• Lee Myung-bak, Cheonan, and the New Cold War
  NZ Asian Studies conference, Massey University 2-4 July 2011

• Valuing multiculturalism? Government and business engagement with the challenge of multiculturalism
  Interrogating Multiculturalism in Aotearoa/New Zealand: An Asian Studies Perspective,
  University of Otago, Dunedin, 19-20 February 2011
  With Val Lindsay and Lay Peng Tan
  Scheduled to be published by Otago University Press in 2012

• Agents of Globality: The Role of Cultural Intermediaries in the Wine Markets of Japan and Singapore
  26th IMP Conference: Business Networks - Globality, Regionality, Locality, Budapest, 1-3 September 2010
  (with Michel Rod and Nick Ellis)

2009

• The strange affair of Mr Wallace, the UNDP and the DPRK
  4th Joint East Asian Studies Conference, Sheffield University, 8-10 September 2009.

• Memo to Helen Clark, Administrator, UNDP: Consider the Curious Affair of Mr. Wallace, the UNDP and the DPRK
  18th Biennial New Zealand Asian Studies Society International Conference, Victoria University of Wellington, 6-8 July 2009

2008

• Asymmetrical knowledge management in a cross-cultural business alliance: L&T’s engagement with New Zealand [with Michel Rod]
  ‘Doing Business in India’ conference, IFIM Business School, Bangalore, 18-19 December 2008

• The Koreas’ search for international legitimacy
  British Association of Korean Studies Conference
  Cambridge, 8-10 September 2008

• American decline and its impact on Indian foreign policy
  20th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies
  Manchester, 8-11 July 2008

• State, Globalisation and Imperialism: the case of North Korea
  British Political Studies Association,
  Swansea April 1-3, 2008

• Offshoring of services and the mounting challenge to the Washington Consensus
  European International Business Association
  Catania, Italy, 13-15 December, 2007

• Beyond Lips and Teeth: The wider framework of the China-North Korea relationship
  China and Korea: Competing Images and Contending Issues.
  New Zealand Asia Institute at the University of Auckland and the Asian Studies Institute of Victoria University of Wellington, University of Auckland,19-20 November 2007.

• The North Korea-China Relationship: Context and Dynamics Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (IHSS), and Centre for Asian Pacific Studies (CAPS), at Lingnan University, ‘China and Korea: A New Nexus in East Asia?’, Hong Kong, 30-31 May 2007

• Unrealised Potential and Potential Realisation: The Economic and Business Relationship New Zealand and India: Migration, perceptions and relations, Asian Studies Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, 16 February 2007

• The Emerging Asian Titans: China and India and the Transformation of the International Business Environment Annual conference of the Australia and New Zealand International Business Academy, Victoria University of Wellington, November 2006 [with Jinyi Shao]

• US, China, and the Korean Peninsula: Implications for Argentina Center for Korean Studies, Department of Asian and Pacific Studies, National University of La Plata, La Plata, Argentina Second National Congress on Korean Studies, 24-5 August 2006
  Presentation

• Convoluted Contestations: The United States, China and the Two Koreas 2006 Conference of the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, June 16-18, 2006
• Harmony and Discordance: The Two Koreas Korea Peninsula Workshop, Lingnan University, Hong Kong 11 May, 2006

• Entering the Indian Market: Myth and Reality British Association of South Asian Studies, Birkbeck College, London, 19-21 April 2006

• Japan-North Korea Relations and the Realignment of Power and Policy in Asia 16th New Zealand Asian Studies Society International Conference, Waikato University, 21-23 November 2005

• Japan's Soft Power Dilemmas Globalization, Localization and Japanese Studies in the Asia Pacific Region, The Department of Japanese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 30 September -2 October 2005

• Japan, North Korea and the East Asia confrontation British Association of Japanese Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, 6-8 September, 2005

• The mysterious death of the Pyongyang Declaration Korean Studies Association of Australasia, University of Auckland, 14-15 July, 2005, pp. 324-337

• Global Expansion of Chinese MNCs: Conceptualisation and Context International Conference on the Chinese Economy: Transition, Growth and Globalisation, University of Western Australia, Perth, 7-8 July, 2005 (Proceedings in preparation)

• Looking back to the future: Hai'er, Lenovo and SAIC in historical context CIMaR:"International Marketing Challenges in the XXIst century", Autonomous University of Barcelona, May 29-31, 2005 (unpaginated CD)

