From jsis@u.washington.edu Fri Oct 29 13:01:03 2004 Received: from mxi3.u.washington.edu (mxi3.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.176]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.13.1+UW04.08/8.13.1+UW04.08) with ESMTP id i9TK13sp007716 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:01:03 -0700 Received: from mxout6.cac.washington.edu (mxout6.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.20]) by mxi3.u.washington.edu (8.13.1+UW04.08/8.13.1+UW04.09) with ESMTP id i9TK12DH032023 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:01:02 -0700 Received: from mailhost2.u.washington.edu (mailhost2.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.2]) by mxout6.cac.washington.edu (8.13.1+UW04.08/8.13.1+UW04.09) with ESMTP id i9TK11Qb004873 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:01:02 -0700 Received: from BEVERLYW (D-128-95-200-98.dhcp4.washington.edu [128.95.200.98]) by mailhost2.u.washington.edu (8.13.1+UW04.08/8.13.1+UW04.08) with SMTP id i9TK11mY027398 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:01:01 -0700 Message-ID: <011701c4bdf2$03c95d00$62c85f80@jsis.washington.edu> From: "Jackson School of International Studies" To: "JSIS - Calendar" Subject: the JACKSON SCHOOL CALENDAR (plain text version) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:01:01 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__C230066_P2 0, __C230066_P5 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CTYPE_CHARSET_QUOTED 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __FRAUD_419_LOC 0, __FRAUD_419_MISC 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_MSMAIL_PRI 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __HAS_X_PRIORITY 0, __KNOWN_SPAMMER_ADDRESS_5 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __PORN_PHRASE_15_0 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' the JACKSON SCHOOL CALENDAR October 29, 2004 A brief look ahead. Scroll down for complete details. * Unless stated otherwise, all events will take place on the main campus of the University of Washington, Seattle. The Jackson School sponsorship of an event does not imply that the School endorses the content of an event. Click here to receive the JSIS Calendar by email October 29 Conference on the Origins and Legacies of Filipino American Activism, 1970s-1980s Deadline for Proposals for International Mobility Grants 2004-05 Islam in Kyrgyzstan: Banning or Maintaining Traditional Kyrgyz Nomadic Customs? Coming to Grips with the Ideas of Pakistan October 29-30 Convergence and Divergence in North America: Canada and The United States. Fifth Biennial Colloquium in Canada October 31 Until When November 1 2005 Puget Sound Georgia Basin Research Conference November 2 Mourning the Past: Violence and Public Sphere in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia November 3 Why Globalization Works, lecture and book signing November 4 Popular Islam Among the Tatars of Western Siberia Empowering HIV-Positive Villagers in Henan, China. Cities in Early Modern and Modern China Lecture Series. Empowering HIV-Positive Villagers in Henan, China November 5 Muslim Reformers (Jadids) and their Goal of Changing the Status of Women in Central Asia Before and Shortly After the Revolution of 1917 Antidote to Contemporary Moscow Architecture? November 7 Land in Black and White November 8 Can China's Retreat from Equality Be Reversed? Assessing Fiscal Policies toward Redistribution from Deng Xiaoping to Wen Jiabao Iraq: Reconstruction, Security, and Political Reform November 8-22 The Heritage of the Russian North (Photo Exhibition) The Kyrgyz: Traditional Herders in the Modern World (Photo Exhibition) November 9 The Kyrgyz: Traditional Herders in the Modern World November 12 Publications on Islam in Central Asia: Anke von Kugelgen, Michael Kemper, et al Decision-making in Natural Resource Conflicts Korean Buddhist Canon: New Technologies Past and Present November 14 500 Dunam on the Moon November 16 What's Charitable about Ottoman Charity? November 17 Sublime Darkness in Heian Diary Literature Russian foreign policy and U.S. Russian Relations November 18 Recent Publications on/in Kazakhstan: Kazakh Autobiographies and Memoirs Objects, Spectacle and Nation-on-Display at the Nanyang Exposition of 1910. Cities in Early Modern and Modern China Lecture Series Actions on behalf of the women of Ciudad Juarez November 19-24 State of Art Slovenian Film, Art, Music and Literature Festival. Northwest Film Forum November 21 Paradise Lost December 2 The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism, New Books in Print Series Factional Politics and Credible Dis-inflationary Policy in