From jsis@u.washington.edu Tue Jan 21 09:21:38 2003 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.132]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h0LHLbCK032072 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 09:21:37 -0800 Received: from mxout5.cac.washington.edu (mxout5.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.135]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h0LHLYHk009686 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 09:21:34 -0800 Received: from mailhost1.u.washington.edu (mailhost1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.141]) by mxout5.cac.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h0LHLX7l009238 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 09:21:33 -0800 Received: from reception (D-128-95-200-210.dhcp4.washington.edu [128.95.200.210]) by mailhost1.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with SMTP id h0LHLXHh028357 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 09:21:33 -0800 Message-ID: <00fa01c2c171$db4606e0$d2c85f80@reception> From: "Jackson School of International Studies" To: "JSIS - Calendar" Subject: Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 09:23:47 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; type="multipart/alternative"; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_00F6_01C2C12E.CD0FB410" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=XXXXXXII, Probability=62%, Report="BIG_FONT, CALL_FREE, CHECK_OR_MONEY_ORDER, CLICK_BELOW, EXTRA_MPART_TYPE, HTML_70_90, HTML_FONT_COLOR_BLUE, HTML_FONT_COLOR_MAGENTA, HTML_FONT_COLOR_UNSAFE, NO_COST, SPAM_PHRASE_01_02, SUBJ_MISSING, SUPERLONG_LINE, USER_AGENT_OE, __HAS_MIMEOLE, __HAS_MSMAIL_PRI, __HAS_OUTLOOK_IN_MAILER, __HAS_X_MAILER, __HAS_X_PRIORITY" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00F6_01C2C12E.CD0FB410 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_00F7_01C2C12E.CD0FB410" ------=_NextPart_001_00F7_01C2C12E.CD0FB410 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jackson School=20 UW Home Search UW -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - Director's Welcome Faculty Staff History About Seattle the=20 JACKSON SCHOOL CALENDAR -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - January 17, 2003 A brief look ahead. Scroll down for complete details. Click here to receive the JSIS Calendar by email January 21 The Uzbek Academy of Sciences: Organization, = Goals and Outlook =20 Exhibition: Innocence Under Siege =20 Research on Chinese Occasional Verse =20 January 22 Women and Children in Cambodia. =20 =20 Asian Languages and Literature Colloquium. Research on = Chinese Occasional Verse =20 January 23 Meeting with Dr. Behzod Yuldoshev =20 Working Until Dropping: The Economics of the Elderly in = Rural China =20 Economic Progress in Uzbekistan: What's Happened Since = Independence =20 The Kushans: The great 'Lost' Civilization at the = Crossroads of Ancient Eurasia. =20 January 24 Soviet Military Doctrine as Strategic Deception =20 -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - Full Listings 2003 January 17 Theater in Uzbekistan: Past and Present. 12:30-1:30 PM, School of = Drama, UW, 215 Denny Hall. Mark Weil, Director, Ilhom Theater, Tashkent = Guest Director,=20 January 21 The Uzbek Academy of Sciences: Organization, Goals and Outlook. = 1:00-2:30 PM, 215 Denny Hall. Speaker: Dr. Behzod Yuldoshev, President, = Uzbek Academy of Sciences.=20 January 21 Exhibition: Innocence Under Siege. Tuesday, 1/21 (noon) until = Monday, January 27 (noon). This exhibit is a collection of over 50 works = of art, created by Palestinian school children, who were asked how they = saw the world around them. Sponsored by Hayatt at the UW HUB in the = gallery on the ground floor, from=20 January 21 The Uzbek Academy of Sciences: Organization, Goals and Outlook. = 7:00 PM, 226 Communications. Speaker: Dr. Behzod Yuldoshev, President, = Uzbek Academy of Sciences. January 22 Asian Languages and Literature Colloquium. Research on Chinese = Occasional Verse. 3:30-5:00 PM, Communications 226. Speaker: Matt = Carter from the Department of Asian Languages and Literature, University = of Washington. January 22 Women and Children in Cambodia. 12:00-1:30pm, Smith 313. Carol = Wagner (author). For more information call SE Asia Center. 543-9606 January 23 Meeting with Dr. Behzod Yuldoshev, President, Uzbek Academy of = Sciences. 1:00-2:30 PM, 215 Denny Hall. January 23 The Kushans: The great 'Lost' Civilization at the Crossroads of = Ancient Eurasia. 7:00 PM, 211 Smith Hall. Speaker: Dr. Benjamin, History = Dept., at the Macquarie University, Sidney, Australia. he is the = Secretary of the Australasian Society for Inner Asian Studies, a member = of the Circle of Inner Asian Art and a member of the Central Eurasian = Studies Society. His field of specialization is ancient Inner Asia, = specifically the Yuezhi (Tocharians) and the Kushan Empire. His = recently completed doctoral dissertation is to be published as part of a = four-volume series titled A History of the Kushans. January 23 Working Until Dropping: The Economics of the Elderly in Rural = China.=20 3:30-5:00 PM, Thomson Hall 125. Speaker: Scott Rozelle, = Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, = University of California-Davis. Sponsor: China Studies program/JSIS. = Info: 543-4391. January 23 Economic Progress in Uzbekistan: What's Happened Since = Independence. , UW. 7:00 PM, UW Center for Urban Horticulture. Speaker: = George Wright, Family Medicine (Note: This lecture is part of the = program of the Annual Meeting of the Seattle-Tashkent Sister City = Association.) January 24 Soviet Military Doctrine as Strategic Deception: An Offensive = Military Strategy Defense of the Socialist Fatherland. Noon-1:30, Smith = 40. Speaker: Christopher Jones, University of Washington. Soviet = military doctrine from 1962 to 1988 was a deliberate strategic deception = of both adversaries and allies. Soviet doctrine used the risk of = nuclear and conventional war with NATO as a camouflage to threaten armed = actions in both Germanies in support of the East German communist party. = Soviet doctrine also threatened military intervention against political = opponents of the other communist regimes of Eastern Europe. The = strategy also sought to pre-empt further defections from the Warsaw = Pact, such as those of Albania and Romania. Until 1987-88, Soviet = doctrine required victory on NATO territory as the only option = compatible with the maskirovka necessary for offensive action within the = Soviet alliance system. Discussion Forum. Sponsored by the Pacific = Northwest Colloquium on International Security (PNCIS), and JSIS/IGRESS. = For info, email Ykuko Kawato at ykawato@u.washington.edu January 26 When One War Starts, Another War Escalates- Palestine, Ethnic = Cleansing, and the War on Iraq. 6:00 PM, Seattle peace activists report = their experiences in the West Bank and Gaza. Ethnic Cultural Theater, = 3940 Brooklyn Ave., NE, Seattle. Admission is free to all - donations = accepted. For info, www.eyewitnesspalestine.org=20 January 27 Elena, Marian, and the Bougainvillea: The Collaborations of = Mariana Yampolsky and Elena Poniatowska Professor Steele will be discussing the various books produced = jointly, mostly during the 1980s, by the leading Mexican writer Elena = Poniatowska and the eminent Mexican photographer Mariana Yampolsky. = While sharing an interest in female subjects and popular nationalism, = the creative tension in these books comes from the marriage of two = radically distinct aesthetic styles: one cool, distanced, modernist and = internationalist, concerned with geometric forms and the eloquence of = simplicity; and the other passionate, excessive, baroque, eminently = mestizo and Mexican. . For more information, consult the LAS website @ = http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/latinam January 27 Modernization of University Education in Russia. 3:30 - 5:00 PM, = Thomson Hall 317. Speaker: Andrey Korovin has taught at the Moscow = State Pedagogical University since 1995, where he is now an Assistant = Professor. He earned his PhD from MSPU in 1998 in European and American = Literature. He specializes in Scandinavian Literature, Theory of = Romanticism and Theory of Narrative Genres. January 27 Roman Jakobson's Book: Controversial Lectures on the Theory of = Literature and Russian Formalism, Brno 1935. 7i:00 PM, 120 = Communications Bldg. Professor Glanc is the director of Slavic and = European Studies at Charles University in Prague. For more information = call 206-543-*6848. Co-sponsored by the Dept of Slavic Languages and = literature an the Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian = Studies.=20 January 29 Relics in the Ancient Near East (Part of the Colloquium Series = "Territory and Relics". 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Simpson Center for the = Humanities, Room 202. Speaker: Scott Noegel, NELC. Sponsor: = Comparative Religion Program/JSIS. Info: religion@u.washington.edu January 30 White Hats, Oilcakes, and Common Blood: The Local and the = National Among the Hui. 3:30 - 5:00 PM, Thomson 317. Speaker: = Jonathan Lipman, Professor of History, Mount Holyoke College. Sponsor: = China Studies Program/JSIS. Contact: 543-4391. January 30 Human Rights, Political Culture, and the Recent Elections in = Kenya. 3:30-5:00 PM, 404 Smith hall, Speaker: Mutuma Ruteere (Human = Rights Activist and Scholar. Mutuma Ruteere (BA, Moi University; MA, = University of Essex) is the author of numerous reports on human rights = in Kenya, including "Shackled Messengers: The Media in Multiparty Kenya" = and "Mission to Repress: Torture, Illegal Detentions and Extra-judicial = Executions in Kenya." He has worked with the "Nairobi Law Monthly," The = Media Institute, and from 1997 to 2002, as the Head of Research at the = Kenya Human Rights Commission. Mr. Rutere's talk will focus on the = politics of human rights change and their role in ensuring free = elections and the recent political transition in Kenya. January 30 Human Rights, Political Culture, and the Recent Elections in = Kenya. 