From jsis@u.washington.edu Fri Dec 1 08:41:53 2000 Received: from jason02.u.washington.edu (root@jason02.u.washington.edu [140.142.8.52]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id IAA32524 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 08:41:52 -0800 Received: from homer28.u.washington.edu (jsis@homer28.u.washington.edu [140.142.8.38]) by jason02.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.01) with ESMTP id IAA15742 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 08:41:51 -0800 Received: from localhost (jsis@localhost) by homer28.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id IAA115044 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 08:41:49 -0800 Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 08:41:48 -0800 (PST) From: Jackson School of International Studies To: jsis-uw@u.washington.edu Subject: The Jackson School Calendar, December 1, 2000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII the JACKSON SCHOOL CALENDAR December 1, 2000 ALL EVENTS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED. *New Events (or changes) not previously listed are indicated by an asterisk* Abbreviations: Asian L&L = Department of Asian Languages & Literature CASG = Central Asian Studies Group/NELC CIBER = Center for International Business Education & Research CSDE = Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology CPHRS = Center for Public Health Research & Evaluation CWES = Center for West European Studies, JSIS GTTL = Global Trade, Transportation & Logistics Studies JSIS = The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies LAS = Latin American Studies Program/JSIS NELC = Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization REECAS = Russian, East European, and Central Asia Studies, JSIS Slavic L&L = Department of Slavic Languages & Literature SMA = School of Marine Affairs ________________________________________________________________________ December 1 The Rising Rainbow: Emergence of a Gay Community Where There Was None Before (Latvia). 3:30 - 5:00 p.m., Thomson 317. Speaker: Karlis Streips, Dept. of Journalism, Univ. of Latvia, and independent radio and television journalist. Sponsor: Baltic Studies Program in the Dept. of Scandinavian Studies, REECAS/JSIS. Info: 543-4852. Films: "Daughters of Ixchel: Maya Threads of Change" (29 minutes), Maya weavers in the context of cultural globalization; and "Cases of Violence against Native Communities in Chiapas" (53 minutes, subtitled). 1:30 pm, Kane 19. Part of LAS Friday film series for UW students, faculty and staff. Sponsor: LAS/JSIS. Info: 685-3435. Race, Writing, and Fighting: European Identities and Nationalisms in Rhodesian War Narratives, 1965-95. 2:00 pm, location tba. Speaker: Luise White, Univ. of Florida at Gainesville. Sponsors: Program on Africa; JSIS; CWES Politics and Society Colloquium; History. Info: 543-4499. December 2 Note: THE FOLLOWING EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO JANUARY 27: Canadian Multicultural Stories, First Nations and Quebecois Literature - Teaching Diversity and Cross-Cultural Understanding through Canadian Stories and Myths. All-day workshop for K-6 educators/librarians - 8 clock hours available. 8:00 am - 5:00 pm, Thomson Hall. Cost: $40 (includes coffee, muffins, and box lunch). Sponsors: Pacific Northwest National Resource Center for the Study of Canada. Info: 543-6269. December 4 Sustainability and Conservation Debates in the Case of Madagascar's Tropical Forests. 3:30 - 4:50 pm, Denny 401. Speaker: Lucy Jarosz, Geography, UW. Sponsor: Anthropolgy. Info: 685-1811. December 6 * NOTE: THE FOLLOWING EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO JANUARY 30. Globalization in the Public Interest: Business, the World Bank and Voices of the Poor. 11:45 am registration, noon luncheon, Columbia Tower Club, 701 Fifth Avenue. Speaker: Jan Piercy, US Executive Director, The World Bank. Sponsors: World Affairs Council; Puget Sound Business Journal; US Bank; Grant Thornton LLP. Cost: $32 members, $40 non-members. Registration & info: 441-5910. December 12 Writers Rivka and Ben-Zion Dorfman ("Synagogues with Jews - and the communities that built and used them,") speak at 7:00 pm in Kane Hall. Info: 545-9477 ext. 202. December 13 Slideshow: "Traces of Silk: mages from Ladakh and from Tibet", featuring images of Ladakh, the Northwest frontier of India, where the spirit of old Silk Road feeder routes pervades the memories and character of modern traders. 