Release Date:	10/30/2004

Conference: The United States and the Asia Pacific: Issues for the Next Administration

5th Annual Hawaii International Education Week
2004 Hawaii International Educator Award

Shifting Terrain: The Domestic Politics of the U.S. Military Presence in the Asia Pacific: Korea Workshop

“Moving Islands” Sixth Fall Writers’ Festival

Conference: Forging Links: Africa, Americas, Asia, & Pacific Islands — “Black Issues in the 21st Century”

Fall 2004 Jefferson Fellowships

Japan-U.S. Journalists’ Exchange

Training Program on the World Oil Market with a Focus on the East of Suez

Fall 2004 Film Series

EWC Washington

In the Arts . . .

Exhibition: "Neither East nor West: Hong Kong Contemporary Arts"

Performance: Hanyang Traditional Music Orchestra from Seoul, Korea

LOOKING AHEAD . . .

THE UNITED STATES AND THE ASIA PACIFIC:
ISSUES FOR THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION

The Asia-Pacific region has steadily rebuilt after its devastating financial crisis in the late 1990s. A new era of regional growth is beginning and initiatives for intra-regional cooperation are multiplying. China has replaced Japan as the regional political and economic epicenter of East Asia and now leads a broadly shared vision of East Asian cooperation that excludes the United States as a partner. The full dimensions of this change have not been fully appreciated in the United States which remains deeply distracted by events in the Middle East.

These and other developments will be the focus of the second annual conference of the U.S. Asia Pacific Council, November 10 in Washington D.C. with a view to advising a new administration and Congress. The conference will draw on participation by Council members, experts from the United States and Asia, and senior government officials who will participate in the Summit of APEC Leaders and ministers the following week in Santiago, Chile.

Wednesday, November 10, 2004
8:45 a.m. — 5:00 p.m.
Capital Hilton Hotel

Featured speakers at this conference will be: Senator Chuck Hagel; Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy, chairman, U.S. Asia Pacific Council; Senator Bennett Johnston; Ambassador Thomas S. Foley, chairman (North Am.), Trilateral Commission; Dr. Kim Kihwan, chairman, Seoul Financial Forum; Professor Joseph Nye, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Mr. Jusuf Wanandi, trustee and senior fellow, CSIS, Jakarta; Ambassador Ed Masters, co-chairman, U.S. Indonesia Society; Dr. Muthiah Alagappa, director, East-West Center Washington; Ambassador Stephen Bosworth, dean, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy; Ambassador Han Sung Joo, ambassador of Korea to the United States; Ms. Sandra Kristoff, senior advisor, C&M International; Dr. Charles E. Morrison, president, East-West Center; Dr. Hadi Soesastro, executive director, CSIS, Jakarta; Dr. Ed Lincoln, senior fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Mr. Clyde Prestowitz, president, Economic Strategy Institute; Mr. Gary G. Benanav, president & CEO, New York Life International; Wang Xiao Long, chief of Asia-Pacific Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China; Ambassador Yukio Satoh, president, Japan Institute for International Affairs; and Ambassador Lauren Moriarty, U.S. Senior Official for APEC.
Open to the public.
For more information, contact: Liz Dorn (202) 327-9762
email: dorne@EastWestCenter.org

5th Annual Hawaii International Education Week (HIEW)
(November 15-19)

In support of International Education Week proclaimed by the Departments of State and Education, the East-West Center, EWC's AsiaPacificEd Program, Pacific and Asian Affairs Council, and Wo International Center at Punahou School will sponsor several activities for Hawaii's public- and private-school students and teachers.

The K-3 program will be held at the Hawaii Imin International Conference Center at Jefferson Hall on Friday, Nov. 19. The focus will be a global perspective on the relationship between animals and different cultures.

The high school program will be held Saturday, Nov. 20, at Tokai University and will focus on six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program.

The middle school program will take place in Spring 2005 but will be announced during HIEW. It will focus on global perspectives on music.