• The Management Challenge of Realising Purchaser-Provider Cooperation in the UK Public Healthcare Sector The 9th International Conference on Global Business and Economic Development, Management Challenges in Times of Global Change and Uncertainty, May 25-28, 2005, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, pp. 1058-1068 [with Janet Carruthers, Nicholas J. Ashill and Michel Rod]

• Looking back to the future: Hai'er, Lenovo and SAIC in historical context The 9th International Conference on Global Business and Economic Development, Management Challenges in Times of Global Change and Uncertainty, May 25-28, 2005, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, pp. 2053-2063

• Japan-North Korea relations within the six party context, 13th Annual Japan Politics Colloquium, East Asia Institute of Cambridge University, 12 to 13th April 2005

• Coming to Terms with Trade: Exploring the Implications of NZ's Economic Relationship with Asia , Asia in NZ Symposium, University of Otago, 6-7 February 2005

• Pyongyang goes to market: Marketisation of the North Korean economy Virtue in Marketing, Academy of Marketing, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, July 2004
  (Proceedings on unpaginated CD)

• The challenge of opportunity Small business and their websites - evidence from New Zealand , Managing in a Volatile Environment: Balancing Local and Global Challenges , The 8th International Conference on Global Business and Economic Development , 7-10 January, 2004, Guadalajara, Mexico
  With Moha Asri Abdullah, in absentia

• Positions, Policies and Prospects - a view from outside the Six, North Pacific Working Group of the Council for Security in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) , Renaissance Hotel, Seoul, 14-15 November 2003 (NZ representative)

• Small but beautiful: Small business and their websites - implications for training and education Management Education for the 21st Century: Managing Future Challenges, 10-12 September, 2003, Hanoi University of Technology and The National Economics University, supported by Swiss_AIT_Vietnam Management Development Programme
  (with Dan Ormond and Moha Asri Abdullah)

• North Pacific Working Group of the Council for Security in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP), Institute of East Studies, University of California, Berkeley 13-15 March 2003 (NZ representative)

• The Strategic Contributions of Small and Medium Enterprises to the Economies of Japan and Malaysia: Some Comparative Lessons for Malaysian SMEs The Seventh International Conference on Global Business and Economic Development, Strategies For Sustainable Globalization Business Responses To Regional Demands & Global Opportunities , Bangkok, Thailand, January 8-11, 2003, pp. 1337-1354 (with Moha Asri Abdullah)

• Small and Medium Enterprises and the Challenge of Rapid Technological Change: New Zealand SMEs and the Internet XII Betriebwirstschaftliche Tage zu Schwerin '02, Growth and securing of small and medium sized enterprises under changed conditions , Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, 24-25 October 2002

• SMEs in East Asia Catching up on the Digital Challenge: Simplicity, Focus, Synergy, The 6th Annual Asian-Pacific Forum for Small Business on Small and Medium Enterprises Linkages, Networking, And Clustering 16 - 18 October 2002, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• E-unification of Koreas: Dreams, Plans, and Realities Information Technology Revolution and National Security on the Korean Peninsula Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Hawai'i 8-10 October 2002
  presentation

• Out of the Shadows: Emerging Political and Civil Participation of the Chinese in New Zealand Asia Pacific Public Affairs Forum, Kaohsiung, 17-18 July 2002
  Presentations
  Out of the Shadows{ }Opportunities and Challenges - a New Zealand Perspective
  paper
  Post-election update (Asia 2000 site)

• Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Asia Pacific Countries: Evidence from Malaysia and New Zealand Centre for SME Research and Development, University of Wollongong, Australia, Sustaining SME Innovation, Competitiveness and Development in the Global Economy 12-13 July 2002, [with Moha Asri Abdullah]

• Japan's unresolved relationship with Asia British Association of Japanese Studies, Nottingham, 8-10 April 2002

• North Korea and the new strategic industries of the future: the case of ICT and tourism, NZ Asian Studies Society, 14th International Conference, University of Canterbury, 28 November-1 December, 2001
  presentation

• SMES, ICT, and Government: NZ Perspectives, Strategic Management for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Global and Digital Era, Asia-Pacific Forum for Small Business, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 15-16 November 2001, pp. 211-230
  presentation

