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Spiritual Spaces around the World |
| Summer Seminar for Educators, Grades 7-12 |
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June 27, 28, 29, 2001 This three-day seminar will explore arenas for spiritual encounters throughout the world. Through lecture presentations, panel discussion, and fieldtrips, participants will be introduced to temples, mosques, cathedrals, family altars, and other less structured zones of spiritual exchange. Discussion will be led by UW faculty and coordinated with Seattles diverse ethnic and religious communities to provide registrants with a unique and fascinating cultural education. Includes a presentation by REECAS faculty member Glennys Young on the role of the church in the Russian village. Registration fee will be $95, which includes 24 clock hours at no additional charge. Fieldtrips connected with the seminar require that space be limited to the first sixty registrants. For further information and registration forms, watch for future Jackson School centers and programs mailings, call Felicia Hecker at 206-543-4227 or email: fhecker@u.washington.edu. 
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Northern Dreams: Art, Life and the Environment in the Far North |
| A "Mosaic" workshop for teachers, grades K-8 |
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Saturday, June 2, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Gould Hall Presenters include Craig Zumbrunnen (The Far North: Environmental Obstacles and Opportunities), Galya Diment (The Myth of Siberia), David Koester (Stories and Storytelling in Kamchatka, Contemporary Itelmen Music from Kamchatka) and presentations from the Canadian North as well as Scandinavia. Sponsored by the Washington State Council for the Social Studies, the Canadian Studies Center, the Center for West European Studies, the UW Program on the Environment and REECAS/JSIS. $45 program fee includes lunch, materials and eight professional development clock hours. For more information please call Nadine Fabbi at 206-543-6269. |
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When the Fat Raven Sings: Mimesis and Environmental Alterity in Kamchatka's Environmentalist Age |
| David Koester, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks |
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Friday, June 1, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m., Denny Hall Room 401 David Koester is a cultural anthropologist specializing in the peoples of the North. He conducted extensive research in Iceland, and has published on Icelandic ideas of history, forms of discourse, and national consciousness. He has been working with Itelmens and other indigenous groups in Kamchatka, Russia, since 1992, studying cultural revitalization and assisting with the development of environmental research and conservation plans. Sponsored by REECAS/JSIS, the Department of Anthropology, and the UW Program on the Environment. Please note THE ROOM HAS CHANGED from the previously advertised Mary Gates Hall 248. For more information please call 206-543-4852. |
| The Decalogue, Parts IX-X |
| REECAS Film Night |
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Wednesday, May 30, 6:00 p.m., Mary Gates Hall Room 234 The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland, 1988-89) explores the timeless moral issues of human existence, through ten contemporary tales, each based on one of the Ten Commandments.Originally produced for Polish television, the series of separate but intertwining films transcended the boundaries between film and TV, winning honors as it has played around the world. In Polish with English subtitles. Call (206) 543-4852 for more information. |
| In Concert: |
| Mikhail Scherbakov |
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Sunday, May 27, 7:00 p.m., Kane Hall Room 210 An appearance by the famous Russian bard. Tickets are $15 each (seniors $12, schoolchildren free) and will be sold at the door. For more information please call (425) 889-5869. |
| 13th Annual Nicholas Poppe Symposium |
| Central and Inner Asian Studies |
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Saturday, May 26, 8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., Denny Hall Room 215 All are welcome to attend this meeting organized by the Central Asian Studies Group. Featured papers include "Recent Legislation on Land Reform in Kazakhstan" (Zhakshylyk Khuseinov), "Land Reforms in Kazakhstan" (Renee Gioverelli), "The Deportation of the Karachai People from the Caucasus to Central Asia in 1943: Eyewitness Accounts" (Zulfiya Lafi), "Women in Uzbekistan since Independence" (Adolat Najimova), "Abdulla Qodiriy's (1894-1938) Influence on the Uzbek Literary Language" (Ilse D. Cirtautas), "On Vowel Harmony in Turkmen" (Tim Miller). Call (206) 543-9963 or 543-6033 for more information. |
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Informal Q&A with . . . |
| Tomaz Salamun, Slovenian poet |
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Friday, May 25, 1:30 p.m., Humanities Center Lounge (Communications Building 206) Sponsored by the UW Creative Writing Program, Dept. of English, and the Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures. |
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Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Reading |
| Tomaz Salamun, Slovenian poet |
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Thursday, May 24, 8:00 p.m., Roethke Auditorium (Kane Hall Room 130) The 38th annual Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry reading will feature Central Europe's foremost living poet, Tomaz Salamun. Mr. Salamun has published twenty-six books of poetry, which have been translated into almost every European language. Volumes of his poetry translated into English include The Selected Poems of Tomaz Salamun (Ecco Press, 1988), The Shepherd, The Hunter (Pedernal, 1992), The Four Questions of Melancholy (White Pine, 1997), and Feast (Harcourt Brace, 2000). A Ballad for Metka Krasovec is forthcoming from Twisted Spoon Press in April 2001. Sponsored by the Dept. of English and the Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures. |
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Russia's Unfinished Revolution: The Protracted Transition from Communism to Democracy |
| Michael A. McFaul, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
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Thursday, May 24, 7:30 p.m., Kane Hall Room 210 Part of the lecture series Putin and the New Russian Foreign Policy. Michael McFaul is currently working on projects on Russian democracy, the parliamentary and presidential elections in Russia, and U.S.-Russian relations. He is also an assistant professor of political science and a Hoover Institution Fellow at Stanford University, specializing in economic and political reform in post-communist countries. Before joining the Stanford faculty in 1995, he spent two years as a senior associate in residence at the Carnegie Moscow Center. Dr. McFaul is the author and editor of several monographs, including Russia's 1996 Presidential Election, Post-Communist Politics: Democratic Prospects in Russia and Eastern Europe with Sergei Markov; The Troubled Birth of Russian Democracy; and Privatization, Conversion and Enterprise Reform in Russia. Sponsored by the Henry M. Jackson Foundation, the World Affairs Council, the Foundation for Russian-American Economic Cooperation, the Institute for Global and Regional Security Studies, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and REECAS/JSIS. For more information please call 206-543-4852. |
| Zagreb Everywhere |
| Gordana Crnkovic, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UW Seattle |
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Wednesday, May 23, 8:00 p.m., Mary Gates Hall Room 231 An unorthodox lecture on the city of Zagreb, Croatia, incorporating video, sound and the spoken word, with the collaboration of artists Victor Ingrassia and David Hahn. Sponsored by Slavic Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, REECAS/JSIS and the Jack Straw Foundation's Artist Support Program. Call (206) 543-4852 for more information. |
| The Decalogue, Parts VII-VIII |
| REECAS Film Night |
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Wednesday, May 23, 6:00 p.m., Mary Gates Hall Room 234 The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland, 1988-89) explores the timeless moral issues of human existence, through ten contemporary tales, each based on one of the Ten Commandments.Originally produced for Polish television, the series of separate but intertwining films transcended the boundaries between film and TV, winning honors as it has played around the world. In Polish with English subtitles. Call (206) 543-4852 for more information. |
| The Decalogue, Parts V-VI |
| REECAS Film Night |
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Thursday, May 17, 6:00 p.m., Mary Gates Hall Room 234 The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland, 1988-89) explores the timeless moral issues of human existence, through ten contemporary tales, each based on one of the Ten Commandments.Originally produced for Polish television, the series of separate but intertwining films transcended the boundaries between film and TV, winning honors as it has played around the world. In Polish with English subtitles. Call (206) 543-4852 for more information. |
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Putin as the Un-Yeltsin: A Sea Change in Russian Foreign Policy |
| Strobe Talbott, Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State |
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Wednesday, May 16, 6:30 p.m., Kane Hall Room 120 Part of the lecture series Putin and the New Russian Foreign Policy. Strobe Talbott was a journalist for Time magazine for 21 years, including stints as Washington bureau chief and foreign-affairs columnist. He translated two volumes of Khrushchev's memoirs, and wrote or coauthored sixbooks on U.S.-Soviet relations. From 1993 until early 1994, he served as U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for the Newly Independent States; from early 1994 until January 2001 he was U.S. Deputy Secretary of State. Talbott is currently writing a book on U.S.-Russian relations in the Clinton Administration. This summer he will take up a position as Professor of Political Science at Yale University, where he will also be founding director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. Sponsored by the Henry M. Jackson Foundation, the World Affairs Council, the Foundation for Russian-American Economic Cooperation, the Institute for Global and Regional Security Studies, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and REECAS/JSIS. For more information please call 206-543-4852. |
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Sts. Cyril and Methodius Day |
| An evening celebrating the richness and variety of Slavic cultures |
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Saturday, May 12, 6:30 - 11:30 p.m., St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church, 2100 Boyer Avenue E, Seattle The Association of Alumni and Friends of the Slavic Department invites you to celebrate Sts. Cyril & Methodius Day. The evening will feature performances by the Ukrainian Women's Choir, Khorovod, and Mlodzi Polanie, accompanied by Podhale. Participatory dancing will follow the show, with live music performed by Balkanarama - featuring vocalist Mary Sherhart - and accordion duo Michael Lawson and Erik Butterworth. Delicious a la carte Slavic food and beverages provided by Polski Dom available for purchase. A raffle of art,books and other items will be held to benefit graduate students in the UW Slavic Department. For more information contact Shosh Westen at (206) 543-6848. For tickets ($5-$12) please call (206) 543-3839. |
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Putin's Nature: A Cautionary Fable |
| Steven Solnick, Associate Professor of Political Science, Columbia University |
