From jsis@u.washington.edu Fri Apr 21 09:31:40 2000 Received: from jason01.u.washington.edu (root@jason01.u.washington.edu [140.142.70.24]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id JAA19826 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 09:31:38 -0700 Received: from saul2.u.washington.edu (jsis@saul2.u.washington.edu [140.142.56.21]) by jason01.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW00.01) with ESMTP id JAA27922 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 09:31:37 -0700 Received: from localhost (jsis@localhost) by saul2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id JAA27173 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 09:31:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 09:31:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Jackson School of International Studies To: jsis-uw@u.washington.edu Subject: The Jackson School Calendar, April 21, 2000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII the JACKSON SCHOOL CALENDAR April 21, 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 _________________________________________________________________________ **SPECIAL NOTICE** May 7: Memorial Service in Honor of Dr. George E. Taylor. 3:00 pm, Kane 120, followed by a reception in the Walker-Ames Room. Dr. Taylor, a specialist on China and East Asia, died on April 14 at his home in Seattle. For almost 30 years Dr. Taylor was the Director of what was to become The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. For those who wish to remember Dr. Taylor with a gift, a donation to the George E. Taylor Internship Fund may be appropriate. The Fund supports students working in Seattle with internationally-focused organizations, many of which Dr. Taylor founded or was active in. The account is handled by the Jackson School, Box 353650, University of Washington, Seattle 98195. _______________________________________________________________________ April 21 Cinema, Music, and Changing Aesthetics in Turkey. 2:30 - 3:30, Music Bldg., Room 223. Speaker: Munir Nurettin Beken, Turkish film composer. Sponsor: Middle East Center/JSIS. Info: 543-4227. Legal Borderlands: Native American Indian Casino Operations in California (Part of the lecture series "Borderlands of Globality: Transitional Spaces and Struggles"). 12:30 pm, Smith 102. Speaker: Eve Darian-Smith, Anthropology, UC Santa Clara. Sponsor: National Resource Center in International Studies/JSIS. Info: 543-1666. Economic Reform in Japan: The "Third Revolution" or Dj vu? 12:00 - 1:30 pm, Thomson 317 (Brown bag lunch). Speaker: Edward J. Lincoln, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution. Sponsor: Japan Colloquium/JSIS. Info: 543-9302. The Social Condition of Rural Women in Tajikistan. 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Denny Hall 215. Dr. Yakubjon Abdukhalikov, Head, Humanities Department, Tajik Institute of Management, Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Sponsor: NELC. Info: 543-9963. Men at Work: The Demonstration Effects of Professional Baseball in Japan. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Thomson 125. Speaker: Wiliam W. Kelly, Dept. of anthropology, Yale University. Sponsor: Japan Studies Program/JSIS. Info: 543-9302. April 22 Northwest Regional Conference for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies (REECAS-NW). 8:00 am - 7:00 pm. GWP Building, UW Tacoma. Panel topics include: developments in the Russian Far East and former Yugoslavia, Republic of Georgia and Central Asia; study abroad programs in Russia; cultural studies; media, politics and economic transition in Eastern Europe; identity, nationality and ethnic politics; post-Soviet environmental challenges; Communist Central Europe. Free admission, but advance registration required to reserve lunch (also free). Sponsors: REECAS/JSIS; Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences/UW Tacoma; Port of Tacoma; National Bureau of Asian Research. Info: 543-4852. April 24 The Proposed One-Payer System in the USA: The Challenges and Opportunities. 4:00 - 6:00 pm, Parrington Hall, 3rd Floor Commons. Speaker: Congressman Jim McDermott, M.D. Sponsor: Canadian Studies Center/JSIS. Info: 543-6269. The Treadgold Lecture: Leaders, Images and Viewers: The Riddle of Russian Television. