The American University Meets the Pacific Century Conference
March 9 -10, 2012
The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Conference materials
Kathryn Mohrman - AUPC 2012 | |
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Yan Ciupak - AUPC 2012 | |
File Size: | 489 kb |
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UIUC Report on Campus Research - Abelmann, Kwon, Liao, Lo | |
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Tina Gunsalus - AUPC 2012 | |
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Britta Ingebretson - AUPC 2012 | |
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Nadine Dolby - AUPC 2012 - paper | |
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Nadine Dolby - AUPC 2012 - images | |
File Size: | 1065 kb |
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Jenny Lee - AUPC 2012 | |
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Terri Kim - AUPC 2012 | |
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Jennifer Chun - AUPC 2012 - 1 | |
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jennifer_chun_-_aupc_2012_-_2.pdf | |
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Kang Abelmann - AUPC 2012 | |
File Size: | 1078 kb |
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Hee Young Choi - AUPC 2012 | |
File Size: | 154 kb |
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Conference Schedule
The American University Meets the Pacific Century
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
March 9-10, 2012
Levis Faculty Center, 3rd Floor
Faculty Organizers: Nancy Abelmann, Soo Ah Kwon, Tim Liao, and Adrienne Lo
Friday, March 9th
2:00-2:05 Welcome
Nancy Abelmann, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2:05-2:15 Welcome
Ruth Watkins, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2:15-3:00 Plenary: Kathryn Mohrman, Arizona State University
Where are they coming from? The educational environment in China today
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-4:00 Plenary: Yan Z. Ciupak, Northern Michigan University
On the nexus of local and global: Chinese college students in the era of global economic restructuring
4:00-4:30 Report on Campus Research: Nancy Abelmann, Soo Ah Kwon, Tim Liao, Adrienne Lo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The U of I as contact zone: Preliminary findings
4:30-5:30 Roundtable 1: Challenges and Opportunities, University of Illinois
Moderator: Soo Ah Kwon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
C. K. Gunsalus, Director, National Center for Professional and Research Ethics; Research Professor, Coordinated Sciences
Laboratory; Professor, College of Business
Martin McFarlane, Associate Director, International Student and Scholar Services
Charles L. Tucker III, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Alexander Rankin Professor, College of Engineering
5:45 Reception
Saturday, March 10th
8:30-9:00 Coffee
9:00-11:00 Panel 1: Moderator, Tim Liao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Britta Ingebretson, University of Chicago
"Ivy fever:" Value(s), education, and China's middle classes
Nadine Dolby, Purdue University
The bathroom fairy and other xenophobic tales: Developing a research agenda for the new American university
Jenny Lee, University of Arizona
Academic sweatshops? Asian international graduate students in STEM fields
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15 -12:00 Plenary: Terri Kim, Brunel University
Transnational academic mobility and the internationalisation of higher education: East Asian/ transatlantic perspectives
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-3:00 Panel 2: Moderator, Viveka Kudaligama, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jennifer Chun, University of British Columbia (with Ju Hui Judy Han)
Language travels: The cosmopolitan pursuits of Korean temporary residents in Vancouver
Jiyeon Kang, University of Iowa (with Nancy Abelmann)
The Chinese are coming! The Koreans are already here, so what: The fraught exchange between Chinese international
undergraduate students and the American university
Hee Young Choi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Voicing solidarity: ESA college students negotiate race and power at a Midwest university
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-4:35 Panel 3: Moderator, Nancy Abelmann, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tzu-kai Liu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Foreign education fever and the qualities of the study abroad student: PRC media discourse
So Jin Park, Yonsei University
No two men are of the same mind: Chinese college students & Korean universities
4:35-5:35 Roundtable 2: Challenges and Opportunities
Moderator, Adrienne Lo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gifty Ako-Adounvo, Director, International Students & Scholars, Office of International Affairs, The Ohio State University
Michael A. Brzezinski, Dean, International Programs, Purdue University
Peter Briggs, Director of the Office for International Students and Scholars, Michigan State University
Conference Schedule
The American University Meets the Pacific Century
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
March 9-10, 2012