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Thursday, May 10, 7:30 p.m., Kane Hall Room 210 Part of the lecture series Putin and the New Russian Foreign Policy. Steven Solnick is Program Coordinator for Russian Studies at Columbia's Harriman Institute. He is the author of Stealing the State: Control and Collapse in Soviet Institutions, as well as articles on Soviet and post-Soviet affairs. His research focuses on comparative political analysis and post-Soviet political economy. Dr. Solnick is currently researching political dynamics between the central and regional administrations of the Russian Federation, and incorporating that research into a book on the origins, structure and stability of post-Soviet and post-colonial states, tentatively titled Big Deals: Territorial Bargaining and the Fate of Russia. Sponsored by the Henry M. Jackson Foundation, the World Affairs Council, the Foundation for Russian-American Economic Cooperation, the Institute for Global and Regional Security Studies, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and REECAS/JSIS. For more information please call 206-543-4852. |
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Willing Europeans: Preventing Ethno-National Conflict in Macedonia |
| Anastasia Karakasidou, Wellesley College |
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Thursday, May 10, 3:30 p.m., Parrington Hall Forum (309) Anastasia Karakasidou is a social anthropologist. Her specializations are themes of nationhood and identity; religion and ideology; gender and social stratification; narrative and history; and anthropological theory. She has recently published a book entitled Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood: Passages to Nationhood in Greek Macedonia,1870-1990 with University of Chicago Press (1997), as well as a number of articles on the ideology of nationhood in Greece and the Balkans. Part of the ECCR Speaker Series. Sponsored by the Ethnic Conflict Study Group, the Jackson School of International Studies and REECAS/JSIS. |
| The Decalogue, Parts III-IV |
| REECAS Film Night |
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Wednesday, May 9, 6:00 p.m., Mary Gates Hall Room 234 The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland, 1988-89) explores the timeless moral issues of human existence, through ten contemporary tales, each based on one of the Ten Commandments.Originally produced for Polish television, the series of separate but intertwining films transcended the boundaries between film and TV, winning honors as it has played around the world. In Polish with English subtitles. Call (206) 543-4852 for more information. |
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The Master and Margarita |
| Theater Simple |
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Through May 5, Thursday through Saturday at 8:00 p.m., Sunday matinees at 2:00 p.m. South Pod, The BRIG - Bldg 406, Sand Point Navel Reserve (follow the signs), 7400 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle Theater Simple is doing a hell of show. Again. An original distillation of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita. Banned then censored for over 30 years, it has become one of the most influential novels of modern Russia (Last seen in Seattle in '97, Portland and Charleston '98). Tickets: general admission $15 general/ $13 Seniors and students with ID. Tickets available in advance through TicketWindow (Visa/MC), online at http://www.ticketwindowonline.com; phone sales 206.325-6500; fax: 425.450.3839; or at the door 45 minutes before the show (cash only). |
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Russia's Road to a Market Economy under Putin |
| Anders Aslund, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
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Thursday, May 3, 7:30 p.m., Kane Hall Room 210 Part of the lecture series Putin and the New Russian Foreign Policy. Anders Aslund specializes in post-communist economic transformation, especially the Russian and Ukrainian economies, and co-directs the Carnegie Endowment's project on Post-Soviet Economies in Transition. He was previously a research scholar at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and a professor and director of the Stockholm Institute of East European Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics. He has served as an economic advisor to the Russian government, to the Ukrainian government, and to President Askar Akaev of Kirghizstan. Dr. Aslund is the author of four books, notably Gorbachev's Struggle for Economic Reform and How Russia Became a Market Economy. Sponsored by the Henry M. Jackson Foundation, the World Affairs Council, the Foundation for Russian-American Economic Cooperation and REECAS/JSIS. For more information please call 206-543-4852. |
| Domestic Violence Prevention Training Project in Uzbekistan |
| Karen Greene, Project Coordinator, Seattle |
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Thursday, May 3, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m., Denny Hall Room 215 A report on an ongoing project of the Seattle-Tashkent Sister City Association. All are welcome to attend this meeting of the Central Asian Studies Group. Call (206) 543-9963 or 543-6033 for more information. |
| The Decalogue, Parts I-II |
| REECAS Film Night |
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Wednesday, May 2, 6:00 p.m., Mary Gates Hall Room 234 The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland, 1988-89) explores the timeless moral issues of human existence, through ten contemporary tales, each based on one of the Ten Commandments.Originally produced for Polish television, the series of separate but intertwining films transcended the boundaries between film and TV, winning honors as it has played around the world. In Polish with English subtitles. Call (206) 543-4852 for more information. |
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International Institutions and Human Rights in Post-Soviet Ukraine |
| Jeffrey T. Checkel, Research Professor, ARENA, University of Oslo |
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Wednesday, May 2, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m., Thomson Hall Room 317 Jeffrey T. Checkel is Research Professor of International Politics and Coordinator, Research on European Identity Change, at ARENA. His research and teaching interests are European integration, international relations theory (constructivism, transnational politics, international organization), new institutionalist approaches, politics in East and West Europe (former USSR, Germany), and human rights (citizenship and immigrant rights). Prof. Checkel is the author of numerous reviews and articles; his historical institutionalist account of Soviet/Russian international behavior and the Cold War's demise was published in 1997 by Yale University Press. For more information please call (206) 543-4852. |
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Do Civilized People Commit Genocides, Ethnic Cleansings, and Other Political Massacres? |
| Daniel Chirot, Professor of Sociology and International Studies, UW Seattle |
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Tuesday, May 1, 6:30 - 9:30 p.m., Parrington Hall Commons In this evening salon, Professor Daniel Chirot will address questions about 20th century ethnic conflicts and violence, and suggest what conditions can reduce the probability of violence and lead to conflict resolution. The research presentation will be followed by conversation with the audience, and hors d'oeuvres will be served. Your $25 contribution supports the University of Washington Department of Sociology. Reservations requested. For more information or > reservations, please telephone the Department at (206) 543-5882. |
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Cold War Perceptions: Afghanistan, the Soviet Empire and the Collapse of the USSR |
| Antony Arnold, Author and Former Analyst, US Central Intelligence Agency |
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Tuesday, May 1, 11:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m., Thomson Hall Room 119 Anthony Arnold got his BA in Russian Area Studies in 1950 from Yale University. After a year of postgraduate study in Paris and two years' army service in Germany, he spent the next 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, serving abroad in Germany, Sweden, Burma, Japan, Afghanistan, and England, where his duties included monitoring host country relations with the USSR. On retirement from government service in 1979, he returned home and became a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution, where he wrote two books on Afghanistan: Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion in Perspective, and Afghanistan's Two-Party Communism: Parcham and Khalq. He also contributed chapters to others' books on Afghanistan and in 1989-1990 taught a course at Golden Gate University in San Francisco on Soviet security concerns and policies. Later, in 1993, he wrote The Fateful Pebble: Afghanistan's Role in the Fall of the Soviet Empire. For the past several years he has worked on books and articles dealing with the World War II Vlasov Movement, a Russian military force recruited by the Nazi occupiers of the western portions of the USSR. |
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Northwest Working Group for Russian History and Culture |
| Annual Meeting |
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Saturday, April 28, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Laura Phillips (Eastern Washington University) will present a paper from her new work on Soviet conceptions of masculinity, entitled "Russian Men in War and Revolution." Daniel Waugh (University of Washington, Seattle) will give a slide presentation on his work on and in Central Asia. For additional information, please contact Anne Gorsuch: gorsuch@interchange.ubc.ca. |
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Children's Festival Mosaic |
| A Workshop for Educators, Grades K-8 |
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Saturday, April 28, 8:30 - 4:30 p.m., Thomson Hall Room 101 Includes a presentation on "Roma Culture in Contemporary Eastern Europe". Sponsored by the Washington State Council for the Social Studies, the Seattle International Children's Festival and the Jackson School Outreach Programs. For more information please call Keith Snodgrass at 206-543-4800. |
| Covering the News from Uzbekistan for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |
| Adolat Najimova, RFE/RL Correspondent, Prague |
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Friday, April 27, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m., Denny Hall Room 215 All are welcome to attend this meeting of the Central Asian Studies Group. Call (206) 543-9963 or 543-6033 for more information. |
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Chernobyl: 15 Years Later |
| A Roundtable Discussion on the Anniversary of the Nuclear Accident |
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Thursday, April 26, 7:00 p.m., Kane Hall Room 210 Participants include Mikhail Molchanov (University of Victoria), Dennis Kreid (Chernobyl Closure, Battelle/PNNL) and Michael Christiansen (Children of Chernobyl/USAID). Moderated by Herbert J. Ellison, UW Professor of History and International Studies. Sponsored by the Institute for Global and Regional Security Studies, the Ukrainian Studies Endowment and REECAS/JSIS. For more information please call (206) 543-4852. |
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Ethnic Mobilization without Prerequisites: The East European Gypsies |
| Zoltan D. Barany, University of Texas at Austin |
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Thursday, April 26, 3:30 p.m., Parrington Hall Forum (309) Zoltan Barany specializes in civil-military relations, ethnopolitics, and East European and Russian politics. He is the author of Pariahs and Politics: Regime Change, Ethnopolitics, and the East European Gypsies (forthcoming), Soldiers and Politics in Eastern Europe, 1945-90 (1993), editor of Russian Politics: Challenges of Democratization (forthcoming), and co-editor of Dilemmas of Transition (1999) and The Legacies of Communism in Eastern Europe (1995). Part of the ECCR Speaker Series. Sponsored by the Ethnic Conflict Study Group, the Jackson School of International Studies and REECAS/JSIS. |
| Turkmen Traditions and Their Revival: II |
| Nartach Jepbarova, former ACCELS scholar at the UW from Turkmenistan |
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Thursday, April 26, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m., Denny Hall Room 215 All are welcome to attend this meeting of the Central Asian Studies Group. Call (206) 543-9963 or 543-6033 for more information. |
| Kolyma |
| REECAS Film Night |
