From jsis@u.washington.edu Mon Nov 15 08:54:19 2004 Received: from mxi3.u.washington.edu (mxi3.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.176]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.13.1+UW04.08/8.13.1+UW04.08) with ESMTP id iAFGsJpA057414 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:54:19 -0800 Received: from mxout5.cac.washington.edu (mxout5.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.135]) by mxi3.u.washington.edu (8.13.1+UW04.08/8.13.1+UW04.09) with ESMTP id iAFGsHmg001530 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:54:18 -0800 Received: from mailhost1.u.washington.edu (mailhost1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.141]) by mxout5.cac.washington.edu (8.13.1+UW04.08/8.13.1+UW04.09) with ESMTP id iAFGsHbg016331 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:54:17 -0800 Received: from BEVERLYW (D-128-95-200-98.dhcp4.washington.edu [128.95.200.98]) by mailhost1.u.washington.edu (8.13.1+UW04.08/8.13.1+UW04.08) with SMTP id iAFGsGd4013689 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:54:16 -0800 Message-ID: <01b401c4cb33$be371cb0$62c85f80@jsis.washington.edu> From: "Jackson School of International Studies" To: "JSIS - Calendar" Subject: The Jacksojn School Calendar (HTML) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:54:16 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_01B0_01C4CAF0.B00C3B90"; type="multipart/alternative" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__C230066_P5 0, __CT 0, __CTYPE_HAS_BOUNDARY 0, __CTYPE_MULTIPART 0, __CTYPE_MULTIPART_ALT 0, __EXTRA_MPART_TYPE_1 0, __EXTRA_MPART_TYPE_N1 0, __FRAUD_419_BADTHINGS 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_MSMAIL_PRI 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __HAS_X_PRIORITY 0, __KNOWN_SPAMMER_ADDRESS_5 0, __MIME_HTML 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __NEXTPART_ALL 0, __NEXTPART_NORMAL 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_01B0_01C4CAF0.B00C3B90 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_01B1_01C4CAF0.B00C3B90" ------=_NextPart_001_01B1_01C4CAF0.B00C3B90 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable the=20 JACKSON SCHOOL CALENDAR -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - November 15, 2004 A brief look ahead. Scroll down for complete details. * Unless stated otherwise, all events will take place on the main = campus of the=20 University of Washington, Seattle. The Jackson School sponsorship of an event does not imply that the = School endorses=20 the content of an event. =20 Click here to receive the JSIS Calendar by email November 16 What's Charitable about Ottoman Charity? =20 Mourning the Past: Violence and Public Sphere in = Post-Authoritarian Indonesia. Film: Flowers and the Wall =20 November 17 FIUTS CulturalFest: Celebrate our World =20 Sublime Darkness in Heian Diary Literature=20 =20 Russian foreign policy and U.S. Russian Relations =20 November 18 Recent Publications on/in Kazakhstan: Kazakh Autobiographies = and Memoirs =20 Objects, Spectacle and Nation-on-Display at the Nanyang = Exposition of 1910. Cities in Early Modern and Modern China Lecture = Series =20 Actions on behalf of the women of Ciudad Juarez =20 November 19 Collective Agriculture and Fertility Decline in Rural China, = 1965-95 =20 November 19-24 State of Art Slovenian Film, Art, Music and Literature = Festival. Northwest Film Forum =20 November 21 Paradise Lost =20 Governing With Judges: Constitutional Politics in Europe =20 November 22 Radical Sheik and Islamic Activism in Europe and = Beyond. =20 December 2 The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism, New Books in Print = Series =20 Factional Politics and Credible Dis-inflationary Policy in = China =20 =20 December 5 Northern Lights Music for the Holiday Season from the Baltic = & Nordic Countries =20 December 6 Understanding Israeli Strategy: A Palestinian = Persective =20 December 7 Southerners and Northerners, Book Reading by Lee Ho-chul =20 December 8 Who Rules, and Which Virtues: On Religious Bonds, State = Boundaries, and Legalism =20 December 11 Northern Lights Music for the Holiday Season from the Baltic = & Nordic Countries =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - Full Listings 2004 =20 November 8-22 The Heritage of the Russian North. HUB Art Gallery, UW. = Exhibition: Photographs by William Craft Brumfield. "North" in Russia is = a broad concept, but many Russians understand it as a historic region = defined by a network of rivers and lakes leading to the White Sea. It is = here that ecology, history, and culture have combined to create an area = of harsh extremes and extraordinary beauty. Northern towns such as = Vologda and Arkhangelsk, Totma and Velikii Ustiug played a great role = not only in sustaining Russia's cultural and economic development during = the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but also in the settlement of = distant Siberia and the expansion of trading paths to Western Europe. = Today, questions of architectural preservation have become especially = urgent in view of the large number of log structures in this region. The = photographer can only work with those remnants of the past that time and = fate have spared. Yet despite the many losses inflicted on the northern = cultural heritage during recent decades, and despite its rapidly = decreasing rural population, the Russian North endures. Sponsored by The = Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies Center/JSIS, = Architecture, Slavic Languages & Literatures, UW Press and the UW = Library.