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Visit our temporary Defense Critical Language and Culture Webpage to hear all panels and keynotes of the symposium "New Avenues for U.S. Middle East Policy".
A list of the Spring 2009 Brown Bag Lectures are listed below. The next lecture is coming up March 26, 2009 by Larry White titled "A War Revisited: Returning to Vietnam 40 Years Later". All lectures will be held in the Mansfield Center Conference Room, Mansfield Library 4th Floor. Please feel free to join us for hors d'oeuvres and beverages.
Larry White
Dr Jian Chang, Guest Professor, Mansfield Center
Mohamed El-Aasar, Professor, Mansfield Center Critical Language/Culture Program
Dr. Rich Harris, Assistant Professor, The University of Montana
The Mansfield Center's Annual High School Essay Contest is now open to Montana's Juniors and Seniors. If you would like to participate, please see the attached flier for rules and deadlines. The winner will receive $500.00 with the first and second runners up, $300 and $200 respectively.
One of the Mansfield Center's Research Associates, Dr. Jacqueline Hiltz has just returned from Bhutan and written an Op-Ed piece titled "Death of a Princess in the Eastern Himilayas".
As we usher in 2009, dwindling retirement funds, plummeting real estate values, and rising unemployment loom large. With such modern concerns on our minds, it’s hard to imagine the relevance of the November coronation of a young king and the December cremation of an elderly princess in the remote Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan and the Indian state of Sikkim. But perhaps these fairytale-like events can offer a respite and the hint of a faraway world unfamiliar to many Americans... read more
The Mansfield Center and the Mansfield Center's Defense Critical Languages and Cultures program is holding a symposium titled "New Avenues for US-Middle East Policy" March 4 & 5 at The University of Montana's University Center Theater...read more
This is a free event and open to the public. For more information please contact the Mansfield Center at (406) 243-2988 or e-mail us.
The Korea Caravan is back this year featuring L. Gordon Flake, Tom Byrne and Nicole Finnemann titled "Fallout Northeast Asia: Consequences of the Global Economic Crisis and Nuclear Stalemate on the Korean Peninsula." The presentation will be held in the University Center Theatre on Tuesday, February 24 from 3:00-5:00PM. Join us for 2 hours of discussion on Korea. This is a free event and open to the public.
For more information, please feel free to contact us by e-mail or (406) 243-2988
 The Mansfield Center is pleased to have former Indian Ambassador Hercharan Dhody speak at the Continuing Education Building Room 210, The University of Montana. Ambassador Dhody's lecture titled "The Strategic Environment in South Asia: How the Afghan War and Pakistan's Troubles Impact India” will take place Thursday, November 13th from 7:00-8:30PM.
We will also be broadcasting live to the Lincoln County Campus in Libby, MT and the Flathead Valley Community College.
This is a free event and open to the public
Broughton Coburn, a Wyoming Native, will be speaking at the University Center Theatre, 3rd Floor UC, Sunday October 26th 4:00-5:30pm.
Coburn talk titled "Aama's Journey" will touch on his three decades spent in Nepal learning the culture and his relationship with an 84 year old woman named Aama. Read more...
The Mansfield Center is pleased to have Mr. Richard Christenson speak at the University Center Theatre, 3rd floor UC at The University of Montana. Mr. Christenson's lecture titled "Korea Behind the Headlines: the North Korean Nuclear Program, Kim Jong Il’s Succession Dilemma, and the U.S./ Republic of Korea Alliance."
This is a free event and open to the public
September 24, 2008 starting at 8:00 PM at the UC Theatre, Kurt M. Campbell, Chief Executive Office and Co-Founder of the Center for New American Security present our opening talk on Climage Change in Asia. The next day, Thursday September 25, starting at 8:00 AM at the UC Theatre, our conference titled "Climage Change in Asia: Security Implications and Prospects for International Cooperation" will run until 5:00 PM. Click here for a full list of times and speakers.
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Terry Weidner with Shosuke Unemoto and other members of the Glacier Club
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In cooperation with the Japanese Consulate in Seattle, WA, the Japanese Language and Culture Program, the Japanese Student Association and ASUM, the Mansfield Center will welcome Mr. Kaishi Katsura on Tuesday, April 29, 2008. Kaishi will perform a traditional style sit-down comedy skit during his 11-city tour of America.
This is a free event and open to the public. Click here for more information, or call the center at (406) 243-2988.
Dr. Banning Garrett, Director of the Initiative for U.S.-China Cooperation on Energy and Climate, Asia Society, will present after a live webcast from Washington D.C. with Norman Ornstein, Resident Scholar with the American Enterprise Institute. Discussion along with question and answer will follow Garrett's presentation. Click here for a copy of the program flyer.
