China and the Asia-Pacific

China & the Asia-Pacific Region – The new US Focus

II. Utah Valley University Chinese Studies Conference (UVUCSC II)

March Thu 7 – Fri 8, 2013, 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. Timpanogos Room (Library), some meals will be served in Lakeview Room

Description

On November 17, 2011, President Obama announced that the Asia-Pacific region was now a top priority for the US. On January 5, 2012, President Obama announced that the US military will switch its focus to the Asia-Pacific region and on June 2, declared that the US will shift the bulk of its naval fleet to the Pacific by 2020 as part of new strategic focus on Asia, will secure trade routes and will help Japan with counter-missiles. The US challenge the rising regional power of China, as illustrated recently with China’s disputes with Japan and the Philippines on islands.

It shows also how economically important China has become to the US, both as global manufacturer and as a selling market. Will China overcome the US and prove that her model of an exploitative and corrupt economy which restricts people’s freedoms is more successful than a liberal economy based on laws and copyright protection?

This conference invites experts from different fields to discuss China’s role in Asia and the world, her special relation with the US and how this effects Utah and the China-related study programs at UVU, including language teaching. Local business leaders with China-ties will identify expectations towards graduates, what they need to learn if they want to succeed in the China-related job-market. UVU professors will report on concrete examples how they helped graduates to build start-up companies in China and how they played matchmakers between Chinese and Utah businesses.

The conference will also explore the transitional Chinese identity at the beginning of the 21st century. It will report about the environmental impact of China on the region and on the world, on ethnic dissent, human right violations and problems to come to terms with the past.

Scope and target groups

This interdisciplinary conference will bring together speakers from UVU and neighboring universities. On the basis of experiences of the inaugural Chinese Studies Conference in March 2012, it is expected that around 20 student volunteers will help and participate as well as another 30 interested members of the UVU and regional community. The main goal of the conference is to raise awareness of China-related study programs among the UVU community.

Preliminary Program

Panels This is a tentative list of possible topics and suggested panels. Music has been requested from the Chinese-Western band Matteo.

Friday 3/1/2013 Pre-Conference Workshop, one week before the conference, Panel Discussion Sino-US Relations in the Guomindang Era

• Dr. Greg Lewis, Weber State University
• Dr. Parks Coble, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Dr. Jingping Wu, Fudan University, China

Thursday 3/7/2013

9 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. Welcome Notes

9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Asian and global effects of Chinese environmental policy

Panel Chair: Dr. Hong Pang, UVU (confirmed)

Speaker 1: Dr. Hong Pang, UVU (confirmed)

Speaker 2: Dennis Farnsworth, UVU (confirmed)

10:25 a.m. - 11:25 p.m. The US perspective on Developing Business in China and Asia

Panel Chairs: Dr. David McArthur, UVU (confirmed), Dr. Kent Millington, UVU (confirmed)

Speaker 1: Changing preferences in China for local manufacturers squeezing foreign companies, Improving IP protections in China

Speaker 2: Low cost manufacturing shifting away from China, Infrastructure improvements offering and facilitating Asian business opportunities

11:35 - 1 p.m. Questions and Possibilities of Conflict Transformation and Democratization in the Asia Pacific

Panel Chair: Dr. Michael Minch, UVU (confirmed)

Speaker 1: Dr. Michael Minch, UVU, Beijing and Washington as Partners in Response to North Korea: Possibilities within Democratic and Human Rights Tension

Speaker 2: Dr. Geoff Cockerham, UVU, Island Conflicts in the East and South China Sea (confirmed)

Speaker 3: Dr. Eric Hyer, BYU, The higher profile the US is taking in the South China Sea and East China Sea territorial dispute (confirmed)

1 - 2:30 p.m. Lunch, Lakeview Room

• Pot Stickers
• Mixed Vegetable with Tofu
• Sweet & Sour Pork
• Beef with Brocoli
• Cashew Chicken

2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Chinese cities and transnational spaces

Panel Chair: Dr. Sam Liang, UVU (confirmed)

Speaker 1: Licia Kim, B.A., UVU, Chinese Identity in Diaspora Communities with a focus on Chinatowns today (confirmed)

Speaker 2: Dr. Sam Liang, UVU, Utopianism in Chinese City Planning: From Beijing to Shenzhen

Speaker 3: N.N.

