4:30 pm
Buddhist Studies Workshop
"Big Writing: The Monumental Sutras of Shandong Province and the Question of Scale in the Visual Arts"
106 McCormick

Robert Harrist, Jr., Columbia University
Sponsored by the Tang Center and the Buddhist Studies Workshop

12:15 pm
PLAS Tuesday Luncheon Seminar Series
"Silence on the Mountain: Terror, Betrayal & Forgetting in Guatemala"
58 Prospect Ave., Rm. 107

Daniel Wilkinson, Human Rights Watch
Sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies

4:30 pm
"Traditional Non-State Political Organization as a Basis of State Reconstruction: The Case of Southern Sudan"
127 Corwin Hall

Leah Wambura Kimathi, Deputy Coordinator, Africa Peace Point.
Sponsored by the African Studies Program.

7:30 pm
Arabic Film Series
"Rana's Wedding"
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall

Directed by Hany Abu-Assad, 2002.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies

9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Colloquium
"Feasting on Words: Cannibalism & the Caribbean Text"
Theatre Intime, Murray Dodge Hall

K. Anthony Appiah, Princeton University (opening address);
Dawn Fulton, Smith College;
Carine Mardorossian, SUNY Buffalo;
Lydie Moudileno, University of Pennsylvania;
Mireille Rosello, Northwestern University;
Ronnie Scharfman, SUNY Purchase;
Maryse Conde, Columbia University.
Sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies, Dept. of French and Italian, Council of the Humanities, Office of the President, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.

4:30 pm
"So Your Social is Real? Serving the Service Economy"
211 Dickinson Hall

Mary Pat Brady, Cornell University.
Sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies, the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures, and the Dept. of English.

7:00 pm
"The White Sun of the Desert"
Bowl 2, Robertson Hall

Film, in Russian with English subtitles.
Introduced by Dr. Bruce Grant, Institute for Advanced Study.
Sponsored by the Russian Studies Program.

9:00 pm
Iranian Film Series
"Vakonesh-e Panjom"
McCosh 62

Directed by Tahmineh Milani, 2004.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies.

9:00 am - 5:30 pm
Princeton Program in History of Science Workshop 2004-05
"Atomic Sciences"
Various locations, morning and afternoon sessions.

Peter J. Westwick, California Institute of Technology;
John Krige, Georgia Institute of Technology;
S. M. Amadae, New School University, New York;
Daniel J. Kevles, Yale University;
Itty Abraham, Social Science Research Council, Washington, DC;
Gabrielle Hecht, University of Michigan;
M. Susan Lindes, University of Pennsylvania;
Peter Galison, Harvard University.
Sponsored by the Program in History of Science, the National Science Foundation, the Shelby Collom Davis Center for Historical Studies, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
For more information and a detailed schedule, click here.

Continues on Saturday, November 6.

12:00 noon
Brown Bag Lunch Talk
"Barley or Wheat? Food as a Cultural Signifier in Polybius"
Rm. 203, Humanities Programs Building

Werner H. Tietz, Seminar for Ancient World, Munich.
Sponsored by the Program in Hellenic Studies and the Program in Ancient World.

2:00-5:00 pm
Symposium -- Legacies of Violence: The Guatemalan Revolution 50 Years After
010 East Pyne

Greg Grandin, New York University;
Elizabeth Oglesby, University of Arizona;
Edelberto Torres Rivas, FLASCO, Guatemala;
Deborah Yashar, Princeton University, discussant.
Sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies

9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Princeton Program in History of Science Workshop 2004-05
"Atomic Sciences"
Various locations, morning and afternoon sessions.

John Beatty, University of British Columbia;
Soraya de Chadarevian, Cambridge University;
Bruno J. Strasser, University of Lausanne;
Angela N. H. Creager, Princeton University;
David Kaiser, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Alexei B. Kojevnikov, University of Georgia;
Michael D. Gordin, Princeton University.
Sponsored by the Program in History of Science, the National Science Foundation, the Shelby Collom Davis Center for Historical Studies, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
For more information and a detailed schedule, click here.

7:00 pm
Israeli Film Series
"Yom Yom"
010 East Pyne

Directed by Amos Gitai, 1998.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies and the Program in Judaic Studies.

12:00 noon
Luncheon Seminar
"Oman, East Africa and the Politics of Marriage"
012 Bendheim Hall

Mandana Limbert, Queens College, CUNY.
Sponsored by the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia.

12:15 pm
PLAS Tuesday Luncheon Seminar Series
"Ex-Presidents and Newcomers Running for Office in Latin America... and Winning"
58 Prospect Ave., Rm. 107

Javier Corrales, Amherst College
Sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies

4:30 pm
PIIRS Lecture
"Human Rights in the Mexican Transition to Democracy: Unfinished Business"
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall

Mariclaire Acosta, Director, Acosta y Asociados (Mexico)
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies

9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Workshop: "The European Union and the New Constitution -- A Stable Political Equilibrium?"
Palmer House (Nassau Street & Bayard Lane)

Various speakers. Click here for the complete conference schedule.
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, the Department of Politics, the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society, and the European Union Studies Association.

4:30 pm
"Portable Lords: Politics as Theater on Tokugawa Japan's Highways"
Frist 234

Constantine Vaporis, Universitiy of Maryland
Sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program

4:30 pm
"Bound by Law? Alien Rights, Administrative Direction, and the Politics of Technicality"
Kerstetter Room, 301 Marx Hall

Bonnie H. Honig, Northwestern University.
Sponsored by the University Center for Human Values and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

4:30 pm
Religion Department Lounge Seminar
"'Fashions of Worldly Dames': Regulating Dress and Godliness in London, Amsterdam, and Early New England"
Rm. 140, 1879 Hall

Martha L. Finch, Southwest Missouri State University.
Reservation required. Contact Maryann Rodriguez (maryannr@princeton.edu) by Nov. 3 to reserve a seat.
Sponsored by the Department of Religion.

