June 2 – July 2 -- 40th Summer Seminar on Population

June 21 - July 3 -- Japan-U.S. Journalists Exchange

June 22 – 26 -- The USSP Alumni Workshop on “Leadership and Social Networking: Strengthening the Ties That Bind Our Pacific Islands Alumni Community”

June 22 - July 3 -- 2009 Summer Institute on Human Rights and Transitional Justice

June 28 – Sept. 20
Exhibition: Cosmic Creatures: Textiles from Northeastern Lao Communities

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Korea-United States Journalists Exchange
Through May 3, 2009    
Korea Destinations:  Seoul; Kwangju; Busan and Ulsan in South Korea and tentative trip to Kaesong or Kumgang Mountain in North Korea
U.S. Destinations:  Washington, DC; New York City, New York and Detroit, Michigan
The program sends six to eight Korean journalists to the United States and six to eight U.S. journalists to South Korea to meet with government and business leaders, academics, non-governmental organizations and other members of the community. The program seeks to introduce journalists to the political, security, economic, cultural and social issues of each country. Funding Co-sponsors:  East-West Center and the Korea Press Foundation.  The exchange is supported by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.
Theme:  "Bridging the Gaps in Understanding between Korea and the United States:  New Leadership and the Global Economic Crisis"
EWC contact: Marilyn Li, (808) 944-7682
email: journalismfellowship@eastwestcenter.or g

China Protected Areas Leadership Alliance Project
May 4 – 31, 2009    
Beijing/U.S. Mainland/EWC             
The China Protected Areas Leadership Alliance Project is a five-year initiative to expose selected nature reserve managers and government officials throughout China to innovative conservation management issues and strategies.  This project is cooperatively sponsored by The China State Forestry Administration, The Nature Conservancy Beijing Program, and the East-West Center.  The second phase of this project is being held from May 4-31, 2009 starting in Beijing with classroom lectures and discussion studies. The program will continue as a study tour to the U.S. mainland including Washington, D.C., the Adirondacks, the American Prairie in Montana, Yellowstone National Park, and will culminate in Honolulu.  
Co-coordinators: Carol Fox, Director of Strategic Planning and Partnerships and Meril Fujiki, Seminars Development Coordinator.  

EWC contact: June Kuramoto, (808) 944-7267
email: kuramotj@eastwestcenter.org
        
Spring Jefferson Fellowships Program
May 9 – 31, 2009
Study Tour Destinations:  Honolulu, Hawaii; Tokyo, Japan; Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong SAR, China
Theme: The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis in Asia
The financial crisis that began in the United States quickly spread around the world, highlighting the interdependence of the global financial and economic system. This Jefferson Fellowships program will provide U.S. and Asia Pacific journalists an opportunity to explore the economic, social and political impacts of the financial crisis in the United States and Asia. Fellows will share perspectives from their own countries in a weeklong dialogue at the East-West Center in Honolulu, followed by two-weeks of study tour travel to see how the crisis is playing out in Japan and China, Asia’s two largest economies.

All program and travel costs for participants funded by a grant from The Freeman Foundation.
EWC contact:  Ann Hartman (808) 944-7619
email: hartmana@eastwestcenter.org  

United States Institute on the Environment (USIE)
Developing Diverse Pathways to Environmental Stewardship, a study of the U.S. Environmental Movement
May 10 - June 21, 2009
Funded by the Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the United States Institute on the Environment (USIE) is organized by the East-West Center in collaboration with over twenty other organizations. Key partners include the University of Hawaii’s Environmental Center, Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment, and the Nature Conservancy.  Twenty undergraduate scholars from Malaysia, Singapore, Fiji and Papua New Guinea will attend the six-week institute. Through involvement in the Institute, participants will achieve an understanding of the environmental movement in the United States. They will visit Hawaii, California and Washington, D.C.
EWC contact: Monique Wedderburn (808) 944-7744
email: wedderbm@eastwestcenter.org

