Coming up in July, August, and September 2008
Through July 3: 39th Summer Seminar on Population
Asian Studies Development Programs
• Through July 7: Korea-Japan Field Seminar
• Through July 18: Institute on Infusing Asian Studies into the Undergraduate Curriculum
AsiaPacificEd Programs
• Through July 21: Partnership for Youth 2008: The Politics of Power – Cambodia
• July 5 – 27: Travel and Teach: Cambodia
• July 26–Aug. 1: (EWC)Pearl Harbor: History, Memory, Memorial
Aug. 2 – 9 (Tokai University)
July 7 – 8: Senior Policy Seminar
July 14 – 16: Workshop on Civil Society Engagement in National and Global Governance
July 20 – 31: Changing Faces Women’s Leadership Program
July 21 - 25: International Forum for Education (IFE) Senior Seminar
August 3 – 8: XVII International AIDS Conference
August 10 – 13: Urban Asia: Challenges of Transition and Governance
Inaugural Seminar
August 14 – 15: Korea Transport Institute (KOTI) Conference
September 3 – 5: Northeast Asia Journalists Dialogue
September 11 – 27: Hong Kong Journalism Fellowships
September 15 – 19: Asia Pacific Executive Forum Lecture Series
September 16 – 18: Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship
September 21 – 24: Australian American Leadership Dialogue Honolulu Meeting
Sept. 21 – Oct. 5: 18th New Generation Seminar
September 29: Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century Asia Dissemination Meeting
East-West Center in Washington
In the Arts . . .
June 29 – Sept. 5: Exhibition: Altogether: Contemporary Papua New Guinea Art
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39th Summer Seminar on Population
Through July 3, 2008
East-West Center
The seminar features workshops on three topics:
Population, Development, and Policy: A Follow-Up Workshop
Use of Discrete-Time Survival Models to Draw Out the Policy Implications of Demographic and Health Surveys
Communicating with Policymakers about Population and Health
EWC contact: Eugene Alexander, (808) 944-7332
email: alexande@eastwestcenter.org
Asian Studies Development Programs (ASDP)
• Korea-Japan Field Seminar
Through July 7, 2008
Eighteen high school teachers will participate in an East-West Center program on Korea and Japan. The program participants will be from Punahou School, Phillips Exeter Academy, and the High School Affiliated to Renmin University in Beijing. The participants will travel to Korea and Japan, where they will visit Daewon Foreign Language High School in Seoul and Doshisha International High School in Tanabe, Japan. In addition to providing a survey of Korea and Japan, the program is intended to build a network among high schools with broad international interests.
• Institute on Infusing Asian Studies into the Undergraduate Curriculum
Through July 18, 2008
East-West Center
The annual three-week Institute, funded by the Freeman Foundation, focuses on faculty and institutional development related to undergraduate and universities. The focus of the 2008 program will be East Asia (primarily China and Japan). The interdisciplinary Institute program features lectures and discussion on the culture, history, and contemporary complexion of the region, and works with participants in developing strategies to build Asian studies on their home campuses.
For more information, please visit the EWC Asian Studies Development Program website.
EWC contact for ASDP: Peter Hershock, (808) 944-7757
email: hershocp@eastwestcenter.org
AsiaPacificEd Programs
• Partnership for Youth 2008: The Politics of Power – Cambodia
Through July 21, 2008
The 2008 program will offer experiential learning in Cambodia as well as a hands-on opportunity to develop leadership and media literacy. High school students from the U.S. will examine international and regional relations, and social, political and economic power-relations in the Cambodian content.
• Travel and Teach: Cambodia
July 5 - 27, 2008
The East-West Center’s “Travel and Teach” program offers U.S. K-12 teachers the opportunity to develop meaningful real-life connections to world cultures, religions, economies, ecologies enriched by one-on-one interactions with people in local communities.
The 2008 “Travel and Teach” provides immersion experience in Cambodia and takes a multifaceted approach to exploring the incredible diversity of Southeast Asia, as exemplified by Cambodia.
Participants will examine Cambodia’s international relations as well as social, political and economic power-relations, while looking at the changing power dynamics in the region, in particular the growing importance of China and the role of Western influences,including the U.S., in the history of the region. While in Cambodia, participants will have the opportunity to witness an event of international significance as the Khmer Rouge Trials unfold. Participants will also get a rare glimpse of daily life through a village home stay and contribute to their host community through volunteer teaching and work with local children in a formal classroom environment as well as informal group settings.
