From jsis@u.washington.edu Fri May 2 15:19:41 2003 Received: from mxu5.u.washington.edu (mxu5.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.164]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW03.04/8.12.1+UW03.02) with ESMTP id h42MJe1M063470 for ; Fri, 2 May 2003 15:19:40 -0700 Received: from mxout2.cac.washington.edu (mxout2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.4]) by mxu5.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW03.04/8.12.1+UW03.02) with ESMTP id h42MJbvx023581 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 2 May 2003 15:19:37 -0700 Received: from mailhost1.u.washington.edu (mailhost1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.141]) by mxout2.cac.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW03.04/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h42MJag9004401 for ; Fri, 2 May 2003 15:19:36 -0700 Received: from reception (D-128-95-200-210.dhcp4.washington.edu [128.95.200.210]) by mailhost1.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW03.04/8.12.1+UW02.12) with SMTP id h42MJau6015407 for ; Fri, 2 May 2003 15:19:36 -0700 Message-ID: <019f01c310f8$e9aeb2a0$d2c85f80@reception> From: "Jackson School of International Studies" To: "JSIS - Calendar" Subject: the JACKSON SCHOOL CALENDAR Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 15:19:35 -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 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=XXXXIIIII, Probability=45%, Report="CALL_FREE, CHECK_OR_MONEY_ORDER, CLICK_BELOW, NO_COST, SPAM_PHRASE_01_02, USER_AGENT_OE, WHILE_SUPPLIES, __EVITE_CTYPE, __HAS_MIMEOLE, __HAS_MSMAIL_PRI, __HAS_OUTLOOK_IN_MAILER, __HAS_X_MAILER, __HAS_X_PRIORITY" the JACKSON SCHOOL CALENDAR May 2, 2003 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. Click here to receive the JSIS Calendar by email May 2 Broadway to Hollywood: Fashioning the American Girl Critical Cooperation: Why does democracy survive in "least likely cases" and fail in "most likely cases?" Out of the Ghetto: Living Inside Walls, Crossing Invisible Frontiers NOT OK: Rape as a Weapon of War. Power of the Word May 3 The Origin of Shadow Play NOT OK: Rape as a Weapon of War, Amnesty International May 5 Critical Pacific Islander Cultures Root Causes of Terror and Anti-Americanism Jewish Renewal in the American Spiritual Marketplace May 5, 7, 12 Spirituality in America; the Jewish Renewal Movement May 6 One year after the Gujarat Genocide Death, Memory, and Building: The Non-Cremation of a Cambodian Monk The Art of the Japanese Tattoo from Kuniyoshi to Longfellow Twin Towers, Two Pillars: Trans-Atlantic Relations since 9-11 Old Money: A short History of Currency Classical Antiquity May 7 Ambassador Thomas S. Foley on The Changing Dynamics of U.S. - Japan Relations Politics in Canada Today: An Uncertain Future Gender and Jewish Renewal May 8 US Foreign Policy in the Middle East Differences on Foreign Policy: a West European Perspective May 9 The Atlantic Alliance in Crisis: From September 11 to Iraq Transnationalism, the State, and the Extra-territorial Citizen Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals The Reversal of the Japanese Economy and the Challenge to the Japanese Studies A Conversation with Ambassador Darryl Johnson Full Listings 2003 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 2 NOT OK: Rape as a Weapon of War. POWER OF THE WORD. 7:30-10:00 PM, Cafe Allegro (The College Inn). Spoken Word & Open Mic featuring talented local poets! Co-sponsored by the Anti-War Arts Festival. May 3 NOT OK: Rape as a Weapon of War 4:00-5:30 PM, Native Room, Ethnic Cultural Center. Workshops by: Equality Now & Amnesty International. Get an in-depth understanding of Amnesty & Equality Now's focal campaigns. 6:30-8:00 PM, 110 Kane Hall. NOT OK: Rape as a Weapon of War. Elizabeth Jennings from Amnesty International USA and Taina Bien-Aime from Equality Now will address the question "What can we do about rape as a war crime?" Followed by Q&A session. Free for UW students, $3 for attendees without UW ID. 8:15-9:30pm, Red Square: Candle Light Vigil. Speak out against rape as a war crime! Light a candle, sign our poster, voice your thoughts. *Check out our displays in HUB Art Gallery and HUB Lawn during the week.* (Schedule also available at: http://students.washington.edu/mansi/rawc/) 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. Reception to follow. Speakers: Gary Pak, Creative Writing, U of Hawaii; Amy Stillman, American Culture, U of Michigan. The dialogue to occur in this program in the series is over relations between the categories, "Asian American Studies" and "Pacific Islander Studies," in the field of Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies today. Are Local Asian Americans in Hawai'i colonizers? Does Native Hawaiian culture have any power, agency, and centrality today, in relation to Local, multiethnic culture in Hawai'i? Gary Pak, on the faculty of Creative Writing at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and author of The Watcher of Waipuna and Other Stories and A Ricepaper Airplane, critiques a theory that immigrant groups, especially those who originated in Asia who arrived around 1900 to work on plantations, are "settlers" and, through their descendants, will always be settlers in Hawai`i. Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman, an Associate Professor of Music and American Culture and the Director of the Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is the author of Sacred Hula: The Historical Hula 'Ala'apapa published by Bishop Museum (1998), and numerous articles on Hawaiian music and hula in academic journals including Ethnomusicology, Hawaiian Journal of History, Journal of American Folklore, and Yearbook for Traditional Music. Professor Stillman will discuss how marginalizing tactics to discount Pacific Islanders on grounds of statistical insignificance can be countered through research that documents the deeply entangled histories of Pacific Islanders, Europeans and Americans, Asians, and Native Americans. This year-long series will reflect on the intellectual foundations and transformations of Asian American Studies, an interdisciplinary field that has grown tremendously over the past three decades. In light of changing political contexts and constituencies as well as methods of critical inquiry, how might we recast our ways of experiencing, thinking, and representing Asian American history and cultural production? Series sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Hilen Endowment for American Literature and Culture, the Department of History, the Department of American Ethnic Studies, the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, and the Institute for Transnational Studies. 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. 7:30 PM, 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. Town Hall is located at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca) 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. 7:00 PM, 125 Thomson Hall. 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 Spring Business Card Exchange. Co-sponsored by the European Union Center and the Council of European Chambers of Commerce. 6:00-8:30 PM, the Walker-Ames Auditorium, Kane Hall. Speaker: John T.S. Keeler, Director of the European Union Center and Chair of French and Italian, will give a talk entitled, Twin Towers, Two Pillars: Trans-Atlantic Relations since 9-11, and following that attendees will have a chance to network and chat. Mediterranean hors d'oeuvres and refreshments will be served. Pre-registration is required. Registration is $10 per person; checks should be made payable to the University of Washington and sent to the EU Center of Seattle, Box 353650, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195. For more information, please contact the EU Center at 206-616-2415 or euc@u.washington.edu. 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, 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 8 Differences on Foreign Policy: a West European Perspective. Speakers: Jolyon Howorth (University of Bath, UK) and Vivien Schmidt (Boston University). Soundbridge Symphony Music Discovery Center, Benaroya Hall, 200 University Street, Seattle downtown. For more information contact the World Affairs Council at 206-441-5910. 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 Transnationalism, the State, and the Extra-territorial Citizen. 2:00-4:00 PM, 208J Gould Hall. Speaker: Michael Peter Smith, Ph.D. (University of California at Davis). Public Spaces & the Public Sphere: Multidisciplinary Inquiries into Urban Change in the Asia Pacific Lecture series May 9 Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals. Noon, 40 Smith Hall. Speaker: Gary Bass, Assistant Professor, Princeton University. Discussion Forum. Sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Colloquium on International Security, JSIS/IGRSS. For info, contact Yuko Kawato at ykawato@u.washington.edu 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. 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 Gender and Empire in the Ottoman Space, 1908-14. 3:30-5:00 PM, Allen Library Auditorium. Speaker: Palmira Brummett, Professor of History, University of Tennesse-Knoxville. Sponsored by the Middle East Center. The Middle East Center's sponsorship of this event does not imply that the Center endorses the content of the event. Contact: . 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 Oryx and Crake, Reading & Conversation. 