From jsis@u.washington.edu Thu May 11 17:00:16 2000 Received: from jason02.u.washington.edu (root@jason02.u.washington.edu [140.142.76.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id RAA22378 for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 17:00:14 -0700 Received: from saul10.u.washington.edu (jsis@saul10.u.washington.edu [140.142.13.73]) by jason02.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.01) with ESMTP id RAA22496 for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 17:00:11 -0700 Received: from localhost (jsis@localhost) by saul10.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id RAA01304 for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 17:00:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 17:00:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Jackson School of International Studies To: jsis-uw@u.washington.edu Subject: The Jackson School Calendar, May 12, 2000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII he JACKSON SCHOOL CALENDAR May 12, 2000 ALL EVENTS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC & ARE FREE UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED. *New Events (or changes) not previously listed are indicated by an asterisk* Abbreviations: Asian L&L = Department of Asian Languages & Literature 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 ______________________________________________ May 12 The First Musical Recordings in Arabia: Jeddah, Arabian Gulf, Aden (1904-39). 2:30 - 3:30, Music Bldg., Room 223. Speaker: Jean Lambert, CNRD, Paris. Sponsor: Middle East Center/JSIS. Info: 543-4227. A Neo-Modern Utopia: Global Firms and Masculine Heroes in Mexico's Maquiladoras (Part of the lecture series "Borderlands of Globality: Transitional Spaces and Struggles"). 12:30 pm, Smith 102. Speaker: Melissa Wright, Geography, University of Texas. Sponsors: National Resource Center in International Studies/JSIS; Humanities Center; CWES; Canadian Studies; College of Arts and Sciences. Info: 685-2707. Refugee Resettlement in Guatemala: Solidarity and the Role of Human Rights Accompaniment. 12:30 pm, Thomson 101. Speaker: Kimberley Chastain, Human Rights Observer, Guatemala Accompaniment Project of NISGUA. Sponsor: Human Rights Education & Research Network. Info: (425) 352-5421. * Problems with Culture. 3:00 - 4:30 pm, Smith 407. Speaker: Geoff Eley, Professor of History and German Studies, University of Michigan. Sponsors: CWES/JSIS; History. Info: yuedong@u.washington.edu May 13 Ukrainians in North America: Celebrating More Than a Century of History and Culture. Full-day seminar for educators and the general public. 8:30 am - 5:30 pm, HUB Room 200AB. Presentations on Ukrainian immigration to Canada and the US, Ukrainian history, language, religion, culture and art in North America, Ukrainian curriculum resources and live musical performances. $30 registration fee includes lunch, eight clock hours available for teachers at no extra cost. Sponsors: Canadian Studies Center/JSIS; REECAS/JSIS. Info: 543-4852. Conference: Internationalist Intellectuals and New Social Movements in Asia. 9:30 am - 5:00 pm, Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. Presentations, panel discussions, and roundtable. Invited Speakers: Nikhil Aziz, International Studies, Illinois State University; Cui Zhiyuan, Economics, MIT; Kaushik Ghosh, Anthropology, Center for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta; Liang Xiaoyan, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Friends of Nature; Huang Ping, Institute for Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Pu-keung Hui, Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong; Ngai Pun, Anthropology, Hong Kong University; Chayan Vaddhanaphuti, Anthropology, Chiang Mai University, Thailand; Wang Hui, History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Sponsors: Program for Critical Asian Studies; Rockefeller Foundation. Info: 616-8590. May 15 What's Left of Utopia? (Part of the lecture series "Utopias at the Turn of the Century/End of the Millenium). 3:30 pm, Smith 211. Speaker: Geoff Eley, Depts. Of History and German Studies, Univ. of Michigan. Sponsors: CWES/JSIS; History; Political Science; Humanities Center; International Studies Center. Info: 543-1675. Militarism and the Arts of Strategy in Thai Cultural History. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Thomson 317. Speaker: Craig Reynolds, Reader in History, Australian National University. Sponsor: Southeast Asia Center/JSIS. Info: 543-9606. * Legal Culture, Power, Identity and Institutions: Four Quesitons on Law and Society in China and Israel. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Gowen 1B. Speaker: Neil Diamant, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Univ. of Pittsburgh. Sponsor: Comparative Law and Society Studies Center. Info: 543-4550. May 16 Inaugural Severyns-Ravenholt Lecture: "The Taiwan Presidential Election: The Impact on Tensions in US-PRC-Taiwan Relations." 