From jsis@u.washington.edu Fri Mar 1 09:30:11 2002 Received: from mailscan4.cac.washington.edu (mailscan4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g21HU8nJ107012 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 09:30:08 -0800 Received: FROM mxu4.u.washington.edu BY mailscan4.cac.washington.edu ; Fri Mar 01 09:30:08 2002 -0800 Received: from jason01.u.washington.edu (jason01.u.washington.edu [140.142.8.10]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with ESMTP id g21HU7Ie026038 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 09:30:07 -0800 Received: from homer10.u.washington.edu (homer10.u.washington.edu [140.142.15.48]) by jason01.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with ESMTP id g21HU6Ns013956 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 09:30:07 -0800 Received: from localhost (jsis@localhost) by homer10.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with ESMTP id g21HU6Kp155702 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 09:30:06 -0800 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 09:30:06 -0800 (PST) From: Jackson School of International Studies To: jsis-uw@u.washington.edu Subject: The Jackson School Calendar, March 1, 2002 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII the JACKSON SCHOOL CALENDAR March 1, 2002 A brief look at the coming week. Scroll down for complete details or visit our website at March 1: Latin American Studies Program Friday Film Series March 1: Evolution of Social Behavior: Individual and Group Selection March 2: Citizen, Consumer and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Special Program to Teach the Teachers March 2: Spanish/Brazilian Concert March 4: Topic to be announced March 4: Saving Central Asia: Implications of U.S. Regional Involvement Following the Afghan War March 4: Cross-Cultural Experience of Technology and Management Transfer: The Case of Launching and Managing a 'Brand New' TV Network in Indonesia March 7: Making Sense of Post-Colonial Violence March 7: The Discourse on Love and Eugenics in Modern China March 8: Latin American Studies Program Friday Film Series March 8-9: South Asia Colloquium of the Pacific Northwest __________________________________________________________________________ Complete Listings: March 1 Latin American Studies Program Friday Film Series. 1:30-3:30 pm, Kane Hall 19. "If the Mango Tree could Speak" (1993, 58 min.) English and Spanish. A documentary centering on children, aged 12 to 15, and the ways in which they have been affected by war in Guatemala and El Salvador. Sponsor: LAS/JSIS. Info: 685-3435 Evolution of Social Behavior: Individual and Group Selection. 2:00 pm, Savery 302. Speaker: Ted Bergstrom, UC Santa Barbara. Sponsor: Dept. of Economics. Info: joang@u.washington.edu March 2 "Citizen, Consumer and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Special Program to Teach the Teachers." 8:30AM-4:00PM, Parrington Hall, University of Washington, Seattle. Speakers include Lyuba Zarsky, Director of the Globalization and Governance Program of the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development, Bruce Herbert, President, New Ground Investment Services, Michelle Long, Transparency Center and others. Program is open to students, educators and members of the public. 8 clock hours and a readings packet included in the $40 registration fee. Co-sponsored by Global Source Education, Amnesty International USA, the California Global Corporate Accountability Project, Transparency Center, and the Evans School at University of Washington. For registration or other info: Dohrs@GlobalSourceNetwork.org. , 206-784-5742 * Spanish/Brazilian Concert. 8:00 - 9:30 PM, Hub auditorium. Performing: Rosa Duarte, soprano from Granada Spain, will sing songs of Spain and Latin America, including Guatemalan songs of the Maya. Accompaniment on piano and guitar. Samia Panni and her Brazilian combo will play Brazilian popular music. Tickets: $6 students $10 general (at the door or at Spanish/Portuguese office in Padelford. Info: Elwin Wirkala ewirkala@u.washington.edu March 4 Topic to be announced. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Denny 401. Speaker: Jennifer E. Hasty (Pacific Lutheran University, Anthropology). Sponsor: Sociocultural Colloquium, Department of Anthropology. Info: anagnost@u.washington.edu) Saving Central Asia: Implications of U.S. Regional Involvement Following the Afghan War (part of the series "9/11: A Global Perspective"). 7:00 - 8:30 pm, Kane 220. Speaker: John Schoeberlein, Director, Forum for Central Asian Studies, Harvard University. Sponsors: Jackson School of International Studies, CASG, REECAS. Info: 543-4852. Cross-Cultural Experience of Technology and Management Transfer: The Case of Launching and Managing a 'Brand New' TV Network in Indonesia. 12:30-1:30pm, Thomson 231. Speaker: T.Y. Lau (UW Communications). Sponsors: Southeast Asia Center/JSIS. Info: 543-9606. March 7 Making Sense of Post-Colonial Violence (Part of the "Human Agency in a Globalizing World" lecture series). 7:00 pm, Communication 226. Speaker: Mahmood Mamdani, Anthropology and Political Science, Columbia University. Sponsors: International Studies Center, Center for the Study of Ethnic Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Sociology Department, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Institute for Transnational Studies. Info: 685-2354. Note: Professor Mamdani will also lead a workshop to discuss selections from his recent book When Victims become Killers (Princeton, 2001) on Friday, March 8 from 3:00 to 4:30 pm for interested students and faculty members. Attendance is limited to 30. For more details about this workshop and a copy of the readings for discussion, RSVP: tayloruw@u.washington.edu. The Discourse on Love and Eugenics in Modern China. 3:30-5:00 pm, Thomson 317. Speaker: Sakamoto Hiroko, Graduate school of Social Science, Hitotsubashi University. Sponsor: China Studies Program/JSIS. Info: 543-4391. March 8 Latin American Studies Program Friday Film Series. 1:30-3:30 pm, Kane Hall 19. "Secretos del Corazon (2000, 108 min.) Spanish w/English subtitles. A young boy searches for the answers to a number of puzzling family mysteries. Javi and his friend Carlos visit an old house on the outskirts of a small Spanish village. Sponsor: LAS/JSIS. Info: 685-3435 March 8 - 9 South Asia Colloquium of the Pacific Northwest (SACPAN) will include 4 presentations by experts from Washington and British Columbia. Event is open to the public and free of charge. Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall, University of Washington. Watch this space for more details. For more information, call the South Asia Center at 206-543-4800, or email sascuw@u.washington.edu. March 10 Maslenitsa (Russian Mardi Gras) featuring dance instruction by Jana Rickel + bliny. 2:00-4:30 p.m., Waterfront Activities Center, UW, Seattle. Donation requested (Students $1-2, Others $3-5). Sponsor: Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Info: 543-6848. Addendum: Costumes recommended March 11 "Teaching Globalization: From the Empire of Inevitability to Where?" 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Denny 401. Speaker: Matt Sparke (University of Washington, Geography). Sponsor: Sociocultural Colloquium, Department of Anthropology. Info: anagnost@u.washington.edu) Russia and the West after 9/11 (part of the series "9/11: A Global Perspective"). 7:00 - 8:30 pm, Kane 220. Speaker: Stephen E. Hanson, Director, REECAS, JSIS; Dept. of Political Science, UW. Sponsors: Jackson School of International Studies, REECAS. Info: 543-4852. March 12 * "The State of Ecology and Human Rights in Russia" 7-9pm in Kane Hall, Room 110. Speaker: Alexander Nikitin, Whistleblower and Russian Engineer. Nikitin, famous for his courageous disclosures of Russian nuclear navy radiological pollution of the North Sea, will tell his personal story and the state of ecology and human rights in Russia. Sponsor: REECAS/JSIS. Info: 543-4852. March 13 Meeting the Challenge of Global Climate Change: The European Approach (International Update Dinner-Lecture). 5:30 - 8:00 p.m., Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. Speaker: Maria Marotta, European Union Fellow. $25 fee includes dinner and clock hours for teachers. All welcome. Sponsors: Jackson School of International Studies, CIBER, CWES, EUC. Registration/Info: 543-4800; sascuw@u.washington.edu Bioterrorism and Responses (Part of the series "Science and Technology Policy Post-September 11th). 