• Presenter, "Chinese Diaspora Websites: Governmental Soft Power or Transnational Resource?" Research poster, Fifth Annual 21st Century China Symposium, Honolulu, early July 2010.
• Organizer and discussant, "Constancy & Change: The Movement to Demilitarize Okinawa — from the 1950s to the 21st Century," Center for Okinawan Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, January 2010.
• Invited chair, panel, Japan Studies Association, 16th Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, 7-9 January 2010.
• Invited chair and presenter, "State Capitalism, Contentious Politics and Social Revolution," "Interdisciplinary Social Sciences" panel, 8th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, 4-7 June 2009.
• Presenter, "Dictatorship, Democratization and the Nuclear Freeze Movement in the Philippines," 8th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, "Political Science" panel, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, 4-7 June 2009.
• Presenter, "Jeopardizing ASEAN: President Marcos and Muslim Malaysia," Interdisciplinary Symposium on Muslim Asia: Comparisons, Contrasts and Lessons to be Learned, Pacific Asian Management Institute, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 12 May 2009.
• Presenter, "Hawai‘i Chinese Websites in the Chinese Cultures Abroad WWW Virtual Library," research poster, 4th International Conference of Institutes and Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies ("Theme: Interaction and Innovation: Multidimensional Perspectives in Chinese"), "Genealogies and Chinese Overseas Studies - English" session, Jinan University, Guangzhou City, Guandong Province, China, 9-11 May 2009.
• Presenter, "Islands as Dumping Grounds: Lessons from Anti-Militarist Movements in Asia," 5th Annual Conference on Human Rights in Asia [Pacific Islands Development Program {East-West Center}, the Peace Institute {University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa}, and Oceania Human Rights], East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, 29 April - 1 May 2009.
• Presenter, "Nuclear Freeze: Redesigning Asia's Military Landscape at the 1986 Constitutional Commission of the Philippines," Panel: "Social Sciences," 30th Annual Research Conference, "Social Sciences" panel, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Unibetsedat Guahan / University of Guam, 10 March 2009. Distance presentation, with full paper, 24 PowerPoint slides, and availability for synchronous e-mail responses.
• Presenter, "Four Streams of State Capitalist Social Theory," Hawaii Sociological Association, Kapi‘olani Community College, 2009 Annual Meeting (Theme: "Retrospect, Retrofit-Projecting and Remembering Sociological Imagination"), 14 February 2009.
• Invited discussant, "Elections in South Korea, Japan, Russia and Their Security Implications for Northeast Asia" panel, Asia-Pacific Security Forum: 12th International Conference (Institute for National Policy Research [Taiwan]; co-sponsors: The Pacific Forum [US], Institute for Strategic and Development Studies [Philippines], and Asia Centre [France]), Honolulu, Hawai‘i, 10-12 August 2008.
• Presenter, "Redefining Security: Nuclear Weapons at the 1986 Constitutional Commission of the Philippines," American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pacific Division (Social, Economic and Political Sciences section), 89th Annual Meeting, Waimea, Hawai‘i, 15-20 June 2008.
• Presenter, "Sailing from Southern Seas to the Internet: Hawai‘i Chinese Identities in Cyberspace," panel on "The Chinese Diaspora," Biennial Conference of the Historical Society for Twentieth Century China (theme: "Chinese Identities: Local, Regional, National and International"), Honolulu, 16-17 June 2008; Conference Program, p. 3.
• Presenter, "Global Political Geography: Archiving Digitized Chinese Cultures Abroad," research poster, Annual Meeting of the Association of Hawaii Archivists, Honolulu, 9 February 2008.
• Invited chair, "World War II Histories" session, 14th Annual Conference, Japan Studies Association, Honolulu, 3-5 January 2008.
• Presenter, "Security Redefined: The Movement to Demilitarize Okinawa, 1995-2008," "Law and Society" session, 14th Annual conference, Japan Studies Association, Honolulu, 3-5 January 2008.
• Invited participant, "Impending Changes on the Korean Peninsula and the Future of U.S.-Korean Relations," Joint Conference of the International Council on Korean Studies and Korean-American University Professors Association, East-West Center, 28-29 June 2007.
• Presenter, "Marriage, Children, and Chinese Law: Transformation and Diversity during War and Revolution during War and Revolution," "Environment and Sustainability: Part I" panel, 41st Annual Conference, Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (conference theme: "Looking at Asia: Changes, Continuities and Consequences"), Honolulu, 15-17 June 2007.
• Panel co-organizer, moderator and discussant, "Okinawan Resistance, 1945-2007: Memory, Gender, Leadership," panel, 41st Annual Conference, Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (conference theme: "Looking at Asia: Changes, Continuities and Consequences"), Honolulu, 15-17 June 2007.
