Asian World Center

This episode we talk with Mr. Tadashi Nomura, the Japanese Outreach Initiative Coordinator at Creighton University's Asian World Center. On April 1, he and Dr. Ernie Goss gave a join presentation on the Japanese ('97) and US ('08) Financial Crises, here we get a first look at Japan's financial woes from a man who spent over 30 years in Japanese Banking.

This episode we sit down with Dr. Patrick Murray of Creighton University's Department of Philosophy. He will talk to us about Marxism in the global context of philosophy and economics as well as tell of his recent trip to China to give a talk on Marxism.

A journalism professor at the University of Hawai'i for 29 years before retiring in July 2008, Beverly Deepe Keever is the author of Death Zones and Darling Spies: Seven Years of Vietnam War Reporting. She also researched and wrote News Zero: The New York Times and The Bomb (Common Courage Press, 2004). Excerpts from and adaptations of this book have been published in two award-winning cover articles in Honolulu's alternative weekly. She is a co-editor of the well reviewed U.S. News Coverage of Racial Minorities: A Sourcebook, 1934-1996 (Greenwood Press, 1997), for which she conceptualized with others the prospectus of the volume; made arrangements with the publisher; served, in effect, as the managing editor coordinating the writing of 11 other scholars; contributed two chapters and co-authored two others.! Since her retirement, she has written her memoirs of covering the Vietnam War for seven years successively for Newsweek, the New York Herald Tribune, the Christian Science Monitor and the London Daily Express and Sunday Express. She has received the University of Hawai’i Regents Medal for Excellence in Teaching, numerous freedom-of-information awards and awards from the alumni associations of two of her alma maters, the University of Nebraska College of Journalism and Mass Communications and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She has written numerous other articles for academic, professional and commercial publications while at the University of Hawai`i and as a correspondent in Vietnam for Newsweek, the New York Herald Tribune, the Christian Science Monitor and the London Daily and Sunday Express.

Continued coverage of the situation in Thailand from May 2, 2014.

This week we have the privilege to sit on the campus of Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea with Dr. Chaehyun Chong, a professor of philosophy at Segang University. Dr. Chong was born in Seoul, South Korea and gained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Segang University and before returning there as a professor, he gained his Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii in the U.S. His current areas of research are in Moist Thought, Confucian Philosophy, Ancient Chinese Philosophy, and Philosophy of Language and Logic. Dr. Chong has published 6 books on his research and numerous articles. In 2013, Dr. Chong came to Omaha to work as a visiting scholar with the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO).

Continued coverage of the 2014 protests in Thailand.

Interview with Dr. Beverly Keever. A journalism professor at the University of Hawai'i for 29 years before retiring in July 2008, Beverly Deepe Keever is the author of Death Zones and Darling Spies: Seven Years of Vietnam War Reporting. She also researched and wrote News Zero: The New York Times and The Bomb (Common Courage Press, 2004). Excerpts from and adaptations of this book have been published in two award-winning cover articles in Honolulu's alternative weekly. She is a co-editor of the well reviewed U.S. News Coverage of Racial Minorities: A Sourcebook, 1934-1996 (Greenwood Press, 1997), for which she conceptualized with others the prospectus of the volume; made arrangements with the publisher; served, in effect, as the managing editor coordinating the writing of 11 other scholars; contributed two chapters and co-authored two others. Since her retirement, she has written her memoirs of covering the Vietnam War for seven years successively for Newsweek, the New York Herald Tribune, the Christian Science Monitor and the London Daily Express and Sunday Express. She has received the University of Hawai’i Regents Medal for Excellence in Teaching, numerous freedom-of-information awards and awards from the alumni associations of two of her alma maters, the University of Nebraska College of Journalism and Mass Communications and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She has written numerous other articles for academic, professional and commercial publications while at the University of Hawai`i and as a correspondent in Vietnam for Newsweek, the New York Herald Tribune, the Christian Science Monitor and the London Daily and Sunday Express.

This week we sit down with Nathan Peterson, a doctoral candidate in Art History at the University of Iowa. Born in South Central Nebraska Peterson attended Creighton University in the early 2000s earning a degree in Art History. He then went to the University of Iowa where he received his master’s degree also in Art History. From there he became interested in East Asian studies specifically in China and Japan. His most recent work has been in the contemporary art of China, including the artist Ai Weiwei, and Northern Japan, particularly in response to the Tsunami of 2011. Currently, Peterson is teaching at China’s Tianjin University and completing his second master’s degree in Chinese while finishing his dissertation to earn his doctorate from the University of Iowa.

"Ai Weiwei: Memory & Virtue Amid Ideological Turmoil" by Nathan Peterson (Feb. 10, 2014)

“Our Postnormal Futures” by Professor Ziauddin Sardar (Director, Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies) and Mr. John A. Sweeney (Assistant Director, Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies and Ph.D. Candidate, Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies). (Jan. 30, 2014)

China: Modernity vs. Tradition" joint presentation by Dr. Yu Rui (Section Chief of the Office of International Exchange and Cooperation at Nanjing University of the Arts), Professor Bi Xia (Hohai University's School of Marxism), and Ms. Guo Shaoqing (Ph.D. candidate at Wuhan University's Research Institute of Environmental Law). (Nov. 13, 2013)

"Masculinities in Films by China's 'New Generation' of Directors: A Unique Perspective on China's Underprivileged" by Dr. Zhou Jun, Nanjing University of the Arts. (Oct. 3, 2013)

“China in the Business World” panel discussion featuring Marisa Ring (Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce), Dr. Birud Sindhav (University of Nebraska at Omaha), Dr. Yu Rui (Nanjing University of the Arts), Jennifer Zhang (JZW International, Omaha), Dr. John Wingender (Creighton University), and Davis Florick (Creighton University). (Sep. 11, 2013)

"Americans: Fighting for Peace in Asia" by Earl Stubbe, Ed.D., Retired Assistant Director of Superintendent's Office (Waterford Township, PA) and of the 20th Air Force, 315th Bomb Wing, World War II, Guam. (Sep. 10, 2013)

"East and West Connect and Compete: Anglo-American and Russian Science Fiction in the Cold War and Beyond" by Professor Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College. (Sep. 9, 2013)

"Social and Economic Problems Facing China's Fifth Generation of Leaders" by Dr. Elizabeth Larus, University of Mary Washington. (Sep. 9, 2013)

On Tues. March 4, 2014, at the Mike & Josie Harper Center on the campus of Creighton University, Dr. Maorong Jiang, Director of the AWC and the Asia Regional Coordinator for the Center for Global Nonkilling, officially launched their jointly published book, Nonkilling Media.

Part 2 of our interview with Professor Ziauddin Sardar, Director of the Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies, and Mr. John A. Sweeney, Assistant Director of the Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies and a Ph.D. Candidate at the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies.

Interview with Professor Ziauddin Sardar, Director of the Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies, and Mr. John A. Sweeney, Assistant Director of the Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies and a Ph.D. Candidate at the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies.

Continued coverage of the protests taking place in Thailand (Feb. 27, 2014)