• Pearl Harbor: History, Memory, Memorial
July 26–Aug. 1(EWC); Aug. 2 – 9 (Tokai University)
Pearl Harbor is an enduring part of U.S. popular history and culture as an event that drew the United States into World War II and forever changed the nation. However, the way Pearl Harbor is remembered today in Japan understandably differs from the context of American memory. The two “Pearl Harbor: History, Memory, Memorial” workshops will explore the multiple histories that converge at Pearl Harbor—including not only American and Japanese but also Hawaiian and diverse American experiences, especially those of Americans of Japanese ancestry—reminding us that despite the mythic status of the Pearl Harbor story in American culture, there are in fact a number of “Pearl Harbors,” with different impacts and memories for diverse Americans and for people throughout the world.
EWC contact for AsiaPacific Ed Programs: Cherylene Hidano, (808) 944-7765
email: hidanoc@eastwestcenter.org
Senior Policy Seminar
July 7 – 8, 2008
East-West Center
The Senior Policy Seminar brings together senior and influential policy makers, government officials, private sector leaders, 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: Raymond Burghardt, (808) 944-7524
email: holversc@eastwestcenter.org
Workshop on Civil Society Engagement in National and Global Governance
July 14 – 16, 2008
EWC Hawaii Imin International Conference Center, Asia Room
The Study Group will examine emerging issues in theory and practice of civil society engagement to promote and strengthen inclusive governance at national and global levels. The Study Group is sponsored by the East-West Center, Harvard University's ASH Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, United Nations University, and the Soka University of America.
EWC contacts: Dr. G. Shabbir Cheema, (808) 944-7427
email: cheemas@eastwestcenter.org
Darlene Spadavecchia, (808) 944-7731
email: spadaved@eastwestcenter.org
Changing Faces Women’s Leadership Program
East-West Center
July 20 - 31, 2008
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.
The 2008 program focuses on “Women and Conflict Transformation in Asia, the Pacific, and the United States.” Conflict may arise in political recognition and representation, or access to natural, social, or economic resources. When conflicts arise, every level and facet of society are affected: economic development and sustainability, resource allocation and use, education, and public policy. Women’s involvement in the transformation of these conflict situations is imperative.
EWC contact: Liz Dorn, (808) 944-7368, email: dorne@eastwestcenter.org
International Forum for Education (IFE) Senior Seminar
July 21- 25, 2008
A group of thirteen international scholars from nine countries will gather at the National Chung Cheng University at Chai-yi Taiwan to present papers on the subject of “Access, Equity and Capacity in Asia-Pacific Higher Education.” The event will be the most recent in a series of senior seminars that have invited scholars from over twenty countries to address a range of subjects within the rapidly changing field of education. Materials from these seminars are used to develop curricula for the annually occurring International Forum for Education 2020 leadership institutes sponsored by the East-West Center.
EWC contact: Cherylene Hidano, (808) 944-7765
email: hidanoc@eastwestcenter.org
XVII International AIDS Conference
August 3 – 8, 2008
Mexico City
AIDS 2008 will provide many opportunities for the presentation of important new scientific research and for productive, structured dialogue on the major challenges facing the global response to AIDS. Conference organizers are developing a wide variety of session types that meet the needs of various participants and support collective efforts to expand delivery of HIV prevention and treatment to communities worldwide. Central to many of these sessions will be the transfer of knowledge and sharing of best practices.
EWC contact: Carolyn Eguchi, (808) 944-7510
email: eguchic@eastwestcenter.org
Urban Asia: Challenges of Transition and Governance Inaugural Seminar
August 10 – 13, 2008
East-West Center
This inaugural seminar is designed specifically to promote peer-to-peer exchanges that will stimulate new ideas, offer new perspectives, and promote better understanding between Asia and the U.S. on issues of urban transformation and governance. The seminar will examine current trends of urban growth and decentralization, implications for Asian cities, and policy options that can support strategies and actions for managing the urbanization process and its consequences through long-term strategic vision, concerted incremental efforts to strengthen urban governance through proactive leadership, commitment to bold plans, and the ability to reconcile divergent interests for the common good. Participation by invitation only.
EWC coordinator: Meril Fujiki, 808-944-7352
email: fujikim@eastwestcenter.org
EWC contact: June Kuramoto, (808) 944-7267
email: kuramotj@eastwestcenter.org
Korea Transport Institute (KOTI) Conference
August 14 – 15, 2008
EWC contact: Eugene Alexander, (808) 944-7332
email: alexande@eastwestcenter.org
Northeast Asia Journalists Dialogue
September 3 – 5, 2008
East-West Center
The 2008 Northeast Asia Journalists Dialogue will bring Chinese journalists to the East-West Center this year in addition to Japanese, Korean, and U.S. journalists. Participants will discuss regional issues, including regional disaster response in the wake of the Burma cyclone; post-Olympic China; Sino-Japanese relations; the Six-Party Talks on North Korea; new leaders and Northeast Asian diplomacy; and the U.S. presidential election. They will also discuss media coverage of regional issues.