China December 5 Northern Lights Music for the Holiday Season from the Baltic & Nordic Countries December 7 Southerners and Northerners, Book Reading by Lee Ho-chul December 8 Who Rules, and Which Virtues: On Religious Bonds, State Boundaries, and Legalism December 11 Northern Lights Music for the Holiday Season from the Baltic & Nordic Countries Full Listings 2004 October 29 Laboring for Justice: The Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP) in Seattle and the World. A Conference on the Origins and Legacies of Filipino American Activism, 1970s-1980s. 9:00 AM-4:30 PM, 106B HUB. Speakers: Pacita Bunag, Cindy Domingo, Lynn Domingo, David Della, Moon-Ho Jung, Elaine Ko, Terri Mast, Marlene Pedregosa, Odette Polintan, Esther Simpson, Velma Veloria and others. This one day conference will bring together a number of the activists that were involved in this important Asian American organization during the 1970s to the 1980s. They will gather to recall the origins of the organization and its work in such important areas as reforming the Alaska Cannery Workers' Union, establishing solidarity networks with anti-Marcos activists in the Philippines, organizing efforts to save the International District, participate in local and national electoral politics and much more. Free and open to the public. Sponsors: The Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP), Harry Bridges Labor Studies Center, the Southeast Asia Center, the American Ethnic Studies Center, the Comparative Law and Society Studies Center and the Law, Societies and Justice program. For more info please contact the Southeast Asia Center at 206-543-9606 or the Harry Bridges Labor Center at 206-543-7946. PDF of Conference flier available at: http://depts.washington.edu/seac/KDP_conference.pdf October 29 Deadline for Proposals for International Mobility Grants 2004-05. The Marc Lindenberg Center for Humanitarian Action, International Development and Global Citizenship is accepting proposals for the 2004-05 small grants competition for funds to support student travel with UW faculty engaged in research or service in developing countries. Please see the full Request for Proposals at http://depts.washington.edu/mlcenter/programs/mobility.html . Proposal deadline is October 29, 2004. Questions may be directed to Sarah Ross at mlcenter@u.washington.edu. October 29 Islam in Kyrgyzstan: Banning or Maintaining Traditional Kyrgyz Nomadic Customs? 12:30-1:30 PM, 215 Denny Hall. Speaker: Elmira Kochumkulkizi, a UW Ph.D. Student, Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Near & Middle Eastern Studies. October 29 Coming to Grips with the Ideas of Pakistan. 3:30 PM, 119 Thomson. Speaker: Stephen Philip Cohen, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies Program The Brookings Institution. Sponsored by the South Asia Center. 206-543-800, sascuw@u.washington.edu http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/soasia/index.htm October 29-30 Convergence and Divergence in North America: Canada and The United States. Fifth Biennial Colloquium in Canada. Simon Fraser University, Harbour Centre, Vancouver, Canada. International scholars have previously examined convergence and divergence in the development of Canada and the United States as nations, societies, and polities. Usually scholars in particular disciplines have compared developments of different emergent phenomena: respective frontiers, emergent values, integration processes, or the nature of the state, among others. Recently, Associations and Centres for Canadian Studies, however, have found that convergence and divergence in respective developments in Canada and the US is hotly debated and of great scholarly interest to Canadianists in a variety of disciplines, not only in North America, but also overseas. Therefore, rather than examining such emergent phenomena in only one discipline this colloquium fosters their examination in a broad range of disciplines. Our call for papers has struck an interest among scholars and researchers who focus on the convergence and divergence in the development of Canada and the United States as nations, societies, polities, and traders. They will compare and debate their pre-submitted papers to engender new ideas across disciplines in a number of research areas as can be seen in our list of sessions. Sponsored by The Centre for Canadian Studies at Simon Fraser University, the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS), Canadian Studies Center at the University of Washington, and the Center for Canadian-American Studies at Western Washington University. For more information, please visit: www.sfu.ca/~canada/converge/ or call 221-6374. October 31 Until When. 7:00 PM, Ethnic Cultural Theater, 3940 Brooklyn Ave NE, in Seattle's University District. By Dahna Abourahme, 2004. 