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Join the Trade Alliance and the Jackson School for International Studies for this analysis of Russia’s economic and political relationships and potential implications.

In 2012, Russia became a member of the WTO. While this certainly has a potential impact on Western economies, Russia is also navigating its relationship with the rising economies of East Asia and Central Asia. How will Russia’s orientation impact its relationships with these different parts of the world?

These questions matter to Washington state, which exported over $905 billion in merchandise to Russia in 2012. As Russia’s relationships with other strategic parts of the world grow, what does this mean for our companies and institutions?

Reşat Kasaba is Director of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, and the Stanley D. Golub Chair of International Studies. He is Professor of International Studies, and Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Civilization, Sociology, and Political Science, and held the Henry M. Jackson Professorship in 2007-2010. He is the author of numerous publications including, most recently, the award winning book, A Moveable Empire: Ottoman Nomads, Migrants, and Refugees.

Laura Iglitzin has been Executive Director of the Henry M. Jackson Foundation since 1995. Arriving at the Foundation in 1992 she developed the Foundation’s human rights program in Russia. She specializes in U.S.-Soviet relations and early 20th century political history. Prior to her work at the Foundation, Lara managed the Congressional Roundtable on U.S.-Soviet Relations. Lara did her undergraduate work at the University of Washington and received master’s degrees in Russian history and Russian studies, from the University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown University.

Mike Nunes, Boeing

Don Hellmann is Professor of International Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies and the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. Since 1994, he has been director of the University’s APEC Study Center and has served as chair of the U.S. Consortium of APEC Study Centers. He received his undergraduate education at Princeton University and holds masters and doctoral degrees in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Scott Radnitz is Associate Professor of International Studies and Director of the Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the University of Washington. His research deals with authoritarian politics, informal networks, and identity, with an emphasis on Central Asia and the Caucasus. He received his Ph.D. from M.I.T. in 2007.

 China's population of 1.4 billion is fed by a system of agriculture and food production fairly unique in the world. As the country's young capitalist economy grows by leaps and bounds, that food system is also changing dramatically. In the past few years, after a period of heavily urban-focused policy and in response to rural social crisis, the government has been turning its attention more towards its rural foundations. The combination of a ravenously expanding market and the government's attempts to moderate its effects has brought China's agriculture and food systems to a pivotal moment. Join us Wednesday, June 19th to learn about China's current system of agriculture, the changing conditions of rural life, the role of land access in those changes, and the types of grassroots food movements responding to this crisis of agriculture and the rural.

Speakers: Alana Kim, CAGJ organizer, Jackson School Honors student, & Fritz Scholar studying CSAs in China; Jasmine Zhang, CAGJ organizer & Jackson Leadership Awardee studying China's rural cooperatives; Ross Doll, China Studies MA & 2013 Fulbright scholar studying the effects of China's rural cooperative policy

Visit the facebook page for more information and to RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/450044008414305/

China's population of 1.4 billion is fed by a system of agriculture and food production fairly unique in the world. As the country's young capitalist economy grows by leaps and bounds, that food system is also changing dramatically. In the past few years, after a period of heavily urban-focused policy and in response to rural social crisis, the government has been turning its attention more towards its rural foundations. The combination of a ravenously expanding market and the government's attempts to moderate its effects has brought China's agriculture and food systems to a pivotal moment. Join us Wednesday, June 19th to learn about China's current system of agriculture, the changing conditions of rural life, the role of land access in those changes, and the types of grassroots food movements responding to this crisis of agriculture and the rural.

Speakers: Alana Kim, CAGJ organizer, Jackson School Honors student, & Fritz Scholar studying CSAs in China; Jasmine Zhang, CAGJ organizer & Jackson Leadership Awardee studying China's rural cooperatives; Ross Doll, China Studies MA & 2013 Fulbright scholar studying the effects of China's rural cooperative policy

Visit the facebook page for more information and to RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/450044008414305/

Друзья, приглашаю вас на главное приключение года - туристический слёт ДроWA!

Состязания команд в спортивных играх, поиски сокровищ, творческие конкурсы, выступления артистов - все это вас ждет на ДроWAх!

Для детей приключенческая игра "Сладкое дерево", а для самых маленьких работает площадка от д/с "Пчёлка".

Цена билета: $40, дети до 12 лет - бесплатно.

