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November 2009


People's Summit

Center for Human Rights

Friday November 27, 2009 to Sunday November 29, 2009

Multiple Locations

People’s Summit


The People’s Summit will be a three day Teach-in and Strategy Session at multiple venues in Seattle: Nov 27, 28, 29, 2009!


More information at http://seattleplus10.org/?page_id=161
 


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December 2009


Recent Publications on/in Kyrgyzstan

Ellison Center

Thursday December 3, 2009
12:30-1:30
Denny 123

Prof. Ilse Cirtautas

Central Asia Studies Seminar

The Semetey of Kenje Kara. A Kirghiz Epic Performance on Phionograph, edited by Daniel Prior. (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006).


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YPIN: The WTO in Seattle 10 years later: An in-depth analysis of democracy and globalization then and now

Center for Global Studies

Thursday December 3, 2009
6:30 PM (Pre-reception at 6:00 PM)
Museum of History and Industry, 2700 24th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98112

Featuring UW's Associate Professor Matthew Sparke

World Affairs Council

World Affairs Council, (206) 441-5910

Join YPIN, MOHAI, and the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies of the University of Washington for a unique showing of This is What Democracy Looks Like, by filmmaker Jill Freidberg, as she leads us through “a week that changed the world.” The screening will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by KUOW’s Deborah Wang, with Filmmaker Jill Freidberg, Professor Matthew Sparke of the University of Washington, and local activist, Verlene Jones, and Deputy Mayor of Seattle during the WTO meetings, Maud Daudon.


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My Song in the Night: Hasidic Women's New Yiddish Songs

Jewish Studies Program

Thursday December 3, 2009
3:00-4:30 p.m.
202 Communications, Simpson Center for the Humanities, UW

Dr. Asya Vaisman, 2009-10 Cole Fellow in Jewish Studies

When browsing through a bookstore in a Hasidic neighborhood in New York or Jerusalem, one is likely to find a number of tapes and CDs of Hasidic male singers and boys' choirs. These recordings, however, do not represent the full spectrum of contemporary Hasidic song culture.
Because of Kol B'Isha, a Jewish religious regulation on a woman’s voice, Hasidic women are unable to publicly perform or commercially record songs, as their voices are considered to be sensually attractive to men. Yet Hasidic women’s participation in creative expression through singing and song-writing should not be discounted.
In fact, since the Second World War, women and girls have created far more songs in Yiddish than have men, and while the men’s music has been collected, published, and analyzed to an extent, virtually nothing is known outside of the community about the enormous repertoire of the Hasidic women’s new songs. This lecture will describe both the main themes and genres of Hasidic women's Yiddish songs and the contexts in which women and girls attend and participate in performances.

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Overtaken By Events: A Pakistan Road Trip Slide show presentation by Ethan Casey

Joint Outreach

South Asia Center

Thursday December 3, 2009
7:00-8:30 PM
Thomson Hall 317, UW Campus, Seattle

Presenter Author Ethan Casey

Sponsored by the South Asia Center

Contact: Keith Snodgrass 206-543-4800

Overtaken By Events: A Pakistan Road Trip is Jackson School MA candidate Ethan Casey's account of a six-week overland journey from Mumbai, India to Karachi, Pakistan between February and April 2009. It will be published in March 2010, with 16 pages of photographs by Seattle-based photographer Pete Sabo.

Overtaken By Events is a sequel to Alive and Well in Pakistan: A Human Journey in a Dangerous Time (2004), which has been praised as “Magnificent … a travel book that travels through the mind” by Ahmed Rashid, author of Taliban and Descent Into Chaos, as “Intelligent and compelling” by Pakistani novelist Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Moth Smoke, as “A search for common humanity” by The Daily Telegraph, and as “Wonderful … a model of travel writing” by American novelist Edwidge Danticat.

