Release Date:	10/31/2006

ASDP Workshops/Regional Meeting:
November 2 – 4: Contemporary Issues in Asia Workshop
November 16 – 18: Islam in Asia Workshop
November 17 – 18: Association of Regional Centers Meeting

Through Nov. 12: Fall 2006 Jefferson Fellowships

Through Nov. 18 (Thai Students): AsiaPacificEd Workshop: Partnership for Youth (P4Y) in Building Disaster-Resilient Communities

November 6 – 10: Projections for Commission on Aids in Asia and the Pacific

November 6 – 8: Korean Oil & Gas Conference

EWC Washington
November 6 Congressional Study Group on Asian Security titled “Good Coup, Bad Coup: Thailand in 2006”

November 6 Problems of Democracy Seminar Series titled “Thailand’s Coup: Who Won, What Was Lost?”

November 14 – 18 2nd Workshop on "Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century Asia"

December 12 Problems of Democracy Seminar Series titled “Immigration, Diversity, and Democracy in Japan”

United States Asia Pacific Council
November 30 4th Annual USAPC Washington Conference: Fundamental Change in Asia and the United States
Response

November 17-18: Asia Pacific Executive Forum: The Rise of China: Your Challenges, Risks and Opportunities

November 21: Australia and Rising Asia – Address by The Hon. Dennis Richardson, Australian Ambassador to the U.S.

November 30: Research Program Monthly Seminar: China and the and the U.S. Dollar

December 7 – 10: EWC/EWCA 2006 International Alumni Conference

December 8 – 10: Asia’s New Institutional Architecture: Managing Trade and Security Relations in a Post-9/11 World

In the Arts . . .

Through Nov. 20 Exhibition: Quiet Splendor: Yup'ik Eskimo Culture
Nov. 11 & 12 Performances: Pacific Panpipes
Dec. 1 Matato’a from Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Dec. 3, 2006 - Feb. 16, 2007 Exhibition: Toys of Asia

January 11 – 28, 2007 Japan – U.S. Journalists Exchange

January 19 – 20, 2007 4th National Transfer Account Workshop
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ASDP Workshops/Regional Meeting:
Contemporary Issues in Asia Workshop
Valparaiso, Indiana
November 2 - 4, 2006
Scholars and educators will address topics related to cultural values and contemporary issues in Asia. The workshop will include lectures, panel discussions, and exhibits. Hosted by Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana and funded by The Freeman Foundation.

Islam in Asia Workshop
Baltimore, Maryland
November 16 - 18, 2006
This is a three-day workshop for scholars and educators to address interdisciplinary issues related to the culture, history, and practices of Islam in Asia. The workshop will include lectures, panel discussions, and exhibits.
This workshop will be hosted by Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland and funded by The Freeman Foundation.

ASDP Association of Regional Centers Meeting
Charleston, South Carolina
November 17 - 18, 2006
This is a two-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 Trident Technical College in Charleston, South Carolina.

EWC contact: Peter Hershock, (808) 944-7757, hershocp@EastWestCenter.org

Fall 2006 Jefferson Fellowships
EWC, Tokyo and Hiroshima, Japan, Bangkok, Thailand and Mumbai, India
Through November 12, 2006

Theme: "Population and Social Dynamics
in the Asia Pacific"

In presentations to one another and in sessions with East-West Center and other Honolulu-based experts, Jefferson Fellows journalists will discuss a wide range of demographic and social issues facing countries throughout the Asia Pacific region and in the United States. In a 21-day study tour, Fellows will visit Japan, Thailand and India -- three democratic nations experiencing varying stages of economic development and population transition -- to explore each country's unique set of challenges and how they are being met by policymakers and the larger societies.

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

AsiaPacificEd Workshop: Partnership for Youth (P4Y) in Building Disaster-Resilient Communities
EWC and Thailand
An International Exchange and Civic Learning Opportunity for U.S. & Thai students.
Through November 18, 2006 (Thai students)

In the second phase of the 'Partnership for Youth' program, 24 Thai high school students from the predominantly Muslim south will travel to Hawaii for a cross-cultural exchange focusing on comparative civic process and the public policy challenges posed by recent natural disasters and, specifically, on the "role of youth" in preparing for and responding to disasters. Students will meet with specialists in disaster preparedness; Hawaii government officials and civic leaders responsible for disaster management; and learn from the experience of communities, and especially young people, who have been affected by disasters. Through intensive workshop sessions, and a detailed examination of 'best practice' disaster planning, preparation, and education in Hawaii, as well as through homestays and Honolulu school placements, the students will not only develop strategies for greater youth leadership in disaster management, but will also learn about American society and develop lasting relationships with their American peers.

