Pacific Rim Authors Series 2001
Helen Zia - Reading and Booksigning
The author of Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of An American People (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000) reads from her book and shares thoughts and personal experiences on "The Asian American Emergence." her new book, My Country Versus Me (Hyperion 2001) with Wen Ho Lee, and if released by 13 November, she will also speak about it. An award-winning journalist, Helen Zia has covered Asian American communities and social and political movements for more than 20 years. Born in New Jersey and a graduate of Princeton's first coeducational class, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Cosponsored with Filipinas magazine, the USF Asian American Studies Program, and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize.

12 November 2001
7:30 pm
Lone Mountain Campus of USF, Rm 141
2800 Turk St, between Masonic and Parker

Is the Current Military Campaign in Afghanistan a Just War? A Dialogue of Contending Perspectives

Featuring CYNTHIA BOAZ, Politics Department; ANDREW HEINZE, History Department; VAMSEE JULURI, Media Studies; MICHAEL LEHMANN, Economics Department; ELLIOTT NEAMANN, History Department; SHALENDRA SHARMA, Politics Department/Center for the Pacific Rim; MICHAEL STANFIELD, History Department; STEPHEN ZUNES, Politics Department

For further information call (415) 657-3432.
Cosponsored by the USF Department of History and the Center for the Pacific Rim

12 November 2001
6:00 pm - Reception follows
Lone Mountain Campus of USF, Rm 100
2800 Turk St, between Masonic and Parker
Admission (to defray travel cost of the speakers): $7.00 for members of the Asia Society; $10:00 for non-members. Students, staff and faculty of USF, free.

"Human Rights and the Environment: Perspectives from China, Indonesia, and the Philippines" Panelists: Dai Qing – Environmental journalist, China; Arianto Sangaji - Director of the Free Land Foundation, Indonesia; Joan Carling - Chairperson of the Cordillera Peoples’ Alliance, the Philippines

Throughout Asia, millions of people are facing serious threats to their livelihoods and cultures due to the construction of large infrastructure projects. Intended to boost development, these projects have instead led to further impoverishment, degraded environments and human rights violations. An estimated 40-80 million people have been forcibly evicted from their lands to make way for dams. Hundreds of thousands more have suffered from the displacement and pollution associated with mining extraction. In almost all cases, people have been left economically, culturally and psychologically devastated. But this is not happening without a fight — all over Asia communities are struggling to defend their rights and environment.

The Asia Society, International Rivers Network and the USF Center for the Pacific Rim are pleased to invite you to a program featuring three activists who are leading the struggle to protect the environment and human rights in China, Indonesia and the Philippines. Dai Qing is a journalist and outspoken critic of the government’s plans for the Three Gorges Dam. Arianto Sangaji is Executive Director of Yayasan Tanah Merdeka (Free Land Foundation) in Indonesia, which is struggling against dams and mines in Sulawesi. Joan Carling is with the Cordillera Peoples’ Alliance, an indigenous peoples organization which has been fighting against the San Roque Dam and mining projects in the Cordillera region in the Philippines.

Cosponsored with the Asia Society, Asia Social Issues Program, and the International Rivers Network. In association with the Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines, Indonesian Human Rights Network and Project Underground.

22 October 2001
6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Lone Mountain Campus of USF, Room 140
2800 Turk St, between Masonic and Parker (Driving Directions)

Master of Arts in Asia Pacific Studies Program
Public Information Session
For classes beginning in Spring or Fall 2002. Come to meet faculty, administrators, and alumni, to hear presentations, and to ask questions.

7 November 2001
5:45 pm - Reception follows
Lone Mountain Campus of USF, Rm 100
2800 Turk St, between Masonic and Parker

"Japan's Tempest in a Textbook" - A closer look at the historical revisionism and politiical controversy of the New History Textbook (Atarashii Rekishi Kyoukasho)
How does a middle-school textbook go about promoting nationalistic pride in adolescent Japanese? Trying to rectify this goal with the sorry examples of Japan's military exploits before and during World War II has created considerable domestic and international concern, not to mention highly emotional protests. This talk will present some of the provocative contents, strategies of presentation, and political repercussions of the New History Textbook, approved by the Ministry of Education and Science for nationwide use in Japan's public and private middle schools.

John Nelson is assistant professor of East Asian religions in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco. he is the author of two books on Shinto in contemporary Japan (A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine [1996], Enduring Identities: The Guise of Shinto in Contemporary Japan [2000]), numerous articles, and has produced two short documentary videos, "Japan's Rituals of Renewal" (1988) and "Japan's Rituals of Remembrance: 50 Years After the Pacific War" (1997).

