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| • PBI Events, Spring 2008 • |
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| February 6 |
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Islam in the Phillipines: An Historical Sketch |
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| February 27 |
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Malaysia and its Inter-Asian Connections |
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| April 9 |
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Islamic Civilization in Iran: Between East and West |
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| April 23 |
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Islam, Democratization, and Gender Acitivism in Indonesia |
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| February 13 |
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The Criminalization of Adultery in 20th Century China |
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| February 20 |
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Prospects for Taiwan-PRC Peace Under New Leaders |
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| February 24 |
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Salman Ahmed - Junoon |
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| March 11 |
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Representation of Race and Ethnicity among Asian American Artists |
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April 18 |
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Traditional Korean Music and Storytelling Today: P'ansori |
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Academics
Since coming to Pomona, PBI has been a prime mover in the college’s
programs in Asian Studies. Beginning with the Spring 2003 Semester, PBI,
working closely with Asian Studies faculty, serves as sponsor and
programmer for Asian Studies meetings, conferences and workshops. The
Institute has also been active in Latin American Studies programs,
recognizing the importance of the South and Central American nations on
the eastern Pacific. Wherever possible, PBI has collaborated with other
faculty departments in programs connected with their disciplines. A
Faculty Steering Committee meets regularly to discuss ways and means of
enlisting PBI’s support for various joint activities as well as
integrating PBI in existing faculty programs. The committee is currently
chaired by Professor Samuel Yamashita of the History Department. It is
one of the Institute’s primary goals to stimulate and extend student
interest in Asian societies and cultures. PBI’s active student intern
program is a part of this effort – and students working in the Archive
receive valuable hands-on training in film editing, cataloguing and
production. PBI’s President, Vice President and Curator teach courses
dealing with East Asia in Politics, Economics and History.
The Institute and the College
The PBI-Pomona relationship is symbiotic. Pomona’s undergraduate Asian
Studies, Japanese and Chinese departments are among the best in the
United States and the oldest; an Oriental Studies Department was founded
in 1936. Pomona’s faculty with Asian interests - 23 out of a total
faculty of 161 - represents an extraordinary wealth of talent, covering
China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines,
India, Nepal and Pakistan. This network of faculty colleagues provides the PBI staff with informed advice, assists in the
planning and execution of PBI-sponsored events and serves as in-house
consultants for PBI’s ongoing projects. Pomona students are deeply interested in Asia. Some 23 percent of the
student body are Asian-Americans or Asians. They can choose from 69
courses on Asian subjects, including extensive language instruction in
Chinese and Japanese. They also enjoy access to the academic resources
of the other six institutions in the Claremont College consortium.
In return, the Pacific Basin Institute offers faculty and students at
Pomona and the other Claremont Colleges an extra set of windows on the
Pacific Basin countries in East Asia and Latin America. Founded at Santa
Barbara in 1979 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation by
Frank Gibney, then Vice Chairman of Encyclopedia Britannica’s Board of
Editors, the Institute was one of the first research and policy groups
to deal with the entire region, as opposed to concentrating on
individual countries or national groups. It moved to Pomona College in
1997. PBI’s success over the years as producer and organizer of
conferences, TV and film documentaries, lectures and scholarly
exchanges makes available to Pomona faculty an array of contacts
among government officials, scholars, authors, creative artists and
business leaders throughout the region.
PBI's large film and video Archive is always at the service of Pomona’s
students and faculty for research and course materials, as well as the
resources of its scholarly publishing program. PBI's President, Vice
President and Archive Curator also teach regular courses at the College. |
