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Scroll down for complete details. * Unless stated otherwise, all events will take place on the main campus of the University of Washington, Seattle. Click here to receive the JSIS Calendar by email October 10 Revolutionaries and Ex-Revolutionaries on the Verge of Retirement: Reflections on the Philippine Left October 10 Indonesian Cultural Night October 11 A Place in Mind: four women reflect on writing about India October 12 Regret to Inform. A documentary film by Barbara Sonneborn. October 12 Catherine the Great and the Enlightenment in Russia October 13 Southeast Asia Center Booksale October 13 Eurasian Anchor: A Photographic Survey of the Cheliabinsk Oblast in the Urals October 13 Western Shoshone Defense Project October 13 Croatia and the Trans Atlantic Integration October 15 Strategies for Labor to Address Globalization October 16 Promises and (Com) Promises: Rights to the Land of Israel in Zionism Theory and Practice October 16 Why did Gujarat Burn While Other States Did Not? The Electoral Roots of Hindu-Muslim Violence October 17 Collaboration or Competition? Transnational Actors and Military Doctrine October 17 The Dance Class or the Working Class: The Modern Girl in the Soviet Union October 17 The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire October 18 8 Polish Avant-garde Films from the 1930's and the 1940's October 20 In the Name of God October 21 Can We Rebuild a Positive Consensus for International Trade? October 23 Finding Common Ground: The Missing Pieces of Middle East Peace October 23 Paradigms For Reimagining The Globalization Of Sexualities In Terms Of A Queer Critique By Locating Sexual Politics Today At The Intersections Of Struggles Over Race, Gender, Class, And Nationality October 24 Vision, Freedom and Forgetfulness: Towards an Ethics of Performance in Medieval Japan October 30 When Democracy Prevents Peace: on the Dilemmas of the Sri Lankan Leftist October 30 Fun Thai Films for Fall, Nang Nak November 5-9 12th Annual Seattle Human Rights Film Festival November 6 Fun Thai Films for Fall, Moonhunter (14 Dula, Songkram Prachachon) November 6 Kabir, Rudyard Kipling, and Vernacular English November 7 & 8 The 11th Annual Arctic Conference: Archaeology, Anthropology, and Environmental Studies November 8 4th Annual Documentary Film Workshop: Teaching Diversity & Cross-Cultural Understanding through Documentary Films November 10 Buddhism and Modernity in Burma November 17 Discourses of "Modernity"? Gender, NGOs and Militant Islam in Bangladesh November 20 Fun Thai Films for Fall. Mekong Full Moon Party November & December Beneath the Banyan Tree December 4 Expanding Boundaries: NATO and the EU Moving Eastward-Master Teacher Workshops Full Listings 2003 October 10 Revolutionaries and Ex-Revolutionaries on the Verge of Retirement: Reflections on the Philippine Left. 3:00-5:00 PM, reception to follow in 226 Communications Bldg. Speaker: Dr. Patricio Abinales is an associate professor of Political Science at Kyoto University, Japan, and the Southeast Asia editor of the journal Critical Asian Studies. He wrote on colonial and postcolonial Mindanao, and the Communist Party of the Philippines. His recent publications include Fellow Traveler: Essays on Filipino Communism (2001) and Making Mindanao: Cotabato and Davao in the Formation of the Philippine State (2000). This talk will include comments from Robert Garcia, Fellow in the Project for Critical Asian Studies, Program Officer of the Asian-South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education, Chair of Peace Advocates for Truth, Justice, and Healing, and author of To Suffer Thy Comrades: How the Revolution Decimated Its Own (2000). This talk is part of the Forum on Trauma, History, and "Asia," the initiative of the Project for Critical Asian Studies, a Rockefeller Foundation grant-funded four-year program hosted by the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington. October 10 Indonesian Cultural Night. 