Coming up in May and June 2007
Through – May 26: Spring 2007 Jefferson Fellowships
May 6 – 26: Senior Journalists Seminar
May 7 – 9: Eighth Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders
May 25 – 27: Workshop on U.S. Higher Education
May 28- June 16: ASDP Summer Institute on Korean Culture and Society
May 29 – June 28: 38TH Summer Seminar on Population
June 1: The Magic of East and West -- The Annual Dinner of the East-West
Center
June 3 – 7: Northeast Asia Journalists Dialogue: “Meeting Regional Challenges in the Media”
June 15 - 17: 41st Annual Conference of Asian Studies on the Pacific
Coast (ASPAC) conference
June 18 – July 20: NEH Institute on the Ideal and the Real: Arcs of Change
in Chinese Culture
June 28 - 29: Impending Changes on the Korean Peninsula and the Future of
U.S. Korean Relations
EWC Washington: Problems of Democracy Seminar Series
United States Asia Pacific Council (USAPC)
In the Arts . . .
Through May 23 Exhibition: Sala: Gem of Thai Architecture
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Spring 2007 Jefferson Fellowships Theme: "Sharing the Benefits?
Innovation Offshoring and Asia's Emerging Knowledge Economies"
April 29 - May 26, 2007
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
Senior Journalists Seminar
May 6 - 26, 2007
Theme: "Building Understanding Between the United States and the Asian Muslim World"
United States Study Tour for Asian Journalists
Travel Destinations: Honolulu, Hawaii; Washington, DC; New York City; Detroit, Michigan
Asia Study Tour for American Journalists
Travel Destinations: Honolulu, Hawaii; Hyderabad, India; Jakarta, Indonesia
The Senior Journalists Seminar is a dialogue, travel and exchange program for journalists from the United States and Asian countries with substantial Muslim populations, specifically Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Pakistan. The seminar offers an opportunity for senior writers, reporters, editors, columnists and producers to engage their peers on issues that have hurt relationships between these Asian countries and the United States, especially since 9/11.
In each of the study-tour destinations, participants will meet with government officials, community and religious leaders, local journalists and others to gain greater understanding of the diverse perspectives on these issues. The study tour will begin and conclude at the East-West Center in Honolulu where Asian and American journalists will meet together. Participant-led discussions during these sessions will focus on the political and cultural challenges journalists face in reporting on contemporary Asia-U.S. relations.
EWC contact: Abigail Sines, (808) 944-7638
email: sinesa@EastWestCenter.org
Eighth Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders
May 7 - 9, 2007
Washington, D.C.
For further information, please contact the EWC Pacific Islands Development Program, (808) 944-7745.
Workshop on U.S. Higher Education
May 25 – 27, 2007
East-West Center
This is a three-day workshop for graduate school deans from Chinese universities and colleges to study the organization of undergraduate and graduate education in the U.S. The purpose of this workshop is to foster the exchange of ideas and information with American educators and to help them understand the commonalities and differences between the Chinese and U.S. higher education systems. It will include daily lectures at the East-West Center and visits to research facilities on Oahu. (For invited participants only.)
Terance Bigalke, Education Program director, will be the coordinator for this seminar/field study, in collaboration with Peter Englert, professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
EWC contact: Penny Higa (808) 944-7131
email: higap@EastWestCenter.org
ASDP Summer Institute on Korean Culture and Society
May 28 – June 16, 2007
East-West Center and Korea
This seminar/field study is an intensive three-week introduction to Korea. The purpose of this seminar/field study is to introduce U.S. and Latin American college/university faculty in the humanities and social sciences to Korean culture, history, and contemporary affairs. The program is designed to facilitate the infusion of Korean context into the undergraduate curriculum. It will include daily lectures at the East-West Center and Korean universities, as well as site visits throughout South Korea. Funded by the Freeman Foundation and the Korea Foundation.
Peter Hershock, ASDP coordinator, and Edward Shultz, interim dean of University of Hawaii’s School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies, will be the coordinators for this seminar/field study.
EWC contact: Peter Hershock (808) 944-7757
email: hershocp@EastWestCenter.org
38th Summer Seminar on Population
Three concurrent workshops, each with an independent instructional program.
May 29 - June 28, 2007
The Seminar comprises three individual workshops will include common activities providing ample opportunity for professional interaction among all participants. The Seminar features workshops on three topics:
Population, Development, and Policy: The Economic Payoffs of Population Change (.pdf)
Livable Cities in Pacific Asia: Research Methods for Policy Analysis (.pdf)
Communicating with Policymakers about Population and Health (.pdf)
EWC contact: Eugene Alexander (808) 944-7332
email: alexande@EastWestCenter.org
The Magic of East & West – The Annual Dinner of the East-West Center
Friday, June 1, 2007
Hilton Hawaiian Village Coral Ballroom
5:30 p.m. ~ Cocktails6:30 p.m. ~ Dinner and Program
Cost: Tables for ten at $2,000, $5,000, $10,000 and $25,000
Individual seats at $200
Valet parking
Business Attire or International Dress
Reply by May 11, 2007
East-West Center Foundation, (808) 944-7105
This year the Asia Pacific Community Building Award is being given to The Honorable Senator Daniel K. Inouye. Throughout a long and very distinguished career of public service, Senator Inouye has played an instrumental role in promoting U.S. understanding and relations with the Asia Pacific region. He was one of the founding fathers of the East-West Center in 1960, which he has continued to staunchly support. He has been instrumental in the establishment of a number of other institutions that promote U.S. relations with Asian and Pacific island nations through cooperation in specific areas such as humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, and security cooperation. Through service and leadership with the Senate committees that handle appropriations, defense, commerce, and intelligence, he has played a critical role in the maintenance of U.S. security, economic, and diplomatic assets in the region. Senator Inouye has always pursued a vision consistent with the guiding principle of the East-West Center: to contribute to a peaceful, prosperous, and just Asia Pacific community.
