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AUSTRALIA

U.S. Embassy Canberra
Ambassador J. Thomas Schieffer will attend a lunch hosted by the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University, Canberra, and present a grant from the Office of Public Affairs to support the development of the University's American Studies Program, one of only two academic undertakings of its kind in Australia. Later in November, the Ambassador will participate in the Australian National Museum's Talkback Classroom program, a monthly 20-minute radio forum for middle and senior secondary students broadcast on Australian Broadcast Corporation radio's Triple J morning show Australia-wide. The program allows students the opportunity to engage key public figures in discussions on issues of importance to young people; this day, three Australian students will interview the Ambassador on the broad issue of the post-September 11 world, with a particular exploration of this event for relations between Australia and the U.S. .

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CAMBODIA

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CHINA

U.S. Consulate Chengdu
Consulate Press and Cultural Affairs Officer John Louton will speak on the "Role of International Education in Fostering Mutual Understanding" at Sichuan Normal University. He will emphasize not only the role educational exchanges in furthering understanding but also in promoting open societies.

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JAPAN

Holy Innocents' Episcopal School and Sapporo Asahigaoka High School – Sapporo
This event will bring students and teachers across the globe together to meet, report on their Fulbright project and develop their plan, and share a Japanese Waka.

U.S. Embassy Tokyo
The U.S. Embassy is planning a series of programs featuring Kathryn Mohrman, Director of Research and Development at the Hong Kong American Center of Chinese University of Hong Kong and former President of Colorado College. In major cities throughout Japan, Professor Mohrman will talk with opinion makers, including academics, journalists, business leaders, and national and local government officials, about the goals and benefits of internationalizing higher education. She will also discuss some of the practical considerations that need to be addressed in internationalizing a school, such as language requirements, equivalency, housing, immigration, and financial aid issues.

Fulbright Memorial Fund Master Teacher Program, Japan–United States Educational Commission – Tokyo
Fulbright Memorial Fund Master Teacher Program (MTP) participant and alumni schools from throughout the U.S. and Japan will celebrate IEW by connecting with their respective partner schools via international online videoconferences. Sixteen U.S. and Japanese primary and secondary schools will participate. Students in the two countries will share their culture face-to-face with their partner classmates in the other country. U.S. and Japanese MTP bi-national primary and secondary school teams collaborate in environmental science projects.

The following MTP schools will participate in IEW video conferences:

• B. Mahlon Brown Junior High School (Henderson, Nevada) and Hatsukaichi Shikigaoka Junior High School (Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima)
• Lake Ridge Academy (North Ridgeville, Ohio) and Hiroshima Misuzugaoka High School (Hiroshima, Hiroshima)
• West Elementary School (Spearfish, South Dakota) and Kushiro Choyo Elementary School (Kushiro, Hokkaido)
• West Elementary School (Spearfish, South Dakota) and Onomichi Hibizaki Elementary School (Onomichi, Hiroshima)
• West Springfield High School (Springfield , Virginia) and Hiroshima Onomichi Commercial High School (Onomichi, Hiroshima)
• St. Thomas Episcopal Parish School (Coral Gables, Florida) and Kagawa University Takamatsu Elementary School (Takamatsu, Kagawa)
• St. Martin's Episcopal School (Metairie, Louisiana) and Okinawa Naha Kokusai High School (Naha, Okinawa)
• Lincoln Elementary School (Madison, Wisconsin) and Kesennuma Omose Elementary School (Kesennuma, Miyagi)
• Holy Innocents' Episcopal School (Atlanta, Georgia) and Sapporo Asahigaoka High School (Sapporo, Hokkaido)
• Oliver Heckman Elementary School (Langhorne, Pennsylvania) and Hatsukaichi Hatsukaichi Elementary School (Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima)
• Applied Learning Academy (Fort Worth, Texas) and Atsugi Morinosato Junior High School (Atsugi, Kanagawa)
• Wilkinson Elementary School (Washington, DC) and Hiroshima Inokuchimiyojin Elementary School (Hiroshima, Hiroshima)
• Metairie Park Country Day School (Metairie, Louisiana) and Hachioji Daiju Elementary School (Hachioji, Tokyo)
• Cookeville High School (Cookeville, Tennessee) and Ishikawa Komatsu High School (Komatsu, Ishikawa)
• Prescott Middle School (Cookeville, Tennessee) and Komatsu Shoyo Junior High School (Komatsu, Ishikawa)
• Capshaw Elementary School (Cookeville, Tennessee) and Komatsu Rojo Elementary School (Komatsu, Ishikawa)

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KOREA

U.S. Embassy Seoul
The Public Affairs Section and the Korean-American Educational Commission (Fulbright Commission) are organizing and participating in a regional conference, supported by the Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs on the use of technology in study abroad advising. Study abroad advisers in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, New Zealand, and Ukraine will attend the three-day conference to be held at the Fulbright Commission's U.S. Education Center in Seoul. The conference will highlight the fundamental shift in advising in recent years to electronic means and will discuss the various roles of technology, websites and the Internet in advising centers. It is particularly appropriate that this conference be held in Korea, the country with the greatest broadband penetration rate in the world. The conference will bring together specialists from around the region to promote networking among U.S.-State Department-supported advising centers, to discuss the specific technologies and methodologies that can be used to continue to promote American education, and to implement procedures whereby technology can be used in each country of the region to "secure the future through educational and cultural exchanges."

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LAOS

Lao–American College – Vientiane
The only American-founded institution in Laos will celebrate IEW with the formal dedication of a new facility for more than 1,000 students.

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MALAYSIA

U.S. Embassy Kuala Lumpur
Malaysian alumni of U.S. universities and participants in a recent International Visitor Program called "Working for Peaceful Change in a Democratic Society" will meet with local Muslim youth groups at an IFTAR dinner.

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PHILIPPINES

U.S. Embassy Manila
The Public Affairs Section will co-sponsor a national conference on "The Role of English Language and Literature in Understanding and Solving Philippine Contemporary Issues and Concerns" at Ateneo de Manila University. Participants will come from universities through out the country, including the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao. The U.S. Ambassador will host a reception at his residence for current Fulbright scholars and alumni of the Fulbright, Humphrey, and East-West Center programs.

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SOUTH KOREA

Korean-American Educational Commission – Seoul
A regional mini-conference titled "Optimizing Use of the Internet in Educational Advising," will include U.S. Department of State staff and Department-affiliated educational advising centers in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Ukraine. The conference, a follow-up to a NetDiplomacy 2001 Conference in Washington, DC, is planned as a participatory, interactive meeting that will produce results of benefit to other advising centers regionally and worldwide. Korea's use of broadband Internet and other communication technologies make it an ideal venue for this conference.

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THAILAND

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VIETNAM

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