7.30-10.00 PM (door opens at 6.30 pm), Seattle University, Piggott Auditorium, 900 Broadway, Seattle, WA 98122-4340. Indonesia has long been known as a country of beauty. This archipelago has over 17,000 islands, 400 volcanoes, 234 million people, 365 ethnicities, and 583 languages and dialects, making it one of the most diverse and vibrant country in the world. This vastness of the archipelago, the massive diversity, and long history of the land has caused Indonesian culture to be rich, and truly unique. Thus, the Indonesian Student Association at Seattle University (ISASU) has coordinated an event titled "Indonesian Cultural Night" to promote the cultures of Indonesia to the local community, and invite them to celebrate the spiritual essence of Indonesia through a showcase of art and culture. This event would be coherent with Seattle University's mission to promote awareness, which would valuable to various courses and majors that touch on international affairs and cross-cultural issues. In addition, this event would enhance Seattle University's goal of educating students to be aware of multicultural and global issues, as this event would also be a fund-raising event for the Indonesian Children's Oncologist Foundation, a cancer foundation dedicated to help treat underprivileged Indonesian children, who are battling cancer. Tickets: $7 Student, $12 Non-Student. October 11 A Place in Mind: four women reflect on writing about India. 7:30 PM, 101 Suzzallo Library. University Libraries Director Lizabeth (Betsy) Wilson cordially invites you to literary panel titled, A Place in Mind: reflections on writing about India, featuring: Pramila Jayapal, Mira Kamdar, Bharti Kirchner, and Indu Sundaresan. Reception to follow with catering generously provided by Shamiana Restaurant. Admission is $50 per person or $100 per couple. All proceeds from the evening will benefit the South Asia Endowed Library Fund. This fund was established in 1998 to support the acquisition and preservation of materials on South Asia and its Diaspora. This event recieved support from the Friends of the Libraries. To attend : Please send your check, made payable to the "UW Foundation", to University Libraries Box 352900 Seattle, WA 98195 or charge by phone at 206-616-8397. RSVP by Friday, October 3, 2003 at 206-616-8397 or sum@u.washington.edu Parking is free. More information may be found at: http://www.lib.washington.edu/Southasia/11oct03invite.htm October 12 Catherine the Great and the Enlightenment in Russia. 2:00 PM at the Frye Museum, 704 Terry Avenue Speaker: Professor Daniel Waugh as part of the Hermitage exhibit at the Frye Art Museum, Sunday, October 12th, . Passes are available at 1 pm. Call 622-9250 for information. October 12 Regret to Inform. A documentary film by Barbara Sonneborn. www.regrettoinform.org With special guest, Xuan Nguyen. 6:00 PM, Nippon Kan Theatre (International District), 628 S. Washington Street. Film interviewee and field translator, at the age of 14 in 1968, Nguyen entered prostitution to help her family survive after the destruction of their home and village following a US raid. Regret to Inform is the first Vietnam war documentary to focus on the experience of women. One reviewer called them "New Voices." Present at the screening will be Xuan Ngyuen, a South Vietnamese war widow and emigre who will be returning to Vietnam to work on The New Day Project, a school to retrain former prostitutes in skilled labor. Her vision for this school grew out of her documentary experience and the re-emergence of the sex trade in Vietnam as a byproduct of globalization and the need for children to support aging war widows. (Ms. Nguyen began her own bridal shop for custom-designed and custom-made bridal apparel here in the US). Nguyen will be available for a Question and Answer period following the show. AWARDS INCLUDE: Academy Award nominee, 1998; Sundance Film Festival Winner, 1999; Independent Spirit Award Winner, 1999; PEABODY AWARD, 2000. Questions, please contact: Cindy Domingo, gomojo@earthlink.net, Lika Smith, 206.772.2842, polynesia@ix.netcom.com $10 Donation, A benefit for The New Day Project. Presented by the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum-Seattle (NAPAWF-Seattle) and the University of Washington Women's Center. Other sponsors: Seattle Church Council, Asia-Pacific Task Force, US Women & Cuba Collaboration, IWD-Seattle. October 13 Southeast Asia Center Book Sale. 3:30-6:00 PM, 317 Thomson Hall. Books! Books! Books! Come and find classic books and journals about Southeast Asia, anthropology, sociology and much more. Bargain prices and all proceeds go to support Southeast Asian educational outreach. October 13 Eurasian Anchor: A Photographic Survey of the Cheliabinsk Oblast in the Urals. 