Cosponsored with the Japan Society of Northern California.

1 August thru 31 October 2001
9:00 am to 5:00pm, weekdays
California State Building
455 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco

Peace in the Pacific: San Francisco and the U.S.-Japan Peace Treaty of 1951
A photo exhibition featuring archival images documenting the events and happenings surrounding the international Peace Conference that culminated in the signing of the document that ended the war in the Pacific. Curated by Uldis Kruze, Ph.D., associate professor of history at USF. You can view a slideshow of some of the photos in the exhibition by clicking on the link on the Treaty page of the special website maintained by the Japan Society of Northern California. There is also a special Visual Literacy Curriculum Unit for use by secondary and post-secondary school instructors available for free download.

Cosponsored with the Asia Art Museum - Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture, the Japan Society of Northern California, and the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE). Please call (415) 422-6357 for more information or to receive a free copy of the commemorative booklet that accompanies the exhibit.

11 October 2001
5:45 pm - Reception follows
Lone Mountain Campus of USF, Rm 100
2800 Turk St, between Masonic and Parker

Pacific Rim Authors Series 2001
Ruth Ann Keyso - Reading and Booksigning
Ruth Ann Keyso will speak about her recent book, Women of Okinawa: Nine Voices from a Garrison Island (Cornell University Press, 2000), the story of three generations of Okinawan women and their memories of life on this tiny Japanese island in the post-World War II period. The women interniewed for this book range in age from 21 to 85 years old. Keyso is a writer, editor, and photographer living on Chicago's North Shore. She has taught English and history in Japan and Switzerland and holds M.A. degrees in both journalism and Japanese studies.

Cosponsored with the Japan Information Center of the Japanese Consulate in San Francisco and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize.

3 October 2001
7:30 pm - Reception follows
Lone Mountain Campus of USF, Rm 141
2800 Turk St, between Masonic and Parker

Pacific Rim Authors Series 2001
Lan Samantha Chang - Reading and Booksigning
Lan Samantha Chang's first book, Hunger (Penguin Books, 1998), received national recognition for its haunted vision of cultural transformations and transgressions. The emotional economy of the prose is led by a poet's eye for image and gesture, detailing the lost-and-found landscape of Chinese/ Chinese-American inheritance. Chang has received an NEA fellowship as well as Stanford University's Truman Capote and Wallace Stegner fellowships.

Cosponsored with the USF Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize.

25 September 2001
5:45 pm - Reception follows
Lone Mountain Campus of USF, Rm 100
2800 Turk St, between Masonic and Parker

Pacific Rim Authors Series 2001
From Our Side of the Fence: Growing Up in America's Concentration Camps - Reading and Booksigning
Edited by Brian Komei Dempster (Kearny Street Workshop, 2001), this collection is comprised of the stories of 11 student writers. Before World War II, they lived in locations spanning the entire West Coast, from Washington to California, including the San Francisco Bay Area. Ranging in age from two to 19 at the outset of their incarceration, they were interred in six of the 10 camps created by the War Relocation Authority. Several of the following writers will recall their memories of youth in the internment camps: Florence Ohmura Dobashi, Kiku Hori Funabiki, Sato Hashizume, Fumi Manabe Hayashi, Florence Miho Nakamura, Ruth Y. Okimoto, Yoshito Wayne Osaki, Toru Saito, Daisy Uyeda Satoda, Harumi Serata, Michi Tashiro.

Cosponsored with the Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Northern California, the Kiriyama Book Prize, and the USF Asian American Studies Program.

19 September 2001
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Lone Mountain Campus of USF, Rm 100
2800 Turk St, between Masonic and Parker

Peace in the Pacific: San Francisco and the U.S.-Japan Peace Treaty of 1951
A public forum featuriing Uldis Kruze, Ph.D., associate professor of history at USF and Stanford University social studies specialist Gary Mukai.

Cosponsored with the Asia Art Museum - Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture, the Japan Society of Northern California, and the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE). Please call (415) 422-6357 for more information or to receive a free copy of the commemorative booklet that accompanies the exhibit.

17 September 2001
7:30 pm
Lone Mountain Campus of USF, Rm 140
2800 Turk St, between Masonic and Parker

"It's not Japanese Miso Soup; It's Grandma's!: Foodways and Identity among Japanese Americans"
In this talk Dr. Merry White, professor of anthropology at Boston University and research associate at Harvard University, will explore the subject of preservation of "tradition" and identity in Japanese American foodways. This is the first event in the Davies Forum speaker series for this fall, "Our Food, Our Society: An Exploration of American Values."