EWC contact: Susan Kreifels, (808) 944-7176
email: kreifels@eastwestcenter.org
Hong Kong Journalism Fellowships
Theme: The Aftermath of the Beijing Olympics
EWC, Beijing, Kunming, Shangri-la, and Hong Kong
September 11 – 27, 2008
The program will begin with a two-day seminar at the East-West Center, followed by a study tour to Beijing and Yunnan on the Mainland China and Hong Kong. The Fellowship will take six to seven professional working American journalists from print, broadcast and online news media organizations to meet with business executives, scholars, journalists, political leaders and government officials. The Hong Kong Journalism Fellowships, established in 1996, are co-sponsored by the Better Hong Kong Foundation and the East-West Center to deepen better public understanding in the United States of the diversity and complexity of political, economic, social and cultural issues in Hong Kong and mainland China.
Co-sponsored by The Better Hong Kong Foundation and the East-West Center.
EWC contact: Marilyn Li, (808) 944-7258, email: lim@eastwestcenter.org
Asia Pacific Executive Forum (APEF) Lecture Series
September 15 – 19, 2008
Texas
The Asia Pacific Executive Forum (APEF) is a program designed to bring together senior executives, government policymakers and East-West Center experts for intensive dialogue on critical issues facing the region and how they impact economics and business.
EWC contact: Raymond Burghardt, (808) 944-7524
email: holversc@eastwestcenter.org
Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT)
September 16 – 18, 2008
EWC (Hawaii Imin International Conference Center)
This program brings together a diverse group of researchers and practitioners spanning the natural and social sciences. Most of them have been involved in marine or coral reef conservation and health but have otherwise had limited interaction across this disciplinary span.
EWC contact: Carolyn Eguchi, (808) 944-7510
email: eguchic@eastwestcenter.org
Australian American Leadership Dialogue Honolulu Meeting
September 21 – 24, 2008
This meeting of a small group of political, business and academic leaders from Australia and the United States is an extension of an annual U.S. Australia Leadership Dialogue that has been taking place alternatively in Washington, D.C. and an Australian capital city since 1992. This will be the first dialogue meeting in Honolulu, and will involve an Australian delegation led by former Labor Party leader Kim Beazley and counterparts from the Honolulu community.
EWC contact: Richard Baker, (808) 944-7371
email: bakerr@eastwestcenter.org
18th New Generation Seminar
Theme: "The Politics of Globalization
"September 21-October 5, 2008
Honolulu, Hawaii; Youngstown, Ohio; and Washington, DC
After one week of seminars and exchange in Honolulu on broad Asia Pacific regional issues, policy and decision mak ers in the 18th New Generation Seminar will explore the perceptions and realities of the impact of globalization in the United States and how election-year politics affect popular opinion, shape globalization debates and influence national policies.
Each year the East-West Center invites rising young leaders from the United States and Asia Pacific to participate in a two-week intensive educational and dialogue program to strengthen their understanding of regional developments and challenges, increase their contacts with counterparts in the region, and to become more effective leaders with an international perspective.
The program is funded through a generous grant from the Freeman Foundation.
EWC contact: Ann Hartman, (808) 944-7619
email: hartmana@eastwestcenter.org
Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century Asia Dissemination Meeting
September 29, 2008
Tokyo, Japan
The dissemination meeting will bring together authors of chapters from the book titled The Long Shadow: Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century Asia to present their main arguments and generate discussion on the topics. The book is a product of a three year project funded by The Japan Foundation, Center for Global Partnership. It will appear as a Stanford University Press publication hopefully before September 29, 2008. Co-sponsored by the Japan Institute for International Affairs
Coordinator: Dr. Muthiah Alagappa, email: alagappm@eastwestcenter.org
East-West Center in Washington
Proposed Programs:
Asian Development Bank Program: Emerging Asian Regionalism (with U.S. Chamber of Commerce)
July 9, 2008 -- 12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Australian National University Asian Security Forum Program: Australian Views of Northeast Asian Security
July 17, 2008 -- 12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Democracy and Human Rights Seminar: Media Landscape in China
July 25, 2008 -- 12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Asian Security Forum Program: India-China Relations
Speaker: Ambassador Sudhir Devare, Fellow, Weatherhead Institute, Harvard University, and Associate Senior Fellow at ISEAS Singapore.
August 7, 2008 -- 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
EWC in Washington Conference Room
1819 L St. NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC
EWC in Washington contact: Justin B. Liang
email: liangj@eastwestcenter.org
In the Arts . . .
Exhibition: Altogether: Contemporary Papua New Guinea Art
June 29 - September 5, 2008
East-West Center Gallery
Guest Curator: Jacquelyn Lewis-Harris, Ph.D.