3:30-5:00 PM in Smith 404. Speaker: Mutuma Ruteere (Human Rights = Activist and Scholar). Sponsor: Program on Africa and the Comparative = Law and Society Studies Center. January 30 The Kedo and the North Korean Nuclear Crisis: How We Got Here?. = 7:00 PM, 210 Kane Hall. Speaker: Ambassador Charles Kartman. Sponsor: = Institute for Global and Regional Security Studies (IGRRS), and the = Korea Studies Program of the Henry M. Jackson School of International = Studies. Info: 543-4391 January 30=20 The Intimacies of Four Continents. 7:00 pm 120 Communications = Bldg. Speaker: Lisa Lowe Professor of Comparative Literature University = of California, San Diego. Aiming to rethink the conditions for the = emergence of modern humanism, Lowe situates modern definitions of the = "human" that depended on distinctions between the "free" and "unfree," = within the global context of colonialism, slavery, migration and = indentureship. Building on the work of C. L. R. James, W. E. B. DuBois = and others, the "intimacies of four continents" names the connections = between African and Asian migrations to the Americas and the rise of = bourgeois societies in Europe and North America. This talk is presented = as part of the Transnational Studies Project's Transnational Times, = Transnational Literacies Lecture Series. January 30 Building a Global City in My Backyard: Transforming Local Memories = and Identities in Shanghai and Taipei. 12pm, Gould Hall 100 Speakers: = Shenglin Chang (U of Maryland) and John Liu (National Taiwan University) = The Institute for Transnational Studies would like to invite you to our = first lecture in the series Public Spaces & the Public Sphere: = Multidisciplinary Inquiries into Urban Change in the Asia Pacific. For = more information about the series see = http://depts.washington.edu/tayloruw/publics.htm January 31 Confronting the Past: the Stalin Years in Current Uzbek = Literature. Speaker: Ilse D. Cirtautas, 12:30-1:30 PM, 215 Denny Hall. = Near Eastern Languages & Civilization/Central Asian Studies Group, UW.=20 February 1 Documentary Film Workshop: Teaching Diversity and Cross-Cultural = Understanding through Film. 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM, Balmer Hall 413. = Speakers: Carol Hermer, President of the Society of Visual = Anthropology; John Sinno, President of Arab Film Distribution, and = others. Eight Clock hours for k-12 educators, continental breakfast, = and box lunch. $40 Pre-registration required. Call the Canadian = Studies Center for details: 206-543-6269, or email: = canada@u.washington.edu. February 4 Film and Discussion Series. REECAS and Edmonds Community College. = 6:30 PM, Edmonds Community College. Life is Beautiful (Italian). = Conjuring keys and hats out of thin air, Guido (Roberto Benigni), a = clever Jewish-Italian waiter, successfully courts Dora (Nicoletta = Braschi), a beautiful local woman, in Fascist pre-WWII Italy. His life, = howev3er, is tuirned upside down a few years later when he, Dora, and = their young son, Giosu (Giorio Cantarini), are sent to a Nazi = concentration camp. Refusing to give up hope, Guido tries to protect = his son's innocence by pretending that their imprisonment is just an = elaborate game. 1999 Winner of the Golden Globe and the Academy Award = for Best Foreign Language Film. Following the film will be a discussion = led by ECC Professor DJ Wilson on the Italian perceptions of the Allies. February 5 Central Asia & the Rise of Militant Islam. 210 Kane Hall, 7:00 = PM. Speaker: Ahmed Rashid. Author of Taliban and Investigative = Journalist with the Far Eastern Economic Review will be in Seattle to = meet with educators and discuss his new book, "Jihad: The Rise of = Militant Islam in Central Asia". Based on groundbreaking research and = interviews, Rashid looks at Central Asia and the "New Great Game" that = is about to be waged over it between China, Russia and the United = States. Sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Western Washington. February 5 Central Asia and International Security. 7:00 PM, 210 Kane Hall. = Speaker: Ahmed Rashid is an investigative journalist for the Far Eastern = Economic Review, Wall Street Journal and Daily Telegraph. The lecture = will focus on the conflict centered in Central Asia and the part this = region plays in international security due to political corruption, = extreme poverty, religious repression and nuclear missiles. = Co-sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Western Washington and the = Jackson School of International Studies. February 6 Forget Remembering Gender in China's Rural Collective Past. 3:30 = - 5:00 PM, Communications 202. Speaker: Gail Hershatter, Professor of = History, Director of the Institute for Humanities Research, University = of California at Santa Cruz. Sponsor: China Studies Program/JSIS. = Contact: 543-4391. February 6 The Role of Palestinian Political Reform in Peace Building. 7:30 = PM, Kane Hall 120. Speaker: Khalil Shikaki, Director, Center for Policy = and Survey Research. Ramallah, Palestine. Sponsored by the Middle East = Center. Contact 206-543-4227, or mecuw@u.washington.edu February 7 Eyewitness to Genocide: the United Nations and Rwanda. Noon, = Smith 40, Speaker: Michael Barnett, University of Wisconsin, Madison. = Discussion Forum. Sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Colloquium on = International Security, JSIS/IGRSS. For info, email Yuko Kawato at = ykawato@u.washington.edu February 7 Kyrgyz Youth and Religion: A Field Report. 12:30-1:30 PM, 215 = Denny Hall. Speaker: Trina Himmelman, Undergraduate, Comparative = Religion. February 8 Colonial Encounters: Europe and Africa Workshop. Offered by the = Center for West European Studies, 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM, 308-The Commons, = Parrington Hall. Focusing on the shared experience of colonialism, and = the ideas and approaches that were transmitted between Europe and Africa = in the age of colonialism, this will be a fascinating look into a = complex period in history, the effects of which remain influential = today. Registration: $20, clock Hours available. Please call = 206-543-1675 or email cwes@u.washington.edu to register - space is = limited, so call early! February 11 Sex and Political Economy: Sexuality, the State and Nation = Building (Part of the series "Thinking Sex in Transnational Times"). = 7:00 pm, Communications 226. Speaker: Jacqui Alexander, Gender & = Women's Studies, Connecticut College. Sponsor: Simpson Center for the = Humanities. NOTE: A workshop on this topic will be held on Feb. 13. = Registration required for workshop: 543-3920.=20 February 11 Film and Discussion Series. Presentation by Professor Cynthia = Steele, 12:30-1:30 PM, 215 Thomson. REECAS and Edmonds Community = College. 6:30 PM, Edmonds Community College. Kolya (Czech). When a = financially strapped cellist gets pressured into a paper marriage with a = Russian single-mother, his roving-eye bachelor life is turned = upside-down. The beautiful woman immediately abandons her new husband = and her five-year-old son, and the unlikely duo struggles to adjust to = their new lives in Prague on the eve of the 1989's Velvet Revolution. = 1997 Winner of the Golden Glove and Academy Award for Best Foreign = Language Film. Following the film will be a discussion led by UW = Professor Josette Baer, expert on the Czech Republic, on Russian = relations with Central Europe at the end of the cold war and nowl. February 13 Life in an Uighur mahalla: Men's and Women's Gatherings. = 12:30-1:30 PM, 215 Denny Hall. Speaker: William Clark, Visiting Scholar, = Dept. of Anthropology, UW. February 13 Salvadoran Ambassador to the United States Rene Antonio Leon = Rodriguez Ambassador Leon will discuss the current economic and political = landscape of El Salvador and the Central American region. 102 Smith, = 7:00-9:00 PM February 14 Recent Publications on Central Asia: Islam in Central Asia. = 12:30-1:30 PM, 215 Denny Hall. Speakers: Arusa Karim and Heather = Salfrank. REECAS/JSIS Graduate Students. February 18 Film and Discussion Series. REECAS and Edmonds Community College. = 6:30 PM, Edmonds Community College. No man's Land (Bosnian). Ciki and = Nino, a Bosnian and a Serb, are soldiers stranded in a trench between = enemy lines during the Bosnian war. They have no one to trust, no way = to escape without getting shot and a fellow soldier is lying on the = trench floor with a spring-loaded bomb set to explode beneath him if he = moves. With the two men stuck in a bizarre predicament, a frustrated UN = sergeant tries to help, despite orders to remain at this post. With the = world's press waiting for an outcome, no one willing to take action, and = a soldier still stuck with a bomb beneath him, Ciki and Nino try to keep = their humanity amidst the insanity of war. Academy Awards, 2002: Best = foreign language film. Following the film will be a discussion led by = UW Professor Gordana Crnkovic, expert on Balkan films, on the Balkan = conflict and use of film. February 19 The Dome of the Rock: From its Creation to Our Age of = Confrontation (Annual Founders Lecture of the Comparative Religion = Program). 7:30 pm, Kane Hall 220. Speaker: Jere Bacharach, History. = Sponsor: Comparative Religion Program. Info: religion@u.washington.edu February 20 Recent Publications on/in Kazakhstan: Martha B. Olcott, Kazakhstan = Unfulfilled Promise (2002). 12:30-1:30 PM, 215 Denny Hall, Speaker: = Toregeldi Tuleubayev, M.A. Student, REECAS. February 21 Recent Publications on/in Kyrgyzstan: New Editions of Kyrgyz Oral = Literature. 