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May 2013

Human Rights in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Finally, Some Encouraging Signs

Wednesday May 15, 2013
2:30-4:00 pm
Thomson 317

Peter Lippman

Ellison Center and Center for Global Studies

reecas@uw.edu

Peter Lippman, a lifelong human rights activist, has written extensively from the grassroots level about the politics, current events, and cultural issues in the Western Balkans. He has traveled to the region since 1981, and has lived in the former Yugoslavia several years. Mr. Lippman speaks Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian fluently.

For writings by Mr. Lippman on Bosnia, Serbia, and Kosovo, visit Balkan Witness.


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Borders of Kinship: Species/Race/Indigeneity, Speakers: Noenoe Silva & Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller, University of Hawaii and Kimberly Tallbear, University of California, Berkeley

Thursday May 23, 2013
4:00pm | Reception following
Communications 120, University of Washington, Seattle Campus

Generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and co-sponsored by the Latin American & Caribbean Studies program, the Jackson School of International Studies, the Simpson Center for the Humanities, and the Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, & Sexuality (WISER).

Contact: lasuw@uw.edu / 206-685-3435

Bringing the Land to the Fight: Biotechnology and Hawaiian Ontology

Noenoe Silva (Political Science, University of Hawai’i, Manoa) and Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller (Social Sciences, Public Policy Center, University of Hawai’i, Manoa) examine current political struggles of native Hawaiians over the increasing presence of biotechnology corporations in Hawai’i. Biotechnology depends upon conditions that facilitate genetically modified organism (GMO) research and profit from ever-increasing production of genetically modified organisms. Legal regimes of property recognize new organisms that can be controlled, sold, and exploited; analogously, multiculturalist policies recreate identity through denial of indigeneity, refusing land claims by indigenous people that would interfere with biotechnology industries. This impacts Hawaiians’ ability to survive on the land and to (re)create a Hawaiian world, which would include native species, many of them kino lau or native deities. We consider Hawaiian ideas of kalo, for example, as kin and sacred ancestor, and other plants, animals, and natural elements as kino lau or body forms of deities, as crucial elements in the struggle against further colonization and towards a resurgence of native lifeways.

Indigenous Approaches to Critical Animal Studies and the New Materialisms?

Kimberly Tallbear (Environmental Sciences, University of California, Berkeley) highlights what indigenous thought has to offer academic theorizing as new critical fields work to dismantle hierarchies in the relationships of “westerners” with their non-human others. For example, “multi-species ethnography” now studies humans and their relations with nonhuman-beings such as dogs, bears, cattle, monkeys, bees, mushrooms, and microorganisms. But the starting points of these inquiries can only partially contain indigenous standpoints. Indigenous peoples never forgot that nonhumans are agential beings engaged in social relations that profoundly shape human lives. Moreover, their non-human others may not even be understood as living. “Objects” and “forces” such as stones, thunder, or stars are known within our ontologies to be sentient and knowing persons. Indigenous approaches also critique settler colonialism and its management of non-human others, linking violence against animals to violence against particular humans historically accorded less-than-human or animal status.

Our speakers are Noenoe Silva & & Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller, University of Hawaii and Kimberly Tallbear, University of California, Berkeley

Noenoe’s Bio: She was born in O’ahu and is of Kanaka Maoli descent. She grew up in California and returned to Hawaii in 1985. In 1991, she earned her bachelor’s in Hawaiian language, and immediately began teaching Hawaiian at UH Manoa. In 1993, she completed a master’s degree in Library and Information Studies, and in 1999 earned her doctorate in political science. Noenoe joined the faculty of political science in Fall 2001, and now serve as associate professor. She now teaches courses in Hawaii and indigenous politics.

Kim’s Bio: Her research and teaching cross the fields of Science and Technology Studies (STS), feminist science studies, anthropology of science, cultural studies, and Native American Studies (NAS). She critically integrate frameworks and methods from these disciplines as I examine the politics of scientific knowledge production and its impacts on Native Americans and other peoples who historically suffer uneven power relations in scientific research. Kim focuses on the cultures and politics of genominc, forensic, and environmental science and technology as they intersect with U.S. American conceptions of race and nation. 

Jonathan’s Bio: Completed BA in political science at Reed College and MA and Ph.D at the University of Wisconsin, Madison with emphasis in public law, comparative politics, and Marxist theory. He has taught at Reed College prior to joining the faculty at the University of Hawaii. Now, Jonathan is teaching graduate courses in areas of sociolegal studies, public policy, and political theory, and undergraduate courses in law and society. 