Both books document the human dimension of events in and involving Pakistan, report on recent events as they affect ordinary Pakistanis, and humanize Pakistan and Pakistanis for a global and particularly American readership. Casey visited Pakistan first in 1995 and most recently in early 2009, and he lived for five months in 2003-04 in Lahore, where he taught journalism at Beaconhouse National University. Venues he'll be speaking at during the 2009-10 academic year including Brown University, Texas Christian University, and the Air Force Academy.


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Freedom on the Fence

Ellison Center

European Union Center of Excellence

Thursday December 3, 2009
7:00-9:00 pm
Kane Hall, Room 110

Prof. Andrea Marks, Oregon State University

Presentation and screening by producer/director Prof. Andrea Marks, Oregon State University

A documentary project about the history of Polish posters and their
significance to the social, political and cultural life of Poland. Examining
the period from WWII through the fall of Communism, Freedom on the Fence
captures the paradox of how this unique art form flourished within a Communist
regime. The documentary contains interviews with older and younger generations
of poster artists, examples of past and current poster work, historic and
current film footage of where and how posters are viewed, and commentaries from
both American and Polish scholars and artists on the significance of the Polish
poster as a cultural icon.

Admission free, reception to follow

The event will be accompanied by an exhibition of Polish posters from
local collections. Freedom of Expression exhibition containing about 50 posters will
be on display at the UW Allen Library North from November 30, 2009 through
January 15, 2010.


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TBA

China Studies Program

East Asia Center

Thursday December 3, 2009
3:30 PM
Thomson Hall, Room 317

Gary Hamilton, Dept. of Sociology

China Studies Program


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Recent Publications on/in Uzbekistan

Ellison Center

Friday December 4, 2009
12:30-1:30
Denny 123

Prof. Ilse Cirtautas

Central Asia Studies Seminar

Recent Publications on/in Uzbekistan: Naim Karimov, ed. Tarixning Hasratli Sahifalari”
(The Tragic Pages of (our) History), Tashkent: Sharq, 2006." The contributors to this publication are presenting an overview of Russian/Soviet colonialism and its suppression of reform and freedom movements, its policies of collectivization, deportations, and executions. The book will be reviewed in the context of previous Uzbek publications dealing with the same or similar topics.


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Targeted Killings: The Decline of the Norm Against Assassination?

Center for Global Studies

Friday December 4, 2009
12:00 PM-1:30 PM
Gowen 1A

Nina Tannenwald

Department of Political Science

Kristan Seibel, kseibel@u.washington.edu

Nina Tannenwald is an Assistant Professor for the Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore. This is part of the UWISC lecture series.


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What's Art and What's Not in the History of Japan

East Asia Center

Japan Studies Program

Saturday December 5, 2009
8:30 - 9:30 AM (Aikido class) 9:30 - 11:00 AM (Lecture)
Seattle Asian Art Museum

Speaker: Cynthea Bogel

Part of the "Saturday University: Asia in Focus" series, presented by the Seattle Art Museum, The Center for Asian Art and Ideas, and the East Asia Center and Japan Studies Program at University of Washington

For information, contact eacenter@uw.edu

Saturday University: Asia in FocusAs the inaugural lecture series from the Center for Asian Art and Ideas, "Saturday University: Asia in Focus" provides a firm foundation for understanding the rapid rise of India, China and Japan in today's world. This ten-week series of lectures by University of Washington professors provides an overview of each country's rich history, intriguing contemporary politics and society, and distinctive art and culture. Together we will explore an array of issues that confront these multifaceted Asian civilizations and affect out lives.

Admission for this event is $10 for SAM members, and $15 for non-members.  Other presentations on India precede these lectures.  Details on those presentations are at http://jsis.washington.edu/soasia/events.php


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Traditional Korean Music and Musical Instruments

Korea Studies Program

Monday December 7, 2009
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Thomson Hall #317

Bora Ju

Center for Korea Studies

Ms. Bora Ju is a Korean traditional Artist-in-Residence from South Korean Ministry of Cultures, Sports, and Tourism.  She is a Visiting Artist at the Division of Ethnomusicology, University of Washington for the fall quarter, 2009.

