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2007 Events Archive Upcoming Public Events presented or co-sponsored by the USF Center for the Pacific Rim.Unless otherwise stated, all events are free and open to the public. RSVP recommended for all events; if they are required, notice is made in the individual event notice. If reservations are not required, no seat guarantee is implied by your RSVP. To receive email and/or postal mail notification of our upcoming events, sign up here. To RSVP call (415) 422-6828. For for more information call (415) 422-6357.
Monday, November 26, 2007, 5:45 p.m.
Paul Otellini graduated from the University of San Francisco, and we are proud to welcome him home to his alma mater. He is now President and CEO of Intel, the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer. Patrick Hatcher, Ph.D., Kiriyama Distinguished Fellow at the Center for the Pacific Rim, will moderate. FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC; reservations recommended. Please call (415) 422-6828. Cosponsored by the USF School of Business and Management, the Asia Society Northern California, the World Affairs Council of Northern California, and the Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning. Funded by the Kiriyama Chair for Pacific Rim Studies at USF. Thursday, November 15, 2007, 5:45 p.m.
Consul General Vladimir N. Vinokurov has had a distinguished career in the Russian diplomatic service, serving in Vientiane, Laos, Washington, D.C., and most recently as Deputy Director of the Department of North American Affairs of the Russian Federation in Moscow. He will be interviewed by Patrick Lloyd Hatcher, Ph.D., a Kiriyama Distinguished Fellow at the USF Center for the Pacific Rim. FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC; reservations recommended. Please call the USF Center for the Pacific Rim at (415) 422-6828. Cosponsored by the Asia Society Northern California, the USF Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good, and the Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning.  Tuesday, November 13, 2007, 5:45 p.m. Patrick Lloyd Hatcher, Ph.D., a Kiriyama Distinguished Fellow at the USF Center for the Pacific Rim, will conduct the interview. FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC; reservations recommended. Please call our event registration line at (415) 422-6828. Cosponsored by Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good at USF, the USF Department of Media Studies and Journalism Program and the Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning. Funded by the Kiriyama Chair for Pacific Rim Studies at USF. Thursday, November 8, 2007, 5:45 p.m.
Patrick Lloyd Hatcher, Ph.D., a Kiriyama Distinguished Fellow at the USF Center for the Pacific Rim, will interview Allende. A book signing will follow. FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Reservations recommended. Please call the USF Center for the Pacific Rim at (415) 422-6828. Cosponsored by the World Affairs Council of Northern California, the San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum, USF's Latin American Studies Program, and the Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning. Funded by the Kiriyama Chair for Pacific Rim Studies at USF. Tuesday, November 6, 2007, 5:45 p.m.
Patrick Lloyd Hatcher, Ph.D., a Kiriyama Distinguished Fellow at the USF Center for the Pacific Rim, will moderate. FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Reservations recommended. Please call (415) 422-6828. Cosponsored by the Asia Society Northern California, the Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning, and the USF Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good. Funded by the Kiriyama Chair for Pacific Rim Studies at USF. Tuesday, October 30, 2007, 5:45 p.m.
Patrick Lloyd Hatcher, Ph.D., a Kiriyama Distinguished Fellow at the USF Center for the Pacific Rim, will conduct the interview. A book signing will follow. FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC; reservations recommended. Please call (415) 422-6828. Cosponsored by the Japan Society of Northern California, the Mechanics' Institute, the Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning, the USF Asian American Studies Program and USF's MFA in Writing Program .Funded by the Kiriyama Chair for Pacific Rim Studies at USF. Friday, 5 October 2007, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Producer, director, and writer Noel M. Izon was born in Manila and spent 10 years at PBS affiliate WNVT-Virginia and at the Educational Film Center; he continues to serve as consultant to advertising and national public relations firms. Major General Antonio Taguba, interviewed in the film, is the U.S. Army officer who exposed the Abu Ghraib prison abuses and who was ostracized by military colleagues for speaking the truth. Maria Mabilangan Haley, also interviewed in the film, is currently Economic Secretary of the State of Arkansas and former Export-Import Bank of the United States officer during the Clinton administration. FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC; reservations recommended. Please call (415) 422-6828. Co-presented with the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM). Cosponsored by the USF Yuchengco Philippine Studies, Asian Studies, and Asian American Studies Programs. Funded by a grant from Ambassador Alfonso Yuchengco. Thursday, 4 October 2007, 5:45 p.m.
