Asia Events
Population, Environment, Poverty, and Politics in the Philippines
June 08, 2004 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Congressman Nereus Acosta, of the Philippines' House of Representatives, speaks about his government's response to problems linking population and the environment. Joan Regina L. Castro and Leona Ann D'Agnes of the Integrated Population and Coastal Resource Management (IPOPCoRM) Initiative give an overview of their program.
CANCELLED Securing Peace in Mindanao: Resolving the Roots of Conflict
May 26, 2004 // 2:00pm — 5:30pm
Asia Program
CANCELLED Richard Solomon, President, United States Institute of Peace and former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs and Ambassador to the Philippines; Carolyn Arguillas, Chairperson, Mindanao News and Information Cooperative Center; Randolf David, Professor, Sociology Department, University of the Philippines; Michael Mastura, President, Sultan Kudarat Islamic Academy Foundation; Steven Muncy, Executive Director, Community and Family Services International; Moderator: G. Eugene Martin, Executive Director, Philippine Facilitation Project, United States Institute of Peace
Active Society in Formation: Environmentalism, Labor and the Underworld in China
May 18, 2004 // 3:30pm — 5:30pm
Asia Program
Ching Kwan Lee, University of Michigan; Ming Xia, College of Staten Island, CUNY; Guobin Yang, University of Hawaii, Manoa; Commentator: Elizabeth J. Perry, Harvard University
Zoellick's New Zealots? Trading Blocs in Asia
May 12, 2004 // 3:30pm — 5:00pm
Asia Program
Vinod K. Aggarwal, University of California at Berkeley and Woodrow Wilson Center; Commentators: Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Institute for International Economics; Paula Stern, Stern Group, Inc
Book Launch:The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future
May 11, 2004 // 4:00pm — 5:00pm
China Environment Forum
Elizabeth Economy offers a history of environmental degradation in China, outlines the wide-reaching impact such problems have on nearly every part of Chinese society, and profiles the challenges facing China in resolving pollution and natural resource problems today.
North Korea: A Report from the Inside
May 03, 2004 // 12:00pm — 1:30pm
Asia Program
Selig S. Harrison, Senior Scholar, Wilson Center, and Center for International Policy
North Korea’s Nuclear Crisis: 1994/2004
April 30, 2004 // 12:30pm — 2:00pm
Asia Program
Daniel Poneman, Principal, Scowcroft Group; former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Nonproliferation and Export Controls, National Security Council
Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution Politics and Poetics of Collective Memories in Reform China
April 28, 2004 // 9:30am — 3:30pm
Asia Program
Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa Cruz; Erik Mueggler, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Ching Kwan Lee, Woodrow Wilson Center, and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Anne Thurston, Johns Hopkins University; Paul Pickowicz, University of California, San Diego; Xin Liu, University of California, Berkeley; David Davies, Hamline University; Judith Shapiro, American University; Guobin Yang, Woodrow Wilson Center, and University of Hawaii, Manoa; Ban Wang, Rutgers University; Robert Chi, State University of New York, Stony Brook; Jingyuan Zhang, Georgetown University
The India-China Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know
April 19, 2004 // 3:30pm — 5:00pm
Asia Program
Francine R. Frankel,Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania; Harry Harding, Dean, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University; Winston Lord, Co-Chairman, International Rescue Committee, and former Ambassador to China; Frank G. Wisner, Vice Chairman, External Affairs, AIG Inc., and former Ambassador to India.
Experts Discuss "World in the Balance"
April 08, 2004 // 1:30pm — 3:30pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
The Environmental Change and Security Project hosts a preview screening of stories from NOVA's Earth Day episode "World in the Balance." The screening is followed by a panel discussion.