3:30-5:00 PM, 125 Thomson Hall. Speaker: Dr. William Brumfield, Professor, Tulane University. An illustrated talk by Prof. William Brumfield, the leading American authority on Russian architecture of all periods. Prof. Brumfield has been photographing and writing about Russian buildings for more than thirty years, in a distinguished career marked by several books and culminating in his recent induction into the Russian Academy of Architecture and Building Sciences as a full academician. He is collaborating with the UW in a project to make over 50,000 of his slides available online, and the UW Press will be re-issuing his History of Russian Architecture next year. Contact REECAS: (206)543-4852. October 13 Croatia and the Trans Atlantic Integration. 5:00 - 7:00 PM, in the Parrington Hall Commons room. Speaker: Ivan Grdesic, The Croatian Ambassador to the to the United States. The event is free, and a reception will follow the talk. Call 543-6848 for information. October 13 Western Shoshone Defense Project. 6:30-8:30 PM, 301 Miller Hall. Speaker: Carrie Dann is a traditional Western Shoshone who lives with her extended family on their ancestral lands in Crescent Valley, Nevada. Carrie has, for over forty years along with her sister Mary, been at the forefront of the Western Shoshone Nation s struggle for land rights and sovereignty. They are leading the political and legal battle to retain ancestral lands in Nevada, California, Idaho and Utah. The Danns has squared off against international gold mining corporations, the nuclear industry and the U.S. government. Through the years Carrie and Mary have been recognized time and time again for their unwavering commitment to the rights of indigenous peoples. In the mid-1980s they received the "Wonder Woman Award" from the Wonder Woman Foundation in New York City. For "preserving the distinct values and heritage" of their Western Shoshone ancestors they received the "Ellis Island Congressional Medal of Honor" in April 1992. The sisters were also awarded the "International Right Livelihood Award" from Sweden in 1993 for their "courage and perseverance in asserting the rights of indigenous peoples to their lands." The Danns, also the subject of countless film documentaries, articles and books, are true living legends in the struggles of indigenous peoples in the United States. After being barred from the U.S. courts by the Indian Claims Commission Act, Mary and Carrie turned to the international community. In July of this year the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States, made public its preliminary report on the Dann case. The report finds the U.S. in violation of the Dann's rights to property, due process and equality before the law, and a fair hearing. The Dann sisters have been at the forefront of their people's struggle against the Federal government's continued violations of the human rights the Western Shoshone. The Western Shoshone Defense Project was established to assist the Danns and other Western Shoshone groups, individuals, and governments in addressing current and future threats to their human rights. Since it was created in 1992, the WSDP has developed the capacity to respond to ever increasing threats to the environmental, cultural, and spiritual health and well being of the Western Shoshone Nation. These threats include: open-pit gold mining, and nuclear testing, storage, and disposal; geothermal development, and confiscation of livestock. The WSDP addresses these threats through outreach and education; appealing to international human rights organizations; research documenting the long term impacts from mineral development on Western Shoshone lands; ensuring Western Shoshone participation in federal land management decisions; cultural mapping and promoting cultural practices in defense of the land, water, and air. Contact Information: Western Shoshone Defense Project P.O. Box 211308 Crescent Valley, NV 89821. Phone: (775) 468-0230 Email: wsdp@igc.org October 15 Strategies for Labor to Address Globalization. 7:00 PM, 216 Denny Hall. Speaker: Tim Ryan, is the Asia Regional Program Director for the American Center for International Labor Solidarity. He spent four years as the Center's Field Representative in Indonesia (1997-2001) and four years as Field Representative in Sri Lanka, covering programs also in Pakistan and India (1993-97). His articles on labor issues have appeared in Harper's Magazine, the Far Eastern Economic Review, the Christian Science Monitor, and newspapers throughout Asia and Latin America. His latest publication is "Building Global Solidarity" in the Spring 2003 issue of Human Rights Dialogue, published by the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. Sponsored by the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, UW. October 16 Why did Gujarat Burn While Other States Did Not? The Electoral Roots of Hindu-Muslim Violence. 