From jsis@u.washington.edu Fri Feb 25 08:23:10 2000 Received: from jason05.u.washington.edu (root@jason05.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.6]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id IAA54032 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 08:23:10 -0800 Received: from saul9.u.washington.edu (jsis@saul9.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.7]) by jason05.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW00.01) with ESMTP id IAA34872 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 08:23:09 -0800 Received: from localhost (jsis@localhost) by saul9.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id IAA20367 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 08:23:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 08:23:07 -0800 (PST) From: Jackson School of International Studies To: jsis-uw@u.washington.edu Subject: The Jackson School Calendar, February 25, 2000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII the JACKSON SCHOOL CALENDAR February 25, 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 _________________________________________________________________________ February 25 Gender, Occupation, and Household Division of Labor in Vietnam's Red River Delta. 12:30 - 2:00 pm, Parrington Commons 308. Speaker: Kim Korinek, Dept. of Sociology. Sponsors: CSDE; CPHRS. Info: 543-5412. Kazakh Film: "Qiz Jibek." (Based on the Kazakh epic). 12:30 - 3:00 pm, Denny Hall 123. Sponsor; Central Asian Studies Group, NELC. Info: 543-9963. Film: "Miracles Are Not Enough" (documentary on Brazil and Nicaragua). 1:30 pm, Kane 19. Due to UW copyright agreements, film is open only to UW students, faculty and staff. Sponsor: LAS/JSIS. Info: 685-3435. Rethinking the Black Death: Biological Approaches to Historical Demographic Questions. 12:30 - 2:00 pm, Parrington Commons Room 238. Speaker: James Wood, Dept. of Anthropology, Penn State University. Sponsors: CSDE; Anthropology; Medical History and Ethics. Info: Daphne Kuo, 543-5882. The End of Utopia (Part of the CWES Politics and Society Colloquium Lecture Series: Utopias at the Turn of the Century/End of the Millenium). Noon - 2:00 pm, Thomson 119. Speaker: Russell Jacoby, Dept. of History, UCLA. Sponsor: CWES/JSIS. Info: 543-1675. Playing for Thrills in the Era of Reform: Wang Shuo and the Legacy of the Cultural Revolution. 2:30 pm, Thomson 135. Speaker: Dr. Yibing Huang, UCLA. Sponsor: Asian L & L. Info: 543-4996. February 25 - 26 South Asia Colloquium of the Pacific Northwest (SACPAN). Time tba, UW Faculty Club. Tentative list of presenters: Virginia Vandyke, Political Science; K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anthropology; Scott Kugle, visiting research fellow, Center for India and South Asia Research, University of British Columbia. Sponsor: South Asia Center/JSIS. Info: 543-4800. February 26 * Greater Pacific Northwest Middle East Regional Seminar. 8:30 am - 4:00 pm, New Location: HUB 309. Various speakers. Registration required; $5 students, $15 general. Sponsor: Middle East Center/JSIS. Info: 543-4227. February 28 The Russian Myth of Oscar Wilde. 2:30 pm, Smith 313. Speaker: Evgenii V. Bershtein, Asst. Professor of Russian, Reed College. Sponsor: Slavic L & L. Info: 543-6848. Feminism Without Frontiers (Walker-Ames Lecture Series). 7:00 pm, Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. Speaker: Gayatri Spivak. Sponsor: South Asia Center/JSIS. Info: 543-4800. * Funk and Hip-Hop Transculture in the "Divided" Brazilian City. 3:30 pm, Pedelford B-202. Speaker: Shoshanna Lurie, Stanford University. Sponsor: LAS/JSIS. Info: 685-3435. February 29 Diasporic Identities: Russian Jews in America, Past and Present. 