3:30 - 4:30 pm, Condon Hall 129. Speaker: Dr. Jeff Duchin, Director, Communicable Disease Control, King County. Sponsor: Shidler Center for Law, Commerce and Technology. Info: 685-2636. March 14 The Partition of India and Retributive Genocide in the Punjab, 1946-47: Means, Methods, and Purposes (Part of the Sawyer Seminar Series on Empires and Ethnic Conflict). 3:30-5:30, Parrington Hall Forum. Speaker: Paul Brass, University of Washington. Sponsors: International Studies Center, Center for the Study of Ethnic Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Sociology Department, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Info: 685-2354 "From Rabbi to Aryan: The Politics of Jesus in the Jewish-Christian Dialogue." 7:00 pm, Kane Hall 110. Speaker: Susannah Heschel, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. This lecture is one of an on-going series in the Dale and Leone Turner Lectures on Religion and Society, an endowed lectureship. Sponsors: Jewish Studies Program/JSIS; University Congregational United Church of Christ. Following the lecture, a reception and further discussion with Prof. Heschel will be held at the University Congregational Church, 4515 16th Ave. NE., across the street from the University. Info: 543-4243. * Israel and Palestine: Can the United States Revive the Peace Process? 7:30-9:00 p.m., Kane 130. Speaker: William B. Quandt, Professor, University of Virginia, former member of the National Security Council and participant in negotiations leading to Camp David Accord. Part of the "September 11, A Global Perspective" lecture series. Presented by the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. Info: 685-2354 March 15 Climate Change and Implications for Social Science and Population. 12:30 - 2:00 pm, Parrington Commons 308. Speaker: Jonathan Mayer, Dept. of Geography, UW. Sponsor: CSDE. Info: 543-4312. Latin American Studies Program Friday Film Series. 1:30-3:30 pm, Kane Hall 19. "Caribbean Close up: Haiti / Dominican Republic" (1998, 28 min.) Follows a 14-year-old Haitian girl and her daily life including her family chores, cockfighting, and experience with Haitian proverbs. A 13-year-old boy in the Dominican Republic talks about his daily life including baseball, and the history of his country. Sponsor: LAS/JSIS. Info: 685-3435 March 16 Educator's Workshop: "Quebec's History and Culture for the Classroom." 8:30 am - 4:30 pm, Kane Hall - Walker Ames Room. Workshop for K-12 and college educators - bringing Quebec into the classroom. This all-day workshop will introduce educators to the history of the sovereignty movement in Quebec, Quebec literature and culture, and the territory of Nunavik in Quebec's far north. Curriculum materials will be provided to all participants as well as a wealth of resources for the classroom. $45 Registration Fee. 8 clock hours, continental breakfast. Sponsor: UW Canadian Studies Centre. Info: 206-221-6374 canada@u.washington.edu March 20 The Politics of Cultural Difference in Vietnam and Thailand (International Update Dinner-Lecture). 5:30 - 8:00 p.m., Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. Speaker: Charles F. Keyes, Prof. of Anthropology and International Studies. $25 fee includes dinner and clock hours for teachers. All welcome. Sponsors: Jackson School of International Studies, CIBER, SEAS. Registration/Info: 543-4800; sascuw@u.washington.edu. March 28 What is the Silk Road? An Overview of its History and Cultures (Part of the lecture series "Art and Religion on the Silk Road."). Volunteer Park, Stimson Auditorium, Seattle Asian Art Museum. Speaker: Daniel Waugh, Dept. of History, University of Washington. This series is part of Silk Road Seattle, a collaborative public education project sponsored by the Simpson Center using the Silk Road theme to explore cultural interaction across Eurasia from the beginning of the Common Era to the Sixteenth Century. Included in museum admission (Suggested $3). Co-sponsored by The Simpson Center for the Humanities. Info: 543-6938. The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia. 7:00 p.m., Kane 130. Speaker: Ahmed Rashid, correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review, the Daily Telegraph, and the Wall Street Journal; and author of JIHAD: THE RISE OF MILITANT ISLAM IN CENTRAL ASIA. Free tickets available after March 16 at: HUB Information Desk and Elliot Bay Books, 101 S. Main. Sponsored by: Middle East Center, South Asia Center, REECAS, NELC, and Elliot Bay Books. Contact: 206-624-6600. April 4 The Dimensions of Bourdieu's Sociology. 