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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 April 28 Vive La Difference-America and France. April 28 Arctic National Wildlife Refuge-Seasons of Life and Land. April 29 The Brazilian Workers' Party Rise to Power. April 30 How do "free trade" agreements like NAFTA and the new Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) impact workers, the poor, farmers, and our democratic rights? May 1 Workshop: A Tale of Two Cities: Queer Self-Writing in Hong Kong and Vancouver. May 1 The Challenge of Improved Governance in International Development. May 1 Former Political Prisoners from Tibet share their stories: Palden Gyatso, Choeyang Kunsang, Passang Lhamo. May 2 Broadway to Hollywood: Fashioning the American Girl. May 2 Critical Cooperation: Why does democracy survive in "least likely cases" and fail in "most likely cases?" May 2 Out of the Ghetto: Living Inside Walls, Crossing Invisible Frontiers. May 3 The Origin of Shadow Play. Full Listings 2003 April 28 The World on The Edge, Town Hall Forums on War-Peace Issues. Vive La Difference-America and France. Program begins at 6:30 pm with a tribute to French thought and art and its influence on American culture. At 7:30 pm, a panel examines the sources of conflict, common traditions, and the rupture over Iraq. Reception follows. No SoapBox. April 28 Arctic National Wildlife Refuge-Seasons of Life and Land. 7:00 PM, 110 Kane Hall. Reading and Slide Presentation by Subhankar Banerjee, Photographer. The Arctic Refuge is the calving grounds for the Porcupine Caribou--the heart and culture of the First Nations of Canada's Yukon, Northwest Territories and Alaska. For two decades the Gwich'in People have fought to prevent oil and gas development in the Arctic. Renowned photographer Subhankar Banerjee spent two years capturing the year-round story of the landscape, animals, plants, birds, and people of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In his striking new book, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land, Banerjee documents the necessity to preserve this unique region, which Native people refer to as "The Sacred Place Where Life Begins," in its pristine state. Banerjee will show slides from the book, and discuss the hazards that face the ANWR. Book signing will follow the presentation. Tickets are FREE, but required for this event. You may pick up tickets at any University Book Store location after April 1. This event is co-sponsored by the Canadian Studies Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies; the University Book Store, Mountaineers Books, and Blue Earth Alliance. April 29 The Brazilian Workers' Party Rise to Power. 2:30 PM, 211 Thomson Hall. Speaker: Lucilene Lira Whitesell, Evergreen State College Labor Education Center. Lucilene Lira Whitesell is field organizer/labor educator for The Evergreen State College Labor Education Center in Olympia. She is the coordinator for the Center's Annual Summer School for Union Women. She is currently working on the following issues: young workers in the labor movement, immigrant rights, community organizing to stop the war on Iraq , and creating a Regional Social Forum based on the experience of the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil in which more than 100,000 from all over the world participate in January of this year. Ms. Whitesell is originally from Brazil where in the 1980s she worked with the Catholic Church organizing agricultural workers, fisherman and rubber tappers in the Amazonian region through. She was also a factory worker, community and union organizer and member of the Workers' Party (PT). April 30 How do "free trade" agreements like NAFTA and the new Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) impact workers, the poor, farmers, and our democratic rights? 7:00 PM, 210 Kane Hall. $5 suggested donation, free for students/low-income. Grassroots leaders from Canada, Mexico and the U.S. will discuss the impacts of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) on small businesses, family farmers, workers, and environmental & health issues -- and what future trade agreements will do. Jose Dolores Lopez (of Mexico's Independent Center for Agricultural Workers and Peasants-CIOAC), Cheri Honkala (founder and Executive Director of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union-KWRU and spokesperson for the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign) and Jamie Dunn (Canadian writer, activist and expert on privatization, water, health care, and trade politics) will also discuss the popular movements challenging NAFTA and its expansion in the new Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Coordinated nationally by Global Exchange, this public event is hosted by Community Alliance for Global Justice (CAGJ), UW Students Advocating Global Equality (SAGE), UW Students for Fair Trade, Associated Students of the University of Washington, UW Dept. of Geography, Washington Association of Churches, Washington Living Wage Movement, Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community, WSU Program on Sustainable Agriculture, Washington Sustainable Food & Farming Network, and Green Party of Seattle. For more info: CAGJ, 206-405-4600, cagj@riseup.net, www.seattleglobaljustice.org. May 1 Workshop: A Tale of Two Cities: Queer Self-Writing in Hong Kong and Vancouver. (Part of the series "Thinking Sex in Transnational Times"). 