The HIEW partners are also seeking nominations from public and private K-12 educators throughout the state for the 2004 Hawaii Global Educator Award. The awardee will receive a $500 cash award and the winning educator's school will receive $500 in cash vouchers to purchase global resource materials, with both awards funded by the Honolulu Advertiser. The outstanding educator will be announced during HIEW. Applications and information can be seen online at www.eastwestcenter.org under Education, then hit Hawaii International Education Week. Application deadline is Monday, Nov. 8.

EWC contact for HIEW activities: Susan Kreifels, email: kreifels@EastWestCenter.org
EWC contact for Hawall Global Educator Award: Gordon Walker (808) 944-7768
email: walkerg@EastWestCenter.org

Shifting Terrain: The Domestic Politics of the U.S. Military Presence in the Asia Pacific: Korea Workshop
Seoul, Korea
November 1 — 6
Members of the research team will meet with Korean government officials, both at the national and local level, as well as citizen groups who are active in the national debate over the presence of U.S. troops in South Korea. This is the second of four workshops to be held on the domestic politics of the U.S. military presence in the Asia Pacific over 2004-2005.
EWC contact: Sheila Smith, (808) 944-7427, email: smiths@EastWestCenter.org

“Moving Islands” Sixth Fall Writers’ Festival
A Celebration of Oceanic and Caribbean Literature
November 8-12, 2004
Free and open to the public
Every year the Department of English at the University of Hawai‘i Manoa hosts a Fall Festival of Writers. This year, in collaboration with the East-West Center’s Islands of Globalization Project, the festival’s theme is Moving Islands, celebrating writers from the Caribbean and the Pacific. This year’s authors include: Michelle Cliff, Nalo Hopkinson, Witi Ihimaera, George Lamming, Jully Makini, Rodney Morales, Noenoe Silva and Albert Wendt.

Monday, November 8, 7:00 p.m.
Islands of Globalization keynote address: George Lamming (via video), Albert Wendt and Michelle Cliff
Keoni Auditorium, Imin Center-Jefferson Hall, East-West Center

Tuesday, November 9, 3-4:30 p.m.
Reading: Jully Makini, Rodney Morales, Albert Wendt
Kuykendall Auditorium 101, UH Manoa

Tuesday, November 9, 7:00 p.m.
UH Distinguished Lecture: Witi Ihimaera
Campus Center Ballroom, UH Manoa

Wednesday, November 10
3:00-4:30 p.m.
Panel: “Sources of the Imagination,” Michelle Cliff, Nalo Hopkinson, Jully Makini, Noenoe Silva
Kuykendall Auditorium 101, UH Manoa

7:00 p.m.
Reading: Michelle Cliff, Nalo Hopkinson, Witi Ihimaera
Art Auditorium, UH Manoa

Friday, November 12, 10:30 a.m.
Distinguished Lecture Series Seminar: “Remapping the Heart,” Witi Ihimaera
Keoni Auditorium, East-West Center

Conference: Forging Links: Africa, Americas, Asia, & Pacific Islands — “Black Issues in the 21st Century”
Imin Center-Jefferson Hall
November 18-20
This international conference of black scholars will serve as a summit to discuss critical issues such as race, resources, class, culture, and gender in the African Diaspora. It is expected to be the cornerstone and beginning of a series of future annual national and international black conferences to be held in Hawaii, and provide scholars the opportunity to discuss strategies and future plans for an international center of African Studies and Research to be established at the University of Hawai‘i. This conference is cosponsored by the University of Hawai‘i’ and the East-West Center.