Will the contaminated fallout from Abu Ghraib, along with President Bush and his Attorney General’s personal abrogation of the Geneva Accord, endanger the safety of U.S. troops continuing to help fight trrorists in Afghanistan, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines, to name but a few flash points where our own military might be taken prisoner? General Colin Powell thinks it may. Come decide what you think. Patrick Lloyd Hatcher, Ph.D., a Kiriyama Distinguished Fellow at the USF Center for the Pacific Rim, will conduct the interview. FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC; reservations recommended. Please call (415) 422-6828. Cosponsored by the USF Law School, the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good at USF, the Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning, and the Asia Society Northern California. Wednesday, 26 September 2007, 5:45 p.m.
Christina Hellmich earned her MA degree from New York University. Before coming to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, she served as Associate Curator of Oceanic Art at the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts.
Friday, 21 September 2007, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Advance registration for the symposium is required, as seating will be limited. For information, call 415-422-6401 or Email ricci@usfca.edu. Thursday, 20 September 2007, 5:45 pm
Thursday, 20 September to Friday 5 October 2007 The photographer and curator of the exhibition is Dr. Ken Parry. The photos were the result of an Australian Research Council-funded project based in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University. The exhibition has already been seen in Sydney (2003), Salzburg (2003), Kerala (2003), London (2004) and Ankara (2005). FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Please call 415-422-6401 for more information. Thursday, 13 September 2007, 5:30 PM USF Main Campus, Fromm Hall (Corner of Parker and Golden Gate)
FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. RSVP recommended. Please call the USF Center for
the Pacific Rim Events RSVP Line at (415) 422-6828.
Monday, March 26, 2007, 5:45 p.m.USF Main Campus, Fromm Hall (Corner of Parker and Golden Gate)
Dr. Patrick Lloyd Hatcher, a Kiriyama Distinguished Fellow at the USF Center for the Pacific Rim, will moderate. FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. RSVP recommended. Please call the USF Center for
the Pacific Rim Events RSVP Line at (415) 422-6828.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007, 5:45 p.m.USF Lone Mountain Campus, Room 100
FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. RSVP recommended. Please call the USF Center for
the Pacific Rim Events RSVP Line at (415) 422-6828.
Monday, March 19, 2007, 5:45 p.m. USF Lone Mountain Campus, Room 100 FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. RSVP recommended. Please call the USF Center for
the Pacific Rim Events RSVP Line at (415) 422-6828.
15 to 25 March, 2007 The USF Center for the Pacific Rim and GHOSTS THE GREAT HAPPINESS SPACE: TALE OF AN OSAKA LOVE THIEF KABUL TRANSIT KORYO SARAM—THE UNRELIABLE PEOPLE In 1937, Josef Stalin began a campaign of massive ethnic cleansing, forcibly deporting everyone of Korean origin in Far East Russia to the unsettled steppe country of Central Asia, 3700 miles away. Y. David Chung and Matt Dibble’s groundbreaking documentary charts the extraordinary untold history of the Koryo Saram . . . [READ MORE or buy tickets]
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Intel established its first assembly and testing facility in China in Shanghai in 1996. Three factories there now employ 3,500 employees. It has nurtured a great number of knowledge workers in world-class chip assembly and test technology. India is Intel's largest non-manufacturing site outside the U.S. Its mission is to "accelerate the adoption of computing and communication technologies" and operate a global high-tech center in Bangalore. In 2006 Intel announced that it will invest USD $1 billion in the largest single factory within the Intel network at the Saigon High Tech Park, the first investment of its kind by the semiconductor industry in Vietnam. 
How did Russia become the bad guy again? President Bush gives Russia's President Putin favorable press while the U.S. press gives Russia low marks for cooperation and democracy. Why? Is Putin more about the search for order than for 'rolling back democracy'? Why did western oil companies lose their oil leases on Sakhalin Island? Is the Shanghai Cooperation Organization of Russia, China, and Central Asian states an anti-American pact? Which state first started withdrawing from strategic arms control treaties? Is Russia's vast Siberian and Far Eastern oil and gas reserves a threatening weapon or a trading commodity? Come hear some answers. 