12:30-1:30 PM, 215 Denny Hall. Speaker: Olga Donohue, = Graduate Student, Near Eastern Languages & Civilization, UW. February 25 Film and Discussion Series. REECAS and Edmonds Community College. = 6:30 PM, Edmonds Community College. Prisoner of the Mountains (Russian). = When an oddball pair of Russian soldiers are captured and taken prisoner = by a Chechen father hoping to barter them for the release of his captive = son, the two desperate hostages begin to develop an unexpected--and = frequently humorous--bond of friendship. Inspired by the Leo Tolstoy = novella "A Prisoner of the Caucasus." 1996 Academy Award Nominee for = Best Foreign Film. Following the film will be a discussion led by REECAS = Director, Stephen Hanson on the Chechen Wars and Russia's war on = terrorism.=20 February 26 Tunisia: Problems and Prospects of Liberalization. 5:30 - 8:00 = PM, Walker-Ames room, Kane Hall. Speaker: Laurence O. Michalak, Vice = Chair, Center for Middle East Studies, UC-Berkeley. Part of the annual = JSIS International Updates dinner-lecture series on contemporary = international issues. $25 pre-registration is required. Three clock = hours. Call 206-543-4800, or email: sascuw@u.washington.edu to = register. =20 February 27 Recent Publications on/in Uzbekistan: Uzbek Voices on the = Environment. 12:30-1:30 PM, 215 Denny Hall. Speaker: Christina Szabo, = M.S. Student, REECAS & Environmental Studies. February 27 Ottoman Views of the West before Westernization. 3:30 - 5:00 PM, = Communications 226. Speaker: Cemal Kafadar, Vehbi Koc Professor of = Turkish Studies, Harvard University. Part of the Early Modern Research = Group Series Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. Info: = 206-543-3920. February 27 Foreign Maritime Communities in Middle Period China (750-1450): A = Preliminary Overview. 3:30 - 5:00 PM, Humanities Simpson Center, = Communications 202. Speaker John W. Chaffee, Professor of History and = Director, Asian & Asian American Studies Program, Binghamton University, = SUNY. Sponsor: China Studies Program/JSIS. Info: 543-4391. February 28 Central Asian/Turkic Studies at the UW: Inauguration of a New = Website. 12:30-1:30 PM, 112 Denny Hall. Speaker: Tyler Capes, = Undergraduate, Political Science/Near Eastern Languages I& Civilization. February 28 Workshop: Sex and Political Economy: Queer of Color Critique (Part = of the series "Thinking Sex in Transnational Times"). 7:00 PM, = Communications 226. Speaker: Roderick Ferguson, American Studies, Univ. = of Minnesota. Sponsor: Simpson Center for the Humanities. Registration = required: 543-3920. March 4 ASEAN's Post-Cold War Security Strategy: Soft Balancing and = Institutions in the Wake of Strategic Uncertainty. 3:00 PM, 40 Smith. = Speaker: Yuen Foong Khong, Univeristy of Oxford. Discussion Forum. = Sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Colloquium on International Security, = JSIS-IGRSS. For info, email Yuko Kawatto at ykawato@u.washington.edu. March 4 Colloquium: On the Frontiers of Oral History: Recording the Lives = of American Jewish Women. Time and location tba. Speaker: Pamela = Lavitt and Jayne Guberman, Jewish Women's Archives. Co-sponsor: Jewish = Studies Program/JSIS. Info: 543-4243. March 5, 7, 12 Samuel and Althea Stroum Lecture Series: "Spirituality in America; = the Jewish Renewal Movement." 7:30 pm, Kane Hall 220. Speaker: Chava = Weissler, Lehigh University. Sponsor: Jewish Studies Program/JSIS. = Info: 543-4243. March 6 China's Reform at Twenty-Five: Challenges for the New Leadership. = 3:30-5:00 PM,Thomson Hall 317. Speaker: Jae Ho Chung, CNAPS Fellow, = The Brookings Institute and Associate Professor, Department of = International Relations, Seoul National University. Sponsor: China = Studies Program/JSIS. Info: 543-4391. March 10 Militarism and Race Across the Pacific (Part of the series = "Recasting America Asia"). 3:30 pm, Communications 226. Speakers: = Takashi Fujitani, History, UC San Diego; Lisa Yoneyama, Literature, UC = San Diego. Sponsor: Simpson Center for the Humanities. Info: 543-3920. April 23 The Bible as Relic in American Religions (Part of the Colloquium = Series "Territory and Relics"). 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Thomson 317. Speaker: = Jim Wellman, JSIS. Sponsor: Comparative Religion Program/JSIS. Info: = religion@u.washington.edu April 24 Sex and Ethnography: Legislation of Desire (Part of the series = "Thinking Sex in Transnational Times"). 7:00 pm, Communications 226. = Speaker: Lisa Rofel, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz. Sponsor: Simpson = Center for the Humanities. NOTE: A workshop on this topic will be held = on April 25, registration required: 543-3920. May 1 Workshop: Sex and Ethnography: Queer Self-Writing in Hong Kong = (Part of the series "Thinking Sex in Transnational Times"). Time and = location tba. Speaker: Helen Hok-Sze Leung, Women's Studies, Simon = Fraser University. Sponsor: Simpson Center for the Humanities. = Registration required: 543-3920. May 5 Critical Pacific islander Cultures (Part of the series "Recasting = America Asia"). 3:30 pm, Communications 226. Speakers: Gary Pak, = Creative Writing, U of Hawaii; Amy Stillman, American Culture, U of = Michigan. Sponsor: Simpson Center for the Humanities. Info: 543-3920. May 8 US Foreign Policy in the Middle East. 7:00 PM, Kane Hall, Room = 130. Speaker: Edward Said, Professor of English and Comparative = Literature, Columbia. Sponsored by the Graduate School. Admission is = free, but tickets are required. Free tickets are available = approximately two weeks prior to the lecture at: University Bookstore Main Campus 4326 University Way, NE Seattle 206-634-3400 University Bookstore Downtown Seattle 1225-4th Avenue,=20 Seattle 206-545-9230 University Bookstore Bellevue 990-102nd Avenue, NE Bellevue 206-462-4500 University Bookstore Tacoma 1754 Pacific Avenue Tacoma 253-272-8080 University Bookstore 17938 Campus Parkway, NE Bothell 425-485-4725 May 9-10 Eighteenth Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference. The = conference provides a forum for graduate students and faculty in the = humanities and social sciences to present papers related to Middle = Eastern and Central Asian culture, /art/architecture, literature, = society, history and politics. Graduate students are particularly urged = to participate. Both individual papers and pre-arranged panels can be = accommodated. Participants wishing to present a paper are asked to = submit a one-page abstract and CV by March 1, 2003. Working papers must = be received by April 15, 2003. Please specify if audio/visual = facilities are needed when submitting papers to: Middle Eastern History and Theory Conference Center for Middle Eastern Studies The University of Chicago 5828 S. University Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 Voice: 1-773-702-8297 Fax: 1-773-702-2587 For last year's conference program and activities, see our web = page at cas.uchicago.edu/meht. Further information can be obtained from = the above address or by contacting: Patrick G. Wing, = pgwing@uchicago.edu , 1-773-363-0901, or Kaveh Hemmat = kavehhemmat@uchicago.edu , 1-773-263-9635. May 16 Workshop: Sex and Ethnography: Dubbing Culture (Part of the series = " Thinking Sex in Transnational Times"). Time and location tba. = Speaker: Tom Boellstorff, Anthropology, UC Irvine. Sponsor: Simpson = Center for the Humanities. Registration required: 543-3920. May 19 Diaspora and Globalization (Part of the series "Recasting America = Asia"). 3:30 pm, Communications 226. Speakers: Martin Manalansan, = Anthropology, U of Illinois; Gayatri Gopinath, Women & Gender Studies, = UC Davis. Sponsor: Simpson Center for the Humanities. Info: 543-3920. May 21 Relics and Buddhist Practice in East Asia (Part of the Colloquium = Series "Territory and Relics"). 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Simpson Center for the = Humanities, Room 202. Speaker: Kyoko Tokuno, JSIS. Sponsor: = Comparative Religion Program/JSIS. Info: religion@u.washington.edu May 28 International Updates 2003: Latin American Studies Race and Gender = Relations in Latin America: Lessons for the United States. =20 Lecture by LAS Chair and Director Jonathan Warren. A = lecture-dinner series addressing current international issues, offering = the latest insights from top university scholars, convenient early = evening programs and buffet dinners featuring catered international = cuisine. COST: $25.00 per session (Check or money order only, payable = to University of Washington). REGISTRATION DEADLINE: one week prior to = session. 3 clock hours are available. For registration form and more = information, call (206) 543-4800 or e-mail sascuw@u.washington.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - Abbreviations and Web site addresses for more detailed = information: =20 Asian L&L Department of Asian Languages & Literature =20 CANSTUD Canadian Studies Program/JSIS = http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/canada/canada.html =20 =20 CASG Central Asian Studies Group/NELC =20 CIBER Center for International Business Education & Research = =20 CSDE Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology =20 CPHRS Center for Public Health Research & Evaluation =20 CWES Center for West European Studies, JSIS = http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/cwesuw/index.html =20 =20 EUC European Union Center = http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/europe/euc.html =20 =20 GEOG Dept. of Geography =20 http://depts.washington.edu/geog/news/colloquium.html=20 =20 GTI Institute of Transnational Studies = http://depts.washington.edu/tayloruw/seminars.htm =20 =20 GTTL Global Trade, Transportation & Logistics Studies =20 IGRSS Inst. 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The Uzbek=20 Academy of Sciences: Organization, Goals and=20 Outlook

