James Jinhong Kim

My mission at NBTS is to work with students to build on the great legacy of earlier missionaries to the world produced by the school, toward a new paradigm shift of “mission” for the 21st century, reclaiming mission as the site for continual mutual discoveries of Christ through the glocal Christian interculturation for the emerging world.

Bio:

Dr. Kim is a pioneer in Global Missiology, approaching the field from the intellectual and pragmatic synthesis of four very different disciplines: history of religion, history of East Asian intellectual traditions, issues in “global core” pedagogy, and decades of fieldwork experience in the Pauline legacy of “tentmaker mission” and inter-religious dialogue.”     

In addition to designing many new courses at NBTS that reflect his unique insights into the past, present and future of “global Christianity,” as Director of the Underwood Center since 2014 Dr. Kim has been instrumental in orchestrating a number of key international programs including several “pilgrimage” programsand Underwood International Symposia in partnership with affiliate institutions around globe.  Dr. Kim continues to serve numerous glocal mission/academic programs as Founder and Director of Programs at NY Stump Overseas Mission House, the DB Global Humanities Foundation, and as Special Projects Advisor to the University Committee on Asia & the Middle East at Columbia University, where he worked closely with Wm. Theodore de Bary.  He travels frequently throughout Asia, Europe, and the Middle East to speak at academic conferences and with government officials in support of global core education. 

A number of his publications—including Global Christianity and & the Early Letters of Horace G. Underwood (2022)—have focused on the significance of Underwood’s missional legacy for Christianity in the 21^st century, while others such as the Origins of the Mill at Bethlehem: Theologizing Birth of Jesus in Asian Contexts (1996) and The Asian Christian History Reader (1999) illuminate Christianity from different glocal perspectives.  Having also authored articles on East Asian intellectual and education history, including a monograph study on a key seventeenth-century text on Neo-Confucian education called Primer for Youth, he is currently working on a book titled Toward Interculturation: Pedagogy for an Emerging World.  Dr. Kim is recipient of several awards and fellowships, including the United Nations Star of Harmony Award for Outstanding Community Service (1997) and Lifetime Achievement Award of Light Community International Foundation (2005).

 

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CV:

Education:

Columbia University, M.Phil., Ph.D.
Princeton University, Special Student
Princeton Theological Seminary, M.Div.
William Jessup University, B.Th.

Experience:

Courses taught:
Church History, I and II
History of Asian Christianity
History of Modern Asian Christianity
History of Christian Missions
19th Century Protestant World Mission
Underwood and His Predecessors
Issues in Modern Christianity
Christianity and Enlightenment
World Christianity in World Religious Context
Christianity and World Religions
Confucianism & Christianity
Foreign Religions in Asia
Interculturation: Christ and Culture (w/ John W. Coakley)
Korean Civilization, I and II (w/ Wm. Theodore de Bary)
The Christian Experience and Witness
A Conversation for Neighbors: Inter-Faith Dialogues
The Practice in Missiology (doctoral seminar)
A Conversation with Neighbors: Inter-Religious Dialogue (doctoral seminar)

 

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

Toward Interculturation: Pedagogy for an Emerging World (in draft)

“Underwood and the Mission Field” An Interview with the 400^th Commemorative Edition of Saemoonan Journal, September, 2022. (https://bit.ly/3TxsNw0)

Global Christianity and the Early Letters of Horace G. Underwood, Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications/Wipf & Stock, March, 2022.

“Underwood’s Christian Korea: Its Significance in Context of the Future of Korea-Japan Relations” to be presented at the 1^st International Academic Conference, sponsored by the Ministry of Education, South Korea; and published in the International Journal of Christianity and Culture by IKCC in June, 2020 but postponed to 2023 TBD.

Draft writing — “Undoing Racism – Missional Collaboration of Pedagogy for Community: Collect Data on Sources & Expressions of Different Racisms to Incorporate into Glocal Models of Pedagogy for Missional Education in Interfaith Community Contexts,” April, 2021; A Missional Collaboration Focus Group Research Proposal submitted as a part of the International Missionary Council Centenary Study Process 1921-2021; will be published through the Regnum Books International at The Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, Oxford, UK, 2022.

“What Does the Bible Say About Sharing the Gospel?” An Interview with the Faithward (Digital Magazine of Reformed Church in America) articled by Grace Ruiter, February, 2021. (https://www.faithward.org/what-does-the-bible-say-about-sharing-the-gospel/)

“A Theology of Dao,” in International Bulletin of Mission Research, pp. 1-6, New York: Sage Publications, May 2019.