3:00 PM, 206 Communications. Speaker: Helen Hok-Sze Leung, Helen Hok-Sze Leung's paper examines various practices of queer self-ethnography in Hong Kong and Vancouver and analyzes their cultural and political significance for the emergent movement for gender and sexual minorities in Chinese communities. In it, she theorizes the relation between such queer self-writing and the "queer unconscious" of mainstream cinema and popular music, as well as academic ethnographic discourses on queer subjects. Women 's Studies, Simon Fraser University. Sponsor: Simpson Center for the Humanities. Registration required: 543-3920. May 1 David Crocket Graham and the Ethnic Groups in Southwest China 1911-1948. 3:30-5:00 PM, 317 Thomson Hall. Speaker: Geng Jing, Assistant Researcher, Sichuan Nationalities Research Institute in Chengdu. Sponsor: China Studies Program. Info: 543-4391. May 1 The Challenge of Improved Governance in International Development. 3:30-5:00 PM, Parrington Hall, The Commons (3rd floor). Speaker: Dana Weist, Senior Economist, World Bank. Dana Weist is a Senior Economist at the World Bank, whose work focuses on public finance and governance issues. She has worked in Thailand, Indonesia, China and a number of Latin American countries. The focus of her lecture will be the World Bank's program in providing assistance to improving governance in developing countries. Sponsor: International Studies Center/JSIS. For more information, contact Christine Wong at (206) 616- 6688 or email cpwwong@u.washington.edu. May 1 Former Political Prisoners from Tibet share their stories: Palden Gyatso, Choeyang Kunsang, Passang Lhamo. 7:00 PM, 120 Kane Hall. Students for a Free Tibet at the University of Washington will bring three former political prisoners from Tibet to campus Thursday, May 1, 2003. Palden Gyatso, a monk and the 1998 recipient of the John Humphrey Freedom Award, and two nuns, Choeyang Kunsang and Pasang Lhamo, will tell about life in the notorious Drapchi prison in Lhasa, Tibet, and will speak about their experiences with war, torture, oppression and the occupation of their homeland. In 1949 the autonomous country of Tibet was invaded by the Chinese government under the guise of peaceful liberation. Though Tibet had been autonomous for thousands of years, with a distinct religious and cultural tradition, during this time it was forcefully integrated into China with bloody massacres, killing over 1.2 million Tibetans, and the destruction of over six thousand monasteries. Today, Tibetan culture is disappearing under the strict repression of the Chinese government. Freedom of religion is non-existent, and monks and nuns who merely carry a picture of their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, are imprisoned. Peacefully supporting the liberation of Tibet, even for minutes, will likely result in beatings and imprisonment. The prisons, such as Drapchi, are infamous for their ill treatment and torture; trials are not conducted according to international standards, and sentences can be extended without cause. Palden Gyatso was imprisoned for over three decades; when he was released in 1992 he smuggled instruments of torture used in prisons with him to India. He brings those objects with him to illustrate his presentation. He has given evidence at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, and has also testified before the United Nations and the U.S. Congress about the human rights abuses he suffered. Choeyang Kunsang and Pasang Lhamo were imprisoned for endangering state security, as they peacefully protested the Chinese governments occupation of Tibet. They were finally released in 1999 and have since testified before the Congressional Human Rights Caucus. *Admission is free with UW ID, $3 for the general public, with tickets available at the door *This event is sponsored by the ASUW, the Henry M. Jackson School for International Affairs, the UW School of Social Work, the Comparative History of Ideas Department at the UW, the Human Rights Education and Research Network, and Amnesty International at the UW. For more information, contact tibet@u.washington.edu. May 2 Broadway to Hollywood: Fashioning the American Girl. 2:30 PM, 226 Communications Building, Speaker: Linda Mizejewski (English, Ohio State University) For more information, please see http://depts.washington.edu/its/moderngirl.htm May 2 Critical Cooperation: Why does democracy survive in "least likely cases" and fail in "most likely cases?" 