3:45 - 5:15 p.m. Minorities in China - Handicaped people and the Cross-Asian Turk Connection: Ethnic tensions in Northeast China

Panel Chair: Baktybek Abdrisaev, UVU, History/Political Science (confirmed) / Dr. William Cobb, UVU (confirmed)

Speaker 1: Baktybek Abdrisaev, UVU (confirmed)

Speaker 2: N.N.

Speaker 3: N.N.

5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Dinner and Concert of the Chinese-US band MATTEO, Timpanogos Room

• Pot Stickers
• Shrimp Fried Rice
• Mongolian Pork
• Kun Pao Beef
• Lemon Chicken

Friday 3/8/2013

9:30 - 11 a.m. Chinese 21st Century Identity in transition

Panel Chair: Dr. Martin Woesler, UVU (confirmed)

Speaker 1: Dr. Steve Riep, BYU, Disability and China today (confirmed)

Speaker 2: Christopher Wiltsie, UVU, 21 Century Chinese identity - Superpower of economy, developing country of freedom (confirmed)

Speaker 3: Dr. Martin Woesler, UVU, Chinese love and hatred of the USA - Attractiveness as main component of softpower (confirmed)

11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. China's Rise from the Historical Perspective

Panel Chair: Dr. Kirk Larsen, BYU (confirmed)

Speaker 1: Dr. Kirk Larsen, BYU, Contemporary Chinese Foreign Policy: Does History Matter? (confirmed)

Speaker 2: Dr. Li Guo, USU, Remembering History through Film: A Study of China's Fourth-Generation Films (confirmed)

1 - 2 p.m. Lunch, Lakeview Room

• Pot Stickers
• Szechuan Pork HOT
• Kun Pao Beef
• Curry Chicken with Onion
• Mixed Vegetable

2:15 - 3:30 p.m. What Utah business expects from UVU graduates to be ready for the China-/Asia-related job market

(joint panel with lecture series)

Panel Chair: Dr. Jon Westover, UVU (confirmed)

Speaker 1: Garth Peay, Founder of "Perfectly Suited", Provo (confirmed)

Speaker 2: N.N.

Speaker 3: N.N.

3:45 - 5:15 p.m. Review and Final Remarks

5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Dinner, Timpanogos Room

• Pot Stickers
• Pork with Mixed Vegetable
• Curry Beef with Onion
• Sesame Chicken
• Kun Pao Tofu

End of Conference

Participants

C.V.s

Martin Woesler

DR. MARTIN WOESLER

organizing committee chair

address

Utah Valley University, 800 W University Parkway, Orem, UT 84058-5999, phone (o) +1 (801) 863-5195, fax (o) +1 (801) 863-6256, martin.woesler@uvu.edu, http://research.uvu.edu/woesler/

current position

• Associate Professor, Chinese Studies Coordinator, Dept. of Languages, MS 167; Utah Valley University, Orem UT, USA
• Director of “International Postgraduate School of Humanities” network, Utah Valley University, Orem UT, USA
• Professor of Intercultural Communication, Chair of Chinese Studies, University of Applied Languages, Munich, Germany

academic education

• Ph.D. in Chinese Studies from Bochum University, Germany in 1998
• M.A. Bochum University, Germany in 1995, B.A. in 1992, majors: Chinese Studies, German Literature, minors: East Asian Politics, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
• 1990-1992 Study at Peking University, Dept. of Chinese Language & Literature, Peking, China

past positions / past work

• 2010-2011 Visiting scholar at Harvard University, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Cambridge MA
• 2007- Chair of Chinese Studies, tenured professor of intercultural communication with the University of Applied Languages Munich, full professorship awarded by the Ministry of Science, State of Bavaria/Germany
• 2004-2007 Assistant Professor of Chinese at Witten/Herdecke University, Germany, head of “China College”
• 2001-2003 Research Associate and Teaching Fellow at Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.
• In 2000 Assistant Professor, one-year position, Academy of Euro-Asian Economy and Culture in Achern, Germany

teaching experience

Tongji University Shanghai 2012; Utah Valley University since 2011; Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China 2010; University of Applied Languages, Munich, Germany 2007-2010; University of International Business and Economics, Peking, China in 2006-2007; Nanking University, Nanking, China 2005-2007; Witten/Herdecke University Witten, Germany 2004-2007, 2013; Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany 1998-2003; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA 1998-1999; Ruhr University Bochum, Germany 1996-1999.