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Wednesday, April 25, 6:00 p.m., Mary Gates Hall Room 234 Kolyma (1997) The winner of both the Berlin and Amsterdam documentary film festivals, Kolyma documents forty years of atrocities in the worst of the Siberian prison camps. Over two million Russian citizens lost their lives through starvation, disease, random executions and subfreezing temperatures in these camps, where they were sent to mine for gold and other valuable minerals.This documentary is based on eyewitness testimony, archive records, surviving documentary footage, and new filming from the remains of the prison camp at Kolyma. Call (206) 543-4852 for more information. |
| Turkmen Traditions and Their Revival: I |
| Nartach Jepbarova, former ACCELS scholar at the UW from Turkmenistan |
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Friday, April 20, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m., Denny Hall Room 215 All are welcome to attend this meeting of the Central Asian Studies Group. Call (206) 543-9963 or 543-6033 for more information. |
| Chevron and Kazakhstan |
| Akkuan Zhumagalieva, Visiting Scholar, School of Public Affairs, UW |
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Thursday, April 19, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m., Denny Hall Room 215 All are welcome to attend this meeting of the Central Asian Studies Group. Call (206) 543-9963 or 543-6033 for more information. |
| Vukovar |
| REECAS Film Night |
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Wednesday, April 18, 6:00 p.m., Mary Gates Hall Room 234 Vukovar (Boro Draskovic, Former Yugoslavia, 1994) is the story of childhood friends - one Croat, the other Serb - who marry, only to be torn apart by the war which ravages their nativeYugoslavia. The film was made in the bombed-out city of Vukovar between August and November of 1993, while the war was still raging. Vukovar points to the absurdity of war and is not a political film as such, but rather, in the words of director Boro Draskovic, "a collection of emotions from this part of the world." In Croatian-Serbian with English subtitles. Call (206) 543-4852 for more information. |
| Gender in Transition: The Case of the Former Yugoslavia |
| Vesna Kesic |
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Tuesday, April 17, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m., Thomson Hall Room 317 Vesna Kesic is a feminist, journalist and women's human rights activist from Croatia. She is the founder of numerous NGOs, including the Center for Women War Victims,"B.a.B.e." (a women's human rights group), the Civil Initiative for Freedom of Public Expression, and the Network of East-West Women. She has published extensively on the subjects of nationalistic polity, gender discrimination and political responsibility, civil society and freedom of expression. For her work she was designated "one of the 100 Heroines of the World", for furthering the cause of women's rights, by the 100 Heroines Project (Rochester, New York). Currently she is researching "Sexism and War: The Construction of Gender and Ethnicity in Wars in the Former Yugoslavia" at the New School for Social Research (New York). Sponsored by REECAS/JSIS, the Human Rights Education and Research Network and the Center for Women and Democracy. For more information please call (206) 543-4852. |
| Film: Monologue |
| Ilya Averbakh, 1972 |
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April 14-15, 12:00 noon, The Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 NE 50th St., Seattle One of the first - and, up until the Little Vera days, the very few films to address the Soviet generation gap, Monologue manages to pull it off not once but twice: it saddles an irascible professor with a sudden return of his wayward daughter, with her own daughter in tow. Personalities clash and a comfortable routine crumbles, but family ties prevail. Aided by the script that has him philosophizing on toy soldiers and delivering florid speeches on the occasion of his own birthday, Mikhail Gluzsky creates an immensely memorable character. Popular leading lady Marina Neelova holds her own as the free-spirit offspring. Call (206) 523-3935 for ticket information. |
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REECAS-NW in Olympia |
| 7th Annual Northwest Regional Conference for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies |
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Saturday, April 14, 8:30 a.m. - 7:00 p.m., The Evergreen State College, Olympia Panels include: Novgorod Past and Present; Russian Integration - Economic and Political Perspectives; The International Kuril Islands Project; Ukraine and Russia; Jewish Identity in Mid-Century Central Europe; Environment and Planning in the Baltic Region; Central Asia and Its Neighbors; Decommunization in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union; Evolving Governance in Russia and Eastern Europe; Cultural Studies; Kazakhstan Past and Present; and Human Rights and Democracy Building. Small travel stipends may be available to graduate students travelling from outside the Puget Sound and Olympia areas, and carpooling will be arranged from Seattle, Tacoma and other cities. Expected special guests include Mark Kramer (Director, Harvard Project on Cold War Studies, Harvard University), who will also be speaking in Seattle on Thursday, April 12 as part of the lecture series Russian Foreign Policy in the Putin Era. Sponsored by REECAS/JSIS and The Evergreen State College. Pre-registration is required but free; to register please call 206-543-4852 or send a message containing your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and affiliation to reecas@u.washington.edu  .
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Russia's Relations with Eastern Europe and the Baltic States: A New Divide in Europe? |
| Mark Kramer, Director, Harvard Project on Cold War Studies, Harvard University |
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Thursday, April 12, 7:30 p.m., Kane Hall Room 210 Part of the lecture series Putin and the New Russian Foreign Policy. Mark Kramer has taught at Harvard, Yale, and Brown Universities and was formerly an Academy Scholar in Harvard's Academy of International and Area Studies and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. He has several books forthcoming, including From Dominance to Hegemony to Collapse: Soviet Policy in East-Central Europe, 1945-1991 (Oxford University Press); Soldier and State in Poland: Civil-Military Relations and Institutional Change After Communism (Rowman & Littlefield), and The Collapse of the Soviet Union (Westview Press). He has also written Crisis in Czechoslovakia, 1968: The Prague Spring and the Soviet Invasion, and countless articles on a variety of topics, including the Soviet and post-Soviet armed forces, the structures of Soviet and post-Soviet foreign policy-making, nuclear proliferation, NATO and East European security, post-Communist economic reform in East-Central Europe, social policy in East-Central Europe, civil-military relations in East-Central Europe, and the global arms trade. Dr. Kramer is also a Senior Associate at the Davis Center for Russian Studies. Sponsored by the Henry M. Jackson Foundation, the World Affairs Council, the Foundation for Russian-American Economic Cooperation, the Institute for Global and Regional Security Studies, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and REECAS/JSIS. For more information please call 206-543-4852. |
| Current Situation of the Uighurs in Xinjiang |
| Rachel Neville, Uighur Human Rights Coalition, University of Washington Chapter |
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Thursday, April 12, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m., Denny Hall Room 215 All are welcome to attend this meeting of the Central Asian Studies Group. Call (206) 543-9963 or 543-6033 for more information. |
| Behind the Lines in Chechnya |
| Anne Nivat, Journalist |
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Wednesday, April 11, 7:00 p.m., Kane Hall Room 220 The University Book Store and the World Affairs Council are proud to present Anne Nivat with her book, Chienne de Guerre: A Woman Reporter Behind the Lines of War in Chechnya. Winner of the prestigious Albert Landres Prize in France and now for the first time in English, the book is a behind the scenes journal of one young journalist's dangerous experiences as an undercover war correspondent in Chechnya. Tickets are required. Free tickets can be obtained at any branch of the University Book Store. For more information please call (206) 545-9477 Ext. 443. |
| Beshkempir, the Adopted Son |
| REECAS Film Night |
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Wednesday, April 11, 6:00 p.m., Mary Gates Hall Room 234 Beshkempir, the Adopted Son (Aktan Abdykalykov, Kirghizstan, 1998): In this coming of age tale from a Kirghiz village, Beshkempir is just like any other kid - playing in mud, getting into trouble, experiencing the first pangs of sexuality - until a fight with his best friend leads to the revelation that he was adopted. Shot in striking black and white, with occasional bursts of color, this is the first independent feature film ever shot in Kirghizstan. In Kirghiz with English subtitles. Call (206) 543-4852 for more information. |
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Constructing Primordialism: Old Histories for New Nations in the Post-Soviet Region |
| Ronald Grigor Suny, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago |
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Friday, April 6, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m., Thomson Hall Room 317 Details to follow. Sponsored by REECAS/JSIS. For more information please call 206-543-4852. |
| Abduriem Otkur (1926-1995): A Prominent Uighur Poet and Writer |
| Ablahat Ibrahim, Seattle |
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Friday, April 6, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m., Denny Hall Room 215 All are welcome to attend this meeting of the Central Asian Studies Group. Call (206) 543-9963 or 543-6033 for more information. |
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When Genocide? Interpretations of the Causes and Timing of the Armenian Genocide |
| Ronald Grigor Suny, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago |
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Thursday, April 5, 3:30 p.m., Parrington Hall Forum (309) Ronald Suny has investigated issues in comparative politics and Russian history, with special attention to the non-Russian peoples. He is the author of The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union; Looking Toward Ararat: The Armenians in Modern History; The Making of the Georgian Nation; and The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States. Part of the ECCR Speaker Series. Sponsored by the Ethnic Conflict Study Group, the Jackson School of International Studies and REECAS/JSIS. |
| China's Image of Central Asia and Its Policy in the Region |
| Dmitriy Pashkun, Senior Lecturer, Social and Political Sciences, National State University of Uzbekistan |
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Thursday, April 5, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m., Denny Hall Room 215 All are welcome to attend this meeting of the Central Asian Studies Group. Call (206) 543-9963 or 543-6033 for more information. |
| Film: Pirosmani |
| Georgy Shagelaya, 1968 |
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March 31, April 1, 12:00 noon, The Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 NE 50th St., Seattle The life of Pirosmani, a Georgian primitivist folk painter, is explored in dreamlike detail by his compatriot Georgy Shagelaya. The film's curious sepia color scheme pays a subtle tribute to Pirosmani's own artwork, which ranges from folk whimsy to unfettered drama. Call (206) 523-3935 for ticket information. |
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The Coming Collapse of Russian Education? Demographics and the Fate of Schooling in the Former Soviet Union |
| Stephen T. Kerr, Professor of Education, UW |
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Wednesday, March 28, 5:30 - 8:00 p.m., Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall International Update dinner-lecture open to school teachers, the UW community and the general public. Cost: $22, including a Russian meal. Clock hours are available at no additional cost to teachers attending at least two International Updates. To register or obtain further information please call 206-543-1675 or e-mail cwes@u.washington.edu.