This program is part of the East-West Center's Islamic Initiative project in collaboration with the Maui-based Pacific Disaster Center and Russell Sage College's Civic Mosaics program, and is funded by the U.S. State Department.

EWC contact: Rosita MacDonald (808) 944-7378, email: macdonar@eastwestcenter.org

Projections for Commission on Aids in Asia and the Pacific
November 6 – 10, 2006
East-West Center

A team of medical specialists will meet to decide the approaches and parameters to be used in making a set of regional projections for Asia and the Pacific to support the policy work of the Commission on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. EWC coordinator: Tim Brown

EWC contact: June Kuramoto (808) 944-7267
email: kuramotj@EastWestCenter.org

Korean Oil & Gas Conference (KOGC) 2006
Global & Asian Market Dynamics: Implications for Northeast Asian Energy Security
November 6 - 8, 2006
Imperial Palace Hotel, Seoul, Korea

Korea is the fifth largest oil importer and second largest LNG importer in the world. In Asia, the Korean oil and gas industry is a key player in the regional oil market. With over 2.5 million barrels per day of refining capacity, and some of the largest and most active oil companies in Asia, the Korean petroleum sector remains a critical part of the Asian and global oil market.

Following the success of the inaugural KOGC 2005, which attracted 180 participants from 20 countries worldwide, this conference will again provide the most authoritative assessment of Korea's oil and gas market.

Organized by the East-West Center and Conference Connection Inc. and supported by The Korean Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy, and the Korea Forum for Progress. Sponsored by GS Caltex, Hyundai Oilbank, Korea Electric Power Corporation, Korea Gas Corporation, Korea National Oil Corporation, SK Corporation, and S-Oil Corporation.

EWC coordinators: Fereidun Fesharaki and Y. H. Kim
EWC contact: Suzi Johnston (808) 944-7682, email: johnstos@EastWestCenter.org

East-West Center Washington
Washington, D.C.

Congressional Study Group on Asian Security titled “Good Coup, Bad Coup: Thailand in 2006”
November 6, 2006
Capitol Hill
EWC Washington contact: Meredith Weiss, email: weissm@eastwestcenter.org

Problems of Democracy Seminar Series titled “Thailand’s Coup: Who Won, What Was Lost?”
November 6, 2006
EWCW Conference Room
EWC Washington contact: Meredith Weiss, email: weissm@eastwestcenter.org

2nd Workshop on "Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century Asia"
November 14 - 18, 2006
Singapore
The goal of the workshop is to produce a definitive volume on nuclear doctrines and strategies in and affecting Asia.
EWC Washington contact: Muthiah Alagappa, email: alagappm@EastWestCenter.org
EWC contact: June Kuramoto, email: kuramotj@EastWestCenter.org

Problems of Democracy Seminar Series titled “Immigration, Diversity, and Democracy in Japan”
December 12, 2006
EWCW Conference Room
EWC Washington contact: Meredith Weiss, email: weissm@EastWestCenter.org

United States Asia Pacific Council (USAPC)

4th Annual USAPC Washington Conference: Fundamental Change in Asia and the United States Response
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Capital Hilton Hotel Washington

USAPC contact: Liz Dorn, email: dorne@EastWestCenter.org

Asia Pacific Executive Forum: The Rise of China: Your Challenges, Risks and Opportunities
In partnership with the Youngstown State University
November 17, 2006, 8:30-4:30
November 18, 2006, 9:00-11:00
Youngstown, Ohio

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: Seminars Program (808) 944-7384, email: seminars@EastWestCenter.org

Australia and Rising Asia
Address by The Honorable Dennis Richardson, Australian Ambassador to the United States
November 21, 2006
Ala Moana Hotel, 7:30 a.m.
Cost: $20.00
Co-sponsored by East-West Center, Friends of the East-West Center, Pacific and Asian Affairs Council and Australian Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii.

For further information, please send an email to: ewcinfo@EastWestCenter.org or call 944-7111.

Research Program Monthly Seminar: China and the U.S. Dollar
November 30, 2006
EWC Burns Hall 3012, Noon – 1:00 p.m.
Presentation by: Paul Bowles, Professor of Economics and International Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia. He specializes in globalization, regionalism and East Asian development.