=20 November 8-22 The Kyrgyz: Traditional Herders in the Modern World. HUB Art = Gallery, UW. Exhibition: Photographs by Daniel Waugh. The Kyrgyz home is = the mountain knot of the Tian-Shan and Pamir ranges, straddling the = borders of Kyrgyzstan and western Xinjiang (China). Their lifestyle has = changed little over time. This exhibition features portraits of people = for whom hospitality to strangers, maintaining strong family ties, and a = deeply rooted sense of community are essential aspects of their lives. = The challenge I faced as a photographer was to break through the shy = reserve and stiffness that the sight of a camera produces, to evoke the = warmth and the smiling inner self. I have tried to capture the Kyrgyz = herders' daily lives with all its "modern" contradictions. Sponsored by = The Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies Center/JSIS. For = more information, contact REECAS at 206-543-4852 or email = reecas@u.washington.edu. =20 November 16 What's Charitable about Ottoman Charity? 3:30 PM, 317 Thomson. = Speaker: Amy Singer, Associate Professor, Department of History, Tel = Aviv University. Sponsored by the Middle East Center. Contact: = 206-543-4227.=20 =20 November 16 Film and Lecture Series: Mourning the Past: Violence and Public = Sphere in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia. Film: Flowers and the Wall. = 7:00 PM-9:00 PM (Doors open at 6:30 PM), 206 Communications. Organizer = and Moderator: Fadjar I. Thufail, Rockefeller Foundation Resident = Fellow, Project for Critical Asian Studies, UW. The Film Flowers and the = Wall is directed by Atnike Nova Sigiro Color, 35 mins, 2004, Indonesian = with English subtitles. This film documents the struggle for justice by = victims of New Order violence. Facilitated by Elsam, a human rights = organization, the victims launch a long and tiring effort to establish a = network among victims of different cases of human rights abuse, from = those who were imprisoned in 1965-1966 to the families of students who = were killed during the student demonstrations in 1997-1998. The film = depicts this endeavor as they travel across the country to identify, = make a connection with, and talk to fellow victims of New Order = violence. The initiative peaks when Elsam and the victims successfully = organized a National Gathering of Victims of New Order Violence in 2003. = This film shows how this emotional and unprecedented event represents = the continuous and painstaking effort of violence to hold the State = accountable for various past human rights abuses. Mourning the Past, = launches a series of film screenings and discussions about violence, = testimony, and the Indonesian public sphere. The Indonesian public has = recently turned to documentary films as one way to deal with the legacy = of past violence. The discussion following each film screening seeks to = explore how and in what way documentary films can serve to mediate = trauma and memory of past violence brought about by the hasty political = transformation over the last few years in Indonesia. Sponsored by the = Project for Critical Asian Studies and the Simpson Center for the = Humanities. Lecture Co-sponsored by the Southeast Asia Center. For more = info please visit: = http://depts.washington.edu/critasia/events.htm#November_2004 The series is free and open to the public =20 November 17 FIUTS CulturalFest: Celebrate our World. 12:00-6:00 PM, HUB West = Ballroom. CulturalFest is an annual event where the international = community at the UW will display their culture and tradition. There will = be booths representing each country or region and a cultural talent show = will follow. Following are details of the event.=20 Time: Booths: 12:00-4:00 PM, Talent show: 4:00-6:00 PM. Admission: = FREE!=20 For more info, email Aimi aimisas@u.washington.edu or Katie = info@fiuts.org=20 =20 November 17=20 =20 Sublime Darkness in Heian Diary Literature. 3:30-5:00 PM, 226 = Communications Bldg. Speaker: Dr. Sudeshna Sen. Sponsored by the Asian = Languages and Literature Colloquium.=20 =20 November 17 Russian foreign policy and U.S. Russian Relations. 6:30-8:00 PM, = 110 Kane Hall. Speaker: Ambassador Jack Matlock. REECAS and the = Foundation for the Russian American Economic Group welcome Ambassador = Jack Matlock, former ambassador to the Soviet Union. Ambassador Matlock = will speak on. For additional information, call (206) 543 4852. =20 November 18 Recent Publications on/in Kazakhstan: Kazakh Autobiographies and = Memoirs. Speaker: Dr. Ilse D. Cirtautas. 12:30-1:30 PM, 215 Denny Hall.=20 Dr. Cirtautas is from the Department of Near Eastern Languages & = Civilization. =20 November 18 Cities in Early Modern and Modern China Lecture Series. Objects, = Spectacle and Nation-on-Display at the Nanyang Exposition of 1910. = 3:30-5:00 PM, 317 Thomson Hall. Speaker: Susan Fernsebner, Assistant = Professor of History, University of Mary Washington. Sponsors: The = China Studies Program and the East Asia Center. For more information, = contact abernier@u.washington.edu, (206) 543-4391. =20 November 19 Collective Agriculture and Fertility Decline in Rural China, = 1965-95. 12:30-2:00 PM, Denny Hall, Room 401. Speaker: Stevan Harrell, = Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington = (Co-Authors: Han Hua and Zhou Yingying. Sponsor: CSDE Colloquium Series = Fall 2004. For more information, contact csde@u.washington.edu, (206) = 616-7743. November 19-24 Slovenian Film, Art, Music and Literature Festival. Northwest Film = Forum, 1515 12th Avenue. The Northwest Film Forum and Scala House Press = (Seattle) announce State of Art, a festival of recent film, music, art = and literature from Slovenia. Sixteen of Slovenia's most outstanding new = feature films, documentaries, and short subjects will be screened. For = additional information, about these events, including films, screening = times and locations, see http://www.nwfilmforum.org/slovenia/film.htm. =20 November 21 Paradise Lost. 7:00 PM, Ethnic Cultural Theater, 3940 Brooklyn Ave = NE, in Seattle's University District. By Ebtisam Maraana, 2003. 