An elegant artist of extraordinary musical talent, the gayageum player Bora Ju is renowned for her exquisite and sophisticated playing. She studied with some of the most celebrated Korean traditional musicians and masters of gayageum that include Hae Sook Kim, Ui Sik Min and Ji Young Lee. Ms. Ju is considered as one of the most quintessentially trained traditional gayageum performers specializing in the performance lineage of Master Sung Geum-Nyeon. She also actively promotes contemporary music with a specialization on the 25-string gayageum.

As a soloist, Bora Ju has performed numerous solo recitals in Seoul, and has frequently appeared on international music and theater festival stages around the world that include the Sibiu International Theater Festival with the group, "Sinjuku Yangsan Bak-King Ebi," in Sibiu, Romania, the Sixth Annual Junior Leadership Festival in Brazil, the New York Korean Film Festival, the Fourth Annual Pansori Festival in Seoul, the Media Performance "Rhyme Modulation Nong," in Seoul and the New Year's Celebration Concert in Jacksonville, Oregon, among others. Ms. Ju has both her BA and MA degrees from the Korean National University of Arts.

Ms Ju will give a lecture on traditional Korean court music, folk music, and contemporary music and musical instruments In addition to that, Ms. Ju will perform gayageum and Nuri Jeong will perform Geomungo (6-stringed zither) after the lecture.

 


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Global Washington Conference: A Blueprint for Action

Center for Global Studies

Monday December 7, 2009
All day
Microsoft Campus, Redmond WA

Sponsored by multiple organizations including the Center for Global Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies

For information, visit www.globalwa.org

Global Washington Conference: A Blueprint for Action brings together the private, nonprofit, and philanthropic sectors jointly to build the next chapter of our common future.  Join us as we explore leading trends and opportunities in global development, share best practices, develop cross-sector strategies, inspire and share innovations.  Get connected and help us build a shared strategy for Washington to enhance global development leadership.


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Three Cups of Tea: Islam and Schooling in Asia - Islam, Asia, Modernity Professional Development for Educators Workshop

East Asia Center

Ellison Center

East Asia Resource Center

Center for Global Studies

Joint Outreach

Southeast Asia Center

South Asia Center

Tuesday December 8, 2009
5:00-8:00 PM
Thomson Hall, University of Washington, Seattle

Presenters include Ethan Casey, Dr. Talant Mawkanul

Sponsored by South Asia Center, Ellison Center, East Asia Center, Southeast Asia Center, and Center for Global Studies of the Jackson School

Contact: Keith Snodgrass 206-543-4800

Muslim societies in Asia are fast changing, and often at the crossroads of global social, economic and geopolitical conflicts. Long standing educational systems and traditions are evolving in multiple ways as these societies became more integrated into the global economy. Local institutions, national bureaucracies, international non-governmental organizations, and other actors are influencing how schools educate both male and female students.

This workshop will focus on Pakistan, Indonesia and Xinjiang, China, and how different influences are coming to bear on educational systems in these areas.
Join us for this engaging 3 hour workshop intended for educators of grades 6-12.
Each attendee will receive at least 20 copies of Greg Mortenson's award winning book
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time
Space is limited, so register early.

Date: Tuesday, December 8
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Thomson Hall, UW Campus, Seattle
Cost: $25.00
Dinner will be provided.
Clock hours available at no extra charge

This workshop is now full.


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Ideology and the Tragedy of East Central Europe in the 20th Century

Ellison Center

European Union Center of Excellence

Thursday December 10, 2009
7:00-9:00 pm
Walker Ames Room (Kane 225)

Daniel Chirot

Sponsored by the Ellison Center

reecas@uw.edu

Daniel Chirot is Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor of International Studies and Sociology. He has authored three books on social change as well of Modern Tyrants. His most recent book, co-authored with Clark McCauley, is Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder (Princeton University Press 2006). He is the editor and co-editor of four books: The Crisis of Leninism and the Decline of the Left, Essential Outsiders, Ethnopolitical Warfare, and The Causes of Backwardness in Eastern Europe. He was founding editor of the journal East European Politics and Societies. His research has been helped by the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Mellon Foundations, by the Social Science Research Council, and by the Institute for Human Studies in Vienna. He has consulted for the American Government, the National Endowment for Democracy, the Ford Foundation, and CARE. In 2004/05 was a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace working on conflicts in Africa. He has a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.


