May 2012 | June 2012 | archive and advance search

Jackson School Calendar of Events

This Week

All Events

David Bachman is a professor in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, where he teaches on Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy. He served as the associate director of the School from 2003 to 2010, chair of the China Studies Program from 1992 to 2002, and is an adjunct professor of Political Science. Prior to coming to the University of Washington in 1991, he taught at Stanford and Princeton. He has written 2 books and coedited another, and published 50 articles on Chinese politics and foreign policy. He served as President of the Washington State China Relations Council in 2005, and on its executive committee for 10 years. He also served as Chair of the China Scholar Selection Committee, Fulbright Fellowships, Council on International Educational Exchanges, 2003-2005. He is currently working on a book on the history of China’s defense industries and their role in the Chinese political economy.

The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program is inviting submissions to its First Annual UW-LACS Undergraduate Essay Competition for current or recent essays (written during 2011-2012 school year). The winning essay writer will receive a special prize and be recognized at the Jackson School graduation. In addition, the winning essay will also be featured on our website. Students from all three UW campuses are eligible to apply.

The subject of the essay should fall within the field of Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Please submit your essay to lasuw@uw.edu by May 15, 2012 with the subject line: Essay Competition - 2012, your last name.

Essays should be pasted into the body of the email and attached as a Word document.

We look forward to your submissions!

Please go to the event website to register for this event
Cost: Member: $10.00, Non-member: $15.00, Student: $10.00

“Human Rights” is defined by Merriam-Webster Dictionary as “rights regarded as belonging fundamentally to all persons.” Hillary Clinton stated in her December 6, 2011 remarks in recognition of International Human Rights Day that one of the remaining human rights challenges of our time is the unequal treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. While our headlines in Washington and the United States tell us of struggles to equalize rights, such as marriage and the treatment of youth, the issue is one that spans borders. Certain countries, such as Argentina and South Africa, have legally protected the rights of gays. Other countries, like Uganda, do not have such protections in place, and LGBT people can face anything from harassment to death. What is being done to protect the rights of these people, and what can we do from afar to express our values in this situation?

The World Affairs Council presents Jessica Stern, Program Director of the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission, and Dr. Kapya Kaoma, Project Director at Political Research Associates, for a conversation on the international perspective on the topic of gay rights as human rights. The Q&A will be moderated by Charlene Strong, Washington State Human Rights Commissioner and Co-Editor of The Seattle Lesbian.
Click here to register!


Speakers:
Jessica Stern, Program Director at the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission, is an advocate, researcher, and trainer working for the promotion of human rights internationally. As the first LGBT human rights researcher at Human Rights Watch, she conducted fact-finding investigations and advocacy around sexual orientation and gender identity in countries including Iran, Kyrgyzstan, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States. As a Ralph Bunche Fellow at Amnesty International, she spearheaded anti-racism initiatives and documented police brutality. She was a founding collective member of Bluestockings, which was New York’s only women’s bookstore. She has campaigned extensively for women’s rights, LGBT rights, and economic justice with the Center for Constitutional Rights, Control Ciudadano, the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, and the Urban Justice Center. She holds a masters degree in human rights from the London School of Economics. She is a member of the board of directors of Queers for Economic Justice and an advisor to the New York Women’s Foundation.

Dr. Kapya John Kaoma is a Project Director at Political Research Associates, and an ordained Anglican with a particular interest in human rights, ecological ethics and mission. A former dean of St. John’s Cathedral and lecturer at Africa University in Mutare, Zimbabwe and academic dean of St. John’s Anglican Seminary in Kitwe, Zambia, Dr. Kaoma produced a report entitled “Globalizing the Culture Wars: U.S. Conservatives, African Churches, and Homophobia” that prompted invitations to testify before the United States Congress and the United Nations. He represented the Anglican Communion at the Edinburgh 2010 conference, presenting a paper on mission and ecology. He is currently the Rector of Christ Church, Hyde Park, MA and a Visiting Researcher at Boston University Center for Global Christianity and Mission. He received his doctorate in Ethics from Boston University.

Moderator:
Charlene Strong was appointed by Gov. Christine Gregoire in 2007 as the Washington State Human Rights Commissioner. Her work with the Washington State legislature on behalf of marriage equality is chronicled in her award-winning documentary, for my wife…

In 2011, Charlene was booked on a college tour visiting no less than 20 U.S. universities to speak to students, staff and special guests about the importance and immediacy of equality in our nation and worldwide. In addition to her work as a public speaker, Charlene Strong is the co-editor of the largely popular LGBT online magazine The Seattle Lesbian. In just over one year alone, The Seattle Lesbian has reached more than one million readers globally. The magazine is currently undergoing expansion options into other markets.