56 = minutes. Filmmaker Ebtisam Mara'ana grew up in Paradise (Fureidis in = Arabic). This thought-provoking and intimate film diary follows the = director's attempt to recreate her village's lost history, including the = story of her childhood hero Suuad, who was imprisoned as a PLO activist = in the 1970's and banished from the community. The director's = frustration builds as her questions are resisted but she presses for = truth. Presenting the rarely heard voice of an Arab Israeli, this = important film offers valuable insight into the contradictions and = complexities of modern womanhood and national identity in the Middle = East. Followed by the short film And A Woman of Determination, 28 mins. = Nuha Mousa, local activist and sister of Bethlehem journalist Suheir = Ismail, will discuss the many, changing roles of women in Palestine and = the importance of Palestinians documenting their own lives and struggle. = Suggested Donation $10/ All Welcome. Part of the film series = "PALESTINE: THE PEOPLE: Films that reveal the complexities and dynamics = of being Palestinian." Brought to you by Hayaat and Palestine = Solidarity Committee. Sponsored by B & O Espresso and Zaina Food, Drink = and Friends. FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: 206-633-1086 = www.palestineinformation.org=20 =20 November 22=20 =20 Radical Sheik and Islamic Activism in Europe and Beyond. = 12:30-2:00 PM, 110-C Savery Hall. Speaker: Dr. Charles Kurzman. Dr. = Kurzman is a professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill = and is a specialist in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. Why are there = so few Islamist terrorists? The question may sound absurd, but it is = worth asking why a billion Muslims have generated such a small number of = "martyrs." This presentation explores one approach to this issue: the = possibility that much of the Islamists' support comes in the form of = "radical chic" that does not translate from fashion statement to = political action. Sponsor: the Center for West European Studies. For = more information call (206) 543-1675 or email cwes@u.washington.edu=20 =20 November 30 Governing With Judges: Constitutional Politics in Europe. = 12:30-2:00 PM, the Petersen Room 4th Floor Allen Library. Speaker: Dr. = Alec Stone Sweet. Dr. Stone Sweet, a UW Alum, is from the Yale Center = for International and Area Studies at Yale University. Sponsors: the = Center for West Eueopean Studies. For additional information, call (206) = 543-1675 or email cwes@u.washington.edu. =20 December 2 The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism, New Books in Print = Series. 3:30-5:00 PM, 202 Communications. Speaker: Tani Barlow, = Professor, Department of History and Women Studies, University of = Washington. In this history of thinking about the subject of women in = twentieth-century China, Barlow illustrates the theories and conceptual = categories that Enlightenment Chinese intellectuals have developed to = describe the collectivity of women. Demonstrating how generations of = these theorists have engaged with international debates over eugenics, = gender, sexuality, and the psyche, Barlow argues that as an = Enlightenment project, feminist debate in China is at once Chinese and = international. Sponsor: Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the = Humanities. For more information, contact (206) 543-3920. =20 December 2 Factional Politics and Credible Dis-inflationary Policy in China. = 3:30-5:00 PM, 317 Thomson Hall. Speaker: Victor Shih, Assistant = Professor, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University. = Sponsor: The China Studies Program. For more information, contact = abernier@u.washington.edu, (206) 543-4391. December 5 Northern Lights Music for the Holiday Season from the Baltic & = Nordic Countries. 2:30 PM & 7:30 PM, Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Avenue, = Seattle. Seattle Pro Musica presents showcases Baltic and Nordic music, = evoking the northern lights of the winter season. The program covers a = millennium of Baltic and Nordic choral music. General admission $18 in = advance, $21 at the door, Seniors $13 in advance, $16 at the door and = Student tickets are always $10. For more information please call (206) = 781-2766. =20 December 6 Understanding Israeli Strategy: A Palestinian Persective. 7:00 PM, = 220 Kane Hall. Speaker: Michael Tarazi, legal adviser to the Palestine = Liberation Organization. Co-sponsored by Palestine Solidarity Committee, = Voices of Palestine, Arab Student Union, Friends of Sabeel, Muslim = Student Association, Palestine Concerns Group, Middle East Center. Info: 206-633-1086.