Dr. White conducts fieldwork in Japan annually to continue her research on families, material culture, education, and food. She has many publications on these topics, and has recently completed a book on families and social change in Japan (forthcoming, University of California Press). Her teaching includes courses about Japanese society, comparative family studies and culinary anthropology. She is author of more than 8 books, some of which includes: Comparing Cultures: Readings on Contemporary Japan for American Writers, Challenging Tradition: Women in Japan, The Japanese Educational Challenge: A Commitment to Children, Noodles Galore, and Cooking for Crowds.

The event is open and free to the public. It is sponsored by the Davies Forum, co-sponsored by the USF Center for the Pacific Rim, and is hosted by Yoko Arisaka of the USF philosophy department.

June through September 2001
Various venues throughout the Bay Area

U.S. - Japan 21st Century Project
The U.S. and Japan: An Enduring Partnership in a Changing World
This summer and fall the Center for the Pacific Rim is participating in a series of events and projects surrounding the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. - Japan Peace Treaty on September 8, 1951. For full details of the many interesting events planned, please visit the special website maintained by the Japan Society of Northern California.

1 May to 31 May 2001
Intercultural Institute of California
1362 Post Street (at Gough), San Francisco

Faces from North Korea: A Photo Exhibition
Accompanying the North Korean culture conference (below) the Intercultural Institute of California will display a North Korean photo exhibition focusing on people and historic sites. A contribution to the continuing dialogue between North and South Korea and the United States. Co-sponsored by the University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim, the Asia-Pacific Affairs Section of the Commonwealth Club of California, The Asia Foundation, and the World Affiars Council of Northern California. Call the Intercultural Institute of California for more information, (415) 441-1881.

19 May 2001
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Intercultural Institute of California
1362 Post Street (at Gough), San Francisco

North Korean Culture after Half a Century
As part of the annual Min-sok Forum, the Intercultural Insititute of California (IIC) and the Korea Center, Inc., in conjunction with the Academia Koreana, present a conference on the state of culture in North Korea today.
- Opening remarks by Dr. Youn-cha Shin Chey. President of IIC
- "U.S. Korean Relations in a New Millennium and a New Administration"
- Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago
- "A Look at North Korean Village Culture and Community Development"
- Piljun Kim, University of Minnesota
- "North Korean Fiction on the Cusp of a New Millennium"
- Stephen Epstein, Victoria University of Wellington
-"North Korean Novels: Explorations in the Techniques of the Self"
- Sonia Ryang, Johns Hopkins University
- "The Origins of North Korean Cinema: Art and Propaganda in the Democratic People's Republic"
- Charles Armstrong, Columbia University
- "Monuments Writ Small: The Politics of Philatelic Imagery in North Korea"
- Ross King, University of British Columbia
- "Revolutionary Theories and Colonial Legacies? Painting in the DPRK - The Early Years"
- Frank Hoffmann, IIC

Discussion will Follow. Co-sponsored by the University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim, the Asia-Pacific Affairs Section of the Commonwealth Club of California, The Asia Foundation, and the World Affiars Council of Northern California. Call the Intercultural Institute of California for more information, (415) 441-1881.

15 May 2001
8:00 p.m.
The Ira and Leonore S.Gershwin Theater at the University of San Francisco
2350 Turk Blvd (west of Masonic) (Driving Directions)
Pacific Rim Author Series
$10.00, General Admission; $6.00, Students

A Reading by Michael Ondaatje
The prize-winning author of The English Patient will read from his powerful meditation on the emotional costs of war in his native Sri Lanka, Anil's Ghost, winner of the 2000 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize for Fiction. Ondaatje will be joined by Alistair MacLeod, wuthor of the critically acclaimed Island and No Great Mischief.

For tickets call or visit A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books, at Opera Plaza, 601 Van Ness, San Francisco, (415) 441-6670. Cosponsored with A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize.

5 May 2001
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Herbst Theatre
401 Van Ness (at McAllister), San Francisco

Marco Polo's Silk Road
Lectures by Albert Dien (Stanford), Morris Rossabi (Columbia), Laurel Victoria Gray (Director, Silk Road Dance Company), and art historian and author Lauren Arnold, followed by a a panel discussion with all speakers. A program of Humanities West (click the link on their home page for a complete program description), cosponsored by the Center for the Pacific Rim and its Ricci Institute, the Silkroad Foundation, the Italian Cultural Institute, and the Mechanics Institute Library. Tickets from $25 to $55. Call (415) 392-4400 for more information.