Workshop coordinator: Kathryn Takara, professor of African Studies, University of Hawai‘i’ Interdisciplinary Studies Program (808) 956-7067, email: takara@hawaii.edu
EWC contact: Grant Otoshi (808) 944-7454, email: otoshig@EastWestCenter.org

Continuing from October:

Fall 2004 Jefferson Fellowships
Through November 6
The Fall 2004 Jefferson Fellowships is a program of professional dialogue, study and travel for mid-level print and broadcast journalists from the United States, Asia and the Pacific. The program begins at the East-West Center in Honolulu and will continue with a study tour to Washington (DC); Boston, Massachusetts; Austin, Texas; and Los Angeles, California. During the study tour, the Jefferson Fellows will travel together and share their experiences and insights as they look cross-culturally at the United States and its election process. The program will conclude in Los Angeles. More information>>>
EWC contacts: Dennis Donahue (808) 944-7192
email: donahued@EastWestCenter.org and
Ann Hartman (808) 944-7384,
email: Seminars@EastWestCenter.org

Japan-U.S. Journalists’ Exchange
EWC, U.S. mainland
Through Nov. 10
The East-West Center and the Nihon Shinbun Kyokai (NSK-Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association) in Tokyo sponsor the annual Japan-United States Journalists' Exchange.

Four Japanese journalists will visit the United States for a study tour that will include Seattle, Detroit, and Washington D.C. Following the study tour, the journalists meet at the East-West Center to report on their experiences and to exchange opinions on journalistic and news coverage issues in Japan and the United States. The program was developed to enhance the quality and quantity of media reporting through specific focus on upper mid-level and senior "gatekeepers". The theme of this program is the U.S. Presidential Election.
EWC contacts: Dennis Donahue (808) 944-7192, email: donahued@EastWestCenter.org
and Marilyn Li (808) 944-7258
email: lim@EastWestCenter.org

Training Program on the World Oil Market with a Focus on the East of Suez
East-West Center

Through November 12
The training program will have weekly sessions with a focus on the following topics:

· World Economic and Energy Outlook: The Role of Asia
· East of Suez Crude Oil Outlook
· Developments in the Asian and Middle East Refining Business
· Trends in East of Suez Petroleum Product Trade and Refining Margins
· Special Focus on Developments in Emerging Asian Markets

Week 7: November 1- 5
Presentation of individual project w/comments from Energy Project Staff
Price determination in international and regional markets
Meeting with country specialist to finalize individual project

Week 8: November 8 -12
Price forecasting: Key issues and case study
Economics of GTL
For more details: www.eastwestcenter.org/events-ce-detail.asp
EWC contact: Gayle Sueda (808 )944-7560, email: suedag@EastWestCenter.org

Fall 2004 Film Series
All films are free and open to the public.
Shown Fridays at 12 noon
Burns Hall 3121/3125
Through December 3

November 5 — Films About Derek Walcott (“Moving Islands” Writers Festival Feature)

November 12 — Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree (90 mins.) Martyn Sanderson, Grahame McLean; 1989 (“Moving Islands” Writers Festival Feature)

November 19 — An Island Invaded (50 mins.) Esther Figueroa, Jim Bannan; 2004 Esther Figueroa in Person

December 3 — Aku Ingin Menciummu Sekali Saja — Birdman Tale (90 mins.) Garin Nugroho; 2001

EWC Washington:

Asia Pacific Leadership Program will be in Washington, D.C. from November 13-21.
For more information, please email Washington@EastWestCenter.org

In the Arts . . .

EWC Exhibition: "Neither East nor West: Hong Kong Contemporary Arts"

November 14, 2004 - January 7, 2005
EWC Gallery
Features works by seven artists notable for capturing the flavor and stresses of current life in this culturally unique Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China. Artists will be in residence to participate in Arts Forums and Opening Reception. Co-sponsored by the HK Curatorial Unit: Research and Organization and curated by art critic Oscar Ho.

This exhibition is made possible by generous support from the Hawaii Pacific Rim Society, the Jackie Chan Foundation USA, the Arthur Goodfriend Fund, and generous contributors to the EWC Foundation.

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: Hanyang Traditional Music Orchestra from Seoul, Korea
Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2004
7:30-9:30 p.m.
Orvis Auditorium, UHM Music Department
corner Dole Street and University Ave.
Presented by the EWC Arts Program
the UHM Music Department and the UHM Center for Korean Studies

$12 General Admission
$8 students, senior citizens, military, and FEWC and FM-AM members
Tickets available at the UH Campus Center Box Office (M-F 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.)
Information and charge-by-phone: 944-7177
Remaining tickets available at the door.