“Mencius as Pedagogical Tool in Inter-religious Dialogue,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Global General Education and Asian Texts: What Should Students Read? Sponsored by the Association for Core Texts & Courses, Concordia University, CA, July 2018.

“Education for Christian Mission at New Brunswick Theological Seminary since 1993,” International Bulletin of Mission Research (2017), New Haven, CT: Overseas Ministries Study Center, 2017

“Inculturation as a “Core” Curricular Criterion: Tongmong sŏnsŭp (Primer for Youth) as a Case Study” in The Quest for Excellence: Selected Papers from the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts & Courses, ed. by Gish, Dustin, and Christopher Constas, New York: University Press of America, 2016.

“A Copernican Re-evaluation of Appenzeller-Underwood Mission in Korea” in Yes! Well…: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of the Church, A Festschrift in Honor of John W. Coakley, ed. by James Hart Brumm, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2016.

“Rijutei (Yi, Su-jeong) – A Pioneer of Christian Missions to Korea,” Documentary Making and an Interview with the CBS Korea for 60 Minute Special Documentary Film Celebrating 130th Anniversary of Underwood Mission to Korea, Jae-pyo Hong, Producer, August 3, 2016. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nROIuJFdE6c)

“아펜젤러와 언더우드, 교차로에선 한국개신교 미래의 해답,” Proceedings of the Commemorative International Joint Conference on 130th Anniversary of Appenzeller-Underwood Mission in Korea; Saemunan Church, Seoul, Korea, 2015.

“A Copernican Re-evaluation of Appenzeller-Underwood Mission in Korea” / “아펜젤러와 언더우드, 교차로에선 한국개신교 미래의 해답” (written both in English and in Korean) as One of the four Keynote Speakers, Commemorative International Joint Conference on 130^th Anniversary of Appenzeller-Underwood Mission in Korea for the Fourth Appenzeller International Academic Forum and the Eighth Annual International Underwood Symposium; co-sponsored by Drew University, New Brunswick Theological Seminary, Saemunan Church, and Jungdong Methodist Chuch, in Seoul, Korea, May 2015.

“Horace G. Underwood and His Theology of Inter-Denominational Mission” (분열의 취약성을 가진 개신교회에 언더우드가 보여준 초교파적 선교방법) in Phila Yŏsŏng, Philadelphia, 2014.

 “Re-evaluating Underwood’s Mission: Crossroads for Tentmakers Mission Today”, Ching-fung (Fall, 2013), Hong Kong/London (Korean version published earlier in Phila Yŏsŏng, 2011)

“Inculturation and Global Core Curricula: Tongmong sŏnsŭp (Primer for Youth) as a Case Study,” Proceedings of the 17^thAnnual Conference of the Association for Core Texts & Courses, sponsored by Yale University, 2011.

“Tongmong sŏnsŭp (童蒙先習): An Introduction to a Korean Neo-Confucian Classic for the Global Core Curriculum,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Liberal Education, Chiao-tung University, Taiwan, 2010.

“State of the Core Curriculum in South Korea,” Proceedings of the First Annual International Conference on Classics for an Emerging World, Columbia University Press, October 2008.

“Bible Versus Guns: Horace G. Underwood’s Evangelization of Korea,” Asia Pacific Perspectives, Vol. V, No. 1, pp. 33-37 (December, 2005), San Francisco, CA: University of San Francisco Center for Pacific Rim, 

“Pak Se-Mu’s Primer for the Young and Ignorant” in Sources of Korean Tradition, de Bary &    Lee, eds., New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.

Third World Christian History Reader.  New York: Knara Press, 2000 (limited edition).

The Asian Christian History Reader.  2 Vols.  New York: Knara Press, 1999 (limited edition).

Origins of the Mill at Bethlehem: Theologizing the Birth of Jesus in Asian Contexts (Pedlehem

Mulbang’a donŭn Naeryŏk).  Seoul: Taejanggan, 1996 (in Korean, 3^rd printing).

Speaker, the First International Conference of the Chinese Association of Liberal Education called Summit Forum on Chinese Liberal Education, November 2012: “Columbia, UCAME, and the Global Core”

Speaker, the 17^th Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts & Courses sponsored by Yale University, April 2011: “Inculturation and Global Core Curricula: Tongmong sŏnsŭp (Primer for Youth) as a Case Study”

Speaker, Second International Conference on Liberal Education organized by the Ministiry of Eduaction and National Chiao-tung University, Taiwan, January 2010: “Tongmong sŏnsŭp (童蒙先習): An Introduction to a Korean Neo-Confucian Classic for the Global Core Curriculum”

Panelist, the 15^th Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts & Courses: “Coming Together of Surnames: Integration of World Classics into Core Curriculum,” April 2009.