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Iran-Israel-US: Resolving the Nuclear Impasse

Middle East Center

Wednesday December 16, 2009
7:00 p.m.
Town Hall Seattle, 8th Ave. and Seneca

Ian Lustic, University of Pennsylvania; Keith Weissman, Former Director of AIPAC Iran Desk; Trita Parsi, Director, National Iranian-American Council

Middle East Center, Jewish Studies, UW; AFS, Jewish Voice for Peace, UN Association

206-632-0662, extension 30

NOTE: This is a ticketed event. Tickets are $10, visit: htt://brownpapertickets.com/event89086


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CALL FOR PAPERS - 3rd International Conference on The History of Medicine in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia Center

Wednesday December 30, 2009


National University of Singapore
Submission deadline: 30 December 2009

The theme “New Medicines, Markets, and the Development of Medical
Pluralism” intends to explore how both local and metropolitan actors in
Southeast Asia have contributed historically to the growth and
development of medical markets throughout the region, here implying both
traditional pharmacopeia as well as the arrival of newer pharmaceuticals
in colonial and post-colonial settings.  Learn more...


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January 2010


History of the Great Separation: Church and State

Comparative Religion

Tuesday January 12, 2010 to Wednesday January 13, 2010
7:30 PM
Kane Hall, room 210

Prof. Mark Lilla, Columbia University

Comparative Religion Program and the Center for Global Studies

For more information: 543-4835


Mark Lilla was trained at the University of Michigan and Harvard University, where he received his PhD in 1990. He has held positions at New York University, Oxford University (visitor), and most recently in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. His work ranges widely in the history of ideas, though his central concerns have been the relation between religion and politics and the legacy of the modern Western enlightenment. His books include G.B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern (1993), The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics (2001), and, most recently, The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West (2007). His current research focuses on the religious concepts of conversion and innocence. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, the New Republic, and the New York Times, he lectures widely and has delivered the Weizmann Memorial Lecture in Israel and the Carlyle Lectures at Oxford University. Co-sponsored by the Center for Global Studies. Information: lpaxton@u.washington.edu

 


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MOVIE: Bent Familia

Middle East Center

Thursday January 14, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Kane Hall, Rm 210, UW-Seattle Campus

Introduced by Hussein Elkhafaifi, Associate Professor, Near Eastern Languages & Civilization

Middle East Center, Jackson School Outreach Centers, Jackson School Student Association, University of Washington

mecuw@uw.edu

 "Bent Familia." Tunisia, 1997. 105 minutes

SYNOPSIS:  Three modern North African women, on the brink of self-awareness, discover the power of friendship. Aida is caught in an unhappy marriage and Amina is recently divorced when they meet Fatiha, an Algerian refugee, who is on the threshold of a new life in Europe. Fatiha serves as the impetus for Amina and Aida to question their fates. This is the moving story of unique friendships between three educated women, who although anxious to live in a modern world, are nevertheless trapped by the limitations of their society. Arabic with English subtitles.

Part of the SMAK 2010 International Film Series (See Movies at Kane) showing every Thursday night: January 14---March 18, 2010.

No tickets required / Free and open to the public

Please note that this event does not provide clock hours to teachers.

All showings at 7:00 p.m., Kane Hall, Room 210, University of Washington, Seattle.