3:30 - 5:00 PM, 102 Smith . Speaker: Gretchen Casper of Penn State University. The first part of this paper looks at the effect of socioeconomic environments and political institutions on levels of democracy in 114 countries from 1951-1992. Then, the paper investigates elite interaction during crises in a subset of 12 countries to see whether elite behavior can raise or lower a country's level of democracy compared to the baseline model predicted by socioeconomic environments and political institutions. (The 12 cases are Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Italy, Ivory Coast, Mali, Myanmar, Philippines, Portugal, and Zaire.) By identifying patterns of elite behavior that lead to virtuous cycles, vicious cycles, or unstable cycles, the paper shows that while countries may start down a particular path, elite interaction can lead them to outcomes more or less favorable than we would have originally predicted. May 2 Out of the Ghetto: Living Inside Walls, Crossing Invisible Frontiers. 5:00 PM, 119 Thomson. Speaker: Mireille Rosello (Northwestern University). Since the beginning of the 1990s, films, novels and theoretical studies of French banlieues have been haunted by a recurrent vision: a gang of idle and unemployed young males hang out in the ghetto, "rusting" or "rouillant" as they put it in banlieue slang. Azouz Begag's 2002 book, Les Dérouilleurs, introduces a new social type. In a move that many will find refreshingly counter-intuitive, the sociologist studies those who escaped their native banlieue and found success beyond the ghetto. At first sight, the figures of rouilleurs and dérouilleurs embody opposite poles: the former evokes disenfranchisement and exclusion whereas the latter suggests that it is possible to transcend the fatality of rouille. I will suggest, however, that both figures share a common denominator that has nothing to do with the notions of social failure and success. Several recent portraits of dérouilleurs have convinced me that the meaning of their departures from, returns to, or detours around the banlieue are just as ambivalent and complex as the rouilleurs' state of immobility. May 3 Indonesian Shadow Puppet Theater and Dance Performance, The Origin of Shadow Play. 8:00 PM, Roethke Auditorium, 130 Kane Hall. Nunuk Sri Rahayu (Mangkunegaran Palace, Java), Hani Schnaith (Sundanese dancer, Bandung), Jan Mrazek (UW Art History), Gamelan Pacifica (Cornish College). Free. Southeast Asia Center, 206-543-9606 May 5 Critical Pacific islander Cultures (Part of the series "Recasting America Asia"). 3:30 PM, 226 Communications Bldg. Speakers: Gary Pak, Creative Writing, U of Hawaii; Amy Stillman, American Culture, U of Michigan. Sponsor: Simpson Center for the Humanities. Info: 543-3920. May 5 The World on The Edge, Town Hall Forums on War-Peace Issues. Root Causes of Terror and Anti-Americanism. An evening with author Robert Fuller on the abuses of rank and the rise of the dignitarian movement in America and abroad. Fuller is a former president of Oberlin College and author of Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank. No Soap Box. May 5 Jewish Renewal in the American Spiritual Marketplace. 7:30 PM, 220 Kane Hall. Samuel and Althea Stroum Lecture Series 1. The first lecture will set the context of the growing interest in "spirituality" that has characterized recent American religious life in general. A striking feature of the religious scene today is the growth of a thriving and competitive spiritual marketplace, in which religious behaviors increasingly resembles other consumer behavior. The disjunction between "religion" and "spirituality," the sources of "seeker" spirituality in the fluidity and mobility of contemporary American society, and the apparent shallowness of some forms of this "spirituality of seeking" are all features of this marketplace. How does the human spirit seek meaning in a society in which spirituality becomes just another commodity? Must consumer spirituality be (regarded as) "inauthentic" in some way? Our exploration of these issues will begin in the gift shop of a Jewish spiritual retreat center. What is for sale, and why? What does the merchandise suggest about the ways customer/members think about spirituality? May 5, 7, 12 Samuel and Althea Stroum Lecture Series: "Spirituality in America; the Jewish Renewal Movement." 