Levis Faculty Center, 3rd Floor
Faculty Organizers: Nancy Abelmann, Soo Ah Kwon, Tim Liao, and Adrienne Lo
Friday, March 9th
2:00-2:05 Welcome
Nancy Abelmann, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2:05-2:15 Welcome
Ruth Watkins, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2:15-3:00 Plenary: Kathryn Mohrman, Arizona State University
Where are they coming from? The educational environment in China today
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-4:00 Plenary: Yan Z. Ciupak, Northern Michigan University
On the nexus of local and global: Chinese college students in the era of global economic restructuring
4:00-4:30 Report on Campus Research: Nancy Abelmann, Soo Ah Kwon, Tim Liao, Adrienne Lo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The U of I as contact zone: Preliminary findings
4:30-5:30 Roundtable 1: Challenges and Opportunities, University of Illinois
Moderator: Soo Ah Kwon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
C. K. Gunsalus, Director, National Center for Professional and Research Ethics; Research Professor, Coordinated Sciences
Laboratory; Professor, College of Business
Martin McFarlane, Associate Director, International Student and Scholar Services
Charles L. Tucker III, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Alexander Rankin Professor, College of Engineering
5:45 Reception
Saturday, March 10th
8:30-9:00 Coffee
9:00-11:00 Panel 1: Moderator, Tim Liao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Britta Ingebretson, University of Chicago
"Ivy fever:" Value(s), education, and China's middle classes
Nadine Dolby, Purdue University
The bathroom fairy and other xenophobic tales: Developing a research agenda for the new American university
Jenny Lee, University of Arizona
Academic sweatshops? Asian international graduate students in STEM fields
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15 -12:00 Plenary: Terri Kim, Brunel University
Transnational academic mobility and the internationalisation of higher education: East Asian/ transatlantic perspectives
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-3:00 Panel 2: Moderator, Viveka Kudaligama, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jennifer Chun, University of British Columbia (with Ju Hui Judy Han)
Language travels: The cosmopolitan pursuits of Korean temporary residents in Vancouver
Jiyeon Kang, University of Iowa (with Nancy Abelmann)
The Chinese are coming! The Koreans are already here, so what: The fraught exchange between Chinese international
undergraduate students and the American university
Hee Young Choi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Voicing solidarity: ESA college students negotiate race and power at a Midwest university
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-4:35 Panel 3: Moderator, Nancy Abelmann, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tzu-kai Liu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Foreign education fever and the qualities of the study abroad student: PRC media discourse
So Jin Park, Yonsei University
No two men are of the same mind: Chinese college students & Korean universities
4:35-5:35 Roundtable 2: Challenges and Opportunities
Moderator, Adrienne Lo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gifty Ako-Adounvo, Director, International Students & Scholars, Office of International Affairs, The Ohio State University
Michael A. Brzezinski, Dean, International Programs, Purdue University
Peter Briggs, Director of the Office for International Students and Scholars, Michigan State University
Conference Accommodations + Visitor Information
I-Hotel:
http://stayatthei.com/
Illini Union Hotel:
http://union.illinois.edu/hotel/
Directions and transportation to the UIUC campus:
http://illinois.edu/resourcesfor/visitors/directions.html
Parking:
http://www.parking.illinois.edu/visitorparkinginfo.htm
Champaign-Urbana Visitor's Guide:
http://illinois.edu/about/community/community.html
http://stayatthei.com/
Illini Union Hotel:
http://union.illinois.edu/hotel/
Directions and transportation to the UIUC campus:
http://illinois.edu/resourcesfor/visitors/directions.html
Parking:
http://www.parking.illinois.edu/visitorparkinginfo.htm
Champaign-Urbana Visitor's Guide:
http://illinois.edu/about/community/community.html
Conference Registration
Conference Sponsors
College of Engineering
College of Business
Center for Global Studies
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Conference Grant
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Department of Anthropology
Department of History
Asian American Studies Program
Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
William and Flora Hewlett International Conference Grant
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
University of Illinois Research Board
College of Business
Center for Global Studies
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Conference Grant
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Department of Anthropology
Department of History
Asian American Studies Program
Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
William and Flora Hewlett International Conference Grant
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
University of Illinois Research Board