76 minutes. Set during the current Intifada, this documentary follows four Palestinian families living in Dheisheh Refugee Camp near Bethlehem as they share the centrality of the Right of Return - the right of Palestinian refugees to return to the homes they were driven from in 1948-to any just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Followed by a presentation by Nada Elia, Professor of Transnational Feminism in the Women's Studies Department at WSU. A Palestinian and life-long activist, Ms. Elia will share her perspective and analysis on the Right of Return and the current situation in Palestine. Suggested Donation $10/ All Welcome. Part of the film series "PALESTINE: THE PEOPLE: Films that reveal the complexities and dynamics of being Palestinian." Brought to you by Hayaat and Palestine Solidarity Committee. Sponsored by B & O Espresso and Zaina Food, Drink and Friends. FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: 206-633-1086. www.palestineinformation.org November 1 2005 Puget Sound Georgia Basin Research Conference. The Puget Sound Action Team, the Georgia Basin Action Plan partners and our generous co-sponsors invite submission of abstracts for oral presentation and poster display at the 2005 Puget Sound Georgia Basin Research Conference. In addition to being the premier marine science gathering in the Puget Sound Georgia Basin region, the 2005 Conference will provide a venue for scientists and decision makers from a wide range of disciplines to share results and information. Co-sponsored by the Canadian Studies Center. For more information, please visit http://www.engr.washington.edu/epp/psgb/call.html or Nadine Fabbi at 543-6269. November 2 Film and Lecture Series: Mourning the Past: Violence and Public Sphere in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia. 7:00-9:00 PM (Doors open at 6:30 PM), 206 Communications. Organizer and Moderator: Fadjar I. Thufail, Rockefeller Foundation Resident Fellow, Project for Critical Asian Studies, UW. The film Shadow Play is directed by Chris Hilton and Lexy Rambadetta it runs 83 minutes and was made in 2001. "Shadow Play" launches a series of film screenings/discussions about violence, testimony, and the Indonesian public sphere. The film represents an emerging space of documentary filmmaking in Indonesia over the last few years. The Indonesian public has recently turned to documentary films as one way to deal with the legacy of past violence. Documentary films provide room for victims, as well as perpetrators, of violence to come forward and recount their experiences. The discussion following each film screening seeks to explore how and in what way documentary films can serve to mediate trauma and memory of past violence brought about by the hasty political transformation over the last few years in Indonesia. Sponsored by the Project for Critical Asian Studies and the Simpson Center for the Humanities. Lecture Co-sponsored by the Southeast Asia Center. For more info please visit: http://depts.washington.edu/critasia/events.htm#November2004 The series is free and open to the public November 3 Why Globalization Works, lecture and book signing. 7:00 PM, 110 Kane Hall. Speaker: Martin Wolf. Martin Wolf is chief economics commentator and associate editor of the Financial Times. He is also a visiting fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and a special professor at the University of Nottingham. One of the world's most foremost economic commentators, he explains how globalization works and why it makes sense. He dissects the position of globalization's critics, rebutting the arguments that it undermines sovereignty, weakens democracy, intensifies inequality, favors exploitative multinational corporations, and devastates the environment. Wolf shows that the biggest obstacles to global economic progress-almost everywhere-have been the failures not of the market, but of politics and policies. He suggests a route towards a global market economy that works better, and for more people, than ever before. For more information, please contact tleonard@u.washington.edu or call 206 685-2354. This event is free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by The National Bureau of Asian Research, The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, International Studies Center/JSIS, University Bookstore, and the Jackson School of International Studies Alumni. November 4 Popular Islam Among the Tatars of Western Siberia. 