Asia Program
Events
Islamic Charities and Human Security in Pakistan
May 12, 2010 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
Christopher Candland, Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow; Commentator Madiha Waris Qureshi, Editor, Columbia Books
Pipeline Politics in Asia
May 04, 2010 // 9:00am — 5:00pm
Family Planning in Fragile States: Overcoming Cultural and Financial Barriers
April 29, 2010 // 3:00pm — 5:00pm
OB/GYNs from Nigeria, Pakistan, and Chad offer strategies to overcome the significant cultural and financial barriers facing family planning in fragile states.
Policy Lessons from India, Brazil, and South Africa on Development and Implementation of National Plans of Action on Elimination of Child Labor
April 19, 2010 // 9:00am — 11:00am
Mallikarjun Kharge, Minister of Labor and Employment, India; Carlos Roberto Lupi, Minister of Labor and Employment, Brazil; Membathisi Mdladlana, Minister of Labor, South Africa; Kailash Satyarthi, Chair, Global March Against Child Labor, President Global Campaign for Education, Co Chair- 1Goal Campaign
Establishing Political Legitimacy in Afghanistan
April 15, 2010 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
Thomas J. Barfield, Professor of Anthropology, Boston University; J. Alexander Thier, Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan, United States Institute of Peace (commentator); William Wood, Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan (commentator)
Greater China? Migration and Chinese Transnational Communities
April 14, 2010 // 3:30pm — 5:30pm
Philip Kuhn, Harvard University; Sara Friedman, Wilson Center Fellow, Indiana University; Vanessa Fong, Harvard University; Kenneth J. Guest, City University of New York
Empowering Faculty and Transforming Education in Pakistan
April 07, 2010 // 11:00am — 12:30pm
Sabiha Mansoor, Pakistan Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center, and Professor and Dean, School of Education, Beaconhouse National University, Pakistan; Parag Khanna, Director, Global Governance Initiative, and Senior Research Fellow, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation (commentator); Hamid Kizilbash, Principal Research Analyst, American Institutes for Research (commentator)
China: The Pessoptimist Nation
March 29, 2010 // 4:00pm — 5:15pm
William A. Callahan, Professor of International Politics, University of Manchester; Co-director, British Inter-university China Centre
Finding Dollars and Sense: Burma's Economic Dilemmas
March 24, 2010 // 2:30pm — 5:30pm
Bradley Babson, Independent Consultant; Ken MacLean, Clark University; Morten B. Pedersen, Australia National University; Sean Turnell, Macquarie University (Australia)
Environmental Film Festival Screening: The Burning Season
March 18, 2010 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
Every year vast tracks of Indonesian rainforest are cut down and set alight to develop palm oil plantations. The Burning Season is the story of Dorjee Sun, a young man not afraid to confront one of the biggest challenges of our time.