An activist is usually inspired to illicit change within her community when a life-altering experience occurs. For Charlene, it was when her wife, Kate Fleming, perished in a flash flood in 2006. Charlene was denied the right to see her in the hospital. She realized then that she had two options: become a victim or fight for her life – quite literally. She inevitably chose the latter. In 2010, her extremely personal fight led her to the White House to meet with President Barack Obama, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and the president of the SEIU, the largest nurses’ union in the nation.

Prior to her partner’s death, Charlene worked with the Human Society’s Pet Project, which provided HIV/AIDS patients with help and care for their pets. She designed and managed their veterinary clinic to insure pet care and wellness visits and implemented an intake committee to access candidate needs. She also worked with the Archdiocese of Seattle on an LGBT task force dedicated to improving acceptance and understanding within the Archdiocese of LGBT parishioners.

Note: The main program will be preceded by a Community Meet & Greet, 6:00 – 7:00 p.m., in the Celebration Hall Foyer. This will be an opportunity to network, get to know the work of local organizations that will be tabling, and to meet our speakers and moderator. If you are an organization interested in sponsoring the event and/or tabling during the Community Meet & Greet, please email Christina Ygona at cygona@world-affairs.org.

Speaker: Ellis Goldberg is a Professor of Political Science and a specializing in Middle East politics. He is a 2012-13 John S. Guggenheim Fellow. His current research focuses on the the Arab Spring, in particular Egypt's emerging democratic institutions. He is also the author of the blog "Nisralnasr: Occasional Thoughts on Middle Eastern and US Politics."

Part of the 9/11+ten Lecture Series.

Reception open to the public in Kane Hall, Walker Ames Room to follow the presentation.

May 15—Staged reading of Joshua Sobol’s plays in collaboration with UW School of Drama—7 p.m.; Jones Playhouse Theatre

Diana Taylor is Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at New York University. She is the author of Theatre of Crisis: Drama and Politics in Latin America (1991), Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina's 'Dirty War' (1997), and The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas (2003). Taylor, who received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the UW, is the recipient of numerous awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005-6. She is also founding Director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, an organization that has played a ground-breaking role in promoting collaborative research among literary scholars, graduate students, and theatre and performance practitioners throughout the Americas.

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

The Chinese Communist Party has utilized mass media as conduits for regime propaganda since the founding of the People’s Republic. Yet media commercialization and the popularization of the Internet have dramatically altered media operations and news content in the Reform Period (1978-present). State propaganda has been “repackaged” to increase its appeal with mass audiences, while millions of Chinese “netizens” (wangmin) express dissent via blogs and microblogs (weibo), and participate in online and offline activism. The interaction between media and politics thus provides an excellent window for observing power relations in Chinese society. Despite the ongoing transformation of political communication in China, researchers have only recently begun to focus on the effects of media on public opinion, social movements, and support for Communist Party rule. In his talk, Jackson School Visiting Scholar Ashley Esarey, surveys scholarship on the interconnections between Chinese media and political life and identifies promising areas of current and future research.

RSVP to snodgras@uw.edu

Professor Emeritus Frank F. Conlon taught history, international studies and comparative religion at the University of Washington from 1968 to 2002. An acknowledged authority in the field of South Asian history, Professor’s Conlon’s book, A caste in a changing world : the Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmans, 1700-1935, has won critical acclaim. Professor Conlon was the Director of the South Asia Center at UW for 12 years and played a key role in establishing the South Asia MA degree and the undergraduate South Asia track at the Jackson School of International Studies. He was formerly the President of H-Net and is well known in his continuing volunteer work as an editor for H-ASIA, the interdisciplinary Asian Studies discussion list which he co-founded in 1994. Professor Conlon continues to have an active research agenda and is working on multiple projects including bringing the story of the Chitrapur Saraswat’s up to the present and a history of Bombay.