3:30 PM, 205 Loew Hall. Steven Wilkinson, Duke University. October 16 Promises and (Com) Promises: Rights to the Land of Israel in Zionism Theory and Practice. 7:30 PM, 220 Kane. Speakers: Ian S. Lustick, Bess W. Heyman Chair, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania; author of: For Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel; and Hegemony and the Riddle of Nationalism. Part of "The Promised Land: Place and the Creation of Community in Religious Traditions" Series. Sponsored by the Middle East Center and funded in part by a grant from the Tillie and Alfred Shemanski Foundation. Contact: mecuw@u.washington.edu October 17 Collaboration or Competition? Transnational Actors and Military Doctrine. Noon, 40 Smith Hall. Speaker: Robert M. Farley, of the University of Washington. Discussion Forum. Sponsored by Pacific Northwest Colloquium on International Security. For info, contact Terence Lee at tcllee@u.washington.edu October 17 The Dance Class or the Working Class: The Modern Girl in the Soviet Union. 3:30 PM, 226 Communications Bldg. Speaker: Anne Gorsuch, University of British Columbia. Note: Professor Gorsuch will also lead a workshop to discuss a pre-circulated reading on Friday, October 17, from 1:00-2:15pm in Thomson 317 for interested students and faculty members. Attendance is limited to 20 participants. Please RSPV for the workshop to moga@u.washington.edu by October 14, 2003. The lecture and workshop are part of the Modern Girl Around the World speaker series. For more information about this series please see: http://depts.washington.edu/its/moderngirl.htm October 17 The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire. 5:00 PM, Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S. Main Street (1st and S. Main in Pioneer Square). Book Reading by Khassen Baiev, exiled Chechen physician. Khassan Baiev is an exiled Chechen physician, and the story he tells in his book The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire (Walker), is a powerful and harrowing one. "The Oath is a heart-wrenching, superbly written and gripping account of one of the most brutal, and forgotten wars of the past decade. Dr. Khassan Baiev is a living hero whose story is simultaneously inspiring, horrifying and impossible to put down. This is a profoundly insightful and compelling book that deserves to be widely read." - Dr. Eric Hoskins & Dr. Samantha Nutt. October 18 A screening of 8 Polish Avant-garde Films from the 1930's and the 1940's. 8:00 PM, HUB Auditorium (room 112). The event is free, and a reception will follow the screening. Call 543-6848, for information. October 20 In the Name of God. 3:30 PM, 401 Denny Hall. An Anand Patwardhan's film. Introduction and discussion by Keith Snodgrass, Associate Director of South Asia Center. , UW Campus. This event is part of the Anthropology Department Sociocultural Colloquium Series. October 21 Can We Rebuild a Positive Consensus for International Trade? 7:00 PM, Parrington Hall Forum (309) a presentation by Bill Center, President, Washington Council on International Trade. Washington is often described as "the most trade dependent state in the nation." Even so, "trade" has become one of the most difficult issues on today's policy agenda. The 1999 Seattle WTO demonstrations spotlighted both growing divisions within traditional pro-trade coalitions and very real challenges associated with trade and globalization. The collapse of the recent WTO ministerial session in Cancun is but the latest speed bump on the road to trade liberalization. In a presentation titled "Can we rebuild a positive consensus for international trade?" Bill Center, President of the Washington Council on International Trade, will explore the importance of-and policy priorities for-addressing the challenges of globalization in order to create and sustain prosperity and improve the quality of life for ourselves and our global trading partners. Sponsored by the UW's Marc Lindenberg Center for Humanitarian Action, International Development and Global Citizenship; the World Affairs Council; The Forum at the Evans School; the UW's Global Trade, Transportation and Logistics Program; and the UW's Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. About the speaker: Bill Center is President of the Washington Council on International Trade, a nonprofit, non-partisan association of trade interests in Washington State. Bill retired from the U.S. Navy as Rear Admiral in 1999 after 35 years distinguished service. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and the University of Washington, Graduate School of Public Affairs (now the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs). During his naval career he commanded three ships and served in a wide variety of assignments at sea and ashore, including three years as Chief Engineer on the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY. Bill is a specialist in policy analysis, strategic planning and organization development. He served as a senior advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff on arms control, non-proliferation, environmental matters, and international agreements. He was General Colin Powell's deputy director for international negotiations and served in the same role for General John Shalikashvili. He earned numerous military awards including the Bronze Star, Legion of Merit and Defense Superior Service Medal. He currently serves as military analyst for KIRO-TV in Seattle. October 23 Judith Halberstam's public lecture and workshop. 7:00 PM, 301 Miller Hall. She will discuss queer disruptions of global flows in two contexts: the political significance of popular film narratives of "white male stupidity" such as Dude, Where's My Car? and the theoretical importance of recent rethinkings of the relation between queer spatiality and queer temporality. In each of these very different cases, Halberstam draws on the insights of post-modern geography in order to disrupt the reproductive time of the nation. Both the public lecture and the workshop offer paradigms for reimagining the globalization of sexualities in terms of a queer critique by locating sexual politics today at the intersections of struggles over race, gender, class, and nationality. WORKSHOP: Fri, Oct 24. 3:00 PM, 202 Communications Bldg. Registration is required; spaces are limited. Please call 206.543.3920. This workshop will be based on a discussion of the first chapter of Halberstam's forthcoming book, In a Queer Time and Place: Essays on Postmodernism and Gendered Embodiment. This reading is available at the Simpson Center. Thinking Sex in Transnational Times is a series of free public lectures that explores sex across different epistemologies, spaces, regions, epochs, and disciplines. For more information, please visit . Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, Departments of English and Women Studies, Hilen Endowment in American Literature and Culture, and The Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program. October 23 Finding Common Ground: The Missing Pieces of Middle East Peace. 7:30 p.m., Kane 130. Speakers: Ami Ayalon, former commander of the Israeli Navy and the former director of Israeli Internal Security; and Sari Nusseibeh, president of Al-Quds University and former Minister of Jerusalem Affairs for the Palestinian Authority. Moderated by Mara Rudman, former chief of staff for the National Security Council. Sponsored by the Middle East Center, Finding Common Ground, University Temple, United Methodist Church, and Temple De Hirsch Sinai. Contact: 206-632-4243, www.findcommonground.org October 24 Vision, Freedom and Forgetfulness: Towards an Ethics of Performance in Medieval Japan (Stanford UP, 1999). 3:30-5:00 pm, 226 Communications Bldg. Speaker: Tom Hare, Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University. Tom Hare's publications include: Zeami's Style: The Noh Plays of Zeami Motokiyo (Stanford UP, 1986) and ReMembering Osiris: Number, Gender, and the Word in Ancient Egyptian Representational Systems (Stanford UP, 1999). A specialist in early Japanese literature and culture, he has also authored articles on Kukai, Kamo no Chomei, renga poetry, and noh drama. Professor Hare is currently writing a book on performance in late medieval Japanese culture while translating the dramatic treatises of the noh actor, playwright, and theoretician Zeami Motokiyo. Contact: Paul Atkins, patkins@u.washington.edu October 30 When Democracy Prevents Peace: on the Dilemmas of the Sri Lankan Leftist. 