The U.S. administration has been publicly pressuring China’s policy-makers to allow the renminbi to appreciate. China has made small steps in that direction but has sought to resist U.S. pressure and the People’s Bank has intervened to support the value of the U.S. dollar. As we look to the future, however, China’s reemergence on the global economic scene raises the possibility of role reversal. Will China’s rising economic power lead to pressures on the dollar? If so, would the U.S. urge China to support the value of the dollar and not to move out of holding dollar reserves. Bowles looks into the medium–term to see what might be in store for the U.S. dollar.

EWC contact: Kristin Uyemura (808) 944-7725
email: uyemurak@EastWestCenter.org

EWC/EWCA 2006 International Alumni Conference
December 7 – 10, 2006
Theme: "Building an Asia Pacific Community for Sustainable Development"
Melia Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam

The East-West Center Association, which represents the Center’s 50,000 alumni, is holding a major international conference in Hanoi, Vietnam.

The conference will explore significant issues facing the region and consider ways to assist in their resolution. In addition it will bring together chapter leaders and Association members to expand the network and energize the EWCA chapters.

Speakers for the program include Ambassador Le Van Bang, deputy foreign minister for Vietnam, Madame Ton Nu Thi Ninh, vice chair for International Relations of the Vietnam National Assembly, U. S. Ambassador Michael Marine, East-West Center President Charles E. Morrison, and other leaders from government, education, and business sectors. In addition to these keynote addresses, the program will include plenary sessions, concurrent panel sessions, and poster sessions. In addition, there will be informal networking, an opening reception and closing banquet, luncheons, and cultural presentations.

EWC contact: Gordon Ring, ringg@EastWestCenter.org

Asia’s New Institutional Architecture: Managing Trade and Security Relations in a Post-9/11 World
December 8 – 10, 2006
EWC
Can regional and interregional institutions better manage the increasingly complex economic and security ties among the countries in Northeast, Southeast, and South Asia? As security and trade relations in the international state system undergo dramatic changes following the end of the Cold War, the Asian financial crisis, and the attacks of 9/11, this question is in the minds of both academics and policymakers. Still, little research has been done to integrate the analysis of regional security and economic trends within a broader context that will give us theoretically informed policy insights. This project, coordinated by the Berkeley Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center at the University of California-Berkeley and sponsored by the Japan Foundation’s Center for Global Partnerships, brings together academics from across the Asia Pacific to examine past and present developments in Asia’s regional institutions and to discuss how Asia’s institutional architecture has changed in response to the shocks of the Cold War’s end, the 1997 financial crisis and the 9/11 attacks.

EWC contact: Eugene Alexander (808) 944-7332
email: alexande@EastWestCenter.org

In the Arts . . .

Exhibition: "Quiet Splendor: Yup'ik Eskimo Culture"
Through November 20, 2006
East-West Center Gallery

The Yup’ik pride themselves in retaining their ancestral customs. They continue to practice hunting and gathering traditions handed down from their ancestors. The Yup’ik are the largest group of indigenous people in Alaska who speak a native language. They live in small villages along the Bering Sea and the lower Yukon.

Chuna McIntyre was born in the village of Eek along the southwestern coast of Alaska on the Bering Sea. He is a storyteller, artist and musician. Mr. McIntyre acquired his knowledge of Yup’ik culture from his grandmother. The exhibition features his extensive collection of traditional art including masks, carvings and traditional clothing, augmented by photographs and Chuna’s commentaries.

Performance-Demonstration and Exhibition Walk-through by Guest Curator Chuna McIntyre

Sunday, November 19, 2006, 1:00-2:00 p.m.
EWC Gallery, Admission Free

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.

Performances: Pacific Panpipes
The KVU Panpipe and Dance Company
from Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands

Saturday, November 11, 2006 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, November 12, 2006 4:00 p.m.

Imin Center-Jefferson Hall, East-West Center
Opposite UHM Kennedy Theatre; parking $3

General Admission $15; Students, Seniors (60+) $10
Tickets available at the UHM Campus Center Box Office, M-F 9:00-4:30, or telephone 944-7341 for charge-by-phone. Remaining tickets will be available at the door.

Panpipe music and the dances associated with it have developed in amazing ways in the Solomon Islands. Although tuned sets of mouth-blown bamboo pipes are found in many Pacific Islands, and in fact in numerous regions worldwide, Solomon Islanders have built a rich culture and repertoire around panpipes, featuring instruments small and large.