• SMEs and Government Policies on e-commerce: lessons from Asia, The 6th International Conference on Global Business & Economic Development, States and Markets: Forging Partnerships for Sustainable Development, Bratislava, Slovakia, November 7-10, 2001
  presentation

• SMEs and the New Economy: Problems, Prospects and Policies, XI Betriebwirstschaftliche Tage zu Schwerin '01,Medium sized enterprises between Old and New Economy , Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, 25-26 October 2001
  presentation

• Is Kumgangsan the beginning or end of the road?: Prospects and Problems for the development of DPRK inbound international tourism, Korean Studies at the Dawn of the New Millennium, Korean Studies Association of Australasia, 24-25 September, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 121-138
  presentation

• The political economy of the global digital divide: implications for Asian SMEs, Internet and Development in Asia, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 14-15 September 2001 (not sequentially paginated)

• SMEs and e-commerce in East Asia: Implications for Management Education Management Education for the 21st Century, Swiss-AIT- Vietnam program, Ho Chi Minh City, 11-14 September, pp. 70-83

• Crossing boundaries: prospects and challenges for DPRK tourism, New Economic Policies of DPRK (North Korea), and Reconciliation Strategies between DPRK and USA , Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., 7-8 June 2001

• Service Quality and the Nature of the Internet: Conceptualisation and Implications, International Conference on Services and the Region,University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, 9-10 April 2001 (in absentia), pp. 12-16

• Commentary on The WTO and New Economy: How they are reforming Taiwan-Australian bilateral relations' by Yee-Tien (Ted) Fu, (discussant), School of Diplomacy, National Chengchi University, International Conference on APEC, WTO and Taiwan-Australia Relations in the 21st Century, Taipei, 18 November, 2000

• Sinews of Globalisation: Taiwan and global e-commerce, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Globalization and A World Village: Co-existence and Co-prosperity of Taiwan and Australia , Kaohsiung 13-14 November 2000

• The Internet: a revolution of rising expectations in service quality? X Betriebwirstschaftliche Tage zu Schwerin '00, Innovation and Competition in the service society - Start into the new millennium , Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, 26-27 October 2000, pp. 75-84

• SMEs and E-commerce in China: lessons from United States and Europe, Managing Global Business in the Internet Age, Beijing, 21-24 June 2000 Proceedings: pp. 132-146
  [in absentia]

• Economic and business dimensions of Indo-Pakistan relations, Department of Politics, University of Auckland, Global and regional implications of South Asian security March 2000

• Taiwanese business migration to New Zealand Workshop on the Chinese in Australia and New Zealand, Department of Chinese and Indonesian Studies, University of New South Wales, Sydney, February, 2000

• Asian nationalism in the Diaspora: The case of Taiwanese astronauts Asian Nationalisms in an Age of Globalisation NZ Asian Studies Society, 13th International Conference, Dunedin, November, 1999

• On the fault line: The DPRK between nationalism and globalisation Asian Nationalisms in an Age of Globalisation NZ Asian Studies Society, 13th International Conference, Dunedin, November, 1999

• Small and Medium sized companies and the World Wide Web IX Betriebwirstschaftliche Tage zu Schwerin '99, Zukunftstechnologien als Herausforderung und Chance für Erhalt und Wachstum mittelständischer Unternehmungen (Future Technologies as a Challenge and opportunity for the Upkeeping and Growth of mid-sized Companies), Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, 28-29 October 1999
  I am grateful to Conference Convenor Prof Dr Hans-Jorg Richter for financial support to attend this conference.

• SMEs and the Internet: Opportunities and Challenges, Small and Medium Enterprises at New Crossroads: Prospects and ChallengesCentre for Policy Research, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, 28-30 September 1999
  I am grateful to Chair in Malay Studies Victoria University of Wellington, for funding my attendance at this conference.

