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Notable Events: 2003 – 2004

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• February 26-27, 2004   
  Conference: Colonialism, Nationalism and Globalization: The Philippines and Filipino Americans
  Presented by The University of Washington Southeast Asia Center and the University of Washington Libraries. Sponsored by the Critical Asian Studies program, the Jackson School of International Studies, and the Simpson Center for the Humanities.

• December 5, 2003   
  Tariq Ali, editor, New Left Review
  Author of The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads, and Modernity (2002) and Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq (2003)
  "Resistance and Empire"
  Presented by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington and Elliott Bay Books, with generous co-sponsorship from the School of Law, the Comparative Law & Society Studies (CLASS) Center, the Middle East Center*, the Institute for Global and Regional Security Studies, Project for Critical Asian Studies, the Departments of Sociology, American Ethnic Studies, Political Science, History, Anthropology, Comparative History of Ideas (CHID), Women Studies, and Law, Societies, & Justice at the University of Washington, and Campus for Peace and Justice and the Arab American Community Coalition.

• December 1, 2003   
  Yu Hua, Novelist
  Lecture and Film Screening: "To Live and To Write"
  Event Poster: http://depts.washington.edu/eacenter/yuhua_flyer.htm
  Co-sponsored by East Asia Center, Jackson School of International Studies, the China Studies Program and the Project for Critical Asian Studies at the Simpson Center for the Humanities.

• October 20, 2003   3:30-5:30pm
  Prof. Rukmini Nair, Faculty of Humanities, Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi
  “The Sacred Thread of Theory: Postcolonial Criticism and Its Emotional Consequences”

• October 15, 2003    3:30-5:30pm
  Prof. Fred Y.L. Chiu, Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
  "Colours of Money, Shades of Pride: Historicities and Moral Politics in a Strike of Women Workers at a Japanese-owned Transnational Watch Factory"
  Co-sponsored by the Department of Women Studies and the Project for Critical
  Asian Studies at the Simpson Center for the Humanities.

• October 10, 2003
  Speaker: Prof. Patricio Nunes Abinales, Political Science, Kyoto University, Japan
  "Revolutionaries and Ex-Revolutionaries on the Verge of Retirement: Reflections on the Philippine Left."
  Commentator: Robert Garcia, Resident Fellow, Project for Critical Asian Studies, Simpson Center of Humanities, University of Washington
  This event is part of the Forum on Trauma, History, and "Asia," an initiative of the Project for Critical Asian Studies. It is also sponsored by the Southeast Asia Center of the Jackson School of International Studies.