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Upcoming Events
Friday May 11, 2012
all day
https://emenuapps.ita.doc.gov/ePublic/newWebinarRegistration.jsp?SmartCode=2Q8D
Register today to attend the very special keynote speech of the President of Bulgaria on Wednesday May 16, 2012!
Title of Talk: Connecting Europe: Opportunities in Bulgaria
Europe will spend $75 Billion to upgrade its Transport, Energy and Digital Networks by 2020. As a Cohesion Country, Bulgaria will be a primary target for these resources. Learn about the tremendous opportunities this will create for U.S. business.
Agenda:
Keynote Speech: President of the Republic of Bulgaria Rosen Plevneliev
Moderator: Peter Lithgow, President, AmCham Bulgaria
Remarks on the Bulgarian U.S. Partnership, Bulgarian Ambassador to the U.S. Elena Poptodorova
Two Opportunities Not to Miss in Bulgaria, U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria James Warlick
Financing Opportunities Offered by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Daniel Berg, EBRD Director, Bulgaria
Accessing Opportunities Arising from EU-Funded Projects, Barbara Lapini, Senior Commercial Officer, U.S. Commercial Service
Opportunities and Challenges, AmCham Bulgaria
Q and A
Friday May 11, 2012
7:30-8:30 (dance lesson) 8:30-11:00pm (open floor)
Russian Center, 704 19th Ave. E, Seattle WA
Seattle Balkan Dancers invite you to join them at The Russian Community Center on Capitol Hill. Jana Rickel is teaching popular party dances from 7:30 to 8:30 pm, followed by social dance to recorded music until approximately 11 pm. The cost of the lesson, including the evening of dance, is $12 for adults. We suggest a donation of $5 for folks coming after the lesson. For more information, Call Steve Bard at for info: 425-883-0332, email (danceinfo@seattlebalkandancers.org), or visit www.SeattleBalkanDancers.org.
Saturday May 12, 2012
7:00PM-9:00PM
Seattle Latvian Community Center: 11710 Third Avenue NE Seattle, WA
Celebrate the passage of the seasons with lively Baltic dancing and singing! Enjoy the folk traditions displayed by Latvian dance groups. Dressed in lavish folk costumes, the groups dance Old Man Winter away and welcome the coming of Spring.
Wednesday May 16, 2012
8:30-10:30 am at the Columbia Tower Club. Event cost is $45, breakfast included.
Columbia Tower Club
Connecting Europe: Opportunities in Bulgaria
Europe will spend $75 Billion to upgrade its Transport, Energy and Digital Networks by 2020. As a Cohesion Country, Bulgaria will be a primary target for these resources. Learn about the tremendous opportunities this will create for U.S. business.
Keynote Speech:
President of the Republic of Bulgaria Rosen Plevneliev
· Moderator: Peter Lithgow, President, AmCham Bulgaria
· Remarks on the Bulgarian U.S. Partnership, Bulgarian Ambassador to the U.S. Elena Poptodorova
· Two Opportunities Not to Miss in Bulgaria, U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria James Warlick
· Financing Opportunities Offered by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Daniel Berg, EBRD Director, Bulgaria
· Accessing Opportunities Arising from EU-Funded Projects, Barbara Lapini, Senior Commercial Officer, U.S. Commercial Service
· Opportunities and Challenges, AmCham Bulgaria
· Q and A
This event will take place on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 8:30-10:30 am at the Columbia Tower Club. Event cost is $45, breakfast included.
Please register by May 11 to ensure a place at this important event: https://emenuapps.ita.doc.gov/ePublic/newWebinarRegistration.jsp?SmartCode=2Q8D
Thursday May 17, 2012
12:30-1:30 PM
Denny Hall 123
The book deals with the life and work of the Kazakh poet and writer Beyimbet Maylin (1894-1938), one of the many Kazakh intellectuals who perished during Stalin’s purges of 1937-1938..The author is known for his dedication to Beymbet Maylin about whom he has published several monographs.. The book under review is the culmination of the
author’s research on Beyimbet Maylin, offering many new and interesting facts. One of them deals with Maylin’s study at the Galiya Madrasa in Ufa (1914-1916). The author describes in detail the students’ life and activities at the madrasa which was attended by students from all Turkic regions.