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Parrington Hall Forum, Room 309.. Speaker: Ellen Mickiewicz, James R. Shepley Professor of Public Policy, Duke University. Sponsors: REECAS/JSIS; History Department. Info: 543-4852. 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. * Panel Discussion: "Salmon Recovery: Where Are We? Where Are We Going?" 4:00 - 6:00 pm, Northwest Fisheries Science Center Auditorium, 2725 Montlake Blvd. Panelists: Larry Peck, Deputy Director, WDFW; Bob Turner, WA Corordinator, Protected Resources Division, NMFS; Bob Bilby, Watershed Processes Program, NWFCS; Jim Fox, WA Salmon Recovery Funding Board. Sponsors: School of Marine Affairs; Northwest Fisheries Science Center; Fishing Industry Seminar Series. Info: 543-7004. 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. (Tentative) Humanitarian Aid for Orphanages in Tashkent and Nukus, Uzbekistan. 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Denny Hall 215. Speaker: Paula Quigley, Founder and Director, Partnership for Healthy Children, Seattle. Sponsor: NELC. Info: 543-9963 The Calssification of AIDS with Gender: A View from ChangMai. 3:30 - 4:30 pm, Cunningham Hall 116. Speaker: Marjorie Muecke, Psychosocial and Community Health, UW. Sponsor: Northwest Center for Research on Women. Info: 543-9531. * Twenty-Five Years after the War in Vietnam: Legacy and Memory. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Thomson 125. Speaker: Christoph Giebel, JSIS/History. Sponsor: Southeast Asian Studies/JSIS. Info: 543-9606. April 27 - 29 Conference: "Regulating the Internet: EU and US Perspectives." Keynote Session: 7:00 - 9:00 pm, Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall. Speakers: Christine Gregoire, Washignton State Attorney General; Paula Seilis, Senior Counsel, Attorney General of the State of Washington. April 28, 9:00 am - 5:30 pm, HUB 106B; April 29, 9:00 am - 12:15 pm, Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall. Numerous panels and presentations. Sponsors: European Union Center/JSIS; UW School of Communications; Center for Law, Commerce and Technology/UW Law School. Info: 616-2415. April 28 Sidi ROM: Coming of Age in the Time of the Internet. 2:30 - 3:30, Music Bldg., Room 223. Speaker: Douglas Davis, Haverford College. Sponsor: Middle East Center/JSIS. Info: 543-4227. Sponsors: National Resource Center in International Studies/JSIS; Humanities Center; CWES; Canadian Studies; College of Arts and Sciences. Info: 685-2707. Quebec: a View of the Belle Province (Lecture/slide show. Part of the 3rd Annual World Languages day for high school students). 1:30 - 2:30 pm, 306 Balmer Hall. Speaker: Julia Herschensohn, Linguistics Department. Sponsor: Canadian Studies Center/JSIS. Registration fee: $8 per student/teacher. Registration and info: 543-2310 or 1-800-543-2320. Anti-Semitism, Memory, and the Construction of German Culture in America. 1:30 pm, Denny 308. Speaker: Hans Vaget, Helen and Laura Shedd Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature, Smith College. Sponsor: Dept. of Germanics. Info: 543-4580. Towards Transnational Feminist Geopolitics (Part of the lecture series "Borderlands of Globality: Transitional Spaces and Struggles"). 12:30 pm, Smith 102. Speaker: Jennifer Hyndman, Social and Behavioral Studies, Arizona State University. Impressions of Kokand and the Ferghana Valley. 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Denny Hall 215. Speaker: Mark Reese, Graduate Student, NELC, and former Peace Corps Volunteer in Uzbekisstan. Sponsor: NELC. Info: 543-9963. Grace, Myth & Magic: Latin American Women Painters (Lecture and slide preview of paintings and mixed media by artists from Cuba, Peru, Ecuador, and Mexico). 10:30 am, Seafirst Executive Center, Room 110. Sponsors: LAS/JSIS; Romance Languages. Info: 685-3435. 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. Review Meeting on President Clinton's Recent Visit to India. 3:30 - 5:30 pm, Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. Speaker: Congressman Jim McDermott, who accompanied the President on the trip. Sponsors: Indo-American Friendship Forum; South Asia Center/JSIS. Info: 543-4800. 