Japan and Evolving Trade in the Asia Pacific

Thursday, October 18, 2018

6:00 - 7:30 pm

Masuda, Funai, Eifert & Mitchell, Ltd., 203 N. LaSalle Street, 25th Floor (Conference Room), Chicago, IL 60601

$20 (non-member)

Event

This has been a period of rapid change in economic relationships. This session on Japan and Evolving Trade in the Asia Pacific will address those changes. It will include topics such as the conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the U.S. departure, and its reincarnation as the CPTPP. It will discuss irritants and possibilities in the trading relationship between the United States and Japan, as well as prospects for other regional initiatives, such as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) or warming ties between Japan and China.

Speaker

Phil Levy is Senior Fellow on the Global Economy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and teaches in the Strategy Department at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Previously he has taught at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business, Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, and Yale University’s Department of Economics. From 2003 to 2006, he served first as senior economist for trade for President Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers and then as a member of Secretary of State Rice’s Policy Planning Staff, covering international economic matters.

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Where Beauty and the Imagination Meet

September 21 - October 22

10:00 am - 7:30 pm

wndr museum

$32

Step into a space that reveals the wonder of the natural world around us.

Featuring a Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirror Room, wndr museum invites you to explore a new genre of immersive experience.

http://bit.ly/2NptJE2

Coming Home Artists’ Talk and Opening Reception

Friday, September 14, 2018

5:30 - 9:00 pm

Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (UICA)

Up in Grand Rapids, MI this Friday? Why not check out this exhibit?

From the artist:

The art project I'm showing was created as part of the Furusato Vision Project, an opportunity which began in 2017 for JET alumni to create projects in the towns they had taught in. So, I created the artworks in this exhibition while in Amakusa, Kumamoto-ken last November and paired them with works done in Grand Rapids this summer. In both locations I focused on residents memories as they related to urban change (depopulation in Japan and economic decline in Grand Rapids).