APRU Fellows Program

Fellows Program

Bringing together faculty members from various disciplinary backgrounds under a perennial theme "The Pacific Rim in the 21st Century", the Fellows Program is an annual seminar series which examines issues relating to sociopolitical, cultural, and economic realities in the Pacific Rim region.

Each seminar focuses on a selected annual theme and complements scholarly discussions with synchronized field immersion experiences across two APRU member economies.

To promote long term cross-national and multi-disciplinary research collaborations between APRU Fellows, the following are made available to participants of the Fellows Program:

APRU Collaborative Research Paper Award >>

APRU Collaborative Research Seed Grants Program >>

2004: APRU fellows taking a picture at University of California, Santa Barbara.

2004: APRU fellows at a field trip in Japan.

Recent Meeting

7th Fellows Program

August 16 - 25, 2006
Australian National University (Australia)

Regional Security and Governance

The program can be found here.

Past Meetings

6th Fellows Program

August 14 - 27, 2005
University of British Columbia (Canada)
University of Malaya (Malaysia)

New Directions in Asian Studies:
Ethnicity and Nationalism Before and After the Digital Age

More details on the preliminary program can be found at:

5th Fellows Program

August 15 - 28, 2004
University of California, Santa Barbara (USA)
Osaka University (Japan)

Globalization and the Environment:
Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Read an APRU fellow's recount:
Living Green: Wilderness or Gardening?
Reflections on the 2004 APRU Fellows Program

4th Fellows Program

August 10 - 24, 2002
University of Oregon (USA)
Seoul National University (Korea)

The Science and Policy of Environmental Sustainability

3rd Fellows Program

August 11 - 24, 2001
University of California, Los Angeles (USA)
Peking University (China)

Human Migration in the Pacific Region:
Emerging Patterns and New Opportunities

2nd Fellows Program

August 6 - 19, 2000
University of Washington (USA)
Chulalongkorn University (Thailand)

Environment and Development:
Scientific, Social and Technological Challenges for the Pacific Rim

1st Fellows Program

July 24 - August 15, 1999
University of California, Berkeley (USA)
Kyoto University (Japan)
Chulalongkorn University (Thailand)

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Asian Economic Downturn

For further information about Fellows Programs prior to 2001, please visit the archives section.