HPAIR 2005 - Call for Delegates - Application Deadline - March 25th, 2005
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HPAIR CONFERENCE 2005
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DATES: August 22-25, 2005
LOCATION: Roppongi Hills, Tokyo; University of Tokyo
WEBSITE: http://www.hpair.org/hpair2005/
NORMAL APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 15th, 2005
EXTENDED APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 25th, 2005 (for National Taiwan
University students)
The Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR)
invites you to participate in our annual summer student conference in
Asia.
HPAIR is a partnership between the students and faculty of Harvard
University, offering a sustained academic program and a forum of
exchange to facilitate discussion of the most important economic,
political, and social issues relevant to the Asia-Pacific region.
HPAIR's international conference has emerged as the largest annual
Harvard event in Asia and the largest annual student conference in the
Asia-Pacific region, attracting a wide variety of distinguished speakers
and future leaders as Harvard's student outpost in Asia. Past speakers
at our conferences include South Korean President Kim Young Sam,
Governor General of Australia Peter Hollingworth, Singapore President
S.R. Nathan and Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.
Our conference this year, co-hosted by the University of Tokyo, will be
held August 22-25th, 2005 in Tokyo, Japan. The theme will be Futuring
Asia: Contemporary Challenges and Emerging Realities.
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WORKSHOP TOPICS
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Our HPAIR 2005 workshops will focus on the following six topics:
- Interests, Institutions and Identities: Understanding Security
Issues in East Asia
- A Matter of Trust: The Role of Trust in Shaping Civil Society
and Rule of Law in Asia
- Higher Education and Active Citizenship: The Public Role of
Universities in East Asia
- Global Health Care Systems: Working Towards a Higher Health
Standard
- Reinventing Diaspora: Exploring Globalization through Human
Migration
- Visualizing Asia: Global Culture and National Narratives in
Contemporary "Asian" Art
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SPEAKERS
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Notable confirmed speakers to HPAIR 2005 so far include
- Heizo Takenaka
Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy
Japan
- Ong Keng-Yong
Secretary-General
ASEAN
- Ezra Vogel
Professor Emeritus
Harvard University
- Susan Pharr
Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics
Harvard University
- Barry Bloom
Dean
Harvard School of Public Health
- Cheng Kai-ming
Pro-Vice-Chancellor
University of Hong Kong
- Arimo Akito
Former Minister of Education
Japan
- Tsuboi Eitaka
Chairman
Japan Council for Quality Health Care
- Philip Altbach
Director
Center for International Higher Education, Boston College
- Susan Stroud
Executive Director
Innovations in Civic Participation
- Tan Tay Keong
Executive Director
Singapore International Foundation
- Thomas Christensen
Professor of Politics and International Affairs
Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
- Aihiko Tanaka
Director of Institute of Oriental Studies
University of Tokyo
- Pan Wei
School of International Studies
Beijing University (Beida)
MORE INFORMATION
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To learn more about the HPAIR 2005 conference, please go to
http://www.hpair.org/hpair2005/
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