7:30 pm
Japanese Silent Film Screening
"Taki no Shiraito"
Jimmy Stewart Theatre, 185 Nassau Street

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
Sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program

7:30 pm
Arabic Film Series
"The Door to the Sky"
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall

Directed by Farida Ben Lyzaid, 1989 (Morocco).
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies.

12:00 noon
Brown Bag Lunch Series
"Next Steps in Central Asia"
Frist Campus Center, Floor B, Multi-Purpose Room C

Robert P. Finn, Princeton University.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies.

12:00 noon
Luncheon Seminar
"Becoming (Urdu) Muslim in India Today: World Politics, National History, and Patriotism"
012 Bendheim Hall

Veronique Benei, French National Centre for Scientific Research and London School of Economics.
Reservation required. Contact Gregory Bell (gjbell@princeton.edu) to reserve a seat and lunch.
Sponsored by the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, and the Committee for South Asian Studies.

12:15 pm
PLAS Tuesday Luncheon Seminar Series
"Pathways from Socialism: Small Farmers in the Economic Reshaping of Nicaragua, Cuba, Russia & China"
58 Prospect Ave., Rm. 107

Laura Enriquez, Universitiy of California, Berkeley.
Sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies

4:30 pm
The Inaugural PIIRS Distinguished Lecture
"Hobbes and the Contemporary World Order "
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall

Noel Malcolm, Oxford University
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.

4:30-6:30 pm
Roundtable: "Chattering Songs": The Collection of Slave Chants (Jongos) by Stanley Stein in Brazil in the late 1940s
010 East Pyne

Stanley Stein, Princeton University;
Jeremy Adelman, Princeton University;
Arcadio Diaz-Quinones, Princeton University;
Silvia Lara, Unicamp, Brazil;
Pedro Meira Monteiro, Princeton University;
Colin Palmer, Princeton University;
Robert Slenes, Unicamp, Brazil;
Michael Stone, Princeton University.
Sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies, the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures, African American Studies, and the Council of the Humanities.

4:30 pm
"The Pre-History of Northeast China: What Did We Learn from 10 Years of Archaeological Field Work?"
Frist 234

Gideon Shelach, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program.

12:00 noon
Globalization and Domestic Politics Lunch Seminar
"The Political Construction of Risk: The Dynamics of Environmental and Consumer Protection in the EU and the U.S."
012 Bendheim Hall

David Vogel, University of California - Berkeley
Reservation required. Contact Patricia Zimmer (pzimmer@princeton.edu) to reserve a seat and lunch.
To download a copy of the paper, click here.

4:30 pm
Center for Migration and Development Fall Colloquium Series
"The American Experience of Asian Immigrants' Children: Lessons for Segmented Assimilation"
165 Wallace Hall

Min Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles.
Sponsored by the Center for Migration and Development.

7:30 pm
The Inaugural Prince of Liechtenstein Lecture on Self-Determination and the International System
(To honor H.S.H. Prince Hans Adam II von und zu Liechtenstein)
Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall

The Honorable Carl Bildt, Former Prime Minister of Sweden.
Sponsored by the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination.
www.princeton.edu/~lisd

4:00 pm
"Six Months in Baghdad"
Room 101, Convocation Room, Friend Center

Zaid A. Zaid, U.S. Foreign Service Office
Sponsored by the Princeton Middle East Society and the International Center.

7:00 pm
Israeli Film Series
"Lullaby"
010 East Pyne

Directed by Adi Arbel, 2004.
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies and the Program in Judaic Studies.

4:30 pm
"Journalists Writing The World" Series
"Willful Blindness: The Bush Administration and Iraq"
Bowl 016, Robertson Hall

Trudy Rubin, Foreign Affairs Columnist, The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

4:30 pm
"How Do We Beat Our Greatest Global Challenge? U.S. Global AIDS Policy: Lessons Learned and the Path Forward"
Bowl 2, Robertson Hall

Greg Behrman '98, Coordinator, Council on Foreign Relations Roundtable on Improving U.S. Global AIDS Policy.
Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the Student Global AIDS Campaign, and the Princeton AIDS Initiative.

4:30 pm
'Journalists Writing the World' Lecture Series
"The Roots of September 11: America and Afghanistan "
Bowl 16, Robertson Hall

Steve Coll, Managing Editor, Washington Post
Gary Bass, Princeton University, moderator.
Sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

12:00 noon
Luncheon Seminar
"Migration, Gender and Islam: Moroccan Women in Spain"
012 Bendheim Hall

Angeles Ramirez Fernandez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.
Sponsored by the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia.

12:15 pm
PLAS Tuesday Luncheon Seminar Series
"Going Wild: Primitivism, Tourism and Modern Malaise"
58 Prospect Ave., Rm. 107

Gabriela Nouzeilles, Princeton University.
Sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies

4:30 pm
"How To Be Your Own Censor: Stories from Vladimir Putin's Russia"
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall

Masha Gessen, Moscow.
Sponsored by the Russian Studies Program, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.

4:30 pm CANCELLED
"Globalizing Democracy "
Bowl 16, Robertson Hall

George Monbiot, The Guardian
Sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.