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Show Asian Study Featured at Conference The Rocky Mountain Regional Conference of the Association for Asian Studies will be held today and Saturday, at the University. Students,-'faculty, and the public are-tnvfted to attend the conference sessions, co-sponsored by the Center Cen-ter for Intercultural Studies at the I University, and by the Brigham Young University Asian Studies Program. One of the highlights of the conference will be the dinner address ad-dress by Professor William W. Lockwood, President of the Association As-sociation of Asian Studies. Professor Pro-fessor Lockwood, who was born in Shanghai, China, and who studied at DePauw University and Harvard, has long been interested in-terested in Asian affairs. . During World War II he served in China and after his discharge he was appointed Assistant Chief, Division Di-vision of Japanese and Korean Economic Eco-nomic Affairs, U.S. Department of State. He is the author of "The Economic Development of Japan" and other articles on the Far East. In 1962 he was a Fulbright Research Re-search Scholar in Japan. President A. Ray Olpin will address ad-dress the concluding luncheon in the Auerbach Room. President Olpin learned to speak Japanese as a young man and earlier this year made a special study in Japan for the Ford Foundation. His subject at the luncheon will be "The Miraculous Recovery of A Defeated Nation." Conference features will include a photographic exihibition "The Face of Viet Nam," from the Smithsonian Institution, and a display dis-play of regional university press publications bearing on Asia. Among the subjects to be discussed dis-cussed will be "Communist China and the World Scene," "The Fine Arts in Southeastern Asia," "Teaching "Teach-ing Oriental Languages in American Ameri-can Schools," and "The Political and Social Transformation of Modern Mod-ern Japan." . ' " WILLIAM W. LOCKWOOD . . . key guest speaker |