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. * (new location) Reparations for Historical Injustices. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Gerberding Hall, Room 301. Speaker: John Torpey, Dept. of Sociology and History, Institute for European Studies, University of British Columbia. Sponsors: International Studies Center/JSIS; Center for West European Studies/JSIS. Info: 543-1666. The Future of Contemporary Jewish Communities: Israel, America & Europe (Part of the Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies). 8:00 pm, Kane 220. A reception will follow. Dietary laws are observed. Speaker: Calvin Goldscheider, Professor of Sociology and Dorot Professor of Judaic Studies, Brown University. Sponsor: Jewish Studies Program/JSIS. Info: 543-4243. May 2 Colloquium: "Forecasting Jewish Population Futures: Lessons from Demography and History. 3:30 pm, Thomson 317. Speaker: Calvin Goldscheider, Professor of Sociology and Doror Professor of Judaic Studies, Brown University. Sponsor: Jewish Studies Program/JSIS. Info: 543-4243. May 3 NOTE: THE FOLLOWING LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELLED. US Policy in the New Century: America in the Twenty-First Century (Part of the Lecture Series "American Policy in the New Century"). Speaker: Paul B. Johnson, British scholar, author, lecturer. Sponsors: JSIS; World Affairs Council. Info: 543-4842. CANCELLED The Centrality of Jewish Values in Shaping the Jewish Future (Part of the Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies). 8:00 pm, Kane 220. Speaker: Calvin Goldscheider, Professor of Sociology and Dorot Professor of Judaic Studies. Sponsor: Jewish Studies Program/JSIS. Info: 543-4243. 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. Freedom and Property Rights in Russia. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Miller 301. Speaker: Richard Pipes, Dept. of History, Harvard University. Sponsors: History Department; REECAS/JSIS. Info: 543-4852. EU 2000: The Imperative of Unfinished Business. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Parrington Forum, Parrington Hall. Speaker: John Beck, former EU Ambassador to Canada and former Director for External Relations with North America, Australia, New Zealand, NAFTA and APEC. Sponsors: EU Center/JSIS. Info: 616-2415. Current Language Situation in Kirghizstan. 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Denny Hall 215. Speaker: Jipar Duyshembiyeva, Exchange Student from Kirghizstan. Sponsor: NELC. Info: 543-9963. * World Trade After Seattle: A European Perspective. 12:00 noon luncheon, Washington Athletic Club, Nobel Room, 1325 6th Ave. Speaker: John R. Beck, former EC Ambassador to Canada. Sponsor: World Affairs Council; European Union Center/JSIS. Cost: $25 members, $32 Non-Members, $5 Student Coffee Table. Registration and Info: 441-5910. May 5 Hill and Valley in Southeast Asia:Or Why the State is the Enemy of the People Who Move Around (Part of the lecture series "Borderlands of Globality: Transitional Spaces and Struggles"). 12:30 pm, Smith 102. Speaker: James Scott, Political Science, Yale University. Sponsors: National Resource Center in International Studies/JSIS; Humanities Center; CWES; Canadian Studies; College of Arts and Sciences. Info: 685-2707. Uzbek Language Development Since Independence. 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Denny Hall 215. Speaker: Ilse D. Cirtautas, NELC. Sponsor: NELC. Info: 543-9963. Symposium: The Russian Far East - Regional Stability and Military Environmental Cooperation After Yeltsin. 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., Parrington Hall Commons (Room 308). Speakers include Sergei Sevastyanov (Vladivostok State University of Economics), Katherine Burns (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Elizabeth Wishnick (Barnard College), Akihiro Iwashita (Yamaguchi Prefectural University), Ni Xiaoquan and Gao Zhongyi (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), Charles Ziegler (University of Louisville), James Clay Moltz (Monterrey Institute for International Studies), Mark Ettesvold and Thomas Wood (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Judith Thornton (University of Washington), and Tony Allison (Marine Resources Company International). Sponsors: The National Bureau of Asian Research; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; REECAS/JSIS. Info: 543-4852 Institutional Context of Reproductive Health Situation in Madhya Pradesh, India. 