12:30-1:30 p.m., Thomson 317. Speaker: Lahouari Addi, Institute of Political Studies, University of Lyon, France. Sponsored by Middle East Center and CWES. Contact: 206- 543-4227. April 4 - 6 55th Pacific Northwest History Conference: History on the Edge and at the Center. Thursday, 6:30-9:00; Friday, April 5th, 7 a.m.-9:00 p.m.; Saturday, April 6th, 8:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Best Western Executive Inn, next to Space Needle, downtown Seattle. Sponsors: UW Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest; UW Canadian Studies Center; Oregon Historical Society; Idaho State Historical Society; Washington State Historical Society. Info: http://www.wshs.org/text/pnhc_2002.htm or email Jpeterson@wshs.wa.gov. April 8 Politics of the Multitude (Part of the "Human Agency in a Globalizing World" lecture series). 7:00 pm, Savery 239. Speaker: Michael Hardt, Literature and Romance Studies, Duke University. Sponsors: Institute for Transnational Studies/JSIS; Simpson Center for the Humanities. Info: 616-1190. April 10 Kashmir between India and Pakistan (International Update Dinner-Lecture). 5:30 - 8:00 p.m., Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. Speaker: Keith Snodgrass, Associate Director, South Asia Center. $25 fee includes dinner and clock hours for teachers. All welcome. Sponsors: Jackson School of International Studies, CIBER, South Asia Center. Registration/Info: 543-4800; sascuw@u.washington.edu. April 11 Multicultural Nation-Building: "Integration" as Public Philosophy and Research Paradigm in Western Europe (Part of the Seminar of Global Migration and Identities). 3:30-5:30, Parrington Hall Forum. Speaker: Adrian Favell, University of California, Los Angeles. Sponsors: International Studies Center, Center for the Study of Ethnic Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Sociology Department, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Info: 685-2354. Soghdia and Its Culture (Part of the lecture series "Art and Religion on the Silk Road."). Volunteer Park, Stimson Auditorium, Seattle Asian Art Museum. Speaker: Dr. Boris Marshak, Head of the Central Asian and Caucasus section, the Hermitage in St. Petersberg This series is part of Silk Road Seattle, a collaborative public education project sponsored by the Simpson Center using the Silk Road theme to explore cultural interaction across Eurasia from the beginning of the Common Era to the Sixteenth Century. Included in museum admission (Suggested $3). Co-sponsored by The Simpson Center for the Humanities. Info: 543-6938. April 17 The Political Economy of Ethnic-Religious Conflict (International Update Dinner-Lecture). 5:30 - 8:00 p.m., Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. Speaker: Murat Somer, Sawyer-Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Ethnic Conflict and Conflict Resolution. $25 fee includes dinner and clock hours for teachers. All welcome. Sponsors: Jackson School of International Studies, CIBER, International Studies Center. Registration/Info: 543-4800; sascuw@u.washington.edu. April 18 Do We Really Want Immigrants to Assimilate? (Part of the Seminar of Global Migration and Identities). 3:30-5:30, Parrington Hall Forum. Speaker: Peter Skerry, Claremont Mckenna College. Sponsors: International Studies Center, Center for the Study of Ethnic Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Sociology Department, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Info: 685-2354. Making a Tropical White Man: Northern Australia 1900 - 1920 (Part of the lecture series "Nature and Its Publics in the Tropical World"). 3:30 pm, Communications 226. Speaker : Warwick Anderson, Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, Univ. of Caliornia, San Francisco. Sponsors: Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities; Institute for Transnational Studies; Departments of Anthropology, Comparative Literature, History, Geography, and Women's Studies; Program on the Environment; Program on Africa. Info: 616-1190. April 19 Dead Bodies in the Post-War Discourse of Identity in 17th-Century Korea: Subversion and Literary Production in the Private Sector. 