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HUNSBERGER LECTURE SERIES

In honor of the Center for Asian Studies founder, Dr. Warren S. Hunsberger, the Center for Asian Studies hosts the Hunsberger Lecture which brings an eminent scholar in the field of Asian studies to the Washington DC area to speak on an issue of immediate interest. The lecture is followed by a reception which provides students and the public an opportunity to meet the esteemed lecturer and discuss relevant matters of interest.

Past Hunsberger lecturers have included:

YEAR	SPEAKER	TITLE

2006	Gil Rozman	"Looking Beyond the North Korean Nuclear Crisis: How the Major Powers View the Korean Peninsula"
2005	Richard Samuels	"The Odd Couple: Political Leadership in Italy and Japan"
2004	Robert A. Scalapino	"The Prospects for East Asian’s Tension Spots: North Korea and Taiwan"
2003	Susan Pharr	"Civil Society in Political Change in East Asia"
2002	Kent Calder	"Political Reform in Japan: What is Needed, What is Possible"
2001	Carol Gluck	"Present Pasts: World War II in Japanese Memory"
2000	Gerald Curtis	"Japan: What’s New & What’s Not"
1999	Donald Emmerson	"Indonesia’s Quest: the Elusiveness of Democracy"
1997	Ezra Vogel	"Japan’s Response to the Rise of China"