12:30-1:30 PM, 215 Denny Hall. Speaker: Irena Seleznev,.a Carnegie Foundation Fellow; Senior Researcher, Siberian Branch of Russian Institute of Culturology, Omsk. November 4 Empowering HIV-Positive Villagers in Henan, China. 3:30-5:30 PM, 202 Simpson Center Conference Room, Communications Bldg. Speaker: Shao Jing, Research Associate, Institute of Anthropology, Peking University (Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Chicago). Dr. Shao's recent ethnographic research involves the HIV/AIDS epidemic among rural commercial blood donors in central China and an investigation of the social and cultural resources in HIV affected rural areas for community rebuilding in pursuit of social justice, access to equitable treatment and effective prevention. His recent talks on this subject include: "Fluid Labor and Blood Money: The Economy of HIV/AIDS in Rural China" (2003). Sponsors: The China Studies Program, Department of Geography and Department of Anthropology. Also, Living Dreams of a Dying Village, A Documentary Exhibit of the China AIDS Orphan Fund featuring drawings and narrative by children from the rural villages of Henan (located on the wall outside of Communications 206), November 1-14, on-going since October 25. This is the first West Coast showing of drawings collected during the delivery of financial aide to children directly affected with HIV/AIDS in rural Henan Province. Initially assembled by Hong Kong's Chi Heng Foundation in 2002, this exhibit is a result of the generous agreement by Chi Heng's founder, Mr. Chung To, to allow the Minneapolis-based China AIDs Orphan Fund(CAOF) to replicate the exhibit in the United States. The exhibit at the University of Washington is made possible with the generous support of the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, the University of Washington China Program, and several volunteers who donated their time. For more information, contact abernier@u.washington.edu, (206) 543-4391. November 5 Muslim Reformers (Jadids) and their Goal of Changing the Status of Women in Central Asia Before and Shortly After the Revolution of 1917. 12:30-1:30 PM, 215 Denny Hall. Speaker: Dr. Ilse D. Cirtautas, from the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization. November 5 Antidote to Contemporary Moscow Architecture? 5:30 PM, 101 Thomson. Speaker: Dr. William Craft Brumfield, Professor, Tulane University. Within the welter of contemporary Moscow's mega-developments and neo-historicist styles, the work of Andrei Chernikhov is a refreshing exception. Grandson of noted architectural theoretician Jakov Chernikhov, he has created a lyrical and humane design in his School for Autistic Children, the first such school in Russia. The lecture will include a detailed view of the interior and exterior of the building, completed in 2000. Dr. Brumfield is a professor of Slavic Studies at Tulane University, where he also lectures at the School of Architecture. Brumfield has been photographing and writing about Russian buildings for more than thirty years, in a distinguished career marked by several books and his induction into the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences. In conjunction with this lecture, there will be an exhibition of photographs from the William C. Brumfield Collection at the HUB, Art Gallery, November 8-22, which will feature images from the Russian North. Sponsored by REECAS/JSIS, Architecture, Slavic Languages & Literatures, UW Press and the UW Library. For more information, contact REECAS at 206-543-4852 or email reecas@u.washington.edu. November 7 Land in Black and White. 7:00 PM, Ethnic Cultural Theater, 3940 Brooklyn Ave NE, in Seattle's University District. By Suheir Ismail, 1998. 56 minutes. Journalist, activist and resident of Dheisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem, Suheir Ismail travels to South Africa. As she shares excitement with black South African villagers who clear the first hurdle in their struggle to regain their ancestral land, Ismail contemplates the future of Palestinian refugees and their hopes of returning to their own land. Abed and Husniyeh Kouttainay, well-known members of Seattle's Arab community and Palestinian refugees from Jerusalem will discuss Palestinian ties to the land of Palestine and hopes of someday returning home. Suggested Donation $10/ All Welcome. Part of the film series "PALESTINE: THE PEOPLE: Films that reveal the complexities and dynamics of being Palestinian." Brought to you by Hayaat and Palestine Solidarity Committee. Sponsored by B & O Espresso and Zaina Food, Drink and Friends. FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: 206-633-1086 www.palestineinformation.org November 8 Can China's Retreat from Equality Be Reversed? Assessing Fiscal Policies toward Redistribution from Deng Xiaoping to Wen Jiabao. 