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| Monday, June 9 | |
| 7:00 PM | Author Reading Film Rap: B.D. Wong talks about and signs "Following Foo" with film critic Warren Etheredge. "This story of two parents and the weeks following the difficult birth are like nothing you have ever read: heartbreaking, hairraising, hilarious, and ultimately exhilarating," John Lithgow says about this first book by gender bending famed Broadway, film and TV star B.D. Wong. Free tickets, available at University Book Store. For more information, call 206-634-3400. 7 pm, Kane Hall, Room 130. |
| Tuesday, June 10 | |
| 4:00 PM 5:30 | Exhibition Opening Reception Where is Noon? Opening Reception. This two-part exhibition of sun markers by the participants in the spring quarter interdisciplinary course, Arts in Collaboration, in conjunction with Spheres: The UW Summer Arts Festival. Part One: Exhibition of portable sundials, during library hours, Suzzallo Library Rm 101. Part Two: Ten larger sundials across the campus in which objects, statues and buildings have been co-opted as giant timekeepers. Sundial trail map available in Suzzallo 101. For information contact Rebecca Cummins (Art) rcummins@u.washington.edu or Woody Sullivan (Astronomy) woody@astro.washington.edu. Runs through July 19. Location: Suzzallo Library, Rm. 101 and various sites across the UW campus. Reception: 4-5:30 pm, Suzzallo Library 101. |
| Wednesday, June 11 | |
| 3:30 PM | REECAS Lecture "Putin's Russia in Comparative Perspective," Daniel Treisman (Political Science, University of California-Los Angeles). Daniel Treisman received his B.A. from Oxford University in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, and his Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard in 1995. He has published widely on Russian politics and comparative political economy in various academic journals (The American Political Science Review, World Politics, The British Journal of Political Science, The American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Economics and Politics, Journal of Public Economics) as well as policy and opinion journals (Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy). He has written two books, After the Deluge: Regional Crises and Political Consolidation in Russia (University of Michigan Press, 1999) and Without a Map: Political Tactics and Economic Reform in Russia, co- authored with Andrei Shleifer (MIT Press, 2000), and is currently working on a book on political decentralization, supported by the Guggenheim Foundation and the German Marshall Fund. Sponsored by the REECAS Program (Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies). 3:30-5:00 pm, Thomson 317. |
| 7:30 PM | Middle East Studies Lecture "The Islamic Republic of Iran and the U.S.: Dilemmas and Prospects Since the Fall of Saddam," Gholam Vatandoust (Visiting Professor, History, UW), Arzoo Osanloo (Assistant Professor, Anthropology, UW), and Nader Nazemi (Assistant Professor, International Studies, Cascadia College). Sponsored by the Middle East Center, Jackson School of International Studies. 7:30 pm, Kane Hall 220. |