3:30-5:00, Communications 202. JaHyun Kim Haboush, Professor of Korean History, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University. Sponsor: Korea Studies Program/JSIS. Info: 543-4391. April 25 Points of Departure, Points of Return: Palestinian Identity and Place (Part of the Seminar of Global Migration and Identities). 3:30-5:30, Parrington Hall Forum. Speaker: Julie Peteet, University of California. Sponsors: International Studies Center, Center for the Study of Ethnic Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Sociology Department, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Info: 685-2354. Dunhuang's Role in the Transmission of Buddhism and Buddhist Art to China (Part of the lecture series "Art and Religion on the Silk Road."). Volunteer Park, Stimson Auditorium, Seattle Asian Art Museum. Speaker: Prof. Roderick Whitfield, University of London. This series is part of Silk Road Seattle, a collaborative public education project sponsored by the Simpson Center using the Silk Road theme to explore cultural interaction across Eurasia from the beginning of the Common Era to the Sixteenth Century. Included in museum admission (Suggested $3). Co-sponsored by The Simpson Center for the Humanities. Info: 543-6938. April 27 * 8th Annual Northwest Regional Conference for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies. University of Oregon, Eugene. Papers, panels, or roundtable discussions from faculty, graduate students and members of the general public will be presented. Contributions include literature, the fine arts, the environment, post-Soviet foreign policy, historical research, economics, national identity and other relevant subjects. If you would like to attend the conference, please reply by March 31, 2002, to martam@u.washington.edu. Sponsored by REESC at the University of Oregon and REECAS/JSIS. Info: 543-4852. April 28 Sixth Annual Chinese Art Colloquium at SAAM. 2 - 5 p.m. Volunteer Park, Auditorium, Seattle Asian Art Museum. "Empress Wu and Tang Buddhist Art," by Prof. Roderick Whitfield, Percival David Professor of Chinese and East Asian Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. "New Work on Sanxingdui: Reconstructing the Original Appearance of Mysterious Images," Jay Xu, Foster Foundation Curator of Chinese Art, SAAM. Included in museum admission (Suggested $3). Co-sponsored by the East Asia Center/JSIS April 29 * "Back to the Front: Russian Interests in the New Eastern Europe" 3:30-5:00 pm, Mary Gates Hall 241. Speaker: Janusz Bugajski, Director, Eastern Europe Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC (part of the Donald W. Treadgold Memorial Lecture Series). Mr. Bugajski will address Russia's attempts to maintain influence and leverage in Eastern Europe and to limit Western penetration in the region. Sponsor: REECAS/JSIS. Info: 543-4852. May 2 Immigration and Immigration Policy: The Impact of Terrorism (Part of the Seminar of Global Migration and Identities). 3:30-5:30, Parrington Hall Forum. Speaker: Susan Martin, Georgetown University. Sponsor: The Center for the Study of Ethnic Conflict and Conflict Resolution. Info: 685-2354. Sponsors: International Studies Center, Center for the Study of Ethnic Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Sociology Department, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Info: 685-2354. May 6, 8, and 13 The Samuel and Althea Stroum Lecture Series present Michael Stanislawski, Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History at Columbia University and Chair of the Interdepartmental Committee on Yiddish Studies: Autobiographical Jews: Essays in Jewish Self-Fashioning. All lectures take place in Kane Hall 200, 7 p.m. May 6: Autobiography, Judaism, and the Study of Memory -Josephus's Life. May 8: Glckel of Hamelin and Moshe Leib Lilienblum: Jewish autobiography from early modern Yiddish to late 19th century Hebrew. May 13: Osip Mandel'shtam and Stefan Zweig: Russian self-hatred and Austrian nostalgia. May 8 Quebec and Canada: Nation-Building in the North (International Update Dinner-Lecture). 