Regional Stakeholders Conference on Cross-border Governance in Asia and the Pacific
May 18 – 20, 2009
Bangkok, Thailand
A Regional Stakeholders Consultation on Cross-Border Governance Issues in Asia and the Pacific is being organized by the United Nations Development Programme Regional Center (UNDP RCB) in partnership with the East-West Center (EWC).  The purpose of the Consultation is to examine regional governance dimensions of cross-border issues in promoting human development in Asia and the Pacific and to identify focus areas for a possible UNDP-supported regional project on Cross-Border Governance (CBGov), aligned to UNDP’s overall Strategic Plan (2008-2011) and the Regional Programme Document (2008-2011).
EWC contact: G. Shabbir Cheema, (808) 944-7427
email: cheemas@eastwestcenter.org
        
ASDP Summer Programs:
Institute on Infusing Asian Studies into the Undergraduate Curriculum
June 1 – 19, 2009 -- East-West Center
This annual three-week Institute, funded by the Freeman Foundation, focuses on faculty and institutional development related to the undergraduate teaching of Asia. The focus of the 2009 program will be East Asia (primarily China and Japan). This multidisciplinary program works with participants in developing strategies for enhancing Asian studies teaching and learning on their home campuses.
Director: Dr. Stanley Murashige (Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism; School of the Art Institute of Chicago)

ASDP China Field Seminar:  China's 21st Century Challenges
July 5 - 26, 2009  
Beijing, Chengdu, Sichuan; Guiyang, Guizhou;  Shanghai, China
Director: Dr. Fred Lau (Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Hawaii)
The 2009 ASDP field seminar will focus on Chinese identity as an ongoing process, the result of national politics and policies, international relations, economic trade and media. The field seminar will also explore issues related to the environment, minority cultures and rural development.
EWC contact for ASDP programs: Peter Hershock, (808) 944-7757
email: hershocp@eastwestcenter.org  

AsiaPacificEd Summer Programs

Partnership for Youth (P4Y) 2009 -- Cambodia: Reporting for Change
EWC and Cambodia
June 29 – July 22, 2009
The East-West Center’s Partnership for Youth (P4Y) offers dynamic hands-on learning in Cambodia as well as a unique environment and opportunity for skills development, personal growth, and cross-cultural relationship building for U.S. high school sophomores and juniors for its summer 2009 leadership program

Travel and Teach – Cambodia (July 2-18, 2009) and Indonesia (July 8-25, 2009)
The East-West Center’s “Travel and Teach” programs offer U.S. K-12 educators the opportunity to develop meaningful real-life connections to world cultures, religions, economies, ecologies, and more through experiential professional learning, enriched by one-on-one interactions with people in local communities.

• Travel and Teach: Cambodia (July 2-18, 2009) 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, including the role of the United States in the history of the region. In Phnom Penh, participants will have the opportunity to witness an event of international significance as the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (known as the ECCC) unfolds.

• Travel & Teach: Indonesia (July 8 - 25, 2009) Participants will explore the incredible diversity and variety of rural Indonesia while also learning about Islam and daily life of Muslim educators and students through homestay and teaching immersion experience in uniquely Indonesian private Islamic boarding schools known as Pesantrens. In the historic city of Yogyarkara, they will learn about the diverse cultures, religions, and the arts of Indonesia as well as explore Borobudor, the world famous UNESCO world heritage site.

Pearl Harbor:  History, Memory, Memorial
A NEH Landmarks of American History & Culture Workshop for School Teachers
July 25-31, 2009 or August 1-7, 2009 (same workshop offered twice).
Pearl Harbor has become 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 United States. However, the way Pearl Harbor is remembered today in Japan understandably differs from the context of American memory.

Our NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshop, “Pearl Harbor: History, Memory, Memorial,” will provide the larger historical and cultural context for understanding the Pearl Harbor attacks by illuminating one of most important (if at times antagonistic) bilateral relationships in the 20th century—that between the United States and Japan—and the impact of that relationship on both nations’ international affairs.
EWC contact for AsiaPacificEd Programs: Cherylene Hidano, (808) 944-7765
email: hidanoc@eastwestcenter.org
        
40th Summer Seminar on Population
June 2 – July 2, 2009        
East-West Center
The Summer Seminar on Population, held annually since 1970, serves as a forum for individuals and institutions concerned with population- and health-related issues. Participants identify emerging research and policy concerns, learn and share new research methods and program approaches, and forge links between researchers and practitioners working in key institutions throughout Asia, the Pacific, the United States, and other regions of the world.