Featured Artists: Timothy Akis, Jakupa Ako, Wkeng Aseng, Wendi Choulai, Ruki Fame, Elisabet Kauage, Mathias Kauage, Gigmai Kundun, Watu Lopo, Benny Moore, Joe Nalo, Simon Novek, Larry Santana,Taba Silau, Albert Susuve, WakiWaikali, Jane Wena, Manfred W’keng,Cecil KingWungi
Located just north of Australia, the independent country of Papua New Guinea (PNG) occupies the eastern half of New Guinea, the second largest island in the world. This land mass and the multiple adjacent islands is home to over six million people. The country hosts the most linguistically diverse population in the world, with over 700 indigenous. PNG’s geography features a wide variety of environments from vast river systems, swamps, grasslands, and mountainous areas, to volcanic islands and tropical rain forests, all of which contribute to the physical and cultural isolation of the people, which has resulted in a wide variety of art styles.
This exhibit is organized into three chronological sections: The Early Masters, The Centre forCreative Arts/National Art School Artists, and New Art Forms/New Artists. In addition, customary utilitarian and ceremonial art provides cultural context and illustrates the intangiblespiritual link of the contemporary to the past.
Special Events
All in the EWC Gallery, admission free
Sunday, June 29, 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Opening festivities, including reception and exhibition walk-through with guest curator Jacquelyn Lewis-Harris, Ph.D.
Sunday, July 13, 2:00-3:30 p.m.
The Drum and the Mask: Time of the Tembuan Documentary film with introduction by the filmmaker Carolyn Yacoe
Sunday, August 24, 2:00-3:30 p.m.
“The Art of Early Times:Traditional Arts in PNG” Illustrated talk by Jerome Feldman, Ph.D., Professor of Art History at HPU
EWC contact: Eric Chang, Arts Program Assistant, EWC Gallery, (808) 944-7584
email: ChangE@EastWestCenter.org
http://arts.EastWestCenter.org
Exhibition: Field of Flowers: Mughal Carpets and Treasures
East-West Center Gallery
September 21-December 31, 2008
Presented in cooperation with the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art
A rare pair of large carpets on exhibit at the East-West Center Gallery from the collection at Shangri La, in addition to being historically significant markers of an artistic tradition, stand alone as important works of art due to their unusual shape and pairing. Each carpet has an arched interior with pointed ends. When paired, the carpets form a bold field of flowers with an interior void wherein a person, most likely a royal personage, could have sat in splendor.
Michael Schuster, PhD will be discussing the exhibition Field of Flowers : Mughal Carpets and Treasures. The context provided by the exhibition will be enriched by a presentation given by Sanjay Kalra owner of an important carpet atelier in Agra. Mr. Kalra will discuss the continuity of Mughal carpet making in present day India with live demonstration of carpet knotting by Ayub Khan. In mid-17th century Mughal India, the taste for naturalistic floral sprays reached an apogee of artistic expression. The aesthetic style seen in the carpets and other art forms of the period dominated the arts of south Asia from the 17th century to the present and has had an impact on aesthetic traditions of the West and China. Other artworks, inspired by Mughal idioms that include brassware, painting, stonework, woodwork, and textiles, show the continuity of this tradition in contemporary India and Pakistan. Photographs and demonstrations by a rug maker and designer from India augment the presentation.
Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-5 p.m; Sunday noon-4 p.m. Closed Saturdays and holidays and May 18. 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. Address: John A. Burns Hall, 1601 East-West Road (corner Dole St. & East-West Rd.)
These East-West Center Arts Programs are made possible by generous support from the Hawai`i Pacific Rim Society, Friends of Hawai`i Charities, the Cooke Foundation, Jackie Chan Foundation USA, and generous contributors to the EWC Foundation, including members of the EWC Arts `Ohana.
LOOKING AHEAD. . . 2008
October 12 - 21: Partnership for Schools (P4S) Leading Change: Indonesia and the United States
EWC contact: Cherylene Hidano, email: hidanoc@eastwestcenter.org
October 16 – 18: ASDP: India Focus (title to be determined)
Kansas City, KS
Oct. 18 – Nov. 9: Fall 2008 Jefferson Fellowships
Theme: "2008 U.S. Election Issues"
Honolulu, Phoenix (AZ), Erie (PA), Cleveland (OH), and Washington, D.C.
EWC contact: Ann Hartman hartmana@eastwestcenter.org
November 6 – 8: Asia/Africa focus centered on Indian Ocean linkages (title to be determined)
Charleston, SC
EWC contact: Sandy Osaki, email: osakis@eastwestcenter.org
November 13 – 15: Building an Asia Pacific Community: Unity in DiversityEWC/EWCA International Conference
Bali, Indonesia.
EWC contact: Gordon Ring, ringg@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.