professional qualifications

1998 Ph.D.: The Chinese Essay - Authors of the 20th century, Ruhr University Bochum, published 1998 1995 M.A.: Modern Chinese Essays: The author Wang Meng, Ruhr University Bochum, published 1998

selected publications

20 monographs, 80 scripts in Chinese Studies. Most of them are about premodern, modern and contemporary Chinese culture and literature. 25 text books about teaching Chinese as a foreign language. Several articles about literature and culture in peer reviewed US journals, German journals and anthologies, and in Chinese journals.

monographs and scripts in English

• Comparing Chinese and German culture, Bochum 2006, book series Comparative Cultural Sciences vol. 2
• A new model of intercultural communication – critically reviewing, combining and further developing the basic models of Permutter, Yoshikawa, Hall, Hofstede, Thomas, Hallpike, and the social-constructivism, Bochum 2006, book series Comparative Cultural Sciences vol. 1
• Harvard lecture on the 20th century Chinese essay, Bochum 3rd ed. 2006, book series Scripta Sinica vol. 4
• Yale lecture on the 20th century Chinese essay, Bochum 2nd ed. 2005, ISBN 9783899661026, 58 pp., book series Scripta Sinica vol. 3

text books (Chinese-English)

• The Chinese Essay in the 20th Century, Bochum, The University Press Bochum, 2000, 496 (xlii, 205, 229) pp., ISBN 3-934453-14-7, China Science, Bd 2, ISSN 1616-1556, incl. 42 essays with their English translation, and an introduction to the genre with texts from Lu Xun, Zhou Zuoren, Xu Dishan, Yu Dafu, Zu Ziqing, Bing Xin, Ba Jin etc.

monographs in German

• Chinese cultic literature 2008/2009 - authors, works, trends, Munich 2009, 127 pp., book series Sinica vol. 25
• Chinese contemporary literature - authors, works, trends – A snap-shot 2007/2008, Munich 2008, 267 pp.
• Timeless Chinese poetry from the beginnings to the “China avant-garde”, Bochum 4th ed. 2007, 72 pp.
• The history of the Chinese essay, Bochum, 2nd ed. 2009, xiii, 900 pp.
• My Essays are my ‘Longing for Freedom’ - Wang Meng, Former Minister of Culture, as Essayist in the Period 1948-1992, ix, 394 pp, Frankfurt / Main, Peter Lang Press 1998
• Political Literature in China 1991-92 - Wang Meng's 'Reform of Breakfast Habits'. A Translation of the Story “Hard Porridge” and the Documentation of an Absurd Debate, Bochum 2nd ed. 2003, 252 pp., book series Sinica vol. 13
• Valuation criteria for literature – The Dream of the Red Chamber as the most important Chinese novel, Bochum 3rd ed. 2006, 66 pp., book series Scripta Sinica vol. 7
• The film makers of China, Bochum 2004.6, 52 pp. , book series Scripta Sinica 9

edited journals

• European Journal of Sinology (co-edited with Stefan Messmann/Budapest, Hungary, Luigi Moccia/Rome, Italy)
• Bulletin of the German China Association (co-edited with Gregor Paul/Karlsruhe, Germany)

edited anthologies

• Chinese Literature in translation – Proceedings of the conference at the University of Applied Languages Munich 2009/6/27, Munich 2009, 164 pp.
• Law and justice in China. Festschrift in honor of Konrad Wegmann’s 75th anniversary, Munich: 2007, 251 pp.
• Zhang Junhua, Martin Woesler eds., China’s digital dream. The impact of the Internet on Chinese society, The University Press Bochum 2002.10, 274 pp., ISBN 3-934453-90-2, China Science & Scholarship 5
• The Modern Chinese Literary Essay - Defining the Chinese Self in the 20th Century - Conference Proceedings, Bochum, The University Press Bochum, 2000, 327 S., ISBN 3-934453-15-5, China Science, vol. 3, ISSN 1616-1556

edited book series [partly in German]

• 漢學論壇 Sinica (ISSN 1613-6187, 30 vols.)
• 漢學論文 Scripta Sinica (ISSN 1614-3663, 55 vols., some published in the 3rd edition)
• Comparative Cultural Science (co-edited with Matthias Kettner, 8 vols.)
• Suggestive Papers (ISSN 1439-5215, 7 vols.)

grants, honors, research, teaching see [1]

Baktybek Abdrisaev

BAKTYBEK ABDRISAEV

Baktybek Abdrisaev, UVU, History/Political Science.

