Palace and the People: Arts of Rajasthan”
Performance: Te Vaka

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Spring 2005 Jefferson Fellowships
May 1 - 28, 2005
The Jefferson Fellowships, founded by the East-West Center in 1967, promote better public understanding of the United States, Asia and the Pacific through a program of dialogue, study and travel for mid- and senior-level print and broadcast journalists.

Journalists from the United States and Asia Pacific, learn from each other, as well as from scholars, business and labor leaders, government policymakers, social activists, media experts and others.

The program begins with a week of lectures and discussions on key regional issues led by experts from the East-West Center, University of Hawai‘i and the Honolulu community. The Fellows then undertake field study in Asia and the United States mainland to further their understanding of the issues.
More information>>>
EWC contact: Ann Hartman (808) 944-7384
email: Seminars@EastWestCenter.org

36th Summer Seminar on Population
East-West Center
May 31 - June 30, 2005
The Seminar comprises three individual workshops and includes numerous opportunities for professional interaction. Workshops focus on three topics:
Evaluating the Impact of Reproductive Health Programs (.pdf)
Livable Cities in Pacific Asia: Research Methods for Policy Analysis (.pdf)
Communicating with Policymakers about Population and Health (.pdf)
Application instructions and forms (.pdf)
EWC contact: June Kuramoto (808) 944-7267
email: KuramotJ@EastWestCenter.org

6th Building Foundation Training Seminar: Follow up Workshop for Pacific Island Disaster Managers
Madang, Papua New Guinea
June 9-10
A two-day workshop for directors of 22 Pacific Island national disaster management offices is being held in conjunction with the 12th annual Pacific Regional Disaster Managers Meeting sponsored by the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC). It will focus on continued development and implementation of national and regional disaster management plans in accordance with the Pacific Regional Action Plan for Disaster Risk Reduction 2005 - 2015 and the framework prepared for the second World Conference on Disaster Reduction in January 2005.
EWC contact: Meril Dobrin Fujiki (808) 944-7352
email: fujikim@EastWestCenter.org

ASDP NEH Institute -- Southeast Asia: The Interplay of Indigenous Cultures and Outside Influences
East-West Center
June 20 - July 22, 2005
Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, this five-week program will place Southeast Asia in its broad geographical and historical context. Lead scholars for the institute will be Barbara Andaya (UH, Asian Studies) and Leonard Andaya (UH, History).
For further information see ASDP Summer 2005 Programs
EWC contact: Peter Hershock (808) 944-7757, email: hershocp@eastwestcenter.org

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
June 21 - July 18, 2005
This travel seminar, which begins with an orientation in Honolulu, offers cross-cultural learning experiences for instructors. Teachers bring their experiences back into their classrooms through curricular units and projects they develop. Through interactions with teachers and students, a home-stay and meetings with local people in their communities, discussions with political/business leaders and social activists, field briefings and presentations, independent research, and visits to historic sites and cultural attractions. Participants explore the dynamics of changing societies in Vietnam and Thailand.

An add-on, optional trip to Cambodia (July 18 - 23, 2005) explores the magnificent temple complex of Angkor Wat and the capital city of Phnom Penh.
Program cost, eligibility and application information.
AsiaPacificEd Homepage.

EWC contact: Soo Boo Tan 808-944-7644, email: tans@eastwestcenter.org

In the Arts . . .

EWC Exhibition: “The Palace and the People: Arts of Rajasthan” March 31 - 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.

Performance-Discussion:
Sunday, May 8, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
EWC Gallery
Featuring Izumi Sato, Bharata Natyam dancer, who will demonstrate and discuss South Indian classical dance. Michael Schuster will discuss North Indian folk performance styles.
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 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.

Performance: Te Vaka
Saturday, May 7, 8:00 p.m.
Leeward Community College Theatre
Tickets: $30 adults; $25 seniors/students/military
Box office: 455-0385 or online at lcctheatre.hawaii.edu
This high-energy New Zealand-based ensemble of Tokelauans and other Polynesians combines traditional pate (log drums) with modern acoustic and electric guitars to produce an infectious and rhythmic musical concert. Presented by Leeward Community College, co-produced by EWC Arts Program.

LOOKING AHEAD . . .
2005

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

July 20 – August 3
Korea-United States Journalists’ Exchange U.S. and Korea
EWC contact: Marilyn Li, email: lim@EastWestCenter.org

July 21 – 22
EWC/KDI Conference on Restructuring Korea’s SMEs in the Age
of Globalization
EWC
EWC contact: Penny Higa, email: higap@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 15-17
The United States, Japan and China Relations: Trilateral Cooperation in the 21st Century Seminar
with The Pacific Forum CSIS, China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, and the Research Institute for Peace and Security
EWC contact: Ann Hartman
email: hartmana@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 9-29
Jefferson Fellowships
EWC, U.S. mainland, Asia
EWC contact: Ann Hartman
email: hartmana@EastWestCenter.org

November 7
(The date was changed from July 12 to November 7)
2005 An International Affair
East-West Center Foundation’s 2005 annual dinner
Hilton Hawaiian Village Coral Ballroom
EWC contact: Stephanie Handa
email: handas@EastWestCenter.org

November 16-18
EWC/EWCA South Asia Regional Conference
New Delhi, India
EWC contact: Dan Berman
email: EWC_bermand@fulbright-india.org

December 2-3
Asia in the Curriculum Symposium
EWC
EWC contact: Gordon Walker
email: walkerg@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.

For further information contact:
Bruce Bottorff
Public Information Specialist
email: bottorfb@EastWestCenter.org