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Two religious paintings by Flemish artist Anthony Van Dyck have been reunited for the first time in more than 20 years at the University Art Museum. The small, focused exhibition, "Anthony Van Dyck: 'Ecce Homo' and 'The Mocking of Christ,'" is on display through June 9. "The Mocking of Christ" (left) is part of Princeton's permanent collection. "Ecce Homo" (right) is owned by the Barber Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Birmingham in England. The paintings were last seen together in an exhibition in 1979 at the museum. In the current exhibition, the paintings are juxtaposed with a third work, "Ecce Homo," by Venetian painter Tiziano Vecellio.

Lecture set on decentralization in the Philippines and Thailand

A lecture on "State Formation, State Reformation: Deciphering Decentralization in the Philippines and Thailand" will be presented on campus Monday, March 25.
     Paul Hutchcroft, assistant professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will speak at 4:30 p.m. in 127 Corwin Hall.
     Hutchcroft is a specialist in Southeast Asian politics and a foremost scholar of Philippine political economy. His publications include "Booty Capitalism: The Politics of Banking in the Philippines" (Cornell University Press, 1998) and numerous articles on political economy and state formation in the Philippines. He has been an academy scholar at the Harvard Academy of Area and International Studies and a Fulbright scholar.
     The talk is sponsored by the Center of International Studies, the Department of Politics, the Council on Regional Studies, the Southeast Asia Students Organization, Foreign Policy in Focus and the International Center.

Doran focuses on intricacies of al Qaeda

Pragmatic Fanatics: The Tension Between Tactics and True Belief in al Qaeda" is the title of a talk to be presented at 4:30 p.m. Monday, March 25, in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.
     The speaker will be Michael Doran, an assistant professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton who studies Middle Eastern nationalism, inter-Arab relations, relations between the Middle East and the West, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. He currently teaches several courses that focus on the historical aspects of conflict in the Middle East as well as the more recent events that have shaped the United States' relations with this region.
     Since Sept. 11, Doran has been invited to speak at numerous on- and off-campus events on the subject of terrorism and the crises occurring in the Middle East. His answer to the question "Why do Muslims hate us so much?" appeared in the January/February issue of Foreign Affairs and also was published in a new book, "How Did This Happen: Terrorism and the New War" (Public Affairs, 2001).
     Doran earned his master's and Ph.D. degrees in Near Eastern studies from Princeton. His lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Near Eastern Studies.

Marcy to explore life in the universe

Pioneering planet hunter Geoffrey Marcy will inaugurate the 2002 Evnin Lecture Series with a talk on "Planets and the Prospects of Life in the Universe" at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 26, in A02 McDonnell.
     Marcy is a professor of astronomy and director of the new Center for Integrative Planetary Science at the University of California-Berkeley. His research team has discovered 52 of the 86 currently known extrasolar planets.
     The lecture is the first in a series on "Science and Technology for the New Millennium" sponsored by the Council on Science and Technology. For more information, visit http://www.princeton.edu/~stcweb/index.html

U.N. adviser to discuss future of Afghanistan

Paula Newberg, special adviser to the United Nations Foundation, will discuss "Redesigning Babar's Empire: What is Happening in Afghanistan?" at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 26, in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.
     Newberg is an international consultant specializing in the management of international public policy. Her focus is on the political economy of states encountering conflict and economic dislocation, the political organization of multilateral institutions and the structure of international assistance. She has been an adviser on governance and development to governments, foundations, nongovernmental and human rights organizations and the United Nations in central and eastern Europe, central and south Asia and Africa.
     Newberg has spent 25 years working in the field of human rights, and more than 20 years working in states involved in conflict or attempting to recover from civil strife. She was special adviser to the United Nations in Afghanistan from 1996 to 1998. As part of her advisory responsibilities to the U.N. Foundation, Newberg presently is working with the United Nations and the Interim Authority in Afghanistan to plan the course of political and economic reconstruction.
     The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Nonprofit center founder to speak

Cliff Landesman, founder of the Internet Nonprofit Center, will present a lecture titled "The Need for Nonprofit Transparency and Accountability" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, March 28, in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.
     The Internet Nonprofit Center is a project of The Evergreen State Society, a Seattle-based nonprofit organization addressing policy issues and management questions in order to strengthen the nonprofit sector in Washington state and beyond. The center, a Web-based project (www.nonprofits.org), offers information for and about nonprofit organizations and maintains an extensive library and archive of information for leaders and observers of the nonprofit sector in the United States.
     The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

French film series begins March 28

Five French films will be shown on campus starting March 28 as part of a film series sponsored by the Department of French and Italian. The films will be screened at 8 p.m. on five Thursdays in March, April and May at the Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St.
     The films were selected as examples of the diversity of subjects and styles in recent French-language cinema from around the world. All have English subtitles.
     The films and their directors are:
• "Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse" (The Gleaners and I) by Agnès Varda, March 28.
• "Ressources humaines" (Human Resources) by Laurent Cantet, April 4.
• "La Nuit du destin" (Night of Fate) by Abdelkrim Bahloul, April 18.
• "Pièces d'identité" (I.D.) by Mweze Ngangura, April 25.
• "Voyages" by Emmanuel Finkiel, May 2.

Additional sponsors of the series are the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, the French Ministry of Culture and Princeton's Department of Comparative Literature. For more information, visit http://web.princeton.edu/ sites/fit/events.html or contact Rachel Gabara at 258-6127.

300 cyclists expected March 31 for Mercury Cycling Classic race

Nearly 300 elite cyclists are expected on campus Sunday, March 31, for a full day of collegiate racing on Princeton roads in the Mercury Cycling Classic.
     The host of the event is the defending Ivy League and Eastern Conference Division II champion Princeton Cycling Team. Among the top cyclists attending will be Princeton's own three-time national champion, Tyler Wren '03, who won collegiate national championships in road racing and short-track and cross-country mountain bike racing this past year. Most of the 36 teams in the Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference will be present.
     The racing begins at 10:30 a.m. and ends at 5 p.m. on Ivy Lane just east of Washington Road. The races will run east on Ivy Lane/Western Way, south on Broadmead Street, west on Faculty Road and north on Washington Road back to Ivy Lane. Portions of the roads will be closed to protect the cyclists.
     There will be four men's races and two women's races, with the elite women's A and men's A races beginning at 2:15 p.m. and 3:45 p.m., respectively.
     For more information, contact Jason Houck at mailto:jhouck@princeton.edu or 986-8514, or visit the Princeton University Cycling Team's Web page at http://www.princetoncycling.com

Program in Theater and Dance

The Program in Theater and Dance will present the Neta Dance Company in its critically acclaimed production, "Five Beds/Children of the Dream," at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 30, in the Hagan Dance Studio, 185 Nassau St. The physically and emotionally charged dance theater work is based on choreographer Neta Pulvermacher's childhood memories of growing up on a kibbutz in Israel in the 1960s. Admission is free.

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March 25, 2002
Vol. 91, No. 20
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