William Cobb

DR. WILLIAM COBB

Dr. William Cobb, UVU, History/Political Science.

Parks Coble

DR. PARKS COBLE

Dr. Parks Coble, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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Geoff Cockerham

DR. GEOFF COCKERHAM

Dr. Geoff Cockerham, Department of History and Political Science, Utah Valley University.

Dennis Farnsworth

F. DENNIS FARNSWORTH, Jr.

Professor Farnsworth has been at UVU since November of 1971, when he began as an adjunct instructor teaching two sections of General Psychology. Since that time, having come from an eclectic academic background, Professor Farnsworth has taught some 33 different courses. Courses he currently teaches include American Heritage, US Economic History, Modern History of East Asia, IR of East Asia, and US Military History.

Professor Farnsworth is Former Founding Director of the UVU Honors Program; former president of the UVU Faculty Senate; co-founder of the current faculty senate, and co-author of its constitution; founder of outcomes assessment; co-founder of Affirmative Action at UVU.

Education: Master of Philosophy degree, Educational Leadership and Policy, University of Utah (2004); Master of Arts degree, International Administration, BYU (1969); Bachelor of Arts degree, Asian Studies, BYU (1966).

Professor Farnsworth is a recognized authority on the history of the People's Liberation Army, the history of the Sino-Soviet dispute, the history of the UVU Honors Program, and the Book of Mormon in Chinese. His specialties in the program that led to his Masters of Philosophy degree include organizational theory and qualitative research.

Teaching and Public-Speaking Specialties: antitrust and regulation in the public interest; Chinese politics; the Chinese Language; Sino-Soviet Affairs; History of the PLA; the Great Depression; the art of teaching; the role of the teacher as a linguistic model; how to develop an honors program; what academic tenure is; how to run a committee.

Honors: Americanism Educational League Essay Coach, whose students have won over $18,000 in prizes from AEL; Sorenson Lifetime Achievement Award, UVU Alumni Association, 2010; Lifetime Service Award, UVU Faculty Senate, 2007; Lifetime achievement Award (Wolverine Achievement Award), UVU, 2006; nominated teacher of the year by department chair, 2001; nominated Teacher of the Year by department chair each year, 1994-1999; nominated for Joseph Katz Award in 1992; Sorensen Award For Outstanding Contribution to the Advancement of the Philosophy and Practice of Cooperative Education, 1991; UEH Speakers Bureau member, 1989-1990; General Studies Teacher of the Year, 1988; Who's Who in Provo, 1980; General Education Teacher of the Year, 1976; honor student, BYU Evening School, Summer 1972.

Authorship: "A Study of Selected Aspects of Propositions #1 and #2, Constitutional Amendments Appearing on the Ballot in Utah During the Election Year 1968" (masters thesis, 1969). "A Study Guide for the Book of Mormon in Chinese" (BYU Lee Library Special Collections Call Number: MSS-SC-1823).

Co-authorship: numerous technical papers for Special Operations Command, 1995-2001, and Defense Intelligence Agency, 1972-1995; "The UVCC Honors Program", Focus, Spring 1989.

Private Sector Experience: Management Trainee, lumber industry, 1969-1971; tax consultant, 1969-1971 (part time); advertiser and public relations representative, realty company, 1969-1971 (part time); subscriptions solicitor, prominent Seattle newspaper, 1969-1971 (part time).

Other: Vietnam-Era draftee who spent his overseas time in the Republic of Korea as part of the US forces' occupation, 1966-1967. Spent 35 1/2 years in uniform, full time and part time combined. Chief Warrant Officer, USAR, 1985-2001; retired from the army in 2001 as Chief Warrant Officer Four; fluent in Chinese Mandarin (developed the Chinese Language program, introduced it into the UVU curriculum and taught Chinese 1010 for two years); developed the Chinese Language program and taught Chinese in an intelligence detachment of the US Army for 10 years; has studied Japanese and Korean.

Li Guo

DR. LI GUO

Assistant Professor of Chinese, Ph.D., Department of Languages, Philosophy and Communication Studies (LPCS), College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Utah State University, Office Phone: 1-435-797-8825, Email: li.guo@usu.edu.

