In the year 2003, we have committed to the following agenda:
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establishing a research framework as well as an organizational environment for each of the four projects;
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involving the larger project as a whole in the effort to design a database of cultural representations and historical materials on gender and modernity;
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to launch the pilot for our planned macro scale panel surveys on gender equality in selected countries in Asia;
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to convene an inter-project symposium,“Perceptions of Asia
and Gender,” with the intent of facilitating firm linkages
among campus research projects;
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creating a support systems for junior scholars and graduate students;
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launching the F-GENS website as a means of disseminating our results and information globally and
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establishing an international advisory committee composed of prominent scholars.
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Our plan for 2004 calls for work to continue in each of the four sub-projects as well as heightened attention to the inter-group tasks of the database on cultural representations and the panel surveys. This year we will also convene a symposium with the objective of sharing the sub-groups findings with the larger Project research community. We will initiate the Advisory Committee's first program review of our achievements. On the basis of the Committee's findings and our own evaluation of our progress we will review and map out the second stage of our project.
We project that the years 2005 and 2006 will be spent pursuing inter-project activities and finely focused sub-project level research programs. Furthermore, three kinds of symposia organized to produce (1) interim report, (2) inter-disciplinary dialogue, and (3) a policy proposal will be held. These symposia are expected to consolidate the four research projects into a coherent whole.
The final year of the project is devoted to summing up our five-year research and producing outcomes in the form of publications.
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