SearchThird Annual Non-Western Culture Week (March 19 to 24, 2007)
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"Approaching Asia Today: Historical and Future Perspectives"
The newly established Asian World Center, with the support of Non-Western Culture Grant, will organize Creighton’s Third Non-Western Culture Week from March 19 to 24, 2007. The main theme of this event is “Approaching Asia Today: Historical and Future Perspectives.”
For the past two years, Creighton students celebrated the first and second Non-Western Cultural events featuring many aspects of Asian culture, including Chinese philosophy lectures, Asian economic development forum, East Asian politics and peace dialogues, Chinese calligraphy and photography exhibitions, a fashion show, poetry readings, film nights, and a Beijing Opera. This third Non-Western Culture Week will continue the infusion of Non-Western values and traditions into the day to day activities of the Creighton campus so as to enhance both College of Arts and Science and College of Business students' global education.
During the planned week of events, the Asian World Center will focus on various approaches to Asian traditional culture, such as hosting a tea ceremony, martial arts performance, lion dancing, calligraphy demonstration, and many more events. Some of the major events include the following: a Roundtable Panel on the Future of Political Asia including the Middle-East; a Martial Art Lecture; a Public Poetry Reading; and a Keynote Conference on “Approaching Asia Today: Historical and Future Perspectives.”
All events are free and open to the public. Keynote events will be recorded and posted in the Asian World Center Website: www.creighton.edu/ccas/asianworldcenter
Description of Planned Activities
In addition to bringing some of the living traditions from Asia to the Creighton campus, the Third Non-Western Culture week will provide Creighton students a unique opportunity to enjoy a public poet reading by Mr. Bei Dao, one of China’s foremost poets and Nobel Prize nominee. Mr. Bei Dao’s visit is a continuation of the foreign-exchange visiting writers between Creighton and the IWP of Iowa State University.
A keynote conference is also planned to connect Creighton students and Omaha-based business communities with first-hand, current information on Asia today and beyond. Two distinguished speakers have been invited by the Asian World Center for this special conference. Award-winner for Best Business Reporting from Abroad in the Broadcast Media for Public Radio International, Ms. Jocelyn Ford will do an audio-visual presentation on China entitled, “A Psychoanalysis of an Emerging Economic Superpower.” Secondly, Dr. James Dator, a world-renowned political theorist in futures studies, will lead us to see “What Will Not Happen in Asia in 2030?”
In conjunction with the Third Non-Western Culture Event, the Asian World Center and the Creighton Asian Students Association inaugurate the first Creighton Asian Tea Week. Tea culture will be promoted through tea drinking and providing tea information at every event during the week.
Finalized Schedule
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March 19 (Monday):
Roundtable Panel: Topic: The Future of Political Asia, including the Middle-East.
The panel will be composed of professors, scholars, and students from China, Saudi Arabia, and other Asian countries. Keynote participants include the holder of the Fr. Casper Professorship, Dr. John Calvert of the History Department.
Moderator: Dr. Maorong Jiang, Director, Asian World Center
Time: 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Location: Ballroom Center, Skutt Student Center
March 20 (Tuesday):
PowerPoint Presentation: Floating Images of My Korean Art
Presenter: Ms. Karan Kim, Artist-in-Residence, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City.
Ms. Kim’s art samples will be displayed during the presentation.
Time: 9:30 am to 11:30 am
Location: Ballroom Center, Skutt Student Center
March 21 (Wednesday):
Multicultural Activities (see below):
1. Taste of 30 different Asian tea drinks accompanied by Chinese Spring Rolls.
2. A “Play of Greetings” in Chinese performed by American students studying the Chinese language at CU.
3. Free and instant translations of your names from English to Chinese in written form.
4. A public demonstration of writing Chinese calligraphy.
5. Asian Film Symposium on Chinese Martial Arts:
- Martial Arts Talk and Q&A: The Making of a Butterfly by Martial Arts Master Mr. Phillip Starr
- Martial Arts Movie: Jet Li’s Fearless
Time: 8:30 am to 12:00 noon
Location: Ballroom, Skutt Student Center
March 22 (Thursday):
Nobel Prize Nominee Bei Dao, one of the China’s foremost poets, visits Dr. Jinmei Yuan’s Class “Philosophy of East Asian Literature and Film” (PHL 432).
Time: 9:30 am to 10:45 am.
Location: 435 Administration Building
Public Reading: At the Sky Edge
Presenter: Poet Bei Dao
Time: 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Location: Room 105, SSC
March 23 (Friday):
Poet Bei Dao visits Prof. Aizenberg’s class “English—Poetic Form” (ENG 302)
Time: 2:30 p.m. to 3:20 p.m.
Location: HC 314
March 24 (Saturday):
Martial Arts Performance and Lion Dancing.
Time: 10:00 am to 11:30 am
Location: Ballroom, Skutt Student
Asian World Two Keynote Conference Presentations:
1. Topic: A Psychoanalysis of an Emerging Economic Superpower
Presenter: Jocelyn Ford, Award-winner for Best Business Reporting from Abroad in the Broadcast Media for Public Radio International.
Time: 12:00 to 12:45 p.m.
Location: Ballroom, Skutt Student Center
2. Topic: What Will Not Happen in Asia in 2030?
Presenter: Dr. James Dator, Professor and World-renowned political theorist in futures studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Time: 12:45 to 1:30 p.m.
Location: Ballroom, Skutt Student Center
Information about Ms. Jocelyn Ford
Jocelyn Ford is a freelance radio correspondent based in Beijing. From 2002-2006 she was Beijing Bureau Chief for U.S public radio's premier business show, Marketplace (www.marketplace.org) . Prior to opening Marketplace's Beijing bureau, Ford was Tokyo Bureau Chief (1994-2000.) In 2001 she worked one year at China’s English-language broadcaster China Radio International (CRI), where she became the first foreigner to broadcast news live following the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. While at CRI she helped conceive, co-produce, and co-anchor the network’s first live drive-time news show, RealTime Beijing. She also conducted journalism and radio workshops. Ford launched her career as a print journalist. From 1986-94 she reported for Japan's Kyodo News Service (1986-94), where she became the first foreign journalist assigned to the Japanese prime minister's press corps. Ford traveled extensively with prime ministers, and has traveled widely in Asia, from Bangladesh to Mongolia.
Ford is currently a member of the Foreign Correspondent Club of China's media freedom committee, which is working to reduce restrictions on foreign correspondents in China ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Awards include the Overseas Press Club award for best broadcast business reporting in 1999. Her interests include classical Indian dance, rock climbing, and visits to China’s historic sites. Ford was also a founding member of the Tokyo-based professional group International Women in Communications. Ford graduated from High School in Amherst Massachusetts, and has a bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies from Oberlin College.
Information about Dr. Jim Dator
Dr. James Dator founded the Institute for Alternative Futures in 1977 with Alvin Toffler and Clement Bezold. In 1966 he taught the first course in any U.S. university on the future. He is currently Professor, and Head of the Alternative Futures Graduate Option, Department of Political Science at the University of Hawaii and Director of the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies.
Dr. Dator is a global leader in the futures field, having served as the Secretary General and the President of the World Futures Studies Federation. He has lectured and conducted futures workshops with several thousand general, professional, governmental, business, as well as futurist, audiences throughout the United States and Canada, and in Australia, Bulgaria, China, Costa Rica, Egypt, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea (North and South), Latvia, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Pakistan, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Yugoslavia.