Activities

1.      Bulletin of the Center.

2.      Research.

- Elections project with Syed Arabi and Ong Kian Ming. Project Completed in March 2004.

-Star Online Reception Project. Project Leaders: Dr Tony Wilson of Monash University, Melbourne and Clarissa Lee of Asian Center For Media Studies. Project Completed on 7th October 2004. Paper submitted for publication consideration.

-Women and Media. Project leader: Clarissa Lee

3.      Lectures

- Jeffrey Krames “Lessons on Leadership”

- Gavin Menzies “The Year China Discovered America”

- Orville Schell - “What is China’s Long-Term prognosis? Success or Failure?”

-Conflict resolution by Prof Peter Wallenstein

-Indonesia’s Elections: A New President in 2004

-Clyde Prestowitz- “Is the United States Leaving Asia?”

-George T Yu - " Rising China: Present and the future"

-Kenneth Katzman-"International Terrorism: Causes and Responses "

-T.J. Pempel-"The Uncertain Giant – Japan’s Future Political and Economic Challenges"

-Shirley Lim - "Malaysian Literatures in English"

-John B. Welfield- " Japan and Rising Asia"

-Dr Lo Yuet Keung- " Let Confucius Speak: What Is It That We Call Confucianism?"

 Seminars and conferences

“Preparing the next generation of Asian journalists: Challenges of globalisation and new technologies”, 8-9 December 2003, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The conference proceedings are in the process of being compiled and will be up when ready. In the meantime, click here for the news articles.

‘Media Professionalism and Industry Realities’ is organised in conjunction with the Asian Media Summit at Nikko Hotel, which was from the 19th-21st April 2004. This event is an appendix to the main conference and was held on the 22nd April at 9 am.

Forum

General Election 2004: What's Next

Speakers: Dr Chandra Muzaffar, Professor Datuk A.B Shamsul, Ong Kian Ming and Datuk Kamaruddin Jaffar

Religion’s Challenge to Secularism in the Contemporary Age

Speakers: Dr Ng Kam Weng, Rustom Bharucha, Khalid Jaafar and Christopher Merrill

4.      Short training courses

-Workshop on Alternative Energies and Water Protection & Access to Clean Water organized by the International Institute for Journalism of InWEnt, Berlin, The Asian Center for Media Studies and The Star in Kuala Lumpur. Click here to read the journalistic output of two journalists from The Star after having attended and participated in the activities of the workshop.

 7.   Research publications