=20 =20 December 7 Southerners and Northerners, Book Reading by Novelist Lee Ho-chul. = 6:30-8:00 PM, =20 A-102 Auditorium, Physics-Astronomy Bldg. Speaker: Lee Ho-Chul, = Korean Novelist. Shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War, Lee = Ho-Chul was drafted into the North Korean army. "Southerners, = Northerners" (Namny k saram pungny k saram) is a fictionalized account = of his inglorious yet dramatic experiences as a raw recruit and, soon = afterward, as a prisoner of war. Beginning with some fascinating = vignettes of North Korean high school life and ending with a narrow = escape from death, the story offers a unique perspective on the early = phases of the war and its everyday realities, from the tragic to the = farcical. While this and other works of Lee Ho-Chul have been = translated into many languages, this is the first time a complete novel = by this major figure in contemporary Korean literature has been = published in English. The novel won the prestigious Daesan Literary = Award for Fiction when it was published in 1996. The English = translation has been prepared in close consultation with the author. = Lee Ho-Chul was born in Weonsan, in what is now North Korea, in 1932. = He served in the North Korean Army in the Korean War until taken = prisoner. He made his way South by boat in 1950 and worked in the = mid-1950s as a guard at a U.S. Army base. He debuted on the literary = scene in 1955 with his short story "Away From Home," embarking on a = remarkable literary career that has now moved into its fifth decade. = Lee is a member of the Republic of Korea National Academy of the Arts = and the recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious Modern = Literature Award for "Panmunjom" and the Dongin Prize for "Wasting = Away." Lee Ho-Chul has lived in the South, forcibly separated from his = family in the North, for over fifty years. Lee's fiction movingly = portrays the social and political conditions he has lived through and = has made him one of Korea's leading literary figures today. Sponsors: = The Korea Studies Program, the East Asia Center and the University Book = Store. For more information, contact abernier@u.washington.edu, (206) = 543-4391. December 8 Who Rules, and Which Virtues: On Religious Bonds, State = Boundaries, and Legalism. 3:30-5:00 PM, 202 Communications Bldg. = Speaker: Prof. Gad Barzilai, Tel Aviv University. December 11 Northern Lights Music for the Holiday Season from the Baltic & = Nordic Countries. 3:00 PM & 8:00 PM, Chapel at Bastyr University, 14500 = Juanita Drive NE, Bothell. Seattle Pro Musica presents showcases Baltic = and Nordic music, evoking the northern lights of the winter season. The = program covers a millennium of Baltic and Nordic choral music. General = admission $18 in advance, $21 at the door, Seniors $13 in advance, $16 = at the door and Student tickets are always $10. For more information = please call (206) 781-2766. -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - =20 Abbreviations and Web site addresses for more detailed = information: =20 Asian L&L=20 Department of Asian Languages & Literature =20 =20 CANSTUD=20 Canadian Studies Program/JSIS = http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/canada/canada.html =20 =20 CASG=20 Central Asian Studies Group/NELC=20 =20 CIBER Center for International Business Education & Research =20 =20 CSDE=20 Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology=20 =20 CPHRS=20 Center for Public Health Research & Evaluation =20 =20 CWES=20 Center for West European Studies, JSIS = http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/cwesuw/index.html =20 =20 EUC=20 European Union Center = http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/europe/euc.html =20 =20 GEOG=20 Dept. of Geography =20 http://depts.washington.edu/geog/news/colloquium.html=20 =20 GTI =20 Institute of Transnational Studies = http://depts.washington.edu/tayloruw/seminars.htm =20 =20 GTTL=20 Global Trade, Transportation & Logistics Studies =20 =20 IGRSS=20 Inst. For Global and Regional Security Studies =20 =20 IIP=20 Institute for International Policy =20 http://www.iip.washington.edu =20 =20 IS=20 Center for International Studies/JSIS http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/is/is-ctr.html = =20 JSIS=20 The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies =20 =20 LAS=20 Latin American Studies Program/JSIS =20 =20 MEC=20 Middle East Center/JSIS = http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/mideast/events.htm =20 =20 NELC=20 Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization = http://depts.washington.edu/nelc =20 =20 REECAS=20 Russian, East European, and Central Asia Studies, JSIS = http://depts.washington.edu/reecas=20 =20 SEAS=20 Southeast Asia Studies/JSIS = http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/seasia/seasia.html =20 =20 Slavic L&L=20 Department of Slavic Languages & Literature =20 =20 SMA School of Marine Affairs=20 =20 -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - The Jackson School Calendar is updated and e-mailed weekly. There = is no charge for subscribing. To subscribe to the on-line Calendar, or = for further information, please post a message to: = jsis@u.washington.edu. Thank you "The University of Washington is committed to providing access, = equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation in its services, = programs, activities, education and employment for individuals with = disabilities. To request disability accommodation contact the Disability = Services Office at least ten days in advance at: 206-543-6450/V, = 206-543-6452/TTY, 206-685-7264 (FAX), or dso@u.washington.edu."=20 =20 =20 -------------------------------------------------------------------- =20 Copyright =A9 2001 University of Washington, including all = photographs and images, unless otherwise noted. Questions? Email jsis@u.washington.edu. Send inquiries = regarding the website to jsishelp@u.washington.edu. Last Updated:11/15/04 =20 =20 ------=_NextPart_001_01B1_01C4CAF0.B00C3B90 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