Speaker, First International Conference on Classics for An Emerging World organized by Association for Core Texts and Courses, USA; and the Committee for Asia and Middle East and the Heymen Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, January 2008: “State of Core-Curricula among South Korean Universities”

Lecturer, AWCA Semi-Annual Lectures, 2006: “Religious Traditions in Asia” I-IV, Asian Women’s Christian Association, NJ, May 2006

Keynote Speaker, Second Annual “Discovering Korea” Conference organized and sponsored by Korea Culture Foundation, Korea Society, YWCA of Queens, and Young Korean American Network, May 2006: “What’s in a Surname?”

Speaker, Fifth Annual Underwood Conference sponsored by the Institute of Reformed Theological Studies, April 2006: “Underwood’s Korea: Crossroad of the Christian Mission”

Panelist, Academic Forum celebrating Presidential Inauguration, New Brunswick Theological Seminary, January 2006: “Creating Space for Interfaith Community: Inculturation and the Interfaith Within”

Lecturer, Adoption Forum 2004 organized by Chinese Christian Coalition of New York, October 2004: “ANGEL(Adoptees’ Network for Good Education & Leadership) School: A Case for Organizing the Korean American Adoptees’ Network”

Keynote Speaker, 16^th Annual A Light Community International Conference organized by Light Community International Foundation, January 2004: “How Should We Then Prepare: Responsibilities of Chinese American Christian Community Toward the Recent Surge of American International Adoption from China”

Speaker, Second Annual Underwood Conference sponsored by the Institute of Reformed Theological Studies, April 2003: “Underwood in 19^th Century World Mission Context”

Guest Lecturer, Council of Churches of the City of New York, November 2001: “Redefining Christianity in Korea”

Keynote Speaker, Annual Teachers Convention of the Reformed Church of America, March 2001: “Christian Education in American Korean Multi-Cultural Setting”

Lecturer, Tyrannus North American Lectures 2001, held at the Times Square Church and the Princeton Theological Seminary: “From Princeton Fundamentalism to Brooklyn Tabernacle: A Case for Broadening the American Religious Foundation to Third World Theology”

Association of Korean Christian Scholars in North America, 2001: “Three Lessons from Wonhyo for Second Generation Korean American Christian Leadership & Heritage Education”

Lecturer, Tyrannus North American Lectures 2000, held at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago: “Moody, Graham, and Hybels from an Asian Religious Perspective”

Lecturer, Colorado Church Council Lectures, in series: Spring, Summer, Fall, 1999; Winter, 2000: “Theologizing Church History” I – IV

Lecturer, Dallas Korean Church Council Lectures, 1998: “Yankee Jesus and the Asian Spirituality”

Plenary Speaker, Association of Korean Christian Scholars in North America, 1997: “Jesus for Korea”

+ Pending publication, final manuscripts in talks with publishers.

 

MISSION AND GLOBAL OUTREACH ACTIVITIES (Abbreviated)

Founder/Director of Programs, Stump Overseas Mission dba NY Tentmakers Mission House, 1991-present

NYMH is a mission and education institution dedicated to “Building Community through Cultivation of Self and Others,”a secular synthesis of Neo-Confucian and Christian communitarian principles adapted to urban New York contexts.  NYMH actively develops and runs such community education and fellowship programs as:

Hakdang Seminars and Tentmakers Training Programs (founded in 1996; see above under “Teaching Career”) is at the core of NY Mission House programs in consideration of the fact that the level of maturity in volunteers’ faith and theology has incalculable and long-term influence on the communities where they live, work, and witness.  Once accepted on the basis of interview screening process, volunteers take part in weekly Tentmakers Training sessions both before and throughout their tenure as missionaries, actively developing their faith and commitment by recharging intellectually as well as spiritually for their call. 

Adoptees Network for Good Education & Leadership (ANGEL) Academy (begun in 2004; changed from American Multi-Cultural Institute founded in 1995) provides language and heritage education to adoptees of Korean/Asian origin and their families with graduated curriculum specifically designed to strengthen adoptees’ positive sense of bi-cultural identity and leadership.  As a non-profit institution ANGEL is run entirely by the corps of volunteer teachers and administrative staff trained through Hakdang and NY Mission House Tentmakers Training Programs.  