4 May 2001
8:00 to 10:15 p.m.
Herbst Theatre
401 Van Ness (at McAllister), San Francisco

Venice to Xanadu
A talk by S. Frederick Starr, Chairman of the Central Asian Studies Institute at Johns Hopkins University, on the legacy and future of the Silk Road. The talk will be followed by performances of period music from Venice and Central Asia, and a demonstration of Tuvan throat singing. A program of Humanities West (click the link on their home page for a complete program description), cosponsored by the Center for the Pacific Rim and its Ricci Institute, the Silkroad Foundation, the Italian Cultural Institute, and the Mechanics Institute Library. Tickets from $25 to $55. Call (415) 392-4400 for more information.

4 May 2001
12:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Lone Mountain Campus of USF, Pacific Rim Conference Center (Room LM 148)
2800 Turk St, between Masonic and Parker (Driving Directions)

Filipino Immigrants and their Churches: Helping Shape the New San Francisco Community
Join the University of San Francisco's Religion and Immigration Project (TRIP) for a discussion with local Filipino American religious leaders and noted scholars about Philippine immigrants in the Bay Area, and what some churches are doing to help them adjust to life in the United States. The conference will also look at some of the contributions of local Filipino American congregations to the ideas, beliefs, morals, and institutions that shape San Francisco culture and society.

Presented in partnership with the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Jesuit Foundation, the USF Center for the Pacific Rim, the Maria Elena Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program at USF, and the USF Theology and Religious Studies Department.

25 April 2001
5:30 p.m.; reception follows
Lone Mountain Campus of USF, Room LM 100
2800 Turk St, between Masonic and Parker (Driving Directions)

"Home Afar: The Life of Jewish Communities in Shanghai during WWII", A talk by Peter Vamos, Ph.D.
Peter Vamos is Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC, and Lecturer in Chinese Language and History at Karoli Gaspar University, Hungary. Sponsored by The Kiriyama Chair for the Pacific Rim Studies at the Center for the Pacific Rim and the EDS-Stewart Chair at the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History. Cosponsored by the Swig Judaic Studies Program at the University of San Francisco, Congregation Emmanu-El, and the Sino-Judaic Institute.

17 April 2001
7:30 p.m.
Lone Mountain Campus of USF, Room LM 141
2800 Turk St, between Masonic and Parker (Driving Directions)
Pacific Rim Author Series

An Evening with Gail Tsukiyama
A reading and booksigning by the bestselling Bay Area author of Language of Threads (2000), Night of Many Dreams (1998), The Samurai's Garden (1994), and Women of the Silk (1991). Cosponsored with the USF Master of Fine Arts in Writing program and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize.

12 April 2001
5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Lone Mountain Campus of USF, Pacific Rim Conference Center (Room LM 148)
2800 Turk St, between Masonic and Parker (Driving Directions)

Popular and Folk Dance of Sunda
A Performance by the Harsanari Indonesian Dance Company under the direction of Achmad Farmis, S.Sn. Cosponsored with the USF Fine and Performing Arts Department, and Harsanari Indonesian Dance Company.

11 April 2001
5:45 p.m. program; reception follows
Lone Mountain Campus of USF, Room LM 100
2800 Turk St, between Masonic and Parker (Driving Directions)

"Korea: Asia's New Miracle in the 21st Century", A Kiriyama Distinguished Lecture by Patrick L. Hatcher, Ph.D.
With an economy that grew at 8.5 percent last year and is projected to grow at 6 percent this year, neither South Korea’s economy nor its politics has the Asian flu, although a few domestic trouble spots remain to be corrected. Repositioned for a second take-off, Korea is the place to watch for miracles.

Patrick Hatcher is a retired professor of history at UC Berkeley, and is the author of North Atlantic Civilization at War (M.E. Sharpe, 1999), and Suicide of an Elite: American Internationalists in Vietnam (Stanford University Press,1990). Hatcher is Kiriyama Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at the University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim for spring 2001.

Sponsored by the Kiriyama Chair for Pacific Rim Studies at the USF Center for the Pacific Rim and the Intercultural Institute of California.

9 April 2001
6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Lone Mountain Campus of USF, Room 140
2800 Turk St, between Masonic and Parker (Driving Directions)

Master of Arts in Asia Pacific Studies Program
Public Information Session
For classes beginning in Fall 2001. Come to meet faculty, administrators, and alumni, to hear presentations, and to ask questions.

4 April 2001
5:45 to 7:30 p.m.
Lone Mountain Campus of USF, Room 100
2800 Turk St, between Masonic and Parker (Driving Directions)

Orville Schell in a Pacific Rim Briefing with Marsha Vande Berg
Noted China expert, author, and Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley in an armchair interview with Marsha Vande Berg, editor of The World Report.

