The American University Meets the Pacific Century Conference
March 9 -10, 2012
The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Conference Schedule
Faculty Organizers: Nancy Abelmann, Soo Ah Kwon, Tim Liao, and Adrienne Lo

Conference Location:     3rd Floor Levis Faculty Center
                                    919 West Illinois Street
                                    Urbana, Illinois 61801
                                    http://www.levis.uiuc.edu/GettingHere.html

Friday, March 9th

2:00-2:15         Welcome address, Nancy Abelmann, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
                                      The American University meets the Pacific Century

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, University of Michigan
                                     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: Soo Ah Kwon, Tim Liao, Adrienne Lo
                                    The University of Illinois as contact zone: Preliminary findings

4:30-5:30         Roundtable 1: Challenges and opportunities
                      Moderator: Soo Ah Kwon, Asian American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
                      Participants: Michael A. Brzezinski, Dean, International Programs, Purdue University;                                       
                                      Tina Gunsalus, Professor, School of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;
                                      Charles L. Tucker III, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Alexander Rankin Professor, College of Engineering,                                               University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;
                                      Additional participants TBA

6:00                 Reception


Saturday, March 10th

8:30-8:45         Coffee

8:45-9:00         Opening remarks 

9:00-9:45         Plenary: Terri Kim, Brunel University
                                      Transnational academic mobility and the internationalisation of higher education: East Asian/ transatlantic perspectives

9:45-11:00       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    Britta Ingebretson, University of Chicago
                                       "Ivy Fever:" Value(s), education, and China's middle classes

12:00-1:00       Lunch

1:00-3:00         Tzu-kai Liu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
                                        Foreign education fever and the qualities of the study abroad student: PRC media discourse

                       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

                        So Jin Park, Yonsei University
                                        No two men are of the same mind: Chinese college students and Korean universities

3:00-3:15         Break

3:15-4:30         Jennifer Chun, University of British Columbia (with Ju Hui Judy Han)
                                        Language travels: The cosmopolitan pursuits of Korean temporary residents in Vancouver

                       Hee Young Choi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
                                        Voicing solidarity: ESA college students negotiate race and power at a Midwest university

4:15-4:30         Break

4:30-5:30         Roundtable 2:
                       Moderator, Adrienne Lo, Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
                       Participants TBA 
                     

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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

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Conference Registration

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Conference Sponsors

College of Engineering
College of Business
Center for Global Studies
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