5:30 - 8:00 p.m., Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. Speaker: Marc Boucher, Director, Quebec Government Office, Los Angeles. $25 fee includes dinner and clock hours for teachers. All welcome. Sponsors: Jackson School of International Studies, CIBER, Canadian Studies Center. Registration/Info: 543-4800; sascuw@u.washington.edu. May 9 Asian Cities of Power (Part of the "Human Agency in a Globalizing World" lecture series). 7:00 pm, Communications 226. Speaker: Aihwa Ong, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. Sponsors: Institute for Transnational Studies/JSIS; Simpson Center for the Humanities. Info: 616-1190. Gender Geographies of Power: Political Consciousness and Empowerment among Guatemalan Refugees and Returnees (Part of the Seminar of Global Migration and Identities). 3:30-5:30, Parrington Hall Forum. Speaker: Patricia Pessar, Yale University. Sponsors: International Studies Center, Center for the Study of Ethnic Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Sociology Department, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Info: 685-2354. Cultural Exchanges Under the Mongols (Part of the lecture series "Art and Religion on the Silk Road."). Volunteer Park, Stimson Auditorium, Seattle Asian Art Museum. Speaker: Prof. Thomas Allsen, Department of History, State College of New Jersey. This series is part of Silk Road Seattle, a collaborative public education project sponsored by the Simpson Center using the Silk Road theme to explore cultural interaction across Eurasia from the beginning of the Common Era to the Sixteenth Century. Included in museum admission (Suggested $3). Co-sponsored by The Simpson Center for the Humanities. Info: 543-6938. May 16 The Israeli Diaspora (Part of the Seminar of Global Migration and Identities). 3:30-5:30, Parrington Hall Forum. Speaker: Steven Gold, Michigan State University. Sponsors: International Studies Center, Center for the Study of Ethnic Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Sociology Department, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Info: 685-2354. May 21 * The Civilization Index. 2-3:30 pm, Thomson Hall, Room 317. Speaker: Dr. Andrew Targowski, Western Michigan University. At the end of the Cold War, the view that the next major conflict would be a "Clash of Civilizations" became popular. Dr. Targowski will discuss what to expect from this clash and how to respond to the transformation from the Industrial Wave to the Information Wave. His lecture will explore the nature of civilization, the Civilization Index, and how to cope with new challenges. Sponsor: REECAS/JSIS. Info: 543-4852. May 22 Eastern Europe: Human Rights and Public Policy in Emerging Democracies (International Update Dinner-Lecture). 5:30 - 8:00 p.m., Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. Speaker: Bruce Kochis, Director, Policy Studies Program, UW Bothell; Director, Human Rights Education and Research Network. $25 fee includes dinner and clock hours for teachers. All welcome. Sponsors: Jackson School of International Studies, CIBER, REECAS. Registration/Info: 543-4800; sascuw@u.washington.edu. May 23 Immigrant Neighborhoods in Los Angeles: Structural Constraints and Ethnic Resources for the Adaptation of Immigrant Children (Part of the Seminar of Global Migration and Identities). 3:30-5:30, Parrington Hall Forum. Speaker: Min Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles. Sponsors: International Studies Center, Center for the Study of Ethnic Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Sociology Department, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Info: 685-2354. May 30 Transnational, Ethnic, or Cosmopolitan? Second Generation Identity in New York City (Part of the Seminar of Global Migration and Identities). 3:30-5:30, Parrington Hall Forum. Speaker: Phil Kasinitz, Hunter College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. Sponsors: International Studies Center, Center for the Study of Ethnic Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Sociology Department, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Info: 685-2354. "Great Unerring Nature Once Seems Wrong": Natural History and New World Tropicality (Part of the lecture series "Nature and Its Publics in the Tropical World"). 