3:30 PM, 205 Loew Hall. Qadri Ismail, University of Minnesota. October 30 Fun Thai Films for Fall, Nang Nak. 6:30 PM, Simpson Center, 206 Communications Bldg. (Free. Thai with English subtitles). After recovering from battle wounds, conscripted soldier Maak returns home to his adoring wife Nak and his new infant son. But why is everyone acting so strangely? And why are villagers dying? It soon becomes clear that all is not what it seems, and something is very wrong indeed! Just in time for Halloween, join us for this lavish re-telling of Thailand's most famous ghost story - and that's saying something in a country famed for its spooks and ghouls. Universally know and much loved in Thailand, Nang Nak is rumored to be a true story and has been filmed over twenty times for television and the cinema. This 1999 film version was a huge hit and features beautiful cinematography and an excellent cast. The nineteenth-century sets and costumes are carefully detailed, so between the spooks and chills, viewers can catch a glimpse of traditional life in a central Thai village of the past. November 5 - 9 12th Annual Seattle Human Rights Film Festival. Presented by Amnesty International. Festival Venues: Wednesday, November 5: Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave., Seattle. Thursday-Sunday, November 6-9. 911 Media Arts Center, 117 Yale Ave. N., Seattle. For complete calendar and film information, visit the Seattle Human Rights Film Festival Webpage: http://www.amnestyusa.org/filmfest/seattle/2003/index.html Telephone: 206-622-2741 November 6 Kabir, Rudyard Kipling, and Vernacular English. 3:30 PM, 226 Communications Bldg. Speaker: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra November 6 Fun Thai Films for Fall, Moonhunter (14 Dula, Songkram Prachachon). 6:30 PM, Simpson Center, 206 Communications Bldg. (Free. Thai with English subtitles). This film relays the story of some of the most important events in recent Thai history from the perspective of two students at the heart of the action. In the early 1970s, Seksan and Chiranan -- two university students in Bangkok -- were young, in love, and passionately committed to ending military dictatorship in Thailand. Seksan and other student leaders led the biggest mass demonstration in modern Thai history in October 1973, an event that led to the popular uprising that toppled the military dictatorship and restored democracy. But Seksan and Chiranan's lives take a drastic turn when they are caught in the wave of political violence, stirred up by remnants of the old ruling elite agitating for the return of dictatorial rule. The two flee to the jungle to join the Communist Party, fighting guerilla-style in the forests of Thailand. Cutting between "newsreel" footage of the 1973 protests and the activist's lives in the jungle, this film is a thought provoking attempt to come to terms with a part of recent Thai history that still has social and political repercussions. November 7 & 8 November 7: The 11th Annual Arctic Conference: Archaeology, Anthropology, and Environmental Studies. HUB, Room 310. 7:30-8:30 am Registration, coffee and pastries. 8:30 AM-noon morning session; noon-1:00 PM lunch in the HUB cafeteria; 1:00-5:00 PM afternoon session; 7:00 - ?? evening dinner party to be arranged. November 8th: 8:30 AM-noon morning session; noon-1:00 PM lunch in the HUB cafeteria; 1:00-5:00 PM afternoon session; Restaurant dinner: to be arranged. The Arctic Conference is an annual gathering of scholars and students sharing a common interest in the history of human experience in the arctic and subarctic. Founded by archaeologists and revolving around issues of human prehistory, this conference commonly also draws scholars working in the related dimensions of anthropology and Quaternary science. The purpose of this meeting is to share research and experiences and to network with colleagues in a smaller and more comfortable venue than the typical larger meeting format. In order to make this meeting affordable, registration fees are limited to $20 (payable in advance or at the door). These fees cover a modest conference venue, program, and refreshments. Unfortunately, funds are not available to assist with travel or lodging. To Register: To register for the Arctic Conference, send a 150 word abstract to Ben Fitzhugh (fitzhugh@u.washington.edu) by October 1st (late submissions may be accepted until the sessions are filled). For more information please go to: http://faculty.washington.edu/fitzhugh/ArcticConference.htm November 8 4th Annual Documentary Film Workshop: Teaching Diversity & Cross-Cultural Understanding through Documentary Films. 