Tuesday, September 16, 2003

WILMINGTON, NC – The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington is sponsoring a two-part lecture series, “America’s Relations with Asia,” along with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Carolina Asia Center, Curriculum in Asian Studies and General Alumni Association from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Tuesday Sept. 23 and from 5:30 to 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 7, in King Hall, Room 101. The lecture series is free and open to the public.

Some of the topics addressed will include: objectives the U.S. should pursue in Asia, mix of policies that would help the U.S. to achieve long-term as well as short-term goals and how America could find common ground with a broad range of Asian partners.

In the first part, Steve Levine, associate chair of curriculum in international and area studies at UNC-CH, will discuss “Can the U.S. Stay the Course in Central Asia?” Levine is also a specialist in East Asian international relations and interim director of the Carolina Asia Center. In the second part, W. Miles Fletcher, chair of curriculum in Asian studies at UNC-CH, will discuss “The U.S. and East Asia: New Roles in an Era of Rapid Change.”

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For more information, contact Yoko Kano in the UNCW Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at 910/962-7214.