• Presenter, "Shattering Fetters, Setting Standards, Restraining Radicalism: Revolutionary Marriage Laws in China, 1931-1944," 6th Annual Hawaii International Conference on the Social Sciences, Honolulu, 30 May - 2 June 2007. Abstract in downloadable Proceedings, p. 1853.
• Presenter, "Redefining Security: Social Movements in the Philippines and Japan," 6th Annual Hawaii International Conference on the Social Sciences, Honolulu, 30 May - 2 June 2007. Abstract in downloadable Proceedings, p. 1852.
• Moderator & invited discussant, "Perspectives on Governance" session, 6th International Graduate Student Conference, East-West Center, 17 February 2007.
• Presenter, "Redefining Security: Lessons for Future Generations from the Anti-Bases Movement," Panel 21: Military/Security Issues and Mindanao Conflict, International Conference on the Filipinos in Hawai‘i Centennial (Center for Philippine Studies - University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and the Hawai‘i Filipino Centennial Celebration Commission), Honolulu, 13-17 December 2006.
• Presenter, "Hawai‘i Youth at Risk? Developing Appropriate Methods of Evaluation for Public- and Private-sector Mentoring Programs," Ku‘i Ka Lono: Conference on Hawaiian Indigenous Education, Research, and Well-being (cosponsored by Na Lei Na‘auao, Kamehameha Schools Research and Education Department, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Department of Education, and Na Lau Lama Hawaiian Education Initiative), Honolulu, 15-17 November 2006.
Click for a four-page outline and resource handout.
• Presenter, "Isang Malayang Patakarang Panlabas: Filipinos Declare Independence from Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Military Bases," on the "Politics of Culture/Culture of Politics" panel, NAKEM Centennial Conference in Ilokano Language, Culture and Politics ("Imagination and Critical Consciousness"), (Conference editorial team: Aurelio S. Agcaoili, Josie P. Clausen, Precy L. Espiritu, Raymund Ll. Liongson) University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 9-12 November 2006, Interim Proceedings, pp. 77-124.
• Presenter, "Imagining Independence: Filipinos Negotiate a New Constitution" ("Histories in the Making: Demography and Community" panel), 11th Biennial National Conference of the Filipino American National Historical Society (co-sponsored by the Hawai‘i/Pacific Region of the Association for Asian American Studies, University of Hawai‘i - Mānoa Office of Multicultural Student Services and Filipino Centennial Celebration Commission), Honolulu, Hawai‘i, 29 June - 1 July 2006.
• Presenter, "The Rise of Chinese Web Cultures Abroad, 1994-2006," 19th Annual Conference of the Association of Chinese Political Studies (ACPS): "China in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities," Louisville, Kentucky, 1-2 April 2006.
• Invited discussant, "Identity thru performance," panel, 17th Annual Graduate Student Conference, School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 23-24 March 2006.
• Moderator, "Multidimensionality of Resistance and Rebellion" panel, 5th East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference (theme: "Sustaining a Resilient Asia-Pacific Community: Issues and Solutions"), Honolulu, 18 February 2006.
• Presenter, "Upstart Diplomats, Subnational Activism, and Transnational Organizing: U.S.-China-Japan Relations and the Movement to Demilitarize Okinawa," Panel 6A ("Sino-Japanese Relations"), Sixth Session, International Symposium and 18th Annual Conference of the Association of Chinese Political Studies ("China's Transition and Ascension"), The College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, San Francisco State University, 30-31 July 2005.
To read the abstract, click here. Then, after clicking on "Paper Abstracts," scroll down to pp. 14-15.
Oral summary of paper, quoted by: Grace Jia Zhang, "Lishe, jingzheng, mianzi, minzuzhuyi yinsu cu jinzhang zhongri guanxi baofengyujiangzhi" ["The Coming Storm: China-Japan relations are intensified by history, competition, 'face,' and nationalism"], Sing Tao Daily [San Francisco], 2 August 2005, paragraph 12.
• Panel organizer & presenter,"Anti-Militarism and Democratization: Contributions and Futures of Social Movements," on "Globalization, Democratization and Preferred Futures of Social Movements," Panel FC24, 3 March 2005, 46th Annual Convention, International Studies Association, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, 1-5 March 2005. Abstract, with keywords.
• Invited chair, discussant, "Managing Future Security Challenges in East Asia," Panel TA15, 2 March 2005, 46th Annual Convention, International Studies Association, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, 1-5 March 2005.
• Presenter, Speed Bumps, Potholes, Roadblocks and Detours: Comparative Lessons for Anti-militarist Social Movements." 26th Annual Conference ("Sociological Imagination in the 21st Century"), Hawaii Sociological Association, Honolulu, 12 February 2005.