8:30 AM-4:30 PM. This one-day workshop will show educators how to use documentary film to teach students about cultural diversity and cross-cultural understanding. The morning session will be conducted by Carol Hermer, President of the Society for Visual Anthropology and film curator at the Seattle Art Museum, who will provide techniques and strategies for making effective use of film in the classroom. The afternoon sessions will focus on films available from three of the Resource Centers. Keith Snodgrass, Associate Director, South Asian Studies, will present ons currently released films from South Asia. Kristi Barnes, Assistant Director, East Asia Center, will introduce two new films, "Kim's Nuclear Gamble" about the nuclear threat in North Korea and "Battle for Korea" about the Korean War in the early 1950s. And, Nadine Fabbi, Assistant Director, Canadian Studies Center, will introduce a variety of films available through the Canadian Studies Center focusing on a recent documentary on the Dene of Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories and their unwitting role in the creation of the atom bomb. All videos previewed at the workshop are available for classroom use from the Jackson School. Video catalogs will be available at the workshop. Questions? 206-221-6374 or canada@u.washington.edu This event is sponsored by the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies Outreach Centers. $40 Includes continental breakfast, bag lunch and 8 clock hours. d $20 for students enrolled in the teacher education programs. (Students must include a copy of their student card with registration.) To register send a check payable to the University of Washington to: Attn: Documentary Film Workshop Canadian Studies Center Jackson School of International Studies Box 353650 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 November 10 Buddhism and Modernity in Burma. 3:30-5:00 PM, 401 Denny Hall. Naoko Kumada (Stanford post-doctoral fellow). November 17 Discourses of "Modernity"? Gender, NGOs and Militant Islam in Bangladesh. 3:30 PM, 401 Denny Hall, Speaker: Lami Karim, University of Oregon. This presentation is sponsored by the South Asia Center and the Department of Anthropology Sociocultural Colloquium. November 20 Fun Thai Films for Fall. Mekong Full Moon Party. 6:30 PM, Simpson Center, 206 Communications Bldg. (Free. Thai with English subtitles). More than 100,000 people gather by the Mekong River in Northeast Thailand on November Full Moon each year. After sunset, mysterious fireballs rise up from the river and disappear into the sky. While the locals still adhere to the traditional myth of the dragon, Great Naga, making a sacred offering to Buddha, the Western visitors take a more skeptical stance: Dr. Norati sets out to prove that the fireballs are natural; Dr. Surapol wants to prove the phenomenon a hoax. Meanwhile, temple-custodian Abbot Loh believes his monks have been responsible for the "miracle" for the past 30 years. The critically-acclaimed movie about the mystery of the controversial naga fireballs in Nong Khai province was honored for Best Movie, Best Director, and Best Actor. November & December Beneath the Banyan Tree. This exhibit will take place in Suzzallo Library. The exhibition will focus on four major forms of performed North Indian folk art that capture the intersection of ritual, performance and art in the living traditions of North India. The art forms include: (1) terracotta and brass (cire perdue) sculptures that represent the deities and serve as offerings to them; (2) pata, storytelling scrolls made and performed in West Bengal; (3) women's paintings from the Mithala region of Bihar, which create auspiciousness for their life cycle rituals and tell the stories of the gods and goddesses that enliven lives there; (4) Rajasthani par, or large scrolls which are used by singers to tell epic stories in the western state of Rajasthan. Hosted by the South Asia Center. Watch for more information in this space. December 4 Expanding Boundaries: NATO and the EU Moving Eastward-Master Teacher Workshops. 4:00pm - 8:00pm. 228 Mary Gates Hall. $15 Four clock hours per session. To register contact the Center for West European Studies (CWES) at (206)543-1675 or cwes@u.washington.edu. A Master Teacher Certificate in NATO-EU Enlargement will be awarded to those who attend both sessions 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 CIBERCenter 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 Institute of Transnational Studies http://depts.washington.edu/tayloruw/seminars.htm GTTL Global Trade, Transportation & Logistics Studies IGRSS Inst. 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