The Frank F. Conlon Endowed Fellowship in South Asian Studies honors Professor Conlon’s contributions as a memorable teacher, who “linked the everyday details of the lives of South Asians to a broad idea of “civilization” as a dynamic and changing phenomenon that shapes human lives and is shaped by human agency” and as a devoted educator, “who inspired his students to appreciate their learning about the history and culture of this vital area of the world, both for its inherent importance and as a mirror to a better understanding of their own culture and human legacies”. The fellowship is funded by generous donations from Ann and Harry Pryde, Marc H. Pryde, Natalie A. Pryde, and Frank and Joan Conlon.

Please join us in welcoming Professor Júlio Emílio Diniz-Pereira, Ph.D., who will be giving a presentation on:

Thursday May 17, 2012
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Thomson 317

Title: The Impact of the Landless Workers Movement on the Development of Brazilian Activist Educators' Identities

Biography: Júlio Diniz is an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. He received his Ph.D. in 2004 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Curriculum and Instruction. His major professional interests focus on sociology of curriculum and teacher education, in general, and, more specifically, on critical theory and teacher education for cultural diversity and social justice. Professor Diniz is the Editor of a Book Series called Docência (Teaching) at Autentica Publisher in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He is also the Editor of Formação Docente – Revista Brasileira de Pesquisa sobre Formação de Professores (Brazilian Journal of Research on Teacher Education). Professor Diniz-Pereira is currently a Visiting Associate Professor at University of Washington (2011-2012).

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.

Maternal Health in South Asia: Factors influencing Care-seeking and Care Provision

This lecture is part of the Maternal, Child, and Reproductive Health: Focus on South Asia series. Lectures will bring together Department of Global Health faculty, researchers from institutions inside and outside of the University of Washington, and visiting scholars who will introduce their interdisciplinary, global perspectives and expertise in this topic area with a focus on research and experience in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India.

This lecture is free and open to the public.

Directions:
The RR wing is located near the Plaza Café in the UW Medical Center. The room is located on the 1st floor near the BB elevators (look for signs directing you to the RR wing). If you enter the building from Pacific, you enter on the 3rd floor, which can be confusing. You will need to take the elevators down to the 1st floor to get to room 134.

Devastated by the 3/11 multi-fold disaster, fishing communities in northeastern Japan have faced new tests intimately connected to Japan’s earlier coastal modernization project. The earthquake and tsunami seriously damaged the fishing ports, and radioactive contamination of the coastal waters has rendered some of the fish unsalable. This presentation explores the production of risk by coastal Japan’s postwar modernization, and traces how radiation unleashed from the crippled nuclear reactors has physically and conceptually traveled through ocean currents, fish consumption, and media in post-Fukushima Japan.
Satsuki Takahashi (PhD, Anthropology, Rutgers University, 2010) is currently a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. Based on her dissertation and ongoing NSF RAPID-funded follow-up research, she is currently preparing a book manuscript on “unending modernization,” human-ocean relations, and discourses of survival in pre- and post-3/11 Japan.

The collapse of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and subsequent conquest of China by semi-nomadic Manchu tribesmen from northeast of the Great Wall engendered some of the most traumatic events in Chinese history. This wrenching era also spurred an enormous outpouring of creative energy as many former Ming subjects turned to the arts to express their loyalty to the noble but doomed cause of Ming restoration and to assert their defiance and moral virtue. The talk will use landscape paintings and calligraphy to highlight the intensely personal styles created by the leading artists of that time.

Currently the Douglas Dillon Curator for Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, Maxwell K. Hearn, began working at the Metropolitan Museum in curatorial assistant (1971 to 1974) and research associate (1977) positions. Over the following years, he served as Assistant Curator (1979-84), Associate Curator (1984-92), and Curator (1993-2004), and became the Douglas Dillon Curator in 2005. He received his undergraduate degree in art history from Yale University and his Ph.D. from Princeton University.

At the Museum, he has helped oversee the expansion of the collection of Chinese art as well as major additions to many permanent gallery spaces, including the Astor Chinese Garden Court and the Douglas Dillon Galleries, both completed in 1981, and the renovated and expanded galleries for Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, which opened in May 1997. He has also been curator of a large number of exhibitions and installations including, in recent years, The Artist as Collector: Masterpieces of Chinese Painting from the C. C. Wang Family Collection, 1999; The World of Scholars' Rocks: Gardens, Studios, and Painting, 2000; The Embodied Image: Chinese Calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection, 2000; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Chinese Paintings from the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001; When the Manchus Ruled China: Painting under the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), 2002; The Douglas Dillon Legacy: Chinese Painting for the Metropolitan Museum, 2004; Art of the Brush: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 2005; Bridging East and West: The Chinese Diaspora and Lin Yutang, 2007; Anatomy of a Masterpiece: How to Read Chinese Paintings, 2008; Landscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui (1632-1717), 2008; Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799), 2009; Mastering the Art of Chinese Painting: Xie Zhiliu (1910-1997), 2010; and The Yuan Revolution: Art and Dynastic Change, 2010.