The meeting will take place April 17, 2008 at 4:45 pm in the North Underground Lecture Hall, The University of Montana, Missoula. This is a free event open to the public.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact the Center at 406.243.2988 or via e-mail
The Mansfield Center, in cooperation with International Programs, and the World Affairs Council is pleased to host a guest lecture Thursday, November 29 in the University Center South Ballroom at 7:00pm.
Professor Mehrdad Kia, Associate Provost for international Programs, and Professor Steven I. Levine, Associate Director of the Mansfield Center, will discuss the current problems faced by Pakistan and its relationship with Afghanistan, the taliban, and the issue of security in South Asia.
The Mansfield Center warmly invites you to attend this free event. If you have any question please feel free to contact us at 243.2988 or send an e-mail with any questions.
The enduring impact that war memories play in Japanese-Chinese-U.S. relations will highlight a presentation at the University of Montana in Missoula on October 3rd. The presentation, sponsored by UM’s Mansfield Center with generous assistance from the Japanese Consulate in Seattle, will be presented by Yukio Okamoto and take place at 7:30 pm in the University Center Theater that evening. Formerly a top level diplomat and past Prime Ministerial advisor, Mr. Okamoto remains very influential in Japan as as a well-know media commentator and President of Okamoto Associates, Inc., a foreign policy think tank. The talk, formally entitled "From Manchuria to Iwo Jima to Nagasaki: What the Competing War Narratives of World War II Can Say about Sino-American-Japanese Relationship," is being co-sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Montana and UM’s Japanese Language program... read more
This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information please feel free to call (406) 243.2988 or e-mail us with any questions.
The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation will hold a workshop in New Dehli, India to highlight the country's relationship with Japan. See attached conference program.
The Mansfield Center, in cooperation with The University of Montana and the Mansfield Foundation, will hold its 23rd annual conference on September 19- 20, 2007 on the topic of “The China Threat: Myth or Reality?”. The conference begins with a keynote address, “Is There a China Threat?” by former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, The Honorable James Andrew Kelly on Wednesday evening September 19 at 7:00pm in the North Ballroom on the third floor of the University Center. It continues on September 20, starting at 9:00am in the UC Theatre, on the third floor of the University Center at the University of Montana in Missoula with three panels covering China’s domestic problems, the economy, and foreign affairs. See attached Conference Program.
The relationship between the United States and China is one of obvious and growing importance. Distinguished American and Chinese participants from the worlds of government, academia, research institutions, and trade and finance will discuss a full range of contemporary issues in the relationship. .
The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center warmly invites the public to attend this free event. For more information please contact the Mansfield Center at 406-243-2988.
Ambassador Lee Tae-sik from the Republic of Korea spoke to an audience of some 200 persons assembled in Rose Memorial Park in Missoula to mark the 10-year anniversary of the dedication of the Korean War Memorial commemorating the 138 Montana servicemen who died in the war (1950-1953). Surviving Korean War veterans and their families were honored at the ceremony.
Ambassador Lee also presented an address on Korean-U.S. relations at a dinner hosted by Jane Dennison, the wife of University of Montana President George M. Dennison, and discussed University of Montana academic programs relating to Korea with Mansfield Center director Dr. Terry Weidner and others.
For more information regarding Ambassador Lee's speech, please visit The Missoulian's "Commemoration Today At Korean War Memorial."
The Minamata-Libby Symposium examined the parallel environmental disasters in Minamata, Japan and Libby Montana that helped focus public attention on the health and environmental hazards of industry and mining. Speakers from Japan were: Professor Shigeo Ekino and Professor Mari Susa, and from Libby, Ms. Gayla Benefield, Mr. Gene Reckin, and Mr. Jeffrey Gruber, and from The University of Montana, Professor Robin Saha, Mr. Ian Marquand, Professor Andrij Holian, and Professor Patrick Burke. This program was made possible with generous assistance from the Japan Foundation’s Center for Global Partnership. The Mansfield Center has initiated what will be an ongoing dialogue on global issues with NGO and educational institutions in our Japanese sister prefecture of Kumamoto, Japan. The Center is initiating this programming with a focus on the environment, using as our centerpiece a comparison of the human and institutional response to environmental degradation in Libby, Montana and Minamata, Japan. Libby has become an environmental superfund site as the result of toxic deposits of asbestos from vermiculite mining that have resulted in numerous deaths and widespread respiratory damage. Minamata is this year marking the 50th anniversary of one of the first modern environmental disasters, a mercury poisoning episode from a chemical factory that likewise caused a large number of deaths, degenerative neurological diseases, and tragic birth defects.
To read the entire article "Minamata-Libby Environmental Project"
Prior to the symposium, we showed the 70:30 minute documentary film by Ian Marquand, “Toxic Tragedies and Hometown Hopes: The Libby and Minamata Stories.” To obtain a DVD copy of the film, please contact the Mansfield Center at (406) 243-2988 or e-mail us.
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