the

JACKSON  = SCHOOL

CALENDAR

 

 

November 15,=20 2004

 

A = brief look=20 ahead.  Scroll down for complete details.

 

* = Unless stated=20 otherwise, all events will take place on the main campus of the=20

University of=20 Washington, Seattle.

 

The = Jackson School=20 sponsorship of an event does not imply that the School endorses=20

the=20 content of an event.
 

Click here to receive the JSIS Calendar by=20 email

 

November 16

What's Charitable about Ottoman=20 Charity?

 

Mourning the=20 Past: Violence and Public Sphere in Post-Authoritarian=20 Indonesia.  Film:=20 Flowers and the Wall

 

November 17

FIUTS CulturalFest: Celebrate = our=20 World

 

Sublime Darkness in Heian Diary = Literature=20

 

Russian foreign policy and U.S. = Russian=20 Relations

 

November 18

Recent = Publications on/in=20 Kazakhstan: Kazakh Autobiographies and = Memoirs

 

Objects, Spectacle and Nation-on-Display at = the=20 Nanyang Exposition of 1910. Cities in Early Modern and = Modern China=20 Lecture Series

 

Actions on behalf of the women = of Ciudad=20 Juarez

 

November 19

Collective Agriculture and = Fertility=20 Decline in Rural China,=20 1965-95

 

November 19-24

State of Art   = Slovenian=20 Film, Art, Music and Literature Festival. Northwest Film=20 Forum

 

November 21

Paradise Lost

 

Governing With Judges: = Constitutional=20 Politics in Europe

 

November 22

Radical Sheik and Islamic = Activism in Europe=20 and Beyond.

 

December 2

The Question of Women in Chinese = Feminism,=20 New Books in Print Series

 

Factional Politics and Credible = Dis-inflationary=20 Policy in China 

 

December 5

Northern Lights Music for the = Holiday Season=20 from the Baltic & Nordic Countries

 

December 6

Understanding Israeli Strategy: = A=20 Palestinian Persective

 

December 7

Southerners and Northerners, Book = Reading=20 by Lee = Ho-chul

 

December 8

Who Rules, = and Which=20 Virtues: On = Religious Bonds,=20 State Boundaries, and Legalism

 

December 11

Northern Lights Music for the = Holiday Season=20 from the Baltic & Nordic=20 Countries
 

Full=20 Listings

 

2004

=20

November=20 8-22

 

The = Heritage of the=20 Russian North. HUB Art Gallery, UW. Exhibition: Photographs = by=20 William Craft Brumfield. "North" in Russia is a broad concept, = but=20 many Russians understand it as a historic region defined by a = network of=20 rivers and lakes leading to the White Sea. It is here that = ecology,=20 history, and culture have combined to create an area of harsh = extremes and=20 extraordinary beauty. Northern towns such as Vologda and = Arkhangelsk,=20 Totma and Velikii Ustiug played a great role not only in = sustaining=20 Russia's cultural and economic development during the sixteenth = and=20 seventeenth centuries, but also in the settlement of distant = Siberia and=20 the expansion of trading paths to Western Europe. Today, questions = of=20 architectural preservation have become especially urgent in view = of the=20 large number of log structures in this region. The photographer = can only=20 work with those remnants of the past that time and fate have = spared. Yet=20 despite the many losses inflicted on the northern cultural = heritage during=20 recent decades, and despite its rapidly decreasing rural = population, the=20 Russian North endures. Sponsored by The Russian, East European and = Central=20 Asian Studies Center/JSIS, Architecture, Slavic Languages &=20 Literatures, UW Press and the UW Library. =

 

November=20 8-22

 

The = Kyrgyz:=20 Traditional Herders in the Modern World. HUB Art Gallery, UW.=20 Exhibition: Photographs by Daniel Waugh. The Kyrgyz home is = the=20 mountain knot of the Tian-Shan and Pamir ranges, straddling the = borders of=20 Kyrgyzstan and western Xinjiang (China). Their lifestyle has = changed=20 little over time. This exhibition features portraits of people for = whom=20 hospitality to strangers, maintaining strong family ties, and a = deeply=20 rooted sense of community are essential aspects of their lives. = The=20 challenge I faced as a photographer was to break through the shy = reserve=20 and stiffness that the sight of a camera produces, to evoke the = warmth and=20 the smiling inner self. I have tried to capture the Kyrgyz = herders=92 daily=20 lives with all its =93modern=94 contradictions. Sponsored by The = Russian, East=20 European and Central Asian Studies Center/JSIS. For more = information,=20 contact REECAS at 206-543-4852 or email = reecas@u.washington.edu. =20

 

November 16

What's Charitable = about Ottoman=20 Charity? 3:30 PM, 317 Thomson. Speaker: Amy Singer, = Associate=20 Professor, Department of History, Tel Aviv University. Sponsored = by the=20 Middle East Center. Contact: 206-543-4227.=20

=20

November=20 16

 

