Asian Geography Specialty Group: 2002-2003 Annual Report

Asian Geography Specialty Group: 2006-2007 Annual Report

1. Mission Statement: To promote geographic research and to facilitate teaching the geography of Asia through professional meetings, publications and establishing contacts with Asian geographers, and developing an agenda for research and teaching grants.

2. Year 2006 AGSG Dues: $5 (Student 0)

3. AGSG Officers (2006-2007) Chair Dennis Yehua Wei Department of Geography University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA email: [email protected] voice: 414- 229- 3941 fax: 414-229-3981

Secretary-Treasurer James A. Tyner Department of Geography Kent State University Kent, OH 44242 USA email: [email protected] voice: 330-672-7863 fax: 330-672-4304

AGSG Newsletter Editor Todd Stradford Department of Geography University of Wisconsin-Platteville Plattville, WI 53818 USA email: [email protected] voice: 608-342-1674 fax: 608-342-1427

Director for the East Asia Area (2005-2007) Todd Stradford Department of Geography University of Wisconsin-Platteville Plattville, WI 53818 USA email: [email protected] voice: 608-342-1674 fax: 608-342-1427 2

Director for the South Asia Area (2005-2007) Daanish Mustafa College of Arts and Sciences University of South Florida Davis 209, 140 7th Ave. S. St. Petersburg, FL, 33701 USA email: [email protected] voice: 727-553-4075

Director for the Southeast Asia Area (2005-2007) Philip F. Kelly Department of Geography York University 4700 Keele Street Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3 Canada email: [email protected] voice: 1-416-736-2100 ext.22499 fax: 1-416-736-5988

Southwest Asia Area Director (2006-2008) Samer Alatout Department of Rural Sociology University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706 USA email: [email protected] voice: 608-263-0970 fax: 608-262-6022

4. Activities, April 2006-February 2007: 1) Election: Chair: Yehua Dennis Wei Secretary-Treasurer: James A. Tyner Southwest Asia Area Director: Samer Alatout

2) Distinguished Service Award 2006, granted to Professor Ashok Dutt and David Edington;

3) Student Paper Competition: The best paper award goes to Rapia Raj, Dept of Geography, McGill University, “Come be a part of the best…”- New Delhi call centres and their impacts upon young employees’ identifies.

The Travel Awards: Orga, Monica, Dept of Geography, University of Colorado, Addressing human-wildlife conflict (HWC) in protected area borderlands: Gendered perspectives from a village in Uttaranchal, India.

Baoling Wang, Dept of Geography, University of British Columbia, Canadian SMEs in China: challenges and opportunities. 3

Three other AGSG student members won Chakravarti Student Paper Award jointly run with Regional Development & Planning SG, and another student member won China GSG Student Paper Award.

5) Twenty paper panels organized by AGSG members at the AAG Annual Meeting, Denver.

6) Publication of two editions of `Bulletin of Asian Geography,’ and continuous update of the AGSG Web page: http://www.uky.edu/AS/Geography/AGSG/

7) AGSG members successfully organized the efforts to rescue Professor Ghazi-Walid Falah, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Akron, who was held prisoner in Israel under suspicious of illegal espionage.

8) AGSG members expressed deepest condolences to the families, friends, and colleagues of those who lost their lives in the helicopter crash in the Kanchenjunga Conservation Area, Nepal, and assisted the preparation of tributes published in varied places including AAG Newsletter.

9) 2007 Annual Meeting: AGSG have been working closely with other AAG SGs especially China, Regional Development & Planning, and Economic Geography SGs to organize annual meeting panels.

10) Activities Scheduled: AGSG members are the major organizers and participants of Second Global Conference on Economic Geography June 25-28, 2007 Beijing, China, and the 9th Asian Urbanization Conference in South Korea, August 18-23, 2007.

5. Membership levels: 296 members as at 12th March, 2007.

6. Financial Report (issued by AAG HQ on 12th March 2007): Association of American Geographers Specialty Groups Financial Report Association of American Geographers January 31, 2007

Asian Specialty Group

Date Description Receipts Disbursements Balance

$ 8/31/05 Balance forward 5,317.24

9/30/05 Dues collected for September 2005 120.00 5,437.24

10/31/05 Dues collected for October 2005 105.00 5,542.24

11/30/05 Dues collected for November 2005 90.00 5,632.24

12/31/05 Dues collected for December 2005 45.00 5,677.24

1/31/06 Dues collected for January 2006 60.00 5,737.24

2/28/06 Dues collected for February 2006 25.00 5,762.24 4

3/3/06 Fatamura - Web page work (232.50) 5,529.74

3/21/06 Amery - Reimburse expenses (199.00) 5,330.74

3/22/06 Raj - Best student paper (250.00) 5,080.74

3/22/06 Ogra - Travel award (150.00) 4,930.74

3/22/06 Wang - Travel award (150.00) 4,780.74

3/22/06 Buryn - Chakravarti award (150.00) 4,630.74

3/31/06 Dues collected for March 2006 55.00 4,685.74

4/30/06 Dues collected for April 2006 35.00 4,720.74

5/31/06 Dues collected for May 2006 25.00 4,745.74

6/30/06 Dues collected for June 2006 50.00 4,795.74

7/31/06 Dues collected for July 2006 55.00 4,850.74

8/31/06 Dues collected for August 2006 45.00 4,895.74

$ 8/31/06 Balance forward 4,895.74

9/30/06 Dues collected for September 2006 80.00 4,975.74

10/31/06 Dues collected for October 2006 95.00 5,070.74

11/30/06 Dues collected for November 2006 77.00 5,147.74

12/31/06 Dues collected for December 2006 38.00 5,185.74

1/31/07 Dues collected for January 2007 59.00 5,244.74

$ 1/31/07 Balance 5,244.74