 


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Lecture: Title TBD

Center for West European Studies

European Union Center of Excellence

Friday January 15, 2010
TBD
TBD

Michael Hechter, Professor, School of Government, Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University

Center for West European Studies Politics and Society Colloquium Series

For more information, contact the Center for West European Studies - cwes@u.washington.edu - (206) 543-1675

Michael Hechter (Ph.D. Columbia University) is Professor in the School of Government, Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University.  He has taught at the Universities of Washington, Arizona and Oxford. He has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences and the Russell Sage Foundation, and was a visiting professor at the Universities of Bergen and Llubljana. Hechter is the author of numerous books, including Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development, 1536-1966 (1975; 1999); Principles of Group Solidarity (1987); and Containing Nationalism (2000). He is editor/co-editor of The Microfoundations of Macrosociology (1983); Social Institutions: Their Emergence, Maintenance and Effects (1990); The Origin of Values (1993); Social Norms (2001, 2005); and Theories of Social Order (2003). His articles have appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Demography, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Rationality and Society, Sociological Theory, European Sociological Review, and many other journals. His writings have been translated into Italian, Japanese, Hungarian, Chinese, Arabic, French, Spanish, and Georgian.


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MOVIE: Like Water for Chocolate [Como Aqua Para Chocolate]

Center for Global Studies

Latin American Studies

See Movies at Kane

Thursday January 21, 2010
7:00 PM
Kane Hall 210, UW Seattle campus

Sponsored by the Center for Global Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies

For information, please visit http://jsis.washington.edu/smak/

A feast for the senses, this magical romance from director Alfonso Arau tells the story of passionate Tita (Lumi Cavazos) who is in love with Pedro (Marco Leonardi), but her controlling mother (Regina Torne) forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro instead marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking--and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares.  Mexico, 1992, 113 minutes; Spanish with English subtitles.

This screening is preceded by a brief introduction by MariaElena Garcia, Assistant Professor, Comparative History of Ideas and Jackson School; and Jose Antonio Lucero, Assistant Professor, Jackson School of International Studies.

Part of the SMAK 2010 International Film Series (See Movies at Kane) showing every Thursday night January 14 -March 18, 2010.

No tickets required / Free and open to the public

All showings at 7:00 PM, Kane Hall Room 210, University of Washington, Seattle

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Authoritarian Regimes, Domestic Politics, and Conflict Outcomes

Center for Global Studies

Friday January 22, 2010
12:00 PM-1:30 PM
Gowen 1A

Jessica Weeks

Department of Political Science

Kristan Seibel, kseibel@u.washington.edu

Jessica Weeks is an Assistant Professor for the Department of Government, Cornell
University. This is part of the UWISC lecture series


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“Beyond Walls and Wounds” (1): Panel on the Borderlands

Latin American Studies

Monday January 25, 2010
4:00 - 6:00 pm

Lynn Stephen (University of Oregon), and Neil Harvey (New Mexico State University)

LAS; Diversity Research Institute; Clowes Center for the Study of Conflict and Dialogue; the Center for Global Studies; the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest; American Ethnic Studies; Simpson Center; and University of Washington's Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race and Sexuality


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February 2010


CALL FOR PAPERS -- EUROSEAS 2010: Coping with Climate Change in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia Center

Monday February 1, 2010


Goteburg, Sweden
Submission deadline: 01 Feb 2010

A panel is being convened on the consequences of global climate change for Southeast Asia at the EUROSEAS conference in Goteburg, Sweden, Aug 26-28, 2010. Organizers are seeking papers from scholars working in the area of impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to these forecasted climate changes, in both contemporary and historical perspective. Interested authors should send a title, 250 word abstract, and brief bio for consideration to the panel's co-organizers no later than Feb 1, 2010.  Learn more...


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Mariano Plotkin lecture

Latin American Studies

Tuesday February 2, 2010
3:30 - 5:00 pm
TBA

Mariano Plotkin

Simpson Center Research Cluster

For more information, please contact: Adam Warren, awarren2@u.washington.edu

Mariano Plotkin's public talk is part of the “Global History of Social Science Speaker Series.”


