HPAIR 2008 Academic Conference

Introduction

Dates: Aug 21-24,2008
Venues: Hilton Petaling Jaya, Universiti Malaya
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Description

HPAIR, the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations, annually organizes the largest student events in Asia and the largest Harvard events in Asia: the HPAIR academic and business conferences. HPAIR is one of the most established and respected student groups at Harvard.

The HPAIR 2008 Academic Conference mark HPAIR's 17th year. The conference will take place from August 21 to 24, 2008 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. HPAIR 2008 will continue the HPAIR's long tradition of excellence by bringing together both undergraduate and graduate students and encouraging their meaningful interaction with business, academic, and political leaders to discuss issues relevant and influential to the Asia-Pacific area.

We hope that you will join us in celebrating HPAIR's 17th year and our long history of encouraging dynamic discourse on Asia's most pressing issues.

Beyond Borders: Asia on the World Stage

Program Description: The HPAIR Academic Conference is a four-day academic program with five panel workshops concurrently conducted throughout the conference. This year, panel workshop topics are Economics, Leadership, International Security, Social Policy, and Rule of Law. In addition to panel workshops, the HPAIR Academic Conference will feature ten new Thematic Workshops. During each Thematic Workshop, delegates will be challenged by speakers to think critically about real life scenarios and issues. Delegates will work together to solve these problems, and they will present their results on Day 3. To foster friendly competition, we will have awards for the workshops that demonstrate the most skillful understanding of their issues. The two plenary sessions will be on "Higher Education in Asia" and "ASEAN as an Economic and Geopolitical Region".