Exhibition: Innocence Under = Siege

 

Research on Chinese Occasional=20 Verse

January 22

Women and Children in Cambodia.  =

 

Asian=20 Languages and Literature Colloquium.  Research on = Chinese=20 Occasional Verse

January=20 23

Meeting=20 with Dr. Behzod Yuldoshev

 

Working Until Dropping:  The Economics of the = Elderly in=20 Rural China

 

Economic=20 Progress in Uzbekistan: What's Happened Since=20 Independence

 

The=20 Kushans: The great 'Lost' Civilization at the Crossroads of = Ancient=20 Eurasia.

January=20 24

Soviet=20 Military Doctrine as Strategic=20 Deception

 

Full = Listings

 

2003

 

January 17

 

Theater in Uzbekistan: Past and = Present.=20 12:30-1:30 PM, School of Drama, UW, 215 Denny Hall. Mark Weil, = Director,=20 Ilhom Theater, Tashkent Guest Director,

 

January 21

 

The Uzbek Academy of Sciences: = Organization, Goals=20 and Outlook.  1:00-2:30 PM, 215 Denny Hall. Speaker: = Dr.=20 Behzod Yuldoshev, President, Uzbek Academy of Sciences. =

 

January 21

 

Exhibition: Innocence Under Siege. = Tuesday,=20 1/21 (noon) until Monday, January 27 (noon). This exhibit is a = collection=20 of over 50 works of art, created by Palestinian school children, = who were=20 asked how they saw the world around them. Sponsored by Hayatt at = the UW=20 HUB in the gallery on the ground floor, from

 

January 21

 

The Uzbek Academy of Sciences: = Organization, Goals=20 and Outlook. 7:00 PM, 226 Communications. Speaker: = Dr.=20 Behzod Yuldoshev, President, Uzbek Academy of = Sciences.

