Feb. 4 East Asia Event in NYC

Katherine Hyde writes (Feb. 1, 2009): Should be a good program at Japan Society in New York this coming Wed. evening Feb. 4.
To log on for the live webcast at 6:30 pm Feb. 4, click here
—or visit www.japansociety.org for tickets to the event in NYC, or to view the archived video after the event.

The U.S. & East Asia Under the Obama Administration

Mark Halperin, Editor-at-Large and Senior Policy Analyst for Time Magazine, John Bussey, Washington Bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal and Howard French, Associate Professor of Journalism at Columbia University, discuss whether the Obama administration will create substantive change in the U.S. approach to East Asian relations.

Moderated by Aaron L. Friedberg, Professor of Politics, Princeton University.

—I’ve written about John Bussey’s recent Japan Society appearances here and here. All interesting people though none with a Yale connection that I can discover—KH