Saturday, Sept 1

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1

8:00 am – 5 pm  Registration Check-in and Information Desk

                 open | Yingjie Exchange Center (1st floor lobby area)

8:00 am – 5 pm  Computer Room open | Room102 (1st floor)

8:00 am – 5 pm  Secretariat Room open | Room6 (2nd floor)

8:00 am – 5 pm  Hospitality Room open | Room7 (2nd floor)

9:00 – 10:30 am Opening Ceremony

                 Yingjie Exchange Center, Sunlight Hall (1st floor)

                 Welcoming Remarks

                 Yansong Li,Vice President, Peking University

                 R. Brian Tsujimura, Chairman, East-West Center

                 Board of Governors

                 Welcome Address

                 The Honorable Hao Ping,Vice Minister of the Ministry of Education, People's Republic of China

                 EWCA Report

                 Edward “Ned” Shultz, Dean, School of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa and President,

                 EWCA Executive Board

               Keynote Address

                 The Honorable Gary Locke, United States Ambassador to the People's Republic of China

                 MC: Karen Knudsen, Director, Office of External Affairs, East-West Center

10:30–11:00 am  Coffee Break (1st floor lobby area)

11 am–12:00 pm  Plenary Panel

                 Contemporary China

                 Sunlight Hall (1st floor)

12:00–1:30 pm   Lunch at Nongyuan Restaurant

                 on Peking University (PKU) campus, location #2 on the PKUmap.

                 You will need your lunch ticket (included behind your name badge) to get your lunch.

1:30–2:30 pm    Award Presentation Ceremony

                 Sunlight Hall (1st floor)

2:30–3:00 pm    Coffee Break and Poster Session Presentation

                 Yingjie Exchange Center (1st floor lobby area)

                 POSTER SESSION PRESENTATIONS

3:00–4:30 pm    Concurrent Panel Sessions

                 Representing and Presenting Music in 'Chinese' Contexts | Room1 (2nd floor)

                 Building a Supportive Legal Framework for Philanthropy in CHINA: Why Does It Matter? Room2 (2nd floor)

                 Chinese Students Abroad | Room3 (2nd floor)

                 Regional Security in Asia Pacific | Room4 (2nd floor)

                 Economic Development: Macro and Micro Perspectives | Room8 (2nd floor)

                 Community Building to Address Regional Health Concerns | VIP Room(1st floor)

                 Lessons Learned fromTwo Decades f Rapid Change in Asia Pacific Higher Education moonlight Hall (1st floor)

4:30–6:00 pm    Concurrent Panel Sessions

                 Empowering Health and FamilyWellness room 1(2nd floor)

                From Vision to Action: Building Student Capacity for Today's Knowledge Economy and Society Room2(2nd floor)

                 Cultural Approaches to Biodiversity Room3 (2nd floor)

                 Looking to Technology for Sustainable Solutions Room8 (2nd floor)

                 Cultural Representation through Cross-Cultural Performance | VIP Room(1st floor)

                 Different Roads to Governance Reform in Asia Moonlight Hall (1st floor)

7:00 pm          Welcome Reception and Cultural Presentation Yingjie Exchange Center, Sunlight Hall (1st floor)

                 Hosted by the EWC/EWCA and the University of Hawai'i