3:30 pm, Communications 226. Speaker : Alan Bewell, Comparative Literature, Univ. of Toronto. Sponsors: Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities; Institute for Transnational Studies; Departments of Anthropology, Comparative Literature, History, Geography, and Women's Studies; Program on the Environment; Program on Africa. Info: 616-1190. Courtly Art and Cultural Transmission in Western Asian in the 13th - 15th Centuries. (Part of the lecture series "Art and Religion on the Silk Road."). Volunteer Park, Stimson Auditorium, Seattle Asian Art Museum. Speaker: Dr. Linda Komaroff, Curator of Islamic Art and Head of the Department of Ancient and Islamic Art at the L.A. County Museum of Art. This series is part of Silk Road Seattle, a collaborative public education project sponsored by the Simpson Center using the Silk Road theme to explore cultural interaction across Eurasia from the beginning of the Common Era to the Sixteenth Century. Included in museum admission (Suggested $3). Co-sponsored by The Simpson Center for the Humanities. Info: 543-6938. June 5 * Global Trade Transportation and Logistics Studies Annual Conference: Freight Security Issues & Trade Impacts in the Context of the September 11th Terrorist Attacks. 2:30 to 6:00 pm, Douglas Forum, Seafirst Executive Education Center. Speakers to be announced. Sponsor: GTTL Studies. Contact: Greg Shelton at 206/616-5778, or gttl@u.washington.edu June 6 New Journeys Down Old Roads: 20th Century Impressions of the Silk Road (Part of the lecture series "Art and Religion on the Silk Road."). Volunteer Park, Stimson Auditorium, Seattle Asian Art Museum. Speaker: Dr. Karil Kucera, Visiting Instructor at the Dept. of Art History This series is part of Silk Road Seattle, a collaborative public education project sponsored by the Simpson Center using the Silk Road theme to explore cultural interaction across Eurasia from the beginning of the Common Era to the Sixteenth Century. Included in museum admission (Suggested $3). Co-sponsored by The Simpson Center for the Humanities. Info: 543-6938. ______________________________________________________________________________ All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise indicated. *New Events (or changes) not previously listed are indicated by an asterisk* Abbreviations and Web site addresses for more detailed information: Asian L&L = Department of Asian Languages & Literature CANSTUD = Canadian Studies Program/JSIS http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/canada/canada.html CASG = Central Asian Studies Group/NELC CIBER = Center for International Business Education & Research CSDE = Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology CPHRS = Center for Public Health Research & Evaluation CWES = Center for West European Studies, JSIS http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/cwesuw/index.html EUC = European Union Center http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/europe/euc.html GEOG = Dept. of Geography http://depts.washington.edu/geog/news/colloquium.html GTI = George Taylor Institute Depts.washington.edu/tayloruw/seminars.htm GTTL = Global Trade, Transportation & Logistics Studies IGRSS = Inst. For Global and Regional Security Studies IIP = Institute for International Policy www.iip.washington.edu IS = Center for International Studies/JSIS http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/is/is-ctr.html JSIS = The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies jsis.artsci.Washington.edu LAS = Latin American Studies Program/JSIS MEC = Middle East Center/JSIS http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/mideast/events.htm NELC = Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization http://depts.washington.edu/nelc REECAS = Russian, East European, and Central Asia Studies, JSIS http://depts.washington.edu/reecas SEAS = Southeast Asia Studies/JSIS http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/seasia/seasia.html Slavic L&L = Department of Slavic Languages & Literature SMA = School of Marine Affairs ****************************************************************************** The Jackson School Calendar is updated and e-mailed weekly. There is no charge for subscribing. 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