 

January 22

 

Asian Languages and Literature = Colloquium. =20 Research on Chinese Occasional Verse. 3:30-5:00 PM, Communications 226.  = Speaker: Matt=20 Carter from the Department of Asian Languages and Literature,=20 University of Washington.

 

January 22

 

Women and Children in=20 Cambodia.  12:00-1:30pm, Smith 313.  Carol = Wagner=20 (author).  For more information call SE Asia Center. =20 543-9606

 

January 23

 

Meeting with Dr. Behzod Yuldoshev, = President,=20 Uzbek Academy of Sciences.  1:00-2:30 PM, 215 Denny = Hall.

 

January 23

 

The Kushans: The great 'Lost' = Civilization at the=20 Crossroads of Ancient Eurasia. 7:00 PM, 211 Smith Hall. = Speaker:=20 Dr. Benjamin, History Dept., at the Macquarie University, = Sidney,=20 Australia.  he is the Secretary of the Australasian Society = for Inner=20 Asian Studies, a member of the Circle of Inner Asian Art and a = member of=20 the Central Eurasian Studies Society.  His field of = specialization is=20 ancient Inner Asia, specifically the Yuezhi (Tocharians) and the = Kushan=20 Empire.  His recently completed doctoral dissertation is to = be=20 published as part of a four-volume series titled A History of the=20 Kushans.

 

January 23

 

Working Until Dropping:  The = Economics of the=20 Elderly in Rural China.

3:30-5:00 PM, Thomson Hall 125. =20 Speaker: Scott Rozelle, Professor, Department of = Agricultural=20 and Resource  Economics, University of = California-Davis. =20 Sponsor:  China Studies program/JSIS.  Info: =20 543-4391.

 

January 23

 

Economic Progress in Uzbekistan: What's = Happened=20 Since Independence. ,  UW. 7:00 PM, UW Center for Urban=20 Horticulture. Speaker: George Wright, Family Medicine = (Note: This=20 lecture is part of the program of the Annual Meeting of the=20 Seattle-Tashkent Sister City Association.)

 

January 24

 

Soviet Military Doctrine as Strategic=20 Deception: An Offensive Military Strategy Defense of the = Socialist=20 Fatherland.  Noon-1:30, Smith 40.  Speaker:=20 Christopher Jones, University of Washington. Soviet = military=20 doctrine from 1962 to 1988 was a deliberate strategic deception of = both=20 adversaries and allies.  Soviet doctrine used the risk of = nuclear and=20 conventional war with NATO as a camouflage to threaten armed = actions in=20 both Germanies in support of the East German communist = party.  Soviet=20 doctrine also threatened military intervention against political = opponents=20 of the other communist regimes of Eastern Europe.  The = strategy also=20 sought to pre-empt further defections from the Warsaw Pact, such = as those=20 of Albania and Romania. Until 1987-88, Soviet doctrine required = victory on=20 NATO territory as the only option compatible with the maskirovka = necessary=20 for offensive action within the Soviet alliance system. Discussion = Forum.  Sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Colloquium on=20 International Security (PNCIS), and JSIS/IGRESS.  For info, = email=20 Ykuko Kawato at ykawato@u.washington.edu

 

January 26

 

When One War Starts, Another War = Escalates-=20 Palestine, Ethnic Cleansing, and the War on Iraq. 6:00 PM, = Seattle=20 peace activists report their experiences in the West Bank and=20 Gaza.   Ethnic Cultural Theater, 3940 Brooklyn Ave., NE, = Seattle.  Admission is free to all - donations accepted. For = info, www.eyewitnesspalestine.org=20

 

January 27

 

Elena, Marian, and the = Bougainvillea: The=20 Collaborations of Mariana Yampolsky and Elena=20 Poniatowska

Professor Steele = will be=20 discussing the various books produced jointly, mostly during the = 1980s, by=20 the leading Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska and the eminent = Mexican=20 photographer Mariana Yampolsky. While sharing an interest in = female=20 subjects and popular nationalism, the creative tension in these = books=20 comes from the marriage of two radically distinct aesthetic = styles: one=20 cool, distanced, modernist and internationalist, concerned with = geometric=20 forms and the eloquence of simplicity; and the other passionate,=20 excessive, baroque, eminently mestizo and Mexican.=20  .  For more information, consult the LAS website @=20 http://jsis.= artsci.washington.edu/programs/latinam

 

January 27

 

Modernization of University Education = in=20 Russia. 3:30 - 5:00 PM,  Thomson Hall = 317. Speaker: =20 Andrey Korovin has taught at the Moscow State Pedagogical = University=20 since 1995, where he is now an Assistant Professor.  He = earned his=20 PhD from MSPU in 1998 in European and American Literature.  = He=20 specializes in Scandinavian Literature, Theory of Romanticism and = Theory=20 of Narrative Genres.

 

January 27

 

Roman Jakobson's Book: Controversial = Lectures on=20 the Theory of Literature and Russian Formalism, Brno = 1935.  7i:00=20 PM, 120 Communications Bldg. Professor Glanc is the director of = Slavic and=20 European Studies at Charles University in Prague. For more = information=20 call 206-543-*6848.  Co-sponsored by the Dept of Slavic = Languages and=20 literature an the Center for Russian, East European and Central = Asian=20 Studies.

 

January 29

 

Relics in the Ancient Near=20 East (Part of the Colloquium Series = =93Territory and=20 Relics=94.  3:30 =96 5:00 pm, Simpson Center for the = Humanities, Room=20 202.  Speaker: Scott Noegel, NELC.  = Sponsor: Comparative Religion Program/JSIS.  Info: religion@u.washington.edu

 

January 30

 

White Hats, Oilcakes, and Common = Blood:  The=20 Local and the National Among the Hui.  3:30 - 5:00 PM, = Thomson=20 317.  Speaker:  Jonathan Lipman, Professor of = History,=20 Mount Holyoke College.  Sponsor: China Studies=20 Program/JSIS.  Contact:  543-4391.

 

January 30

 

Human Rights, Political Culture, and = the Recent=20 Elections in Kenya. 3:30-5:00 PM, 404 Smith hall, Speaker: = Mutuma=20 Ruteere (Human Rights Activist and Scholar. Mutuma Ruteere = (BA, Moi=20 University; MA, University of Essex) is the author of numerous = reports on=20 human rights in Kenya, including "Shackled Messengers: The Media = in=20 Multiparty Kenya" and "Mission to Repress: Torture, Illegal = Detentions and=20 Extra-judicial Executions in Kenya." He has worked with the = "Nairobi Law=20 Monthly," The Media Institute, and from 1997 to 2002, as the Head = of=20 Research at the Kenya Human Rights Commission.  Mr. Rutere's = talk=20 will focus on the politics of human rights change and their role = in=20 ensuring free elections and the recent political transition in=20 Kenya.