12:30 pm, Thomson 317. Speaker: Kathie Friedman-Kasaba, Candidate for 100% position in JSIS with half devoted to IS and half to Jewish Studies, currently Liberal Studies Program, UW Tacoma. Sponsor: Jewish Studies Program/JSIS. Info: 543-4243. The Golden Stain of Time, II: The Forgery of Historical Documents, Scandals of Authorship and Restoration of Paintings. 7:30 pm, Faculty Club Conference Room. Speaker: Paul Eggert, Visiting Professor from the University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia. Sponsors: Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities; Dept. of English; Dept. of Comparative Literature; Textual Studies Program. Info: 543-3920. March 1 Extreme Right Parties Gaining Ground: Recent Electoral Victories in Austria and Switzerland. Part of the lecture series "International Updates: Trens and Transitions in Your World." 5:30 - 8:00 pm, Kane Hall, Walker-Ames Room. Speaker: Terri Givens, Assistant Professor, Political Science. Sponsors: Jackson School Outreach Centers/JSIS. Cost for dinner/lecture is $22. Registration & info: 543-1675. The Common Sense of Indian Resurgence in Brazil. 12:30 - 1:20 pm, Thomson 317. Speaker: Jonathan Warren, JSIS. Sponsor: LAS/JSIS. Info: 685-3435. March 2 Uzbek Documentary: "Independence Celebrations, September 1, 1995." 12:30 - 2:00 pm, Denny Hall 123. Sponsor: Central Asian Studies Group, NELC. Info: 543-9963. * Portuguese Roundtable Talk: History and Influence of Brazilian Music. (Conducted in Portuguese). 10:30 am, Thomson 217. Speaker: Dr. Lucas Robatto, Professor of Classical Music, University of Bahia. Sponsor: UW Division of Spanish & Portuguese Studies. Info: 368-2576. March 3 Uzbek Documentary: "The Uzbek Artist Chingiz Akhmarov." 12:30 - 2:00 pm, Denny Hall 123. Sponsor: Central Asian Studies Group, NELC. Info: 543-9963. Film: "Las mujres en la Lucha Zapatists" (Spanish with English subtitles; focuses on indigenous women of the Zapatista movement.) 1:30 pm, Kane 19. Due to UW copyright agreements, film is open only to UW faculty, students and staff. Sponsor: LAS/JSIS. Info: 685-3435. Shopping for Autarchy: Fascism and Reproductive Fantasy in Mario Camerini's grandi Magazzini. 2:30 pm, HUB 309. Speaker: Barbara Spackman, Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies, Vice Chair, Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley. Sponsor: CWES/JSIS. Info: 543-1675. Here or There or Anywhere (magic and the academic study of religion). 3:30 pm, Physics-Astronomy Building, A 102. Speaker: Dr. Jonatha Z. Smith, the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor of the Humanities, University of Chicago. Info: 543-4835. * The Student Strike at UNAM in Mexico City. 3:00 - 4:00 pm, location tba. Speaker: Irina Arellano, member of the General Strike Council. Sponsors: LAS/JSIS; MEChA; Students for Economic Democracy. Info: 685-3435. * Morality and the Future of Russia. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Thomson 119. Speaker: David Satter, former Financial Times Moscow Correspondent and Special Correspondent for Soviet Affairs for the Wall Street Journal. Sponsor: REECAS/JSIS. Info: 543-4852. March 3 - 5 Interdisciplinary Symposium on Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World. UW campus, exact times and location tba. Speakers: Jonathan Z. Smith, Univ. of Chicago; Chris Faraone, Univ. of Chicago; Sarah Iles Johnston, Ohio State Univ.; Marvin Meyer, Chapman Univ.; Michael Morony, UCLA; Robert Ritner, Univ. of Chicago; Francesca Rochberg, Univ. of California, Riverside; Mark Smith, St. Joseph's Univ.; Michael Swartz, Ohio State Univ. Sponsor: NELC. Info: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~snoegel/stars.html March 3 - 5 Workshop for Teachers: Incorporating Canada in the Classroom. Lake Chelan. Sposnors: Washington State Council for Social Studies; Canadian Studies Center/JSIS. Registration andf info: Kurt Jacobs, (360) 468-4881. March 6 * Democratic Legitimacy Under Conditions of Regulatory Competition. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Petersen Room, Allen Library. Speaker: Fritz W. Scharpf, Director, Max-Plank-Institut for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany. Sponsor: European Union Center/JSIS. Info: 616-2415. * Fashioning Identity: The Development of Penal Dress in Indian Convict Settlements. 3:30 pm, Thomson 317. Speaker: Dr. Clare Anderson, Dept. of Economic & Social History, University of Leicester. Sponsor: South Asia Center/JSIS. Info: 543-4800. March 7 * Students Movements in Latin America. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Thomson 135. Speaker: Roberto Gonzalez, National Board Member, Cuban Student Federation. Sponsor: LAS/JSIS. Info: 685-3435. March 8 Russia Between Elections. Part of the lecture series "International Updates: Trends and Transitions in Your World." 5:30 - 8:00 pm, Kane Hall, Walker-Ames Room. Speaker: Steve Hanson, Associate Professor, Political Science. Sponsors: Jackson School Outreach Centers/JSIS. Cost of dinner/lecture is $22. Registration & info: 543-1675. March 9 The US and Europe in the New Century (Part of the Lecture Series "American Policy in the New Century"). 7:30 pm, Kane Hall 130. Speaker: Dr. Josef Joffe, Editor and Publisher, Die Zeit, Hamburg. Sponsors: JSIS; World Affairs Council; Henry M. Jackson Foundation; Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Info: 543-4842. Uzbek Documentary: "Scenes from Tashkent and Samarkand, March 9 - 14, 1997." 12:30 - 2:00 pm, Denny Hall 123. Sponsor: Central Asian Studies Group, NELC. Info: 543-9963. The Freedom Party and Austrian Democracy (Part of the CWES Politics and Society Colloquium Lecture Series: Utopias at the Turn of the Century/End of the Millenium). 2:00 pm, Art Bldg. 003. Speaker: Kurt Richard Luther, Dept. of Politics, Keele University, UK. Sponsor: SWES/JSIS. Info: 543-1675. March 10 Uzbek Documentary: "Excerpts from Uzbek TV News Programs, 1999-2000." 12:30 - 2:00 pm, Denny Hall 123. Sponsor: Central Asian Studies Group, NELC. Info: 543-9963. March 13 Films: "The Story of Frank Iny" and "I Miss The Sun" (with the Seattle Jewish Film Festival). Two short films studying the history of two prominent Middle Eastern Jewish families. Part of the First Sephardic/Mizrahi Film Series. 7:00 - 9:00 pm., Kane Hall, Room 220. Speakers: Carole Basri, Esq., creator of "The Story of Frank Iny", and Jere Bacharach, Director, JSIS. Sponsor: Jewish Studies Program/JSIS and numerous co-sponsors. For a complete list of co-sponsors, see March 25 film below). Info: 543-0138. March 15 Ecological and Environmental Aspects of Progress. 7:30 pm, Town Hall, 1119 8th Avenue. Speaker: Dr. Amory Lovins. Sponsor: Evans School of Public Affairs. Info: 616-7316. March 18 Workshop for Teachers: "Mountain Patterns: The Survival of the Nuosu Culture in China." 8:30 am - 3:30 pm, Burke Museum. Sponsors: East Asia Resource Center/JSIS; Burke Museum. Cost: $25. Pre-registration required. Clock hours available free of charge. Registration and info: 543-1921. March 18 & March 25 (Teachers Workshop) East Meets West: Trade, Technology and Teapots (course especially for history and social studies teachers). 10:00 am - 4:00 pm, lunch provided, Seattle Art Museum, Downtown. Sponsors: World Affairs Council; Seattle Art Museum; CWES/JSIS. Cost: $40 for members, $34 nonmembers. Registration and info: 654-3121. March 20 Presentation by Gavin Jones, Professor and Head of the Division of Demography and Sociology, Australian National University. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Thomson 317. Sponsors: Southeast Asia Center/JSIS; Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology. Info: 543-9606. March 24-25 Institutionalism and the European Union: Beyond International Relations and Comparative Politics. March 24: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm; March 25: 9:00 am - Noon, Parrington Commons. Participants: Jeffrey Checkel, University of Oslo; Bart Kerremans, Universiteit Katholiek Leuven, Belgium; Simon Hug, Universite de Geneve; Stephen Brams, NYU; Dan Keleman, Rutgers University; Amie Kreppel, Univ. of Florida; Mark Pollack, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison; Gerald Schneider, Univ. of Konstanz; Joe Jupille, UW; Jim Caporaso, UW.. Sponsor: European Union Center/JSIS. Info: 616-2415. March 25 Film: "Song of the Sephardi." Explores the history of the Sephardic communities of Seattle and Jerusalem. Part of the First Sephardic/Mizrahi Film Series. 8:00 - 10:30 pm., Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation, 6500 52nd Avenue South. Reception will follow. Speakers: Dr. Aviva Ben-Ur, Hazel D. Cole Fellow at JSIS; and Filmmaker Dr. David Raphael. Sponsors: Jewish Studies Program/JSIS; The Walter Chapin Center for the Humanities; UW Libraries; Seattle Jewish Film Festival; Washington State Jewish Historical Society; Canadian Studies Program; Seattle Independent Film and Video Consortium; Jackson School Student Association; Congregation Ezra Bessaroth and Sephardic Bikur Holim. Info: 543-0138. March 27 * The Historical and Geographical Roots of Modern Health Care with Particular Reference to Canada (Part of the Lecture Series "International Health Care in the 21st Century: A Canadian and American Perspective on the Past & Future of Health Care). 4:00 - 6:00 pm, Parrington Hall, 3rd Floor Commons. Speaker: Kieran D. O'Malley, MD, Acting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Sponsor: Canadian Studies Center/JSIS. Info: 543-6269. * Not the Gift of Nature Only: Egypt's Search for Comparative Advantage in International Trade. 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Thomson 403. Speaker: Ellis Goldberg, Dept. of Political Science. Sponsor: Middle East Center/JSIS. Info: 543-4227. March 29 Faith and Friction: Religion Confronts Modernity/Modernity Confront Religion. Part of the lecture series "International Updates: Trends and Transitions in Your World." 5:30 - 8:00 pm, Kane Hall, Walker-Ames Room. Speaker: Frank Conlon, Professor, History and International Studies. Sponsors: Jackson School Outreach Centers/JSIS. Cost for dinner/lecture is $22. Registration and info: 543-1675. March 30 Peace and Progress. 7:30 pm, Town Hall, 1119 8th Avenue. Speaker: Former Senator George Mitchell. Sponsor: Evans School of Public Affairs. Info: 616-7316. April 1 Pittsburgh Platform: Changes in Reform Judaism. 3:30 pm, Thomson 317. Speaker: Julie Eulenberg, Visiting Scholar, JSIS. Sponsor: Jewish Studies Program/JSIS. Info: 543-4243. April 5 US Policy in the New Century: The US and Asia (Part of the Lecture Series "American Policy in the New Century"). 7:30 pm, Kane Hall 130. Speaker: Michael Armacost, President of the Brookings Institution and former US Ambassador to Japan. Sponsors: JSIS; World Affairs Council. Info: 543-4842. April 11 The Pittsburgh Platform Revisited: Changes in Reform Judaism 1885-1999. 3:30 pm, Thomson 317. Speaker: Julie Eulenberg, Jewish Studies Program/JSIS. Sponsor: Jewish Studies Program/JSIS. Info: 543-4243. April 12 Disease as a Social Force: AIDS, Economics and Families in Thailand. 5:30 - 8:00 pm, Kane Hall, Walker-Ames Room. Speaker: Marjorie Muecke, Professor, Psychosocial and Community Health. Sponsors: Jackson School Outreach Centers/JSIS. Cost for dinner/lecture is $22. Registration and info: 543-1675. Round Table Discussion: "Burma: Military Rule and Civil Society." 