Hope of Harlem, begun in 1994 in association with the Council of Churches of the City of New York, focuses on offering children of Harlem area an opportunity to develop academic, social, and leadership skills through after-school computer classes, Taekwondo, and mentoring under broadly Christian settings.  Another goal of the Hope of Harlem is to promote harmony in African-American and Korean relations through cross-cultural programs that include special lectures, guided tours to the historic centers of Harlem, and the growing African American collection in the Hakdang Library.

Para Esperanza, begun in 2000, mission was developed in partnership with Jisan Corporation in Manhattan to share the gospel with the mostly Hispanic textiles workers in the garment district area through Bible study, prayer meetings, Christmas Santa and other fellowship programs, as well as career and community counseling, and access to legal and medical help.

The purpose of the American Board of Chinese-Korean Mission (ABCKM, founded in 1997) is to foster dedicated missionaries among the more than 20,000 Chinese-Korean American legal and illegal immigrants in the New York metropolitan area, who especially upon returning to their families in China would be empowered to be seeds of Christian witnessing in that vast country.  ABCKM currently reaches out to these some of the most underprivileged immigrants with free ESL classes, job counseling and skills training, computer classes, education on basics of U.S. infrastructure, fellowship events, and building networks with the larger Korean Christian community–all designed to meet the special practical and spiritual needs of the community.  ABCKM has borne much fruit in the last 15 years, including the formation of several Chinese- Korean American associations as well as the Chinese-Korean Mission Church.  In 2004 ABCKM together with Wanbang Academy co-sponsored the research & mission fieldwork in Beijing centered on the “State of Religions in Contemporary Northern China.” 

Special Projects Advisor, University Committee on Asia and the Middle East (UCAME), Columbia University, New York, NY, 2009-present

UCAME at Columbia University is one of the earliest institutions in the United States founded to promote the teaching of non-Western classics as part of “core curriculum” at the university level.

• Advising Committee to the First International Conference on Classics for an Emerging World, January 2008, with over 60 faculty and administrators from Beijing, Tsinghua, Fudan, and Renmin Universities in China, Seoul National and Songgyunkwan Universities in South Korea, as well as leading universities from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, and throughout the U.S. including Tokyo, Taiwan National, Chiao-tung, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Harvard, Yale, Notre Dame, Boston, and Rutgers.
• Ongoing development of partnership programs, scholar exchanges, etc. on core curriculum related issues with Fudan, Tsinghua, Seoul National, Songgyunkwan, Korea, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
• Preparation for Columbia/UCAME’s leading role in the international conference organized by Chinese Association for Liberal Education (CALE), a consortium of over 100 universities, to be held in Beijing in November, 2013.
• Planning for Columbia/UCAME’s participation in the 2014 Conference of the International Confucius Association on special invitation by the ICA Chair Jung-Don Seo.
• Preparation for “Great Books Seminar” in summer 2014 for liberal arts college faculty on developing and teaching global literature humanities courses; sponsored by the Association for Core Texts & Courses and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
• Met with the Secretary of the Ministry of Education Chiang Wei-ling and the Director of National Curriculum Chung-I Lin in Taiwan, January 2010, to discuss mutual concerns regarding liberal education and areas of coordinated effort to overcome them.
• Advising Committee for the Second International Conference for Liberal Education, sponsored by the National Chiao-tung University, Taiwan, in January 2010.
• In October of 2009 traveled to South Korea to meet with President Jung-Don Seo of Sunggyunkwan University, who had also just been elected Chairman of the International Confucius Association. Successfully negotiated support for Columbia’s active role in the 2014 ICA conference.
• That same October, met with President Kisu Lee of Korea University and Dr. Yongsik Kim, Director of the Kyujanggak National Archives Library of South Korea, to discuss avenues of partnership, including privileged access to Kyujanggak’s collection of rare books and documents.

CONFERENCES

Organizing Committee of the Annual Conference of the American Society of Missiology Eastern Fellowship, Stony Point, NY, November 4-5, 2022.

Faculty Board/Steering Committee, Classics for the Emerging World: Symposium India 2022, Global Symposium of Columbia University, held in Jaipur-Indore-Delhi-Kolkata, India, August 2022 – January 2023.

Steering Committee, the 13^th Underwood International Symposium in Seoul (Keynote Speaker: John Coakley, New Brunswick Theological Seminary) May-June, 2022.

Directorial Report and Presentation, “Underwood’s Vision and Global Christianity Today” at the 16^th Underwood Orchestra Annual Concert at Chodae Church, NJ, March 13, 2022.

