{"id":7808,"date":"2013-01-30T17:16:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T21:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=7808"},"modified":"2013-01-30T17:16:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T21:16:17","slug":"utc-offers-5th-annual-asia-conference-on-february-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2013\/01\/utc-offers-5th-annual-asia-conference-on-february-14\/","title":{"rendered":"UTC offers 5th Annual Asia Conference on February 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Shelley Rigger will be the keynote speaker at the 5th<\/sup> Annual Introduction to Asia Conference, scheduled at UTC on Thursday, February 14 from 12:15-5 p.m. in the UTC University Center Auditorium.\u00a0 This event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

Co-sponsors for the program are The Freeman Foundation and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia; Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Atlanta; UTC Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Geography; The UTC Asia Program;\u00a0 the UTC College of Arts and Sciences; the UTC School of Education and the UTC Walker Center for Teaching and Learning.<\/p>\n

Rigger serves as Brown Professor of East Asian Politics and Chair of Political Science at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina.\u00a0 She has been a visiting researcher at National Chengchi University in Taiwan and a visiting professor at Fudan University in Shanghai.<\/p>\n

Rigger is the author of two books on Taiwan\u2019s domestic politics, Politics in Taiwan:\u00a0 Voting for Democracy <\/em>and From Opposition to Power:\u00a0 Taiwan\u2019s Democratic Progressive Party.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

Kingsley Brock will also speak at the conference.\u00a0 He is the Assistant Commissioner of Business Development for the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development.\u00a0 Brock manages recruitment and expansion activity for the department, and he was lead project manager on a number of significant projects.<\/p>\n

Dr. Lucien Ellington, UC Foundation Professor of Education and Co-director of the Asia Program at UTC will moderate a student panel discussion and Dr. Craig Laing, Associate Professor of Geography at UTC will speak.<\/p>\n

Ellington is editor of the Association for Asian Studies teaching journal, Education About Asia<\/em>, and the organization\u2019s pedagogical booklet series, Key Issues in Asian Studies<\/em>.\u00a0 He has published four books on Japan and his interests extend to East Asian economic history, East Asian educational thought, and East Asia in world history.<\/p>\n

Laing has spent time in China and Japan to pursue his research of Asian cultural landscapes.<\/p>\n

Asia Day Conference Itinerary<\/strong><\/p>\n

12:15-12:20 p.m.:\u00a0 Dr. Mary Tanner, Interim Provost, offers welcome and introduction<\/p>\n

12:20-1:30 p.m.:\u00a0 Dr. Shelley Rigger presents \u201cWhy Taiwan Matters\u201d<\/p>\n

1:35-2:30 p.m.:\u00a0 Kingsley Brock presents \u201cJapanese Investment in Tennessee\u201d<\/p>\n

2:45-3:35 p.m.:\u00a0 Dr. Craig Laing presents \u201cViewing China:\u00a0 Observations of China\u2019s Cultural Landscapes\u201d<\/p>\n

3:40-4:25 p.m.:\u00a0 Panel discussion, \u201cThings Students Should Know about Travel in Asia\u201d moderated by Dr. Lucien Ellington<\/p>\n

4:30-5 p.m.:\u00a0 Student Performance, South Asian Dance<\/p>\n

Please visit www.utc.edu\/Outreach\/AsiaConference<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Shelley Rigger will be the keynote speaker at the 5th Annual Introduction to Asia Conference, scheduled at UTC on Thursday, February 14 from 12:15-5 p.m. in the UTC University Center Auditorium.\u00a0 This event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

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