Date

April 7, 2014

Page

10

Contact

Ms Heesun Kim

Office

02-3701-7387

E-mail

communications@asaninst.org

* For Immediate Release

The Asan Plenum 2014, “Future of History”

The Asan Institute for Policy Studies will host the Asan Plenum 2014 on April 22(Tue.) – 23(Wed.) at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Seoul.

The Conference will bring together leading experts and scholars on security and foreign affairs.
High-level key speakers include:
ㅇ James Steinberg, former Deputy Secretary of State
ㅇ Robert Einhorn, former Special Adviser on Nonproliferation at the State Department
ㅇ Victor Cha, former Director of Asian Affairs for the U.S. National Security Council
ㅇ Yan Xuetong, Dean of the Institute of Modern International Relations, Tsinghua University

The two-day conference consists of 10 sessions. Five sessions on the 1st day will discuss on topics such as, “Back to History?”, “Back to History in East Asia?”, “Second Nuclear Age?”, “New Asian Economic Order”, and “Global Financial Order After 2008”. The second day will examine “East Asian Power Shift”, “China-US Strategic (Dis)trust”, “On North Korea”, and “Responsibility to History (R2H)”.

* Credentialed members of the press who would like to attend must RSVP to communications@asaninst.org with details including name, affiliation, and mobile number.

* Please be advised that Press Badges will be available at the Press Registration Desk.
* All sessions will be conducted in English but simultaneous interpretation will be available in sessions held in the grand ballroom.