2:30-4:00 PM, 317 Thomson Hall. Speaker: Christine Wong, Henry M. Jackson Professor of International Studies, University of Washington. Christine Wong received her Bachelor of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, both in Economics. In fall 2000, she joined the faculty at the University of Washington as the Henry M. Jackson Professor of International Studies in The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and Adjunct Professor of Economics. Prior to joining UW, she was Senior Economist in the World Bank Office in Beijing from 1997 to 2000, responsible for technical assistance in public finance and tax issues. During 1995-1996, she was Resident Scholar at the Asian Development Bank (Manila). Most recently, she has been a Guest Professor in the Asia Department of Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin, Germany. Reception of light refreshments will follow Professor Wong's talk. Sponsor: The China Studies Program. For more information, contact abernier@u.washington.edu, (206) 543-4391. November 8 Iraq: Reconstruction, Security, and Political Reform. 7:30 PM Kane Hall, Room 110. Speaker: Ambassador Robin Raphel, Coordinator for Iraq Reconstruction, U.S. Department of State. Ambassador Robin Raphel, will provide remarks and take questions regarding the challenges faced and successes achieved in Iraq. As Iraq moves closer to the January 2005 election for a Transitional National Assembly, reconstruction has become an even greater priority for the Iraq Interim Government, the coalition and the United States. Reconstruction goes hand-in-hand with progress on security. This discussion will focus on these issues with a speaker who not only has extensive experience in diplomacy, but also served in Iraq. Ambassador Raphel is a native of Washington and an alumna of the University of Washington. For more information, please contact tleonard@u.washington.edu or call 206 685-2354. This event is free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the International Studies Center and Middle East Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. Sponsorship of this event does not imply that the sponsoring organizations endorse the content of this event. November 8-22 The Heritage of the Russian North. HUB Art Gallery, UW. Exhibition: Photographs by William Craft Brumfield. "North" in Russia is a broad concept, but many Russians understand it as a historic region defined by a network of rivers and lakes leading to the White Sea. It is here that ecology, history, and culture have combined to create an area of harsh extremes and extraordinary beauty. Northern towns such as Vologda and Arkhangelsk, Totma and Velikii Ustiug played a great role not only in sustaining Russia's cultural and economic development during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but also in the settlement of distant Siberia and the expansion of trading paths to Western Europe. Today, questions of architectural preservation have become especially urgent in view of the large number of log structures in this region. The photographer can only work with those remnants of the past that time and fate have spared. Yet despite the many losses inflicted on the northern cultural heritage during recent decades, and despite its rapidly decreasing rural population, the Russian North endures. Sponsored by The Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies Center/JSIS, Architecture, Slavic Languages & Literatures, UW Press and the UW Library. November 8-22 The Kyrgyz: Traditional Herders in the Modern World. HUB Art Gallery, UW. Exhibition: Photographs by Daniel Waugh. The Kyrgyz home is the mountain knot of the Tian-Shan and Pamir ranges, straddling the borders of Kyrgyzstan and western Xinjiang (China). Their lifestyle has changed little over time. This exhibition features portraits of people for whom hospitality to strangers, maintaining strong family ties, and a deeply rooted sense of community are essential aspects of their lives. The challenge I faced as a photographer was to break through the shy reserve and stiffness that the sight of a camera produces, to evoke the warmth and the smiling inner self. I have tried to capture the Kyrgyz herders' daily lives with all its "modern" contradictions. Sponsored by The Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies Center/JSIS. For more information, contact REECAS at 206-543-4852 or email reecas@u.washington.edu. November 9 The Kyrgyz: Traditional Herders in the Modern World. 