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Thomson 317. Panelists: Mary Callahan, JSIS; Gavin Douglas, Ethnomusicology; Larry Dohrs, Burma Action Network; Christina Fink, Author; Jennifer Leehey, Ph.C. Anthropology; Edith Mirante, Project Director for "Project Maje: Information about Burma." Sponsor: Southeast Asia Center/JSIS. Info: 543-9606. April 18 US Policy in the New Century: US Security Challenges (Part of the Lecture Series "American Policy in the New Century"). 7:30 pm, Kane Hall 130. Speaker: Robert M. Gates, Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency. Sponsors: JSIS; World Affairs Council. Info: 543-4842. April 26 China Watching in the Year 2000. Part of the lecture series "International Updates: Trends and Transitions in Your World. 5:30 - 8:00 pm, Kane Hall, Walker-Ames Room. Speaker: David Bachman, Chair, China Studies Program, JSIS. Sponsors: Jackson School Outreach Centers/JSIS. Cost for dinner/lecture is $22. Registration and info: 543-1675. April 27 Written on the Body, Written on the Land: Violence and the Environment in Central India. 3:30 pm, Thomson 317. Speaker: Dr. Amita Baviskar, Dept. of Sociology, Delhi University, India. Sponsor: Center for South Asian Studies/JSIS; Anthropology. Indo: 543-9606. April 27 - 29 Conference: "Regulating the Internet: EU and US Perspectives." Time and location tba. Sponsor: European Union Center/JSIS; UW School of Communications; Center for Law, Commerce and Technology/UW Law School. Info: 616-2415. April 29 Workshop: The Festival Mosaic, preparing K-6 teachers for the International Children's Festival at Seattle Center (May 15-20). 8:30 am - 4:30 pm, Thomson 101. Registration required, lunch included. Sponsor: Southeast Asia Center/JSIS. Info: 543-9606. May 1 Notes from the Countryside: Cham Culture Past and Present. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Thomson 317. Speaker: Phan Lac Tuyen, Vietnamese scholar and specialist on Confucianism and on Cham culture in Vietnam. Sponsor: Southeast Asia Center/JSIS. Info: 543-9606. May 3 US Policy in the New Century: America in the Twenty-First Century (Part of the Lecture Series "American Policy in the New Century"). 7:30 pm, Kane Hall 130. Speaker: Paul B. Johnson, British scholar, author, lecturer. Sponsors: JSIS; World Affairs Council. Info: 543-4842. May 4 * Where Have All the Flowers Gone: The German Green-Alternative Movement between Utopian Idealism and Political Pragmatism (Part of the lecture series "Utopias at the Turn of the Century/End of the Millenium"). 3:30 pm, location tba. Speaker: Sabine von Dirke, Dept. of German, Univ. of Pittsburgh. Sponsors: CWES/JSIS; History; Political Science; Humanities Center. Info: 543-1675. May 5 - 6 Conference: "The Transformation of NATO and the Question of European Unity. Time to be announced, Petersen Room, Allen Library. Info: 616-2415. May 10 Telling Our Stories Ourselves: Indigenous Media in Canada. Part of the lecture series "International Updates: Trends and Transitions in Your World." 5:30 - 8:00 pm, Kane Hall, Walker-Ames Room. Speaker: Daniel Hart, Director, Native Voices, The Center for Indigenous Media. Sponsors: Jackson School Outreach Centers/JSIS. Cost of dinner/lecture is $22. Registration and info: 543-1675. 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. Info: 543-1675. 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 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. June 28 Grade 7-12 Teachers Summer Seminar: First Nation Families and Women in Canada. Time and location tba. Sponsor: Canadian Studies Center/JSIS. Info: 543-6269. 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. ****************************************************************************** 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. 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