- Feb. 15 - 17: ASDP Faculty Outreach Workshop for College & University Instructors
- Feb. 23 - 24: ASDP Faculty Outreach Workshop: Islam in Asia
- March 4 - 6: ASDP Midwest Association of Regional Centers Meeting
- March 8 — 11: 3th ASDP National Conference
March 4 — 18: Asia Pacific Journalism Fellowships
April 11 — 26: Korea-U.S. Journalists Exchange
April 14: East West Fest 2007: Celebrating Our Diversity
April 29 — May 26: Spring 2007 Jefferson Fellowships
EWC Washington
Problems of Democracy Seminar Series
United States Asia Pacific Council (USAPC)
In the Arts . . .
March 8 - May 23: Exhibition: Sala: Gem of Thai Architecture
Through Feb. 16 Exhibition: Toys of Asia
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ASDP Workshops:
ASDP Faculty Outreach Workshop for College & University Instructors
Conway, Arkansas
February 15 - 17, 2007
This is a three-day workshop for scholars and educators to address issues related to the history, culture, and political economy of Japan. The workshop will include lectures, panel discussions, and exhibits. The objective of this program is to assist college and university faculty with infusing Japanese studies into their respective school curricula.
This workshop will be hosted by University of Central Arkansas in Conway, Arkansas and funded by the Freeman Foundation.
ASDP Islam in Asia Workshop
Baltimore, Maryland
February 23 - 24, 2007
This is a two-day workshop for scholars and educators to provide a basic knowledge of the Islamic faith and to address issues related to the politics, culture, and practices of Islam in Asia. The workshop will include lectures, panel discussions, exhibits, and a special film series.
This workshop will be hosted by Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland and funded by the Freeman Foundation.
ASDP Midwest Association of Regional Centers Meeting
Branson, Missouri
March 4 - 6, 2007
This is a three-day meeting for ASDP regional center schools and interested college faculty. Participants will attend presentations and panel sessions to share their strategies for developing and expanding their roles as ASDP regional centers.
This meeting is being hosted by Missouri State University of Springfield, Missouri, in Branson, Missouri and funded by the Freeman Foundation.
13th ASDP National Conference
Seattle, Washington
March 8 - 11, 2007
This is the thirteenth annual conference for ASDP alumni and interested college faculty. Participants will present original research on Asian and comparative subjects, and will share their strategies for infusing Asian studies into the undergraduate college curriculum.
This year’s conference is being hosted by Central Washington University of Ellensburg, Washington, in Seattle, Washington and funded by the Freeman Foundation.
EWC contact for ASDP Workshops: Peter Hershock, ASDP Coordinator, (808) 944-7757
email: hershocp@EastWestCenter.org
Asia Pacific Journalism Fellowships
March 4 - 18, 2007
Travel Destinations: Honolulu, Hawaii; Taipei; and Singapore.
The program takes six senior American broadcast and print journalists to Taipei and Singapore on a nine-day study tour after attending a two-day seminar at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.
In Honolulu the journalists will meet with specialists from the East-West Center and other organizations in Hawaii to discuss U.S.-Asia Pacific issues. Fellows will meet with government, business, civic and cultural leaders in Singapore and Taipei.
The Asia Pacific Journalism Fellowships were initiated in 1998 for the purpose of expanding mutual understanding between Asia and the United States through dialogue and field study in the Asia Pacific region for American journalists. The 2007 program is cosponsored by the Association of Taiwan Journalists, the East-West Center, and the Singapore International Foundation.
EWC contact: Marilyn Li (808) 944-7384
email: lim@EastWestCenter.org
Korea-U.S. Journalists Exchange
Theme: "Bridging the Gaps in Understanding between Korea and the United States"
April 11-26, 2007
The 2007 program will send eight Korean journalists to the United States and seven U.S. journalists to South Korea to meet with government and business leaders, academics, non-governmental organizations and other members of the community. With the theme of “Bridging the Gaps in Understanding between Korea and the United States,” the program seeks to introduce journalists to the political, security, economic, cultural and social issues of each country.
The U.S. participants will visit Seoul, Pusan, and Gwangju in South Korea, while the Korean participants will visit Washington, D.C.; New York City, New York; Omaha, Nebraska; and Los Angeles, California. Following these study tours, all 15 journalists will meet for a three-day program at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, to report on their experiences and to exchange opinions on how media coverage of their countries can be improved.
The exchange, cosponsored by the East-West Center and the Korea Press Foundation, is supported by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.