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| The Akathist Hymn |
| Capella Romana |
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Saturday, March 24, 8:00 p.m., St. James Cathedral, Seattle Composition by Ivan Moody. Part of Capella Romana's 2001 season Return to Byzantium. More details may be found at: http://www.cappellaromana.org. |
| The State of the Performing Arts in Contemporary Russia |
| A Roundtable Discussion |
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Saturday, March 24, 6:30 p.m., Meany Studio Theater, UW Seattle Roundtable features Sergei Donalin, a performing arts producer who represents the Kirov and the Eifman Ballet, as well as many others performing arts groups from Russia; Boris Eifman, Artistic Director of the Eifman Ballet; Sandi Kurtz, dance historian and dance critic for the Seattle Weekly; and will be moderated by Matt Krashan, Director of Meany Hall. For more information call 206-543-4880. |
| In Concert |
| Veniamin Smekhov, famed Russian actor and producer |
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Saturday, March 24, 3:00 p.m., Continental Restaurant, 2241 148th Avenue, Bellevue Tickets $12-15. Children under 10 free. For more information, contact 425-204-9235, or see the website: http://www.audiokniga.com/Intro.htm. |
| Film: Debut |
| Gleb Panfilov, 1970 |
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March 24-25, 12:00 noon, The Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 NE 50th St., Seattle Inna Churikova virtually reprises her No Ford in the Fire part - a plain, naive and excitable girl handed a big chance - but in a contemporary setting and in a slightly more light-hearted project. This time, her heroine is a factory worker who gets to play Joan of Arc (in the movies, no less) with only a community-theater part of Baba Yaga to her previous credit. Director/husband Gleb Panfilov's self-awareness is quite in evidence here, from the way in which the character's ascent is shaped to mirror the actress's, to the film's set of a film set. Winner, Silver Lion, Venice Film Festival, 1971. Call (206) 523-3935 for ticket information. |
| Russian Hamlet: Son of Catherine the Great |
| Eifman Ballet |
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March 22, 23, 24, 8:00 p.m., Meany Hall, UW Seattle Boris Eifman's powerful vision "shatters all preconceived notions of Russian ballet as an art of ironclad tradition." His Company has revolutionized the concept of classical dance in Russia, taking the art of ballet to its highest level of expressiveness in works that reflect Eifman's highly personal and visually spectacular style. Don't miss this evening of over-the-top theatricality when this extraordinary company presents its visionary take on the turbulent soul of Paul I, the son of Catherine the Great, who is known as "The Russian Hamlet." Single tickets: $52. For more information call 206-543-4880. |
| Hungary and the European Union |
| Geza Jeszenszky, Hungarian Ambassador to the U.S. |
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Tuesday, March 20, 3:00 p.m., Lower Conference Room, UW Faculty Club Ambassador Jeszenszky has been the Hungarian Government's official representative to the United States since 1998. He has also been a member of the Hungarian Parliament (1994-98) and Minister for Foreign Affairs (1990-94). He is a founding member of the Hungarian Democratic Forum and held an academic appointment at the Budapest (formerly Karl Marx) University of Economics from 1976 to 1998. A Fulbright grant recipient, Ambassador Jeszenszky has also been a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1985) and the University of Michigan (1996). He is the author of numerous scholarly publications, including The Changing Image of Hungary in Britain, 1894-1918 (Budapest, second edition, 1994) and has written extensively on political subjects. Sponsored by the European Union Center, the Hungarian-American Chamber of Commerce, the Hungarian Consulate and REECAS/JSIS. Call (206) 616-2415 for more information. |
| Film: Nobody Wanted to Die |
| Vitautas Zalakiavicius, 1963 |
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March 17-18, 12:00 noon, The Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 NE 50th St., Seattle A farm-set tale of family revenge worthy of Sergio Leone but equally steeped in Baltic rural literature, this Lithuanian drama was close enough to a thriller to become a nationwide hit after being dubbed into Russian. Aside from the commendably spaghetti-Western title and an extended, wordless ambush sequence in the middle, the film's genre pleasures include Latvian leading lady Via Artmane, whose feisty presence has something of the young Bardot's. Under the surface, however, the "loaded" setting - the Soviet postwar annexation of Lithuania - provides its own stories of Oedipal confusion and general lawlessness; in a much-discussed touch, the film begins and ends with a shot of a wooden roadside Virgin Mary. In Lithuanian with English subtitles. Call (206) 523-3935 for ticket information. |
| "Do You Have 50 Million Dollars?" |
| A report from the Conference on NATO Enlargement and the Baltic States, Washington, D.C. |
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Friday, March 16, 10:30 - 11:30 a.m., Raitt Hall 314 Aaron Eglitis is a BA student in the Scandinavian Studies Department. He attended the March 8-10 conference organized by the Joint Baltic National Committee. Speakers at the conference included the ambassadors of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, as well as US State Department representatives and leading scholars on NATO and US-Baltic relations. Eglitis will summarize the most interesting lectures at the conference (including some intriguing off-the-record comments by conference speakers). The title of Eglitis's report comes from the lecture by Paul Goble (visit the conference program at http://www.jbanc.org/2001conference.html#n). |
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Sunshine |
| A Special Screening of the Award-winning Film |
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Sunday, March 11, 7:30 p.m., Cinerama, Downtown Seattle A panel discussion, featuring Sarah Stein (History/JSIS, UW) and Veronika Szabo (Stanford University), precedes the screening. Presented in conjunction with the American Jewish Committee's Seattle Jewish Film Festival. Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program, the Seattle Jewish Film Festival and REECAS/JSIS. For tickets and information please call (206) 622-6315. |
| Revolution in the Revolution |
| Soviet Cinema from the 1960s |
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Through March 11, The Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 NE 50th St., Seattle Includes Neotpravlennoe pis'mo/The Letter Never Sent (Jan. 6-7), Devyat' dnei odnogo goda/Nine Days of One Year (Jan. 13-14), Do svidanya, mal'chiki/Goodbye, Boys (Jan. 20-21), Znoi/Heat (Jan. 27-28), Gamlet/Hamlet (Feb. 3-4), Pervyi uchitel'/The First Teacher (Feb. 10-11), Korotvie vstrechi/Brief Encounters (Feb. 17-18), V ogne broda net/No Ford in the Fire (Feb. 24-25), Iul'skii dozhd'/July Rain (March 3-4), Teni zabytyh predkov/Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (March 10-11). Each Sunday show will be introduced by a faculty member from the Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures. This series was made possible through the efforts of Alla Verlotsky of Seagull Films and Richard Pena of the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Sponsored by Slavic Languages and Literatures, Scarecrow Video, The Grand Illusion Cinema and the Northwest Film Forum. Series pass $35/$48; individual tickets $3.50-$7.50. Call (206) 523-3935 for showtimes and information. |
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The Promotion of Democracy in Putin's Russia: Myths and Realities |
| Sarah Mendelson, Assistant Professor of International Politics, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University |
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Thursday, March 8, 7:30 p.m., Kane Hall Room 210 Part of the lecture series Putin and the New Russian Foreign Policy. Sarah Mendelson's professional interests include Russia's relations with the West, political transition in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, transnational networks, NGOs in international politics, military-military relations with Russia, and use of force. Her publications include Democracy Assistance and NGO Strategies in Post-Communist Societies, co-authored (2000); Changing Course: Ideas, Politics, and the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan (1998); and "Putins Path: Human Rights in Retreat," published in Problems of Post-Communism (2000). She is the recipient of a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and is also associated with the Council on Foreign Relations and Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian Studies. Sponsored by the Henry M. Jackson Foundation, the World Affairs Council, the Foundation for Russian-American Economic Cooperation, the Institute for Global and Regional Security Studies, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and REECAS/JSIS. For more information please call 206-543-4852. |
| Prisoner of the Mountains |
| REECAS Film Night |
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Wednesday, March 7, 6:00 p.m., Mary Gates Hall Room 271 Prisoner of the Mountains (Sergei Bodrov, Russia, 1996): A moral drama of love and war, Sergei Bodrov's Academy Award-nominated film is an update of Tolstoy's classic tale of the Caucasus, set in the context of the recent wars between Russia and Chechnya. In Russian with English subtitles. Call (206) 543-4852 for more information. |
| The Historic Architecture of Siberia: Problems of Preservation |
| William Brumfield, Professor of Slavic Studies, Tulane University |