He has authored a wide range of catalogues and catalogue essays, articles, symposium presentations, and lectures at more than 40 institutions, as well as graduate and undergraduate seminars on Chinese painting given at Yale, Princeton, and Columbia universities, and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.

Isabela Mares (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1999) is Associate Professor of Political Science. Her research and teaching interests include comparative political economy and comparative social policy. She is the author of The Politics of Social Risk: Business and Welfare State Development (Cambridge University Press 2003), which won the Gregory Luebbert Award of the American Political Science Association for the best book in comparative politics. Her book Taxation, Wage Bargaining and Unemployment (Cambridge University Press, 2006) explores the consequences of the growth of the fiscal burden on employment outcomes in advanced industrialized economies. Professor Mares is currently writing a book titled The Great Divergence in Social Protection, which examines health and pension reforms in Latin America and East Asia. Prior to joining the Columbia Political Science Department in 2006, Professor Mares was Assistant and then Associate Professor of Political Science at Stanford University.

Our work explores the legacy of the eighteenth century poet, Vali Dakhani, most often described as the originator of Urdu/Rekhta poetry. While widely acknowledged as one of the primary creators of Urdu, both in his time and ours, Vali's literary merits and influence have remained quite controversial. Our presentation will discuss the origins of this debate in eighteenth-century Persian tazkiras and contextualize the image of Vali presented within such Persian sources with the literary creativity his work inspired among later poets. Vali's legacy, we argue, offers new ways to think about the engagement between Persian and the emerging vernacular literary traditions of the late Mughal period. Documents in Persian and Urdu, along with our translations will be available on catalyst by May 11 :https://catalyst.uw.edu/workspace/pdhavan/30110/

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.

For further information please contact Ilse Cirtautas  icirt@u.washington.edu

Please click here for the Program schedule

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”

Join us for a special presentation about mergers and acquisitions by Asian companies in the Pacific Northwest. Inbound M&A activity is increasing from Asian investors, and our guest speaker will offer insights about what that means for our region. We will also have a lively discussion of the news events and issues making an impact here and across the Pacific.

Paul Louie, Managing Director at Cascadia Capital, will discuss market trends and the M&A process involving Japanese, Chinese and other Asian acquirers; offer insights into why Chinese companies are missing opportunities; and present case studies of successful M&A deals.

Cost: $10 Please register in advance through Meetup:

http://www.meetup.com/AsiaBusinessForum/events/55010982/

Light snacks and drinks will be provided.

Asia Business Forum’s mission is to create a forum for people in the Greater Seattle Area who are engaged in work related to Asia or interested in Asian economies, to share knowledge, ideas, experience and expertise. ABF is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization established in the State of Washington in 2011.

Sang-Yoon Ma “Between Scylla and Charybdis: US Cold War Strategy and the Question of Democracy in South Korea, 1961-1972” Thomson Hall 317 Wednesday, May 23rd @ 3:30PM   Dr. Ma will explore the motives and considerations behind US policy towards the question of democracy and dictatorship in South Korea during the years 1960 to 1972.

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: 

• Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe: A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz (1998)
• The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 (2003)
• Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist’s Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine (2005)
• The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke (2008)
• Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010)

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.

LOST YEARS is an epic documentary touching upon 150 years of the Chinese diaspora in Canada, USA, New Zealand and Australia, covering four generations of racism as revealed through the journey and family story of Kenda Gee. Kenda, a Chinese Canadian, travels with his father to China to retrace the steps of his great-grandfather, exactly a century ago, and grandfather, who sailed to Canada in the summer of 1921. For thousands of Chinese immigrants that year, it was a journey of hope that turned into a nightmare when they were confronted with racism and the head tax, depriving them of their rights as citizens.  

