Bringing together faculty members from various disciplinary backgrounds under a perennial theme, “The Pacific Rim in the 21st Century”, the Fellows Program is an annual seminar series which examines issues relating to sociopolitical, cultural, and economic realities in the Pacific Rim region.

Each seminar focuses on a selected annual theme and complements scholarly discussions with synchronized field immersion experiences across two APRU member economies. To promote long term cross-national and multi-disciplinary research collaborations between APRU Fellows, APRU Collaborative Research Paper Award and APRU Collaborative Research Seed Grants Program are made available to participants.

Recent meeting: 7th Fellows Program Hosted by: Australian National University Date: August 16 - 25, 2006 Theme: Regional Security and Governance Program

Past meetings:

6^th Fellows Program
Co-hosted by: University of British Columbia and University of Malaya
Date: August 14 - 27, 2005
Theme: New Directions in Asian Studies: ethnicity and Nationalism Before and After the Digital Age

• Program at University of British Columbia
• Program at University of Malaya

5^th Fellows Program
Co-hosted by: University of California, Santa Barbara and Osaka University
Date: August 15 - 28, 2004
Theme: Globalization and the Environment: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

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4^th Fellows Program
Co-hosted by: University of Oregon and Seoul National University
Date: August 10 - 24, 2002
Theme: The Science and Policy of Environmental Sustainability

3^rd Fellows Program
Co-hosted by: University of California, Los Angeles and Peking University
Date: August 11 - 24, 2001
Theme: Human Migration in the Pacific Region: Emerging Patterns and New Opportunities

2^nd Fellows Program
Co-hosted by: University of Washington and Chulalongkorn University
Date: August 6 - 19, 2000
Theme: Environment and Development: Scientific, Social and Technological Challenges for the Pacific Rim
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1^st Fellows Program
Co-hosted by: University of California, Berkeley, Kyoto University and Chulalongkorn University
Date: July 24 - August15, 1999
Theme: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Asian Economic Downturn
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