3:30 PM, 101 Thomson. Speaker: Dr. Daniel Waugh, Professor, University of Washington. The Kyrgyz were nomads, summering in mountain pastures and wintering in lowland settlements. Milk products formed the core of their diet and was used in community rituals. Animal wool and skins were used for clothing and in the construction of their homes. Nomadic tradition remains an essential part of Kyrgyz identity. The contemporary Kyrgyz life style is a blend of both traditional and modern. Everywhere in the world, traditional lifestyles are threatened by the lure of foreign cultures and by modern economic development. The Kyrgyz herders in the mountain knot of Central Asia face these same pressures and their traditional way of life may not survive. Professor Waugh has been teaching at the University of Washington since 1972 and is currently in three departments: History, Slavic and International Studies. In conjunction with this lecture, there is an exhibition at the HUB, Art Gallery, November 8-22, which will feature a selection of Dan Waugh 's photographs. Sponsored by The Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies Center/JSIS. For more information, contact REECAS at 206-543-4852 or email reecas@u.washington.edu. November 12 Publications on Islam in Central Asia: Anke von Kugelgen, Michael Kemper, et al 12:30-1:30 PM, 215 Denny Hall. Speaker: Dr. Ilse D. Cirtautas. Recent., eds. Muslim Culture in Russia and Central Asia, 3 vols. Berlin, 1996,1998, 2000." Dr. Cirtautas is from the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization. November 12 Decision-making in Natural Resource Conflicts. 12:00-1:30 PM, 1A Gowen. Steen Nordstrom, uses social psychology to explore the roots of conflict over environmental scarcity and the challenge these conflicts pose to state borders. Pacific Northwest Colloquia on International Security (PNCIS) is a joint program sponsored by the Jackson Foundation, the Department of Political Science, the Jackson School of International Studies, and the Institute for Transnational Studies. For more information, contact the chair of the colloquia, Christi Siver at chsiver@u.washington.edu. November 12 Korean Buddhist Canon: New Technologies Past and Present. 3:30-5:00 PM, Allen Auditorium, Allen Library. Speaker: Lewis Lancaster, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley. This lecture will look at how the Korean Buddhist Canon of the Koryo made use of the new technology of printing. This revolutionary method of transmitting data was unsurpassed until the 1990s when once again the canon was put into new technology, the digital format of our present age. Just as printing required changes in the way people studied Buddhist texts, so too the digital age has challenged our former scholarly methods. We are now faced with the issues of how to report the results of string searches, how to analyze the large number of examples that result from such searches, how to find appropriate ways of publishing in the digital format, how to assure longevity of our data, and how to judge digital productions. The Korean Buddhist Canon was at the forefront of the introduction of printing to Korea and it has been one of the first major digital collections. It is possible to study the history of technology and data transfer by looking at the role of the Buddhist texts in the history of Korea. Professor Lancaster is the founder and Director of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI). ECAI (www.ecai.org) is promoting worldwide electronic access to quality research data. ECAI is a partnership of technical specialists and the scholarly community dedicated to the support of scholarship through technology. ECAI is building an infrastructure for retrieval of data over the Internet from servers located anywhere in the world. Guided by the paradigm of the historical atlas, research data is indexed by time and place using temporally-enabled Geographic Information Systems software. User queries retrieve and display data in GIS layers on a map-based interface, allowing comparisons across discipline, region, and time. Co-Sponsors: The Korea Studies Program and the East Asia Center. For more information, contact abernier@u.washington.edu, (206) 543-4391. November 14 500 Dunam on the Moon. 7:00 PM, Ethnic Cultural Theater, 3940 Brooklyn Ave NE, in Seattle's University District. By Rachel Leah Jones, 2002. 