• Japanese Tourism to New Zealand: Recent statistics Wellington Conference New Zealand Studies Society Japan, 22 August 1999

• Liberalization of Indian foreign trade: following China through an open door into global markets?Managing Economic Liberalization in South Asia: Directions for the 21st Century, Montclair State University (USA) and Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (India), Chennai (Madras), India, August, 1998, Web version
  Proceedings: pp. 491-500
  I am grateful to Montclair State University for financial support to attend this conference

• Locating Asian information on the Web: The AsiaWeb Project International Convention of Asia Scholars Association for Asian Studies (USA) and The International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, June 1998 [with Mimi Recker]

• Asianists and the World Wide Web: Avenues for Exploration 12th International Asian Studies Conference, NZ Asian Studies Society, 26-29 November, 1997, Massey University, Palmerston North campus
  [with Mimi Recker]

• A Comparative Study of Taiwan's Relations with Canada and with New Zealand International Conference on Taiwan-Canada Relations in the 1990s, National Chengchi University, Taipei, November, 1997, Web version
  Subsequently published by National Chengchi University Foreign Relations Research Centre,(Guoli Zhengzhi Daxue Wiaojiao Yanjiuso, Jianada Yanjiu: Jiulingnian zhongjian guanxi), March 1998, pp 99-157
  I am grateful to the Pacific Cultural Foundation for funding to attend this conference

• The Colonial Daughters Leaving Home: Aspects of the NZ response to Asia in a Comparative Perspective Australasia/Canada: New Connections, Centre for Canadian Studies - UWS MacArthur and the Research Centre in Intercommunal Studies, UWS, Nepean, Sydney, October 1997
  An updated version of this paper was published in the NZ Journal of Asian Studies Vol 1, No 1, June 1999, pp. 7-41

• The Asiaweb Project Fifth International Conference on Japanese Information in Science, Technology and Commerce, Library of Congress, Washington, July 30 - August 1, 1997, [with Mimi Recker] preprints: pp. 37-43
  An amended version of this paper 'Harnessing the user community for Website location and evaluation' has been published in East Asian Library Resources Group of Australia Newsletter, No 35 November 1997, 3-19
  I am grateful to the US Department of Commerce for funding my attendance at this conference

• Greater China: Competition and Complementarity China Business Conference, University of International Business and Economics (Beijing) and Montclair State University (USA), Beijing, June 1997, Web version Proceedings: pp. 319-325; Published in Jayachandran and Lin (eds), The Managerial Process and Impact of Foreign Investment in Greater China, Stamford, CO, JAI Press, 1999, pp. 19-29
  I am grateful to Montclair State University for financial support to attend this conference

• Corruption, Development and Maturity: A Perspective on South Korea Asian Forum on Business Education, Phuket, June 1997, Web version [with Sallie Yea]

• The Virtual Citizen Bridging Cultures, Building Partnerships: The Future of Asia Pacific Societies ,Inaugural Conference of the Asia-Pacific Public Affairs Forum (APPAF) Kaohsiung, May 1997, pp 18-30 Web version
  I am grateful to APPAF for funding my attendance at this conference

• The Web as an authentic, collaborative design tool for Marketing education Cause in Australasia conference Information Technology- the Enabler, Melbourne, April 1997 [with Mimi Recker]

• The NZ-Japan Relationship: Past Successes, Future Challenges Kansai Society of NZ Studies, Kyoto, December 1996, [with Guergana Guermanoff]; published in the Journal of the Society, Dec 1997
  I am grateful to the NZ Council for Teacher Education and the NZ Centre for Japanese Studies for financial support to attend this conference.

• Korea and New Zealand: A fast moving relationship, The Third Pacific and Asia Conference on Korean Studies (PACKS), Sydney, July 1996
  I am grateful to the PACKS conference organisers for funding my attendance at this conference.

• The Japan-New Zealand Relationship: Maturity, Vulnerability, Decline? British Association of Japanese Studies, Oxford, April 1996

FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES

None planned except possible presentations in Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch in early 2012

• From one Cold War to Another – the role of Korea
  National University of Singapore 31 October 2011

• Korea's FTAs and their implications for the Korean wine market
  Hankuk University, 19 October 2010
  KIEP, 25 October 2010
  Sogang University, 27 October 2010
  

• Asia and the Transformation of the Global Economy
  European Overseas Campus of University of Flensburg, Udayana University, Bali, 2008, 2009

• Beyond Lips and Teeth: The wider framework of the China-North Korea relationship
  NZ China Friendship Society, Wellington, 29 October 2008

• North Korea: prospects for peace
  United Nations Association, Wellington Branch, Thursday 12 July 2007
  PowerPoint presentation

• Asia and the Transformation of the Global Economy
  European Overseas Campus of University of Flensburg, Udayana University, Bali, 14-18 May 2007

• The North Korea-US agreement - prospects for peace
  New Zealand Institute for International Affairs, Canterbury Branch, University of Canterbury, Tuesday 27 March 2007
  PowerPoint presentation