EWC contact: Marilyn Li (808) 944-7384
email: lim@EastWestCenter.org
East West Fest 2007
Celebrating Our Diversity
Saturday, April 14, 2007
1:00 — 6:00 p.m.
Hawaii Imin International Conference Center, EWC, 1777 East-West Road
Free Admission, parking on UH campus is $3.00
For more information: email ewfest2007@gmail.com
or call Krishna Subba at (808) 944-7067.
Mark Your Calendar
East-West Fest, a colorful celebration of culture and diversity, will be held on Saturday, April 14. The theme for this year's Fest is “Celebrating Our Diversity,” and is organized by East-West Center students, who come from 42 countries worldwide.
Spring 2007 Jefferson Fellowships
Theme: "Sharing the Benefits? Innovation Offshoring and Asia's Emerging Knowledge Economies"
April 29 - May 26, 2007
Travel Destinations: All Fellows will travel to Honolulu, Hawaii; San Jose, California; Beijing and Shanghai, China; and Bangalore, India
Momentous changes are transforming the global innovation system, creating new challenges and opportunities for U.S.-Asia relations. The changes include the intensifying competition for a limited global talent pool, the rise of new knowledge economies in Asia, and the geographic dispersion of research, development and engineering jobs through global innovation networks, otherwise known as “innovation offshoring.”
In a 21-day study tour, Fellows will visit four main sites of global innovation networks at varying stages of development in the U.S., China and India to explore each site’s unique set of challenges, to talk to winners and losers of innovation offshoring, and to examine policy implications.
The Jefferson Fellowships, founded by the East-West Center in 1967, promote better public understanding of the United States, Asia and the Pacific Islands through a program of dialogue, study and travel for print and broadcast journalists.
The Jefferson Fellowships are supported by a grant from The Freeman Foundation.
EWC contact: Susan Kreifels (808) 944-7384
email: seminars@eastwestcenter.org
East-West Center Washington:
Problems of Democracy Seminar Series:
Location: East-West Center Washington Conference Room
Time: 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
February 15, 2007
"Malaysia's Semi-Democracy in Practice: Through the Lens of Elections"
Speaker: Dr. Bridget Welsh, Assistant Professor of Southeast Asia Studies
SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
March 29, 2007: Title to be Determined
Speakers: Dr. Edward Aspinall, Fellow, Indonesian Politics, Department of Political and Social Change, The Australian National University and Dr. Duncan McCargo, Professor of Southeast Asian Politics, University of Leeds, UK
April 3, 2007: "Problems of Democracy in Indonesia: Political Economy at the Sub-national Level"
Speaker: Dr. Alasdair Bowie
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
The George Washington University
April 23, 2007: "Rightful Resistance in Rural China"
Speaker: Dr. Kevin O'Brian, Bedford Professor of Political Science and Chair, Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley
For more information please e-mail kayi@eastwestcenter.org or email
East-West Center Washington Washington@EastWestCenter.org
USAPC:
February 5: Congressional Study Group on the Asia Pacific Economy "Intellectual Property Protection in Asia: Progress and Continuing Challenges"
12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Speakers: Ms. Victoria Espinel, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Intellectual Property and Mr. Michael Schlesinger, Vice President of the International Intellectual Property Alliance.
April 30: PECC Standing Committee Meeting, Sydney, Australia
USAPC contact: Liz Dorn, email: dorne@EastWestCenter.org
In the Arts . . .
Exhibition: Sala: Gem of Thai Architecture
EWC Gallery
March 8 - May 23, 2007
Virginia Henderson and Michael Schuster, co-curators
In 1967, in a gesture to extend cultural understanding, His Majesty Bhumibol Adulyadej, the King of Thailand gifted a traditional wooden Thai sala or pavilion to the East-West Center. In November of 2006 the old sala was reconstructed under the auspices of his Royal Majesty, and assembled by a crew of traditional craftsmen sent from Thailand.
The recent reconstruction of this traditional Thai sala in Hawaii presents the opportunity to celebrate the fascinating characteristics of Thai architecture and to learn more about its meaning and relationship to other aspects of Thai culture.
Architecture can tell us much about people’s way of life and worldview. This interactive, multi-media exhibition introduces visitors to the sala, showing what these structures mean and how they are used by Thai people today–their significance, role, forms, elements, process of construction, the associated rituals and beliefs.
