Dear UTC Community:

I am pleased to announce that Professor James E. Auer, Director of the Center for US-Japan Studies and Cooperation at the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies, will give the keynote address in the UTC Asian Studies Committee spring and fall speaker series. Professor Auer will speak and answer questions from 12:00-1:15 on Wednesday, November 9 in the University Center Auditorium. Professor Auer's topic will be "Northeast Asian Security Issues."

Although I have pasted Professor Auer's biography below my signature, you should know that he is one of the leading experts in the United States on this topic. From April 1979 until September 1998, he served as Special Assistant for Japan in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

All UTC faculty, staff, students, and Chattanooga-area residents are welcome to attend the presentation.

Cordially,

Andrea S. Green
Publications Coordinator, Education About Asia
302 Pfeiffer Stagmaier Hall
Dept. #2222, 615 McCallie Avenue
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN 37403
Phone: (423) 425-2118
Fax: (423) 425-5443


JAMES E. AUER is the Director of the Center for U.S.-Japan Studies and Cooperation at the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies. He teaches U.S.-Japan relations and the history of sea power to liberal arts and engineering students and has served as Adjunct Professor of Management at Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management and Research Professor of the Management of Technology at the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering. From April 1979 until September 1988, he served as Special Assistant for Japan in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1963 to 1983 in a number of positions, largely in Japan. These included visiting student at the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Staff College (equivalent of the U.S. Navy War College) in Tokyo, and commanding officer of a guided missile frigate homeported in Yokosuka.

He holds an A.B. degree from Marquette University and a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. His thesis, The Postwar Rearmament of Japanese Maritime Forces 1945-1971, was published in English by Praeger Publishers and in Japanese translation by the Jiji Press under the title Yomigaeru Nippon Kaigun.