7:00 pm, Kane Hall 210, with a reception following the lecture in the Walker-Ames Room. Speaker: Frank Ching, Senior Editor, Far Eastern Economic Review. White Paper on National Missile Defense: The Case Against NMD. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Forum Room, Parrington Hall. Speaker: Ambassador Thomas Graham, President, Lawyers Alliance for World Security (LAWS). Sponsors: National Resource Center in International Studies/JSIS; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Info: 432-1666. * Women's Issues in Cuba. 2:30 - 3:30 pm, Cunningham Hall Conference Room. Speaker: Gladys Egues Cantero, Journalist covering women's issues in Cuba. Sponsor: Northwest Center for Research on Women. Info: 543-9531. May 17 Towards European Defense? On the Development of the Common Security and Defense Policy of the European Union. 1:30 - 3:00 pm, HUB 309. Speaker: Kari Mottola, Special Advisor on Security Policy, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland. Sponsor: EU Center/JSIS. Info: 616-2415. Complex Pre-Columbian Societies of Latin America. 12:30 - 1:20 pm, Thomson 317. Speaker: Floyd Aranyosi, Ph.D. Candidate, UW Archaeology. Sponsor: LAS/JSIS. Info: 685-3435. May 18 A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalization. 12:00 noon luncheon, Washington Athletic Club, Lobby Lounge, 1325 6th Avenue. Speakers: John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, Staff Editors, the Economist. Sponsors: World Affairs Organization; University Bookstore. Cost: $27 members; $34 non-members. Registration & Info: 441-5910. May 18 - June 11 Seattle International Film Festival. Various venues. See www.seattlefilm.com for details. May 19 Christmas-izing Ramadan: Television and Holiday Consumption. 2:30 - 3:30, Music Bldg., Room 223. Speaker: Walter Armbrust, Georgetown University. Sponsor: Middle East Center/JSIS. Info: 543-4227. On Critical Globality (Part of the lecture series "Borderlands of Globality: Transitional Spaces and Struggles"). 12:30 pm, Smith 102. Speakers: Alys Weinbaum, English, UW; Brent Edwards, English, Rutgers. Sponsors: National Resource Center in International Studies/JSIS; Humanities Center; CWES; Canadian Studies; College of Arts and Sciences. Info: 685-2707. Mongol Marriage Practices. 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Denny Hall 215. Speaker: Aaron Fields, Mongolist, Seattle. Sponsor: NELC. Info: 543-9963. Sex and the State: Prostitution Taxes in the Republican China. 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, Thomson 317. Speaker: Elizabeth Remick, Political Science, Tufts University. Sponsor: National Resource Center of International Studies. Info: 543-1666. * The Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity's Future. Registration 11:45 am, Program Noon - 1:30, Booksigning 1:30, The Harbor Club, 801 Second Avenue. Speaker: Duane Elgin, Author of "Voluntary Simplicity." Sponors: Cityclub; World Affairs Council. Cost: $15 City Club members; $18 Guests and members of Co-Presenting Organizations; $21 General Public. Registration and info: 682-7395. * Yosano Akiko: A Question of Identity. 1:30 - 3:00 pm, Smith 211. Speaker: Laurel Rasplica Rodd, University of Colorado. Sponsor: Amy Ohta. Info: 543-4391. May 19-20 Conference: "Communicating Civic Engagement: Citizen Identity and Changing Conceptions of Politics in Europe and the United States." Time, location and other details tba. Sponsor: CWES/JSIS. Info: 543-1675. May 20 * Teacher Workshop: Democracy and Civic Engagement in the 21st Century in Western Europe and the United States (Held in conjunction with the Conference: Communicating Civic Engagement). 11:30 am - 4:30 pm, HUB 309. Sponsor: CWES/JSIS. Cost: $25 (includes lunch, materials, and parking). Registration and info: 543-1675. May 22 Imagining, Experiencing and Practicing the Geopolitics of India-Pakistan Borders (Part of the lecture series "Borderlands of Globality: Transitional Spaces and Struggles"). 12:30 pm, Smith 102. Speaker: Sanjay Chaturvedi, Political Science, Panjab University. Sponsors: National Resource Center in International Studies/JSIS; Humanities Center; CWES; Canadian Studies; College of Arts and Sciences. Info: 685-2707. May 23 The Andrew Markus Memorial Lecture: "On the Evolution of Hindi as a Language of Literature." 7:00 pm, Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. Speaker: Ronald Stuart McGregor, University of Cambridge. Sponsor: Asian L & L. Info: 543-4996. May 24 US Policy in the New Century: The US and the Global Economy (Part of the Lecture Series "American Policy in the New Century"). 7:30 pm, Kane Hall 130. Speaker: George Russell, Chariman, Frank Russell Company. Sponsors: JSIS; World Affairs Council. Info: 543-4842. The Americanization of Salome: Sex, Race, and the Careers of the Vulgar Princess. 3:30 - 4:30 pm, Cunningham Hall 116. Speaker: Susan Glenn, Dept. of History. Info: 543-9531. * Curitiba and Parana Today. 