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MOVIE: Shichinin no samurai (Seven Samurai)

East Asia Center

East Asia Resource Center

Center for Global Studies

Japan Studies Program

See Movies at Kane

Thursday February 4, 2010
7:00 PM
Kane Hall 210, UW Seattle campus

Professor Ted Mack will give a preshow introduction

Sponsored by the East Asia Center and East Asia Resource Center of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington

For information, please visit http://jsis.washington.edu/smak/.

Classic Japanese film co-written, edited and directed by the incomparable Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshio Mifune. (1954) 160 minutes. 16th century Japanese farmers face a band of roving thieves. Their solution is to hire samurai for protection. The farmers are poor and can only offer food and lodging but they soon recruit Kambei Shimada who determines that they will need a total of seven samurai to properly guard the village...

This screening is preceded by a brief introduction by Professor Ted Mack of the Department of Asian Languages and Literature.

Part of the SMAK 2010 International Film Series (See Movies at Kane) showing every Thursday night: January 14---March 18, 2010.

No tickets required / Free and open to the public

Please note that this event does not provide clock hours to teachers.

All showings at 7:00 p.m., Kane Hall, Room 210, University of Washington, Seattle.See Movies at Kane


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UWISC Lecture

Center for Global Studies

Friday February 5, 2010
12:00 PM-1:30 PM
Gowen 1A

David Welch

Department of Political Science

Kristan Seibel, kseibel@u.washington.edu

David Welch is CIGI Chair of Global Security, Balsillie School of International Affairs, and Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo. This is part of the UWISC lecture series


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Lecture: The longue duree of European Perceptions of Muslims and Islam

Center for West European Studies

European Union Center of Excellence

Friday February 5, 2010
TBD
TBD

Gerdien Jonker, Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research

Center for West European Studies Politics & Society Colloquium

For more information, contact the Center for West European Studies - cwes@u.washington.edu - (206) 543-1675


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Male worlds - female worlds: gender specific aspects of early Choson painting

Korea Studies Program

Wednesday February 10, 2010
3:30-5:00PM
Thomson Hall #317

Burglind Jungmann

Center for Korea Studies

Burglind Jungmann earned her doctorate at the Heidelberg University in 1989. After six more years of research in Korea and Japan she gained her second doctorate in 1996. Professor Jungmann currently teaches Korean art history at the University of California in Los Angeles

Discourses about visual culture of the early Chosŏn period (1392-1910) have been dominated by concepts of the literati arts, particularly of landscape painting relating to earlier Chinese masters, the discussion of its styles, iconographies and theories. We have thus acquired a picture of a world dominated by a male elite enjoying poetry, calligraphy, and painting. A good example of a painting representing such a worldview is An Kyŏn’s Dream Journey to the Peach Blossom Land, done in 1447. It was commissioned by a prince, relates to an ancient Chinese poem and to the poet himself who is regarded as the model of the cultured recluse. Its style recalls the dominant landscape idiom of the Northern Song dynasty, the cradle of Neo-Confucianism, and its twenty-one colophons can be read as a “who-is-who” of the fifteenth century Chosŏn political and cultural elite.
The dominance of this male-centered view, its coherence and logic has for a long time prevented us from asking questions such as: Have there been painting genres during roughly the same period that were different in iconography and style? What was the role of women vis-à-vis this male elite, and did their role allow them to engage in the arts as artists or patrons? How did Buddhism, which had dominated Korean culture and politics until the end of the fourteenth century, react to its suppression by Confucian ideologists? An early Chosŏn Buddhist painting, Shakyamuni Triad of 1562, could answer some of these questions by shedding light on a different, female world, that of a queen who sponsored the restoration of monasteries and commissioned hundreds of Buddhist paintings, who had lavish Buddhist ceremonies held and eventually attempted to restore, at least in part, some influence of the Buddhist church over politics.
For the art historian, the contrast between the two worlds is particularly intriguing: not only can one world be described as male and rooted in the Chinese Neo-Confucian literati tradition, and the other as female and devoted to Buddhism, the most striking difference at first glance is the color. Literati landscape paintings are mainly monochrome, Dream Journey to the Peach Blossom Land has only light touches of white and pink for the blossoming trees, while Shakyamuni Triad was done in vivid colors and gold.
By analyzing early Chosŏn literati painting and Buddhist painting and unwrapping the layers of their social significance and cultural backgrounds my paper attempts to shed light on the shaping of male and female roles in early Chosŏn society and on the role that Buddhism played in a Confucian world.
 