Three workshops to be offered:

• Workshop 1: Understanding Fertility Change in Asia: Design and Analysis of Longitudinal Surveys

• Workshop 2: Crafting Effective Responses to HIV Epidemics of Asia

• Workshop 3: Communicating with Policymakers about Population and Health

  EWC contact: Eugene Alexander, email: alexanda@eastwestcenter.org

Japan-U.S. Journalists Exchange
June 21 – July 3, 2009
EWC – July 1 – 3, 2009
Study tour to Japan and U.S. cities
This 12-day program offers opportunities for 6-8 Japanese journalists to visit the United States. The focus of the 2009 program will be New Leadership and The Global Economic Crisis. The program is conducted in cooperation with Nihon Shimbun Kyokai (Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association).
EWC contact: Susan Kreifels, (808) 944-7176
email: kreifels@eastwestcenter.org

The USSP Alumni Workshop on “Leadership and Social Networking:  Strengthening the Ties that Bind Our Pacific Islands Alumni Community”
June 22-26, 2009
East-West Center
The workshop will bring together U.S.-South Pacific Scholarship Program (USSP) alumni to build and strengthen the EWC alumni network in the Pacific Islands.
EWC contact: Eugene Vricella, (808) 944-7585
email: vricelle@eastwestcenter.org

2009 Summer Institute on Human Rights and Transitional Justice
June 22-July 3, 2009        
Bali, Indonesia
A collaborative effort of the East-West Center, the U.C. Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center, and the National Human Rights Commission of Indonesia (Komnas HAM), Summer Institute 2009 aims to bring together professionals, predominantly from Southeast Asia, to discuss and debate some of the key human rights and international humanitarian law issues facing the region today.
EWC contact: Carolyn Eguchi, (808) 944-7510
email: eguchic@eastwestcenter.org

2009 EWC/Korea Development Institute (KDI) Conference on Climate Change and Green Growth
July 23 – 24, 2009
East-West Center                         
Many countries are looking for ways to meet the challenges of global warming while simultaneously sustaining economic growth. The 2009 EWC/KDI Conference will compare recent international experiences and will examine existing and potential strategies for maintaining national growth rates, while also limiting greenhouse gas emissions to levels safe enough to stabilize the global climate.
Coordinators:  Andrew Mason and Sang-Hyop Lee
EWC contact: Andrew Mason, (808) 944-7455
email: amason@hawaii.edu

Hong Kong Journalism Fellowships
July 28 – August 12, 2009
Travel Destinations: Beijing, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Hong Kong in China. All participants will meet in Honolulu for a 2-day seminar before study tour begins.
2009 Theme: Chinese Development Policies:  Facing Economic Crisis and Environmental Sustainability
The 2009 program will provide U.S. journalists an opportunity to explore the economic, social, cultural and political impacts of the global economic crisis in China and Hong Kong. Fellows will attend a 2-day China seminar at the East-West Center, followed by a 12-day study tour exploring how the crisis is playing out in China and Hong Kong.
EWC contact: Marilyn Li, (808) 944-7258
email: lim@eastwestcenter.org

East-West Center in Washington

U.S. Asia Pacific Council: 18th General Meeting of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council  (PECC)
May 12 -13, 2009
Washington, D.C. at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel
Theme: "Economic Crisis and Recovery: Regional and Global Roles for Asia Pacific Economies"
The U.S. Asia Pacific Council, under East-West Center auspices, will serve as the organizing body for the 18th General Meeting of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC). The meeting will include as many as 300 delegates and invited guests from PECC's 22 member committees from East and Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, North America, and the Pacific Latin American countries. This will be the first PECC General Meeting in the United States in 20 years.

