EWC Washington: Congressional Study Group on the Pacific Islands (Tentative)   
           
In the Arts . . .                                
July 1 – Sept. 10, 2007:  Exhibition: Shaman Arts of Vietnam            
                    
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NEH Institute on the Ideal and the Real: Arcs of Change in Chinese Culture
June 18 - July 20, 2007
East-West Center
This five-week Institute for U.S. college/university faculty in the humanities and social sciences will examine the historical interplay among religious, philosophical, social, political, and artistic ideals and realities as a means of understanding the dynamics of cultural change in China. Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Peter Hershock, ASDP Coordinator, and Roger Ames, Professor of Philosophy at University of Hawaii, will be the coordinators for this Institute.
EWC contact: Peter Hershock (808) 944-7757
email: hershocp@EastWestCenter.org

Travel and Teach: Cambodia & Thailand
July 1 – 25, 2007
The East-West Center’s “Travel and Teach” program offers U.S. teachers the opportunity to develop meaningful real-life connections to world cultures, religions, economies, and ecologies enriched by one-on-one interactions with people in local communities.

The 2007 “Travel and Teach” provides immersion experiences in Cambodia and Thailand. The program takes a multifaceted approach to exploring the incredible diversity of Southeast Asia while enabling participants to make “connections” between these two societies/cultures. In Cambodia, participants will glimpse daily life through a weeklong home stay in a village where they will contribute to their host community through volunteer teaching and working with local children and villagers of all ages in formal classroom environment as well as informal group settings.
EWC contact: Cherylene Hidano, (808) 944-7765
email: hidanoc@EastWestCenter.org
          
Partnership for Youth: Reporting for Change Cambodia
July 1 – 28, 2007
The East-West Center’s Partnership for Youth (P4Y) summer 2007 leadership program, consisting of U.S. high school sophomores and juniors is offering experiential learning in Cambodia as well as a hands-on opportunity for skill development, personal growth, and cross-cultural relationship building. Participants will gather in Honolulu for a five-day orientation, and then travel to Cambodia.

Focusing on “Reporting for Change,” the 2007 program will use the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia as a case study for analysis of the role of journalism in covering an event of international importance and the role of the media in the democratic process, civic engagement, and international relations. Working in teams, participants will create mini documentaries, aimed at informing their peers back home about the Tribunal process, while relating it to the changing dynamics of Cambodian society.
EWC contact: Rosita MacDonald, (808) 944-7378
email: MacDonaR@EastWestCenter.org

2007 China-U.S. Faculty Exchange Program
June 30 - July 21, 2007
A Collaborative Program of the Chinese Ministry of Education, Peking University, East-West Center and University of Hawai’i
The 2007 China-U.S. Faculty Exchange Program is the fourth summer program for Chinese university faculty to visit the United States.  In alternate years, the Chinese Ministry of Education hosts a similar group of American college and university faculty in China.

The purpose of the program is to expand and improve teaching about China (in the U.S.) and about the U.S. (in China) at the university level. The 2007 program for Chinese faculty will start in Honolulu at the East-West Center and University of Hawai’i, and then continue to San Francisco, Atlanta and Washington D.C.
EWC coordinator:  Elizabeth Buck (808) 944-7315
email bucke@eastwestcenter.org
EWC contact: Cherylene Hidano (808) 944-7765
email: hidanoc@EastWestCenter.org

Changing Faces Women’s Leadership Program
July 8 – 19, 2007
EWC
Changing Faces is a program designed to bring together women from the United States and the Asia Pacific region to participate in dialogue on leadership and issues specific to women in leadership around the region. The program seeks professional women at lower and middle level positions of leadership who have the potential to move into positions of greater responsibility and influence. The theme for the 2007 program is "Women and Peacebuilding in Asia, the Pacific, and the United States."mailto:
EWC contact: Abigail Sines (808) 944-7368
email: sinesa@EastWestCenter.org

2007 EWC/Korea Development Institute (KDI) Conference: "mailto:Reforms for Korea's Sustained Growth?”
July 12 – 13, 2007
EWC
For more information, please contact Penny Higa
email: higap@EastWestCenter.org

Senior Seminar
July 15 – 20, 2007
EWC
The International Forum for Education 2020 invites senior scholars and practitioners from various fields to focus on new approaches to educational challenges in the Asia Pacific region.