7:00 PM, 130 Kane Hall. Speaker/Author: Margaret Atwood. The distinguished author, recipient of the 2000 Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin, talks about her compelling new novel, a prescient and all too likely scenario of our planet, left devastated in the wake of ecological and scientific disaster. The Wall Street Journal says, "There's a steely quality to Ms. Atwood's writing that's a bit scary, but also exhilarating: no one gets away with anything." And from the Houston Chronicle: "Atwood takes many trends which exist today and stretches them to their logical and chilling conclusions." Ticket Required - tickets available April 15 at all UW bookstore locations, while supplies last. 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 Environment in the 21st Century: Global and Chinese Perspectives. 12:30--2:00 PM, 125 Thomson Hall. Speaker: Vaclav Smil, Distinguished Professor of Geography, University of Manitoba, Canada. Sponsor: Program on the Environment and China Studies Program/JSIS. Info: 543-4391 May 16 The Worldwide Web of Commerce - 2003 Annual International Law Institute. Registration 7:30 AM, Seminar Start Time: 8:25 AM., The Renaissance Madison, Seattle. Featuring Bradford L. Smith, Senior VP and General Counsel, Microsoft. 6.75 CLE credits for Washington attorneys. For more information, please see: http://www.wsba.org/cle/seminars/03837.htm Please note that advance registration must be received at least five working days before the seminar. You can also register for seminars on-site; we recommend calling the WSBA Service Center at 800-945-WSBA or 206-443-WSBA in advance to check availability. 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 16 Rafal Olbinski. 50 Years of Polish at the UW: Celebrating Polish-American Heritage. 7:00 PM, Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall. Rafal Olbinski's illustrations have appeared in many international journals and his paintings have been sought out by numerous art collectors. It has been said that his artwork is rich in poetic humor and that he has the gift of drawing the viewer into another world. Mr. Olbinski's work will be on display at Suzzallo Library at the University of Washington campus May 3-30, 2003. The exhibition gathers about 40 of his excellent posters from different periods and of different subjects. Besides a section devoted to his opera works, it will feature theatre, movie, exhibition and festival posters, as well as art commissioned by commercial companies and the City of New York. Reception to follow. Sponsored by REECAS/JSIS and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature. May 17 The Fifteenth Annual Nicholas Poppe Symposium on Inner/Central Asian Studies. 8:30 AM -6:00 PM, Rooms 215 and 215A, Denny Hall. This one-day symposium will include presentations from students and faculty pertaining to Inner and Central Asia. Organized by the UW Central Asian Studies Group (subgroups: Uzbek Circle and Kazakh and Kirghiz Studies Group). Sponsored by The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization; REECAS/JSIS 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 20 The Old and New Eastern Europe: Diverging Paths of Postcommunist Transformations. 3:30-5:00 PM, 317 Thomson Hall. Speaker: Grzegorz Ekiert, Professor of Government and Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard University. His teaching and research interests focus on comparative politics, regime change and democratization, civil society and social movements, and East European politics and societies. He is the author of The State Against Society: Political Crises and Their Aftermath in East Central Europe (1996), Rebellious Civil Society: Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland with J. Kubik (1999) and Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule, co-edited with UW's own S. Hanson (2003). His papers have appeared in British Journal of Political Science, German Politics and Society, Studies in Comparative Communism, Research on Democracy and Society, Studia Polityczne, Studia Socjologiczne, Encuentro, East European Politics and Societies, Communist and Post-communist Studies, and World Politics, as well as in several edited volumes. He is also senior scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. At CES, Eckiert chairs the Workshop on East European Politics (WEEP) and is the editor of the Working Paper Series on Central and Eastern Europe. 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 Korean Immigration to the U.S. (1903-2003) and its effect on U.S. and Japanese Policy toward Late Choson Korea. 3:30-5:00, 317 Thomson Hall. Speaker: Dr. Wayne Patterson, Department of History, St. Norbert College. Sponsor: Korea Studies Program/JSIS. Info: 543-4391. 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 Review of Recent Publications on/in Kyrgyzstan: Abdldajan Akmataliev, Tandalgan garmalarnn jnag, 2. vol.: Adabiyat taanuu, Bishkek, 1998. 