 

January 30

 

Human Rights, Political Culture, and = the Recent=20 Elections in Kenya. 3:30-5:00 PM in Smith 404. Speaker: = Mutuma=20 Ruteere (Human Rights Activist and Scholar).  Sponsor: = Program on=20 Africa and the Comparative Law and Society Studies = Center.

 

January 30

 

The Kedo and the North Korean Nuclear = Crisis: =20 How We Got Here?.  7:00 PM, 210 Kane Hall.  = Speaker:=20 Ambassador Charles Kartman.  Sponsor: Institute for = Global and=20 Regional Security Studies (IGRRS), and the Korea Studies Program = of the=20 Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.  Info:=20 543-4391

 

January 30

 

The Intimacies of Four = Continents.  7:00=20 pm   120 Communications Bldg. Speaker: Lisa Lowe=20 Professor of Comparative Literature University of California, San = Diego.=20 Aiming to rethink the conditions for the emergence of modern = humanism,=20 Lowe situates modern definitions of the "human" that depended on=20 distinctions between the "free" and "unfree," within the global = context of=20 colonialism, slavery, migration and indentureship. Building on the = work of=20 C. L. R. James, W. E. B. DuBois and others, the "intimacies of = four=20 continents" names the connections between African and Asian = migrations to=20 the Americas and the rise of bourgeois societies in Europe and = North=20 America.  This talk is presented as part of the Transnational = Studies=20 Project's Transnational Times, Transnational Literacies Lecture=20 Series.

 

January 30

 

Building a Global City in My Backyard: = Transforming=20 Local Memories and Identities in Shanghai and Taipei. 12pm, = Gould Hall=20 100 Speakers: Shenglin Chang (U of Maryland) and John Liu = (National Taiwan=20 University) The Institute for Transnational Studies would like to = invite=20 you to our first lecture in the series Public Spaces & the = Public=20 Sphere: Multidisciplinary Inquiries into Urban Change in the Asia = Pacific.=20 For more information about the series see http://depts.wa= shington.edu/tayloruw/publics.htm

 

January 31

 

Confronting the Past: the Stalin Years = in Current=20 Uzbek Literature. Speaker: Ilse D. Cirtautas, 12:30-1:30 PM, = 215 Denny=20 Hall. Near Eastern Languages & Civilization/Central Asian = Studies=20 Group, UW.

 

February 1

 

Documentary Film Workshop:  = Teaching Diversity=20 and Cross-Cultural Understanding through Film.  8:30 AM = to 4:30=20 PM, Balmer Hall 413.  Speakers:  Carol Hermer, = President=20 of the Society of Visual Anthropology; John Sinno, = President of=20 Arab Film Distribution, and others.  Eight Clock hours for = k-12=20 educators, continental breakfast, and box lunch.  $40=20 Pre-registration required.  Call the Canadian Studies Center = for=20 details:  206-543-6269, or email: =20 canada@u.washington.edu.

 

 February 4

 

Film and Discussion Series.  = REECAS and=20 Edmonds Community College. 6:30 PM, Edmonds Community = College.  Life=20 is Beautiful (Italian). Conjuring keys and hats out of thin air, = Guido=20 (Roberto Benigni), a clever Jewish-Italian waiter, successfully = courts=20 Dora (Nicoletta Braschi), a beautiful local woman, in Fascist = pre-WWII=20 Italy. His life, howev3er, is tuirned upside down a few years = later when=20 he, Dora, and their young son, Giosu (Giorio Cantarini), are sent = to a=20 Nazi concentration camp.  Refusing to give up hope, Guido = tries to=20 protect his son's innocence by pretending that their imprisonment = is just=20 an elaborate game. 1999 Winner of the Golden Globe and the Academy = Award=20 for Best Foreign Language Film.  Following the film will be a = discussion led by ECC Professor DJ Wilson on the Italian = perceptions of=20 the Allies.

 

February 5

 

Central Asia & the Rise of Militant = Islam.  210 Kane Hall, 7:00 PM. Speaker: Ahmed=20 Rashid.  Author of Taliban and Investigative = Journalist=20 with the Far Eastern Economic Review will be in Seattle to meet = with=20 educators and discuss his new book, "Jihad: The Rise of Militant = Islam in=20 Central Asia". Based on groundbreaking research and interviews, = Rashid=20 looks at Central Asia and the "New Great Game" that is about to be = waged=20 over it between China, Russia and the United States.  = Sponsored by=20 the World Affairs Council of Western Washington.

 

February 5

 

Central Asia and International = Security. 7:00=20 PM, 210 Kane Hall. Speaker: Ahmed Rashid is an = investigative=20 journalist for the Far Eastern Economic Review, Wall Street = Journal and=20 Daily Telegraph. The lecture will focus on the conflict centered = in=20 Central Asia and the part this region plays in international = security due=20 to political corruption, extreme poverty, religious repression and = nuclear=20 missiles.  Co-sponsored by the World Affairs Council of = Western=20 Washington and the Jackson School of International = Studies.

 

February 6

 

Forget Remembering Gender in China's = Rural=20 Collective Past.  3:30 - 5:00 PM, Communications = 202. =20 Speaker:  Gail Hershatter, Professor of History, = Director of=20 the Institute for Humanities Research, University of California at = Santa=20 Cruz.  Sponsor:  China Studies Program/JSIS. =20 Contact:  543-4391.

 

February 6

 

The Role of Palestinian Political Reform in Peace=20 Building.  7:30 PM, Kane Hall 120.  Speaker: = Khalil=20 Shikaki, Director, Center for Policy and Survey=20 Research. Ramallah, Palestine.  Sponsored by the Middle = East=20 Center.  Contact 206-543-4227, or = mecuw@u.washington.edu

 

February 7

 

Eyewitness to Genocide: the United = Nations and=20 Rwanda.  Noon, Smith 40, Speaker: Michael Barnett, = University of Wisconsin, Madison.  Discussion Forum.  = Sponsored=20 by the Pacific Northwest Colloquium on International Security,=20 JSIS/IGRSS.  For info, email Yuko Kawato at ykawato@u.washington.edu

 

February 7

 

Kyrgyz Youth and Religion: A Field = Report.=20 12:30-1:30 PM, 215 Denny Hall. Speaker: Trina = Himmelman,=20 Undergraduate, Comparative Religion.

 

February 8

 

Colonial Encounters: Europe and Africa=20 Workshop. Offered by the Center for West European = Studies, 9:00=20 AM to 3:00 PM, 308-The Commons, Parrington Hall.  Focusing on = the=20 shared experience of colonialism, and the ideas and approaches = that were=20 transmitted between Europe and Africa in the age of colonialism, = this will=20 be a fascinating look into a complex period in history, the = effects of=20 which remain influential today.  Registration: $20, clock = Hours=20 available. Please call 206-543-1675 or email cwes@u.washington.edu to = register=20 - space is limited, so call early!

 

February 11

 

Sex and Political Economy: = Sexuality, the=20 State and Nation Building (Part of the = series=20 =93Thinking Sex in Transnational Times=94).  7:00 pm, = Communications=20 226.  Speaker: Jacqui Alexander, Gender & = Women=92s=20 Studies, Connecticut College.  Sponsor: Simpson Center for = the=20 Humanities.  NOTE: A workshop on this topic will be held on = Feb.=20 13.  Registration required for workshop: 543-3920. =

 

February 11

 

Film and Discussion Series.=20 Presentation=20 by=20 Professor Cynthia Steele, 12:30-1:30 PM, 215 Thomson.=20  REECAS and = Edmonds=20 Community College. 6:30 PM, Edmonds Community College.  Kolya = (Czech). When a financially strapped cellist gets pressured into a = paper=20 marriage with a Russian single-mother, his roving-eye bachelor = life is=20 turned upside-down.  The beautiful woman immediately abandons = her new=20 husband and her five-year-old son, and the unlikely duo struggles = to=20 adjust to their new lives in Prague on the eve of the 1989's = Velvet=20 Revolution.  1997 Winner of the Golden Glove and Academy = Award for=20 Best Foreign Language Film. Following the film will be a = discussion led by=20 UW Professor Josette Baer, expert on the Czech Republic, on = Russian=20 relations with Central Europe at the end of the cold war and=20 nowl.