Secretary Rice is completing seven years in the Bush administration, first as National Security Advisor and now as Secretary of State. With one year remaining, a number of books have assessed her service as one of the most powerful advisors within the White House's inner circle. To give us another view, Pulitzer Prize winner Joel Brinkley, who is now the Lorry I. Lokey Visiting Professor in Journalism at Stanford, will share his insider's view. He accompanied Rice on her first trip around the world. For The New York Times, Brinkley served in many posts, including being their White House correspondent. 
Born in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel Allende has authored eight novels, three memoirs, and a trilogy of children's stories. Her books have been translated into more than twenty-seven languages and have become best sellers on four continents. The Los Angeles Times book critic wrote, "Allende is a genius." Now she returns to USF to discuss her newest work about a seamstress in Spain who dared to dream the impossible dream. Here is a magisterial work of historical fiction that chronicles the astonishing life of Inés Suarez, a daring Spanish conquistadora who toiled to build the nation of Chile.
Borneo is the Dutch colonial name for the third largest island in the world located at the center of the Malay archipelago and Indonesia. Three governments control the island-Indonesia in the south (Kalimantan), Malaysia in the north (Sabah and Sarawak), and the northwestern oil-rich independent sultanate of Brunei. Its 30 ethnic groups and 361 animal and plant species, including orangutans and pygmy elephants, are under stress. Fifty percent of the world's annual tropical timber now comes from Borneo's rain forests. Dr. Murphy spent part of this past summer in Malaysian Borneo.
Gail Tsukiyama is a mesmerizing storyteller who focuses on family, tradition, and the solace of nature. Of both Chinese and Japanese descent, she has explored the history and culture of both lands in her many previous novels. In this new novel she tells the story of two orphaned boys raised by their loving grandparents on prewar Tokyo's Street of a Thousand Bossoms. The war, particularly the Tokyo fire-bombing followed by the American occupation and the rapid rise of modern Japan, shape the lives of the two brothers and the women who love them. The orphans embark on opposite careers, one in sumo wrestling and the other mask-making for Noh theater. Tsukiyama evokes a classic vision of a blasted world returning to life.
Sandaan is a gripping one-hour documentary commissioned in 2006 by the Smithsonian Institution’s Asian Pacific American Program to celebrate the centennial of Filipino immigration to America via Hawaii. The film, produced by the award-winning team of filmmakers who created An Untold Triumph, the story of Filipino American soldiers who fought in WWII, chronicles through first-person interviews four generations of Filipinos in the U.S. and their personal stories of triumph and sacrifice in America as well as their insights on U.S.-Philippine relations.
How did torture of detainees happen in this American controlled prison in Baghdad? Was it the work, as charged, of only a few ‘bad apples’? Or did senior Bush Administration officials create an atmosphere that tolerated torture, “the result of a high-level interrogation policy that encouraged abuse.” Once the scandal broke, General Taguba conducted the official military investigation of Abu Ghraib. He states, “From what I know, troops just don’t take it upon themselves to initiate what they did without any form of knowledge of the higher ups”? How high? Taguba again: “The whole idea that Rumsfeld projects—’we’re here to protect the nation from terrorism’—is an oxymoron. He and his aides have abused their offices... We violated the tenets of the Geneva Convention. We violated our own principles and we violated the core of our military values.” Taguba was asked to retire this year.
The South Pacific island of New Guinea is home to a long artistic tradition. In this rich, creative world where tribal practices combined magic with mystery, islanders carved, decorated, and painted their history. The Jolika gift of New Guinea artifacts includes over 400 examples including a towering Sepik hook figure, a Torres Strait mortuary mask, a monumental figure from the Biwat culture, and a Middle Sepik dance costume. The deYoung Museum can rightly claim to house one of the world’s most important collections of New Guinea art. Join us to see these many splendors!