Keynote Speaker, “Underwood’s Christian Korea: Its Significance in Context of the Future of Korea-Japan Relations” to be presented at the 1^st International Academic Conference, sponsored by the Ministry of Education, South Korea; and published in the International Journal of Christianity and Culture by IKCC in June, 2020 but postponed to 2023 TBD.

Executive Committee Member, North American Region, Commission on World Mission and Evangelism [dated 4/7/2021] Cooperation and Collaboration in Mission: North American Case Studies for the International Missionary Council Centenary Study Process 1921-2021, April 2021.

Faculty Board/Steering Committee, Classics for the Emerging World: Symposium India, Global Symposium of Columbia University, held in Indore-Delhi, India, Jan 7 – 17, 2020.

Organizer (with Al Amana Center), the Oman Pilgrimage Trip and Seminars in Oman, Dec. 27 2019 – Jan. 6, 2020.

Video Presentation, “Underwood and Kwang-myung Li Church” at the 15^th Underwood Orchestra Annual Concert at Chodae Community Church, NJ, November 10, 2019.

Paper and Video Presentations, “Film and Christian Mission in Korea” at the ASM (American Society of Missiology) Eastern Fellowship Conference, Visualizing Mission, held at Maryknolls, NY on November 1-2, 2019.

Faculty Board/Steering Committee, Symposium Taiwan at National Taiwan Normal and Taiwan National Universities with Global Symposium of Columbia University, held in Taipei, Taiwan, May 26 – June 3, 2019.

Organizing Committee, the 12^th Underwood International Symposium in Seoul (Keynote Speaker: Sarah Coakley, Cambridge University) May-June, 2019.

Planning/Steering Committee of the 1^st Symposium Taiwan, attended the meetings held at Taiwan National, Taiwan Normal, and Tainan Universities in Taiwan, Jan. 8-14, 2019.

Presentation with Video Clip, “NBTS and Yonsei University” for the 14^th Underwood Orchestra Annual Concert at Chodae Community Church, NJ, November 11, 2018.

Organizer, the Second Annual Underwood Lecture & Symposium, Liberating Missions: A Model for the 21^st Century(Keynote Speaker: David Emmanuel Goatley, Lott Carey Mission/Duke Univ.; Panelists: Lott Carey Mission members of NBTS, i.e., Greg Jackson, Angelita Clifton, Jacqueline E. Madison-McCreary, and Terry Ann Smith), NBTS Chapel & Hageman Hall, October 6, 2018.

Speaker/Panelist, “Mencius as Pedagogical Tool in Inter-religious Dialogue,” Paper presented at the invitation of the International Conference on Global General Education and Asian Texts of the Association for Core Texts & Courses, Concordia University, CA, on July 16, 2018. 

“Church & Civil Society from a Missiological Standpoint: Horace G. Underwood and Neo-Confucian Dialogue on Church and Civil Society”: Paper Presentation and Lecture, 2018 IRTI (International Reformed Theology Institute) International Conference on The Church and Civil Society held at Vrije Universiteit / PThU, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 7, 2018.

Panelist and a Paper Proposal presented at the First International Symposium on One World? Wrestling with Theological Dualism and Fallibilism in Intercultural Contexts of Modernity held at the Overseas Ministries Study Center and Yale University, New Haven, CT, November 15–16, 2017.

Directorial Report, “Underwood and NBTS” with a Video Presentation for the 13^th Underwood Orchestra Annual Concert at Chodae Community Church, NJ, November 12, 2017.

Co-chair, Steering Committee of the Centenary Conference of the American Society of Missiology Eastern Fellowship, Maryknoll, NY, October 2017.

Six-Lecture Series, Korean Christianity in Global Christian Historical and Missiological Perspectives, at the Overseas Ministries Study Center, New Haven, CT, September 2017.

Organizer, Inaugural Underwood Lecture & Symposium, Missiological Challenges in a Globalized Context (Keynote Speaker: Loida I. Martell; Panelists: Ravi David, Kola Michael Kehinde, and Thomas John Hastings), NBTS Chapel & Hageman Hall April 1, 2017.

Organizer (with Al Amana Center), the Oman Pilgrimage Trip and Seminars in Oman, Dec. 24 2016 – Jan. 3, 2017.