Canadian Studies Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies & American Ethnic Studies (AES), University of Washington present a special
pre-screening panel with Lost Years Co-Producer/Director Kenda Gee, Dr. Connie So, Senior Lecturer, AES & Doug Chin, Organization of Chinese Americans 
 

Wednesday, May 23, 6 pm | Thursday, May 24, 4 pm
Harvard Exit Theatre, 807 East Roy on Harvard

Thursday, May 24, 11:30 am, Smith Hall, Rm 205, U of W, Seattle Campus

LOST YEARS is an epic documentary touching upon 150 years of the Chinese diaspora in Canada, USA, New Zealand and Australia, covering four generations of racism as revealed through the journey and family story of Kenda Gee. Kenda, a Chinese Canadian, travels with his father to China to retrace the steps of his great-grandfather, exactly a century ago, and grandfather, who sailed to Canada in the summer of 1921. For thousands of Chinese immigrants that year, it was a journey of hope that turned into a nightmare when they were confronted with racism and the head tax, depriving them of their rights as citizens.

LOST YEARS is Winner, Best Documentary Award (History & Culture) & Prize, 9th Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, Dec 5, 2011. It is nominated for 6 Rosies, 38th AMPIA Awards, May 12, 2012; the Golden Sheaf Award, 65th Yorkton Film Festival, May 24-27, 2012; and, Best Documentary Cinematography, 55th Canadian Society of Cinematographers Gala Awards, Toronto. Lost Years is also an Official Selection of the 38th Seattle International Film Festival, May 17-Jun 10, 2012. 

Flyer 

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).

Urban Reproductive Health in Uttar Pradesh

This lecture is part of the Maternal, Child, and Reproductive Health: Focus on South Asia series. Lectures will bring together Department of Global Health faculty, researchers from institutions inside and outside of the University of Washington, and visiting scholars who will introduce their interdisciplinary, global perspectives and expertise in this topic area with a focus on research and experience in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India.

This lecture is free and open to the public.

Directions:
The RR wing is located near the Plaza Café in the UW Medical Center. The room is located on the 1st floor near the BB elevators (look for signs directing you to the RR wing). If you enter the building from Pacific, you enter on the 3rd floor, which can be confusing. You will need to take the elevators down to the 1st floor to get to room 134.

If all writing is fundamentally tied to the production of meanings and texts, then feminist research that blurs the borders of academia and activism is necessarily about the labor and politics of mobilizing experience for particular ends. Co-authoring stories is a chief tool by which feminists working in alliances across borders mobilize experience to write against relations of power that produce social violence, and to imagine and enact their own visions and methodologies of social change. Such work demands a serious engagement with the complexities of identity, representation, and political imagination as well as a rethinking of the assumptions and possibilities associated with engagement and expertise. This article draws upon 14 years of partnership with activists in India and with academic co-authors in the US to reflect on how story telling across social, geographical, and institutional borders can enhance critical engagement with questions of violence and struggles for social change, while also troubling dominant discourses and methodologies inside and outside of the academy. Through specific examples, it reflects on the labor process, assumptions, possibilities, and risks associated with co-authorship as a tool for mobilizing intellectual spaces in which stories from multiple locations in an alliance can speak with one another and evolve into more nuanced and effective critical interventions.

During her visit to campus, Richa Nagar will also participate in the following events:

HUM 595C: Feminisms, Institutions, and Alliances: A Microseminar with Richa Nagar

Coffee Hour with Richa Nagar

Brown-bag Lunch with Richa Nagar

Details at: www.depts.washington.edu/uwch/calendar/calendar

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.

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.

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.

Jung-hwan Cheon "On May and Martyrdom: Suicide in the South Korean Democracy Movement Seen Through the Case of Park Seunghee"   Thomson Hall 317 Tuesday, May 29th @ 3:30PM   This presentation deals with the social and ethical context of self immolation in Korea since the 1980’s. It examines, in particular, the ideology and ethical consciousness surrounding the death of a female university student, Seunghee Park.

Yamamoto revisits the issue of the democratic breakdown in interwar Japan. First, he briefly summarizes his first lecture and reintroduces his thesis — the democratic collapse was a function of a two-party system dogged by profound political instability and labor defection. The core argument of this second lecture is that the partisan divide and labor defection are legacies of the antecedent conditions that shaped the subsequent developmental trajectories of the party system and the pattern of labor incorporation in early twentieth-century Japan. He elaborates the two proximate causes, the partisan divide and labor defection, as direct consequences of the cross-class coalition between oligarchic military elites and wealthy landowners, which was consolidated in 1900. The cross-class coalition of 1900 served as a critical juncture that locked the country onto a path of democratic breakdown by making it too costly for political parties to reverse either the fragmentation of the parliamentary system or labor alienation.