Film and Lecture=20 Series: =20 Mourning the Past: Violence and Public Sphere in=20 Post-Authoritarian Indonesia.  Film:=20 Flowers and the Wall.  7:00 PM-9:00 PM = (Doors open=20 at 6:30 PM), 206 Communications.  Organizer and=20 Moderator: Fadjar I.=20 Thufail, Rockefeller Foundation Resident Fellow, Project for = Critical=20 Asian Studies, UW. The Film Flowers and the Wall is = directed by Atnike Nova=20 Sigiro Color, 35 mins, 2004, Indonesian with English=20 subtitles. This film documents the struggle = for=20 justice by victims of New Order violence.  Facilitated by = Elsam, a=20 human rights organization, the victims launch a long and tiring = effort to=20 establish a network among victims of different cases of human = rights=20 abuse, from those who were imprisoned in 1965-1966 to the families = of=20 students who were killed during the student demonstrations in=20 1997-1998.  The film depicts this endeavor as they travel = across the=20 country to identify, make a connection with, and talk to fellow = victims of=20 New Order violence.  The initiative peaks when Elsam and the = victims=20 successfully organized a National Gathering of Victims of New = Order=20 Violence in 2003.  This film shows how this emotional and=20 unprecedented event represents the continuous and painstaking = effort of=20 violence to hold the State accountable for various past human = rights=20 abuses. Mourning the Past, launches a series = of film=20 screenings and discussions about violence, testimony, and=20 the Indonesian public sphere.  The Indonesian public has = recently turned to documentary films as one way to deal with the = legacy of=20 past violence.  The discussion following each film screening = seeks to=20 explore how and in what way documentary films can serve to mediate = trauma=20 and memory of past violence brought about by the hasty political=20 transformation over the last few years in Indonesia.=20  Sponsored by the Project for Critical Asian Studies and the=20 Simpson=20 Center for = the=20 Humanities.  Lecture Co-sponsored by the Southeast = Asia=20 Center. For = more info=20 please visit: http://depts.washington.edu/critasia/events.htm#November_= 2004

The series is free and open to the=20 public

=20

November 17

FIUTS CulturalFest: Celebrate = our=20 World. 12:00-6:00 PM, HUB West Ballroom. CulturalFest is an = annual=20 event where the international community at the UW will display = their=20 culture and tradition. There will be booths representing each = country or=20 region and a cultural talent show will follow. Following are = details of=20 the event.

Time:=20 Booths: 12:00-4:00 PM, Talent show: 4:00-6:00 PM. Admission: FREE! =

For more=20 info, email Aimi aimisas@u.washington.edu or Katie = info@fiuts.org=20

=20

November 17=20

=20

Sublime Darkness in Heian Diary Literature. = 3:30-5:00=20 PM, 226 Communications Bldg. Speaker: Dr. Sudeshna Sen. = Sponsored=20 by the Asian Languages and Literature Colloquium.=20

=20

November 17

 

Russian foreign policy and U.S. Russian = Relations.=20 6:30-8:00 PM, 110 Kane Hall. Speaker: = Ambassador Jack=20 Matlock. REECAS and the Foundation for the Russian = American=20 Economic Group welcome Ambassador Jack Matlock, former ambassador = to the=20 Soviet Union. Ambassador Matlock will speak on. For additional=20 information, call (206) 543 4852.

=20

November = 18

 

Recent Publications on/in Kazakhstan: Kazakh=20 Autobiographies and Memoirs. Speaker: Dr. Ilse D. Cirtautas.=20 12:30-1:30 PM, 215 Denny Hall.

Dr. Cirtautas is from the Department of Near = Eastern=20 Languages & Civilization.

=20

November=20 18

 

Cities in Early=20 Modern and Modern China Lecture Series.  Objects, Spectacle = and=20 Nation-on-Display at the Nanyang Exposition of 1910. =20 3:30-5:00 PM, 317 Thomson Hall.  Speaker: = Susan=20 Fernsebner, Assistant Professor of History, University of Mary=20 Washington.  Sponsors: The China Studies = Program and=20 the East Asia Center.  For more information, contact abernier@u.washington.edu, (206)=20 543-4391.

=20

November 19

 

Collective=20 Agriculture and Fertility Decline in Rural China,=20 1965-95.  <= /STRONG>12:30-2:00 PM, Denny Hall, Room 401.  = Speaker: Stevan Harrell, Professor, Department of = Anthropology, University of Washington (Co-Authors: Han Hua and Zhou=20 Yingying.  Sponsor: CSDE Colloquium Series Fall=20 2004.  For more information, contact csde@u.washington.edu, = (206)=20 616-7743.

 

November 19-24

 

Slovenian Film, Art, Music and Literature = Festival.=20 Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Avenue. The Northwest Film = Forum and=20 Scala House Press (Seattle) announce State of Art, a = festival of=20 recent film, music, art and literature from Slovenia. Sixteen of=20 Slovenia's most outstanding new feature films, documentaries, and = short=20 subjects will be screened. For additional information, about these = events,=20 including films, screening times and locations, see=20 http://www.nwfilmforum.org/slovenia/film.htm.