The KVU Panpipe and Dance Company is one of the finest in the country, and has toured internationally. The group performers hail from three villages, Koviloko, Vavarenitu, and U`uri, all on the island of Santa Isabel, thus the name KVU.

The Solomon Islands nation has been dealing in recent years with political divisiveness and instability, and the traditional performing arts, particularly panpipe ensembles, serve as a common element that bridge the nation's diverse islands. This group’s music, dance, and body decoration all convey the joy and exuberance that is integral to Melanesian cultures.

This Hawai`i tour is made possible by support from the Center for Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Hawai`i at Mânoa.

EWC contact: Jane Burke (808) 944-7341
email: BurkeJ@EastWestCenter.org

Performance: Matato’a from Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
December 1, 2006, 7:30 p.m.
Leeward Community College Theatre, Pearl City

This program is co-presented by East-West Center and the Leeward Community College Theatre. Matato’a was created in 1996 by Kevamatato’a Atan. Today it is one of the most famous music and dance groups in Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile). Matato’a (“the watchful eye of the Pacific warrior”) was created to promote the ancestral traditions, dances, costumes and body painting of Rapa Nui. Their repertoire, though based on the ancient traditions of Rapa Nui, incorporates Polynesian, Reggae, Latino and Rock styles. This fusion of styles has gained them worldwide recognition.
Website: www.matatoa.com
All seats reserved
General Admission $30; students, seniors (60+), military $26
LCC Theatre Box Office: 455-0385
Tickets available at lcctheatre.hawaii.edu

Exhibition: Toys of Asia
EWC Gallery
December 3, 2006-February 16, 2007

Throughout Asia, a great variety of traditional toys have survived the urban and industrial development of the last fifty years. Traditional toys reflect the local customs, legends, and environment in which they were created. People have made playthings from the earliest times from the most basic materials such as wood, straw, bones, clay, and rags. Using simple materials to make models of the people, animals, and things around them, they show us a world in miniature. Toys help children to realize their own powers and adjust to the grown-up world. For the adult world, toys are a means to inculcate children with significant cultural and aesthetic values.

The Toys of Asia exhibition will focus 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 will be 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

January 2007

Japan – U.S. Journalists Exchange
Washington, DC and two other US cities to be determined.
January 11 - 28, 2007

"The East-West Center and Nihon Shinbun Kyokai (Japan Newspaper Editors and Publishers Association, Tokyo), co-sponsor the Japan-United States Journalists Exchange. The program offers opportunities for six Japanese journalists to visit the United States, including travel to Washington, D.C., and two other U.S. cities. At a concluding session at the East-West Center in Honolulu, the journalists report on their experiences and explore ways to increase and improve media coverage of the United States in Japan.

EWC contact: Susan Kreifels (808) 944-7176
email: kreifels@EastWestCenter.org

4th National Transfer Account Workshop
January 19 – 20, 2007
EWC
EWC contact: Eugene Alexander (808) 944-7332
email: alexande@EastWestCenter.org

LOOKING AHEAD . . .

2007 Tentative Schedule

Feb. 16 – 18
ASDP Japan Workshop
Conway, Arkansas
EWC contact: Sandy Osaki, email: Osakis@EastWestCenter.org

March 4 – 6
ASDP Midwest ARC Meeting
Branson, Missouri
EWC contact: Sandy Osaki, email: Osakis@EastWestCenter.org

March 6 – 9
Asia Pacific Journalism Fellowship
EWC, Taipei, and Singapore
EWC contact: Marilyn Li, email: lim@EastWestCenter.org

March 8 – 11
ASDP National Meeting
Seattle, Washington
EWC contact: Sandy Osaki, email: Osakis@EastWestCenter.org

March 16 – 24
Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research Annual Meeting
EWC
EWC contact: Eileen Shea, email: sheae@EastWestCenter.org

March 30 - April 1
Islam in Asian Workshop
Nashville, Tennessee
EWC contact: Sandy Osaki, email: Osakis@EastWestCenter.org

April 29 - May 27
Spring Jefferson Fellowships
EWC, U.S. mainland and Asia Pacific
EWC contact: Ann Hartman, email: hartmana@EastWestCenter.org

May 6 – 26
Senior Journalists’ Seminar
EWC, U.S. mainland, and Asia
EWC contact: Abigail Sines, email: sinesa@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.
Application Deadline: December 31, 2006
EWC contact: Eugene Alexander (808) 944-7332
email: AlexandE@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 Asian 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

Contact information and dates are subject to change.