These sessions focus on higher educational issues of importance to all Pacific and Asian countries. Recent senior seminars have examined the changing nature of higher education as growing market sectors and the challenge they present to the traditional role as a social public good. Various publications including edited volumes, issue papers and case studies are generated by the Senior Seminars as well as Leadership Institutes featuring participants from a wide range of Asia/Pacific countries over a curriculum informed by the Senior Seminars.
EWC contact: Cherylene Hidano (808) 944-7765
email: hidanoc@EastWestCenter.org

NEH Pearl Harbor Workshops
July 21 – 28 &    July 29 – Aug. 4, 2007
Pearl Harbor is an enduring part of the popular history and culture of the United States as an event that drew the U.S. into World War II and forever changed the nation. However, the way Pearl Harbor is remembered in Japan understandably differs from the context of American memory. The two "Pearl Harbor: History, Memory, Memorial"mailto: workshops will explore the multiple histories that converge at Pearl Harbor while illuminating one of the most important (and at times antagonistic) bilateral relationships of the 20th century and the impact the event had on Japan and U.S. international relations.

During each workshop, participants will visit the Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor and related attack sites to gain a sense of the time and place represented by these historic resources. Since the history of Pearl Harbor is still alive, they will also have the unique opportunity to meet with Pearl Harbor survivors and World War II-generation residents of Hawaii.
EWC contact: Cherylene Hidano (808) 944-7765
email: hidanoc@EastWestCenter.org
 
 
ASDP: Institute on Infusing East Asia into the Undergraduate Curriculum
July 24 – Aug 10, 2007       
EWC            
This annual three-week Institute, funded by the Freeman Foundation, focuses on faculty and institutional development related to the undergraduate teaching of Asia at two-year and four-year colleges and universities. The focus of the 2007 program will be East Asia (primarily China and Japan). The interdisciplinary Institute program features lectures and discussions on the culture, history, and contemporary complexion of the region, and works with participants in developing Asian studies on their home campuses.
Director: Dr. Fred Lau, University of Hawaii.
EWC contact: Sandy Osaki (808) 944-7337
email: Osakis@EastWestCenter.org

Energy Security in the North Pacific Conference
July 31 - Aug. 1, 2007
EWC    
This Conference is designed to provide the highest quality, independent insights on the most pressing strategic issues facing the North Pacific energy industry and aim to facilitate productive, frank, off-the-record discussion of significant issues in energy business, among leading energy experts and the industry's top executives. It is expected that the conference would provide an insightful, thought-provoking vision of the strategic issues affecting the energy business.
Coordinator: Dr. Y.H. Kim
EWC contact: Carolyn Eguchi (808) 944-7510
email: eguchic@EastWestCenter.org

Senior Policy Seminar
August 6 – 8, 2007
EWC
The Senior Policy Seminar brings together senior and influential policy makers, government officials, and academic experts from the United States and the Asia Pacific region for discussions on the economic, social and strategic dynamics and the future of U.S. policy in the region.
Participation in the Senior Policy Seminar is by invitation only.
EWC contact: Jane Smith-Martin, email: smithj@EastWestCenter.org

ASDP: Asian Studies in Asia Planning Meeting
August 20 – 23, 2007
For more information, please contact Grant Otoshi (808) 944-7454
email: otoshig@EastWestCenter.org
               
EWCA 1970s Reunion Conference
“Continuity and Change in the Asia Pacific U.S. Region: 1970 – 2007”
August 24 – 27, 2007, EWC
You can register online at: http://www2.eastwestcenter.org/alumni/DW/70sReunion/70sReunion.html For more information, please contact: Gordon Ring
email: ringg@EastWestCenter.org

U.S.-Asia Health Journalism Fellowship
August 25 – Sept. 8, 2007
Hong Kong, Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, Vietnam, Jakarta, Indonesia

Theme: Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases in the Asia Pacific

The 2007 Health Journalism Fellows will meet with medical and public health specialists both inside and outside of government; community leaders; farmers and businesses; journalists and others to learn how countries are dealing with infectious diseases. Discussions will focus on avian flu, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, dengue fever and other infectious diseases and public health issues that are of regional and global concern. Through dialogue and field visits in both urban and rural areas, journalists will learn firsthand lessons that can be drawn in preventing pandemics. At the University of Hong Kong, specialists will focus on health issues in China and how Hong Kong has prepared to contain infectious diseases since the SARS epidemic.  Funding: East-West Center with program support from the University of Hong Kong.
EWC contact: Susan Kreifels, (808) 944-7176
email: kreifels@EastWestCenter.org

AIJI Workshop for the OTC at the ECCC
August 27 – 31, 2007
Phnom Penh
The Asian International Justice Initiative (AIJI), a joint initiative of the East-West Center and the U.C. Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center, will hold a training workshop for the Office of the Co-Prosecutors (OTC) at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) this August. AIJI will be bringing expert faculty from key international tribunals in the Hague to Phnom Penh to conduct this workshop. The workshop will center on an intensive examination of the most recent jurisprudential developments in international criminal law - particularly in the areas of genocide and crimes against humanity.
EWC contact: Phil Estermann (808) 944-7464
email: estermap@EastWestCenter.org                

East-West Center Washington:

Tentative: Congressional Study Group on the Pacific Islands: "Renegotiation of the Compact with Palau"mailto:
July 25, 2007
Speaker to be announced.
For more information: East-West Center Washington Washington@EastWestCenter.org

In the Arts . . .