48 minutes. Ayn Hawd is a Palestinian village that was captured and depopulated by Israeli forces in the 1948 war. In 1953 the village was transformed into a Jewish artists' colony, and renamed Ein Hod. This documentary tells the story of the village's original inhabitants, who, after expulsion, settled only 1.5 kilometers away in the outlying hills. Rachel Leah Jones' filmmaking debut is a critical look at the art of dispossession and the creativity of the dispossessed. Recently returned from several months in the West Bank, Redmond activist Aaron Kuller will speak of his experiences orking on the International Solidarity Movement's 2004 Freedom Summer campaign. Suggested Donation $10/ All Welcome. Part of the film series "PALESTINE: THE PEOPLE: Films that reveal the complexities and dynamics of being Palestinian." Brought to you by Hayaat and Palestine Solidarity Committee. Sponsored by B & O Espresso and Zaina Food, Drink and Friends. FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: 206-633-1086 www.palestineinformation.org November 16 What's Charitable about Ottoman Charity? 3:30 PM, 317 Thomson. Speaker: Amy Singer, Associate Professor, Department of History, Tel Aviv University. Sponsored by the Middle East Center. Contact: 206-543-4227. November 17 Sublime Darkness in Heian Diary Literature. 3:30-5:00 PM, 226 Communications Bldg. Speaker: Dr. Sudeshna Sen. Sponsored by the Asian Languages and Literature Colloquium. November 17 Russian foreign policy and U.S. Russian Relations. 6:30-8:00 PM, 110 Kane Hall. Speaker: Ambassador Jack Matlock. REECAS and the Foundation for the Russian American Economic Group welcome Ambassador Jack Matlock, former ambassador to the Soviet Union. Ambassador Matlock will speak on. For additional information, call (206) 543 4852. November 18 Recent Publications on/in Kazakhstan: Kazakh Autobiographies and Memoirs. Speaker: Dr. Ilse D. Cirtautas. 12:30-1:30 PM, 215 Denny Hall. Dr. Cirtautas is from the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization. November 18 Cities in Early Modern and Modern China Lecture Series. Objects, Spectacle and Nation-on-Display at the Nanyang Exposition of 1910. 3:30-5:00 PM, 317 Thomson Hall. Speaker: Susan Fernsebner, Assistant Professor of History, University of Mary Washington. Sponsors: The China Studies Program and the East Asia Center. For more information, contact abernier@u.washington.edu, (206) 543-4391. November 19-24 Slovenian Film, Art, Music and Literature Festival. Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Avenue. The Northwest Film Forum and Scala House Press (Seattle) announce State of Art, a festival of recent film, music, art and literature from Slovenia. Sixteen of Slovenia's most outstanding new feature films, documentaries, and short subjects will be screened. For additional information, about these events, including films, screening times and locations, see http://www.nwfilmforum.org/slovenia/film.htm. November 21 Paradise Lost. 7:00 PM, Ethnic Cultural Theater, 3940 Brooklyn Ave NE, in Seattle's University District. By Ebtisam Maraana, 2003. 56 minutes. Filmmaker Ebtisam Mara'ana grew up in Paradise (Fureidis in Arabic). This thought-provoking and intimate film diary follows the director's attempt to recreate her village's lost history, including the story of her childhood hero Suuad, who was imprisoned as a PLO activist in the 1970's and banished from the community. The director's frustration builds as her questions are resisted but she presses for truth. Presenting the rarely heard voice of an Arab Israeli, this important film offers valuable insight into the contradictions and complexities of modern womanhood and national identity in the Middle East. Followed by the short film And A Woman of Determination, 28 mins. Nuha Mousa, local activist and sister of Bethlehem journalist Suheir Ismail, will discuss the many, changing roles of women in Palestine and the importance of Palestinians documenting their own lives and struggle. Suggested Donation $10/ All Welcome. Part of the film series "PALESTINE: THE PEOPLE: Films that reveal the complexities and dynamics of being Palestinian." Brought to you by Hayaat and Palestine Solidarity Committee. Sponsored by B & O Espresso and Zaina Food, Drink and Friends. FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: 206-633-1086 www.palestineinformation.org December 2 The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism, New Books in Print Series. 3:30-5:00 PM, 202 Communications. Speaker: Tani Barlow, Professor, Department of History and Women Studies, University of Washington. In this history of thinking about the subject of women in twentieth-century China, Barlow illustrates the theories and conceptual categories that Enlightenment Chinese intellectuals have developed to describe the collectivity of women. Demonstrating how generations of these theorists have engaged with international debates over eugenics, gender, sexuality, and the psyche, Barlow argues that as an Enlightenment project, feminist debate in China is at once Chinese and international. Sponsor: Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. For more information, contact (206) 543-3920. December 2 Factional Politics and Credible Dis-inflationary Policy in China. 