7:00 pm, Smith 205. Speaker: Paul Harris, photographer. Sponsor: South Asia Center/JSIS; REECAS/JSIS. Info: 543-4852. 2001 January 11 Speaker Series: Rethinking Mobility, Identity, and Nature in an Era of Globalization. 3:30 - 5:00 pm. Speaker: Charis Thompson, Depts. Of Sociology and Women's Studies, Univ. of Illinois. Sponsors: Taylor Institute for Transnational Studies/JSIS. Info: 616-1190. January 18 Chinese Characters as the medium for transmitting the vocabulary of modernization from Japan to Vietnam in the early twentieth century. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, location tba. Speaker: Vinh Sinh, Dept. of History, Univ. of Alberta. Sponsor: Southeast Asia Center/JSIS. Info: 543-9606. January 19 International Health Care in the 21st Century: A Canadian and American Perspective on the Future of Health Care - Political and Ethical Issues in Health Care. 9:00 am - 4:00 pm, Thomson 317. Moderator: Kieran O'Malley, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Affiliated Faculty, Canadian Studies/JSIS. Sponsors: Canadian Studies Center/JSIS; Canadian Embassy, Washington, D.C. Info: 543-6269. * Komatsu Kiyoshi (1900-62) and French Indochina. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, location tba. Speaker: Sinh Vinh. Sponsor: Japan Studies Program/JSIS. Info: 543-4391. January 24 The Nature of Codes (Part of the series "Rethinking Mobility, Identity, and Nature in an Era of Globalization). 3:30 - 5:00 pm, HUB 108. Speaker: Katherine Hayles, Dept. of English, UCLA. Sponsors: Taylor Institute for Transnational Studies/JSIS; Dept. of English; Dept. of Comparative Literature. Info: 616-1190. January 27 Canadian Multicultural Stories, First Nations and Quebecois Literature - Teaching Diversity and Cross-Cultural Understanding through Canadian Stories and Myths. All-day workshop for K-6 educators/librarians - 8 clock hours available. 8:30 am - 4:30 pm, Thomson Hall. Cost: $40 (includes coffee, muffins, and box lunch). Sponsors: Pacific Northwest National Resource Center for the Study of Canada. Info: 543-6269. January 30 * Globalization in the Public Interest: Business, the World Bank and Voices of the Poor. 11:45 am registration, noon luncheon, Columbia Tower Club, 701 Fifth Avenue. Speaker: Jan Piercy, US Executive Director, The World Bank. Sponsors: World Affairs Council; Puget Sound Business Journal; US Bank; Grant Thornton LLP. Cost: $32 members, $40 non-members. Registration & info: 441-5910. February 1 * Conference: The EU and Scandinavia. Begins at 9:00 am in HUB 310. Speakers: Eric Einhorn, political scientist, U-Mass/Amherst; Christine Ingebritsen, political scientist, UW; Paulette Kurzer, political scientist, Univ. of Arizona; Lars Svasand, political scientist, Univ. of Bergen; Lykke Friis, EU expert, Danish Institute of International Affairs; Baldur Thorhallsson, political scientist, Univ. of Iceland; Robert Rinehart, diplomatic historian, US Foreign Service Institute; Annica Kronsell-Young, political scientist, Univ. of Lund; Ann-Catherine Jungar, political scientist, Univ. of Uppsala. Sponsor: European Union Center/JSIS. Info: 616-2415. February 2 Contemporary North West Coast Art & the Work of Susan Point, Coast Salish Artist (a dinner/lecture). 6:30 - 9:30 pm, Kane Hall, Walker-Ames Room. Speaker: Gary Wyatt, Curator, Spirit Wrestler Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., and editor of "Susan Point: Coast Salish Artist, 2000." Cost: $30 (includes dinner, wine and lecture). Sponsors: Canadian Studies Center/JSIS; Center for Canadian-American Studies, Wester Washington University; the Canada-America society; the Pacific North West Canadian Studies Consortium. Info: 543-6269. February 3 International Cultural Documentary - Using Film to Teach About International Education (Workshop for Middle/High School Teachers). 