Abstract, In 2004 Conference Proceedings, pp. 2610-2612.
• Invited participant, "Citizens, Democracy and Markets around the Pacific Rim" Conference (Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California - Irvine; the Korean Foundation Chair of Korean Studies at the University of Missouri; and the POSCO Program at the East West Center), Honolulu, 19-20 March 2004.
• Presenter, "The H-ASIA Electronic Seminar: Retrospective and Prospective of Graduate Education and Professional Development," Roundtable: "H-Asia: the First 10 Years and the Next 10 Years," 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, 4-7 March 2004, San Diego, California.
• Panel organizer & presenter, "State Capitalism and the Debacle of the Communist Party of the Philippines," Panel 201 ("Ideology, Organization, Leadership and Resistance in Communist and Non-Communist Asian State Capitalist Societies"), 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, 4-7 March 2004, San Diego, California.
• Presenter, "Liberation and Social Control in Women's and Children's Rights: From 'Chinese Soviet Republic' (Jiangsi) to the People's Republic of China, 1931-1949," research poster (20 June 2003), 37th Annual Conference of the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast [Pacific Rim conference of The Association for Asian Studies], Honolulu, 19-22 June 2003.
• Panel moderator Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 26 April 2003.
• Panel organizer, chair, presenter & co-discussant, "Revolutionary Aspirations, State Capitalist Detour, and Democratization in the Philippines," Panel TA28 ("State Capitalism: Obstacle or Transmission Belt to Democratization?" [sponsored by the Comparative Interdisciplinary Studies Section]), 44th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (25 February-1 March 2003), Portland, Oregon.
• Presenter, "Revolution Stalled: State Capitalist Ideology and the Communist Party of the Philippines," International Sociology Panel, Annual Meeting of the Hawai‘i Sociological Association, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, 15 February 2003.
• Panel organizer, co-chair & presenter, "Envisioning a Demilitarized Future for Okinawa," Panel SC27 ("Envisioning a Demilitarized Future for Okinawa" [sponsored by the Foreign Policy Analysis Section]), 24 March 2002, 43rd Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Session SC27, New Orleans, 24-27 March 2002.
• Invited Discussant, papers on environmental justice in Hawai‘i and Japanese influence on Palauan consciousness, SHAPS Annual Graduate Student Conference, School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 21 March 2002.
• Presenter, "Designing a Peaceful Okinawa: Local Opportunities, Regional Obstacles," 8th Annual Conference of the Japan Studies Association, Tokai International University - Honolulu, 3-5 January 2002.
• Invited chair, discussant, "Sources of Foreign Policy," Panel C-02 (sponsored by the Foreign Policy Analysis Section), 42nd Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Chicago, 20-24 February 2001.
• Presenter, research poster, 42nd Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, 20-24 February 2001.
• Invited discussant, "Conserving Indigenous Culture" panel (Ainu in Japan, Saami in Norway, and participatory mapping by Indonesian NGOs), 10th East-West Center Graduate Student Conference, 12-16 February 2001.
• Online presenter, Digital Equity in Online-enhanced Political Science Classes," 4th Landmark: "Hybridity," 5th Annual Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference ("A Virtual Odyssey: What's Ahead for New Technologies in Learning?"), 12-14 April 2000.
• Presenter, "Whose Vote Counts? Organizational Pluralism, Social Process and Electoral Foreign Policy Making" at the "Democratization & the Domestic Politics of Foreign Policy Making" panel (cosponsored by the Foreign Policy Analysis and Comparative Interdisciplinary Studies Sections), 41st Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Los Angeles, California, 15-18 March 2000.
• Co-presenter [with Lloyd Asato, Tanya Renner, Robin Brandt and Daniel D. Anderson], "Mentoring Outcomes, Classroom Outcomes: Do the things that make us feel good inside cause the results we desire?" Track IV: Assessment of Services, 17th Annual Excellence in Education Conference, University of Hawai'i Community Colleges; Leeward Community College, 3 March 2000.
• Discussant, "Resource and Development Policy in Asia" panel, 9th Annual Graduate Student Conference, Program on Education and Training, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawai'i, 7-11 February 2000.