Steering Committee/Directorial Report, “Waters from the Same Rock” with Video Presentation for the 12^th Underwood Orchestra Annual Concert at Chodae Church, NJ, November 13, 2016. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THjyc5cqUOA)

“Education for Christian Mission at New Brunswick Theological Seminary since 1993,”  Speaker/Panelist, 99th Annual Conference organized by American Society of Missiology Eastern Fellowship, Maryknoll, NY, October 2016.

“Aesthetics and Ethos of East Asian Han,” Keynote Speaker, 30th Anniversary Celebration of PWCA (Philadelphia Women’s Community Association) in Blue Bell, PA, September 10, 2016.

Delegate, The Second Chinese Christian leadership Conference called China Mission 2030 held in Jeju, Korea, September 2016.

“Migration and the Mission of the Church: Case Studies from NBTS Mission History & NY Mission House,” Paper Presentation and Lecture, 2016 IRTI (International Reformed Theology Institute) Conference on Migration and Churchheld at Vrije Universiteit / PThU, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2016.

Yanghwajin: Calvary of Korean Christianity, Keynote Speaker, Three-Day Annual Revival Worship Rally of the Reformed Church of America of New York, April 8-10, 2016.

Steering Committee/Directorial Report on the “Commemorative International Joint Conference on 130th Anniversary of Appenzeller-Underwood Mission in Korea” for the 11^th Underwood Orchestra Annual Concert at Chodae Community Church, NJ, November 15, 2015.

“Ecumenical Interculturation and the Future of NBTS–Reformed Church Partnership,” Speaker, 15th Anniversary Congratulatory Forum of the Institute of Reformed Theological Studies on Being Reformed While Becoming Even Moreheld at New Brunswick Theological Seminary, October 31, 2015.

“A Copernican Re-evaluation of Appenzeller-Underwood Mission in Korea” (written both in English and in Korean) as One of the four Keynote Speakers, Commemorative International Joint Conference on 130th Anniversary of Appenzeller-Underwood Mission in Korea for the Fourth Appenzeller International Academic Forum and the Eighth Annual International Underwood Symposium; co-sponsored by Drew University, New Brunswick Theological Seminary, Saemunan Church, and Jungdong Methodist Chuch, in Seoul, Korea, May 2015.

Directorial Report, “From Holy Hill to Light to the Community” PPT Presentation for the 10^th Underwood Orchestra Annual Concert at Chodae Community Church, NJ, November 16, 2014.

Participant and Running Committee, Seventh Underwood International Symposium on Reformed Worship Servicesorganized by Saemunan Church; Yonsei University; and New Brunswick Theological Seminary, Seoul, Korea, May 23-27, 2014.

“Columbia, UCAME, and the Global Core,” Speaker, the First International Conference of the Chinese Association of Liberal Education called Summit Forum on Chinese Liberal Education, organized by the Ministry of Education and Xibei National University, Xian, China, November 2012.

Participant (by invitation only), the First International Conference of the Chinese Association of Liberal Education called “Summit Forum on Chinese Liberal Education,” held in Xian, China, November 2012

Advisor, “Toward Interculturation: Pedagogy for an Emerging World,” at the University Seminar on Global & Interdisciplinary Core Curricula at Columbia University, April 23, 2012.

Advisor, on “Toward a Global Core: Great Teachers, Great Teachings, and Great Texts” at the 17^th Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts & Courses sponsored by Yale University, April 2011.

Advising Committee, the 16^th Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts & Courses co-sponsored by Columbia University, introduced Columbia/UCAME’s leadership in global core curricular approach and design, April 2010.

Participant (by invitation only), the Second International Conference for Liberal Education sponsored by the Ministry of Education and National Chiao-tung University, Taiwan, January 2010.

Participant, the 15^th Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts & Courses, April 2009.

Organizing Committee, First International Conference on Classics for An Emerging World organized by Association for Core Texts and Courses, USA; and the Committee for Asia and Middle East and the Heymen Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, January 2008

Participant (by invitation only), Workshop for Development of Multicultural Curricula on theme of “Human Nature & Natural World”, 2006, Heyman Center, Columbia University

Participant (by invitation only), Workshop for Development of Multicultural Curricula on theme of “Nobility & Civility”, 2005, Columbia University and Mellon Foundation

Honorary Chair, 17^th Annual A Light Community International Conference, 2005, Light Community International Foundation, NY

Honorary Chair, 16^th Annual A Light Community International Conference, 2004, Light Community International Foundation, NY

Co-Chair (w/ John Coakley, President of the Institute of Reformed Theological Studies), First Annual Underwood Conference, 2002

Member, Regional Seminar for Neo-Confucian Studies, Heyman Center for Humanities, NY, 1992-present