Education

Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of Iowa, 2010. Dissertation Title: Tales of Self Empowerment: Reconnoitering Women’s Tanci in Late Imperial and Early Twentieth-Century China. Advisor, Dr. Maureen Robertson 雷麦伦. M.A. English Language and Literature, Peking University. Beijing, China, 2003. Thesis Title: “From Reason to Passion: On Milton’s Paradise Lost.” Advisor, Dr. Shen Hong 沈宏. B.A. English, Shandong University. China, 2000.

Areas of Specialization

Late imperial and early twentieth century Chinese fiction and drama, narrative theory, women and gender studies, film, visuality, folk literature, minority literatures and cultures, psychoanalysis, performance.

Major Awards, Honors, Grants

• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar Award for College and University Teachers, Shanghai and Berlin: Cultures of Urban Modernism in Interwar China and Germany ($4500), with Professor Russell Berman and Professor Ban Wang, Stanford University, June 27-August 4, 2011.
• Seed Grant, for the development of Study Abroad Program in Mainland China ($3000), Office of Global Engagement at the Utah State University, summer 2010.
• Story in Theory: 2009 Andrew E. Mellon Dissertation Summer Seminar Scholarship.” ($4500) Offered by Professor Garrett Stewart, James O. Freedman Professor of Letters in English, the University of Iowa, November 2008.

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:

• “The Legacy of Crossdressing in Tanci: On A Histoire of Heroic Women and Men (1905).” Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, 5: 4 (2011), 566-599.
• “Making History Anew: Feminine Melodrama in Eileen Chang’s Love in a Fallen City (1943).” Consciousness, Literature and the Arts (CLA), December 2011. In press.
• “Rethinking Female Voice and the Ideology of Sound: A Study of Stanley Kwan’s Film Center Stage (1992).” Film International, Volume 10, Issue 4, 2012. In press.

Book Project In Progress

• Tales of Empowerment: Reconnoitering Women’s Tanci in Late Imperial and Early Twentieth Century.

Book Chapter(s)

• “The Drama of the ‘Child’ in Sally Morgan's My Place" in Chen Zhengfa ed. Looking Back and Forward: Selected Papers of the 8th International Conference of Australian Studies in China. Hefei: Anhui University Press, 2004. 437-453. Invited.

Eric Hyer

DR. ERIC HYER

(In preparation.)

Licia Kim

LICIA KIM

Licia Kim, B.A., is undergradutate student at Utah Valley University. She presented a poster "Whatever happened to Salt Lake City Chinatown?" at the Undergraduate Research Conference in Utah, 2013.

Kirk Larsen

DR. KIRK LARSEN

Kirk Larsen is Associate Professor at the History Department of Brigham Young University.

Education

• Ph.D., Harvard University, 2000
• AM, Harvard University, 1994
• B.A. , Brigham Young University, 1992

Research

History of Modern East Asia; East Asian foreign relations; imperialism; History of Korea; contemporary Korean domestic politics and foreign relations

Awards

• Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award (students’ selection), History Department, Brigham Young University, 2011
• Bender Teaching Award, The George Washington University, 2007

Greg Lewis

DR. GREG LEWIS

Professor of Asian and World History, Weber State University.

Sam Liang

DR. SAM Y. LIANG

Dr. Sam Y. Liang is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Utah Valley University, Department of Humanities/Philosophy.

Education

• Ph.D. 2006, Art History, Binghamton University, SUNY;
• MA. History of Architecture, 1994, Department of Architecture, Tongji University, Shanghai

Professional Interests

Architecture and urbanism in modern and contemporary China and East Asia; Chinese spatial and visual culture; Chinese arts and material culture; cultural discourses of urban change; theories of modernity; space and governance; postcolonial identities; aesthetic influences between European and China

Selected Publications

Authored books

• Remaking China’s Great Cities: Space and Culture in Urban Housing, Renewal, and Expansions (Routledge, forthcoming in 2014).
• Mapping Modernity in Shanghai: Space, Gender, and Visual Culture in the Sojourners’ City 1853–98. London: Routledge, 2010, xviii, 218 pp. (paperback 2012), Weblink
  • Chinese version of Mapping Modernity in Shanghai (Beijing: The Commercial Press, forthcoming in 2014)

Journal articles (refereed)

