9th Annual East-West Center Participants’ Conference
February 7 - 11, 2000
Presentation / Event Schedule

Monday, 7 February

8:00-9:00 AM

OPENING CEREMONY - Room 2125/2121

Address by: Dr. Charles Morrison, President EWC
    Dr. Geoffrey White, Dean, EWC Student Program
     (All EWC participants invited)

9:00-11:00 AM

WOMEN'S ISSUES Panel - Room 2125/2121
Discussant: Dr. Mire Koikari
Presenters: Kyle Ikeda, "Women, Colonized Men, and Gazes in Ohiro Tatsuhiro's Cocktail"
Naresh Pradhan, "Women's Participation in Irrigation Management Activities in the Hills of Nepal"
Heather Bohannan, "Spirit Speaks Back: Colonialism and Resistance In 'Lost Names' and 'Comfort Woman'"

1:00-3:00 PM

KOREAN CULTURE AND LITERATURE Panel - Room 2125/2121
Discussant: Dr. Rob Wilson
Presenters: Mike Choi, "Meditations on the Reading of Korean-American Poetry:  Tracing Han in Myung Kim's 'Under Flag'
Akemi Nakamura, "Living in Japan as a Foreigner: Discrimination against Koreans and Its Role in the Creation of My Self-Identity"
Andrew Hak Ou, "The Japanese Policy of Assimilation in Colonial Korea Under Governor-General Minami Jiro, 1936-1942"

Tuesday, 8 February

9:00-11:00 AM

EDUCATION METHODOLOGY AND FORMAT Panel - Room 2118
Discussant: Dr. Craig Chaudron
Presenters: Chenling Chou, "Evaluation of a Direct Writing Assignment"
Chingsze Wang, "Making Sense of the Home School Movement: A Political Perspective"

POLITICS OF CHINA, TAIWAN, AND NORTH KOREA Panel - Room 2125/2121
Discussant: Dr. Kate Zhou
Presenters: Yoshi Amae, "'Engaging' Taiwan: 'One China' Policy Reconsidered"
Heng-Hao Chang, "Deconstructing the Myth of 'One China:' Ideologies in Constructions of Taiwan in U.S.-China Relations"
Alyson McFarland, "China and North Korea Bilateral Relations:  China's Intentions and Objectives"

Wednesday, 9 February

            9:00-11:00 AM

INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AND ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE Panel - Room 2125/2121
Discussant: Larry Smith, former EWC Dean
Presenters: Hye-sun Cho, "Problems and Suggestions: The Korean ESL Context in Secondary Schools"
Piyasuda Wongsawang, "Culture-Specific Notions in L2 Communication Strategies"
Chenling Chou, "Evaluation and Needs Analysis of an Academic Writing Course for International Graduate Students:  ELI 83"

1:00-3:00 PM

EASTERN PHILOSOPHY Panel - Room 2125/2121
Discussant: Dr. Roger Ames
Presenters: Kurtis Hagen, "The Concepts of Li and Lei in the Xunzi:  Constructive Patterning of Categories"
Curtis Rigsby, "Temporal Relationality, Divisibility, and Penetration in Whitehead and Japanese Buddhism"
John Trowbridge, "Correlative Thinking and Analytic Thinking as Methods for Comparative Philosophy"
John Trowbridge, "The Concept of Xin as both Biologically Given and Socially Achieved in the Mencius"

Thursday, 10 February

9:00-11:00 AM

IMMIGRATION AND IDENTITY IN HAWAII Panel - Room 2115
Discussant: Dr. Jonathan Okamura
Presenters: Gaku Kinoshita, "Collective Memory in a Sugar Plantation Camp Reunion"
Hiromi Monobe, "The Emergence of 'Nisei Problems': Japanese-American Community in Hawaii in the 1920s"
Jessica Lahela Abeba Perry, "Hawaii State Capitol Monuments: What are we Remembering Here?"

INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT AND FINANCE Panel - Room 2125/2121
Discussant: Dr. Dharm Bhawuk
Presenters: Florencio Kabigting Jr., "Quantum Kaizen: An Improvement Strategy for the 21st Century"
Kawpong Polyorat, "Information Processing Models in Cross-Cultural Context: Uncertainty Avoidance"
B.A.K. Pitafi, "Foreign Direct Investment and Policy Failure"
Chang Hong, "Price Behavior of the SSE 330 Index"

RESOURCE AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC Panel - Room 2118
Discussant: Dr. Vincent Pollard
Presenters: Dang Minh Phuong, "Government Intervention in Pricing: The Case of Rice in Vietnam"
Sagar Prasai, "International Remittances: Implications for Rural Development"

Friday, 11 February

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION - Room 2125/2121
Topic: "The Role of the Military in the State: What has it been? What should it be?"
Moderator: TBA