For a complete symposium schedule, please visit the 
M. Antoni J. Üçerler, S.J.is a lecturer in East Asian studies and comparative history at Campion Hall, University of Oxford and a corresponding member of the Jesuit Historical Institute in Rome. He is also a visiting fellow of the EDS-Stewart Chair at the Ricci Institute at the USF Center for the Pacific Rim.
We all know anime and manga are sweeping the country. But how did
it happen, and what business opportunities are out there? Join the top executives
of leading California anime & manga companies as they talk about the business
side of the Japanese pop culture boom in the U.S. and the secrets of turning
foreign content into a domestic mass marketing phenomena. Don’t miss this
chance to ask the men and women who engineered the boom just how they did it.
Three Cups of Tea has spent the summer on the New York Times Best Seller List for good reason - it is an inspirational read. While trying to climb K2, the world's deadliest peak, Mortenson received help from and impoverished Himalayan village. When he left he promised the native Pakistanis that we would return and build them a school. Fifty-five schools later, he is a legend in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Against all odds he has built schools, especially for girls, in the very region that gave birth to the Taliban and sanctuary to al Qaeda. A real-life Indiana Jones from Montana, he will tell you how he escaped kidnapping and fatwas issued by enraged mullahs. Three Cups of Tea won the 2007 Kiriyama Prize for non-fiction. 
B.S. Prakash joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1975 and has served in Sri Lanka, Germany, and Saudi Arabia, and was India's ambassador to Uganda. He has also been a member of the Indian delegation to the United Nations and his appearance here will inagurate the USF Center for the Pacific Rim's year-long Festival of India. Today's India is Asia's newest economic engine and political powerhouse. Its booming economy has assured its great power status along with friendly relations with the United States, especially here in the Bay Area where high-tech companies rely heavily on Indian expertise and ties to India. 
Anyone who has taken a close look at China’s tremendous economic
dynamism over the last decade will certainly be impressed—possibly even
frightened. However, the human face of China’s rapid leap forward has
remained mostly obscured by the astonishing averages, the awesome tonnages,
and the exhilarating growth rates. 
After
1948 Israel became a state in which a boy, Ishmael Khaldi,
lived in a Bedouin tent until he was 8 years old. Proud to be an Israeli, this
nomad is the first Muslim envoy to rise through Israeli diplomatic ranks. Even
though posted to San Francisco, he keeps in mind the 1 million Israeli Arabs,
170,000 of whom are Bedouins.
The ancient Greeks called the land to their east Asia Minor. Once a
homeland for Christians and Jews, it became part of an Arab and then Turkish
empire. Some Christian communities survived along with their weaving of oriental
carpets, which appear in early Renaissance paintings. Lauren Arnold
will explain this phenomenon. 
The UN estimates there are over 12 million people in forced
labor, bonded labor, forced child labor, and sexual servitude at any given time.
While the horrors of slavery go mostly unnoticed in the developed world, consumers
there unwittingly depend on this source of cheap labor. David Batstone
has spent his career writing, lecturing, and campaigning for socially responsible
business practices and against the plague of human trafficking. Batstone will
talk about his new book Not For Sale, and the film
Ghosts, a docudrama by British director Nick Broomfield
focusing on the lives and deaths of Chinese migrant workers who enter indentured
servitude to pay off those who smuggle them illegally into the UK. The trailer
for the film will also be shown.
Sat, 3/17 - 5:15 PM; AMC 1000 Van Ness
Sun, 3/18 - 9:30 PM; AMC 1000 Van Ness
Tue, 3/20 - 7:30 PM; Pacific Film Archive
Tue, 3/20 - 7:00 PM; Opera Plaza Cinema
Will raw American style capitalism work in the new Chinese system? Communism/socialism/ capitalism-what's wrong with this picture? Put simply-will this dog hunt? Can the Silicon Valley model work in China? Come hear the answers!
