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DESCRIPTION:The Foundation for Pacific Quest\nin cooperation with Encyclopa
 edia Britannica\, the University of Chicago\, and\nthe Pacific Basin Insti
 tute at Pomona College\npresents a panel discussion\nTranslating Cultures:
  Enlightenment East and West\n\nDuring the past century\, individuals and 
 institutions have striven to explain and bridge the cultures\nof Western a
 nd Asian nations\, with America also playing a role on both sides of the P
 acific. The\nchallenges they encountered were often enormous. The panelist
 s will discuss the work and aspirations\nof some of the pioneers of the Pa
 cific century\, and will also share their own experiences in the quest\nfo
 r cross-cultural understanding.\n\nFeatured Panelists\n\nFrank B. Gibney\,
  president of the Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College and Professor 
 of\nPolitics (since 1997)\, is one of America's foremost experts on East A
 sian and Asia-Pacific affairs. A\ngraduate of Yale University\, he served 
 in U.S. naval intelligence in wartime and postwar Japan and\nwas for many 
 years a correspondent and editor at Time\, Life\, and Newsweek magazines\,
  working\nthroughout Asia. He joined Encyclopaedia Britannica (EB) in 1966
 \, and for the next ten years he\nsupervised EB's editorial and business o
 perations in East Asia from his headquarters in Tokyo. His\nefforts result
 ed in the 1975 publication of the Japanese-language Britannica Internation
 al\nEncyclopaedia -- the first major non-English version of Britannica. Mo
 reover\, he founded EB Korea\nin 1968 and was its first president. During 
 this time\, he also served as VP of Encyclopaedia Britannica\,\nInc.\, and
  Founding President of TBS/Britannica in Tokyo. Between 1979 and 1992\, he
  published\nthe Chinese-language Concise Encyclopaedia Britannica in Beiji
 ng and later Taipei\; and the Korean-language\nBritannica World Encyclopae
 dia. A member of EB's Board of Editors since 1973\, he\nbecame its Vice Ch
 airman in 1980\, and has continued to serve as an advisor to EB's core rev
 ision\nproject. In the sector of public life\, Gibney was chief consultant
  to the U.S. House of Representatives\nCommittee on Space and Astronautics
  (1957-59)\, which produced the law that created NASA\, a\nWhite House spe
 echwriter for President Lyndon Johnson (1964)\, and vice-chairman of the J
 apan-\nU.S. Friendship Committee (1984ñ90). Gibney was co-founder of the 
 Pacific Basin Institute in\nSanta Barbara in 1979\, whose accomplishments 
 include an award-winning ten-episode PBS series -- The Pacific \nCentury -
 - with accompanying text\, a film on The Asian Enlightenment\, and The Lib
 rary\nof Japan -- a major series of English translations from modern Japan
 ese fiction and non-fiction\nworks. In 1997\, PBI moved to Pomona College 
 in Claremont\, California\, with its large film archive\,\nwhere Gibney co
 ntinues to contribute to education through lectures\, conferences\, and pu
 blications.\nHe is the author and editor of fourteen books to date.\n\nAki
 ra Iriye is Charles Warren Research Professor of American History at Harva
 rd University\, a\nworld-renowned international historian who is former di
 rector of Harvard's Edwin O. Reischauer\nInstitute of Japanese Studies (19
 91-95) and past president of both the Society for Historians of\nAmerican 
 Foreign Relations (1978) and of the American Historical Association (1988)
 . After\ngraduating from Seikei High School in Tokyo (1953)\, he came to t
 he United States to pursue a\ncareer in the history profession\, receiving
  his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1961. Among the numerous\nteaching appointments
  in America and on other continents over four decades\, he was in the\nDep
 artment of History at the University of Chicago for twenty years from 1969
  to 1989\, where he\nlaid the foundation for the study of the history of i
 nternational relations. He is the author of over a\ndozen books on interna
 tional history and American-East Asian relations\, and has trained scores 
 of\ndoctoral students in those areas.\n\nXiaoqing Diana Lin is Associate P
 rofessor of History at Indiana University Northwest. She attended\nthe Bei
 jing Foreign Studies University and received her Ph.D. in history from the
  University of\nChicago in 1985. Lin is the author of Peking University: C
 hinese Scholarship and Intellectuals\,\n1898-1937 (2005).\n\nRalph W. Nich
 olas is President of the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) and W
 illiam\nRainey Harper Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and the Social Sc
 iences at the University of\nChicago\, where he was a faculty member for t
 hirty years. At the University he also served as Chairman\nof the Anthropo
 logy Department\, Dean of the College\, Deputy Provost of the University\,
  and President\nof the International House. He received his Ph.D. from the
  University of Chicago (1962). He first\nwent to India in 1960. In 1960 an
 d 1961 he lived in villages in rural West Bengal while conducting\nresearc
 h\, supervised by Professor N. K. Bose\, for his doctoral dissertation. Hi
 s research in rural\nBengal has dealt with many aspects of village life an
 d culture: political and economic relations\,\nkinship\, and religious pra
 ctices and festivals. He is the author of the recently published book Frui
 ts\nof Worship: Practical Religion in Bengal (2003). At present he is stud
 ying some religious rituals\nthat are peculiar to Bengal. Nicholas has bee
 n involved in the work of the AIIS for many years\,\nhaving previously ser
 ved as Vice President and Treasurer. The Institute is a consortium of 52 A
 merican\ncolleges and universities that have programs of teaching and rese
 arch about India. It was established\nin 1962 and has its U.S. office in C
 hicago. The AIIS has sent more than 3\,000 scholars from America\nto do re
 search in India. In addition to its Junior and Senior Research Fellows\, t
 he AIIS also sends\ngraduate students to India for advanced training in la
 nguages in the localities where the languages\nare spoken. With its intern
 ational headquarters in Gurgaon\, Haryana\, and offices and guest houses\n
 in New Delhi\, Kolkata\, Pune\, and Chennai\, the AIIS has a permanent sta
 ff of over 70 persons. It is\nhome to the renowned Center for Art and Arch
 aeology\, which has produced and published ten\nvolumes of the Encyclopaed
 ia of Indian Temple Architecture\, and the Archives and Research Center\nf
 or Ethnomusicology.
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SUMMARY:Translating Cultures: Enlightenment East and West
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