Presented as part of B/ordering Violence: Boundaries, Gender, Indigeneity in the Americas, a John E. Sawyer Seminar in Comparative Cultures generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and co-sponsored by the Latin American & Caribbean Studies program, the Jackson School of International Studies, the Simpson Center for the Humanities, and the Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, & Sexuality (WISER).

For more on the B/ordering Violence Seminar Series, visit depts.washington.edu/uwch/programs/initiatives/bordering-violence and www.borderingviolence.com


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SAVE THE DATE: ISAUW Night 2013: KERATON -- The Treasured Tradition of Indonesia

Saturday May 25, 2013
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: North Ballroom, Husky Union Building (HUB), UW

Co-sponsored by the Southeast Asia Center

www.isauw.org

Indonesian Student Association at the UW (ISAUW) presents:

ISAUW Night 2013: KERATON -- The Treasured Tradition of Indonesia
Date: May 25, 2013
Place: North Ballroom, Husky Union Building (HUB), UW
Time: 6:00 pm

Event Teaser:

All Event Teasers available at: http://www.youtube.com/user/isauwHuskies
More event details will come up soon in our website: www.isauw.org


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A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story

Tuesday May 28, 2013
7:00 p.m.
Stimson Auditorium, Seattle Asian Art Museum

Qais Akbar Oman

Elliot Bay Books (206) 624-6600

Following William Dalrymple writing about Afghanistan in the 19th century, is this visit by Afghan writer Qais Akbar Oman, with an extraordinary memoir of being from a country so riven with conflict – A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story. See www.seattleartmuseum.org for admission information.

This event is part of Elliot Bay Book Company's "Voices of South & Central Asia."


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Financing Global Health: Explaining Allocation Channels for Health Aid

Friday May 31, 2013
12:00 -1:20 PM
Gowen 1A

Katie Banks, UW PhD student Political Science and discussant, Joshua Eastin, UW Ph.D. student, Political Science.

tleonard@uw.edu

Please join the UW International Security Colloquium (UWISC) for a spirited presentation and discussion. UWISC is sponsored by the Severyns-Ravenholt Endowment, the UW Institute for National Security Education and Research (INSER), the Richard B. Wesley Graduate Student Fund for International Relations, Henry M. Jackson Foundation, UW Political Science Department, and Center for Global Studies/JSIS.

 


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Pakistan Nuclear Program--In Conversation with Brigadier General Feroz Khan

Friday May 31, 2013
5:00 PM
Thomson Hall 101, UW Campus, Seattle

Brig. Feroz Khan

snodgras@uw.edu

 POSTPONED-TBA

Brigadier General Feroz Khan will talk about Pakistan's Nuclear Program, its history, its implications on Pakistan and wider regional and international politics, as he introduces his book "Eating Grass:The Making of the Pakistani Bomb." The book tells the compelling story of how and why Pakistan's government, scientists, and military, persevered in the face of a wide array of obstacles to acquire nuclear weapons.

Feroz Khan is a lecturer in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey. He served with the Pakistani Army for 30 years, most recently as Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Affairs, within the Strategic Plans Division, Joint Services Headquarters, and has represented Pakistan in several multilateral and bilateral arms control negotiations. General Khan has been a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and has held fellowships at Stanford University's Center for International Studies and Cooperation, the Brookings Institution, the Center for Non-Proliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and the Cooperative Monitoring Center, Sandia National Laboratory. He has also taught as visiting faculty at the Department of the Defense and Strategic Studies, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad.

 

 

 

 


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June 2013

And the Mountains Echoed

Tuesday June 4, 2013
7:30 p.m.
Town Hall Seattle

Khaled Hosseini

Elliot Bay Books (206) 624-6600

Special visit by Khaled Hosseini, here with his first novel in six years, And the Mountains Echoed. All over the world – Afghanistan, San Francisco, Greece, Paris – inheritances are lost and found in this rich, multigenerational family tale. Details on tickets/entry to come. See www.elliottbaybook.com soon.

This event is part of Elliot Bay Book Company's "Voices of South & Central Asia."


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On Sal Maj Lane-Book Reading

Thursday June 6, 2013
7:00 p.m.
Elliot Bay Books, 1521 Tenth Avenue Seattle WA 98122

Ru Freeman

Elliot Bay Books (206) 624-6600

Early word here, too, on a much-anticipated first Seattle visit by Sri Lanka-born writer Ru Freeman with her assured, moving novel of Sri Lanka approaching civil war, On Sal Mal Lane.

This event is part of Elliot Bay Book Company's "Voices of South & Central Asia"


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International Studies Program
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