• Armageddon averted or just postponed? Political Economy Research Centre, University of Sheffield
  14 December 2006
  PowerPoint presentation

• Coming Unstuck: Are the Six Party Talks in terminal decline? Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London
  27 June 2006
  This presentation had to be cancelled because my arrival in England was delayed by bad weather in the US

• North Korea and the Boundaries of American Hegemony Institute for Policy Studies, Washington DC
  20 June 2006
  

• The Global Islamic Economy A rough estimate of the position of Islamic peoples in the global economy Seminar, Islam and the Global Economy, School of Marketing and International Business and Chair of Malay Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
  13 June 2006
  

• The New Asian Ascendancy and New Zealand School of Marketing and International Business, Victoria University of Wellington
  26 May 2006
  PowerPoint presentation

• North Korea, the United States, and the Six Party Talks New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, Dunedin
  18 May 2006
  

• The New Asian Ascendancy and New Zealand Asian Studies, University of Otago
  18 May 2006
  

• North Korea, American Power, and China , Beijing Bookworm, Beijing, China
  23 February 2006
  PowerPoint presentation

• Roots of the Crisis 'Japan, China and Korea: Past Ghosts, Current Problems and Future Prospects'; Roundtable organised by Asian Studies Institute, Victoria University of Wellington
  18 May 2005
  PowerPoint presentation

• Crisis on the Korean Peninsula
  Asia:NZ Foundation Korean Studies Programme; Briefing for Scholarship Students Wellington
  17 February 2005
  PowerPoint presentation
  Handout cover

• Peace on the Korean peninsula - a NZ perspective Faculty of International Studies, Hiroshima City University
  2 November 2004
  PowerPoint presentation

• Asia 201-North Korea- Asian Studies Institute, Victoria University of Wellington,
  Presentation for Asia 201 - Contemporary Asian Society - 20 September 2004
  PowerPoint presentation

• North Korea- Building Bridges Asian Studies Institute, Victoria University of Wellington and NZ Institute of International Affairs, 21 July 2004
  PowerPoint presentation

• Things familiar, things different: Easter in Pyongyang
  Presentation for Wellington Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa/New Zealand, St Mathews Church, Brooklyn, 20 July 2004

• Korean Impasse II English Language Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, 2 June 2004
  PowerPoint presentation

• North Korea April 2004 , Report to the Council for International Development, and the Wellington NGO community, 14 May 2004
  PowerPoint presentation

• The Contrived Korean Crisis- Causes And Prospects , address to annual meeting of the International Committee of Service Civil International, Seoul, 11 December 2003
  PowerPoint presentation

• International Marketing in the Internet Age Department of Business Administration, Hanyang University, Seoul, 19 November 2003
  PowerPoint presentation

• Korean Impasse English Language Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, 14 May 2003
  PowerPoint presentation

• Giving as Good as You Get: North Korea and the Bush Doctrine National Consultative Committee on Disarmament, Wellington, 9 May 2003

• Crisis in Korea: Causes and Prospects Asia Forum, Wellington, 19 March 2003
  Notice

• Democratic People's Republic of Korea: Current situation, its background and future prospects NZ Defence Force Junior Staff Course No 66, Wednesday 12 February 2003
  PowerPoint presentation

• ICT in North Korea Korean Studies Centre, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, 19 November 2002

• Japan's unresolved relationship with Asia: the case of Korea Asian Studies Institute, Wellington, 24 May 2002
  PowerPoint presentation

• DPR Korea - Historical context and current developments, NZ Institute of International Affairs, Wellington, 26 September 2001
  PowerPoint presentation

• The Internet and Service Quality: the education context, The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, Lower Hutt, 21 March, 2001

• Food Situation in the DPRK Workshop on current situation in DPRK, Wellington, 20 July, 1999

• Asian Studies in New Zealand Kapiti Adult Learning ProgrammeParaparaumu, 28 September 1998

• Indian market for overseas education Restoring Confidence, NZ Education International Conference, Wellington, 28 August,1998

• North Korea in April 1998
  • The Asia Forum, Wellington, 6 May 1998
  • NZ Institute of International Affairs, Wellington, 28 May 1998 Notes

• The Indian Economy India Day '98, Wellington, 31 January 1998

• NZ, Australia and Canada: the Asia connection NZ Institute of International Affairs, Hamilton Branch, 17 December, 1997