Приобрести билеты можно онлайн: www.DroWA.org

или по телефону: 206.450.3837

Огромная благодарность нашим спонсорам за поддержку:

Юридический офис Anthony Dougherty (все виды штрафов) 425.264.2000

Консалтинговая компания AKVELON (Работа для IT-специалистов)www.akvelon.com

Риэлтор Нона Адамс. 206.769.8575

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Интернет-телевидение KartinaUSA www.kartinausa.tv

The resource-rich Arctic is changing faster than anywhere on Earth due to climate change and, according to The Economist, is not only “setting alarm bells ringing for environmentalists, but [also] opening up new perspectives for trade and development.“ In order to meet future challenges, it is vital that today’s students learn more about issues already at play in the Arctic. More ...

This workshop is an invitation only event! 

From Coal Trains to Classrooms: Cross-Border Trade, Energy and Environmental Issues in the PNW is the name of a new one-day workshop being offered on June 27 by the Center for Canadian-American Studies at Western Washington University. The professional development workshop is ideal for social studies teachers and those who teach Current World Problems (CWP), the new course required for high school graduation in Washington State.

Participants will learn about vital regional concerns that make headlines in our state—the issues that today’s students and tomorrow’s decision-makers need to understand. All will learn how integrally “connected” energy resources and energy products are on both sides of the border. Specific issues such as coal ports, pipeline politics, and hydro-development will be explored.

Teachers, and their students, will understand the real-world implications of shipping coal through ports in Washington. They will recognize the importance of the upcoming Columbia River Treaty re-negotiation and its impact on salmon, flood control, and electricity supplies in Cascadia. The relevance of Alberta oil sands and expanded Northwest pipelines as Washington State issues will also be explored.

Rationales and opposing viewpoints will be reviewed with particular attention paid to Aboriginal voices that are helping shape debates and possible outcomes. A public forum debate will be modeled for classroom applications by Snohomish High School students.

Speakers include Joel Connelly, SeattlePI.com columnist, Paul Storer, Chair and Professor at WWU’s Department of Economics, David Rossiter, Associate Professor at WWU’s Huxley College of the Environment, and Don Alper, Director of the Center for Canadian-American Studies and Border Policy Research Institute. Tina Storer Education and Curriculum Specialist at WWU’s Center for Canadian-American Studies, and Bill Nicolay, teacher and debate coach at Snohomish High School, will help transpose program content to classroom activities that align with state EALRs, CBAs and Common Core literacy standards.

The workshop will be offered on the campus of North Seattle Community College and registration includes instruction, lunch, and a continuing education certificate for 6 clock hours. The Canada-America Society of Washington and the Center for Canadian-American Studies have joined together to offer $50 awards (the cost of registration) to all teachers who submit a lesson plan based on the workshop experience by September 1.

Questions about the program should be directed to tina.storer@wwu.edu. Online (or mail-in) registration is now open and available at: https://west.wwu.edu/eesp/35/ConferenceServices/Registration.aspx?e=2589&z=d0s0.

From Coal Trains to Classrooms is one of several programs offered by WWU at NCSS as part of a new partnership between the two campuses. A campus map and directions are at https://northseattle.edu/locator. Parking is free.

The Center for Canadian-American Studies at WWU is a U.S. Department of Education-designated National Resource Center on Canada in the United States in consortium with the Canadian Studies Center at the University of Washington. Outreach to all levels of education is part of the Title VI grant mandate and is performed jointly under the name “K-12 STUDY CANADA”. Both teachers and students will discover a wealth of resources for learning at www.k12studycanada.org.

Join the CCEC for the Opening Ceremony of the Honorary Consulate of the Czech Republic in Seattle.

Opened under the auspices of honored guests
His Excellency Tomáš Chalupa, Minister of the Environment of the Czech Republic
His Excellency Petr Gandalovič, Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United States

Business or Cocktail Attire

Registration/tickets available here.

July 4-6

The CCEC, in cooperation with SIFF and the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Los Angeles, is proud to present Czech That Film Presented by Staropramen, a 3-day film festival celebrating some of the best of Czech cinema.

The festival will feature seven films over the three days, as well as an opening night reception sponsored by Staropramen. Visit our Czech That Film page for the full line-up!

 As a staff photographer for the leading daily newspaper of Nakhodka, Russia, from 1978 through his retirement in 2008, Georgy Pakin created an extensive and eloquent visual record of the life of this Pacific coast port city of 160,000 inhabitants located sixty miles from Vladivostok.  Pakin’s subjects range from the orthodox (such as visits to Nakhodka by top-ranking Soviet officials and foreign delegations, public parades on state holidays, and the activities of the Nakhodka fishing fleet) to the intimate, critical and sometimes iconoclastic (school children at play, workers on strike, a street beggar, cows taking over an urban road, Nakhodka during a flood).

