EWCA Blog

Mayco Santaella, travel grant recipient, in Central Sulawesi.

Each year the East-West Center Association (EWCA) awards summer travel grants to deserving students to offset the costs of traveling to conferences or field work destinations. These travel grants are funded by generous East-West Center alumni from all over the world. In 2008, 10 EWCA travel grants were awarded – five funded by the EWCA Hawaii Chapter – to travel between May and August.

Currently, the East-West Center’s Alumni blog, EWCA Discussion Board, is featuring its “Travel Grant Series” – a series of nine short narratives of the East-West Center Travel Grant recipients’ experience. To read the series click here.

Allison Pan receives her certificate from Alumni Officer Gordon Ring

Even the best of times have to end some day.

So it was for a roomful participants who took part last week in the Center’s Ho’opuka Ceremony, a formal occasion to recognize the completion of various awards and programs sponsored by the Center.
Some 85 participants were on hand and another 28 — unable to attend — were undoubtedly there in spirit. Continue Reading »

'Kufic Composition.' Rashid Arshed

A couple of years ago, Michael Schuster, curator of the East West Center Gallery, was at a conference in New Delhi where he briefed folks on the Gallery and its works.

He was approached by Dr. Arjumand Faisel, a physician, artist, gallery owner and — not coincidentially — an alum and President of the Islamabad Chapter of the East West Center Association. “Why not an exhibit on Parkistani contemporary paintings?”

And so, after several years of work and considerable logistics, the exhibit is ON. Continue Reading »

By G. Shabbir Cheema (TDI 69-73; PI 87, 88; Assoc 07)

1969 EWC ID

I joined East-West Center as a degree grantee in 1969. The Center provided me with unique opportunities to understand different cultures, identify with Asia Pacific region, forge life long friendships and gain cutting edge knowledge of political science. The “Saga” cafeteria (where I first met my lovely wife), Jefferson Hall reading room and mail boxes, and the Japanese Garden were some of the common places where the students met soon after returning from their respective academic departments at the University of Hawaii. Continue Reading »

The 2008 East-West Center Association International Conference, “Building and Asia Pacific Community: Unity in Diversity” will be held in Bali, Indonesia, November 13-15, 2008.

Join us for a professional networking conference bringing together East-West Center researchers, alumni, students, friends, and other interested professionals to discuss key issues in the region. Continue Reading »