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From: "Frank Conlon" <
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Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 5:53 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: CONF Asian Studies Conference, Boston, Mar. 24-26, 2011
> H-ASIA
> March 11, 2011
>
> 17th Annual Asian Studies Development Program's National Conference,
> Boston, March 24-26, 2011 (IN TWO WEEKS)
> ************************************************************************
> From: Julien Farland <FARLANDJ@middlesex.mass.edu>
>
> Dear Fellow Asianists,
>
> The Seventeenth Annual Asian Studies Development Program's National
> Conference will take place from March 24-26, 2011 at downtown Boston's
> historic Omni Parker House Hotel. Middlesex Community College will be
> hosting this event. Please make plans now to attend this conference and
> participate in over 35 panels with more than 90 speakers presenting on a
> variety of interesting topics.
>
> Conference Link:
> http://www.middlesex.mass.edu/asdp/conference.htm
>
> Plenary speakers include, Peter Hershock, Coordinator of the Asian
> Studies Development Program at the East-West Center in Honolulu, HI,
> (presentation title: ?In Pursuit of Equity: Globalization, Higher
> Education and the Emerging Value of Diversity), Jane Portal, who holds
> the Matsutaro Shoriki Chair, Art of Asia, Oceania, and Africa, at the
> Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, (presentation title: "First Emperor:
> China's Terracotta Army") and Richard Samuels, the Ford International
> Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for
> International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
> (presentation title: "Japan's Grand Strategy").
>
> The nationally known Angkor Dance Troupe will also perform at the
> conference. There will be options for visiting local sites including the
> Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,
> and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem.
>
> The ASDP National Conference is an annual event that provides an
> opportunity for ASDP alumni and other interested college and university
> faculty members to share research related to Asian cultures and
> societies, as well as strategies for effectively infusing Asian content
> into undergraduate humanities, social science, business, and science
> curricula. It also provides an opportunity for ASDP alumni and other
> interested college and university faculty members to socialize and get
> reacquainted with fellow alums, meet new faces, and share new ideas. The
> conference fee is $150.
>
> If you have any questions, please contact Middlesex Dean and Asian
> Studies Coordinator, Dona Cady (Conference Chair) at
> cadyd@middlesex.mass.edu,
> (Phone: (781) 280-3721).
>
> Conference Link:
> http://www.middlesex.mass.edu/asdp/conference.htm
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Julien Farland
> Professor of Philosophy
> Middlesex Community College
> NA 212
> Bedford MA 01730
> farlandj@middlesex.mass.edu
> 781 280 3944
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