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Bret Gustafson lecture: "After Neoliberalism, 'Living Well': Natural Gas and the Cultural Politics of Redistribution in Bolivia"

Latin American Studies

Wednesday February 17, 2010
4:30 - 6:30 pm
Thomson 317

Bret Gustafson, Washington University, Anthropology

LAS, the Clowes Center for the Study of Conflict and Dialogue, and the Department of Anthropology


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Film Screening: Battle of Algiers

Center for West European Studies

European Union Center of Excellence

Thursday February 18, 2010
7:00 pm
Kane Hall 210

Introduced by Ray Jonas, Professor, Department of History, University of Washington

The See Movies at Kane (SMAK) International Film Series is sponsored by the Outreach Centers of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington.

For more information, contact smak2010@u.washington.edu

This movie classic was commissioned by the Algerian government and originally banned in France this movie shows the Algerian revolution from both sides. The French foreign legion has left Vietnam in defeat and has something to prove. The Algerians are seeking independence. The two clash. The torture used by the French is contrasted with the Algerian's use of bombs in soda shops. This is a look at war as a nasty thing that harms and sullies everyone who participates in it. French with English subtitles. (Italy, Algeria, 1966, 121 minutes)

This screening is free and open to the public with no registration required. For more information, visit http://jsis.washington.edu/smak/.


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MOVIE: Persepolis

Middle East Center

Thursday February 25, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Kane Hall, Rm 210, UW-Seattle Campus

Brief introduction to the movie by Assistant Professor Firoozeh Papan-Matin, Near East Languages & Civilization

Sponsored by the Middle East Center and the Jackson School Student Association, Jackson School of International Studies

For more information, visit: http://jsis.washington.edu/smak/

 "Persepolis." French, 2007, 96 minutes

SYNOPSIS: An animated film based on Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel of the same name. The story follows a young girl as she comes of age against the backdrop of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and ends with her as a 22-year-old expatriate. With the revolution, everything changed for Marjane. Suddenly girls and boys had to use different doors to enter the school; she had to cover herself with a dark robe; people began to disappear. Eventually her parents send her abroad to receive a European education, but she is miserable: she loves her family and country too much to stay away. After a brief return and a failed marriage, Marjane leaves Iran for good. French, Persian, and German with English subtitles.

Part of the SMAK 2010 International Film Series (See Movies at Kane) showing every Thursday night: January 14---March 18, 2010.

No tickets required / Free and open to the public

Please note that this event does not provide clock hours to teachers.

All showings at 7:00 p.m., Kane Hall, Room 210, University of Washington, Seattle.

 

 


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Carlos Aguirre lecture

Latin American Studies

Friday February 26, 2010
3:30 - 5:00 pm
TBA

Carlos Aguirre

Simpson Center Research Cluster

For more information, please contact: Adam Warren, awarren2@u.washington.edu


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March 2010


Democratic Transitions and Violence

Center for Global Studies

Friday March 5, 2010
12:00 PM-1:30 PM
Gowen 1A

Stephen Hamberg

Department of Political Science

Kristan Seibel, kseibel@u.washington.edu

Stephen Hamberg is a Ph.D Student at the University of Washington. This is part of the UWISC lecture series. 


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MOVIE: Breakfast with Scot

Canadian Studies Center

See Movies at Kane

Thursday March 18, 2010
7:00 PM
Kane Hall, Room 210, University of Washington, Seattle campus

Sponsored by the Canadian Studies Center

For more information, please visit http://jsis.washington.edu/smak/

This Canadian comedy is adapted from the novel by Tufts University professor Michael Downing. The film stars Tom Cavanagh as Eric McNally, a gay retired hockey player turned television sportscaster who lives with his partner Sam (Ben Shenkman), a sports lawyer. When Sam unexpectedly becomes the legal guardian of his brother's stepson Scot (Noah Bernett), their lives are turned upside down. Eric's unwillingness to become a parent eventually fades as Scot teaches Eric about accepting and loving your true self.