7:30 PM, 220 Kane Hall. Speaker: Chava Weissler, Lehigh University. Sponsor: Jewish Studies Program/JSIS. Info: 543-4243. May 6 One year after the Gujarat Genocide. Location TBA. Speaker: Harsh Mandar. It has been over a year since the worst violence of its kind hit the state of Gujarat, India. Thousands of people were killed and over 150 thousand were left homeless in this pogrom that swept the cities and villages alike. Many individuals and social organizations has been working tirelessly to rehabilitate the victims, bring the perpetrators to justice and raise awareness in Gujarat. Harsh Mandar will talk about his personal experiences in helping people, his efforts to bring the communities together and discuss the steps that are being taken to bring peace and justice to the land of Gandhi. Sponsored by the South Asia Center, call 206-543-4800 for more information. May 6 Death, Memory, and Building: The Non-Cremation of a Cambodian Monk. 3:30-5:00 PM, 116 Loew John Marston (Southeast Asian Studies, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City). Southeast Asia Center. 206-543-9606 May 6 The Art of the Japanese Tattoo from Kuniyoshi to Longfellow. 3:30 - 5:00 p.m., 03 Art Bldg. Speaker: Dr. Christine Guth, PhD in Fine Arts, Harvard University. Sponsors: Japan Studies Program and Art History. Info: 543-4391. May 6 MONEY. 7:00 PM, UW Faculty Club. UW faculty discuss the historic evolution of exchange relations, the symbolic importance of money, and the role of new currencies in the world today. Moderator: Christine Ingebritsen (Scandinavian Studies). Panelists: Alain Gowing (Classics) Old Money: A short History of Currency Classical Antiquity. Mary Callahan (Jackson School of International Studies) Tempting Fate: Currency and Crisis in Burma in 1988. Michelle Turnovsky (Economics) The EURO: Rival to the Dollar? Everyone is welcome. Refreshments will be served. Contact Phi Beta Kappa at 543-8718, uwpbk@u.washington.edu for more information. May 7 The Japan Studies Program presents: Ambassador Thomas S. Foley on The Changing Dynamics of U.S. - Japan Relations. 5:00 PM, 130 Kane Hall. Ambassador Thomas S. Foley shares his insights on the current state of U.S.- Japan relations in an interview format with moderator Dr. Edward J. Lincoln. The event is sponsored by the Atsuhiko and Ina Goodwin Tateuchi Foundation, a Seattle-based family foundation seeking to promote and improve international understanding and relations between countries of the Pacific Rim and the United States. Ambassador Thomas S. Foley was U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 1997-2001 and a member of the House of Representatives from 1965-94 and served as the 49th Speaker of the House. Admission is free. Doors open at 4:00. Due to event filming, please be seated by 4:45. For more information, please contact the Japan Studies Program, 685-9997. May 7 Politics in Canada Today: An Uncertain Future, 5:30-8:30 PM, Walker-Ames Room, 130 Kane Hall. Speaker: The Honourable Howard Pawley, former Premier of Manitoba, recent recipient of the Order of Canada, Visiting Faculty in the Jackson School for Spring Quarter. He will be addressing Canadian political issues today and the future of Canadian politics. This is the Dinner/Lecture Series: International Updates: Trends and Transitions in Your World. The evening begins with a lecture by an expert in the field followed by a dinner and wine. Educators can request 3 clock hours for an evening at no additional charge. . To register: Send a check for $25 payable to the University of Washington to: International Updates Registration c/o South Asia Center Box 353650 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195. More information? Contact Canadian Studies at (206) 543-6269 or canada@u.washington.edu. May 7 Gender and Jewish Renewal. 7:30 PM, 220 Kane. Samuel and Althea Stroum Lecture Series 2. The majority of participants in the Jewish Renewal Movement are women, and there are a number of important women leaders as well. Does the preponderance of women participants simply reflect the feminization of various aspects of American religion? This lecture will suggest that other factors are also at work. One is the theology of the movement, which explicitly recognizes and articulates the importance of the Shekhinah, the feminine divine, seen by members as "eclipsed" in earlier Judaism. Interestingly, Renewal's use of this version of kabbalistic myth promotes a "complementary" rather than "egalitarian" vision of gender relations. Another aspect of the movement's appeal to women is the quest for "embodiedness" in spirituality. In common with certain other New Age spiritualities, Jewish renewal valorizes the physical. This is expressed in forms of worship that incorporate chanting, singing, and dancing. Participants describe this movement towards physicality as related to the reclamation of female experience. May 8 US Foreign Policy in the Middle East. 7:00 PM, 130 Kane Hall. Speaker: Edward