12:30 - 2:00 pm, Parrington Forum, Room 309. Speaker: Alok Ranjan Chaurasia, Shyam Institute, Bhopal, India. Sponsor: CSDE. Info: dkuo@u.washington.edu 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 5 - 7 * Festival of South Asian Documentaries: Travelling Film South Asia 2000. Various times, Thomson 101. A selection of 15 award-winning films. Sponsors: South Asia Center/JSIS; HIMAL Association & HIMAL, The South Asian Magazine. For more info on the films, call 543-4800 or on the web at http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/soasia/events.htm May 6 * A Mosaic Workshop for K-8 Educators: "From Reed to Brush: Calligraphic Traditions of the Middle East and East Asia." 8:30 am - 3:30 pm, Balmer 303. A number of experts in calligraphy will offer presentations and demonstrations, includeing "Introduction to Arabic Script Calligraphy," "Fun with Arabic Script Letters," "Demonstration by a Master Calligrapher of His Art," and "Ink Play with Chinese Characters." Sponsor: East Asia Resource Center/JSIS. Cost: $40. Pre-registration required by April 28. Registration and info: 543-1921. May 7 Symposium: "Even Rabbis Don't Have Such Daughters": Context and Controversy Surrounding (Sholom Asch's play) "God of Vengence." 4:30 - 6:30 pm, The Bullitt at A Contemporary Theatre (ACT), Seventh & Union. Speakers: Alisa Solomon, Professor of English/Journalism, Baruch College-City Univ. of New York; Sarah Stein, JSIS; Rabbi Yossi Lebowitz, Congregation Beth Israel, Bellingham; and ACT Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein. Sponsors: A Contemporary Theatre; Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. Cost: $5; free for students with current ID. Info: 543-3920. May 8 Secularism, Religion, Ethnicity & Assimilation (Part of the Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies). 8:00 pm, Kane 220. Speaker: Calvin Goldscheider, Professor of Sociology and Dorot Professor of Judaic Studies, Brown University. Sponsor: Jewish Studies Program/JSIS. Info: 543-4243. * Citizenship During a Time of Crisis: A Statement of Conscience. 3:30 pm, Condon 109/129. Speaker: Gordon Hirabayashi, social scientist, humanist and human rights activist who resisted World War II internment. Sponsor: Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest. Info: 543-8656. * An Illustration of Rights Denied: A Slideshow of and by Palestinian Children. 6:30 pm dinner, Sahara Restaurant, 4752 University Way NE. Presenter: Peter Fry, free-lance photographer. Sponsors: World Affairs Organization; Palestinian Concerns Task Force of the Church Council of Greater Seattle. Cost: Free for members, $7 non-members. Registration and info: 441-5910. 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. * Supermarkets and Super-empowered Individuals: Understanding Globalization in the Post-Cold War Era. 12:00 noon luncheon, Columbia Tower Club. Speaker: Thomas Friedman, NY Times Foreign Affairs Correspondent. Sponsors: World Affairs Organization; University Bookstore. Cost: $25 members; $32 non-members. Registration and Info: 441-5910. May 11 The Peace Corps Experience in Latin America. 5:00 - 7:00 pm, location tba. Speakers: UW grad students who served in Latin America and the Caribbean. Sponsor: LAS/JSIS. Info: 543-3435. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. May 18 * A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalization. 12:00 noon luncheon, Washington Athletic Club, Lobby Lounge, 1325 6th Avenue. Speaker: John Micklethwait, US Editor of 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. 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 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. 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. 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 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. 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 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. 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 .