On Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 1 and 2, Jackson will be the location of a follow-up conference involving a multi-national group of government and security officials who are concluding an in-depth examination of critical Asian energy security issues that was begun last year.
Basic information on that 2006 conference held at Mississippi State may be reviewed at www.msstate.edu/web/media/detail.php?id=3347.
Like the first conference, next week's program is organized by the university's Janos Radvanyi Center for International Security and Strategic Studies, in cooperation with the Center for U.S.-Japan Studies and Cooperation at Vanderbilt University and Japan's Okazaki Institute.
All but one part of the two-day Jackson event will be held at the downtown Marriott Hotel. That single session--a 6:30 p.m. keynote address on the 1st by retired U.S. Navy Adm. Thomas Fargo--will take place at the nearby University Club.
A complete 2007 schedule is available at www.msstate.edu/chair/radvanyi/upcoming.html.
The Jackson conference is not a public event, but interested members of the news media are invited to attend. To ensure adequate seating, reporters and other news staff members planning to attend are asked to contact the Radvanyi Center as soon as possible at 662-648-8436.
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.