 

February 13

 

Life in an Uighur mahalla: Men's and = Women's=20 Gatherings. 12:30-1:30 PM, 215 Denny Hall. Speaker: William = Clark, Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Anthropology, UW.

 

February 13

 

Salvadoran Ambassador to the United = States Rene=20 Antonio Leon Rodriguez

 

Ambassador = Leon will=20 discuss the current economic and political landscape of El = Salvador and=20 the Central American region.  102 Smith, 7:00-9:00=20 PM

 

February 14

 

Recent Publications on Central Asia: = Islam in=20 Central Asia. 12:30-1:30 PM, 215 Denny Hall. Speakers: = Arusa=20 Karim and Heather Salfrank. REECAS/JSIS Graduate=20 Students.

 

February 18

 

Film and Discussion Series. REECAS = and Edmonds=20 Community College. 6:30 PM, Edmonds Community College.  No = man's=20 Land (Bosnian). Ciki and Nino, a Bosnian and a Serb, are = soldiers=20 stranded in a trench between enemy lines during the Bosnian = war. =20 They have no one to trust, no way to escape without getting shot = and a=20 fellow soldier is lying on the trench floor with a spring-loaded = bomb set=20 to explode beneath him if he moves.  With the two men stuck = in a=20 bizarre predicament, a frustrated UN sergeant tries to help, = despite=20 orders to remain at this post.  With the world's press = waiting for an=20 outcome, no one willing to take action, and a soldier still stuck = with a=20 bomb beneath him, Ciki and Nino try to keep their humanity amidst = the=20 insanity of war. Academy Awards, 2002: Best foreign language = film. =20 Following the film will be a discussion led by UW Professor = Gordana=20 Crnkovic, expert on Balkan films, on the Balkan conflict and use = of=20 film.

 

February 19

 

The Dome of the Rock: From its = Creation to=20 Our Age of Confrontation (Annual = Founders Lecture=20 of the Comparative Religion Program).  7:30 pm, Kane Hall = 220. =20 Speaker: Jere Bacharach, History.  Sponsor: = Comparative=20 Religion Program.  Info: religion@u.washington.edu

 

February 20

 

Recent Publications on/in Kazakhstan: = Martha B.=20 Olcott, Kazakhstan Unfulfilled Promise (2002). 12:30-1:30 PM, = 215=20 Denny Hall, Speaker: Toregeldi Tuleubayev, M.A. = Student,=20 REECAS.

 

February 21

 

Recent Publications on/in Kyrgyzstan: = New Editions=20 of Kyrgyz Oral Literature. 12:30-1:30 PM, 215 Denny = Hall. =20 Speaker: Olga Donohue, Graduate Student, Near Eastern = Languages=20 & Civilization, UW.

 

February=20 25

 

Film and Discussion Series. REECAS = and Edmonds=20 Community College. 6:30 PM, Edmonds Community College. Prisoner of = the=20 Mountains (Russian). When an oddball pair of Russian soldiers are = captured=20 and taken prisoner by a Chechen father hoping to barter them for = the=20 release of his captive son, the two desperate hostages begin to = develop an=20 unexpected--and frequently humorous--bond of friendship.  = Inspired by=20 the Leo Tolstoy novella "A Prisoner of the Caucasus." 1996 Academy = Award=20 Nominee for Best Foreign Film. Following the film will be a = discussion led=20 by REECAS Director, Stephen Hanson on the Chechen Wars and = Russia's war on=20 terrorism.

 

February 26

 

Tunisia:  Problems and Prospects = of=20 Liberalization.  5:30 - 8:00 PM, Walker-Ames room, Kane=20 Hall.  Speaker:  Laurence O. Michalak, Vice = Chair, Center=20 for Middle East Studies, UC-Berkeley.  Part of the annual = JSIS=20 International Updates dinner-lecture series on contemporary = international=20 issues.  $25 pre-registration is required.  Three clock=20 hours.  Call 206-543-4800, or email:  sascuw@u.washington.edu to=20 register. 

 

February 27

 

Recent Publications on/in Uzbekistan: = Uzbek Voices=20 on the Environment. 12:30-1:30 PM, 215 Denny Hall. Speaker: = Christina Szabo, M.S. Student, REECAS & Environmental=20 Studies.

 

February 27

 

Ottoman Views of the West before=20 Westernization.  3:30 - 5:00 PM, Communications = 226. =20 Speaker: Cemal Kafadar, Vehbi Koc Professor of = Turkish=20 Studies, Harvard University.  Part of the Early Modern = Research Group=20 Series Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. =20 Info:  206-543-3920.

 

February 27

 

Foreign Maritime Communities in Middle = Period China=20 (750-1450):  A Preliminary Overview.  3:30 - 5:00 = PM,=20 Humanities Simpson Center, Communications 202. Speaker John W.=20 Chaffee, Professor of History and Director, Asian & Asian = American=20 Studies Program, Binghamton University, SUNY.  Sponsor:  = China=20 Studies Program/JSIS.  Info:  543-4391.

 

February 28

 

Central Asian/Turkic Studies at the UW: = Inauguration of a New Website. 12:30-1:30 PM, 112 Denny Hall.=20 Speaker: Tyler Capes, Undergraduate, Political Science/Near = Eastern=20 Languages I& Civilization.

 

February 28

 

Workshop: Sex and Political = Economy: Queer of=20 Color Critique (Part of the series = =93Thinking Sex=20 in Transnational Times=94).  7:00 PM, Communications = 226. =20 Speaker: Roderick Ferguson, American Studies, Univ. = of=20 Minnesota.  Sponsor: Simpson Center for the Humanities.  = Registration required: 543-3920.

 

March 4

 

ASEAN's Post-Cold War Security = Strategy: Soft=20 Balancing and Institutions in the Wake of Strategic = Uncertainty. =20 3:00 PM, 40 Smith.  Speaker: Yuen Foong Khong, = Univeristy of=20 Oxford.  Discussion Forum.  Sponsored by the Pacific = Northwest=20 Colloquium on International Security, JSIS-IGRSS.  For info, = email=20 Yuko Kawatto at ykawato@u.washington.edu.

 

March 4

 

Colloquium: On the Frontiers of = Oral History:=20 Recording the Lives of American Jewish Women.  Time and location tba.  Speaker: = Pamela Lavitt=20 and Jayne Guberman, Jewish Women=92s Archives.  = Co-sponsor:=20 Jewish Studies Program/JSIS.  Info: = 543-4243.

 

March 5, 7, 12

 

Samuel and Althea Stroum Lecture = Series:=20 =93Spirituality in America; the Jewish Renewal = Movement.=94  7:30 pm, Kane Hall 220.  Speaker: Chava = Weissler, Lehigh University.  Sponsor: Jewish Studies = Program/JSIS.  Info: 543-4243.

