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| • PBI Events, Fall 2009 • |
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| November 20 |
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Trash for Cash: Making a Killing and Making a Living on Garbage |
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| December 8 |
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Video Screenings by PBI Summer Tour Grant Winners |
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| More events and details. |
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PBI's Mission
The dynamic growth of the Asia/Pacific countries over the past 60 years
permanently altered the culture and power balances of the 20th Century.
Their achievements – and equally their failings – affect everyone in the
globalist 21st. Understandably, Americans and our neighbors in the
Western Hemisphere have been slow to catch up on our knowledge of these
old/new polities and their history. Yet even within the Asia/Pacific
countries –thanks to strong, time-resistant national cultures and
traditions – scholars, politicians and citizens have not troubled
overmuch to learn about their neighbors. The Pacific Basin Institute, as
our name implies, attempts through a variety of media to present all
these countries – ourselves included – as interdependent parts of a vast
region where technology’s spread has canceled the past isolations of
geography. We put a heavy emphasis on film and video material – both
production and presentation. And while we naturally focus on single
countries in some of our programs, we are happiest comparing and
contrasting – in the process outlining common denominators as well as
differences among the various cultures. |
