From jsis@u.washington.edu Mon Nov 15 08:58:30 2004 Received: from mxi2.u.washington.edu (mxi2.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.12]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.13.1+UW04.08/8.13.1+UW04.08) with ESMTP id iAFGwTOt015524 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:58:29 -0800 Received: from mxout1.cac.washington.edu (mxout1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.134]) by mxi2.u.washington.edu (8.13.1+UW04.08/8.13.1+UW04.09) with ESMTP id iAFGwRK6003147 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:58:28 -0800 Received: from mailhost1.u.washington.edu (mailhost1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.141]) by mxout1.cac.washington.edu (8.13.1+UW04.08/8.13.1+UW04.09) with ESMTP id iAFGwRhQ016984 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:58:27 -0800 Received: from BEVERLYW (D-128-95-200-98.dhcp4.washington.edu [128.95.200.98]) by mailhost1.u.washington.edu (8.13.1+UW04.08/8.13.1+UW04.08) with SMTP id iAFGwRQj014527 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:58:27 -0800 Message-ID: <01ba01c4cb34$537263c0$62c85f80@jsis.washington.edu> From: "Jackson School of International Studies" To: "JSIS - Calendar" Subject: The Jackson School Calendar (plain text) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:58:26 -0800 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_P5 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CTYPE_CHARSET_QUOTED 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __FRAUD_419_BADTHINGS 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_MSMAIL_PRI 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __HAS_X_PRIORITY 0, __KNOWN_SPAMMER_ADDRESS_5 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' the JACKSON SCHOOL CALENDAR November 15, 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 November 16 What's Charitable about Ottoman Charity? Mourning the Past: Violence and Public Sphere in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia. Film: Flowers and the Wall November 17 FIUTS CulturalFest: Celebrate our World 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 Collective Agriculture and Fertility Decline in Rural China, 1965-95 November 19-24 State of Art Slovenian Film, Art, Music and Literature Festival. Northwest Film Forum November 21 Paradise Lost Governing With Judges: Constitutional Politics in Europe November 22 Radical Sheik and Islamic Activism in Europe and Beyond. 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 6 Understanding Israeli Strategy: A Palestinian Persective 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 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 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 16 Film and Lecture Series: Mourning the Past: Violence and Public Sphere in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia. Film: Flowers and the Wall. 7:00 PM-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 Flowers and the Wall is directed by Atnike Nova Sigiro Color, 35 mins, 2004, Indonesian with English subtitles. This film documents the struggle for justice by victims of New Order violence. Facilitated by Elsam, a human rights organization, the victims launch a long and tiring effort to establish a network among victims of different cases of human rights abuse, from those who were imprisoned in 1965-1966 to the families of students who were killed during the student demonstrations in 1997-1998. The film depicts this endeavor as they travel across the country to identify, make a connection with, and talk to fellow victims of New Order violence. The initiative peaks when Elsam and the victims successfully organized a National Gathering of Victims of New Order Violence in 2003. This film shows how this emotional and unprecedented event represents the continuous and painstaking effort of violence to hold the State accountable for various past human rights abuses. Mourning the Past, launches a series of film screenings and discussions about violence, testimony, and the Indonesian public sphere. The Indonesian public has recently turned to documentary films as one way to deal with the legacy of past violence. 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#November_2004 The series is free and open to the public November 17 FIUTS CulturalFest: Celebrate our World. 12:00-6:00 PM, HUB West Ballroom. CulturalFest is an annual event where the international community at the UW will display their culture and tradition. There will be booths representing each country or region and a cultural talent show will follow. Following are details of the event. Time: Booths: 12:00-4:00 PM, Talent show: 4:00-6:00 PM. Admission: FREE! For more info, email Aimi aimisas@u.washington.edu or Katie info@fiuts.org 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 Collective Agriculture and Fertility Decline in Rural China, 1965-95. 12:30-2:00 PM, Denny Hall, Room 401. Speaker: Stevan Harrell, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington (Co-Authors: Han Hua and Zhou Yingying. Sponsor: CSDE Colloquium Series Fall 2004. For more information, contact csde@u.washington.edu, (206) 616-7743. 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 November 22 Radical Sheik and Islamic Activism in Europe and Beyond. 12:30-2:00 PM, 110-C Savery Hall. Speaker: Dr. Charles Kurzman. Dr. Kurzman is a professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a specialist in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. Why are there so few Islamist terrorists? The question may sound absurd, but it is worth asking why a billion Muslims have generated such a small number of "martyrs." This presentation explores one approach to this issue: the possibility that much of the Islamists' support comes in the form of "radical chic" that does not translate from fashion statement to political action. Sponsor: the Center for West European Studies. For more information call (206) 543-1675 or email cwes@u.washington.edu November 30 Governing With Judges: Constitutional Politics in Europe. 12:30-2:00 PM, the Petersen Room 4th Floor Allen Library. Speaker: Dr. Alec Stone Sweet. Dr. Stone Sweet, a UW Alum, is from the Yale Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. Sponsors: the Center for West Eueopean Studies. For additional information, call (206) 543-1675 or email cwes@u.washington.edu. 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 6 Understanding Israeli Strategy: A Palestinian Persective. 7:00 PM, 220 Kane Hall. Speaker: Michael Tarazi, legal adviser to the Palestine Liberation Organization. Co-sponsored by Palestine Solidarity Committee, Voices of Palestine, Arab Student Union, Friends of Sabeel, Muslim Student Association, Palestine Concerns Group, Middle East Center. Info: 206-633-1086. 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. 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