4 April 2001
12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m.
City Club of San Francisco; Bechtel Room, 9th Floor
155 Sansome Street (between Bush and Pine)

"Business Opportunities in Asia after China Joins the WTO" A joint talk by William J. O'Dea and Thomas M. Chin, president and director, respectively, of the China business development firm Tang 1000.
Pre-paid reservations are required ($25.00 per person). Please contact the USF Alumni Relations Office at (415) 422-6431 or (800) 449-4873 for more information. Cospsonsored by the Master of Arts in Asia Pacific Studies Alumni Society and the USF MBA Alumni Society.

29 March 2001
5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Lone Mountain Campus of USF, Pacific Rim Conference Center (Room LM 148)
2800 Turk St, between Masonic and Parker (Driving Directions)

An Overview of Indonesian Dance
Lecture and discussion on the state of traditional dance in Indonesia today featuring the award-winning Jakarta dance artist, choreographer, and teacher, Achmad Farmis, S.Sn, with J.Peggy Adeboi translating. Cosponsored with the USF Fine and Performing Arts Department, and Harsanari Indonesian Dance Company.

6 March 2001
5:45 to 7:30 p.m.
Lone Mountain Campus of USF, Rm 100
2800 Turk St, between Masonic and Parker (Driving Directions)

John Chen in a Pacific Rim Briefing with Marsha Vande Berg
The CEO of internet commerce powerhouse Sybase in an armchair interview with Marsha Vande Berg, editor of The World Report.

2 March 2001
8:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Lone Mountain Campus of USF, Pacific Rim Conference Center (Rm LM 148)
2800 Turk St, between Masonic and Parker (Driving Directions)

Gateways of Power:
21st Century Religion and Ritual in China, Tibet and Japan
A one-day symposium and reception honoring Peter J. Coughlan, President, Kiriyama Pacific Rim Institute focused on the ways in which some of East Asia’s most long-lived religious traditions are actively adapting to as well as influencing both subtle and dramatic sociocultural change. Co-sponsored with the USF Department of Theology and Religious Studies, the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Japan Society of Northern California. See a full program description and schedule.

12 February 2001
5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Lone Mountain Campus of USF, Rm 100
2800 Turk St, between Masonic and Parker (Driving Directions)

"Social Change and Spiritual Development in China Today", a lecture by Richard P. Madsen, Ph.D.
Presented by the Ricci Institute, sponsored by the Ricci's EDS-Stewart Chair and Friends of Ricci.

5 February 2001
6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Lone Mountain Campus of USF, Rm 140
2800 Turk St, between Masonic and Parker (Driving Directions)

Master of Arts in Asia Pacific Studies Program
Public Information Session
For classes beginning in Fall 2001. Come to meet faculty, administrators, and alumni, to hear presentations, and to ask questions.

6 February 2001
5:45 to 7:30 p.m.
Terrace Room, USF Zief Law Library
Fulton Street, between Cole and Parker

Stanley Lubman, author of Bird in a Cage: Legal Reform in China after Mao
Reading and booksigning.

2 February 2001
5:15 p.m. - Hors d'oeuvres reception
6:00 to 7:30 p.m. - Program
World Affairs Council
312 Sutter Street, 2/F

Japan Year-in-Review II
Highlighting recent cultural developments and trends in Japan in the arts, sociology, and popular culture. Participants include Peter Grilli, President, Japan Society of Boston and formerly Director, Donald Keene Center, Columbia Universoty; Kaori Shoji a highly-regarded Tokyo-based journalist with regular articles appearing in the International Herald Tribune, The Japan Times, Time, and Tokyo Journal; Masumi Maramatsu, founder and Senior Advisor, Simul International, Tokyo; and Merry White, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology with a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology, Boston University. Cosponsored with the Japan Society of Northern California and the World Affairs Council of Northern California. Underwritten by Union Bank of California with support from All Nippon Airways. Students/Seniors - $7, Members - $7, Non-Members - $10.

25 January 2001
5:15 p.m. - Hors d'oeuvres reception
6:00 to 7:30 p.m. - Program
World Affairs Council
312 Sutter Street, 2/F

Japan Year-in-Review I
Examining key recent economic and political issues in Japan and prospects for the year ahead. Participants include Shuhei Kishimoto, Director, Information Systems Development Division, Machinery & Information Industries Bureau, Ministry of International Trade and Industry; and Ed Lincoln, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute. Cosponsored with the Japan Society of Northern California and the World Affairs Council of Northern California. Underwritten by Union Bank of California with support from All Nippon Airways. Students/Seniors - $7, Members - $7, Non-Members - $10.