The symposium will be an examination of the interaction between China and the West through medicine and pharmacology from the Qing dynasty through the early 1950s. The aim of the symposium is to provide a forum for the examination of themes related to this interaction, such as: social and cultural roles, social reform, education, cultural exchange, encounters with Christianity, relations of power, modernity, and issues of race and gender. . . [
What kind of healing took place in the Qing imperial court during the reign of the Kangxi Emperor (r.1662-1722)? Chinese physicians offered acupuncture, moxibustion, massage, and medicinal tonics. Yet, the Emperor disliked Chinese acupuncture, loathed the smell of mugwort, would never get a massage, scoffed at Taoist longevity practices, and expressed skepticism of southern tonics and restoratives. . . [
Chalmers Johnson, one of America's leading public intellectuals, was awarded chairs by both U.C. Berkeley and U.C. San Diego during his long academic career. Among his two dozen books he set the standard for the study of the Chinese revolution (Peasant Nationalism) and the Japanese economy (MITI and the Japanese Economic Miracle). Upon retirement from U.C., Johnson founded the 
Ming Dynasty China beat West Europeans to Africa when its large fleet sailed and traded along the African East Coast in 1405. Now they're back. Outsiders have exploited the continent's rich resources for centuries. Will the Chinese be any different? They have huge oil contracts with Angola and Nigeria, and cobalt and copper mines in the Congo and Zambia. But will they help bring peace to the Sudan or Somalia? For Equatorial Guinea, China built the roads to get to its timber; for Zambia it built dams for hydroelectric purposes. And with much hoopla Beijing hosted a 2006 China-Africa summit meeting. 
Iran is the great power in the Persian Gulf and a major player in South Asia. Through most of the Cold War years Tehran was the critical American ally in this resource-rich region. The 1979 Iranian Revolution transformed the state when Ayatollah Khomeini replaced the Shah and founded an Islamic Republic. Since then Iran and the U.S. have been at loggerheads while Iranian oil feeds energy hungry China and Japan. Will misconceptions lead to yet another gulf war? 
Canada remains a resource-rich Pacific power that has recently launched an Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative, which is a system of transportation infrastructure-ports, rails, roads-to make continent-girding Canada the best hub facilitating global supply chains between America and Asia. Immigration is both increasing and increasingly Asian and Latino. Even more than the U.S., Canada is nowadays a nation of immigrants and guest workers. An active supporter of NAFTA, U.N. peacekeeping, and the Kyoto Protocol, Ottawa is a global player. Today Vancouver rivals San Francisco and Toronto rivals New York as places to labor, love, and live. 
R. Sean Randolph, Ph.D., forecasts that China, the world's fastest growing economy, is headed for yet another year of dazzling expansion, with 10 percent gross domestic product growth and more than $70 billion in foreign investment. Because of the rich history and diverse ties that link California to China, this is good news for our state and especially the Bay Area, which has emerged as the nation's leading U.S.-China portal. This expansion will be felt around the Pacific Rim as other economies compete to capture a larger China connection.
In Japanese the word 'gáh-mon' (gaman) means 'enduring the seemingly unbearable with patience and dignity'. In 1942 an estimated 120,000 Japanese-Americans were incarcerated in remote camps for the duration of World War II. Struggling to form communities within the camps, the internees fashioned furniture from scrap lumber, wove baskets from unraveled twine, and made jewelry from shells dug up from an ancient seabed. What they created is a celebration of the nobility of the human spirit in adversity. To capture camp life Hirasuna also taps archival photography from Ansel Adams to Dorothea Lange.
The rapidly changing dynamic of regional and global politics has seen Japan emerge more assertive than it has been in decades. The economy has improved significantly and confidence is on the rise. Invited panelists include: Masahiko Aoki, Professor Emeritus of Japanese Studies at Stanford University; Goro Kumagai, Senior Strategist in the Equity Research Department of Mizuho Securities; and T.J. Pempel, Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies at U.C. Berkeley, who will moderate.
Come and find out more about USF's 
AnnaLee Saxenian is Dean of the U.C. Berkeley School of Information. As an economic geographer she has identified profound changes around the Pacific Rim as foreign-born, technically-skilled entrepreneurs travel back and forth between Silicon Valley and their home countries, launching companies far from established centers of skill and technology. She explores the great paradox: How the 'brain drain' has become 'brain circulation,' a powerful force for regional development. Her | The Center | Research & Publications | Master's in Asia Pacific Studies | Undergraduate Academic Programs | Public Events | |
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