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Monday, March 5, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m., Thomson Hall Room 317. William Craft Brumfield teaches at Tulane University, where he lectures in the Department of German and Slavic Studies as well as the School of Architecture. He has also held positions at Harvard and the Universities of Virginia and Wisconsin. His writing and photography have appeared in a number of books, including Gold in Azure: One Thousand Years of Russian Architecture, The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture, Lost Russia: Photographing the Ruins of Russian Architecture, and Landmarks of Russian Architecture: A Photographic Survey. Brumfield's photographs have been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums and are part of the collection of the Photographic Archives at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Sponsored by REECAS/JSIS and Washington State University. For more information please call (206) 543-4852. |
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In the Eye of the Revolution |
| A Symposium on Early Soviet Film |
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Friday, March 2, 8:45 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., HUB Room 310 A day of new perspectives on classics from the early Soviet film era, including presentations on Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, Stalinist musicals of the 1930s, discourse and politics in Soviet film art, and a roundtable discussion on teaching with and about film. Participants include Anthony Anemone (College of William and Mary), Anne Nesbet (University of California, Berkeley), Zoran Kuzmanovich (Davidson College, North Carolina), and from the UW, Jennifer Bean, Gordana Crnkovic, Galya Diment, Anthony Geist, Bruce Kochis, Amarilis Lugo de Fabritz, William Richardson, Steven Shaviro and Lynne Walker. Moderated by Galya Diment, Acting Chair of Slavic Languages and Literatures. The symposium is free, and pre-registration is not required. 11:30 a.m. film screening in the Henry Art Gallery Auditorium. A reception will follow, at 5:45 p.m. in the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. Sponsored by REECAS/JSIS, Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the College of Arts and Sciences, Comparative Literature, and Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences (UW Tacoma). For more information please call 206-543-4852. |
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Putin's Foreign Policy: Challenging the U.S. with a Practical Approach |
| Celeste Wallander, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations |
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Thursday, March 1, 7:30 p.m., Kane Hall Room 210 Part of the lecture series Putin and the New Russian Foreign Policy. Celeste Wallander is a Senior Fellow in Europe Studies with the Council on Foreign Relations. She has previously taught in Harvard University's Department of Government, where she was also associated with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Davis Center for Russian Studies. Her books include Mortal Friends, Best Enemies: German-Russian Cooperation after the Cold War (1999); Imperfect Unions: Security Institutions over Time and Space (1999); and The Sources of Russian Foreign Policy after the Cold War (1996). Sponsored by the Henry M. Jackson Foundation, the World Affairs Council, the Foundation for Russian-American Economic Cooperation, the Institute for Global and Regional Security Studies, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and REECAS/JSIS. For more information please call 206-543-4852. |
| Underground |
| REECAS Film Night |
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Wednesday, February 28, 6:00 p.m., Mary Gates Hall Room 271 Underground (Emir Kusturica, former Yugoslavia, 1995): A great circus of a film, full of tragicomic satire, hope, laughter, the joy of living and difficulties of survival. In the midst of war, Marko and Blacky - two opportunistic buddies sharing a spirited lust for booze, women and madcap brawling - attain riches and heroic praise dealing arms to the resistance. When things get too hot, they move into an intricate cellar packed with refugees, whom Marko encourages to manufacture the contraband. With Blacky convinced he should remain hidden until the war ends, Marko conspires to grow even richer from the toils of those still underground. More than fifteen years pass before Blacky emerges from the cellar to seek his revenge. In Croatian-Serbian with English subtitles. Call (206) 543-4852 for more information. |
| Historical Research in Kazakhstan's Archives |
| Gregory Tomasin, Ph.C., Department of History |
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Friday, February 23, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m., Denny Hall Room 215 All are welcome to attend this meeting of the Central Asian Studies Group. Call (206) 543-9963 or 543-6033 for more information. |
| Pretty Village, Pretty Flame |
| REECAS Film Night |
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Wednesday, February 21, 6:00 p.m., Mary Gates Hall Room 271 Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Srdjan Dragojevic, former Yugoslavia, 1996): Two young boys, Halil, a Muslim, and Milan, a Serb, watch the inauguration of the new Brotherhood and Unity Tunnel in their neighborhood in 1980. Twelve years later, Milan lies badly injured in a hospital bed, remembering the vicious firefight in which he and a group of Serb soldiers were besieged for ten days in the very same tunnel. Dragojevic's provocative and disturbing film is based on a 1992 incident from the first winter of the war in Bosnia. In Croatian-Serbian with English subtitles. Call (206) 543-4852 for more information. |
| Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age |
| Selections from the Merrill Berman Collection |
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Through February 18, 2001, Henry Art Gallery In 1975, as a young collector, Merrill Berman recognized the beauty and importance of thirty Soviet graphics he came upon in a Parisian art gallery. Compared to the graceful Art Nouveau posters, more popular at the time, images from the idealistic, nascent years of communism were dark and sullen, and were considered mere curiosities. Few could see their appeal. From this original group, he continued to build his collection to its present size of more than twenty thousand works on paper. |
| The Question to Your Answer |
| Dubravka Ugresic, Croatian writer and visiting scholar, University of California, Los Angeles |
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Friday, February 16, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m., Mary Gates Hall Room 228 Dubravka Ugresic is the author of the novels Fording the Stream of Consciousness, Steffie Speck in the Jaws of Life and The Museum of Unconditional Surrender, two short-story collections, Pose for Prose and Life is a Fairy Tale, and two collections of essays, Have a Nice Day: From the Balkan War to the American Dream and The Culture of Lies. Also a literary scholar, she has written a book of essays on Russian contemporary prose and an anthology of Russian alternative prose, and has contributed to the Times Literary Supplement, Die Zeit, Lettre Internationale and other literary journals. Her books have been translated into several languages. Sponsored by the Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures and REECAS/JSIS, with support from the Graduate School Fund for Excellence and Innovation. Call (206) 543-4852 for more information. |
| The Red and the White |
| REECAS Film Night |
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Wednesday, February 14, 6:00 p.m., Mary Gates Hall Room 271 The Red and the White (Miklos Jancso, Hungary, 1968): Set in Central Russia during the Civil War, the story details the constant shifting of power between White guards and Red soldiers, first at an abandoned monastery and later at a field hospital. The film exhibits Jancso's signature wide-screen technique of very long takes and a ceaselessly tracking camera movement. In Hungarian with English subtitles. Call (206) 543-4852 for more information. |
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Ethnicity, Insurgency and Civil War |
| James Fearon, Stanford University |
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Monday, February 12, 3:30 p.m., Parrington Hall Forum (309) James Fearon specializes in game-theoretic models of international cooperation. His publications include "Bargaining, Enforcement, and International Cooperation", International Organization (Spring 1998); "Signaling Foreign Policy Interests: Tying Hands Versus Sinking Cost", Journal of Conflict Resolution (February 1997); "Explaining Interethnic Cooperation" [with David Laitin], American Political Science Review (December 1996); and "Rationalist Explanations for War", International Organization (Summer 1995). Part of the ECCR Speaker Series. Sponsored by the Ethnic Conflict Study Group, the Jackson School of International Studies and REECAS/JSIS. |
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Radost's Silver Jubilee: 25th Anniversary Auction |
| Radost Folk Ensemble |
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Saturday, February 10, 6:30 p.m., Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1511 E Pike St., Seattle Hors d'oeuvres, music, drinks, and shopping. Enjoy live music and dancing throughout the evening! Entertainment will be provided by the Radost Folk Ensemble. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. Patron level tickets are $25 and include a $10 donation to Radost. Radost voice mail: 206- 860-5251. |
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Shared Waters: Root of Conflict or Tool of Cooperation in the Aral Sea Basin?