A number of Muslims from Central Asia choose to study in Muslim educational centers in the Russian empire, such as Kazan and Ufa. Studying abroad changed them considerably. Upon their return they became adamant advocates of progress and supporters of secular education. Most of them wrote poems, plays and also novels and short stories in which they criticized their society Their works were mostly published in newspapers, a novelty in Central Asia at that time. The lives of some of these Muslim intellectuals will be discussed, based on the presenter’s research in the archives of Kazan, Ufa and Moscow in spring and summer 2011.
Saturday May 19, 2012
2:00-4:00pm
Seattle Public Library, Downtown Branch, Room Level 1, Microsoft Auditorium
Celebrate the passage of the seasons with lively Baltic dancing and singing!
Full Description Enjoy the folk traditions displayed by Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian dance groups. Dressed in lavish folk costumes, the groups dance Old Man Winter away and welcome the coming of Spring.
Each dance group have been part of the Seattle arts landscape for many years:
- Tuhandest Tuulest (a thousand winds), an Estonian folk dance group
- Lietutis, a Lithuanian folk dance group
- Trajdeksnitis, a Latvian folk dance group
Library events and programs are free and everyone is welcome. Registration is not required.
Saturday May 19, 2012
9:00 am to 5:30 pm
Denny Hall 215A
For further information please contact Ilse Cirtautas icirt@u.washington.edu
Please click here for the Program schedule
Monday May 21, 2012
7:00 pm
UW Club Lecture room
Scott Radnitz (PhD Political Science, MIT) is an assistant professor in the Jackson School of International Studies and an adjunct to the Sociology Department at the University of Washington. He teaches on the international system in the twentieth century, contemporary Central Asian politics, post-Soviet security, and failed states. He is now researching the interplay of historical narratives and identity in the Caucasus; the informal mechanisms of rule and causes of regime breakdown in post-Soviet Eurasia; and the determinants of belief in conspiracies. Starting this July he becomes the Director of the Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies. His book, Weapons of the Wealthy, was issued in 2010 by Cornell University Press.
Two decades ago, dozens of countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union set out on a complex transition away from Communism. Each nation chose a distinct path forward, and today they run the gamut from stable democracy to repressive autocracy. Based on lessons from those post-Soviet transitions, Radnitz considers the challenges and opportunities awaiting the countries touched by the Arab Spring as they embark on their own political transitions.
This lecture is free and open to the public, but registration is requested at:
www.soc.washington.edu/RSVP using the word “May 2012”
Wednesday May 23, 2012
7:00 PM
Kane Hall 120, UW Campus
Timothy Snyder is the Bird White Housum Professor of History at Yale University, specializing in the political history of central and eastern Europe. He received his B.A. from Brown University and his doctorate from the University of Oxford, where he was a British Marshall Scholar at Balliol College. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and five award- winning books:
Prof. Snyder is a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and sits on the advisory councils of the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, and other organizations.
Prof. Snyder will speak about his book Bloodlands, which won five awards including the Emerson Prize in the Humanities and the Leipzig Award for European Understanding, and has been translated into more than twenty languages. The subject of the book and the lecture is the deliberate mass murder of 14 million civilians in the lands between Berlin and Moscow, comprising today’s Poland, Ukraine, Belarus. Russia and the Baltic states, in
the years when Hitler and Stalin were both in power. He will discuss Soviet and Nazi killing policies, from famine in Ukraine through the Holocaust of the Jews, with special emphasis on understanding why the lands between Hitler and Stalin were the most dangerous place on earth.
