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<p class="x_MsoNormal">The CFP for the ASDP (Asian Studies Development Program) National Conference next March in DC has been extended to this Friday, December 1<sup>st</sup>:
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MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW ASDP 24th National ConferenceUnderstanding Asia: Past and PresentDate: March 1 - 3, 2018Venue:</div>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">As those of you who have been know, the conference is a really good balance of scholarly, pedagogical, and programmatic sessions. If you’ve never been, I’ve attached the 2017 program to give you a better idea of what the conference is
like. At the very bottom of this email is info on the two keynote speakers for the 2018 conference.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">The conference will be held at the Washington Marriott Georgetown, which is convenient to the Dupont Circle metro. Actually, while the hotel bills itself as Georgetown, it’s actually on the Dupont Circle side of Rock Creek, which separates
Georgetown and Dupont Circle (where many Embassies are located). If you’ve ever visited or stayed in the area, you know that you couldn’t ask for a better DC neighborhood to be in for a few days to enjoy seeing historic homes, great restaurants, and more…..<span style="color:#1F497D"></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">I’ve also attached A flyer for the Asia Council pre-conference program that I’m organizing (just like the one we did in Portland last year):</p>
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</span></span></span>So far, about five people are planning to participate in the pre-conference program. It’s a great opportunity to take advantage of opportunities in the area related to Asian culture.
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</span></span></span>We’ll stay in cheaper non-conference hotels these two nights out in Virginia in one of the several Koreatown areas (actually, right across the street from the Korean Spa noted on the flyer – and as noted on the flyer, this is THE BEST jim-jil-bang,
or Korean span, that you’ll find outside Korea). </p>
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</span></span></span>On the way into the city one morning, we’ll also make a stop at one non-Asian site: Great Falls Park (part of the U.S. National Park Service). This is an amazing waterfall on the Potomac at the Virginia-Maryland border (see photo below),
and it’s literally just a 5-minute walk from the parking area.</p>
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</span></span></span>The Pre-conference activities will be finished by mid-day on Thursday, which will give everyone time to explore their own interests around the Mall (museums, etc.) before the conference opens with an early evening reception on Thursday.</p>
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</span></span></span>The early registration deadline ($250) is also this Friday, December 1<sup>st</sup>.
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</span></span></span>January 31st is the deadline to reserve the conference rate ($169) at the Washington Marriott Georgetown (but you’ll want to do so before then, as all the rooms could be gone by that date)</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Hope to see some of you there!</p>
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</span></span></span><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt; color:#61666C">Dr. Jennifer L. Turner (The Woodrow Wilson Center)<br>
March 2, 2018</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt; color:#61666C"><br>
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<b>Jennifer Turner </b>has been the director of the China Environment Forum at the Woodrow Wilson Center for 18 years where she creates meetings, exchanges and publications focusing on a variety of energy and environmental challenges facing China, particularly
on water, energy and green civil society issues. She leads the Wilson Center’s Global Choke Point Initiative, which together with Circle of Blue, has produced multimedia reports, films, and convening on water-energy-food confrontations in China, India, Mexico,
South Africa, and the United States. Other major initiatives include: Cooperative Competitors: Building U.S.-China Clean Energy Partnerships, From Farm to Chopsticks: Food Safety Challenges in China, and Storytelling is Serious Business Workshops For Chinese
Environmental Professionals. Jennifer also serves as editor of the Wilson Center’s journal, the <i>China Environment Series</i> and most recently coauthored <i>China’s Water-Energy-Food Roadmap</i>. She received a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Comparative Politics
in 1997 from Indiana University, Bloomington. Her dissertation examined local government innovation in implementing water policies in China.<br>
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</span></span></span><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt; color:#61666C">Dr. Daqing Yang</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt; color:#61666C"><br>
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<b>Talk Title: "The Weight of History in East Asia"<br>
March 3, 2018</b><br>
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History seems to have never weighed so much in East Asia as we have witnessed in the last two or three decades. Conflicting memories of events in the past have led to diplomatic protests and cancellation of regional summits, ignited street protest and vandalism,
and heightened tensions between close neighbors in general. All of these have serious implications for the United States at national and local levels, for policy-makers as well as educators. What factors have contributed to such a state of affairs? Is this
phenomenon unique to East Asia? What roles can historians and history educators play to diffuse such ongoing conflicts? Yang proposes we should take into consideration a combination of global, regional and internal factors in order to understand the burden
of the past that East Asia has been wrestling with in recent decades. A better understanding of the modern history of East Asia as well as how historical memories work in that region and beyond is of critical importance to preserving peace and prosperity in
Asia Pacific in the 21<sup>st</sup> century.<br>
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<b>Daqing Yang</b> is an Associate Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University, where he teaches modern Japanese history. A co-director of the Memory and Reconciliation in Asia Pacific, he writes extensively on the memory
and historiography of the Asia-Pacific War, modern Japan's relationship with Asia, and postwar reconciliation. His monograph, <i>Technology of Empire</i>, examines telecommunications networks and prewar Japanese expansion in Asia. He is also a co-editor of <i>Rethinking
Historical Injustice and Reconciliation: The Korean Experience in Regional Perspective</i> and <i>Contending Issues in Sino-Japanese Relations: Toward a History</i> <i>Beyond Borders</i> (also in Japanese and Chinese). His co-edited book, <i>Anniversary Politics:
War Commemoration and Identity in Asia Pacific</i>, will be published in early 2018. He served as a historian consultant for the Interagency Working Group on Nazi German and Imperial Japanese Government Documents at the U.S. National Archives from 2004 to
2007. A native of Nanjing, China, he received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and has been a visiting scholar/professor at several Japanese and Korean universities as well as the Institute for Contemporary History in Germany.</span></p>
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