This seminar is part of Shorenstein APARC's Korea Luncheon Seminar Series, sponsored by the Korean Studies Program. The luncheon is free and open to the public, but RSVPs are required. Please RSVP to Okky Choi by 12 noon on Wednesday, February 4 if you wish to attend and have lunch reserved for you.

This seminar is part of Shorenstein APARC's Korea Luncheon Seminar Series, sponsored by the Korean Studies Program. The luncheon is free and open to the public, but RSVPs are required. Please RSVP to Okky Choi by 12 noon on Wednesday, January 28 if you wish to attend and have lunch reserved for you.

This seminar is part of Shorenstein APARC's Korea Luncheon Seminar Series, sponsored by the Korean Studies Program. The luncheon is free and open to the public, but RSVPs are required.

Admiral Thomas Boulton Fargo assumed duties as Commander U.S. Pacific Command, at Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii, on May 2, 2002. He is the twentieth officer to hold the position. As the senior U.S. military commander in the Pacific and Indian Ocean areas, he leads the largest of the unified commands and directs Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force operations across more than 100 million square miles. He is responsible to the President and the Secretary of Defense through the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff and is the U.S. military representative for collective defense arrangements in the Pacific.

The seminar will focus on how HP leverages ?Global Shared Services? to address its cost management issues throughout its operations. It will cover practical issues such as internal office review for deciding how to outsource, how to manage migration, risks as anticipated by HP measured against actual experience. It will evaluate challenges of creating global shared services and how to meet them. It will illustrate how shared services add value to HP and provide metrics on speed, proportion of the work can be offshored. Sanjay Singh is a director of Business Operations for HP?s Business Process Delivery organization. His responsibilities include operations strategy, business development, including alliances, marketing operations as well as quality and operations risk management. Currently, he is the program manager for HP?s BPO initiative. Prior to HP, Sanjay was an engagement manager within Accenture?s Strategy group, where he led and managed a number of projects related to business strategy and market entry into new spaces for clients in the High Technology and Telecommunications industry. His work experience also includes working for IBM Corporation within their PC group.

This seminar is part of Shorenstein APARC's ongoing Japan Brown Bag series.

This seminar is part of the Shorenstein Forum's North Korea series.

In the United States since 9/11, there has been a tendency to reduce Southeast Asia's connections to the Middle East to religion: that is, to the Muslim faith shared by majori-ties east of the Mediterranean and south of the South China Sea, not to mention the Muslim minorities elsewhere in Southeast Asia. While addressing the changing nature and importance of this overlap, Professor von der Mehden will also analyze how and why these two regions, spatially so far apart, have been interacting on a range of economic, security, and political issues, including the question of Palestine. He will argue that there is more interaction today between the two regions than ever before. Each region has become more involved in the affairs of the other. But these burgeoning connections are not what they were expected to be. Nor are they all benign.

Fred von der Mehden is internationally known for his extensive scholarship on politics, religion, and development in Southeast Asia. His talk will update and expand on his 1993 book, Two Worlds of Islam: Interaction between Southeast Asia and the Middle East. A senior editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World (1995), Professor von der Mehden's many other books include Religion and Modernization in Southeast Asia (1986); Southeast Asia 1930-1970 (1974); Comparative Political Violence (1973); and Religion and Nationalism in Southeast Asia (1963). He has just returned from Southeast Asia, where he has lectured or done research almost every year since the 1950s. He is California-trained, having earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley; an M.A. from Claremont Graduate School; and a B.A. from the University of the Pacific.