3:30-5:00 PM, 317 Thomson Hall. Speaker: Victor Shih, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University. Sponsor: The China Studies Program. For more information, contact abernier@u.washington.edu, (206) 543-4391. December 5 Northern Lights Music for the Holiday Season from the Baltic & Nordic Countries. 2:30 PM & 7:30 PM, Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Avenue, Seattle. Seattle Pro Musica presents showcases Baltic and Nordic music, evoking the northern lights of the winter season. The program covers a millennium of Baltic and Nordic choral music. General admission $18 in advance, $21 at the door, Seniors $13 in advance, $16 at the door and Student tickets are always $10. For more information please call (206) 781-2766. December 7 Southerners and Northerners, Book Reading by Novelist Lee Ho-chul. 6:30-8:00 PM, A-102 Auditorium, Physics-Astronomy Bldg. Speaker: Lee Ho-Chul, Korean Novelist. Shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War, Lee Ho-Chul was drafted into the North Korean army. "Southerners, Northerners" (Namny k saram pungny k saram) is a fictionalized account of his inglorious yet dramatic experiences as a raw recruit and, soon afterward, as a prisoner of war. Beginning with some fascinating vignettes of North Korean high school life and ending with a narrow escape from death, the story offers a unique perspective on the early phases of the war and its everyday realities, from the tragic to the farcical. While this and other works of Lee Ho-Chul have been translated into many languages, this is the first time a complete novel by this major figure in contemporary Korean literature has been published in English. The novel won the prestigious Daesan Literary Award for Fiction when it was published in 1996. The English translation has been prepared in close consultation with the author. Lee Ho-Chul was born in Weonsan, in what is now North Korea, in 1932. He served in the North Korean Army in the Korean War until taken prisoner. He made his way South by boat in 1950 and worked in the mid-1950s as a guard at a U.S. Army base. He debuted on the literary scene in 1955 with his short story "Away From Home," embarking on a remarkable literary career that has now moved into its fifth decade. Lee is a member of the Republic of Korea National Academy of the Arts and the recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious Modern Literature Award for "Panmunjom" and the Dongin Prize for "Wasting Away." Lee Ho-Chul has lived in the South, forcibly separated from his family in the North, for over fifty years. Lee's fiction movingly portrays the social and political conditions he has lived through and has made him one of Korea's leading literary figures today. Sponsors: The Korea Studies Program, the East Asia Center and the University Book Store. For more information, contact abernier@u.washington.edu, (206) 543-4391. December 8 Who Rules, and Which Virtues: On Religious Bonds, State Boundaries, and Legalism. 3:30-5:00 PM, 202 Communications Bldg. Speaker: Prof. Gad Barzilai, Tel Aviv University. December 11 Northern Lights Music for the Holiday Season from the Baltic & Nordic Countries. 3:00 PM & 8:00 PM, Chapel at Bastyr University, 14500 Juanita Drive NE, Bothell. Seattle Pro Musica presents showcases Baltic and Nordic music, evoking the northern lights of the winter season. The program covers a millennium of Baltic and Nordic choral music. General admission $18 in advance, $21 at the door, Seniors $13 in advance, $16 at the door and Student tickets are always $10. For more information please call (206) 781-2766. 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. For Global and Regional Security Studies IIP Institute for International Policy http://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 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. To subscribe to the on-line Calendar, or for further information, please post a message to: jsis@u.washington.edu. Thank you "The University of Washington is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: 206-543-6450/V, 206-543-6452/TTY, 206-685-7264 (FAX), or dso@u.washington.edu." Copyright © 2001 University of Washington, including all photographs and images, unless otherwise noted. Questions? Email jsis@u.washington.edu. Send inquiries regarding the website to jsishelp@u.washington.edu.Last Updated:10/29/04 Your browser does not support script .