• “Planning and Its Discontents: Contradictions and Continuities in Remaking China’s Great Cities, 1950-2010,” Urban History, 40.3 (2013).
• “最后的先锋派：国际情境主义和建筑电讯派” (Last Avant-gardes: Situationist International and Archigram), 《建筑师》(Architects) 154 (2011): 5-10.
• “The Expo Garden and Heterotopia: Staging Shanghai between Postcolonial and (Inter)national Global Power,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol 9, Issue 38 No 1 (2011). http://www.japanfocus.org/-Samuel-Liang/3602
• “Property-Driven Urban Change in Post-Socialist Shanghai: Reading the Television Series Woju,” Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 39, no.4 (2010): 3-28.
• “上海弄堂的革命與懷舊: 从中共‘一大’會址到新天地” (The Revolution and Nostalgia of Shanghai Longtang: From the CCP First Congress Memorial to Xintiandi),《台灣社會研究季刊》(Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies) 76 (2009): 393-416.
• “Where the Courtyard Meets the Street: Spatial Culture of the Li Neighborhoods, Shanghai, 1870-1900,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 67, no.4 (2008): 482-503.
• “Amnesiac Monument, Nostalgic Fashion: Shanghai’s New Heaven and Earth,” Wasafiri 23, no.3 (special issue on Chinese writings, 2008): 47-55.
• “Ephemeral Households, Marvelous Things: Business, Gender, and Material Culture in Flowers of Shanghai,” Modern China 33, no.3 (2007): 377-418.
• “High-Tech Cities and the Primitive Jungle: Visionary Urbanism in Europe and Japan of the 1960s,” International Studies in Philosophy 36, no.2 (2004): 45-66.

David Mc Arthur

DR. DAVID N MCARTHUR

Address Utah Valley University, Orem, UT 84058, david.mcarthur@uvu.edu, Office phone (801) 863-7144

Position Associate Professor of International Business & Strategy Chair, Department of Management, Woodbury School of Business, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT

Education Ph.D., Business Administration, University of South Carolina, 1998 Major: International Business, Cognate area: Strategic Management • 1999 Richard Farmer Dissertation Award Finalist, Academy of International Business. MA, International & Area Studies, Brigham Young University, 1990, Asian Studies. MBA, Brigham Young University, 1989, International Business and Finance, 1989. BS, Marine Engineering, United States Merchant Marine Academy, 1977.

Current Research Interests International technology transfers within and between firms, the building of organizational knowledge capabilities (esp. technological capabilities); the roles of subsidiaries and managers in the MNE as a network, the diffusion of innovations in international settings, and in the advancing state of the art in international business research methods.

Peer-reviewed Publications appear in • Journal of Marketing Education • International Journal of Applied Philosophy • Complexity and Policy Analysis: Tools and Methods for Designing Robust Policies in a Complex World • Journal of Business Inquiry • Journal of Process Analytic Chemistry • International Journal of Advertising (twice) • Journal of Advertising Research (twice) • Journal of Business Research • R&D Management • International Marketing Review

Peer-reviewed Conference Presentations and Proceedings • 8th World Congress of the Academy for Global Business Advancement • INFORMS Marketing Science Conference • Annual Meeting of the Western Academy of Management, • Mountain Plains Management Conference (twice) • International Workshop on Complexity and Policy Analysis • Academy of International Business Annual Meeting (twice) • Academy of Management Annual Meeting (twice) • American Academy of Advertising Annual Meeting, • Portland International Conference on Technology Management (twice)

Michael Minch

DR. MICHAEL MINCH

Dr. Michael Minch is Peace & Justice Program Director at Utah Valley University.

Kent Millington

J. KENT MILLINGTON, DBA

Address 5006 Country Club Drive, Highland, Utah 84003, 801-368-2146, email jkentmillington@yahoo.com

Experienced senior executive with extensive P&L responsibility and a strong record of building profitable operations in large companies as well as entrepreneurial ventures. International experience having lived in three countries, with substantial experience and networks in Asia (China, Japan, Thailand, Philippines). Specialist in developing new technologies into profitable businesses. Professor of entrepreneurship and finance with excellent teaching skills.

Representative Accomplishments • Built start-up companies to world leaders with profit margins as high as 50%. • Built and managed major operations with sales growing to exceed $500 million. • Developed and managed an important new initiative in technology transfer for one of America’s large national laboratories. • Managed international operations with 300 employees and 4,500 agents. • Successfully introduced new products in markets as diverse as financial services, Internet technologies, and digital forensics. • Received “Outstanding Professor” awards at two universities.