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| Philip P. Micklin, Professor of Geography Emeritus, Western Michigan University |
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Friday, February 9, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m., Savery Hall Room 241 An alumnus of the University of Washington, Philip Micklin has spent 33 years studying about, writing on, and living in the former Soviet Union and its successor states. He has visited the region 24 times since 1967, including a number of visits to Central Asia during the period 1987-1998. The major focus of his work until the early 1980s was on Soviet plans for large-scale north-south water transfers and their potential environmental consequences. Since the mid-1980s, his primary research efforts have been devoted to water management and related environmental problems in former Soviet Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kirghizstan, Turkmenistan, and the southern part of Kazakstan), with a special focus on the Aral Sea Basin. Professor Micklin has consulted for National Geographic, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) joint working group for the Aral Sea, the Global Infrastructure Fund Research Foundation (GIF) of Japan, the Scientific Affairs Division of NATO, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). After 31 years of teaching and research at Western Michigan University, Professor Micklin retired in May 1999. Since retirement, he has continued his research interests on water and environmental management problems in Central Asia, publishing a number of articles and a monograph, Managing Water in Central Asia. Sponsored by REECAS/JSIS, the Central Asian Studies Group, the Program on the Environment and the Dept. of Geography. Please call (206) 543-4852 for more information. |
| Chapayev |
| REECAS Film Night |
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Wednesday, February 7, 6:00 p.m., Mary Gates Hall Room 271 Chapayev (S.and G. Vasilyev, USSR, 1934): The account of a beloved hero of the Russian Revolution, an illiterate Russian who served in the tsar's army, then after the Revolution formed his own forces to fight alongside the Reds. In Russian with English subtitles. Call (206) 543-4852 for more information. |
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International Documentary Film: Effective Use in the Classroom |
| A Workshop for Educators |
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Saturday, February 3, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Thomson Hall Room 235 This workshop will help teachers make the most of the International Film Festival (February 22-24 at the Henry Art Gallery), as well as the film collections in the various Outreach Centers of the Jackson School of International Studies. Participants will learn how to assess films for quality and suitability, and to identify biases and hidden messages. Workshop leaders: Carol Hermer is a Lecturer in the UW Department of Anthropology and the Program on Africa, where she teaches courses on film and culture, including African film. Educator Mary Barber will demonstrate effective and practical uses for film in the classroom. $40 includes morning refreshments and box lunch. Eight Washington State clock hours available at no additional charge. Sponsored by the Jackson School Outreach Centers. For more information please call 206-543-6269 or e-mail canada@u.washington.edu. |
| Turksib & Salt for Svanetia |
| REECAS Film Night |
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Wednesday, January 31, 6:00 p.m., Mary Gates Hall Room 271 Resisting the character-driven narrative, Viktor Turin formulated in Turksib (Viktor Turin, USSR, 1929) a grand, elemental drama centered around the struggle for survival in Asia, from the arid plains of Turkestan to the icy Siberian mountains. The film depicts the Herculean accomplishment of joining these distant and disparate regions by rail - an awesome monument to Soviet engineering that is also a satisfying spectacle on a purely primal level. Salt for Svanetia (Mikhail Kalatozov, USSR, 1930) depicts life on the brink of starvation in an isolated village high in the Caucasus mountains. Often compared to Bunuel's Land without Bread, the film begins as a starkly rendered homage to the resourcefulness and determination of the Svan people. But as the focus shifts to the tribe's religious customs (more haunting and otherworldly than any surrealist could have envisioned), Kalatozov's film transforms itself into a work of remarkably powerful Soviet propaganda, holding up the grotesquely portrayed ceremonies as examples of religion's corruptive influence. Call (206) 543-4852 for more information. |
| Transition to Independence and Commitments to Minorities |
| David D. Laitin, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University |
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Monday, January 29, 3:30 p.m., Parrington Hall Forum (309) David Laitin is the author of Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad (1998), Language Repertoires and State Construction in Africa (1992), and Hegemony and Culture: Politics and Religious Change Among the Yoruba (1986). Part of the ECCR Speaker Series. Sponsored by the Ethnic Conflict Study Group, the Jackson School of International Studies and REECAS/JSIS. |
| Deterrence Now: Theory and Practice after the Cold War |
| Patrick M. Morgan, Tierny Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, UC-Irvine |
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Friday, January 26, 3:30 p.m., Parrington Hall Commons (308) Morgan is the author and co-author of several books, including Deterrence: A Conceptual Analysis (Sage, 1977), Re-viewing the Cold War (Praeger, 1999), Security Studies Today (Polity Press, 1999) and Regional Orders (Penn State UP, 1997). In addition to current research on deterrence after the Cold War, he will soon publish with Robert Uriu Escaping Traditonal International Politics: The East Asian Experience. Sponsors: International Studies Center/JSIS, Pacific NW Colloquium on International Security and the Institute for Global and Regional Security Studies. Info: 685-2354. |
| Evgenii Bauer: Three Films by a Master of Early Russian Cinema |
| REECAS Film Night |
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Wednesday, January 24, 6:00 p.m., Mary Gates Hall Room 271 The central scheme of For Luck (Evgenii Bauer, Russia, 1917) - a daughter and mother both in love with the same man - and the extraordinary intensity brought to the final scenes, in which the daughter's psychological blindness become physical when she is rejected, show Bauer at the height of his subtle powers. An erotic comedy, The 1002nd Ruse (Evgenii Bauer, Russia, 1915) celebrates a knowing female sexuality that would almost certainly be more qualified in any contemporary American equivalent (although it has much in common with the contemporary sex comedies of Lubitsch and DeMille). Daydreams (Evgenii Bauer, Russia, 1915) is regarded by many as Bauer's surviving masterpiece. Paolo Cherchi Usai describes it as 'a masterful balance between subject, technique and narrative development. The tension in the plot (reminding one of Hitchcock's Vertigo) reaches its climax in the extraordinary tracking shot during which the camera quite literally follows the main character along a deserted street, stops when he stops, then tracks back slowly, while he retraces his route. Necrophilia, mysticism and abstraction are the main ingredients of a tale with an astonishing and eerie finale.' Call (206) 543-4852 for more information. |
| What Future for Russia? Liberal Economics and Illiberal Geography |
| Allen Lynch, Director, Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Virginia |
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Tuesday, January 23, 3:30 p.m., Thomson Hall Room 317 Dr. Lynch is also a Senior Fellow at the Research Institute of the German Foreign Policy Association, Berlin, and Associate Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia. |
| Young Poland: Art on the Periphery, ca. 1900 |
| Jan Cavanaugh, art historian |
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Tuesday, January 23, 12:00 noon, Communications Bldg. Room 126 Dr. Cavanaugh received her doctorate in art history from the University of Texas at Austin in 1989. She has since taught at several universities, including the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the University of Missouri at Columbia. Cavanaugh's course offerings have included topics on nineteenth and twentieth-century European and American art as well as the East European and Russian avant-garde. Her new book, Out Looking In: Early Modern Polish Art, 1890-1918 (July 2000, University of California Press), is the first comprehensive study in English of this significant period in Polish art. Sponsored by REECAS/JSIS. Call (206) 543-4852 for more information. |
| The Ottoman Image in Europe |
| Walter Denny, Professor of Art History, University of Massachusetts |
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Thursday, January 18, 7:30 - 9:00 p.m., Kane Hall Room 110 Europe's fascination with its powerful and threatening neighbor to the east is reflected in art, literature, political thought, and in the impact of Ottoman culture on that of Europe. In this illustrated lecture, Walter Denny will discuss the complex ways in which Europeans both saw and imagined the Ottoman empire, especially in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. Sponsored by the Middle East Center/JSIS and the American-Turkish Council. |
| Kazakhstan's Economic Climate for Foreign Companies |
| Zulfiya Lafi, Seattle |
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Thursday, January 18, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m., Denny Hall Room 215 All are welcome to attend this meeting of the Central Asian Studies Group. Call (206) 543-9963 or 543-6033 for more information. |
| Storm over Asia |
| REECAS Film Night |
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Wednesday, January 17, 6:00 p.m., Mary Gates Hall Room 271 Storm over Asia (Vsevolod Pudovkin, USSR, 1928): Described by critics as an "epic poem" and "one of the most perfect examples on the formal beauty of a silent film," Storm over Asia provides the first film documentation of traditional life in Mongolia. Utilizing expressive imagery, visual metaphors, brilliant editorial organization and Anatolii Golovnia's shimmering cinematography, Pudovkin tells the story of the naive son of a nomadic hunter who is appointed a puppet ruler by occupying British troops, but eventually evolves into an anti-colonial revolutionary. Call (206) 543-4852 for more information. |
| Kazakhstan's Committee on Political Repression |
| Dr. Zhaksylyk Khuseinov, former Advisor to the President and Parliament of Kazakhstan |
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Friday, January 12, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m., Denny Hall Room 215 All are welcome to attend this meeting of the Central Asian Studies Group. Call (206) 543-9963 or 543-6033 for more information. |
| Epiphany: Medieval Music of the East and West |
| Capella Romana |
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Saturday, January 6, 8:00 p.m., Holy Rosary Church, West Seattle Part of Capella Romana's 2001 season Return to Byzantium. More details may be found at: http://www.cappellaromana.org. |
| The Russian Mafia |
| Frederico Varese, Oxford University |
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Wednesday, January 3, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m., Savery Hall Room 209 |
| Traces of Silk: an illustrated talk featuring images from Tibet and from Ladakh, the Northwest frontier of India |
| Paul Harris, Photographer |
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Wednesday, December 13, 7:00 p.m., Smith Hall Room 205 This expedition secured permits from the highest levels of the Indian Government to enter the closed region of the Eastern Karakoram in Ladakh to retrace one of the principal trade routes from Leh to the Karakoram Pass. It was a rare opportunity to travel with our own small caravan through this "Desert in the Sky" - a high altitude landscape of extraordinary beauty and desolation. The spirit of these 'feeder silk routes' pervades the memories and character of traders still living in the North West Frontier of India. Also featuring a second set of images from Tibet. Paul Harris is a professional photographer who specializes in cultural documentary from around the world. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, which presented him in 1995 with its Cherry Kearton Medal for photography of "peoples and the natural world," and his work forms part of the Society's permanent collection. Sponsored by the South Asia Center, the Central Eurasian Information Resource project, and REECAS/JSIS. For information call (206) 543-4852. |