Michael K. Young became President of the University of Washington on July1, 2011. A tenured Professor of Law, President Young has a distinguished record as an academic leader with broad experience in public service and diplomacy. Prior to his appointment at the UW, he served as President and Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Utah. Before assuming the presidency at Utah, he was Dean and Lobingier Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence at the George Washington University Law School. He was also a professor at Columbia University for more than 20 years, and prior to joining the Columbia University faculty, he served as a law clerk to the late Chief (then Associate) Justice William H. Rehnquist of the United State Supreme Court. President Young has held numerous government positions, including Deputy Under Secretary for Economic and Agricultural Affairs and Ambassador for Trade and Environmental Affairs in the Department of State during the presidency of the first President Bush. He also served as a member of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom from 1998-2005 and chaired the Commission on two occasions. He has published extensively on a wide range of topics and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. President Young is a graduate of Brigham Young University (B.A., 1973) and Harvard Law School (J.D., 1976), where he served as a note editor of the Harvard Law Review.

This event is one of several that the Foundation is hosting on the occasion of Senator Jackson’s centennial. From 1912 until his untimely passing in 1983, Senator Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson made an indelible mark in the fields in which he played a key leadership role and his dedication to bipartisan, public dialogue shaped the perspectives of many in government. We hope you will be able to join us in celebrating the Senator’s 100 year legacy in 2012.
 

Join us for the South Asia research colloquium featuring professor Anand Yang, Golub Professor of International Studies. A precis of his paper will be circulated in advance. 

Polar Lines exhibition was created in 2011 to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of Canada’s National Inuit Organization, the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami. Terry (AISLIN) Mosher researched Canada’s national archives for historic illustrations of editorial cartoons featuring Inuit and Arctic themes. The Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami selected the top 100 cartoons for the Polar Lines exhibit. A description of each cartoon is translated into the Inuit language and French.

Flyer 
Website 

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.   

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.  

May 31—Awards & Recognition Reception; 7 p.m.; Center for Urban Horticulture.

Women and Children Through the Lifecycle

This lecture is part of the Maternal, Child, and Reproductive Health: Focus on South Asia series. Lectures will bring together Department of Global Health faculty, researchers from institutions inside and outside of the University of Washington, and visiting scholars who will introduce their interdisciplinary, global perspectives and expertise in this topic area with a focus on research and experience in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India.

This lecture is free and open to the public.

Directions:
The RR wing is located near the Plaza Café in the UW Medical Center. The room is located on the 1st floor near the BB elevators (look for signs directing you to the RR wing). If you enter the building from Pacific, you enter on the 3rd floor, which can be confusing. You will need to take the elevators down to the 1st floor to get to room 134.

The University of Washington Hellenic Studies Program is hosting a multidisciplinary Colloquium titled The Greek Debt Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities. The Colloquium brings together scholars in Hellenic Studies, European Studies, as well as science and entrepreneurship. It seeks to contextualize the Greek debt crisis by examining its causes and its impact on the Greek people and society, and by exploring ways toward recovery. The event will be followed by a reception at Savery Hall, Room 260.

Participants:

Professor Theodore Kaltsounis
Professor Emeritus in Social Studies Education, University of Washington

Professor Christine Ingebritsen
Director of the Center for West European Studies, University of Washington,
Honorary Member of the Greek Community

Professor Andre Gerolymatos
Professor of History,
Hellenic Canadian Congress of BC Chair in Hellenic Studies,
Director, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies,
Simon Fraser University

Dr. James (Dimitrios) Seferis
Chairman of the Board,
President and CEO of GloCal Network Corporation

Four-star general and former Secretary of State Colin Powell reveals the unique lessons that have shaped his life and legendary career in public service. IT WORKED FOR ME begins with Powell's "Thirteen Rules" – notes he gathered over the years and that now form the basis of his leadership presentations given throughout the world. Among these rules are "Get mad, then get over it," "Share credit," and "Remain calm. Be kind." To illustrate these rules, Powell shares personal stories that introduce and expand upon his principles for effective leadership: conviction, hard work, and, above all, respect for others.

Tickets: One ticket & one book - $35 | Two tickets & one book - $50

Visit Re-Scheduled

Prof. Richard Falk’s visit to Seattle,  originally scheduled  for May 19th,  has been rescheduled for Friday June 8th at 7:00 p.m. at University Temple United Methodist Church (15th Ave NE & 43rd NE in Seattle).