A CHAO CENTER FOR ASIAN STUDIES WORKSHOP
RICE UNIVERSITY, HOUSTON, TEXAS USA
LOVETT HALL, FOUNDER'S ROOM
MAY 26-27, 2009, 9:00 A.M. - 6:00 P.M.

The first objective of our meeting is to debate the role of the university in the contemporary world and to discuss how our labor serves, mirrors or, in regrettable cases, disregards the interests of the larger society. Our second general objective is to demonstrate how the world is visible through regional politics and interregional concerns. Concepts, data, theories, movements and useful experiences do not need to originate in or always transit through the United States to be visible, viable and adaptable. Centers for the study of “Asia” must become meeting places where researchers focusing on Asia work through Asia to better understand the world. This meeting's third objective is to develop potential institutional collaborations.

Sponsor:  Rice University Chao Center for Asian Studies

The Chao Center for Asian Studies thanks the Department of History, the English Department, the Department of Economics, the Department of Anthropology and the Center for the Study of Women Gender and Sexuality (CSWGS), James A. Baker III Insitute for Public Policy (BIPP),  all of Rice University, the University of Houston Economics Department and the Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras (an independent organization) for supporting the "University in the World, the World in Asia," workshop.