Said, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia. Sponsored by the Graduate School. Admission is free, but tickets are required. Free tickets are available approximately two weeks prior to the lecture at: University Bookstore Main Campus 4326 University Way, NE Seattle 206-634-3400 University Bookstore Downtown Seattle 1225-4th Avenue, Seattle 206-545-9230 University Bookstore Bellevue 990-102nd Avenue, NE Bellevue 206-462-4500 University Bookstore Tacoma 1754 Pacific Avenue Tacoma 253-272-8080 University Bookstore 17938 Campus Parkway, NE Bothell 425-485-4725 May 9 The Atlantic Alliance in Crisis: From September 11 to Iraq. 12:00-5:00 PM, Parrington Forum. A round-table discussion of US foreign policy, European defense cooperation, and the future of European-American relations. Speakers include E. J. Dionne Jr. (Washington Post columnis); Jolyon Howorth, (University of Bath, UK); John Keeler (University of Washington); Andrei Markovits (University of Michigan) Eric Remacle (Free University of Brussels); Vivien Ann Schmidt (Boston University). May 9 The Reversal of the Japanese Economy and the Challenge to the Japanese Studies. 3:30-5:00 PM, 226 Communications. Speaker: Bai Gao, Associate Professor, Duke University. Sponsor: Japan Studies Program and East Asia Center. Info: 685-9997. May 9 A Conversation with Ambassador Darryl Johnson (U.S. Ambassador to Thailand). 3:30 - 5:00 PM, Faculty Club, conference room. JSIS and Southeast Asia Center. 206-543-9606 May 12 Balancing the Budget and Realizing the Revolution: Women and Modernity in Japan. 3:30-5:00 PM, 202 Communications Bldg. Speaker: Leila Madge, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego. Sponsor: Japan Studies Program. Info: 685-9997. May 12 'Four Worlds' and the Popularization of Kabbalah. 7:30 PM, 220 Kane. The Samuel and Althea Stroum Lecture 3. This lecture will explore the complex relationship of Renewal interpretations of Kabbalah to classical forms of Jewish mysticism through a case study of the teaching of the Four Worlds. In classical Kabbalah, the Four Worlds described the structure of the cosmos, as it was emanated from the Godhead down through angelic realms to this material, corrupt world. Later, the Four Worlds became identified as well with states of meditation, and stages of the liturgy, as the mystic strove to leave this world behind, and ascend through ever purer and holier worlds, eventually cleaving to Divinity itself. Jewish Renewal took this liturgical/meditative aspect of the teaching, especially as found in hasidic sources, and "psychologized" it, understanding the worlds as aspects of human existence, and stressing their correspondence with the Sabbath morning service. In the process, Renewal transforms the meaning of the Four Worlds from a teaching about our distance from a transcendent Godhead to an expression of the immanence of the divine in the physical world. May 13 Beyond Baghdad: Global Perspectives. 7:00 PM, 110 Kane Hall. Round Table Discussion with international and regional specialist from the University of Washington: Professor David M. Bachman, International Studies. A specialist on Chinese domestic politics, political economy, foreign policy, & Sino-American relations. Professor John T. S. Keeler, Political Science. A specialist on European politics & transatlantic relations. Assistant Professor Arzoo Osanloo, Anthropology & Law, Societies & Justice. Specializes in relationship of the state, human rights, & the formation of identity in the Muslim Middle East. Assistant Professor Mary Callahan, International Studies. A specialist on democratization, military, & Southeast Asian politics. Further information contact: readme@u.washington.edu. This event is free and open to the public. To request disability accommodation contact the Office of the ADA coordinator 24 hours in advance of the event: 206-543-6450 (TDD), 206-685-3885 (fax) or access@u.washington.edu May 13 Andalusi Moorings: Competing Tropes of Jewish Culture in Muslim Spain. 7:00 PM. 110 Kane Hall, Walker Ames Lecture, Speaker: Dr. Ross Brann Chair, Department of Near Eastern Studies Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies (Cornell University). . University Sponsors: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, Department of History, French and Comparative Literature, Comparative Religion, Jewish Studies, French and Italian Studies. Admission is Free.No ticket required. Info: 543-3920.University Sponsors: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, Department of History, French and Comparative Literature, Comparative Religion, Jewish Studies, French and Italian Studies. May 13 What Happened to the U.S./Russian Partnership? 