The Asia Institute Newsletter (March-October 2014)

The Asia Institute Newsletter

March-October 2014

Events

Asia Institute Seminar with John Feffer, Director of Foreign Policy in Focus (Asia Institute senior associate) and Emanuel Pastreich (Director, the Asia Institute)

“Climate change and the future of East Asia: First steps towards a new civilization”

October 30, 2014

This seminar was moderated by Jimin Kim, a high school student from Gangnam Internatioanl School and intern at Asia Institute and Zhao Xinyue, staff member of the Asia Institute’s China program and a graduate student, was respondent. The seminar was an honest discussion of what needs to be done to respond to climate change in terms of culture and policy. The event featured an open discussion with an audience consisting of many young people.

Asia Institute seminar with Stephen Costello, Producer at Asia East Policy Roundtable

“South Korea’s Role in Northeast Asia”

23 June 2014

Stephen Costello gave a thoughtful assessment of contemporary Asian policy in Washington D.C. and the potential for Korea to play a larger role.

The Asia Institute in Korea TAIK

27, September, 2014

Students and Researchers give short presentations on their ideas for our group.

Gabriel Pettyjohn- The Asia Institute Researcher

“Cosmopolitan Citizenship …… And, Thinking””.

Kylie Youk – Korea International School

“The Blending Process”

Chanwoo Oh –Korea International School

“How To Breathe”

Sam Choi–Hanyoung Foreign Language High School

”Love Is Love”

Joon Baek –Daewon Foreign Language High School

“”Science and Disability – A Holistic Approach””

Jaehyun Park- Korea International School

“Overcoming Glossophobia”

Jimin Kim – Gangnam International School

”Confucius: Am I right?”

The Asia Institute Internships Opening Ceremony

June 6, 2014 at Kyunghee University

A discussion about contemporary international affairs and the role of youth aimed at our incoming group of student interns.

Emanuel Pastreich

“The Vision of The Asia Institute”

Asia Institute Seminar with Dr. Ahn Cholsoo, National Assembly Member

“Prospects for Youth in a changing world”

September 3, 2014

Seminar at China, Japan Korea Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat

Emanuel Pastreich

“Prospects for CJK Cooperation”

August 6, 2014

Discussion with members of the Young Ambassador Program, a group of fifteen outstanding youth from China, Japan and Korea with a deep commitment to improving relations between the nations, about prospects for cooperation in the region.

The Asia Institute & United States Embassy in Seoul

”American Studies and Me”

August 26-28, 2014

The Asia Institute and the U.S. Embassy in Seoul hosted 40 Korean university students for a series of seminars on the American political system, economy, society, culture and the arts led by diplomats, professors and other stakeholders in the American community.

The Asia Institute

Small Seminar Series on Education

A series of four seminars for high schools students on issues in contemporary education

April-June, 2014

Asia Institute Seminar

”A Dream of True Collaboration for Korea and Africa”

Friday, June 27, 2014

Haggai Kennedy Ochieng (Kenya)

Ph.D. candidate at Kyung Hee University

Joa Lee (Korea)

International Program Coordinator Kyung Hee University

Asia Institute and Arirang Institute Seminar

“Looking at Reunification through a Range Finder”

April 9, 2014

The Asia Institute and the Arirang Institute teamed up for a seminar on the larger security implications of a possible reunion of the Korean Peninsula with a group of military experts.

General Chun In-Bum, Commander, Special Warfare Command, ROK Army

Dr. Daniel Pinkston, Deputy Project Director, North East Asia, International Crisis Group

Commander Bryan Port, Command Senior Advisor, Strategic Communications, United States Forces Korea

Dr. Tak Sung-Han, Head of North Korean Research, Korea Institute for Defense Analyses

Moderator:, Emanuel Pastreich, Director, Asia Institute

March 26, 2014

Asia Institute Seminar in Washington D.C.

(in cooperation with Foreign Policy in Focus)

“United States Re-Balancing in East Asia: A Hundred Year Plan”

At the Institute for Policy Studies

At a moment when the United States government hops up and down frantically every time North Korea launches a missile, a group of concerned individuals in policy gathered together on March 26, 2014 for a discussion of what a hundred-year commitment to East Asia would look like and how the United States can respond in a meaningful manner to such challenges as climate change together with China, Japan and Korea. The event, hosted by Foreign Policy in Focus and the Asia Institute, brought together author John Feffer, Lawrence Wilkerson, former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s chief of staff, Alexis Dudden, Professor of History at the University of Connecticut and Daniel Garrett, former diplomat and current Senior Associate at the Asia Institute.

Seminar with Mayor Park Won-Soon & Director Emanuel Pastreich

“Made In Seoul”

February 26, 2014

Citizen’s Hall

Seoul City Hall