This event is organized by the UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee, and co-sponsored by several UW programs and departments: the Ellison Center, Baltic Studies, Jackson School of International Studies, and the Simpson Center for the Humanities, as well as community organizations and individuals: Paul Raidna, Honorary Estonian consul, Jay and Jeanne Kapsi (Estonian Community), Center for Czech Education and Culture, Lithuanian American Community, and the Ukrainian Club.
Thursday May 24, 2012
12:30-1:30 PM
Denny Hall 123
The above publication will be discussed in conjunction with a course on the Central Asian Turkic Heroic Epos offered by Prof. Cirtautas during Spring Quarter 2012 The review/discussion will also include the introductory essays to the first volume of the Manas version of Sagimbay Orozbak uulu, Bishkek: “Kyrgyzstan”, 1995, pp. 6-27 (R. Z Kydyrbaeva); pp. 24-75 (S. Musaev).
Friday May 25, 2012
7:30-8:30 (dance lesson) 9:00pm-11:30pm (open floor)
Russian Center, 704 19th Ave. E, Seattle WA
Seattle Balkan Dancers features Vassil & Maria Bebelekov for our live music party tonight from approximately 9 -11:30 pm. Before the party, Jana Rickel teaches popular party dances from 7:30 - 8:30 pm. The lesson is $12, recommended addtl. donation of $10 for students who stay for the party, and donation of $15 for folks who attend the party only. This event is held at The Russian Community Center on Capitol Hill. Call Steve Bard at for info: 425-883-0332, email (danceinfo@seattlebalkandancers.org), or visit www.SeattleBalkanDancers.org.
Friday May 25, 2012
12:30-1:30 PM
Denny Hall 123
The author of this very much needed, useful book is a distinguished scholar of Uzbek literature. He provides us with short biographies of 165 Uzbek poets and writers of the 20th century. They are not listed alphabetically with their family names, but according to their age, i.e. the year of their birth. The first poets/writers introduced are the Jadids (reformers) Mahmudxo’ja Behbudiy (1875-1919) and Abdulla Avloniy (1878- 1934). In addition to providing essential data about each of the 165 poets and writers, listing their works (titles and years of publication), the author also appraises their contributions to Uzbek literature. Indeed, the book needs to be republished and translated into English.
Sunday May 27, 2012
11:30am- 12pm
Seattle Center Grounds, Exhibition Hall, International Stage
Trejdeksnitis was started by Latvian immigrants in 1962, and has performed at various Latvian Song and Dance Festivals all over the US and Canada, and occasionally in Latvia, ever since. The group regularly performs at Yulefest at the Nordic Heritage Museum.
Thursday May 31, 2012
4:30 pm
UW Club Conference Room
Regine A. Spector holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley (2009) and a B.A. and M.A. in International Relations and International Policy Studies from Stanford University. Regine studies political economy, development, and politics in Eurasia, and is currently completing a book manuscript on the social and political underpinnings of markets and property in the region through an empirical study of bazaars in Kyrgyzstan. Her research has appeared in Problems of Post-Communism, Post-Soviet Affairs, and The Washington Quarterly.
Regine currently teaches courses on comparative politics, development, and Eurasian politics at Smith College and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is also the coordinator in 2011-2012 of a new Central Eurasian Studies Speaker Series at the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute in Washington, D.C., where she was previously a visiting research scholar.
Thursday May 31, 2012
4:30 pm
UW Club Conference Room
Regine A. Spector holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley (2009) and a B.A. and M.A. in International Relations and International Policy Studies from Stanford University. Regine studies political economy, development, and politics in Eurasia, and is currently completing a book manuscript on the social and political underpinnings of markets and property in the region through an empirical study of bazaars in Kyrgyzstan. Her research has appeared in Problems of Post-Communism, Post-Soviet Affairs, and The Washington Quarterly.
Regine currently teaches courses on comparative politics, development, and Eurasian politics at Smith College and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is also the coordinator in 2011-2012 of a new Central Eurasian Studies Speaker Series at the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute in Washington, D.C., where she was previously a visiting research scholar.
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