7:00 PM, Monte Cristo Ballroom, Monte Cristo Hotel, 1507 Wall Street, Everett. Speaker: Professor Stephen E. Hanson. President Vladimir Putin was the first foreign leader to call George W. Bush in the wake of the terrorist attacks on U.S. soil of September 11, 2001. Now he has broken with the U.S. over the war in Iraq, calling it "illegal" and a geopolitical "mistake." Stephen Hanson will explore the reasons for this seemingly puzzling reversal in U.S.-Russian relations. Parking available nearby at Henry Cogswell College. Cosponsors: REECAS Center/JSIS and Henry Cogswell College. May 14 Income Inequality and Poverty in Ukraine 1991-2001: A Review. 3:30-5:00 p.m., 317 Thomson Hall. Speaker: Dr. Nazar Kholod, a political economist with the Ivan Franko National University in Lviv, Ukraine is an IREX (International Research and Exchanges) scholar at UW this spring. In 2000, he successfully defended his PhD dissertation at Ivan Franko on the Ukrainian government's regulation of income distribution, and is now Assistant Professor of Economics. His talk will be on the changes in inequality and poverty in Ukraine that were brought about by market reforms. He will also examine the changes in the income policy triggered by market reforms and the deep recession of the mid 1990s. Sponsored by REECAS/JSIS. May 14 Canadian Studies Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington and Center for Canadian-American Studies, Western Washington University present "Canada-U.S. Relations in a New Security Environment Lecture Series." Human Security in a Time of Terrorism and War: the Canadian View. 5:30 PM, Western Washington University, Bellingham, 100 Arntzen Hall. Reception to follow. 360-650-3728. Speaker: The Honourable Lloyd Axworthy P.C., O.M., Ph.D. Dr. Axworthy is Director and CEO of the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia. Former Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Canadian federal government where he became internationally known for his advancement of the human security concept, Dr. Axworthy continues his work in global security. Among his many responsibilities, he is Chairman of the Human Security Centre for the United Nations University for Peace, member of the Eminent Persons Group on Small Arms, Co-Chair of the State of the World Forum, Commission on Globalization, and Honourary Chairman of the Canadian Landmine Foundation. Dr. Axworthy is the recipient of many humanitarian awards and, for his leadership on banning landmines, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Co-sponsors: Canada-America Society, Seattle, Canadian Consulate General, Seattle, Cascadia Project of Discovery Institute, Global Business Center, Business School, U.W., Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, U.W., Institute for Global & Regional Security Studies, U.W., International Studies Center, U.W., Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium, Pacific Northwest Center for Global Security, PNNL/Battelle, Northwest Division World Affairs Council. This lecture will be presented again: Wednesday, June 4th, 7:30 PM, 210 Kane Hall. Reception to follow, Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall, University of Washington, Seattle. canada@u.washington.edu or 206-221-6374 May 15 The Uzbek Poet and Writer Gafur Gulom (1903-1964): A Contribution to the 100th Anniversary of His Birthday. 12:30-1:30 PM, 215 Denny Hall. Speaker: Ilse D. Cirtautas, a Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization. Sponsored by the Central Asian Studies Group, The Uzbek Poet and Writer Gafur Gulom (1903-1964): A Contribution to the 100th Anniversary of His Birthday" May 15 Patrolling the Revolution: Militias and State-building in Modern China. 3:30-5:00 PM, 317 Thomson Hall. Speaker: Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University. Sponsor: China Studies Program/JSIS. Info: 543-4391. May 15 Jews and Muslims in Confluence and Conflict. 3:30-5:00 PM, 202 Communications Bldg. Reception will follow. Speaker: Ross Brann. Description of Lecture examines the intimate historical conversation between Jews and Muslims and Judaism and Islam during the latter's classical age. In particular the talk treats the cultural transformation of the Jews and Judaism under Islam and offers some reflections on the contemporary significance of the historical record. Ross Brann is Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies at Cornell University where he is also completing his third term as Chair of the Department Near Eastern Studies. He is the author of The Compunctious Poet: Cultural Ambiguity and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain ([Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992] awarded the National Jewish Book Award in the category of Sephardic Studies) and Power in the Portrayal: Representations of Muslims and Jews in Islamic Spain (Princeton University Press, 2002). For the latter project Brann