Part of the SMAK 2010 International Film Series (See Movies at Kane) showing every Thursday night: January 14---March 18, 2010.

No tickets required / Free and open to the public

All showings at 7:00 pm, Kane Hall, Room 210, University of Washington, Seattle.

See Movies at Kane


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The 40th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages

Canadian Studies Center

Friday March 26, 2010 to Sunday March 28, 2010


Sponsored by the Canadian Studies Center, the UW Graduate School, and the UW Linguistics Department

For more information, please email lsrl2010@u.washington.edu or call (206) 543-2046.

Please visit http://depts.washington.edu/lsrl2010/ for more information.

The 40th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages


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April 2010


"Beyond Walls and Wounds" (2): Panel on the Borderlands

Latin American Studies

Monday April 5, 2010
4:00 - 6:00 pm
TBA

Jeffrey Shepherd (UTEP), Cynthia Bejarano (NMSU), and Kathy Staudt (UTEP)

LAS; Diversity Research Institute; Clowes Center for the Study of Conflict and Dialogue; the Center for Global Studies; the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest; American Ethnic Studies; Simpson Center; and University of Washington's Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race and Sexuality


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Shiite Political Theory and the Opposition in Iran

Middle East Center

Wednesday April 14, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Kane Hall, Rm 210

Roy Mottahedeh, Gurney Professor of History, Harvard University

Middle East Center

mecuw@uw.edu

Part of the "Global Focus 2010 Series, sponsored by the Jackson School of International Studies


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Nuclear Power without Nuclear Proliferation?

Center for Global Studies

Friday April 16, 2010
12:00 PM-1:30 PM
Gowen 1A

Scott Sagan

Department of Political Science

Kristan Seibel, kseibel@u.washington.edu

Scott Sagan is Co-director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation, and Professor in the Department of Political Science, Stanford University. This is part of the UWISC lecture series.


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The Social Construction of Strategy

Center for Global Studies

Friday April 30, 2010
12:00 PM-1:30 PM
Gowen 1A

Nicolas Jabko

Department of Political Science

Kristan Seibel, kseibel@u.washington.edu

Nicolas Jabko is a Senior Research Fellow, Centre for International Studies and Research, Sciences Po. This is part of the UWISC lecture series.


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May 2010


Sonia Alvarez lecture

Latin American Studies

Tuesday May 25, 2010
5:00 - 7:00 pm
TBA

Sonia Alvarez (University of Massachusetts)

Simpson Center Research Cluster

For more information, please contact: Adam Warren, awarren2@u.washington.edu


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June 2010


Seattle Fandango Project

Latin American Studies

Monday September 28, 2009 to Monday June 7, 2010
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Every Monday
UW School of Music room 313

American Music Partnership of Seattle (AMPS), a collaboration between EMP, KEXP, and the UW Contact: AMPS Project Coordinator Quetzal Flores at quetzal@uw.edu.

See Simpson Center for the Humanities Calendar |

Building Community Through Music

The Fandango traditions of Veracruz, Mexico, use music, singing, and dancing to generate a spirit of convivencia—of living and being in community. For a decade, musicians in Veracruz and in California have built a movement of convivencia through Fandango Sin Fronteras (Fandango Without Borders). The Seattle Fandango Project brings
this movement to Seattle with local workshops, concerts, and public discussions with guest artists Son De Madera, as well as
community members, organizers, and educators. Come experience and learn!

Son De Madera, a quartet from Veracruz, Mexico, is known for its powerful music arrangements in the Son Jarocho tradition. They
will be in residence in Seattle during the month of October.

All events are free and open to the public.

 


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