 

March 6

 

China's Reform at Twenty-Five:  = Challenges for=20 the New Leadership.  3:30-5:00 PM,Thomson Hall 317.  = Speaker:  Jae Ho Chung, CNAPS Fellow, The Brookings = Institute=20 and Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, = Seoul=20 National University.  Sponsor:  China Studies=20 Program/JSIS.  Info:  543-4391.

 

March 10

 

Militarism and Race Across the=20 Pacific (Part of the series =93Recasting = America=20 Asia=94).  3:30 pm, Communications 226.  Speakers: = Takashi=20 Fujitani, History, UC San Diego; Lisa = Yoneyama,=20 Literature, UC San Diego.  Sponsor: Simpson Center for the=20 Humanities.  Info: 543-3920.

 

April 23

 

The Bible as Relic in American=20 Religions (Part of the Colloquium Series = =93Territory and Relics=94).  3:30 =96 5:00 pm, Thomson = 317.  Speaker:=20 Jim Wellman, JSIS.  Sponsor: Comparative = Religion=20 Program/JSIS.  Info: = religion@u.washington.edu

 

April 24

 

Sex and Ethnography: Legislation = of=20 Desire (Part of the series =93Thinking = Sex in=20 Transnational Times=94).  7:00 pm, Communications 226.  = Speaker:=20 Lisa Rofel, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz.  = Sponsor:=20 Simpson Center for the Humanities.  NOTE: A workshop on this = topic=20 will be held on April 25, registration required:=20 543-3920.

 

May 1

 

Workshop: Sex and Ethnography: = Queer=20 Self-Writing in Hong Kong (Part of the = series=20 =93Thinking Sex in Transnational Times=94).  Time and = location tba. =20 Speaker: Helen Hok-Sze Leung, Women=92s Studies, = Simon Fraser=20 University.  Sponsor: Simpson Center for the = Humanities. =20 Registration required: 543-3920.

 

May 5

 

Critical Pacific islander=20 Cultures (Part of the series = =93Recasting America=20 Asia=94).  3:30 pm, Communications 226.  Speakers: = Gary=20 Pak, Creative Writing, U of Hawaii; Amy = Stillman,=20 American Culture, U of Michigan.  Sponsor: Simpson Center for = the=20 Humanities.  Info: 543-3920.

 

May 8

 

US Foreign Policy in the Middle = East. =20 7:00 PM, Kane Hall, Room 130.  Speaker:  Edward = Said,=20 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia.  = Sponsored=20 by the Graduate School.  Admission is free, but tickets are=20 required.  Free tickets are available approximately two weeks = prior=20 to the lecture at:

 

University Bookstore Main = Campus

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Seattle  206-634-3400

 

University Bookstore Downtown = Seattle

1225-4th Avenue,

Seattle  206-545-9230

 

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Bellevue  206-462-4500

 

University Bookstore Tacoma

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May 9-10

 

Eighteenth Annual Middle East History = and Theory=20 Conference.  The conference provides a forum for graduate = students and faculty in the humanities and social sciences to = present=20 papers related to Middle Eastern and Central Asian culture,=20 /art/architecture, literature, society, history and = politics. =20 Graduate students are particularly urged to participate.  = Both=20 individual papers and pre-arranged panels can be = accommodated. =20 Participants wishing to present a paper are asked to submit a = one-page=20 abstract and CV by March 1, 2003.  Working papers must be = received by=20 April 15, 2003.  Please specify if audio/visual facilities = are needed=20 when submitting papers to:

 

Middle Eastern History and Theory=20 Conference

Center for Middle Eastern = Studies

The University of Chicago

5828 S. University Avenue

Chicago, IL 60637

Voice:  1-773-702-8297

Fax:  1-773-702-2587

 

For last year's conference program and = activities, see=20 our web page at cas.uchicago.edu/meht.  Further information = can be=20 obtained from the above address or by contacting:  Patrick G. = Wing,=20 pgwing@uchicago.edu ,=20 1-773-363-0901, or Kaveh Hemmat kavehhemmat@uchicago.edu ,=20 1-773-263-9635.

 

May 16

 

Workshop: Sex and Ethnography: = Dubbing=20 Culture (Part of the series =93 Thinking = Sex in=20 Transnational Times=94).  Time and location tba.  = Speaker:=20 Tom Boellstorff, Anthropology, UC Irvine.  = Sponsor:=20 Simpson Center for the Humanities.  Registration required:=20 543-3920.

 

May 19

 

Diaspora and = Globalization (Part of the series =93Recasting America Asia=94).  = 3:30 pm,=20 Communications 226.  Speakers: Martin = Manalansan,=20 Anthropology, U of Illinois; Gayatri Gopinath, Women = &=20 Gender Studies, UC Davis.  Sponsor: Simpson Center for the=20 Humanities.  Info: 543-3920.

 

May 21

 

Relics and Buddhist Practice in = East=20 Asia (Part of the Colloquium Series = =93Territory and=20 Relics=94).  3:30 =96 5:00 pm, Simpson Center for the = Humanities, Room=20 202.  Speaker: Kyoko Tokuno, JSIS.  = Sponsor:=20 Comparative Religion Program/JSIS.  Info: religion@u.washington.edu

 

May 28

 

International=20 Updates 2003: Latin American Studies Race and Gender Relations in = Latin=20 America: Lessons for the United States. =20

Lecture=20 by LAS=20 Chair and Director=20 Jonathan Warren.  A lecture-dinner = series=20 addressing current international issues, offering the latest = insights from=20 top university scholars, convenient early evening programs and = buffet=20 dinners featuring catered international cuisine.  COST: = $25.00 per=20 session (Check or money order only, payable to University of=20 Washington).  REGISTRATION DEADLINE: one week prior to = session. =20 3 clock hours are available.  For registration form and more=20 information, call (206) 543-4800 or e-mail sascuw@u.washington.edu

 

 

 

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

Asian L&L Department of Asian Languages &=20 Literature  
CANSTUD

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

CASG Central Asian Studies Group/NELC=20
CIBER Center for International Business Education = &=20 Research  
CSDE Center for Studies in Demography = & Ecology=20
CPHRS Center for Public Health Research = &=20 Evaluation  
CWES

Center for = West European=20 Studies, JSIS=20 =             &= nbsp;      =20 htt= p://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/cwesuw/index.html  = =20

EUC

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

GEOG

Dept. of=20 Geography  

http://dept= s.washington.edu/geog/news/colloquium.html=20

GTI 

Institute of = Transnational=20 Studies          &nbs= p;        =20 http://depts.w= ashington.edu/tayloruw/seminars.htm  =20

GTTL Global Trade, Transportation & = Logistics=20 Studies  
IGRSS Inst. For Global and Regional Security Studies =  =20
IIP

Institute for = International=20 Policy=20 =             &= nbsp;      

 http://www.iip.washington.edu  =20

IS=20

Center for = International=20 Studies/JSIS

 http://= jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/is/is-ctr.html  =20

JSIS The Henry M. Jackson School of = International=20 Studies  
LAS Latin American Studies = Program/JSIS  =20
MEC

Middle East=20 Center/JSIS =20 = http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/mideast/events.htm &n= bsp;=20

NELC

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

REECAS

Russian, East = European, and=20 Central Asia Studies, JSIS=20 =             &= nbsp;      =20 http://depts.washington.edu/r= eecas=20

SEAS

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

Slavic L&L

Department of = Slavic=20 Languages & Literature=20      

SMA  School of Marine = Affairs

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