received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies of the University of Pennsylvania. Brann is also the editor of three volumes and author of many essays on medieval Hebrew and Arabic literature and the cultural intersection of Judaism and Islam. At Cornell where he has taught since 1986, Ross has also served as Director of the Religious Studies Program. In 1996, he received the Stephen and Margery Russell Award for Distinguished Teaching from the College of Arts and Sciences. Department Sponsors: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, Department of History, French and Comparative Literature, Comparative Religion, Jewish Studies, French and Italian Studies May 15 The Splendors of St. Petersburg, Russia's "Window on the West": An Illustrated Presentation. 7:00 PM, Henry Auditorium. Speaker: Professor Daniel C. Waugh. This lavishly illustrated evocation of the significance and artistic splendors of Russia's imperial capital celebrates the 300th anniversary of its founding on May 16, 1703. View the city through the eyes and words of eighteenth and nineteenth century artists and writers. Experience the ambience of one of the great imperial capitals interpreted through the photographic lens: illuminated facades on moonlit nights, the wrought iron tracery along misty canals, Golden Autumn in palace parks, and the gilded exuberance of the private chambers of the Romanovs. A Harvard Ph.D., Professor Waugh has been teaching about Russia at UW since 1972 in the Department of History, The Jackson School of International Studies and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature. Sponsored by REECAS/JSIS. May 15 Beyond Jews Versus Arabs: New Music of Israel. 7:30 PM, 213 Music Bldg. Speaker: Benjamin Brinner, Associate Professor, Music, University of California, Berkeley. Sponsored by the Middle East Center, mecuw@u.washington.edu. May 15 With Kindness at Heart, a Song on the Tongue, and Gold and Steel in Hand: Religion, Power, and Ideology in the Mahabharata, the Great Epic of India. 8:00 PM, Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall, reception to follow. Speaker: Professor James L. Fitzgerald, Department of Religious Studies, University of Tennessee. Reception to follow. The Andrew Markus Memorial Lecture, presented by the Department of Asian Languages and Literature. May 16 The Frondeuse: Making the Modern Girl French. 2:30 PM, 226 Communications Building. Speaker: Mary Louise Roberts (History, University of Wisconsin-Madison) May 16 Workshop: Sex and Ethnography: Dubbing Culture (Part of the series " Thinking Sex in Transnational Times"). Time and location tba. Speaker: Tom Boellstorff, Anthropology, UC Irvine. Sponsor: Simpson Center for the Humanities. Registration required: 543-3920. May 19 Lives of Hunting Dogs: Contesting Thai Masculinities Through an Ethnography of Thai Boxing. 3:30-5:00 PM, 317 Thomson. Speaker: Pattana Kitiarsa (School of General Education, Suranaree University, Thailand). Southeast Asia Center. 206-543-9606 May 19 Diaspora and Globalization (Part of the series "Recasting America Asia"). 3:30 PM, 226 Communications Bldg. Speakers: Martin Manalansan, Anthropology, U of Illinois; Gayatri Gopinath, Women & Gender Studies, UC Davis. Sponsor: Simpson Center for the Humanities. Info: 543-3920. May 19 The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India. 7:00 PM, Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. Speaker: Professor Paul Brass will make a presentation based on his recently published book, (University of Washington Press, 2003). May 21 Relics and Buddhist Practice in East Asia (Part of the Colloquium Series "Territory and Relics"). 3:30-5:00 PM, 202 Communications Bldg., Simpson Center for the Humanities. Speaker: Kyoko Tokuno, JSIS. Sponsor: Comparative Religion Program/JSIS. Info: religion@u.washington.edu May 21 International Updates 2003: Women's Work in a Changing Japanese Economy.* *Formerly publicized as: The Role of the Economy in Shaping the Changing Role of Women in Japan.5:30-8:30 PM, Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. Speaker: Leila Madge, Post-doctoral Fellow, Undergraduate Asian Studies Initiative, Jackson School, University of Washington. . This event is one in a series with a convenient early evening programs and buffet dinners featuring catered international cuisine. COST: $25.00 per session (Check or money order only, payable to University of Washington). REGISTRATION DEADLINE: one week prior to session. 3 clock hours are available. Registration forms can be downloaded at: http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/03updatesflyer.pdf. For more information, please call (206) 543-4800 or e-mail sascuw@u.washington.edu. May 22 >From Zanzibar to Shanghai: Sikhs and the Policing of the Empire. 