Other key features and elements of Thai architecture are explored. Young visitors are especially considered in making this experience approachable and interesting. The exhibition will include models of various sala, wooden spirit houses, woodcarvings, installations, architectural plans, a video of the rebuilding process, and photography by National Geographic photographer Paul Chesley and Bangkok-based artist Martin Collins.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
1:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Celebration for the new East-West Center Thai Sala (Pavilion)
a gift from His Majesty Bhumibol Adulyadej
Location: EWC campus, East-West Road, between Imin Center-Jefferson Hall and Lincoln Hall
followed by a Gala Opening Reception for the EWC exhibition, "Sala: Gem of Thai Architecture"
2:00-3:30 p.m. at the EWC Gallery
Exhibition: Toys of Asia
EWC Gallery
Through February 16, 2007
The Toys of Asia exhibition focuses on traditional toys and games from China, Japan, Burma, Thailand, India, Korea, and the Philippines. The works are from both private and public collections and are supplemented with photographs by Paul Chesley, National Geographic Society photographer.
EWC contact: Michael Schuster, Curator, EWC Gallery (808) 944-7543
email: schustem@EastWestCenter.org
For information on group tours, please contact Pattie Dunn, arts outreach assistant,
(808) 944-7584 or email: dunnp@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. . .
May 6 — 26: Senior Journalists’ Seminar
EWC, U.S. mainland, and Asia
EWC contact: Abigail Sines, email: sinesa@EastWestCenter.org
May 8: Problems of Democracy Seminar Series:
"Ethnic Diversity and Democracy"
Speaker: Dr. Kanchan Chandra, Associate Professor of Politics, New York University
EWC contact: East-West Center Washington
email: Washington@EastWestCenter.org
May 21- June 16: Korea Institute
EWC & South Korea
EWC contact: Sandy Osaki, email: Osakis@EastWestCenter.org
May 29 — June 28: 38TH Summer Seminar on Population
EWC
Three concurrent workshops, each with an independent instructional program.
EWC contact: Eugene Alexander
email: AlexandE@EastWestCenter.org
June 3 — 7: Northeast Asia Journalists Dialogue: “Meeting Regional Challenges in the Media”
EWC
EWC contact: Marilyn Li, email: lim@EastWestCenter.org
June 15 - 17: Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC) conference
EWC, EWCA, & UH
EWC contact: Gordon Ring, email: ringg@EastWestCenter.org
June 18 — July 20: ASDP NEH Summer Institute
EWC contact: Sandy Osaki, email: Osakis@EastWestCenter.org
June 18 - July 12: ASDP Exeter Academy China Program
Honolulu & China
EWC contact: Sandy Osaki, email: Osakis@EastWestCenter.org
July 1 — 15: Changing Faces Women’s Leadership Program
EWC
EWC contact: Abigail Sines, email: sinesa@EastWestCenter.org
July 2 — July 22: ASDP U.S. - China Faculty Exchange
EWC contact: Sandy Osaki, email: Osakis@EastWestCenter.org
July 14 — Aug. 4: Summer International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Institute
EWC contact: Michelle Staggs, email: staggsm@EastWestCenter.org
July 21 — 28 & July 29 - Aug. 4: NEH Pearl Harbor Workshops
EWC contact: Cherylene Hidano, email: hidanoc@EastWestCenter.org
July 24 — Aug 10: ASDP Infusing Institute
EWC contact: Sandy Osaki, email: Osakis@EastWestCenter.org
August 6 — 8: Senior Policy Seminar
EWC
EWC contact: Jane Smith-Martin, email: smithj@EastWestCenter.org
August 24 - 27: 70s Alumni Reunion
EWC and EWCA
EWC contact: Gordon Ring, email: ringg@EastWestCenter.org
Aug. 26 — Sept. 9: 17th New Generation Seminar
EWC contact: Ann Hartman, email: hartmana@EastWestCenter.org
September 4 — 19: Hong Kong Journalism Fellowship
EWC, China, and Hong Kong
EWC contact: Marilyn Li, email: lim@EastWestCenter.org
September 7 - 9: ASDP Islam in Asia Workshop
Savannah, Georgia
EWC contact: Sandy Osaki, email: Osakis@EastWestCenter.org
September 16 — 30: U.S.-Asia Health Journalism Fellowship
Hong Kong, Yunnan, China and Hanoi, Vietnam
EWC contact: Susan Kreifels, kreifels@EastWestCenter.org
October 18 — 20: ASDP China Workshop
Portland, Oregon
EWC contact: Sandy Osaki, email: Osakis@EastWestCenter.org
November 7 - 9, 2007 East West Sports Summit
EWC
EWC contact: Gary Yoshida
email: YoshidaG@EastWestCenter.org
Contact information and dates are subject to change.