| Celebrate! |
| Human Rights Day 2000 |
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Sunday, December 10 at 7:00 p.m., University Baptist Church, 4454 12th Ave NE, Seattle The Seattle Metropolitan Chapter of the United Nations Association invites the public to join them for an evening of honoring individuals and groups that have contributed to the cause of human rights, both locally and on the world stage. Award recipients: The Seattle Peace Chorus; Bruce Kochis, Ph.D., UW Human Rights Education and Research Network; Roman Mayfield, Machinist's Union; Rev. Randall Mullins, Interfaith Network of Concern for the People of Iraq; Charlotte Utting, Peace Corps Association. |
| Tchaikovsky's The Snow Maiden |
| Ballet Bellevue |
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December 8 and 9 at 8:00 p.m., December 9 at 2:00 p.m. (children's matinee), December 10 at 3:00 p.m. The Theater at Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue Ballet Bellevue's holiday offering, featuring Tchaikovsky's haunting score, tells the Russian fable of a snow maiden whose heart of ice is melted by the warmth of human love. This production by Vera Altunina and Ronn Tice brings the colorful story to life through classical ballet and Russian character dancing. Russian guest artists Yury Andreev and Natalia Toriachvili will be in Bellevue from November 22 to December 11. In addition to their performance, they will be teaching a master class open to the public and will participate in school visits in the Puget Sound region. For tickets call 425-455-1345 or 206-325-6500. Adults $17, Students/Seniors $10. Group rates available. |
| Balkan and International Folk Dance Classes |
| Taught by Jana Rickel |
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Fridays through December 8 at the Greenlake VFW, 7220 Woodlawn Ave NE $36 for 6 classes or $7 per class. No class 11/24. 7-8 pm: Intermediate/Advanced level Balkan folk dance. 8-9 pm: Beginning level international folk dance. Register at the door on the first night of class. For more information, call Jana at (206) 368-7759 or email: stevenjana@earthlink.net. |
| The Rising Rainbow: Emergence of a Gay Community Where There Was None Before (Latvia) |
| Karlis Streips, Dept. of Journalism, University of Latvia; independent radio and television journalist |
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Friday, December 1, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m., Thomson Hall Room 317 Karlis Streips is an American-born Latvian who has lived in Latvia since 1989. He is well-known as a radio and television journalist and as an instructor in journalism at the University of Latvia. Mr. Streips has also authored two textbooks - one on the American mass media and one on television news production. He has interviewed most of Latvia's leading political and public figures, as well as Queen Margarethe of Denmark, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder of Germany and Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania. Mr. Streips served as the translator for US President Bill Clinton when he visited Latvia in 1994. Mr. Streips served as editor of the leading gay newspaper in Chicago, GayLife, while still at university. He is one of very few openly gay public figures in Latvia, and has also spoken and written extensively about gay and lesbian issues. Sponsored by the Baltic Studies Program in the Dept. of Scandinavian Studies and REECAS/JSIS. For information call (206) 543-4852. |
| Art Dialogue at the Henry |
| James West, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UW |
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Thursday, November 30, 7:00 p.m., Henry Art Gallery A gallery discussion on the use of graphic design for propagandistic messages in Eastern Europe and the USSR during the mid-20th Century. Held in conjunction with Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age: Selections from the Merrill C. Berman Collection, an exhibition of avant-garde graphic design from Europe between the world wars. |
| Shaking Off the Post-Soviet Hangover: Latvia's Mass Media 10 Years After the Revolution |
| Karlis Streips, Dept. of Journalism, University of Latvia; independent radio and television journalist |
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Thursday, November 30, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m., Thomson Hall Room 317 Karlis Streips is an American-born Latvian who has lived in Latvia since 1989. He is well-known as a radio and television journalist and as an instructor in journalism at the University of Latvia. Mr. Streips has also authored two textbooks - one on the American mass media and one on television news production. He has interviewed most of Latvia's leading political and public figures, as well as Queen Margarethe of Denmark, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder of Germany and Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania. Mr. Streips served as the translator for US President Bill Clinton when he visited Latvia in 1994. Mr. Streips served as editor of the leading gay newspaper in Chicago, GayLife, while still at university. He is one of very few openly gay public figures in Latvia, and has also spoken and written extensively about gay and lesbian issues. Sponsored by the Baltic Studies Program in the Dept. of Scandinavian Studies, the School of Communications and REECAS/JSIS. For information call (206) 543-4852. |
| Kokand's Mahallas (Neighborhoods) |
| Mark Reese, Graduate Student, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization |
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Thursday, November 30, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m., Denny Hall Room 215 A meeting of the Central Asian Studies Group. For more information and details of the full CASG calendar, call (206) 543-9963. |
| The United Nations Mission in Kosovo: Mission Impossible? |
| Frederick Lorenz, Institute for Global and Regional Security Studies, UW |
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Wednesday, November 29, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m., Thomson Hall Room 403 Frederick Lorenz recently returned from six months working for the United Nations in Kosovo. He has been a Visiting Professor in the St. Petersburg State University Faculty of Law and a Professor at the National Defense University. Colonel Lorenz is retired from the United States Marine Corps, in which he served for many years a military lawyer. He will teach two courses in the Jackson School this year: SIS 490: International Law and Arms Control (Winter 2001), and SISRE 490: International Law and Military Intervention in the Balkans (Spring 2001). |
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Ports, Marine Transportation and Economic Integration in the Baltic Region |
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An International Workshop |
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Friday, November 17, 2:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., Parrington Hall Commons (Parrington 308) Participants include Anatoli Alop, Vice-Rector, Estonian Maritime Academy; Zofia Sawiczewska, Professor in the Transportation and SeaTrade Institute, University of Gdansk, Poland; Gerard Mahy, consultant to the European Union; Vlad Kazcynski of UW's School of Marine Affairs and Jackson School of International Studies; Marc Hershman, Director of the School of Marine Affairs; and Nathaniel Trumbull, Co-director of the Transboundary Environmental Information Agency. Vytautas Landsbergis will attend, and an evening reception will follow in the same room. Sponsored by REECAS/JSIS; the School of Marine of Affairs; Global Trade, Transportation and Logistics Studies; and the Baltic Studies Program in the Dept. of Scandinavian Studies. For more information please call (206) 543-4852. |
| The Orator |
| Uzbek Film |
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Friday, November 17, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m., Denny Hall Room 215 A meeting of the Central Asian Studies Group. For more information and details of the full CASG calendar, call (206) 543-9963. |
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Lithuania and the End of the Soviet Union |
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A Roundtable Discussion |
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Friday, November 17, 9:30 a.m., Parrington Hall Commons (Parrington 308) Participants include Vytautas Landsbergis, former president of Lithuania and chairman of the Lithuanian parliament; Professor Violeta Kelertas, Chair of Lithuanian Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago; and Professors Herbert Ellison and Stephen Hanson of UW's Jackson School of International Studies. A reception and book-signing by Professor Landsbergis will follow. Sponsored by the Baltic Studies Program in the Dept. of Scandinavian Studies, Henry M. Jackson Foundation, World Affairs Council, UW Press, REECAS/JSIS. |
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Lithuania on the Threshold of the New Millennium |
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Vytautas Landsbergis, former president of Lithuania and chairman of the Lithuanian parliament |
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Thursday, November 16, 7:00 p.m., Faculty Club Sponsored by the Baltic Studies Program in the Dept. of Scandinavian Studies, Henry M. Jackson Foundation, World Affairs Council, UW Press, REECAS/JSIS. |
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Borders, Migration and Political Change: The Aftermath of Yugoslavia's Collapse |
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Vjeran Pavlakovic, REECAS alumnus and History doctoral student |
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Thursday, November 16, 2:30 p.m., Smith Hall Room 405 Sponsored by the Dept. of Geography Colloquium. Refreshments provided. |
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Ninth Polish Film Festival in Seattle |
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Through November 12 |
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Broadway Performance Hall, 1625 Broadway, Seattle Exciting new Polish films alongside a retrospective of classics directed by Andrzej Wajda and others: Reed Dance (2000), Guys Don't Cry (1999), Operation "Goat" (1999), Projectionists from Kalkuta (1998), Mobile Cinema of Dreams (1998), Parade (1989), Academy of Mr. Blott, Return of Mr. Blott (1983), It's Me, Thief (2000), Birchwood (1970), The Wedding (1973), Without Anesthesia (1978), The Cardinal (2000), Lotna (1959), The Big Animal (2000), The Debt (1999), Ashes and Dimonds(1958), Roly Poly (1968), Hunting Flies (1961), The Last Mission (1999), Hidden Treasure(2000), Yellow Scarf (2000), Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (2000), The Young Ladies of Wilko (1979), The Cruise (1962). General admission $7.00; double-bills $10.00; series pass $80.00. All screenings in English or in Polish with English subtitles. |
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Balkanarama |
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With special guest vocalist Mary Sherhart |
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Saturday, November 11, 8:00 - 11:00 p.m., Solstice Cafe, 4116 University Way NE Seattle's favorite Balkan singer, Mary Sherhart, will join us for an evening of Balkan songs and dance music. We'll play a set on our own, then Mary will join us for a set and we'll see how the evening goes from there. Solstice Cafe is a laid-back U-District coffeehouse with a fine wooden dance floor, plenty of room for dancing, dreamtime art on the walls and a wrought-iron verandah overlooking the Ave. Coffee, tea, sodas and sweets, no smoking or alcohol. $5 donation. For more information see http://www.troutdream.com/balkanarama. |