Exhibition: Shaman Arts of Vietnam
July 1 – September 10, 2007
East-West Center Gallery
Curated by: Nguyen Thi Nhung and Mark Rapoport
Installation Design: Lynne Najita
Shamanism has been practiced for millennia throughout Southeast Asia and is still a significant aspect of many of these Vietnamese mountain communities. Despite centuries of famine, dislocation, emigration, and “ethnic cleansing,” they continue to preserve their traditional cultures, and shamans are key figures in this preservation process. Shamans typically serve as priests, healers, fortune-tellers, advisors on building projects, matchmakers, and marriage counselors. They also help bring good luck and avert bad luck.This exhibition features five categories of art objects that help viewers to better understand shamanic rituals: paintings; costumes; musical instruments; written material, stamps, and printing blocks; and power objects.

Coming up:
July 1, 2007, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Opening Reception: Shaman Arts of Vietnam
Walk-through with Guest Curator Nguyen Thi Nhung

September 9, 2007, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Illustrated discussion
"From South of the Clouds: Vietnamese Shamanic Traditions"mailto:
Guest Curator, Mark Rapoport, M.D.

EWC contact: Michael Schuster, Curator, EWC Gallery (808) 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.

EWC Arts Programs are supported in part by the Hawai`i Pacific Rim Society, Friends of Hawai`i Charities, the Jackie Chan Foundation USA, and generous contributors to the EWC Foundation, including members of the EWC Arts ‘Ohana.

LOOKING AHEAD. . .

September 9 – 22: International Forum for Education (IFE) 2020 Institute
EWC
EWC contact: Cherylene Hidano
email: hidanoc@EastWestCenter.org

September 10 – 15: Developing Country Journalism Fellowships
Mongolia
EWC contact: Eugene Alexander
email: alexanda@EastWestCenter.org

September 10 - 26: Hong Kong Journalism Fellowships
EWC, China, and Hong Kong
EWC contact: Marilyn Li, email: lim@EastWestCenter.org

September 27 - 29: ASDP Islam in Asia Workshop
Savannah, Georgia
EWC contact: Sandy Osaki
email: Osakis@EastWestCenter.org

Sept. 30 – Oct. 21: Fall 2007 Jefferson Fellowships
EWC, U.S. mainland, Asia
EWC contact: Susan Kreifels, email: kreifels@EastWestCenter.org

October 8 - 9: Project Team Mtg. on the Role of Landcover Change in Altering      Hydrology
EWC contact: Jefferson Fox
email: foxj@EastWestCenter.org

October 14 - 28: 17th New Generation Seminar
EWC, Hiroshima, and Shanghai
EWC contact: Ann Hartman, email: hartmana@EastWestCenter.org

October 18 – 20: ASDP China Workshop
Portland, Oregon
EWC contact: Sandy Osaki, email: Osakis@EastWestCenter.org

November 2007: Japan-U.S. Journalists Exchange
EWC and U.S. mainland
EWC contact: Meril Fujiki, email: seminars@EastWestCenter.org

November 7 - 9East West Sports Summit
EWC
EWC contact: Gary Yoshida, email: YoshidaG@EastWestCenter.org

November 13 – 14: International Conference on Sustainability Science
EWC contact: Jefferson Fox, email: foxj@EastWestCenter.org

2008

January 20 – 23: Changing Dynamics in the Asia Pacific: Power Politics, Economic  Might, and Media Challenges Conference
Bangkok, Thailand
EWC contact: Susan Kreifels, email: kreifels@EastWestCenter.org

July/August: Summer International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights    Institute
Kenneth Wang School of Law, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
EWC contact: Michelle Staggs, email: staggsm@EastWestCenter.org

Contact information and dates are subject to change.

The EAST-WEST CENTER is an education and research organization established by the U.S. Congress in 1960 to strengthen relations and understanding among the peoples and nations of Asia, the Pacific, and the United States.  The Center contributes to a peaceful, prosperous and just Asia Pacific community by serving as a vigorous hub for cooperative research, education and dialogue on critical issues of common concern to the Asia Pacific region and the United States.  Funding for the Center comes from the U.S. government, with additional support provided by private agencies, individuals, foundations, corporations, and the governments of the region.