Experience • Business Leader: Twenty-five years of senior level experience, creating and motivating teams to extraordinary achievement with emphasis on building and rapidly expanding profitable operations. Helped build one of the world’s largest Internet companies. Effected the turn-around of an IT company and increased sales by 400% in three years. Extensive international experience, especially in Asia. Served on several Boards of Directors. • Academic Leader: Nine years of full time teaching at the university level, creating entrepreneurship courses and teaching finance and strategy. Taught professional training (CPE) courses for CPAs for over 20 years. Currently teach innovative online MBA courses to students worldwide and serve as Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at University of Science and Technology of China. • Community Leader: Lifelong commitment to service in community and church. Served national small business interests on two committees of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (7 years). Local school board president and member (6 years). Currently serving my fifth year of a six year appointment on Utah Transportation Commission.

Education • Have earned BA, MBA, and DBA degrees. Strong advocate for education.

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Hong Pang

DR. HONG PANG

Dr. Hong Pang, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Political Science, Utah Valley University.

Garth Peay

GARTH PEAY

Garth Peay, Founder of "Perfectly Suited", Provo.

Jon Westover

DR. JONATHAN H. WESTOVER

Address: Utah Valley University, 800 W. University Parkway, MS-119, Orem, UT 84058-5999, Office Phone: (01) 801-863-8215; Email: jonathan.westover@uvu.edu; Home Address: 479 W 2325 N, Lehi, UT, 84043

Position: Assistant Professor of Management, Woodbury School of Business; Director of Academic Service Learning, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT

Education: • Ph.D., Sociology, University of Utah, 2011: Comparative International Sociology: International Political Economy; Sociology of Work and Organizations • Graduate Demography Certificate, University of Utah, 2007: Labor force dynamics • M.S., Sociology, University of Utah, 2007: Work and Organizations Emphasis • Graduate Higher Education Teaching Specialist Certificate; University of Utah, 2007: Adult Learning • MPA, Brigham Young University, 2005: Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior • B.S., Sociology, Brigham Young University, 2003: Research and Analysis Emphasis; Business Management Minor; Korean Language Minor Current Research: Professor Westover’s ongoing research examines issues of globalization, labor transformation, social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, work-quality characteristics, and the determinants of job satisfaction cross-nationally. Over the past 5 years, he has published 28 peer-reviewed scholarly articles in a variety of academic journals (6 more currently submitted and at various stages in the peer-review process), 14 other editorial-reviewed scholarly articles, 6 academic books/texts (2 more forthcoming), 15 book chapters (2 more forthcoming), 16 conference proceedings (1 more forthcoming), and has made more than 70 scholarly and teaching presentations at academic conferences.

Professional Distinction: Professor Westover recently received the prestigious Fulbright Scholar award to be visiting faculty at Belarusian State University (Minsk, Belarus), where he will be teaching in the MBA program in the School of Business and Management of Technology and conducting research and consulting with business and civic groups on human resource development and performance management issues. Additionally, he is a visiting faculty member in the MBA program at the University of Science and Technology of China (Hefei, China).

Steve Riep

DR. STEVE RIEP

Dr. Steve Riep, BYU.

Christopher Wiltsie

CHRISTOPHER WILTSIE

Christopher Wiltsie, UVU.

Jingping Wu

DR. JINGPING WU

Dr. Jingping Wu, Fudan University, China.

Organization

The organizing committee consists of the panel chairs, Mark Olson from IDST and is chaired by Dr. Martin Woesler. The organization is highly transparent, with a Wiki website where everybody can shape the conference and bring in their ideas and other contributions.

Volunteers

• Multi-Cultural Club at UVU, several members
• Chinese Lunch Club at UVU, several members
• Quaid Atkinson
• Josh Brandeberry
• James Campbell
• Mat Christensen
• Tara Froisland (March 8 only)
• Daniel Jensen (March 8 only)
• Alex Johnson
• Licia Kim
• Vickie Lee
• Telmar Lochridge
• Lance Reeves (March 7 only)
• Emanuel Rivas
• Hannah Robinson
• Justin Schow
• Christopher Wiltsie
• Kami Winterton (March 8 only)
• Melanie Woodbury