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Rachmaninoff's Divine Liturgy |
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Seattle Choral Company |
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Saturday, November 4, 8:00 p.m., Seattle First Presbyterian Church, 1013 8th Avenue, Seattle Sunday, November 5, 7:30 p.m., The Chapel at John Bastyr University, 14500 Juanita Drive NE, Kenmore The Seattle Choral Company proudly announces the opening concerts of their 2000-2001 season with a pair of performances of the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Op. 31, by Sergei Rachmaninoff. This beautiful and ethereal choral masterpiece was composed in 1910 by the 20th Century's most popular Romantic composer. Seating is non-reserved. Prices are $18 (general adult), $12 (seniors 65 and over), and $8 (children and students up to age 25). For reservations, call the SCC Ticketline at (206) 363-1100. Group ticket prices available. More information can be obtained through the Seattle Choral Companys Web Page: http://www.seattlechoralcompany.org. |
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Seattle Human Rights Film Festival
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Daring to Resist and Oh, You Black Bird: The Forgotten Holocaust of the Romanies |
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Friday, November 3, 9:00 p.m., 911 Media Arts Center, 117 Yale Ave N., Seattle In Daring to Resist, three Jewish women reflect on their lives in Hungary, Poland and Holand during World War II, when they refused to remain passive in the face of Nazi genocide. In Oh, You Black Bird, 70-year-old Romany Helena Malikova revisits Auschwitz, where many gypsies met their end, and shares her bitter memories. Single $5 ticket at the door for both films. Full festival pass (Nov. 1 - 5) $30. For more information call (206) 622-2741 or email: SHRFF@email.com. |
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Explaining Postcommunism: Geographic Diffusion and the Transformation of Postcommunist Europe and Asia
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Jeffrey S. Kopstein, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Colorado (Boulder) |
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Friday, November 3, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m., Thomson Hall Room 317 Former Director of Central and East European Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Jeffrey Kopstein received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He has also taught at Dartmouth College and held fellowships at Harvard University and the Free University of Berlin. He is the author of The Politics of Economic Decline in East Germany 1945-1989 (University of North Carolina Press, 1997) and editor (with Mark Lichbach) of Comparative Politics: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in a Changing Global Order (Cambridge University Press, 2000). His current project explores the relationship between locational/regional advantage and post-communist economic and political performance using a cross-national study of 28 post-communist countries and in-depth case studies of Hungary, Slovakia, Russia, and Kyrgyzstan. The initial results of this study appear in the October 2000 issue of the journal World Politics. Sponsored by REECAS/JSIS and Political Science. For more information call (206) 543-4852. |
| Russian Orthodox Church Bazaar |
| Saint Nicholas Cathedral |
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Saturday, October 28 and Sunday, October 29, 12:00 noon - 5:00 p.m., 1714 13th Avenue (between East Howell and East Olive) Russian foods (piroshki, borsch, pelmeni, pastries) and Russian crafts, books, icons, cards, music. You may place your food orders in advance by calling (206) 283-6530. |
| A Harvest for the Mind, Body and Soul |
| Slavic Department Homecoming |
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Friday, October 20, 7:00 - 11:30 p.m., Center for Urban Horticulture, UW Come back to catch up with old friends, make new ones, enjoy some Slavic entertainment and refresh your Husky spirit! Join Master of Ceremonies Galya Diment, Acting Slavic Department Chair, for talks by Slavic Alumna Mary Reichert on her experiences as a homeowner in a Russian village and psychologist Anthony Collin on working with Russian orphanages. Refreshments, music and dancing to follow. Admission: non-members $12 before the event/$15 at the door; UWAA members, faculty and staff $10 before the event/$12 at the door; students/senior citizens $5; children under 7 free. To make a reservation, please call the UWAA reservation line at (206) 543-3839. Questions? Call UWAA at (206) 543-0450 or 1-800-AUW-ALUM. |
| Inside Kazakhstan's Hospitals and Other Observations |
| Nancy Nersveen, Head Nurse, Oncology, Swedish Hospital, Seattle |
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Friday, October 20, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m., Denny Hall Room 215 A meeting of the Central Asian Studies Group. For more information and details of the full CASG calendar, call (206) 543-9963. |
| Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the Looting of Russia |
| Paul Klebnikov |
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Thursday, October 19, 7:00 p.m.,
Seneca Space, Town Hall, 1119 8th Ave., Seattle The University Book Store and the World Affairs Council are proud to present Paul Klebnikov with his new book Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the Looting of Russia. This is the "gripping and scandalous tale of Russia's wealthiest businessman--and the role he played in Russia's transformation from nuclear superpower to impoverished nation." Event Info Line: (206) 545-9477 ext. 443. |
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Environmental Management and Ethnic Conflicts on the New European Border: The Baltic States and Russia |
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Geoffrey Gooch, Jean Monnet Professor in European Political Integration, Linkoeping University, Sweden |
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Wednesday, October 18, 1:30 p.m, Lower Conference Room, Faculty Club Dr. Gooch is an expert on environmental politics and European regional integration. In addition to his work on the Baltic States, Gooch is presently studying political communication in Swedish municipalities. His recent publications include Swedish Water Management Networks - hierarchy, consultation or participation?(1999) and chapters on "Methods of Inquiry" (with M. Kousis) and "Decay and Revitalisation in Two Swedish Communities" in Sustainability, Locality and Democracy in Europe (O'Riordan, T. ed.; in press). Sponsored by the European Union Center/JSIS. For further information, please contact the European Union Center at (206) 616-2415 or email: euc@u.washington.edu for details. |
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Russian-Ottoman Warfare on the Danube in the Eighteenth Century
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Virginia Aksan, Associate Professor of History, McMaster University, Toronto, Canada |
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Wednesday, October 18, 1:30 - 3:20 p.m, Thomson Hall Room 317 This presentation, which is free and open to the public, is part of a year-long series of lectures titled Envisioning the Ottoman Empire, sponsored by the Middle East Center, International Studies Center, Jackson School of International Studies; and the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington. Call 206-543-4227 or email: mecuw@u.washington.edu for details. |
| Containing Nationalism |
| Michael Hechter |
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Monday, October 16, 7:00 p.m., General Books, University Book Store, 4326 University Way NE The University Book Store is proud to present Michael Hechter and his book Containing Nationalism. The UW faculty member and expert on nationalistic violence will discuss his study of world-wide conflicts spurred by nationalism--from Northern Ireland to Kosovo--and what can be done to contain it. Event Info Line: (206) 545-9477 ext. 443. |
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The Bulgarian Women's Choir - Angelite |
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UW World Music & Theatre |
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Saturday, October 14, 8:00 p.m., Meany Hall The Bulgarian Women's Choir - Angelite has been mystifying audiences around the globe with unique and powerful interpretations of their centuries-old folk songs. Tickets: $28. For more information call the UW Arts Ticket Office at (206) 543-4880, (206) 292-ARTS or visit visit: http://www.meany.org. |
| Reflections on Turkmenistan |
| Nartach Jepbarova, former ACCELS scholar at the UW |
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Friday, October 13, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m., Denny Hall Room 215 A meeting of the Central Asian Studies Group. For more information and details of the full CASG calendar, call (206) 543-9963. |
| Higher Education in Kirghizstan: the Slavic University in Bishkek |
| Svetlana Mamjikova, Slavic University, Bishkek (current ACCELS scholar at the UW) |
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Thursday, October 12, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m., Denny Hall Room 215 A meeting of the Central Asian Studies Group. For more information and details of the full CASG calendar, call (206) 543-9963. |
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Bulgarian Folk Music |
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Kolevi and Friends |
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Friday, October 6, 9:00 p.m., Greenlake VFW, 7220 Woodlawn Ave. NE, Seattle Saturday, October 7, 7:30 p.m., Phinney Neighborhood Center Community Hall, 6532 Phinney N., Seattle Admission to either party is $8, $5 for students (under 12 free). Private or group lessons in Bulgarian singing, gadulka, tambura, and kaval at all levels can also be arranged during the ensemble's stay in Seattle, October 4-9. Bulgarian vocal workshops with Donka Koleva will be held Thursday, October 5, 7:30 - 9:00 p.m., and Saturday, October 7, 1:00 - 2:30 p.m., Phinney Neighborhood Center, lower building Room 16B (single workshop $12; both workshops $20). Donka Koleva is an award-winning vocalist in the traditional Bulgarian village style, prized for her rich, clear and melodic voice and much sought after as a teacher with her strong leadership and careful attention to technique. To schedule your lessons and for further information contact Jana Rickel at (206) 368-7759 or stevenjana@earthlink.net. |
| Observations of Daily Life in Atyrau, Kazakhstan |
| Anel Imangalieva, Exchange Student, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization |
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Friday, October 6, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m., Denny Hall Room 215 A meeting of the Central Asian Studies Group. For more information and details of the full CASG calendar, call (206) 543-9963. |
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Russia as a Model of Development |
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Nicolai Petro, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Rhode Island |
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Monday, October 2, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m, Parrington Hall Forum (Parrington 309) Professor Petro's interests cover foreign policy and democratization, with an area of specialization in Russia. |
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Harvest in Hungary |
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A Concert of Hungarian Dance and Music |
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Sunday, October 1, 3 p.m., Carlson Theater, Bellevue Community College, 3000 Landerholm Circle, Bellevue Presented by the Hungarian American Association of Washington, this concert features: The Esoterics (truly stunning a capella voices), Nevtelen (Seattle's popular, if anonymous, Hungarian folk band), Bokreta ("internationally" acclaimed Hungarian dance ensemble); and Kisbetyarok (HAAW's own Hungarian family dance group). Tickets: $18 adults, $15 students/seniors. For more information call Lucy Fueresz at (206) 232-6575 or Sue Isely at (425) 670-2396. |
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