Also important, the East-West Center will be marking the beginning of its 50th year in promoting U.S.-Asia Pacific relations and understanding at a special PECC General Meeting dinner on May 12.
EWC in Washington contact: Barbara Wanner
email: wannerb@eastwestcenter.org

In the Arts . . .
Exhibition: Myths & Magic: Mask Dance from Sri Lanka
April 14 – June 14, 2009
East-West Center Gallery

Curators: David Blundell & Michael Schuster
Installation: Michael Schuster & Lynne Najita

Featured performers: Southern Sri Lanka Dance Company from Matara,
A.V. S. Ranasinghe, Artistic Director
Tour organized by David Blundell, Conrad Ranawake (INDECOS) & William Feltz

Dramatic ritual, ribald comedy, fantastic imagery, demons, animals, kings and queens—all characterize the masked performances of Sri Lanka. Traditional values and contemporary concerns alike are conveyed to villagers in marketplaces, village centers, private courtyards, and even tourist sites.
 
Related events:
Sunday, May 3, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Illustrated lecture
“Sri Lankan Cinema: Four Stages of Growth”
by Wimal Dissanayake, Ph.D., EWC visiting scholar

Sunday, May 31, 2:00-3:45 p.m.
Sri Lankan feature film: “Dark Night of the Soul”
by award-winning director Prasanna Vithanage
 
EWC contact: Eric Chang, Arts Program Assistant, EWC Gallery, (808) 944-7584
email: ChangE@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.

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, Atherton Family Foundation, Jackie Chan Foundation USA, and generous contributors to the EWC Foundation, including members of the EWC Arts `Ohana.

Exhibition: Cosmic Creatures: Textiles from Northeastern Lao Communities”
June 28-Sept. 20, 2009
East-West Center Gallery

Sunday, June 28, 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Gala Opening Reception, including weaving demonstrations
By Aire Carroll, traditional Lao weaver

LOOKING AHEAD . . . 2009

August 2 – 5: Senior Policy Seminar
East-West Center
EWC contact: Jane Smith-Martin, email: smithj@eastwestcenter.org
 
August 20 – 21: KEEI International Conference on Fossil Fuels to Green Energy: Policy
Schemes in Transition for the North Pacific
EWC contact: June Kurmaoto: kuramotj@eastwestcenter.org

Aug. 23 – Sept. 1: Changing Faces Women’s Leadership Program
EWC
EWC contact: Liz Dorn, email: dorne@eastwestcenter.org  

August 30 – Sep. 13: Health Journalism Fellowships
Study tour in Asia Pacific, TBA
EWC contact: Susan Kreifels, email: kreifels@eastwestcenter.org

September 20 – 22: 2009 U.S.-Australia Leadership Dialogue Scholar – Hawaii Meeting
EWC contact: Jane Smith-Martin, email: smithj@eastwestcenter.org

Oct. 4 – 18: 19th New Generation Seminar
EWC-based seminar, study tour to Continental U.S. or Asian citieis
EWC contact: Ann Hartman, email: hartmana@eastwestcenter.org

October 18 – Nov. 9: Fall Jefferson Fellowships
EWC contact: Ann Hartman, email: hartmana@eastwestcenter.org

November 9 – 11: Workshop on Near-Roadway and On-Road Exposures to Air Pollution: Risk Communication and Decision Making
Bangkok, Thailand
EWC contact: June Kuramoto, email: kuramotj@eastwestcenter.org

November 15 – 18: Urban Asia – Challenges of Transition and Governance
EWC
EWC contact: Meril Fujiki, email: fujikim@eastwestcenter.org

LOOKING AHEAD . . . 2010

March 2010: Hong Kong Media Conference 2010
The East-West Center will host its second international Media Conference in Hong Kong.  This event will cover important news and media issues in Asia, the Pacific Islands, and the United States. Scheduled for March 2010, the dates and venue will soon be announced. This professional networking conference will be open to all media professionals. The event will include keynote speakers and media panels, as well as pre- and post-conference trips to Southern China and Macau.
EWC contact: Susan Kreifels, email: kreifels@eastwestcenter.org

July 2 - 5, 2010: EWC/EWCA International Conference
"Leadership and Community Building in the Asia Pacific"
Honolulu, Hawaii
In 2010, the East-West Center will mark 50 years of working to promote understanding and cooperation in the Asia Pacific region, including the United States. This golden anniversary year is an opportunity both to celebrate the accomplishments of the Center’s first 50 years and to look forward to addressing the needs and challenges of the Asia Pacific community today and in the years to come. Hosted by the East-West Center and the East-West Center Association.
EWC contact: Gordon Ring, email: 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.