• Online presenter, "Enhancing Comprehension, Inspiring Participation: 'Early Response Questions' and E-mail Discussion Lists in 4 Courses on 3 Campuses," "Innovations in the Classroom" track, Professional Development Online Conference, Kapi'olani Community College, University of Hawai'i, 21-23 April 1999.Cited in Ben Warkentin, " Reformansätze in Japans Sicherheits- und Entwicklungspolitik: Rallying around the Status quo?" Erscheint in: Frederike Bosse & Patrick Köllner (Hg.), Reformen in Japan, Hamburg: Institut für Asienkunde, 2000; and Ben Warkentin, " Reformansätze in Japans Sicherheits- und Entwicklungspolitik: Rallying around the Status quo?" (Institute for Development and Peace), Erscheint in: Frederike Bosse & Patrick Köllner (eds.), Reformen in Japan, Mitteilungen des Instituts Hamburg: Institut für Asienkunde, Nummer 337 (Hamburg: Institut für Asienkunde, 2001), p, 164; and in Franz Nuscheler and Ben Warkentin, "From 'International Cooperation' to 'Development Policy'? Reform and Reorientation of Japan's ODA,"Asia Pacific Review, vol. 7, no. 1 (May 2000), pp. 82 and 88, n. 32.
• Invited co-discussant, Panel 207: "Reform and Resistance in State/Society Relations in South East Asia," Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Boston, Massachusetts, 14 March 1999.
• Invited discussant, Panel C-04: "Decision Making Models of Foreign Policy" (sponsored by the Foreign Policy Analysis section), 40th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Washington, D.C., 20 February 1999.
• Presenter, "Stretched Organizational Pluralism and Social Process in Foreign Policy Making," Panel A-O4: "Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy" (sponsored by the Foreign Policy Analysis section), 40th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Washington, D.C., 19 February 1999.
• Invited discussant, Panel 1: "The East and the West: Cultural and Philosophical Context," 8th Graduate Student Conference, Program on Education and Training, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawai'i, 8 February 1999.
• Conference Coordinator, "Comprehensive Security in the 21st Century East Asian Commonwealth: Carpe Pacem" conference on preferred futures for Northeast Asian security in 2025 (5th International Symposium on Societies and Economics in East Asia, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 29 January - 1 February 1999.
Principal funder: Asian Research Institute, Osaka University of Economics and Law.
• Presenter, "Redemocratization & Foreign Policy Making: Precedent, Presidential Initiative & Polyarchy (Stretched Organizational Pluralism),"Session 50-2, Poster #73 [with paper], sponsored by the Organized Section on Comparative Politics, 92nd Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, California, 28 August-1 September 1996.
• Invited presenter, "Japan's ODA Criteria, 1992-1996: Total Transformation, Cosmetic Changes or Selective Opportunities for Social Change?" "Paradigms Lost, Paradigms (Re)gained: A Seven-Day National Seminar-Workshop on National, Regional and Global Politics and Economics" (24-30 March 1996), Panel 2 ("The Regional Context"), New Manila, Quezon City, Philippines, 26 March 1996. Summary in Filipino of 1995 Philippine Political Science Association paper; question-and-answer session in Filipino.
• Presenter, "Redemocratization & Foreign Policy Making: An Interim Policy for a Transitional Regime in the Philippines, 1986-1987," Panel #4, 1996 Pambansang Kumperensya ng Philippine Studies Association, Philippine Social Science Center, U.P.-Diliman, Lungsod ng Quezon, ika-20 ng Enero, 1996. Abstract in Tagalog; presentation in English.
• Invited discussant, "Serious Trans-state Ethnic Conflict: A New Horizon for Democracy and War Research," comments on Ersin Kalaycioglu's "Trans-state Ethnonationalism and Constitutional Viability in an Emerging Region: The Case of the Black Sea Region," Committee on Viable Constitutionalism (affiliated with International Political Science Association)/SOG (Research Committee on the Structure and Organization of Government) Conference on Serious Trans-State Ethnic Violence, Tokai International University, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, 3-5 January 1995.
• Presenter, "Flexible Options, Limited Independence: Corazon Aquino and the Military Bases Agreement, December 1985-February 1987," 4th Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Symposium, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona. 4-5 November 1994.
• Presenter, "Limited Options, Limited Independence, Limited Peace: Decolonizing the Foreign Policy of the Philippines," Section IIC (Foreign Policy Decision-Making), Hawai‘i Peace Research Conference (Spark Matsunaga Institute for Peace and College of Business Administration, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa), 21 May 1994.
• Presenter, "Decolonizing the 'Level-of-Analysis' Problem," Session 2 ("Issues in International Relations Theory" panel), Joint Meeting of the International Studies Association-West and Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Conference, The Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, 30 October 1993.
• Presenter, "Democratizing the Philippine Revolution: Squaring the Circle for the CPP [Communist Party of the Philippines]," SEASSI Conference, University of Washington-Seattle, 2 July 1992.
Cited in Kathleen Nadeau, "Liberation Theology in a Postmarxist Era: The Philippine Context," East Asian Pastoral Review [East Asian Pastoral Institute, Ateneo de Manila University], vol. 41, no. 4 (2004).
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