=20

November 21

 

Paradise Lost. 7:00 PM, Ethnic Cultural = Theater, 3940=20 Brooklyn Ave NE, in Seattle's University District. By Ebtisam=20 Maraana, 2003. 56 minutes. Filmmaker Ebtisam Mara'ana grew up = in=20 Paradise (Fureidis in Arabic).  This thought-provoking and = intimate=20 film diary follows the director's attempt to recreate her = village's lost=20 history, including the story of her childhood hero Suuad, who was=20 imprisoned as a PLO activist in the 1970's and banished from the=20 community. The director's frustration builds as her questions are = resisted=20 but she presses for truth.  Presenting the rarely heard voice = of an=20 Arab Israeli, this important film offers valuable insight into the = contradictions and complexities of modern womanhood and national = identity=20 in the Middle East.  Followed by the short film And A Woman = of=20 Determination, 28 mins.  Nuha Mousa, local activist and = sister of=20 Bethlehem journalist Suheir Ismail, will discuss the many, = changing roles=20 of women in Palestine and the importance of Palestinians = documenting their=20 own lives and struggle.  Suggested Donation $10/ All Welcome. =  Part of the film series "PALESTINE: THE PEOPLE: Films = that=20 reveal the complexities and dynamics of being=20 Palestinian."  Brought to you by Hayaat and Palestine = Solidarity=20 Committee.  Sponsored by B & O Espresso and Zaina Food, = Drink and=20 Friends.  FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: 206-633-1086  www.palestineinformation.org=20

=20

November 22=20

=20

Radical Sheik = and Islamic=20 Activism in Europe and Beyond. 12:30-2:00 PM, 110-C Savery = Hall.=20 Speaker: Dr. Charles Kurzman.  Dr. Kurzman is a = professor at=20 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a specialist in = Islamic=20 and Middle Eastern Studies. Why are = there so few=20 Islamist terrorists? The question may sound absurd, but it is = worth asking=20 why a billion Muslims have generated such a small number of = "martyrs."=20 This presentation explores one approach to this issue: the = possibility=20 that much of the Islamists' support comes in the form of "radical = chic"=20 that does not translate from fashion statement to political = action. =20 Sponsor: the Center for West European Studies.  For more = information=20 call (206) 543-1675 or email cwes@u.washington.edu=20

=20

November 30

Governing With Judges: = Constitutional Politics in Europe. 12:30-2:00 PM, the Petersen = Room=20 4th Floor Allen Library. Speaker: Dr. Alec Stone Sweet. Dr. = Stone=20 Sweet, a UW Alum, is from the Yale Center for International and = Area=20 Studies at Yale University. Sponsors: the Center for West Eueopean = Studies. For additional information, call (206) 543-1675 or email=20 cwes@u.washington.edu.

=20

December=20 2

 

The Question of = Women in=20 Chinese Feminism, New Books in Print Series.  = 3:30-5:00=20 PM, 202 Communications. Speaker: Tani = Barlow,=20 Professor, Department of History and = Women=20 Studies, University of Washington.  In this history of = thinking=20 about the subject of women in twentieth-century China, Barlow = illustrates=20 the theories and conceptual categories that Enlightenment Chinese=20 intellectuals have developed to describe the collectivity of = women. =20 Demonstrating how generations of these theorists have engaged with = international debates over eugenics, gender, sexuality, and the = psyche,=20 Barlow argues that as an Enlightenment project, feminist debate in = China=20 is at once Chinese and international.  Sponsor: Walter = Chapin=20 Simpson Center for the Humanities.  For more = information,=20 contact (206) 543-3920.

=20

December=20 2

 

Factional=20 Politics and Credible Dis-inflationary Policy in = China. =20 3:30-5:00 PM, 317 Thomson Hall. Speaker: Victor Shih, = Assistant=20 Professor, Department of Political Science, Northwestern=20 University.  Sponsor: The China Studies=20 Program.  For more information, contact abernier@u.washington.edu, (206)=20 543-4391.

 

December 5

 

Northern Lights Music for the Holiday Season = from the=20 Baltic & Nordic Countries. 2:30 PM & 7:30 PM, Town = Hall, 1119=20 Eighth Avenue, Seattle. Seattle Pro Musica presents showcases = Baltic and=20 Nordic music, evoking the northern lights of the winter season. = The=20 program covers a millennium of Baltic and Nordic choral music. = General=20 admission $18 in advance, $21 at the door, Seniors $13 in advance, = $16 at=20 the door and Student tickets are always $10. For more information = please=20 call (206) 781-2766.

=20

December=20 6

Understanding Israeli Strategy: A Palestinian=20 Persective. 7:00 PM, 220 Kane Hall. Speaker: Michael = Tarazi,=20 legal adviser to the Palestine Liberation Organization. = Co-sponsored by=20 Palestine Solidarity Committee, Voices of Palestine, Arab Student = Union,=20 Friends of Sabeel, Muslim Student Association, Palestine Concerns = Group,=20 Middle East Center.
Info: 206-633-1086.=20

=20

December 7

 

Southerners and=20 Northerners, Book Reading = by=20 Novelist Lee Ho-chul. =20 6:30=968:00 PM, 