12:30-1:30 p.m., 215 Denny Hall. Speaker: Ilse Cirtautas is a Professor in the department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization. Sponsored by the Central Asian Studies Group, REECAS. May 22 >From Zanzibar to Shanghai: Sikhs and the Policing of the Empire. 3:30 PM, 226 Communications Bldg. 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 24 Singing Brodsky's Poetry. 7:00 PM, 120 Smith Hall. Please come enjoy the poetry of Joseph Brodsky set to music and performed by Sergei Zrazhevski. Sergei's name is gaining ever more popularity in the Seattle area among music lovers. He offers a personal and highly original approach to interpreting poetry in musical terms, combined with an obvious vocal talent. Sergei will be accompanied by Vidas Svagdis, an accomplished professional guitarist. The concert will be hosted in English by Larissa Kulinich, Ph.D., with songs performed both in Russian and in English from Larissa's translations. Tickets available at the door: $12 for general public, $6 for students. For more information, please contact (206) 543-6848. Sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Northwest Translators and Interpreters Society and REECAS. May 28 International Updates 2003: Latin American Studies Race and Gender Relations in Latin America: Lessons for the United States. 5:30-8:30 PM, Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. Speaker: Jonathan Warren, Latin American Studies 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, no extra charge for K-12 instructors. The International Updates Dinner-Lecture Series is sponsored by all the outreach centers of the Jackson School of International Studies and the Global Business Center. For registration form and more information, call (206) 543-4800 or e-mail sascuw@u.washington.edu May 29 Review of Recent Publications on/in Kazakhstan: Selected Publications on/by Muxtar Auezov (1897-1961). 12:30-1:30 PM, 215 Denny Hall. Speaker: Ilse Cirtautas is a Professor in the department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization. Sponsored by the Central Asian Studies Group and REECAS 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 May 30 50 Years of Polish at the UW: Celebrating Polish-American Heritage. Transatlantic Relations and International Security: the Poland Factor. 7:00 PM, Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall. Speaker: His Excellency Ambassador of the Republic of Poland, Przemyslaw Grudzinski. His Excellency Ambassador of the Republic of Poland Przemyslaw Grudzinski, will visit the University of Washington on May 30th. Before receiving his credentials in 2000, he taught at the Institute of History at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. He has held numerous fellowships and teaching positions in the U.S. and Europe. Ambassador Grudzinski was an early member of Solidarity, and was involved in the opposition publications. In the 1990s he served as an advisor to the Deputy Minister of National Defense and as Undersecretary of State. Reception to follow. Sponsors: Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, REECAS/JSIS, Simpson Center for the Humanities, College of Arts & Sciences Exchange Program. 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 5 Tailor-made: Costume, Creativity and Communication in Hindi Film. 3:30 PM, 226 Communications Building. Speaker: Clare Wilkinson-Weber, Washington State University, Vancouver. . Sponsored by the South Asia Center 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 11 Putin's Russia in Comparative Perspective. 3:30-5:00 PM, 317 Thomson Hall. Speaker: Daniel Treisman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his B.A. from Oxford University in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, and his Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard in 1995. He has published widely on Russian politics and comparative political economy in various academic journals (The American Political Science Review, World Politics, The British Journal of Political Science, The American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Economics and Politics, Journal of Public Economics) as well as policy and opinion journals (Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy). He has written two books, After the Deluge: Regional Crises and Political Consolidation in Russia (University of Michigan Press, 1999) and Without a Map: Political Tactics and Economic Reform in Russia, co-authored with Andrei Shleifer (MIT Press, 2000), and is currently working on a book on political decentralization, supported by the Guggenheim Foundation and the German Marshall Fund. Sponsor: REECAS/JSIS 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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