3:30 PM, 317 Thomson Hall. Speaker: Thomas Metcalf, Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley. Sponsored by the South Asia Center May 22 Musical Interzones: The Middle East and Beyond. 7:30 PM, 213 Music Bldg. Speaker: Ted Swedenburg, Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Arkansas. Sponsored by the Middle East Center mecuw@u.washington.edu. May 23 High Voltage Vulgarity: Pornographic Publics in Post-Liberalization India. 2:30 PM, 226 Communications Building. Speaker: William Mazzarella (Anthropology, University of Chicago) For more information, please see http://depts.washington.edu/its/moderngirl.htm May 28 International Updates 2003: Latin American Studies Race and Gender Relations in Latin America: Lessons for the United States. Speaker: Jonathan Warren, LAS Chair and Director . A lecture-dinner series addressing current international issues, offering the latest insights from top university scholars, convenient early evening programs and buffet dinners featuring catered international cuisine. COST: $25.00 per session (Check or money order only, payable to University of Washington). REGISTRATION DEADLINE: one week prior to session. 3 clock hours are available. For registration form and more information, call (206) 543-4800 or e-mail sascuw@u.washington.edu May 29 Israel and Palestine after Iraq. 7:30 p.m., 210 Kane . Speaker: Moshe Ma'oz, Professor of Middle East History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; and former Director, Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace. Sponsored by the Middle East Center. Contact: mecuw@u.washington.edu, or 206-543-4227. May 29 Pop for the Audience: Islamist Song and Politics of Yemen. 7:30 PM, 213 Music Bldg. Speaker: Flagg Miller, Visiting Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Chicago. Sponsored by the Middle East Center. mecuw@u.washington.edu. May 30 Consuming Indexicality: 'Women's Language' as a Commodity Experience in Early Twentieth Century Japan. 2:30 PM, 226 Communications Building. Speaker: Miyako Inoue (Anthropology, Stanford University) For more information, please see http://depts.washington.edu/its/moderngirl.htm June 4 Canadian Studies Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington and Center for Canadian-American Studies, Western Washington University present "Canada-U.S. Relations in a New Security Environment Lecture Series." Human Security in a Time of Terrorism and War: the Canadian View. 7:30 PM. 210 Kane Hall Speaker: The Honourable Lloyd Axworthy P.C., O.M., Ph.D. Reception to follow, Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall, University of Washington, Seattle canada@u.washington.edu or 206-221-6374. Dr. Axworthy is Director and CEO of the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia. Former Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Canadian federal government where he became internationally known for his advancement of the human security concept, Dr. Axworthy continues his work in global security. Among his many responsibilities, he is Chairman of the Human Security Centre for the United Nations University for Peace, member of the Eminent Persons Group on Small Arms, Co-Chair of the State of the World Forum, Commission on Globalization, and Honourary Chairman of the Canadian Landmine Foundation. Dr. Axworthy is the recipient of many humanitarian awards and, for his leadership on banning landmines, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Co-sponsors: Canada-America Society, Seattle, Canadian Consulate General, Seattle, Cascadia Project of Discovery Institute, Global Business Center, Business School, U.W., Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, U.W., Institute for Global & Regional Security Studies, U.W., International Studies Center, U.W., Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium, Pacific Northwest Center for Global Security, PNNL/Battelle, Northwest Division World Affairs Council. June 6 Workshop: The Modern Girl Around the World Research. 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, 226 Communications Building, Speakers include Davarian Baldwin (History, Boston University); Clare Wilkinson Weber (Anthropology, Washington State University, Vancouver); Paola Zamperini (History, University of California, Berkeley) For more information, please see http://depts.washington.edu/its/moderngirl.htm June 23-25 Conflicts and Challenges of the 21st Century. 2003 Jackson School Summer Seminar for Educators. $95 pre-registration required; registration deadline: June 16, 2003. 22 clock-hours for educators at no extra charge. Contact: 206-543-9606, email: seac@u.washington.edu. Downloadable description and registration form at: http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/03ssreg.pdf 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. 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