Today’s seminar was cosponsored seminar between ARENA (Asia Regional Exchange for New Alternatives) and our institute, and featured Claude Alvares, from the Multiversity project, discussing curriculum redesign in the social sciences. The project seeks to create a dialogue about the conditions under which knowledge is produced in both East and West, and explore the prospects for less instrumental forms of schooling, and more diverse and experiential forms of learning in a regional, and indeed, international context.

Prof. Alvares was in Korea as part of the larger Asia Culture Forum 2006, a fairly large event that happened over the weekend in Kwanju, South Korea. Their site is worth a look, especially for their program on Asian cinema, which has pdf documents for all their papers.