HPAIR 2005 - Call for Delegates - Application Deadline - March 25th, 2005 ---------------------------------------------------------------- HPAIR CONFERENCE 2005 ---------------------------------------------------------------- DATES: August 22-25, 2005 LOCATION: Roppongi Hills, Tokyo; University of Tokyo WEBSITE: http://www.hpair.org/hpair2005/ NORMAL APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 15th, 2005 EXTENDED APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 25th, 2005 (for National Taiwan University students) The Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) invites you to participate in our annual summer student conference in Asia. 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. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP TOPICS ---------------------------------------------------------------- Our HPAIR 2005 workshops will focus on the following six topics: - Interests, Institutions and Identities: Understanding Security Issues in East Asia - A Matter of Trust: The Role of Trust in Shaping Civil Society and Rule of Law in Asia - Higher Education and Active Citizenship: The Public Role of Universities in East Asia - Global Health Care Systems: Working Towards a Higher Health Standard - Reinventing Diaspora: Exploring Globalization through Human Migration - Visualizing Asia: Global Culture and National Narratives in Contemporary "Asian" Art ---------------------------------------------------------------- SPEAKERS ---------------------------------------------------------------- Notable confirmed speakers to HPAIR 2005 so far include - Heizo Takenaka Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy Japan - Ong Keng-Yong Secretary-General ASEAN - Ezra Vogel Professor Emeritus Harvard University - Susan Pharr Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics Harvard University - Barry Bloom Dean Harvard School of Public Health - Cheng Kai-ming Pro-Vice-Chancellor University of Hong Kong - Arimo Akito Former Minister of Education Japan - Tsuboi Eitaka Chairman Japan Council for Quality Health Care - Philip Altbach Director Center for International Higher Education, Boston College - Susan Stroud Executive Director Innovations in Civic Participation - Tan Tay Keong Executive Director Singapore International Foundation - Thomas Christensen Professor of Politics and International Affairs Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University - Aihiko Tanaka Director of Institute of Oriental Studies University of Tokyo - Pan Wei School of International Studies Beijing University (Beida) MORE INFORMATION ---------------------------------------------------------------- To learn more about the HPAIR 2005 conference, please go to http://www.hpair.org/hpair2005/ --

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