8:00 am - 5:00 pm, Thomson Hall. Workshop Leaders: Carol Hermer and Mary Barber. Cost: $40 (includes coffee, muffins & box lunch). Sponsors: JSIS Educational Outreach Centers. Info: 543-6269. February 8 Speaker Series: Rethinking Mobility, Identity, and Nature in an Era of Globalization. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, location tba. Speaker: James McCarthy, Dept. of Geography, Pennsylvania State University. Sponsor: Taylor Institute for Transnational Studies/JSIS. Info: 616-1190. February 10 NOTE: THE FOLLOWING EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO MARCH 24: Teaching Canadian History & Culture Through Canadian Art - A Workshop for Middle/High School Teachers/Librarians (8 clock hours available). 8:00 am - 5:00 pm, Thomson Hall. Workshop Leadsers: Dr. Nancy Pagh and Dr. Douglas Jackson. Cost: $40 (includes coffee, muffins and box lunch). Sponsors: Pacific Northwest National Resource Center for the Study of Canada. Info: 543-6269. * Asia-2-O: Water Issues Across Asia (A workshop for K-12 educators and the general public. 8:00 am - 4:00 pm, Thomson Hall. Speakers will include a number of UW faculty and professionals/specialists from the community. Sponsors: East Asia Program; REECAS; South Asia Center; Southeast Asia Center/JSIS; Program on the Environment. Cost: $45 (clock hours and lunch included). Registration & info: 543-9606. February 24 Experience Canadian Art: An Educator's Field Trip to the "Cornelius Krieghoff: Images of Canada" Exhibit at the Vancouver Art Gallery. (Two clock hours available). 7:30 am - 10:00 pm. Trip leaders: Dr. Douglas Jackson and Nadine FabbiShushan. Cost: $60 includes Amtract round-trip to Vancouver, breakfast and a sandwich dinner, and admission to the Gallery. Sponsors: Pacific Northwest National Resource Center for the Study of Canada. Info: 543-6269. March 1 Putin's Foreign Policy: Challenging the U.S. with a Practical Approach. 7:30 pm, Kane Hall 210. Speaker: Celeste Wallander, Council on Foreign Relations. Sponsors: Henry M. Jackson Foundation; World Affairs Council; REECAS/JSIS. Info: 543-4852. March 24 Teaching Canadian History & Culture Through Canadian Art - A Workshop for Middle/High School Teachers/Librarians (8 clock hours available). 8:30 am - 4:30 pm, Thomson Hall. Workshop Leaders: Dr. Nancy Pagh and Dr. Douglas Jackson. Cost: $40 (includes coffee, muffins and box lunch). Sponsors: Pacific Northwest National Resource Center for the Study of Canada. Info: 543-6269. April 6 Open Secrets: Edo Era Politics in Their Own Terms. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Thomson 317. Speaker: Luke Roberts. Sponsor: Japan Studies Program/JSIS. Info: 543-4391. Constructing Primordialism: Old Histories for New Nations in the Post-Soviet Region. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Thomson 317. Speaker: Ronald Grigor Suny, Dept. of Political Science, Univ. of Chicago. Sponsor: REECAS/JSIS. Info: 543-4852. April 12 Russia's Relations with Eastern Europe and the Baltic States: A New Divide in Europe? 7:30 pm, Kane Hall 210. Speaker: Mark Kramer, Harvard Project on Cold War Studies, Harvard Univ. Sponsors: Henry M. Jackson Foundation; World Affairs Council; REECAS/JSIS. Info: 543-4852. May 9 Canadian Film and Filmmakers - Dinner/Lecture. Part of the series "International Trends and Transitions in Your World." 5:30 - 8:00 pm, Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. Speaker: Darryl Macdonald, Director, Seattle International Film Festival. Cost: $22, checks must be received at least one week in advance of event. Info: 543-1675. ****************************************************************************** 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 To request disability accommodations, contact the office of the ADA Coordinator, at least ten days in advance of the event. 543-6450 (voice); 543-6452 (TDD); 685-3885 (FAX); access@u.washington.edu (E-mail). The Henry M. Jackson . School of International Studies University of Washington Box # 353650 Seattle, WA 98195-3650 Charles Paxton,Secretary to the Director Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies Box 353650, University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 Ph: (206) 543-4372 .