Asian World Center

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The Asian World Center is an academic institution at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, focusing on the fostering of knowledge and understanding of the economics, culture, history and philosophy drawn from the rich repository of multiple Asian countries.

04/08/2015

Tea Talk Asia Season 2, Episode 2 - Mr. Tadashi Nomura

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.
01/28/2015

Tea Talk Asia Season 2, Episode 1 - Dr. Patrick Murray

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.
08/19/2014

Death Zones And Darling Spies - Seven Years Of Vietnam War Reporting

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.
05/14/2014

Special Report Ep6 - Thailand Protests 2014 (May 2, 2014)

Continued coverage of the situation in Thailand from May 2, 2014.
05/14/2014

Tea Talk Asia Ep16 - Live From South Korea

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).
05/01/2014

Special Report Ep5 - Thailand Protests 2014 (April 25, 2014)

Continued coverage of the 2014 protests in Thailand.
05/01/2014

Tea Talk Asia Ep15 - Death Zones And Darling Spies: Seven Years Of Vietnam War Reporting

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.
04/07/2014

Tea Talk Asia Ep14 - From Nebraska to China: An Art Scholar's Path

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.

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The Asian World Center is an academic institution at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, focusing on the fostering of knowledge and understanding of the economics, culture, history and philosophy drawn from the rich repository of multiple Asian countries.

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