Hanyang University is one of the leading music education institutions in Korea, and its 25-member Traditional Music Orchestra consists of faculty and the most advanced graduate and undergraduate students performing Korean instruments such as kayagum, komungo, taegum, piri, and changgo. The ensemble performs throughout Korea each year, and has toured Europe, Australia, and the continental U.S. Their Honolulu concert will include large and small instrumental groups, folk songs, and dance.
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

LOOKING AHEAD . . .
2005

January 8-15
Seminar on International Humanitarian Law
EWC
EWC contact: Eugene Alexander, email: alexande@EastWestCenter.org

January 14-15
Second Meeting of the Working Group on Macroeconomic Aspects of Intergenerational Transfers
UC-Berkeley, CA
EWC contact: Carolyn Eguchi, email: eguchic@eastwestcenter.org

February 6—11 (tentative)
Chaplin Fellowship in Distinguished Journalism
EWC
EWC contacts: Dennis Donahue, email: donahued@EastWestCenter.org
and Marilyn Li, email: lim@EastWestCenter.org

February 17—19
2005 International Graduate Student Conference
EWC
EWC contact: studentconference@EastWestCenter.org

February 19-21
Pacific Trade and Development - PAFTAD - 2005 Conference
Imin Center-Jefferson Hall
EWC contact: Sumner La Croix, email: lacroixs@EastWestCenter.org

March 5-6
Innovation, Global Production, And Work: Why Is Chip Design Moving To Asia?
Berkeley, California
EWC contact: Dieter Ernst, email: ErnstD@EastWestCenter.org

March 7-9
22nd Population Census Conference
Seattle, Washington
EWC contact: Jiajian Chen, email: ChenJ@EastWestCenter.org

March 8—12
Integrating Social Science Methods into Emerging Infectious Disease Research
EWC
EWC contact: June Kuramoto, kuramotj@EastWestCenter.org

March 7-18 (tentative)
4th Building the Foundation Training Seminar: Pacific Islands Power Utility Managers
EWC
EWC contact: Meril Dobrin-Fujiki, email: fujikim@EastWestCenter.org

March 18-20
Natural Resources and Violent Ethnic Conflict in the Asia/Pacific Region
EWC
EWC contact: Carolyn Eguchi, email: EguchiC@EastWestCenter.org

April 18-21 (tentative)
Asia Pacific Executive Forum Luncheons
U.S. mainland
EWC contact: Abigail Sines, email: sinesa@EastWestCenter.org

May 1-28 (tentative)
Jefferson Fellowships, Spring
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

Mid-June
ASEAN Program for Disaster Reduction (EWC-Pacific Disaster Center)
(2 weeks)
EWC
EWC contact: Meril Dobrin-Fujiki, email: fujikim@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
Application Deadline: February 1, 2005
EWC contact: Donna Lee, email: leed@EastWestCenter.org

July 10-21 (tentative)
4th Changing Faces: Women’s Leadership Program
EWC
EWC contact: Abigail Sines, email: sinesa@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.
Application Deadline: February 1, 2005
EWC contact: Donna Lee, email: leed@EastWestCenter.org

August 7-10 (tentative)
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.
Application Deadline: February 1, 2005
EWC contact: Donna Lee, email: leed@EastWestCenter.org

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

August 28-31 (tentative)
15th New Generation Seminar
EWC and Asia Pacific
EWC contact: Ann Hartman, email: hartmana@EastWestCenter.org

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

September 1-11
15th New Generation Seminar (CONT. from August)
EWC contact: Ann Hartman, email: hartmana@EastWestCenter.org

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

2006

November (to be determined)
EWC/EWCA 2006 International Alumni Conference
Hanoi, Vietnam
EWC contact: Gordon Ring, email: ringg@EastWestCenter.org