The East-West Center plays a pivotal role in this most important region of the world. Presidents, prime ministers, ambassadors, and distinguished scholars and statesmen from all parts of the region have used the Center as a forum to advance international cooperation. It has become one of the most highly respected institutions in the region, and has developed a vast network of influential government officials, educators, journalists, and business people. – U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye
For more information on the dinner, please visit the East-West Center’s website:www.EastWestCenter.org
Northeast Asia Journalists Dialogue: “Meeting Regional Challenges in the Media”
June 3 - 7, 2007
East-West Center
Senior journalists from Japan, South Korea the United States will participate in a three-day dialogue held at the East-West Center. The theme will look at relationships among Northeast Asian nations: what they share in common as well as issues that divide them; how the region can best move forward; and what challenges these relationships bring to media. Topics will include new political leadership and public attitudes, generational differences in each country and how these affect regional relationships, economic issues, regional security, education reform, and different historic interpretations and perspectives. In the end, what responsibilities do news organizations share in reporting on neighbor countries and regional issues?
EWC contact: Marilyn Li, (808) 944-7258
email: lim@EastWestCenter.org
41st Annual Conference of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC)
June 15 - 17, 2007
East-West Center
The Conference offers a singular opportunity and a unique space to look at Asia in terms of continuity and change, and to consider their cultural, political, economic, religious and historical consequences. Embracing Hawaii’s tradition of aloha, the conference becomes a setting in which to reflect about our field, to network with colleagues, and to re-connect with friends. ASPAC welcomes submissions in all areas of Asian Studies. For complete conference information please visit www.ASPAC.info. Hosted by East-West Center and University of Hawaii.
EWC contact: Gordon Ring (808) 944-7743
email: RingG@EastWestCenter.org
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
East-West Center Washington
Problems of Democracy Seminar Series
Location: East-West Center Washington Conference Room
Time: 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
May 8: "Ethnic Diversity and Democracy"
Speaker: Dr. Kanchan Chandra, associate professor of Politics, New York University
For more information please e-mail kayi@eastwestcenter.org or email: East-West Center Washington: Washington@EastWestCenter.org
USAPC:
May 1 - 2: Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) General Meeting
Sydney, Australia
July: Host meeting for PECC Regional Institution Architecture Project
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.
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.
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.
EWC contact: Michael Schuster, Curator, EWC Gallery (808) 944-7543
email: schustem@EastWestCenter.org
Sacred Sites and Landscapes of Thailand
EWC Gallery May 6, 2007
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Lecture with slides by Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel, Chaminade University and Leslie E. Sponsel, director, Ecological Anthropology Program, UH-Manoa.
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. . .
July 1 – 25: Travel and Teach: Cambodia & Thailand
EWC contact: Cherylene Hidano, email: hidanoc@EastWestCenter.org
July 1 – 28: Partnership for Youth: Reporting for Change Cambodia
EWC contact: Rosita MacDonald, email: macdonar@eastwestcenter.org
July 2 – 21: Teaching About China and the United States
Tentative travel agenda includes: EWC, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, and San Francisco.
EWC contact: Sandy Osaki, email: Osakis@EastWestCenter.org
July 8 – 19: Changing Faces Women’s Leadership Program
EWC
EWC contact: Abigail Sines, email: sinesa@EastWestCenter.org
July 12 – 13: Korea Development Institute (KDI)
EWC
EWC contact: Penny Higa, email: higap@EastWestCenter.org
July 15 – 20: Senior Seminar
EWC
EWC contact: Cherylene Hidano, email: hidanoc@EastWestCenter.org
July 21 – 28 & July 28 – Aug. 4: NEH Pearl Harbor Workshops
EWC contact: Cherylene Hidano, email: hidanoc@EastWestCenter.org
July 24 – Aug 10: ASDP: Institute on Infusing East Asia into the Undergraduate Curriculum
EWC
EWC contact: Sandy Osaki, email: Osakis@EastWestCenter.org
July 31 - Aug. 1: Energy Security in the North Pacific
EWC
EWC contact: Carolyn Eguchi, email: eguchic@EastWestCenter.org
August 6 – 8: Senior Policy Seminar
EWC
EWC contact: Jane Smith-Martin, email: smithj@EastWestCenter.org
August 24 – 27: 1970s Reunion Conference – “Continuity and Change in the Asia Pacific U.S. Region: 1970 – 2007”
EWC
EWC contact: Gordon Ring, email: ringg@EastWestCenter.org
August 25 – Sept. 8: U.S.-Asia Health Journalism Fellowship
Hong Kong, Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, Vietnam, Jakarta, Indonesia
EWC contact: Susan Kreifels, kreifels@EastWestCenter.org
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 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 – 9: East West Sports Summit
EWC
EWC contact: Gary Yoshida, email: YoshidaG@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 RightsInstituteKenneth 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.