7:00 pm, Architecture Building, Room 147. Speaker: Jaime Lerner, Governor of Parana, Brazil. Sponsors: Dept. of Urban Planning and Design; The Graduate School. Reservations: contact Janet Jones at For info: 616-1825. May 25 A Mongol Film: Close to Eden. English subtitles. 12:30 - 2:30 pm, Denny Hall 123. Sponsor: NELC. Info: 543-9963. Remembering Vietnam. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Thomson 135. Speaker: Susan Jeffords, Division Dean for Social Sciences. Sponsor: Southeast Asian Studies/JSIS. Info: 543-9606. Globalization, Information Technology and the Peace Corps in the 21st Century. 7:30 pm, Kane Hall 120. Speaker: Mark Schneider, Director, Peace Corps. Sponsor: World Affairs Organization. 441-5910. May 26 Book Reading by Author Raj Kamal Jha. A journalist in Calcutta, Jha will read from his book "The Blue Bedspread." 3:30 pm, University Bookstore. Info: 634-3400. Household Labor Supply and Intrahousehold Allocation of Assets: Impacts of Independent Taxation in the UK. 12:30 - 2:00 pm, Parrington Forum, Room 309. Speaker: Jennifer Ward-Batts, Population Studies Center, Univ. of Michigan. Sponsor: CSDE. Info: dkuo@u.washington.edu Sasha Sokolov's Post-Utopian Fantasy: Sots Art and Palisandriia. 2:30 pm, Smith 307. Speaker: Larissa Rudova, Associate Professor of Russian, Pomona College. Sponsor: Slavic L & L. Info: 543-7344. May 30 * Thirty-Third Annual Burke Memorial Lecture: "The Sacred Depths of Nature." 7:30 pm, Kane Hall, Room 120. Speaker: Dr. Ursula Wiltshire Goodenough, author of the book by the same title and Professor, Dept. of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis. Sponsors: Burke Museum; Comparative Religion Program/JSIS; and numerous others. Cost: $8 general; $6 Burke members, seniors, students, UW faculty and staff. Tickets at door beginning at 6:30 pm. Info: 543-7907. May 31 Book Reading by Author Pramila Jayapal from her book "Pilgrimage: One Woman's Return to a Changing India." 7:00 pm, University Bookstore. Info: 634-3400. Conservation of Biological and Cultural Diversity in the Boca de Toro Islands of Panama's Chiriqui Lagoon. 12:30 - 1:20 pm, Thomson 317. Speaker: Linda Storm, Wetlands Ecologist, EPA. Sponsor: LAS/JSIS. Info: 685-3435. June 2 Radio on the Edge: International Broadcasting in South Asia. 2:30 - 3:30, Music Bldg., Room 223. Speaker: Brian Silver, Voice of America. Sponsor: Middle East Center/JSIS. Info: 543-4227. Eco-Bio-Borderlands (Part of the lecture series "Borderlands of Globality: Transitional Spaces and Struggles"). 12:30 pm, Smith 102. Speaker: Devon Pena, Anthropology, UW. Sponsors: National Resource Center in International Studies/JSIS; Humanities Center; CWES; Canadian Studies; College of Arts and Sciences. Info: 685-2707. Attitudes Toward Women's Labor Force Participation in 24 Countries. 12:30 - 2:00 pm, Parrington Forum, Room 309. Speaker: Judy K. Treas, Dept. of Sociology, Univ. of California, Irvine. Sponsor: CSDE. Info: dkuo@u.washington.edu June 12 2000 Consular Association Reception (Honoring Consuls posted to Washington State). 5:30 pm, Columbia Tower Club. Sponsor: World Affairs Organization. Info: 441-5910. June 21 Klezmer in America. Time and location tba. Speaker: Michael Horowitz, UW. Sponsor: Jewish Studies Program/JSIS. Info: 543-4243. June 26 - 28 Rethinking the Line: A Canada/U.S. Border Conference. Vancouver, British Columbia. Sponsors: Canadian Studies Center/JSIS; Policy Research Secretariat, Federal Government, Ottawa; Univ. of British Columbia. Info: 543-6269. June 28 History of Yiddish puppet theatre. Time and location tba. Speaker: Eddie Portnoy, Jewish Theological Seminary. Sponsor: Jewish Studies Program/JSIS. Info: 543-4243. June 28 - 29 JSIS Summer Seminar: "The Family Across Time and Cultures." Time and location tba. For teachers of grades 7 - 12. Speakers will present different perspectives on families from around the world. Info: 543-9606. Downloadable registration form available at: http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/mideast/events.htm July 5 Inventing Yiddish News. Time and location tba. Speaker: Sarah Abrevaya Stein, UW. Sponsor: Jewish Studies Program/JSIS. Info: 543-4243. July 10 - 11 Teacher Workshop: The European Union and the United States Today (A two-day workshop focusing on the process of European integration and EU-US political and economics interactions. Designed for teachers grades 7 - 14). 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall. Sponsors: European Union Center/JSIS; Washington Council on International Trade. Registration and info: 616-2415. July 12 Yiddish in America: Forging the Mainstream of Jewish History. Time and location tba. Speaker: Rakhmiel Peltz, Drexel University. Sponsor: Jewish Studies Program/JSIS. Info: 543-4243. July 21 First Annual University of Washington Summer Arts Festival presents Jewish Jazz musician John Zorn and Masada. Meany Theatre. Cost: $28. Call 543-4800 for details. ****************************************************************************** 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 .