This exhibit features sixty of Pakin’s photographs taken over three decades, from the recently dubbed “period of stagnation” of the 1970s and early ‘80s, through late-1980s perestroika and the social turbulence of the early post-Soviet 1990s.  Pakin’s connection to the U.S. Pacific Northwest dates to the late 1970s, when Bellingham Cold Storage collaborated with the Soviet Ministry of Fisheries to create the US-USSR Marine Resources Company (MRC), a joint fishing venture.  At its inception Pakin’s wife got a job in the joint venture’s Nakhodka office, and together the Pakins began hosting and befriending a long line of her American colleagues from Washington State.

The exhibit is sponsored by Bellingham Cold Storage-Profish Inc. and the Bay of America Club, an association of the former American directors of MRC’s Nakhodka office.

The Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU) is pleased to announce its 2013 regional conference, titled Czechs, Slovaks and North America: Destination, Example, Opportunity, to be held on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle from August 29 to August 31, 2013 (with optional sightseeing extensions through September 2).

For more details, including the call for papers, visit the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences.

 Film Screening of Hannah Arendt

One Moroccan artist teaches a village of women to read. An embroiderer from India takes out her first loan. A Hutu woman from war-torn Rwanda works with a Tutsi to make "peace" baskets. And a soup kitchen for AIDS orphans delivers meals because of a folk art cooperative's success in Swaziland.

From Africa to Asia to the Americas, female artisans are creating grassroots cooperatives to reach new markets, raise living standards, and transform lives.

Empowering Women provides an intimate view of the work of ten such enterprises in ten countries. This exhibition illustrates the power of grassroots collaborations to transform women's lives, through inspiring personal stories, stellar photographs and stunning examples of the cooperatives' handmade traditional arts.

For more information visit: http://www.burkemuseum.org/empowering

 Music Event with Maureen Jackson and Munir Beken.

Stroum Lectures 2014
Small Acts of Repair
Unclaimed Legacies, Forgotten Histories
Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University) and Leo Spitzer (Dartmouth College)

What does it mean to survive or to inherit traumatic events that have failed to be worked through a longue durée of many decades? Our two lectures focus on historical catastrophes that have been forgotten or denied, that have eluded the assumption of responsibility, judicial recognition, or acknowledgment by both national and transnational bodies. We look specifically at the work and the reception of a number of writers and artists who were deported to Transnistria, an area that was annexed by Romania during the Second World War and became a “forgotten cemetery” in which hundreds of thousands of Jews and political prisoners perished. Yet, just as Transnistria’s history fails to fit common conceptions of Holocaust persecution and murder, much of the vibrant intellectual and artistic activity that took place in its ghettos and camps also largely fails to fit the paradigms of Holocaust art or literature. Transnistria’s artists from the wartime era, both visual and literary, remain little known. Our research into their work aims to illuminate this little known chapter of Holocaust history, while also asking larger questions about possibilities of repair and redress in the aftermath, and the needs of those of us who inherit these painful histories.

A reception will follow the event in the Walker Ames Room.

Stroum Lectures 2014
Small Acts of Repair
Unclaimed Legacies, Forgotten Histories
Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University) and Leo Spitzer (Dartmouth College)

What does it mean to survive or to inherit traumatic events that have failed to be worked through a longue durée of many decades? Our two lectures focus on historical catastrophes that have been forgotten or denied, that have eluded the assumption of responsibility, judicial recognition, or acknowledgment by both national and transnational bodies. We look specifically at the work and the reception of a number of writers and artists who were deported to Transnistria, an area that was annexed by Romania during the Second World War and became a “forgotten cemetery” in which hundreds of thousands of Jews and political prisoners perished. Yet, just as Transnistria’s history fails to fit common conceptions of Holocaust persecution and murder, much of the vibrant intellectual and artistic activity that took place in its ghettos and camps also largely fails to fit the paradigms of Holocaust art or literature. Transnistria’s artists from the wartime era, both visual and literary, remain little known. Our research into their work aims to illuminate this little known chapter of Holocaust history, while also asking larger questions about possibilities of repair and redress in the aftermath, and the needs of those of us who inherit these painful histories.

 Graduate Fellows Symposium

 40th Anniversary Gala

Joel Walker is Associate Professor, Department of History. Part of the Persian Studies Series.