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May 2013

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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Center for Global Studies
International Studies Program
University of Washington
Box 353650
Seattle, WA 98195
(206) 685-2707
(206) 685-0668 fax
►cgsuw@u.washington.edu

Sara R. Curran
Director
(206) 543-6479
►scurran@u.washington.edu

Tamara Leonard
Associate Director
(206) 685-2354
►tleonard@u.washington.edu

Jane Meyerding
Program Coordinator
(206) 685-2707
►mjane@u.washington.edu

Robyn Davis
Fellowships Coordinator
(206) 616-8679
►rldavis@uw.edu