A-102 = Auditorium, Physics-Astronomy = Bldg.=20 Speaker: Lee=20 Ho-Chul,=20 Korean  Novelist. Shortly after the outbreak of the = Korean War, Lee=20 Ho-Chul was drafted into the North Korean army. "Southerners, = Northerners" (Namny k saram pungny k saram) = is a=20 fictionalized account of his inglorious yet dramatic experiences = as a raw=20 recruit and, soon afterward, as a prisoner of war.  Beginning with some fascinating = vignettes=20 of North Korean high school life and ending with a narrow escape = from=20 death, the story offers a unique perspective on the early phases = of the=20 war and its everyday realities, from the tragic to the=20 farcical.  While this = and other=20 works of Lee Ho-Chul have been translated into many languages, = this is the=20 first time a complete novel by this major figure in contemporary = Korean=20 literature has been published in English.  The novel won the prestigious = Daesan=20 Literary Award for Fiction when it was published in = 1996.  The English translation has = been prepared=20 in close consultation with the author.  Lee Ho-Chul was born in = Weonsan, in=20 what is now North Korea, in 1932. =20 He served in the North Korean Army in the Korean War until = taken=20 prisoner. He made his way South by boat in 1950 and worked in the=20 mid-1950s as a guard at a U.S. Army base.  He debuted on the literary = scene in 1955=20 with his short story =93Away From Home,=94 embarking on a = remarkable literary=20 career that has now moved into its fifth decade.  Lee is a member of the Republic = of Korea=20 National Academy of the Arts and the recipient of numerous awards, = including the prestigious Modern Literature Award for = =93Panmunjom=94 and the=20 Dongin Prize for =93Wasting Away.=94 =20 Lee Ho-Chul has lived in the South, forcibly separated from = his=20 family in the North, for over fifty years.  Lee=92s fiction movingly = portrays the=20 social and political conditions he has lived through and has made = him one=20 of Korea's leading literary figures today.  Sponsors: The Korea Studies Program, the East Asia Center and the = University Book=20 Store.  For more information, contact = abernier@u.washington.edu,=20 (206) 543-4391.

 

December = 8

 

Who Rules, and = Which=20 Virtues: On Religious = Bonds, State=20 Boundaries, and Legalism. 3:30-5:00 PM, 202 = Communications Bldg. Speaker: Prof. Gad=20 Barzilai, Tel=20 Aviv University.

 

December 11

 

Northern Lights Music for the Holiday Season = from the=20 Baltic & Nordic Countries. 3:00 PM & 8:00 PM, Chapel = at Bastyr=20 University, 14500 Juanita Drive NE, Bothell. Seattle Pro Musica = presents=20 showcases Baltic and Nordic music, evoking the northern lights of = the=20 winter season. The program covers a millennium of Baltic and = Nordic choral=20 music. General admission $18 in advance, $21 at the door, Seniors = $13 in=20 advance, $16 at the door and Student tickets are always $10. For = more=20 information please call (206) 781-2766.

 


 

Abbreviations and Web = site addresses=20 for more detailed information:  =20

Asian L&L=20

Department of=20 Asian Languages & Literature   =

CANSTUD=20

Canadian Studies=20 = Program/JSIS          &= nbsp;         =20 http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/canada/canada.= html   =

CASG=20

Central Asian=20 Studies Group/NELC

CIBER

Center for=20 International Business Education & Research  =20

CSDE=20

Center for=20 Studies in Demography & Ecology =

CPHRS=20

Center for=20 Public Health Research & Evaluation  =20

CWES=20

Center for West European Studies,=20 = JSIS           &nb= sp;        =20 http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/cwesuw/index.h= tml   =

EUC=20

European Union=20 = Center           &= nbsp;        =20 http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/europe/euc.htm= l   =

GEOG=20

Dept. of Geography   =

http://depts.washington.edu/geog/news/colloquium.html

GTI =20

Institute of Transnational=20 Studies         &nbs= p;         =20 http://depts.washington.edu/tayloruw/seminars.htm<= /A>   =

GTTL=20

Global Trade,=20 Transportation & Logistics Studies  =20

IGRSS=20

Inst. For=20 Global and Regional Security Studies   =

IIP=20

Institute for International Policy=20 =             &= nbsp;      

 http://www.iip.washington.edu   =

IS =

Center for International = Studies/JSIS

 http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/is/is-ctr.html=    =

JSIS=20

The Henry M.=20 Jackson School of International Studies  =20

LAS=20

Latin American=20 Studies Program/JSIS  

MEC=20

Middle East Center/JSIS =20 = http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/mideast/events.htm<= FONT=20 color=3D#000080>   =

NELC=20

Department of Near Eastern Languages &=20 Civilization=20 =             &= nbsp;      =20 http://depts.washington.edu/nelc   =

REECAS=20

Russian, East European, and Central Asia = Studies,=20 = JSIS           &nb= sp;        =20 http://depts.washington.edu/reecas

SEAS=20

Southeast Asia=20 = Studies/JSIS          &= nbsp;         =20 http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/seasia/seasia.= html  =20

Slavic L&L=20

Department of Slavic Languages & = Literature=20      

SMA

 School of Marine = Affairs=20

The Jackson=20 School Calendar is updated and e-mailed weekly. There is no charge = for=20 subscribing. To subscribe to the on-line Calendar, or for further=20 information, please post a message to: jsis@u.washington.edu. Thank=20 you

"The University of Washington is committed to = providing=20 access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation in its = services,=20 programs, activities, education and employment for individuals = with=20 disabilities. To request disability accommodation contact the = Disability=20 Services Office at least ten days in advance at: 206-543-6450/V,=20 206-543-6452/TTY, 206-685-7264 (FAX), or dso@u.washington.edu." 
   

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