[Bioundgrd] Fwd: HPAIR 2005 - Call for Delegates

[Kathleen Long]

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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/
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>REGULAR APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 15th, 2005
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>EXTENDED APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 25th, 2005 (for MIT students)
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>The Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) invites
>you to participate in our annual summer student conference in Asia.
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>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.
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>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:
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>- Interests, Institutions and Identities: Understanding Security
>    Issues in East Asia
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>- A Matter of Trust: The Role of Trust in Shaping Civil Society
>    and Rule of Law in Asia
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>- Higher Education and Active Citizenship: The Public Role of
>    Universities in East Asia
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>- Global Health Care Systems: Working Towards a Higher Health
>    Standard
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>- Reinventing Diaspora: Exploring Globalization through Human
>    Migration
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>- 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
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>- Heizo Takenaka
>  Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy  Japan
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>- Ong Keng-Yong
>  Secretary-General
>  ASEAN
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>- Ezra Vogel
>  Professor Emeritus
>  Harvard University
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>- Susan Pharr
>  Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics  Harvard University
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>- Barry Bloom
>  Dean
>  Harvard School of Public Health
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>- Cheng Kai-ming
>  Pro-Vice-Chancellor
>  University of Hong Kong
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>- Arimo Akito
>  Former Minister of Education
>  Japan
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>- Tsuboi Eitaka
>  Chairman
>  Japan Council for Quality Health Care
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>- Philip Altbach
>  Director
>  Center for International Higher Education  Boston College
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>- Susan Stroud
>  Executive Director
>  Innovations in Civic Participation
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>- Tan Tay Keong
>  Executive Director
>  Singapore International Foundation
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>- Thomas Christensen
>  Professor of Politics and International Affairs  Woodrow Wilson School,
>Princeton University
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>- Aihiko Tanaka
>  Director of Institute of Oriental Studies  University of Tokyo
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>- Pan Wei
>  School of International Studies
>  Beijing University (Beida)
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>MORE INFORMATION
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>To learn more about the HPAIR 2005 conference, please go to
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>http://www.hpair.org/hpair2005/